these sophomore twins were pierson's teammates. addy on the speech and debate team, harrison on cross country. >> he was a very likable guy. really good friends with all the coaches. as far as i'm concerned, he had a lot of good friends on the team. >> he's a normal student. he participated in class, very intelligent. >> reporter: there is a candle light vigil here in town tonight. as for claire davis, she had surgery yesterday. she is in critical condition. the police read a statement from her family thanking the community for their outpouring of love and support. they emphasized they could find no connection between claire davis and this shooter karl pierson, that she just happened to be at the right place at the wrong time. school will not have classes on monday. the superintendent said it's unlikely they'll hold any normal school activities this week. lester? >> all right, ron mott in colorado tonight. thank you. on this anniversary of the newtown shootings, a tribute in connecticut to the 26 people who were killed at sandy hoo

these sophomore twins were pierson's teammates. >> he was a very likable guy. really good friends with all the coaches. as far as i'm concerned, he had a lot of good friends on the team. >> he's a normal student. he participated in class, very intelligent. >> reporter: there is a candle light vigil here in town tonight. as for claire davis, she had surgery yesterday. she is in critical condition. the police emphasized they could find no connection between claire davis and this shooter karl pierson, she just happened to be at the right place at the wrong time. school will not have classes on monday. the superintendent said it's unlikely they'll hold any normal school activities this week. ronter? tt in colorado tonight. thank you. on this anniversary of the newtown shootings, a tribute in connecticut to the 26 people who were killed at sandy hook elementary school. church bells tolled 26 times at a cathedral in hartford, once for each of the victims, the 20 children and 6 adults who lost their lives that day. and at the white house, the president and michelle ob

. >>> i julia pierson -- >> reporter: an historic day in the oval office. julia pierson sworn in as the first female director of the secret service. >> obviously she's breaking the mold in terms of directors of the agency. >> reporter: barbara riggs was the agency's first woman deputy director and pierson's mentor. >> when i did hear the news i obviously was thrilled. >> reporter: an orlando native, pierson, who is 53, studied criminal justice at the university of central florida, worked as a police officer during college and became a secret service agent in miami after graduating. >> she's a go-to person. >> reporter: pierson has worked behind the scenes and in the field for 30 years. most recently serving as chief of staff. in 2007 she told "smithsonian" magazine her most challenging day on the job in washington was 9/11. we didn't know if what was happening was a prelude to more attacks, she said. i was in charge of making sure everyone was accounted for. the appointment comes at a pivotal time for the secret service. last april, several agents were embr

this is julie pierson.he is the head of the secret service taking questions from both sides of the aisle democrats and republicans, both sides of the aisle have very, very heated questions. take a listen. >> the gentlemen's time is expired. if the gentle lady has answers to any of his questions, i would

>>reporter: the karl pierson any -- canadian research group agrees. children under two shouldn't be exposed to screens. >> fisher price said they realize the seat is not for everyone and leaves this up to the judge m of -- judgment of the parent. >>reporter: we are looking at dry weather almost through the end of december. this is san francisco city hall. look for temperatures currently in the low 50s. 40s in san jose. temperatures will still be pretty cold tonight. not as cold as what we had last week but below freezing for napa. 40s tonight for san francisco and oakland. temperatures will be 37 in san jose. sunshine will warm us up as we get into the afternoon. i'll talk about 70s in the forecast. >>> firefighters make a major mistake. what they did wrong. >>> the latest astronaut that headed into deep space may not be human at all. we'll have more. [ female announcer ] here's to a whole world of happier holidays. time to enchant, delight and amaze. safeway will help you gather everyone 'round. a smoked, shank half ham is only 99 cents a pound. with

they spoke last monday about pierson possibly coming back to the debate team. he said he scrunched down in the hallway when the shots rang in the hallway before breaking down when he found out the shooter was his friend, karl pierson. >> my first instinct is to want to defend him but i know that's wrong. it is indefensible, what he did. it is horrible. it is hard to process those emotions. >> i'm karl pierson at arapahoe high school. >> reporter: co-captains on the debate team weren't close friends but he felt close enough to help him. >> speech and debate was his life and the fact he was not there crushed him a little bit. it made him tense and angry. >> reporter: it had been a stressful fall term for pierson. he had grown angry from losing his coveted spot on the team months ago which made the coach, the librarian a wanted man in pierson's eyes. >> karl and murphy did not get along. whatever it was escalated to a death threat. >> his intent was evil and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals. >> reporter: police say pierson stormed into the school h

the alleged shooter, karl pierson, was apparently acting on a grudge against a teacher.hinking student alerted the teacher who was the target and the teacher made it out unharmed. the 15-year-old victim of that shooting is in critical condition. hundreds of students had to be evacuated from the campus. >>> there was no megawinner in last night's megamillions drawing. the jackpot for the next drawing, which will be tuesday night, climbs to 550 million bucks. and if the game keeps rolling over without a winner, the drawing before christmas could hit the $1 billion mark. >>> and a record sale at christie's auction house. a case of rum from circa 1780 went for almost $128,000. that's more than six-times what it estimated it would fetch. that makes it the oldest and most expensive rum sold in auction history. the history of the universe. it was. covered with grime in a cellular in england, untouched for generations. it's believed to have been distilled by slaves on the caribbean island, barbados. >>> and a nice story from the world of basketball. zach randolph noticed a young

pi pierson. just earlier this morning josh was saying the president has full confidence and now the president has come to the concludes that my confidence and trust has eroded. i do not feel comfortable with her in that position. that's super elijah cummings, the democrat who is in charge of things. but this is not new. we -- a guy landed a helicopters on the white house lawn. we have a fine look back. >> shep, it was only tasked with protecting the president after preside president roosevelt was -- but a man with a revolver was reportedly allowed to meet him after he told security the president was expecting him. another intruder with the weapon made it into president taft's white house. he actually made it past security, but was taught in the corridor. turned out-had a knife in his pocket. over the years secret service adjusted to the threat, but they were caught by surprise in 1974, when an army private landed a stolen chopper right on the white house lan twice. the first time they didn't show

we will discuss this and more with lovell minnick partner's president steven pierson.nd part of mice whose of interview with the blackberry ceo, what -- and part of my interview with the ceo of blackberry. doolittle is with us halfway into the trading day. a downdraft, though smaller than earlier. >> a pullback but well off of the lows. major averages down for a second day in a row. s&p 500 down four out of the last five days following the last week weekly decline for the s&p 500, the first time it happened in nine weeks. , we are seeingne it in stocks. in a small way. uncertainty around tax reform and a massive move higher with some investors wondering whether valuation is justified. it has been a long time since a bigger pullback for the s&p 500. this is 2622. the bars represent the degree of the move either up or down with the yellow line is one person up and one person down. in the 51st day without a greater than half a percent move down. earlier, the s&p 500 at the lows had been down a 10th of 1% but similar to yesterday, some of -- intraday volatility usually doe

the first euro-american settler in shasta county was pierson b. reading. pierson arrives in 1844.e had people arrive and start cultivating. he brought in cattle and started to do livestock industry, as well as cultivating and growing crops. he grew grapes here, which is something a lot of people did not realize that something had been going on since 1844. reading comes in, sets up shop, he starts his rancho and begin selling land to other people. there is another rancho on the other side of the river. then, the gold rush strikes in 1849. reading, who is friends with sutter, finds out what is going on with the gold, the area has the potential, and goes to clear creek with native people and discovers gold himself on what is now known as "reading's bar." that became the beginning of the gold rush in that county. but ag was here before gold. we tend to celebrate the mining history of the area and forget about the roots, which are agricultural. reading, when california became a state, he was still trying to make sure his rancho got register. but he had to register his cattle brand with

apparently pierson was on the speech and debate team.e 15-year-old girl came across pierson's path, that is when authorities say he shot her. and when the shots rang out, it sent more than 2,000 students in the school running to hiding. >> we heard the gunshot and we got in the corner. the lights were off. we heard him yanking on the door. then we all tried to stay as quiet as possible. then we heard a pause and more gunshots farther down. >> authority say the targeted teacher left the school. and apparently a couple of minutes later, pierson turned the gun on himself and took his own life. we tell you that last night authorities searched his home and they look for mote i here to figure out if it was revenge that motivated him to go to the school with the shotgun. we can tell you that students say that pierson was nice, and very smart and a gifted debater and many say they were shocked that he actually went in and started shooting in to their school. as for the response, uma, we can tell you that authorities say things went very well. ev

>> this week on "talk to al jazeera", one of the most recognizable singers of a generation - kate pierson of the b-52s. >> (singing the song "love shack"). >> the greatest thing i think a band can do is give people this joy and make them happy and make them dance or sing or just, you know, just kind of give them a joy. >> the group was once given the title "america's favorite party band" by rolling stone, but pierson said beneath the bee-hives, there was a message. >> we felt we were misunderstood and we felt like everyone's just calling us wacky, wacky, wacky and they didn't understand the incredible seriousness of the band. >> the band's cult following continued to grow until a tragedy in the '80s, when lead guitarist, ricky wilson, died of aids. >> we didn't know he had aids until he passed away. so we were told to be silent and that was very very difficult. >> her first break into music was a protest band in the civil rights era. >> so we were the sun donuts and we all wrote and one of the girls wrote about environmental... you know, tomorrow there would be no more sun. >> now, after

pierson when she testifies.ne is the security breach, but the other involves that it wasn't properly recorded. and there was bipartisan anger about this, which is rare in washington these days. >> reporter: there is anger. the first reports was that he was stopped right inside the white house. okay. that's bad enough. but now we're hearing -- the "washington post" first reporting, and indicating that he got much further into the white house. so people are wondering is there another shoe to drop? what don't we know yet? i think it doesn't look good that this information is coming out peace meal like that. and that it is worse the more we hear about it. >> this is julia pierson being sworn in to testify. that is the committee chairman and the ranking member greeting her. but now we go back to 2011, and we're finding out that that other breach at the white house was far worse than once thought. >> right. the "washington post" said it took four days to realize someone fired a high powered rifle at the white at the t

apparently he found out pierson was inside the school and left immediately. that's when a 15-year-old girl came across pierson's path. authorities say she was shot. she's now in critical condition. when those shots rang out, they sent more than 2,000 students into hiding. >> we were at a classroom just in the same hallway as the shooter entered. and we heard two very loud, loud gunshots, and it wasn't until we heard the second one we realized it was a gunshot. and it was absolutely terrifying. >> authorities say that pierson ended up turning the shotgun on himself and took his own life. they also say that they found a possible molotov cocktail inside of the school after the shooting. then last night, they ended up searching pierson's home in centennial, colorado, obviously looking for more information that could lead to a potential motive. they say pierson was smart. they say he was nice and they're shocked about yesterday's shooting. in terms of the response, they did the active shooting response where they didn't wait for other officers before they went in.

the ammunition he purchased yesterday, both were purchased legally because pierson was 18. as for the motive, it kind of falls towards what we've been telling you since yesterday. there is reports out that he was targeting a teacher, a librarian who is also the debate team coach. authorities say evidently pierson was disciplined by the teacher in september, so potentially he was holding a grudge. as of now, they say they really believe that pierson acted alone. >> it's very disturbing. thank you for those latest details. >>> another major story developing as a storm is taking aim directly at the northeast. airlines forced to cancel nearly 1,000 flights. and now meteorologists say some places in new england could see more than a foot of snow as retailers are raising concerns that the storm could put a serious chill on holiday shopping with less than two weeks until christmas. brian yennis is live from new york city. has it calmed down a little bit out there? >> reporter: you know, it has. it's been coming in in waves. sometimes you have to put on the hat and the full gear. o

secret service director julia pierson steps down after the agency reels from a series of controversies over the president's safety. >>> and 12 years gone. a texas girl allegedly kidnapped by her mother more than a decade ago is found living near mexico city. captioning funded by cbs unded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, october 2nd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning a hospital patient in hawaii is being held in isolation while doctors figure out whether or not he has ebola. the patient checked into the honolulu hospital yesterday. it's unclear whether the man had traveled to west africa. ebola is just one condition he's being tested for. >>> meanwhile texas hospital officials admit they dropped the ball on the first confirmed u.s. case of ebola. this morning the question is how many others have been put at risk. omar villafranca is in dallas. omar, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. now, we've learned that the patient is in serious condition here at texas health presbyterian, and while he's being monito

they said that julia pierson stepped up and offered her resignation. i pressed him and said why did they not fire her after these breaches? he just said basically they did not know about that incident in that atlanta elevator at the cdc where a security guard who had a gun and a criminal record, the secret service was not aware of, got inches from the president. the president was left out of the loop that his safety had been in jeopardy again, just a couple of weeks ago. i'm also told one last bit of color, that when julia pierson wernlt up to the -- to offer his resignation, he not only immediately accepted it, but said it would be effective immediately. they're not even going to give her time for a transition, they realize they have got to turn the page on this fast. >>> now to the ebola scare, earlier we got an update on the condition of the patient in a dallas hospital. >> we're categorizing his condition as serious but stable. >>> we also heard from rick perry on some children who came in contact with the ebola patient. >> we also learned that som

according to investigators, pierson was looking for the school's librarian before the attack which mayve been in response to a confrontation. the librarian is also the school's debate coach and it's believed that coach may have kicked him off the team. >>> we also have an update now on a major storm hitting the midwest and east coast. the storm has caused 900 flights to be canceled today so far. these are live pictures from new jersey, a whole lot of snow on the roads. this is the main who i to newark airport. we have team coverage on the weather, nbc bay area's month ef-francis is at sfo with travel delays. we'll begin with rob mayeda. >> we're watching those ever changing conditions on major east coast airports and in philadelphia, you're seeing freezing rain. so things icing up on contact there off the ground, causing multiple hour delays and cancellations around philadelphia and the new york airports seeing a combination of snow and wind. 27 degrees there. and very strong storm system that is placing its biggest impact on the east coast right now. you can see over the next few hour

they have more on pierson and what could have gone wrong. >> he got down in the hallway when a shotgun blast through arapahoe, colorado high school friday. >> my first instinct is to want to defend him. i know that's wrong much it's in defensible what he did. it's horrible what he did. it's hard to process those emotions like that. >> reporter: pierson and redman, co-captains on the speech and debate team were not best friends but he felt close fluff to try to help him. >> speech and debate was his life and the fact he wasn't there crushed him a little bit. made him really tense and angry about that. >> reporter: it had been a stressful fall term for pierson. he grew angry from losing his coveted spot on the team months ago which made the coach, librarian murphy a wanted man. >> karl and murphy did not get along. whatever it was escalated to a death threat. >> his intent was evil. and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals. >> reporter: police say he stormed into the school heavily armed, prepared to hurt more than one person. as he moved through the library looking for murph

pierson was a member of the team. two. that's why he came to the campus armed with a shotgun and two molotov cocktails. what investigators don't know now is why the 15-year-old girl who remains in critical condition in the hospital was shot. there were initial reports, they say, that she confronted the shooter. they are not sure those reports are accurate. they are still investigating that. there are four separate crime scenes that investigators are looking at. this high school behind me, arapahoe high school, they are looking at the shooter's car and the house where he lived with his mother and his father's house. this investigation will continue throughout the weekend. christi and victor. >> we are expecting, of course, over the next few days, to hear more about what happened inside the school while this was going on. already we heard from some of the students standing outside of the school and crying, reliving what happened. what are they telling you? >> reporter: terrifying experience that these students recount.

pierson did not take the rejection well.oel redmond was the co-captain of the debate team with pierson. >> i told him, you know, your future is not what happens to you in high school and so much more than that. >> reporter: but he said pierson was removed from the speech and debate team after threatening the coach tracy murphy with his life. >> a lot of high schoolers, a lot of teenagers think their life is so immediate, so now. >> reporter: they never thought it would come to this. the students will be allowed to re-enter the school later this week, but that will be only for the purpose of retrieving their belongings. rick salinger, cbs news, centennial, colorado. >>> a wildfire in central california has destroyed at least 15 homes. the big sur fire has burned about 500 acres in the los padres national forest. firefighters say they are making progress but the wind-driven fire is zero percent contained. one of the destroyed homes belongs to the big sur fire chief. >> it still has not sunk in. i just haven't absorbed it all y

. >> the group was once given the title "america's favorite party band" by rolling stone, but pierson said beneath the bee-hives, there was a message. >> we felt we were misunderstood and we felt like everyone's just calling us wacky, wacky, wacky and they didn't understand the incredible seriousness of the band. >> the band's cult following continued to grow until a tragedy in the '80s, when lead guitarist, ricky wilson, died of aids. >> we didn't know he had aids until he passed away. so we were told to be silent and that was very very difficult. >> her first break into music was a protest band in the civil rights era. >> so we were the sun donuts and we all wrote and one of the girls wrote about environmental... you know, tomorrow there would be no more sun. >> now, after decades in the bs, kate's going solo with a song "guitars and microphones" - a look back at her life. the video; however, backfired among some in the transgender community who called it stereotypical and degrading. >> i care a lot about gay marriage and equality and i've always been very supportive of trans people

should director pierson step down? does president obama think that's the right course of action at this point? >> the president and the white house have confidence in pierson's ability to do this job. we have confidence in the review that she's undertaking about exactly what happened, the incident that you referred to that happened a couple weeks ago. it's something they're taking seriously. they've upped some of the security procedures already. and she's undertaking that review. we're letting that process go forward. the president has confidence that she has the ability to run the department. and to conduct this review. we'll see what comes of that. >> i know josh continues to say the president has confidence in the secret service. i guess the question is why. because lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday who i was speaking with, just a lot of americans, say they're losing confidence. so why does the president still have confidence, particularly when we're just learning about this breach? atlanta that occurred when he w

they say he was 18-year-old carol pierson. they say what happened is pierson walked into arapahoe high school yesterday with a shotgun. from all account, was apparently targeting a specific teacher. a librarian who was also a speech and debate coach. apparently pierson was on the speech and debate team. apparently the targeted teacher found out that pierson was inside the school and left immediately. then at some point a 15-year-old girl came in pierson's path. authorities say they was shot and is currently in critical condition. of course, when the shots rang out, they sent the more than 2,000 students in this school into hiding. authorities say at some point pierson turned the gun on himself, taking his own life. now, last night, authorities searched pierson's home in centennial, colorado, of course, looking for the motive here. students say pierson was smart, nice and a gifted debater and, gregg, they say they're shocked this shooting happened. >> how quickly were authorities able to respond, will? >> from all accounts, the

the shooter died of a self-inflicted gun wound is 18-year-old karl pierson. he was targeted a specific teacher. one student is in the hospital after undergoing surgery for the gunshot wound. sit 20 miles south of aurora, where the mass shooting took place in the movie theater and eight miles from columbine high school, the keep of a mass shooting in 1999. ron mott is covering all of this. >> good morning, alex. later today the media will meet with the police again. in the meantime, as you can imagine, a lot of questions of why. why this young man would do this yesterday. police suspect he was out for revenge. >> a repeated scene at an american school. hands on their heads after gunfire erupts inside. >> we heard people coming in, police talking on their radios screaming and surrounding. i didn't hear any of the shots. but it was scary. >> police say 18-year-old karl pierson, a student at arapahoe high school, was looking for a specific teacher. it stepped from an earlier disagreement between the two. >> when the teacher heard this individual was asking for hi

j biden says vladimir pierson was wrong about ukraine. wrong about nato and wrong about the ion will of america was addressing a massive crowd in the punish capital war. so alan fish is that the latest the, this was a call to rally support with voices of the said growing at home and abroad. president joe bite used to speech in warsaw to paint the challenge of the war in ukraine. in stock terms. no, no one can turn away their eyes of the atrocities russia's committee against you granted people, it's ap horn. it's abhorrent. but extraordinarily, as well as by the response of ukrainian people and the world is unannounced, visit to keep the di before, perhaps overshadowed the address. but he knows people are growing tired of the cost of the pain and of the loss. and he re emphasized america's commitment to the battle, present rudeness. confronted with something to day, did you did think was possible a year ago the democracy of the world have grown stronger? not weaker, but the autocrat to the world of ground weaker, not stronger because it a

karl pierson bought the shotguns legally last year at a local gun store.ing was retaliation against a faculty member. pierson critically wounded claire davis before apparently killing himself. >> she is an innocent young lady, and she was an innocent victim of an evil act of violence. >> friends describe pierson as outgoing but say he had extreme political views. he had recently been kicked off the school's debate team. >> portions of the midwest and northeast are bracing for what could be a miserable 24 hours, heavy snow, as much as 12 inches, could fall in parts of the country. new york city, chicago, philadelphia, expected to see several inches of snow. a thousand flights have been cancelled. officials are warning residents to prepare for power outages and dangerous driving conditions. >> back here in the bay area, record eight consecutive "spare the air" day has been called for tomorrow. here's leigh glaser with the first look at her forecast. leigh? >> turning our attention to live doppler 7 hd, it's been a really pleasant day today with most of the l

police have identified the gunman as 18-year-old karl pierson. we're learning more about where they're looking for clues. today, investigators plan to search the home where he lived. they're also searching his father's home to see if that could give them some ideas into whether this was all planned, how long he had been planning, what his motivation may have been. we spoke with the sheriff that says one of the many things they're focusing in on honing in on is where the gun came from. you may recall he walked into this school behind me, arapahoe high school, with a shotgun. it wasn't even concealed. where did that come from, what hands did it pass. the sheriff hoping to bring more details at a press conference this afternoon. yesterday was a horrifying scene for the students in particular who had to go into lockdown as shots rang out. listen to how it all unfolded. >> school on lockdown, not sure why. there's smoke. the north side of the school. there's a fire in the library. >> chaos and confusion at arapahoe high school. >> i am on the north si

witnesses saw pierson enter arapahoe high school carrying a shotgun. he made no attempt to hide it. >> i saw him. he was kind of running military towards the building. i alerted everybody in the building, and that's when i heard two big bangs. just boom, pop. >> reporter: police say pierson asked other students the whereabouts of that faculty member, reportedly the school's librarian, and head of the speech and debate team. >> when the teacher heard that he -- that this individual was asking for him, the teacher exited the school immediately. in my opinion, it was the most important tactical decision that could have been made. >> reporter: in addition to the shotgun, authorities found two molitaf cocktails in the school. the one was rendered safe. the other had been debt made. >> that's why deputies encounter aid large amount of smoke in the immediate area. that was ignited either immediately prior to or during the shots being fired. >> reporter: as part of the investigation authorities will be looking at school surveillance video. they are also search

>> so you were not satisfied with what the director, julia pierson, had to say today, were you? >> well, i wasn't satisfied because we continue to ask questions and she was saying that it was a budget concern, it was another type of concern. and yet when we asked piercing questions, what we found was that indeed it is probable that she made some of the very decisions to reduce staffing that created this potential concern. and so why were the dogs not released? a lot of still unanswered questions that i think americans deserve. >> so where do you go from here? what can congress do to try to fix this problem? >> well, it is a bipartisan thing. you heard democrats and republicans today very concerned that what we've got is an agency with a culture that must be turned around. the current director has been there for 17 months and yet we can still see that even among some of those that showed up at the hearing today that they acknowledge that they've got a problem. so we need to give our secret service the tools necessary. hearings are not enough. we're probably about to go into an ex

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collectively, these failings prompted director pierson to resign wednesday, but questions persist as the secret service lost its edge in the three decades since the assassination attempt against president ronald reagan. the man ultimately in charge of the secret service is homeland security secretary jeffsonson. darrell. has the length of time since want reagan assassination attempt eroded the secret service's sense of risk. eleanor clift. >> i think it's possible that some come o play senussi -- complacency has set in. it's been penetrated but if you're over there, it's like an armed camp. as a reporter, you have to go through several check points. itst no the easy -- it's not easy to get into. agencies walk around the perimeter, probably their attention wanders sometimes, and that's unacceptable. the secret service as a whole, everybody i have dealt with is very professional. there are a few people not doing their job. i think it's a question of management, and i think it's a question of resources. they don't have enough money, and julia pierson, i think she was installed in that j

he's -- he's karl pierson, he's one of the best people i know. la's known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for the smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the buses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution into the air. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. you stand behind what you say. there's a saying around here, around here you don't make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can't live up to them, you own up, and make it right. some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it's needed most. but i know you'll still find it when you know where to look. i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. you can fill that box