the group was about 900 spinal cord injury professionals, those who work with spinal cord diseases, doctors, nurses, social workers, anybody that would touch that population. it's the largest in the country, but -- and it's mostly employees of the department of veterans affairs. convening of that specific group of professionals. brian: show a 30-second clip of you describing the accident. let's watch that and you have a technique you use to get their attention that we'll also show. >> close your eyes for a moment and stretch -- close your eyes -- i see you. trust me, empathy. and i want you to stretch your imagination. brian: the reaction of the audience was dramatic, did you expect that? >> i don't know what i expected. i wanted something different and something to register these people you are caring for, they weren't born this way. they just didn't happen to fall into your care. something bad happened, maybe the sound effect, maybe it would make them feel it. i wanted something different to register and set the tone for what we were going to talk about. brian: you talk about empathy and

the group was about 900 spinal cord injury professionals who work with spinal cord diseases and dysfunctionerapists, doctors, nurses, social workers, anyone who would touch that population. we have this once a year, it is the largest in the country. it is also mostly employees of the department of veterans affairs. it is a convening of that specific group of professionals. brian: we're going to show a 30-second clip. but let'sredundant, watch. willave a technique we show. sherman: close your eyes for a moment -- close your eyes, i see you. [laughter] sherman: trust me, empathy. i want you to stretch your imagination. [crashing] sherman: open your eyes. that is how fast it happens. in a blink, no warning. brian: the reaction of the audience was dramatic. did you expect that? sherman: i don't know what i expected. i think i just wanted something different, something to register that these people you are caring for were not born this way, they did not just happen to fall into your care. something bad happened, and maybe the sound effect, maybe that would help that. i wanted something different

in researvested a lot ching the spinal cord.erlls be regenerated they die, how we can replace functions that were killed off by a trauma to the spinal cord. i'm not a researcher. we are in partnership with yale va.the new haven host: you mentioned animal research, here is the congressman dave on the floor the house of representatives. op my amendment will st funding for dog experiements at the va. we were disturbed by the types of experiments conducted on the puppies. the type of work they were doing was on the level of torture. host: where does that issue stand now? sherman gillums: this was a report out of the richmond be a medical center. testedere canines being with cardiovascular research. in report talked about -- this case he is the congressman from the state of virginia and he took that report and fashioned legislation that would ban all of the specific type of animal research that causes pain. the issue for us was not that there should be accountability in this case. there should be accountability. the undersecretary ca

sherman: the spinal cord injury itself was incomplete. that is hard to explain for people who don't understand what that means, but you have a complete injury where the spinal cord is completely severed, and you have incomplete where it has been damaged, but not severed. that causes a paralysis, because of the celll death. the cells don't get oxygen so they die. that makes it permanent, but only partially. so even though the injury happened here -- you had christopher reeve lose just about everything. he had a complete spinal cord injury. but it is different for everyone. certain parts get spared. in my case, i was considered an incomplete spinal cord injury at a certain function level, i can move my arms. i can move certain muscles below the waist. i cannot move them, but i can feel them. you have sensory but not motoring. so it is this sort of patchwork of things that work and don't work and it differs on the individual. brian: how many operations did you have? sherman: just one to repair my spinal cord. i was fortunate. brian: what's t

here again is nancy cordes. >> it is absolutely bizarre.t's bizarre conduct. >> reporter: after holding back orr nine months, the former vice president unloaded today for a scathing seven minutes. >> we have a president who does not understand governance. forget his policies for a minute. he doesn't understand how the government functions. >> reporter: he said the president's behavior and language-- b get that son of a bitch off the field right now. >> reporter: --are rapidly and perhaps irreversibly shattering societal standards. >> violating the norms of personal conduct generates more anxiety and fear than any policy prescription that this president has enunciated. >> reporter: still, he begged top officials not to abandon ship. >> all the people who are in our administration who are still there, they call me all the time. i say, please stay. please stay. there has to be some competence and normalcy. >> reporter: his note of alarm echoed comments made by republican senator john mccain, who described mr. trump's politics this way today: >

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about social media, of course, and burden of social media, taking a heavy toll on our teenage girls, cord to go a new study, somebody asked me do you think social media is good for young raid is and their teens? of course, it is not. the non-profit group they are called ruling our experiences, what did they fine. >> they surveyed 10,000 groups this is a large study. it has more evidence behind it these are girls from fifth through 12th grade. 31 percent of the girls admit ted this were made fun of on social media or bullied. 61 percent said their parents never check their social media those are big wake up calls right there. >> 61 percent don't check their kid. >> we need to check our kid. will 5 percent have received friend requests from strangers about half of them accepted those requests, from those strangers. >> they will delete information. i see this with my nieces because i feel like everything is hyper sexualized and they take these cute pictures with the beach and stuff and it is all about getting these likes. that is how you feel validated people make comment like you think you

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nancy cordes will update the congressional investigations, and we'll get analysis on all this from john dickerson. plea by george papadopolous to charges he lied to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russian operatives. >> reporter: president trump showcased his foreign policy team for "washington post" editors on march 21, 2016. among them, a political unknown in his late 20s. >> george papadopolous. he's an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. >> reporter: court papers say papadopolous now admits he went to work right away, setting up meetings with russian operatives who told him in april 2016 they had dirt on then-candidate hillary clinton, including thousands of e-mails. two months passed before the democratic national committee publicly blamed russians for hacking their computers and stealing data, including e-mails. according to the court papers, papadopolous had been e-mailing and meeting russian contacts regularly. ron hosko was a former assistant director of the f.b.i. what does it suggest that the russians were trying to do by reaching thr

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here is chief congressional correspondent, nancy cordes. >> members of congress. >> jeff flake's call to arms was met with mutiny as gop colleagues refused to open fire on mr. trump. >> still on good terms with the president. >> very focused on getting results. >> job is to put our head down and start ledge lating. >> holding back because t their agenda. on issues like tax reform. >> we now have a president who will sign it. >> the yeas are 50. nays are 50. >> just last night. vice president pence cast a tie-breaking vote enabling republicans to block an obama era rule that would have allowed consumers to band together to sue banks for wrongdoing. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative. the join resolution is passed. >> we have great unity. >> the president insisted to day party friction has been overblown. he repeatedly mentioned the standing ovations he got. at yesterday's lunch with senate republcans. >> i think the press makes me, more uncivil than i am. you know people don't understand. i went to an ivy league college. i was a nice student. i did very well. i'm very intel

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nancy cordes, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," the harvey weinstein scandalating the conversation two weeks after jodi kantor of "the new york times" broke the story, so she joins us in studio 57 with new developments. >>> and the ceo of men's clothing company bonobos andy dunn tells us about the new campaign featuring role models instead of professional models. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com thanks for watching. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning, bay area. as we take a live look at the city of san francisco, the embarcadero, it is friday, october 20th. lights shining brightly out there. good morning, i'm kenny choi. >> i'm anne makovec in for michelle griego. it's just about 4:30. you'll find some wet roads. >> that's right. >> you will have to use the windshield wipers on your way into work this morning. >> we are seeing the leftovers basically of the rain showers. so there's a little bit left out there. b

nancy cordes. >> police investigate a triple shooting in north philadelphia.ne man is dead while another man and a teen are in the hospital. shots rang out on the 2500 block of dover street around 11:30 last night. police say a 24-year-old man was shot numerous times in his chest back and legs. officers rushed him to the hospital where he later died. a 24-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were also rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds. both are in stable condition. eyewitnesses told police they saw the shooter take off. >> the shooter may have left the scene in a white van or minivan. >> officers have not yet identified the man who died. police say they found shell casings from two different guns. now investigators are trying to figure out if there were two shooters or one shooter with two guns. >> a deadly crash shuts down the eastbound lanes of the schuylkill expressway overnight. the accident involved a car and a motorcycle. this happened around 3:30 this morning in grays ferry. the driver of the motorcycle was pronounced dead at the scene. traffic w

if the glider pallet can't see the plane in front of them, they're trained to cut the cord and return to the airport. that's exactly what happened here on saturday. >> the tow plane had descended below him. when you no longer see the tow plane, you're supposed to release. >> reporter: his plane crashed and burst in to flames, a quarter mile away from the airport. he died and the other two people are okay. the plane was then packed up and shipped to storage in delaware as the national transportation safety board begins its investigation. >> medical history. >> reporter: friends say he's flown for decades. >> his skills were beyond my understanding. the guy knew planes, it's like it was apart of him. >> reporter: so flying was nothing new. those close to him say he loved it just as muchs marketing business in sterling. now as investigators comb through evidence in witness statements, many are left wondering why and how they lost someone they cared so much about. >> he loved the family and he loved this industry in the aviation world. it's a huge loss. huge loss. >>> the ntsb is planning

and right now as we mentioned the search is on for those suspects who ray cord ing to list were last seen taking off to the metro area. again, if you happen to know anything, saw anything, or have any information on this investigation you're asked to call prince george's county police. for now live in l college park maryland this morning, kristin leone, fox5 local news. >> time now seven: two this morning, the lock down has been lifted at virginia state in saint piet ers bugger, this comes after a student was shot. the victim will make a few recovery. good news there. the shooting appears to be isolated. >> also in virginia, a suspicion civil war remember enactment in the cedar field. spectators were evacuated from that injured . we're told that the bomb squad had to detonate the item as a precaution. today's festivities are now concerned. >> leads ' head onto over to gary mcgrady for the forecast. it'sing whying to feel more like summer. >> a little bit. i s said to before it expected high temperatures down a little bit because we're starting off again with clouds. i felt a few spri

here's chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. ke i know what it's like to keep these things hidden. >> reporter: california's jackie speier says her "me too" story happened on capitol hill, but in the 1970s when she was a low- level staffer. >> the chief of staff held my face, kissed me, and stuck his tongue in my mouth. >> reporter: the five-term congresswoman argues the same "boys club" culture exists today ocause congress operates, literally, by its own set of rules. a law passed in 1995 requires congressional victims of sexual harassment or misconduct to undergo 30 days of counseling, then a 30-day mediation period before they can pursue a hearing or a lawsuit. settlements, when they happen, are paid not by members or their offices but by a special u.s. treasury fund. unlike most federal workers, lawmakers and their aides are not required to get sexual harassment training. >> do i use salty language? yup. >> reporter: in recent years, new york's eric massa, and florida's mark foley were forced out for sexual misconduct. in 20

earlieri and a 100 metre cord and set up around it.arlier i spoke with security here. —— cordon. around it. earlier i spoke with security here. -- cordon. as to how long they have been there and whether they should have been dealt with sooner, it is a question of exploration, then we deal with them as quickly and efficiently as possible. sounds like they had been there too long, as soon as you found out how long they had been there, the decision was made to remove them. yes, as soon as we were made aware, them. yes, as soon as we were made aware , we them. yes, as soon as we were made aware, we take proactive steps to get root of the problem as quickly as we can, once we had determined the properties, the nature of the chemicals, then we are getting on with the process. a member of staff said they had crystallised, and they crystallised? i cannot honestly answer that question, all that i can tell you is that the reconnaissance that was conducted yesterday determined there was no immediate threat from these solventss. the issue around c

here is noon see coancy cordes. >> reporter: attorney general jeff session maze have recused himselfrom the russia investigation but that did not stop democrat tuesday from asking all about it. >> you wilill have to ask the special counsel. >> no, i'm asking you. >> they wanted to sought to interview sessions himself. >> i don't think so. >> you don't think so. are you sure? >> sessions ed builterly with minnesota's al franken. >> mr. chairman i don't have to sit in here and listen. >> you are the one who testified. >> what having a chance to respond. give me a break. >> franken accused sessions of changing his story about a meeting with russia's ambassador during last year's campaign. >> not being able to recall what you discussed with him is very different than saying i have not had communications with the russians. the ambassador from russia is russian. >> senators wanted to know how he plans to prevent future election meddling. >> i will be frank. i don't know that we are doing an, a specific legislative review at this prudent to do it. we have been warned. >> i take that as a su

in his state of the union speech a cord for more united nation but spanish authorities tried to stop the referendum by detaining officials suspending catalonian police and replacing them with central police forces blocking the internet do you support these measures by the spanish government. that's a crucial situation or a very critical situation to have. if you look at the rule of law i do understand that if the set up is not being built up brightly for a for a no it couldn't be done and therefore you could also not accept the result whatever is coming up if anyone so do you support what the spanish authorities are doing yes and no yes today is a very political statement yes and no but listen it's a very interesting on so let me rule it out so god is the priority the player or team or no well you can act and you have to confront this situation by the rule of law or but putting people in prison are putting them into custody is a situation i'm very critical of because that doesn't help. the situation on the ground if there is anything happening as a result of a referendum and you do n

chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes is there.o well that, that all of us, all of us were fooled. nobody knew. >> west virginia democrat joe manchion says he is horrified that a bill everyone approved made the epidemic worse. >> there is no oversight now the way, that bill has to be retracted. repealed. >> reporter: the law sailed through the senate last spring. >> those in favor say aye. >> aye. >> it had the backing of the justice department. it was sponsored by members of both parties. so, no one in congress thought to question it. >> it is not unusual for something like this to roll through without fanfare. >> missouri democrat introduce aid bill today to repeal last year's law. >> how realistic is that? >> i think it is realistic. i do sense there is a bipartisan kind of, we've got a crisis attitude about opioids now. >> one of the bill's authors, tennessee republican marsha blackburn said via spokesperson today if there are any unintended consequences from they should be addressed immediately. dea has all right enforcement p

multiple sclerosis, lou gehrig's disease, there is spinal cord dysfunction. the common experience is the profound effect that spinal cord dysfunction has on just about every bodily system. we are bonded by that experience. it is pretty unique in terms of the impact it has on our lives. we are sort of a core within the veterans population. as brian: i read that the veterans that paralyzed veterans of america was established after world war ii. is it a government institution now? sherman: it was started as a club, a membership organization. but it was about self-adca

s hands. >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. thanks, nancy. we'll have more on this tomorrow night. prw to the other end of pennsylvania avenue. the president called reporters into the rose garden today to watch him mend a fence. major garrett was there. >> probably now, despite what we read, we're probably now i think, at least as far as i'm concerned, closer than ever before. >> reporter: after a white house lunch, president trump and senate majority leader mitch o thnnell strolled to the rose garden to bury the hatchet. >> we have the same agenda. we've been friends and acquaintances for a long time. >> reporter: it was a change in tone from just 90 minutes earlier when mr. trump told his cabinet do-nothing republicans were to blame for his stalled legislative agenda. >> we're not getting the job done. and i'm not going to blame myself, i'll be honest. they are not getting the job done. >> reporter: mr. trump was in part echoing his former chief laretegist steve bannon, who this weekend declared mcconnell an enemy of grassroots >>nservative

here's nancy cordes. >> we take what happened on facebook very seriously. >> reporter: executives fromebook, twitter, and google told senators today that russian trolls were more prolific than they initially believed, posting 80,000 pieces of content on facebook alone between 2015 and this summer. >> so this continued after his election? >> it continued until we disabled the accounts. >> reporter: most of the posts and ads originated from one office building in st. petersburg, russia, where an operation innocuously named "the internet research agency" uploaded 1100 videos to youtube and published more than 131,000 divisive messages on twitter. facebook estimates up to 126 million users saw fake russian posts like this one, falsifying hillary clinton's record with veterans. it claimed to come from a group called "texans for truth." >> that advertisement has no place on facebook. >> reporter: all three tech giants say they have invested in staff and systems to keep bad actors out. >> we are committed to working every single day to get better at solving this problem. >> reporter: louisian

more about that now from chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price, and that's not what i'm about. >> reporter: president trump made good on a months-long threat today, cutting off $7 billion in annual payments to insurers that were designed to bring down costs on the individual market. democrats accused the president of sabotaging obamacare out of... >> spite and cruelty. >> reporter: the nonpartisan congressional budget office has warned that eliminating the subsidies could prompt insurers to hike rates 20% next year if they don't leave the exchanges altogether. >> if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you better be very, very rich. >> reporter: maureen murphy of alexandria, virginia, isn't. >> i take this twice a day, every 12 hours. >> reporter: she has a blood disorder and has relied on obamacare for six years. >> it's the first time i'm actually terrified. >> reporter: if your options on the individual market go away, where do you go for insurance? >> i don't know. i don't-- i don't know that there

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meanwhile the drop in ratings could also be attributed to tv cord cutting. alternative viewing choices like twitter and amazon, and even the uproar over head injuries afflicting football players. but it's also important to note that viewership for most televised sports is down across the board. the nba, college football and motor sports like nascar have all seen significant drops in viewership so the decline in nfl viewers may just be part of a larger trend. stadium attendance at nfl games is also down by 3% compared to last season. but analysts say that could just be related to bad weather or teams changing cities. this year the chargers moved from san diego to los angeles and currently have the worst home attendance in the league, down 56% from last year. in fact the chargers rank even lower in attendance than the miami dolphins, who postponed their first home game because of hurricane irma. so like trump's claim about ratings, the attendance drop may have nothing to do with the kneeling protesters. now, it is still too early to really judge this. we're on

nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> the perception is the department of defense has not been forth coming. >> reporter: the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tried to dispel that perception today. >> the assessment was that contact with the enemy was unlikely. >> reporter: general joseph dunford said a group of u.s. soldiers and 3 been on a reconnaissance patrol 35 kilometers from niger's capital city. >> they came under attack from approximately 50 enemy using small arms fired, rocket-propelled grenades and technical vehicles. >> reporter: he describes the enemy as local tribal fighters affiliated with isis. he said the u.s. forces equipped with machine guns and small arms but no air cover didn't radio for help for an hour. >> reporter: my judgment would be was that that unit thought they could handle the situation without additional support. >> reporter: he said an unmanned drone was overhead in minutes. french mirage jets a

here's chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> members of congress ought to speak out. >> arizona republican jeff flake's call the arms was met with mutiny today as g.o.p. colleagues refused to open fire on mr. trump. >> i'm still on very good terms with the president. >> he's very focused on getting results. >> our job is to put our head dunn and start legislating. >> reporter: they're holding back partly because the trump white house is key to their agenda on issues like tax reform. >> we now have a president that will sign it. >> the yeas are 50. the nays are 50. >> reporter: just last night vice president pence cast a tie-breaking vote enabling republicans to block an obama-era rule that would have hey butted consumers to band together to sue banks for wrongdoing. >> the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the joint resolution is passed. >> we have great unity. >> reporter: the president insisted today that party friction has been overblown. he repeatedly mentioned the standing ovations he got at yesterday's lunch with senate republicans. >> i think the press

anthony. >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. this programming note: the head of the n.r.a., wayne lapierre, will be among john dickerson's guests this sunday on "face the nation." three u.s. army green berets were killed in an ambush in the west african nation of niger. two others were wounded. the soldiers' names have not been released. they were attacked yesterday near the border with mali where the boko haram and al qaeda-linked militants operate. american troops are there providing counter-terrorism training. tonight, b.p. is shutting oil and natural gas production at its gulf of mexico programs ahead of tropical storm nate, which formed today in central america. nate is now forecast to hit louisiana or mississippi sunday morning, possibly as a category 1 hurricane. a state of emergency has been declared in new orleans. our david begnaud is just back from more than two weeks in puerto rico. he was there before hurricane maria het. his reporting after the storm prompted action. welcome back, david. >> reporter: it's good to b

nancy cordes has more on this vord -- extraordinary day. >> none of this is normal. >> reporter: arizona's jeff flake stood on the senate floor, his voice quivering as he called the president indecent, reckless, and undignified. >> when the next generation ask why didn't you speak up, what are we going to say? mr. president, i rise today to say enough. >> reporter: the breadth of his condemnation was matched by a series of comments made by his g.o.p. colleague bob corker earlier in the day. >> the president has great difficulty with the truth on many issues. >> reporter: like flake, corker is retiring at the end of this term. >> a bad day from my perspective for our nation, and i think the worst of it is going to be the whole debasing of our nation. >> reporter: corker chairs the powerful foreign relations committee. he says white house aides have repeatedly asked him to talk president trump out of bad decisions. >> it's obvious his political model and governing model is to divide, and he

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here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: the four u.s. soldiers were ambushed during a routine patrol just over two weeks ago by 50 isis-connected fighters. >> our thoughts and prayers are with. >> reporter: but for 12 days, the president himself said nothing about the deaths-- no tweets, no statements-- until he was asked about his silence at a rose garden press conference on monday. >> i'm going to be calling them. i want a little time to pass. i'm going to be calling them. >> reporter: but then he made this explosive claim about his predecessors: >> the traditional way, if you look at president obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls. >> reporter: the comment drew instant fury from top obama frnlz one said, stop the damn lying." another called him "a deranged animal." but the president wouldn't back down, offering up his own chief of staff as proof. kelly's second, secretary lieutenant robert kelly, was killed in afghanistan in 2010. >> you could ask general kelly, did he get a call f

>> mason: nancy cordes with the latest episode of "family feud." thanks, nancy., to the ambush in niger. investigators want to find out u u.s. soldiers and their allies were set up by villagers. four americans were killed in the october 4th shoot-out. they were part of a larger atrol. margaret brennan, now, is following this. >> reporter: the 12 u.s. soldiers and 30 nigerian forces had been on a reconnaissance mission for nearly 24 hours. the patrol then received new orders to meet with elders in the village of tongo-tongo where an isis offshoot had recently been recruiting supporters. a u.s. official tells cbs news that the patrol wanted to speak with the elders about countering isis' expansion. they may also have been searching for a wanted terrorist. the villagers delayed the troop's departure. and when they left, they were diverted from their planned route for unknown reasons. that's when they were ambushed by 50 enemy fighters. u.s. officials say it is unclear whether the attack was planned or simply one of opportunity. chairman of the joint chiefs general j