don dahler reports from hindman, kentucky. >> reporter: here on the banks of troublesome creek, musictools and sandpaper. >> i believe that's it. >> reporter: tabatha mosley is learning how to make a ukulele. >> this is just a beginning, kind of like my life. >> reporter: this school is designed to give people like mosley a second chance. >> making it helps keep me be focused. >> reporter: an addiction to opioids forced her to give up her four children more than a year ago. making instruments is helping her heal. >> it's teaching me how to build things, and it's going to bring joy to somebody else. >> reporter: music has deep roots in this part of appalachia, but so do poverty, drugs, and alcohol abuse. >> i have lost family and friends to addiction. >> reporter: doug naselroad runs a non-profit instrument company close to the school. two of his craftsmen are recovering addicts. >> there's clinical evidence that when people apply their hands to a task that demands concentration, it actually begins to re-wire the brain. >> reporter: this isn't necessarily the cure for addiction, but it

an intense lake-effect blizzard has paralyzed a lot of the region, and don dahler reports from thereeporter: if you were behind the wheel in parts of the northeast today, it was white- knuckle time, because the blowing snow meant everything else you could see was white, too-- the sky, the road, that ditch you didn't notice until it was too late. this blizzard is expected to end later today, but the lake-effect snow could continue through the weekend. the national weather service warns that travel in this area will remain dangerous, if not impossible. the culprit was a rare meteorological phenomenon called a "snow firehose" that pumped 3-4 feet of lake-effect powder along a narrow swath. >> a lot of people refer to it as the north country. but really it's the antarctica of new york state. >> reporter: forecasters say the heavier snow will taper off this evening. overnight, gusty winds will drop temperatures into the single digits. don dahler, cbs news, watertown, new york. >> o'donnell: all right, up next, steve hartman makes a bold prediction about his hockey skills. can he back it u

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. >>> it's friday, february 21st, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news". >>> election meddling. in a top secret briefing members of congress were told russia is working to get president trump re-elected. >>> bloomberg bounces back after the slugfest at the democratic debate. he props up his campaign as the other candidates get ready for nevada caucuses. >>> and under arrest, the mother of two missing idaho children is now behind bars in hawaii. now behind bars in hawaii. the charges she's facing today. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. i'm anne-marie green.

from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. >>> it's thursday, february 6th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news". >>> president trump is acquitted in his historic impeachment trial. reaction to the senate vote. >>> new american coronavirus cases as the number grows more measures are being taken to contain the outbreak, but can it be stopped? >>> and we remember silver screen legend. kirk douglas was one of the last stars from hollywood's golden stars from hollywood's golden image. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com golden image. captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs i'm laura podesta. anne-marie green is off. anne-marie green

." >> i'm don dahler.to tell you about this morning, starting with the revolution in facial recognition. a new company called clearview ai has software that can pull your image out of the millions of faces that are posted on the internet. it will likely prove useful to law enforcement. but critics say it supposes serious privacy questions. errol barnett spoke to the company's ceo and tested the software. >> clearview ai's ceo says he wants you to trust him. he is trying to gain the public's trust here. the 31-year-old says his company's facial recognition technology is only available to law enforcement and is to be used to identify potential criminals. but there are serious questions about whether his so i >> r ns and billions of images from millions of dall across open in >> reporter: this is what clearview ai's database would look like to law enforcement, says founder if for example they were searching for me. >> i got to say, it's slightly unnerving seeing someone able to stroll through so many images o

." >> i'm don dahler.ot more to tell you about this morning, starting with tonight's democratic debate in charleston, south carolina. gayle king and norah o'donnell will be posing questions to the candidates in a debate you can see right here on cbs starting at 8:00 eastern. saturday's south carolina primary is seen as the last best chance for joe biden to resurrect his campaign. he's banking on the support of african american voters. will they support him? gayle king asked around. >> cut your tvs off and stay focused. >> reporter: bernie scott is a force in south carolina politics. >> we got a lot of work to do. >> reporter: whether she is organizing volunteers at her home -- >> i'm out here telling people about the issues. >> reporter: -- greeting people door to door -- >> all right, let's get it up in here for joe biden! >> reporter: -- or emphasizing joe biden on a campaign bus, her voice is a trusted one this the palmetto state. when we arrived to meet her last friday, we were greeted by the group she

." >> i'm don dahler. got a lot more to tell you about this morning, starting with the 9-year-old civil war in syria. turkish forces have joined syrian rebels battling the assad regime and its russian allies along the turkey/syria border. the fighting is so intense that turkey's defense minister said he may have to ask for u.s. patriot missiles to y againsian warplanes. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of civilians are stuck in the middle. some have managed to escape to jordan. michelle miller paid a visit to one refugee camp. >> reporter: this is market street here, and it's a bustling, bustling urban center, so to speak. >> absolutely. you can get pretty much anything you need that you would find in amman or other cities nearby. >> reporter: but this isn't your average city in the middle east. it's a center of commerce in one of the world's largest refugee camps. the zatry camp in jordan, hope to nearly 80,000 syrians displaced by civil war. >> none of us should ever be okay with calling this normal, but

don dahler is following this story. we understand the teenager is being blamed? facing four charges from the incident including felony malicious conduct. hi mom said security officers and law enforcement escalated the situation instead of helping her son who has been treated for mental illness in the past. >> they made it worse. >> reporter: surveillance video shows the moments jessica long's son hayden was brought to the ground and punched in the head. >> these were big guys and my son is maybe 120 pounds. >> reporter: long said she took hayden to the emergency room in december for a possible mental health emergency. she asked for a hospital curt guard to help get him in the building. >> i motioned for the first guard to couldn't. when he did i immediately told him that my son needed treatment. the guard then grabbed him. >> reporter: surveillance video shows hayden of shoved twice hard enough that the teen came out of his shoes. >> stop it. >> i jumped in the middle because the guard was going tase him. >> reporter: a second security officer appears to tackle h