steve cooper is live with more on what happened there. >> reporter: nancy, some tense moments that had the judge scrambling to get off of the bench. all this untolling here a short time ago inside brockton district court. that is where the 18-year-old suspect pleaded not guilty to an abrupt start to the arraignment had court officers rushing into the holding area. according to sources, the suspect briefly became uncooperative. >> assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. >> reporter: that is 18-year-old frantz polynice of brockton, pleading not guilty to murdering his mother, inside the family's home in brockton yesterday afternoon. >> the report defendant's mother, had been stabbed multiple times above about the face, neck, and torso area. by this defendant, mr. polynice, her 18-year-old son. >> reporter: the suspect's grandmother was in the house at the time but wasn't hurt. the mother of polynice's betion friend from high school is heart-broken. >> it is so hard for us to believe. we were just saying yesterday, then we get this call. this is unbelievable. >> reporter: polynice gr

steve cooper, 7 news. >>> sky 7 over sharon today where police are investigating shots fired outside the econo lodge motel. someone staying in the motel call gunshots an when police arrived they found bullet casings and a weapon. they weren't able to find the person who owned the gun, but police say this investigation is still very active. >>> e all right, let's get to the trump transition now. the president-elect hitting the road for an unprecedented thank-you tour, making his first public speech since the election. president-elect started in indiana to announce that 1,000 jobs will now be staying here in the u.s. from there, mr. trump goes to >>reporter: president-elect trump has spent most of the three weeks since his big win out of the public eye. today he took a break from transition planning and hit the road. his team already claiming a victory on a campaign promise. donald trump took off from new york thursday morning en route to ohio for his first major public appearance since election night, but first a stop in indiana carrying through on a campaign promise to convince carri

just heard from the police chief and the mayor who was speaking here live a few moments ago. 7's steve cooper was live at the police headquarters for that press conference. steve, you were asking great questions there. >> reporter: well, obviously, the mayor and the police chief here in lawrence are anxious for answers right now in connection with what's happened. most importantly, they are hoping and they are calling on the district attorney, even calling on the governor to expedite the medical examiner's effort for an here. we are talking about a male who was decapitated. and that head was found several feet away from the river here in lawrence last night. actually, around 3:00 in the afternoon. a woman walking her dog who made that gruesome discovery. the area remains sealed offer last night while detectives searched and scoured the river banks for more evidence in connection with what happened here. there is a 16-year-old boy who has been missing for two weeks here in lawrence. no one is saying wlornts whether or not that is the victim in this case. the mayor speaking moments ago, basical

steve cooper is live with more on what happened there. >> reporter: nancy, some tense moments that had the judge scrambling to get off of the bench. all this untolling here a short time ago inside brockton district court. that is where the 18-year-old suspect pleaded not guilty to

steve keeley is at cooper university hospital this morning where the officer was air lifted, steve. >> reporter: well, this is third young new jersey state trooper killed in a south jersey car crash within 12 months, two of them, 31, and one of them 30 years old. so all same age as well. frankie williams, first year rookie trooper, just 31, just married weeks ago in october was going northbound on route 55. look at the sky fox video. he is responding to a call for service at 6:59 p.m. when a man in this what is left of a toyota corolla a going southbound in the southbound lanes for still some unknown reason went across the grass median, into the northbound lanes, and then collided head on with the trooper, where route 55, goes through millville and speed limit there is 55, maybe 65 miles an hour, and when you look at this aerial video and we have looked through several times there is no hint of any skid marks in either direction, from either driver. the other driver pronounced dead on the scene of the horrific crash, trooper williams was flown here in to cooper and pronounced dead. no

for his part, steve case cooperation. where do you think they can find common ground?a big deal. maybe the president-elect trump will support an immigration, you know, policy around things like, you know, the start-up visa. ♪ i'm proud to be an american >> reporter: trump has softened his position on visas for highly skilled immigrants. >> i'm changing. i'm changing. we need highly skilled people in this country and if we can't do it, we will get them in. >> reporter: in a way, do you think his candidacy and now his election is the ultimate start-up? >> absolutely. the campaign was a big disruption. >> reporter: some 800 employees pledged yesterday they will not help a trump admission do things like survey muslims nor conduct mass deportations. >> don, thanks for that. an interesting meeting at trump tower today. >> indeed, yes, yes. >> yeah. >>> a drama c for a yacht in a race. ahead, why the captain says he was very, very, very lucky. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ you got the notion said i like to know where you got the notion ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't rock the

our steve keeley has been following this breaking story from cooper university hospital, that is where the officer was taken, this is a heart breaking story, steve. >> reporter: car crashes and traffic incidents that are leading cause of on tooth i deaths of new jersey state troopers, and it has happened again, the third time a trooper, killed on duty, in a car accident on a south jersey road within 12 months. all three troopers from south jersey, native kids who grew up here and probably had a dream to be a state trooper. so the third young new jersey trooper killed on duty within 12 months. first year rookie trooper frankie williams just 31, just married weeks ago in october going northbound on route 55, he was responding to a call for service or may have been going above the 55, 65 miles an hour speed limit sign you see on 55. it is 6:59 p.m. just before seven. guy in the toyota corolla we don't know his age it wasn't given out by state police. he was going southbound in the southbound lanes for some still unknown reason, goes across the grass median and then goes southbound in the

two people have been taken to cooper hospital. steve keeley out there now. hey, steve?> reporter: good timing. because you are going to miss the car. hire is the car all mangled, somehow two people in that who likely zig-zag around these gates, lucky they're nod dead, and you can hear and soon see that the river line is back running, because they quickly got that car off the tracks. so they could get this morning rush hour commuter service back. you hear the blaring horning, not just because we are here, they do that at every intersection. you can hear that horn in morristown. city hall, to downtown camden, right off the aid milk wilson boulevard, right off the ben franklin bridge. you see these gates and these flashing lights. apparently that's not enough warning for people, the problem with these gates is they have to allow room for people who are stick on the tracks if their vehicle stalls, to get around the gates, so they don't get killed by the train. but when you leave room to get off the tracks, and in case after emergency, you leave people room to zig-zag around

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cooperation and peace. i am only sorry i was unable to see it through to the end. steve: the ussr may have passed into history, but mikhail gorbachev still enjoys the songs of the soviet past, like this one from world war ii. the melodies of a superpower which no longer exists. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. katty: singing along with mikhail gorbachev. reminiscing about the soviet union. the united nations children's fund, or unicef, is seven years old, and monday night in new york, some of its most high-profile goodwill ambassadors elevated the -- ambassadors celebrated the occasion. among them was retired football legend david beckham. he spent more than a decade traveling the world helping kids. reporter: in the time you have traveled across the world. how frustrating is it that there are children in aleppo trap? you always field you can do more, or you want to do more. i have realized being able to have been the football player i was, playing for the teams played for, having the voice i had, it helped me to be the ambassador i have been. people listen. when unice

cooperation u.s.-japan. i used to be advisor to what of the president of european countries. but how would you address this today? >> steve, do you want to have a shot at that one? >> that's it's a little bit off, but i would tell you that japan spends a lot of money on trying to rebuild communities around the world. .. the point that you touch on is questionable. you are comparing this to the one road strategy china has undertaken. china thinks about humanitarian missions in strategic terms. >> as humanitarian terms. burnishing its public image. an opportunity in that, a defense export can ride piggyback on infrastructure export strategy in which they connect together. and it is not just physical infrastructure, making them secure against hostile neighbors and internal threats and a range of other things. >> prime minister abe made an effort to do this in africa. part of this is chasing china into africa, there are 1 million reasons and a quality of a spirit of wanting to help that isn't well recognized. >> and it can work in this country because of infrastructure projects. >> i want to thank you for the statement you ma

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steve. i have the first question for you. no one is going to accuse you of having looked at the future of u.s. japan technology cooperation through rose-colored glasses. optimisticind of discussions that we have been having this morning and this afternoon, and the assumptions that some of those optimism rests on, some may say the parts of your talk is a -- of cold water. here's my question for you. hand, you have a corporate culture in the japanese defense industry, which time -- highlyd anti-competitive. i'm the other hand, you also ise a defense industry which -- which leaks like a sieve. all the way through to intellectual property, etc.. which comes first, is it the case that the japanese government could enforce let's say the institutions that shape industrial security regime that would then make japanese industry more competitive starting in the u.s., it would then encourage, incentivize the and competitive outlook grow over the possibilities for defense export trade and all that can follow from a robust defense trade regime? or is it the case that what you need to do is a shakeup at the top, to bring in people that

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