Jamie yuccas, thank you very much. Red woods are threatened by an onslaught of tour tiss. Dont ask where. What a police to work . Reporter entering the redwood forest is like stepping back in time. Among all the towering trees, the exact location of the tallest, named the grove of titans has long been kept secret. To help preserve them. The early management philosophy was we are not going to tell people. We are still not telling people. Brett silver agreed to lead me to the titans home to some of the largest trees in the world. This is not an official state park trail. No one trail that visitors have created by searching for some of the trees and grove of titans. Some one posted gps coordinates on social media. Iffages like this lured thousand of tourists to the area in search of the seek treat grove. Calling it the grove of the titans, secret grove, that just enhanced the hunt. People got, intrigued into the big tree hunt. Like trophy hunters. And like trophy hunters, people posed with the titans. Sharing them online as proof of their conquest. You can see the kind of steps, leading higher, higher. So they can get that perfect picture. Forest ecologist, studies the damage done by foot traffic. Along with destroying native plants, the soil compaction, caused by standing next to a redwood, harms the roots. Most of the roots of a redwood tree are in the first three feet or so. It kills, the small roots where nutrients were taken up. Now the redwood parks are raising money to protect the titans. Walk into an old growth grove, it is a humbling experience that puts everything into perspective, life into perspective. 1. 4 million needed to build raised walk ways that allow for selfies without endangering the health of the treats. People go you are going to ask people to stay on trail . Yes that is our only defense right now. By staying on the trail, visitors can still see the forest, and save the trees. John blackstone, cbs news, crescent city, california. Charity dillmans heart was three times larger than normal. Thought it what the end. Next morning i got a call. Megan markles courtesy for a 12yearold is Getting National attention. Ever get tired of adults saying how smart you are . No, i just look to accept it. That cough doesnt sound so good. Well i think you sound great. Move over. Easy booger man. Take mucinex dm. Itll take care of your cough. Fine ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night. Ah david, please, listen. Still not coughing. Not fair you guys waffles are my favorite ah why take 4hour cough medicine . Just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. It says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. The great emperor trekking a hundred miles inland to their breeding grounds. Except for these two fellows. This time next year, were gonna be sitting on an egg. I think were getting close make a uturn. Uturn . Recalculating. Man, we are never gonna breed. Just give it a second. You will arrive in 92 days. Nah, nuhuh. Nope, nope, nope. You know who im gonna follow . My instincts. As long as gps can still get you lost, you can count on geico saving folks money. Im breeding, man. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. You give us comfort. And we give you bare feet, backsweat, and gordos. Everything. I love you, but sometimes you stink. Soft surfaces trap odors. Febreze fabric refresher cleans them away for good. Because the things you love the most can stink. And plug in febreze to keep your whole room fresh for up to 45 days. Breathe happy with febreze. Imagine being told you might have to give up the very thing you were born to do. Dr. Jon lapook has the story of a singer who got her second and third wind. Charity tilghman loves all things opera. It makes this hot, gorgeous mess of a vehicle for, for to enjoy and joy and suffering and tragedy. Reporter and her life reads like the plot of a grand opera. Diagnosed at age 20 with pulmonary hypertension, high pleasure in the lungs, her heart was three times larger than normal. She couldnt imagine a life without song. Im going to raise the roof her career flourishes as her body deteriorated until 2009 Lung Transplant saved her life. She was 26. How did that go . It was a rough go. Thats an understatement. Her new book, the encore describes a grueling medical journey. It was two months of where i could breathe on my own. There is this wisp of a voice. But it was something and so i started singing every day. Act two. Three years later, her body rejects the lungs. I have this sort of conversation with god. I made my peace with everyone. And you thought i thought it was the end. And the next morning i got a call. The doctor, direct ore of heart Lung Transplant program at Cleveland Clinic found a match. I had my husband on one side. My mother on the other. I squeezed their hand. We have done this once. We can do this again. The risk for rejection, especially kronchronic rejectio one that is there. Every day is a new day to discover something new to bring a smile to someone any face to celebrate your donor. This fall, the opera Singer Celebrated her donor by performing at the Cleveland Clinic with her friend esperanza tufani, the donors daughter. If you have determination and like, i dont know, a Warrior Spirit inside of you. A Warrior Spirit do you have a relationship with your donor through your lung lungs . I think she gives me voice. Dr. Jon lapook, cbs news, new york. Still ahead movie night act the space station. Guess what they saw . Ok, lets try this. It says you apply the blue one to me. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. I had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. coughsah hey, chad i missed you. Ah i was in the tree watching you, and then i fell. Im not eating pizza from the trash. Then i discovered mucinex. Huge difference. One pill lasts 12 hours, and im good. Oh, here kitty, kitty. Ah not a cat, not a cat why take 4hour medicine . Just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Actress who played louisa van trapp in the sound of music has died. I flip, i float, i fleetly, flee i fly heather menzi zurich was 15 when released. It won five academy awards. She was recently dieing anotionanotion diagnosed with brain cancer and died yesterday in canada. 68 years old. As britains ril family celebrated christmas, all eyes on megan markel, her appearance at church was first with queen elizabeth. After service shes courtesies for the queen. Then the young couple chatted with some of the locals. Their wedding is may 19th. Saturday was movie night on Board International space station. The crew was treated to a private viewing of the new star wars movie. The astronaut took a picture of everyone crowded around a projection screen like at multiplex. They sat on bungy cord chairs and sipped from drink bags. Up next, a 12yearold with a life changing invention. Dr. Stanley remember this cannot change the laws of god. When he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, thats like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music] we end it we young science whiz, saw a problem and invented a solution. It could prevent a lot of kids from getting sick. Here is adriana diaz. Outside denver, a talented 12yearold is Getting National attention, its not for her music. Its for her contribution to science. If my mom asked me what do you want for christmas . I would be like lead. Lead, which she needed for an invention. Imagine living day in and day out drinking contaminated walter wit substances like lead. Introducing the easy to use fast accurate portable and inexpensive device to detect lead in water. Off awe s she won a National Competition inspired by a real world problem. I have been following the flint water crisis ills for two years. In flint michigan, 100,000 drank lead contaminated water more than ape year. Lead mostly harmful to younger children about my age, giving them, like, growth defects. And, pdamaging their brain. You live in colorado. Why do you care so much what is going on in flint . Thats not something i want to go through what the Flint Residents went through. Our Water Quality is as important as doctor or dentist appointments. I never tested my water. Thats a big problem. With her device instead of taking days to send water samples to a lab. Lead is detected in second using carbon molecules. I am going to ensure the blue tooth is bling. Mobile app. Looks like the water is safe. All right. At school one of many who love see if yens. But one of the few who turned an idea into an invention. Says the teacher. I am so confident that sunny will take it to the market. Keep providing her help. What is different about her . She is a risk taker. She is not afraid to fail. What is your next project . Want to create a happiness meter. Which, measures the amount of serotonin in your body, or the amount of gamma rays, have to figure out how this works. Until then the science world will be waiting. Adriana diaz, cbs news, lone tree, colorado. That is the overnight news for this tuesday. Welcome to the overnight news. Im vladamir duthiers. A lot of people didnt make it home from their holiday destinations on time and blame it on the weather. Heavy snow blanketed much of new england, while the midwest shivered through a vicious cold snap. In two days more than 8,000 flights were delayed. 260 canceled. We begin with anna werner. Reporter if all you wanted was a White Christmas this year, depending on where you live, you got your present. In massachusetts, heavy snowfall left drivers with near zero visibility. Visiting my sister, should have left last night. Visibility is quite poor. Its been, been a rough ride already. Reporter at bostons logan airport, blizzardlike conditions caused runway to temporarily shuttle down. More than 240 flights delayed. And 60 cancellations. In the midwest, up to 6 inches fell across states including michigan and minnesota. Even the west coast woke up to snow, Portland Oregon got an inch of snow, catching them offguard. Leading to Hazardous Conditions on the road. And it was a christmas miracle in seattle, washington, which saw its first White Christmas in nearly a decade. Areas from maine to massachusetts still could receive up to a foot of snow, so travelers like those here at Newark Airport in new jersey are hoping they wont encounter travel problems due off to that weather, vlad. Anna werner, thank you. Retailers are seeing plenty of green this Holiday Season. Not over yet. Jim axelrod is watching record fall as sales add up. Enjoy reporter this Holiday Season it wasnt just manuel riviera spending more . Finances are stable. Buying more. Or just john robertelli. This Year Spending a little more. Reporter they had company across the country. Total retail sales this holiday added up to 598 billion. Up 33 billion from last year. This its little really the best season since before the recession. Craig johnsons company, Customer Growth partners analyzes all things retail. He credits low unemployment and booming stock market for this humbugfree Holiday Season. The single biggest driver of retail sales is growth in real disposable income. When real income goes up. People have money in their pocket. And theyre able to spend it. Online sales are also way up. Which explains why ups had a callin support from their accountants and office staff. To supplement drivers trying to deliver everything on time. Fedex, ups, Postal Service have all done record volumes. What does johnson see that he likes most . All types of stores, discount, big box, full price, specialty, shared in this holiday bonanza. Can americans read anything into what we can anticipate for the next six months . All ingredients are in place for a sustained retail rebound this year. Sales of gift card dont count until theyre redeemed. Which means this week should be a boomer for retailers. Vlad. President trump sending Christmas Greetings from his florida resort. Some warm, some decidedly chilly. Chip reid is traveling with the president. President and First Lady Melania Trump attended Christmas Eve service at Episcopal Church where they were married in 2005. Merry christmas. Today he remained behind the walls of his mar a lago estate delivering his christmas video message, by tweet. In the season of joy we renew the bonds of love and goodwill. There was not much love or goodwill in his tweets over the weekend when he used them to attack perceived enemies including fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe who had a major role in the investigation of Hillary Clintons emails. The president believes mccabe was biased in clintons favor because mccabes wife, democrat, received a large contribution from a clinton ally when he ran for office in virginia. In 2015. In a tweet sunday, the president claimed mccabes wife got the money from a clinton puppet, and accused mccabe of using allegedly his fbi official email account to promote her campaign. Mr. Trump provided no evidence to support that claim. Democrats say it is one more example of the president trying to divert attention from multiple investigations of his 2016 campaign. The president also used a tweet this weekend to take credit for bringing back the expression, merry christmas, writing i am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase. Merry christmas, everybody. In fact though, all recent president s used the phrase, freak wently. Frequently. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. The president will remain here until january. A working vacation. If the president s history is any guide there will also be a lot of golf. Vlad. Chip reid. Thank you very much. A killer storm bearing down on vietnam. Nearly one Million People ordered to evacuate. The typhoon killed more than 160 in the philippines. 170 others are missing. Flash floods and mudslides have wiped out entire villages. There is no christmas break for crews battling the thomas fire in southern california. It is now the largest fire in state history. More than 281,000 acres have burned. It its 86 contained. Jamie yuccas met some firefighters. Reporter it is not how nearly 1600 firefighters expected to spend the holiday. Woke up on a cold hard cement floor surrounded by snoring men. Not how i thought i would wake up on a Christmas Morning ever. Marquee moss is almost 700 miles away from her home in central utah. An opportunity doesnt come often. Glad to be here. Reporter since december 4, the thomas fire destroyed over 1,000 home and buildings. At least one fire fighter died. And for others, weeks on the line have taken a toll. Why did you volunteer to bu here on christmas . So other people didnt have to. Merry Christmas Everybody. Hot shot fire fighter j. P. Blare didnt have to be here . You are here for christmas and new years. And my birthday. Anniversary. And wifes birthday. Yeah. Severe Drought Conditions have made things worse this fire season. Mark vantillo manage the fire fight. He says this area hasnt seen any measurable rain since february. Everything has been a record during this fire. What does that indicate to you . Indicates we are in year round fire season. We just arent seeing any relief from the rain. Scott dehoss spent more than 90 days fighting fires from or gun off to california. Spending time with other fire fighters, reading cards from a grateful community, and seeing a surprise visitor, was a welcomed escape. I have been working in the woods seven years, never got to meet you. Like most he would rather be with his family. Including grandson, sterling. At least he can tell him one day, he met santa. Looking for balance in your digestive system . Try align probiotic. For a nonstop, sweet treat goodness, hold on to your tiara kind of day. Get 24 7 digestive support, with align. The 1 doctor recommended probiotic brand. Also in kids chewables. It says you apply the blue one ok, letto me. This. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. That cough doesnt sound so good. Well i think you sound great. Move over. Easy booger man. Take mucinex dm. Itll take care of your cough. Fine ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. One pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night. Ah david, please, listen. Still not coughing. Not fair you guys waffles are my favorite ah why take 4hour cough medicine . Just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Many airlines are banning the new smart bags. Kris van cleave reports. This is the smart bag. You can see it. As we speak here. They have 65,000 or so out there that could be affected by this. A battery can be a fliers dream can become a travel nightmare in january as airlines ban pricey smart bags with lithium ion batteries that cannot be removed. Carriers worry checked bags could catch fire if the batteries malfunction. There are smart bags out there not permitted on american airlines. From american airlines, the Worlds Largest carrier first to ban the bags. If the bag is checked remove the battery bring it into the cabin with youve. But if the bag has to be checked, battery not removable. We will not accept that bag. Earlier this year the faa urged regulators to prevent batteries from checked bags. New testing revealed potential for catastrophic fire so intense extinguishers wouldnt put put it out. They sync with an app, weigh, lock, and charge your phone. Some can propel themselves putting them on many holiday wish lists. Bags with batteries removed will be allowed on board and expensive feature, ability to track it wont work. Manufacturers have off to adapt or they have manufactured useless bags. Sort of like bringing your bottle of waltter through the checkpoint. Youve will get there, tell you your bag cant fly. Now what do you do . Were back in just a moment. Ok, lets try this. It says you apply the blue one to me. Here . No. Have a little fun together, or a lot. Ky yours and mine. Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. Im never gonna be able ill take a sick day tomorrow. On our daughters birthday . Moms dont take sick days. Moms take nyquil severe. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. The late 60 minutes koemt, bob simon had a taste for fine whiskey and exotic locations both off the coast of scotland. Bob passed away before he could finish the story but steve croft put it together for 60 minutes. Reporter a small island off the west coast of scotland, few trees, miles of wind swept heather and fertile achal land in scotland. Sheep and cattle everywhere and abundance of wildlife. But thats not why people come here. This is. Eight small distilleries that produce some of the worlds finest single malt whiskeys. A whole life blublood of the island and everybody on it. All we know. Off awe he has been working at the distillery since he was 15 years old. Now master of the works at brook latte. I just thank god that he chose the the scots gave us whiskey we appreciate the gift and look after it. Making it here since the 15th century when supposedly monks taught locals to use barley, walter, yeast to make a spirit the scotts call water of life. They have been perfecting it for 600 years. The distilleries are easy to find but hard to pronounce. Ardbeg, bruich, laphroaig. They get harder to pronounce the more you visit. On the west coast of scotland. Whiskey is a religion. Of a provider. Very thing about whiskey, not just a drink. Much more than that. Watch some old hollywood movies. Yes, i have. Scotch was portrayed in hollywood as a whiskey, in dire trouble. One thing that would get you on your feet and out there, a scotch. Today if you are down on the luck, you cant afford the malt. Good ones, 70 an bottle. Rare ones, hundreds a glass. At whiskey bars around the world where theyre known for distinctive smoky taste. It comes from peat, the mossy fuel cut from boggs on the island. It was used to heat scottish homes for centuries and still used to toast the barley at the island distilleries. John campbell its the master distiller at one of the top selling in america. Peat makes it unique and really resonates. And engenders a love hate relationship. Those that love it. Love it with of a passion. There seems to be no shortage of them. It is not easy to get to. Usually requiring multiple flights, a long drive, and a two hour ferry ride. Yet enthusiasts make the pilgrimage for the whiskey festiv festival. We get thousands upon thousands of single malt purists coming here they come from all over the world just to set foot here. Stew study it. No to drink it. It is lovely. If it its clean. It is fresh. It is vibrant. Officially whiskey fest is celebration of the culture. But most leave about drinking. Absolutely beautiful. As they listen to jim extol the, they approached each glass with reference, bordering on the religious. Wow, the fruit in that is incredible. As the the glass is empty, smiles got bigger. The islanders will tell you that all of this warmth and good feeling comes not from the alcohol and the spirits, but from the spirit of the place. It its all most mystical, beautiful, dramatic, and quiet. There is no road rage. Barely any traffic. If you do get hung up, it is probably because of a farm animal they have the right of way. If you do happen upon people, theyll almost always greet you with the wave. Everybody just waves, because the it is friendly. There its not so many of us. Wave to say hi. What she liked about the island when she moved her family here from london, to take a managers position at one of the thriving distilleries. It is strange is it not that such of a small place with so few people, your products are known everywhere in the world. I know. Makes us all very proud. It does. Thats such a boom. Worldwide for, for single malt. It is fantastic. On the island. Distilleries have doubled production. A lot of opportunity there as well. There is no reason to believe that that wont continue. Well, times are good. People drink. Times are bad. People drink. Is it possible to be socially acceptable to the to the tea totaler on the island. Yes. Are there any . Yes. Im not one of them. The over the years, the islands people have learned how to entertain themselves. Often at gatherings called, kaileys, which feature traditional dance and sad songs. About leaving isla and yearning to return. To sit with my love on the bridge of bampf the rippling water falling to go back home never more to roam is my dearest wish of all reporter if this looks and feels like ireland, no coincidence. Only 25 miles away. They come from the same tribe, share the same celtic culture and language. Not to mention love of good whiskey that gets them through stormy weather, in the long winter nights. There no movie theaters, no dry cleaners, no supermark else. No mcdonald in a the fast food business. There is a long list of things that they dont hatch. And doesnt want. We dont have any crime. We dont have mugging. Carjacking. House breaking. Rape. Just, dope, drugs, we dont have that. You can keep that. You are very welcome to it. How do you explain the fact there is no crime here . There its crime everywhere else . If youve commit a crime in a Small Community you will be ostracized and have to leave. Not only that, your family, your children, and your childrens children will be remembered, as the children of the man who committed the crime. Most scot are forth right, practical people proud of their country and the fact that their famous export withstood the test of time. They see themselves as the artisans and making whiskey is more about art. Every distiller has secrets and superstitio superstitions. The unclassified, 2 minute tour. Sorry cant offer you free samples. Begins with trickery on the floor. When barley that has been soaked in water its spread out and raked over and over again off to convince the grain it is spring. Time to germ nate. Releasing starches locked inside. It its then dried with peat smoke. Add flavor. And ground with machinery. Mixed with hot walter. Transforming starches into a sugary concoction. Called mash. You can smell the goodness. Yeast is added changing sugar into alcohol. Primitive ale cooked in copper stills where the vapor is collected conden eed condensed clear lick it would. We want this in the bottle. Looks like rubbing alcohol. Need a rub no doubt about it. Bet it would be good. Once it goes into the barrel. Just time. Just time. Great job there. This is a child. The task is the mother. Thats what makes the journaly. If you give a good, you are abut to get a good child. That simple. Off awe it takes less than three weeks to make. But requires at least ten years of aging in these oak casks, add flavor and come lr to turn it into world class single malt whiskey. You will see the names. Bob was surprised to learn 97 of the casks had been previously used to age american bourbon and bought second hand from u. S. Distirlz. Its testimony off to the ingenui. Ty and true gaelt of the scots, who have few oak treats. Sophisticated pal elt will detect hoch in bourbon and the sweetness of sherri that comes from wine bought in europe. Before the final product is sold it will half done time in a number of casks, master distiller is the one who determines when to rope tate them and when each barrel is ready to be bottled. He opened a young casc for bob to sample. Off awe mello yello. Pure. And only seven years old. Right. Young whiskeys like young people. Vibrant. Full of life. In fact, this for me is coming home from work. End of the day. Ive worked really hard. And nobody appreciates me, kids dont appreciate me. Life is a a couple of shots of that. And i amount king of world. Absolutely. You know, frankly never liked the stuff. But you are talking me too it. You have to check every barrel. Certainly hope so. Cheers. See the full report on our a couple girls in miami can teach us all a thing or two about the spirit of the Holiday Season. Steve hartman has their story. Preschooler, say theyre not best friends. I know. They say theyre closer than that. Closer than mere sisters even. I want to wash the paint brush. Gia and zuri truly believe theyre twins. Oh, yeah. Ashley and valencia are their moms. They will fell you that theyre twins. And they have of a long list of reasons why to back it up. To them what makes a twin . Similarities. Similarities. Reporter for example the girls say theyre both 4. Their birthdays are prakt came the same day. Of course the obvious, physical similarities. What am i looking at here . The same height. Because you are the same height. Clearly twins. Which is why they insist on matching outfits whenever possible. Ashly and valencia have indulged them and recognize there is bitter to the sweet. You are happy for a few second. Then you become sad, because, they have to grow up. Hmm. Society takes over. Indeed. Society has the already tried to take over. Last month, zuri and gia were at a birth pay party. An older kid told them they couldnt be twins because theyve dent hatch the same skin color. Gia broke down. Through her tears she said you dont know what you are talking about. We are twins because we share the same soul. I just get chill bumps. Soul. I was just like, thrown by, by just that word. Yeah. Obviously. What gia was trying to say is that at our core, we are one. And as the we look back on this year, with all its division and racial strive, it is important to remember that while all of this was going on, so was this. We have a lot to learn. And we can learn from, from children. In fact, the moms say, they already have. We have never talked so much on the phone. Yeah. Yeah. Thats what the twins want for all of us. To push back against the cynics. Some girl said we are not twins. Aened we are. We are twins. To stop it with this discrimination business once and for all. It makes her sad. That way we can move on to the more important thing in lives. You know what we are going to get today. We are going to got ice cream and you dont. Oh. And that its the overnight news for this tuesday. From the cbs News Broadcast Center in new york city, its tuesday, december 26th. 2017. This is the cbs morning news. Bitter cold and snow blanket an area from the plains to the northeast as holiday travelers try to head home after christmas. Retail cheer, holiday sales hit record numbers, thanks to low unemployment and more money in peoples pockets and the United States negotiates a new budget deal at the united nations. And good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters in new york. While much of the country enjoyed a White Christmas yesterday, heavy snow and strong