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Hahny. He shows us how he goes from a shy alabama boy to an international superstar. But we begin with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The weather outside is frightful. This is really bad. Better bundle up. This bitter blast is here to stay. Millions of americans face plunging temperatures. This as some areas in the midwest and northeast continue digging out. Crews have been out 24 7. A packed jet makes a uturn midair returning to l. A. X. It all had to do with an unauthorized passenger. President trump took to twitter to slam the fbi. He called that infamous russian dossier a pile of garbage. The Trump Administration says it is sanctioning two north korean officials linked to kim jonguns missile program. Three cities are suing the department of defense for failing to report Service Members disqualified from gun ownership. The department of defense and its Service Branches have failed miserably. The biggest wildfire in california history is now all but tame. There is little smoke and air quality as improved. All that a thrilling finish for the suns. Exactedly what they do. Over the top, counting it and all that matters my brother. Two men in hawaii who have been best friends for 60 years made an incredible discovery. It turns out theyre actually biological brothers. Its the best Christmas Present i can ever imagine having. On cbs this morning. This kid is a huge cleveland fans fan. When he opened his presents for christmas . What was inside . It was a steph curry jersey. Thats lebrons arch enemy. Look at the look. Upon further inspection, theres the lebron james jersey and he starts jumping on the furniture. Yes, yes, yes yes announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. It all ended well. He got what he wanted. The lebron jersey. That is what fandom is all about. And true happiness. What a happy boy. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im Bianna Golodryga with Dana Jacobson and vladimir duthiers. Norah odonnell and gayle king are off. Is it cold enough for you here . Brr. The northern half of the country is waking up in a deep freeze actually after recordshattering snowfall along the great lakes. Icy roads caused dozens of accidents, including one that killed four people in missouri. And the cold air means more lakeeffect snow is likely in hardhit places like erie, pennsylvania. 22 states have windchill alerts in effect. Advisories and warnings stretching from the texas panhandle into northern new england. The coldest temperatures this morning are around 30 below. Forecasters warn that can cause frostbite in as little as ten minutes. Demarco morgan is in erie where theyre already buried under more than five feet of snow. Demarco, good morning. Reporter good morning. Up to be 7 inches of snow fell overnight in this area, and thats in addition to what happened on Christmas Day with that record snowfall. Now city of officials are asking for extra snow plows and the help of Additional National guard. A snow emergency is in effect in erie, pennsylvania, after a winter blast dumped a record 53 inches of snow in less than 36 hours. You cant even tell how bad it is. Reporter snow is piling up on the roads, burying cars and bringing traffic to a halt. All i could do is laugh. You know, its a little ridiculous. But i keep pecking away at it. Reporter as people try to dig out, more lakeeffect snow is piling up across the great lakes. A lot of snow keeps coming, wont stop. Reporter Emergency Management coordinator matt exley says plow drivers are working around the clock to clear the streets. We have all of our people out doing a fantastic job with the elements that have been out there. Its really hard to keep up with this amount of snow. Reporter slick roads are making for a tough commute. I could only do about 20 miles an hour. Reporter snow and ice led to more than 40 accidents in missouri on tuesday. At least six people were killed in three separate crashes n new england, bitter cold followed the christmas snowstorm. The windchill could reach 40 below zero in some parts of the region today. The wind is the worst part. You cant do anything about it. Reporter city officials are not sure when theyll be out of the state of emergency, but they are asking residents to stay inside until crews clear the streets. You can see it, its one big mess here, but its absolutely beautiful, so its a lot to take in. If you plan on going outside, just do so at your own risks. Beautiful but dangerous. Demarco, you get inside as well and stay warm. Thank you. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of wbz looks at how long this winter blast will continue. Danielle, good morning. Good morning. Well, the dangerously cold windchill values are in place. Windchill warnings, windchill advisories all the way from kansas to new england today and tomorrow as a blast and core of that arctic air streams right down from the arctic and polar regions. Were talking about windchill values 15 to 30 below zero, tonight, tomorrow. This is the dangerous cold where windchill values and frostbite can set in in as little as 30 minutes. You have tor lay be layered up bundled up. Were talking about a quickmoving disturbance enhancing some of the lakeeffect snow over the next 24 to 48 hours. Streaming into new england is snow showers or friday. Another storm in the Pacific Northwest as well. Snowfall totals over a foot, could be as much as 2 feet with the highest elevations of Northern Idaho stretching towards montana. 3 to 6 in central iowa and a big swath in the Northern Tier of the United States over the next couple of days with over a foot still possible on the east side of the great lakes. All right, Danielle Niles, thank you as always. Federal authorities are investigating how a socalled unauthorized passenger boarded a flight from los angeles to tokyo. Police interviewed some of the passengers after that plane returned to l. A. Last night. Nippon airways 175 has been in the hour when it turned around and went home. Don dahler is here and the celebrity couple first to report it. Good morning. Good morning. Passengers tell cbs news the possibly unauthorized flier was a young adult male who seemed to be trying to switch seats. He drew the attention of flight attend and tts and they drew th attention. Hey, guys, im reporting live. Chrissy teigen documented the trip from the flight back to l. A. X. Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation, babe. Welcome to los angeles. She and her husband, actor and musician john legend, were on the flight to tokyo before it was forced to turn around. The plane left l. A. X. At around 11 30 a. M. It was roughly four hours into an 11. 5 hour flight when the pilot made a uturn. At 7 30 p. M. The plane was back in los angeles. After all this, i will have spent eight hours on a flight to nowhere, she tweeted. In a statement to cbs news, ana said the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight. As part of the Airlines Security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport. Whether or not there was an unauthorized passenger remains unclear. A spokesperson for l. A. X. Police told cbs news there were no Security Breaches and there was no unauthorized passenger. Ive never seen people walk around with like a clicker and click people. Reporter naomi kamidate said things on the plane seemed off when they started manually counting passengers. She had to turn to the internet and teagiegens tweets for answ. We shouldnt have to google to read an article about us. The fbi says no arrests have been made and the investigation continues. Passengers tell cbs news that the crew was apologetic and equally upset by the turnaround. One traveler told us he was missing the first day of his honeymoon and that all he was getting back for it was a brief hotel stay or a 200 credit. So in this case i guess cbs stands for the chrissy broadcasting system. Thank goodness they had an intrepid reporter. I just wish theyd get the miles for the eighthour trip they made. Hopefully john provided some inflight entertainment. Don dahler, thank you. President trump on vacation in florida promises more bipartisanship in the new year. The president tweeted that republicans and democrats will come together on a new plan to replace obamacare. Chip reid is in west palm beach, florida, near the president s maralago resort. Chip, good morning. Reporter good morning. President trump played golf yesterday with georgia senator david perdue, a big opponent of repealing obamacare. Thats a big priority for President Trump next year but the numbers suggest that could hurt many of his own supporters. It ultimately leads to the ending of obamacare. Its essentially i think obamacare is over. Reporter the president s prediction of the demise of obamacare comes as about 8. 8 million americans in 39 states signed up for coverage at healthcare. Gov this fall. Thats down just 4. 4 from last year despite the Trump Administration pulling advertising and slashing the Enrollment Period from 90 days to 45. The fundamental reality on health care is people wanting health care. Reporter gentlemjamelle bou red states are signing up faster than blue states. Both republicans and democrats View Health Care as a top p priori priority, making it a central issue in the midterm elections. Repealing the individual mandate will leave about 13 million more people without coverage by 2027 and according to one respected analyst, 62 of this years obamacare enrollees live in states that President Trump won in 2016. I do think this is a dangerous game for the president. One of his single largest drops in popularity came in march after Congressional Republicans began moving ahead with obamacare repeal. Reporter in addition to his tweet on health care yesterday, the president also sent out a tweet on the russia investigation in which he said that the fbi is tainted. He also sent out a tweet about the trump tax cuts, which he said will boost both jobs and the stock market next year. Chip, thank you. Three major u. S. Cities are suing the pentagon for an alleged failure to tell them when Service Members are disqualified from owning a gun. New york city, philadelphia and San Francisco filed that lawsuit yesterday. They want defense officials to openly report all military criminal convictions. David martin is at the pentagon with the legal action and the government response. David, good morning. Reporter good morning. The Defense Departments mission is to protect the United States, but a lawsuit filed by three big city mayors claims the pentagons repeated failures to report violent criminals to the fbi have actually put the public in danger. Th lte from last months Texas Church Massacre by a former member of the air force. Devin kelley was able to buy the gun he used to kill 26 worshippers in Sutherland Springs just outside san antonio because the air force failed to report his conviction for Domestic Assault to the fbi. If the conviction had been reported, his name would have been entered into the database of people barred from purchasing firearms. The air force admitted it failed to report several dozen other violent offenders as well. San Francisco City attorney Dennis Herrera believes Court Intervention is needed to make sure the Defense Department does its job in the future. Its unfortunate that it took that tragedy to highlight and bring out into the mainstream what has been going on for all too long and that is the department of defenses failure to live up to its responsibilities. Reporter according to the lawsuit filed by the democratic mayors of new york, philadelphia and San Francisco, a 2017 Defense Department study revealed the air force failed to submit final reports in about 14 of cases. The navy and marines in about 36 of cases and the army in about 41 . The pentagons Inspector General told Congress Earlier this month such failures were long running and widespread among all the armed services. Inadequate training, inadequate verification. They didnt take these recommendations as seriously as they should have. Reporter the pentagon has promised to fix the problem, but the lawsuit asks the judge to compel the military to go back over old cases and identify all the violent offenders it failed to report to the fbi. The Justice Department says it is examining the lawsuit to determine its next step. David martin at the pentagon. David, thank you. Four ohio teens face murder charges after allegedly throwing a sandbag from a highway overpass. The bag hit the car marquise byrd was riding in. The 22yearold died from severe head injuries on friday. Jericka duncan is here with more on the suspects and the dramatic call for help from the cars driver. Three of the boys are 14 years old, the other just 13. They had already been charged with felonious assault, but now that the man hit by the sandbag has died, the teens are being charged with marquise byrds murder. Around 10 00 p. M. A week ago tuesday, a woman was driving with her friend, marquise byrd, under an overpass in toledo when something came crashing through the passenger side windshield. She pulled over and called 911. I dont know what happened. My friend i dont know what happened. Hes not moving. Something hit my car and hit my friend. Hes not moving. You dont know what hit him . No. My windshield is smashed out. He is laid out. I think it might have smacked his head. Police arrested four juveniles after seeing them leave the area near the overpass. Theyre accused of throwing objects off the interstate bridge. It was a sandbag that broke the windshield and hit byrd in the passenger seat. He leaves behind a 2yearold son and was reportedly engaged to be married. The arrests come nearly two months after a similar incident near flint, michigan. Five teens there are facing charges of seconddegree murder after throwing rocks off an overpass, hitting a vehicle and killing 32yearold kenneth white. Meanwhile, the four ohio teens are waiting confirmation of their next court date. Its not fun and games. People are losing their lives. The consequences for these kids that think its fun and games and a prank, theyre going to go to prison. Prosecutors say given the ages of the boys, 13 and 14, their case will likely remain in juvenile court. In addition to the murder charges, the boys are facing charges of felony vehicular vandalism. 911 audio is horrifying. Thank you. This morning our bbc Radio Partners broadcast former president Barack Obamas first interview since leaving office. He was questioned by britains prince harry. They sat down in toronto in september. Barry petersen is outside the princes home in london, kensington palace, with the royal interview. Barry, good morning. Reporter the president and the prince bonded over the Princes Charity to help wounded soldiers. That ageold journalistic tradition that its not what you know but who you know that counts, the former most eligible bachelor in the world asked the former leader of the free world in for a chat. The do i have to speak faster . Reporter it was a mixture of personal life and Public Policy. There was a reference to social media, something the current tweetloving president often uses. One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. Reporter and what does an expresident do these days . Well, for one thing, sleeps in. The fact that i can wake up and if i want to spend an extra 45 minutes talking to michelle and take a long breakfast, i can do it. Reporter and what about long term . Hes working to correct climate change, something his successor calls a hoax. I can focus over the next 20 years in making sure that we dont have more hurricanes and natural disasters that are accelerated as a consequence of climate change. Reporter at the ending, harry fired off quick questions, including a reference to the tv show suits that featured his fiancee. Suits or the good wife. Suits obviously. Great, great answer. Cigarettes or gum. Gum now, baby. White house or Buckingham Palace. White house just because Buckingham Palace looks like it would take a really long time to mow. Reporter in a separate interview, harry was asked about christmas when Meghan Markle joined the royal family. And except for a couple hundred wellwishers and photographers, it sounded surprisingly normal. Together we had an amazing time. We had great fun staying with my brother and sisterinlaw and running around with the kids. Christmas was christmas was fantastic. Reporter the couple face that operation infinite justiag. President trump is not likely to make it past the invitation first cut. Thank you very much. Even big city hotels can add resort fees that mislead you about the actual cost of a room. Ahead, why efforts to crack down have become harder over for 23 years, an ohio woman jailed for a teenagers murder insisted she was innocent. Ahead, the effort to win her freedom and the release that her family calls a christmas miracle. Youre watching cbs this morning. Y calls it a christmas miracle. Youre watching cbs this morning. Ou announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by to toyota. Lets go places. Sporty new 2018 camry and more. And that means huge year end savings for a very short time. Right now during toyotathon. Get great year end savings on a huge selection of our most popular models. Offer ends january second. For great deals on other toyotas visit toyota. Com this is short too. Toyota lets go places. The new Weight Watchers Freestyle Program. Stephanie b. 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Trouble spot on 101 southbound side of 101 at the cesar chavez offramp. An overturned vehicle. They have pushed everything from the offramp over to the right shoulder. We are seeing delays on the southbound side of 101 as you head through San Francisco. Heres a look at conditions near 17th street. Traffic moving along but a little slow in that area. And a Traffic Alert continues closed between 35 and monte vina, black road closed. A live look at the kpix 5 camera, its foggy. 46 degrees, cooler in the east bay, 40 in concord, cooler in the north bay. 33 degrees in santa rosa. Your High Temperatures today in the mid60s. Cooler closer to the water. Anything from 63 to say about 57. Sunny today and through the end of the week. Our temperatures are going to warm up for the weekend. People across new england and canada reported seeing a mysterious fireball last night. A Research Facility in canada recorded the ball of lights shooting across the night sky. It is believed to be a meteor or as we talked about this past saturday, perhaps aliens. Or santa. I want to believe, i want to believe. Santa going home. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Here are three things you should know this morning. A train station expected to be built next to the western wall in jerusalem play be named after President Trump. The transportation minister offered up his name. Mr. Trump visited the western wall earlier this year. Its in jerusalems old city home to muslim, jewish, and christian holy sites. Homeowners are lining up to prepare their tax bill before 2018. It caps the detukz for state and local taxes at 10,000. That is expected to hit taxpayers hart in places like california, connecticut, new york, and new jersey. Their average state and local Tax Deduction in 2015 was more than 17,000. And new Research Finds calcium and vitamin c s supplements do not help with hip fractures. That i found no clear benefit to taking calcium and vitamin d. Thats regardless of things in their diet. An intended crackdown on hidel hotel charges now face a potential roadblock in washington. A growing number of travelers complain that resort, urban, or facility fees can add up to 50 to your bill. Even lower priced hotels are adding fees to room charges. One watchdog said hotels charging extra fees has grown 26 year over year. The size of fee has risen 12 . Our own watchdog anna werner has more. Good morning. Good morning, bianna. If youre a trip cal traveler, you probably go online to look for the best deals b whau if that deal on a hotel isnt one. It was the most Expensive Hotel room i have ever paid for in my life. When lauren vacationed in key west last year, schu knew her 400 hotel room wasnt bargain. When she arrived she learned she had to pay a 20 resort fee. It doesnt make a lot of sense. Its not fair and taking advantage of people. Reporter shes an attorney. She started a website. She found shows not the only one who says they were blindsided by fees. This customer said we got killed on undisclosed resort fees, didnt know about them until we checked out. Another, very disappointed. 25 a day urban facility fee. I was charged this with no explanation of the benefits. Others complain the services theyre getting for socalled fees dont add up. It included two beach chairs. There was neither a beach nor pool. Another said if you charge 29 for complimentary recreational activity, then they arent complimentary. Hes looking into a dozens major hotel chains. What these lodges companies do is hook the wouldbe buyer with a lower rate and then spring the Additional Charge on them. Reporter we found this Las Vegas Hotel charging a room rate of 26 with a resort fee of 34. The San Francisco hotel add as 20 urban facility fee. And this hotel in arizona listed its resort fee of 50 underneath taxes. Whats illegal about it is it misleads consumers as to what the actual price of a hotel room is. Reporter Even Properties with a certain famous name makes money off resort fees. We found three trump hotels charge resort fees of 35, 24, and 20. The American Hotel and lodging association told us the Hotel Industry provides guests full disclosure from mandatory resort fees charged up front and said the hotels want to provide consumers with the best value by grouping amenity fees in one cost following the ftcs guidance. But in january of this year the ftc found charging resort fees separately without first disclosing the total hotel price likely harms consumers and racine said the ftc was working with the states on their investigation, at least, she says, until the Trump Administration came in. The ftc in a way has gone dark. I think to be honest that has given some confidence to the Hospitality Industry perhaps theyre going to be able to wait out or otherwise evade the efforts of the 47 states because the ftc is no longer our partner. Youre saying the ftc has backed off. That is the case. Reporter backed off, he claims, during a crucial time in negotiations with the hotel chain. We were heading toward what i thought would be a pretty fair settlement. Really. Yep. The election hit and all of a sudden the Hospitality Industry sort of dug in against our position. We asked the ftc about racines allegation. Officials there responded with a statement saying the agency was never a coplaintiff with the attorneys general but has worked with the industry and state agencies to try to improve the disclosure fees. We asked the white house if they have any comment but received no response. You might call the hotel before you go. If you dont see resort fees hotel. Being charged beach chairs when theres no beach. 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Reporter the 42yearold was an accomplice in the murder of a 15yearold. David singleton is pattersons attorney. He believes his client was coerced. She said at the time she was at the murder scene and committed a robbery. And from which girl in the back seat did you take that necklace . The driver. Reporter at trial the jury heard that convention and although show didnt pull the trigger, it ultimately landed her in prison. She was 19. Inexperienced with the system, naive, and the detective pushed her too hard and said things that made her admit to something she didnt do. Reporter the public defenders were overmatched. Failing to introduce a crucial 911 call that showed patterson called the cops. The turning point in this case came when singleton found the missing call and with this discovery came the new interest of the unlikely oeft places. Michelle lays own sister. Holy lay holbrook was at the murder scene when her sister was killed. She sent a letter to Ohio Governor john kasich asking for pattersons release. I am Tyra Patterson. That letter led to a campaign that included celebrities, politicians, and even former jurors. But not everyone agrees pattersons innocent. Shes not the victim in this case. The victim was 15yearold michelle lay. Reporter the prosecutor believes patterson should still be behind bars. She needs to own up to what she did and own the aggravated murder and robbery theyve been contesting all these years. Reporter still patterson remains grateful to those who helped her. Any time somebody signed a petition, said a prayer, became my litigant they gave me the breath to go forward. Since then shes received her ged, putting herself through pair a legal school and her Attorney Says shell work for his firm in cincinnati to help others falsely accused of crime. Quite something to hear the support from the victims sister as well though. Adriana, thank you. 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Good morning to our viewers in the west. Its wednesday, december 27, 2017. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Ahead, new claims that russias government is still launching cyberattacks against the u. S. And why the president needs to take action. Cia insider Michael Morell joins us. Plus, a conversation with Lionel Richie, the Kennedy Center honoree, who gets us dancing on the ceiling. First here is todays eye opener at 8 00 the northern half of the country is waking up in a deep freeze after a recordshattering snowfall along the great lakes. Up to seven inches of snow fell in the area and city officials are asking for extra snowfalls. A storm in the Pacific Northwest as well. Snowfall totals over a foot flight 175 was in the air about four hours when it turned around. The possibly unauthorized flyer was a young adult male who seemed to be trying to switch seats. Now on the russia this week, he said the fbi is tainted. He also sent out a tweet about the tax cuts which he said will boost both jobs and the stock market wall street claims the pentagons repeated failures to report violent criminals have actually put the country in danger the former most eligible bachelor in the world asked the former leader of the world in for a chat. The president and the prince bonded over the Princes Charity to help wounded soldiers. It appears this dinosaur might have learned a lesson from the last ice age. A New Hampshire man decided to clear his lawn but decided to wear a trex suit to make it more interesting. A dinosaur is snow blowing at least he is having fun in the cold. Buried in snow. Nothing like it. Feels like ground hogs day. It will be cold quite a bit longer. Indeed. Im Bianna Golodryga with Dana Jacobson and valid vladimir duthiers. Temperatures across much of the northern u. S. Wont get above freezing today and for many, well, the worst is yet to come. Yeah. The chill follows a winter form that pummelled erie, pennsylvania. More than fivefeet of snow fell on the city this week alone. Dimarco morgan is in the middle of the historic snowfall. Good morning, dimarco. Reporter good morning to you, vlad. It is indeed historic. The folks here are used to heavy snowfalls but theyve not seen anything like this. Look at this house behind me. You can see it is actually covered up to the door steps and thats pretty much the same story for just about every home along this block. You hope they teamed up and went to miami for a week or so. Already the storm has dropped more than 62 inches of snow erie. It is shattering state and local records. They got more snow, listen to this guys, from this one snowstorm than places like minneapolis, chicago and boston receive in an average year. There could be more to come. A lakeeffect snow warning remants in effer remains in effect until later this afternoon. Temperatures will remain low into the new year and wind chills could dip as low as six degrees below zero. Officials are calling on additional snowplows and getting extra help from the National Guard just to deal with this mess here. I said it earlier, it is beautiful but it is, indeed, one big mess. If you have to get out, be careful and be safe. Dimarco, thank you. You stay warm, too american intelligence Officials Say russian cyberattacks could threaten the 2018 and 2020 elections. Now an essay in the Washington Post warns russia never stopped cyberattacks, and the u. S. Government has not done much to stop them. It is written by former republican congressman mike rogers and cbs News Senior National senior contributor Michael Morell. Morell is a former deputy and acting director of the cia, also the host of the Intelligence Matters podcast. Michael morell is joining us live from washington with more. Great to see you. Thank you for coming on and writing that important piece. Good morning. It follows up on a Washington Post report that lists all of the inadequate attempts that the Obama Administration made trying to thwart russian meddling. Now President Trump doesnt even seem to be acknowledging it it. So is russian meddling justin he have ta have just inevitable in the months and years to come . It is not inevitable. There are many things we can do about it, many things to do to defend ourselves here at home. For example, we can pass the legislation thats been proposed that puts the same rules on political messaging on social media that we have on tv, radio and print. We can do a better job imposing costs on Vladimir Putin and russia to make putin think twice about continuing to do this. So there are many things we can do about this. We are just not doing them. It has been reported that the president has yet to have a Cabinet Meeting on this issue. Jeff sessions has acknowledged not enough has been done, and Many Americans dont seem to think it is a pressing issue as well. Why do you think that is . I dont know. It is a new it is a new type of attack on america. This is not a terrorist attack where you can see the consequences immediately. It is not a military attack where you see the consequences immediately. This is a slow erosion of our confidence in our democracy. This is affecting the way we think about our country, the way we think about on democracy, the way we think about our society. So it is a new type of attack, and i think thats the primary reason why were not focused on it. Michael, speaking of Vladimir Putin, how involved is the russian president and what is he hoping to accomplish here . Vlad, i have no doubt that he is fully involved in this. I have no doubt that he approved this. I have no doubt that he is following it closely. He is trying to accomplish two things. One is he is trying to weaken the United States, weaken our influence overseas. So if he can create discord here at home for us, he will weaken us overseas. The second thing he is doing which may be the most important thing from his perspective is the greatest threat to him is democracy in russia. If he can undermine it in the United States, if he can undermine it in western europe, he can raise questions in his own country about the value of democracy. Thats very important to him. You know, michael, you also write that other countries are following suit. Did ours sort of ignoring this russian interference play a role in that as well . Absolutely. Our failure to deter russia has led other countries to think maybe it is a tool that they can use. We see the chinese doing this already. We see the turks doing this in western europe. We see the chinese doing it in taiwan. So i think more countries will start doing this unless we deter them from doing so, and theyre going to start doing it against us here at home. So the chinese have not done it here yet, but you can rest assured that they will unless we deserve russia, china and the other countries going down this road. Michael, let me ask you, because despite the president not acknowledging some argue that those around him, that his advisers have now enlisted sanctioning three prominent russians including the leader of chechnya and arming the ukrainians, something that president obama wouldnt go as far as doing. Is that at least the first step in deterring Vladimir Putin . Those are first steps, those are good things. But sanctioning specific individuals will not get putin to think about what he has to do here. We need much broader sanctions, much more pain on the russian economy and the russian middle class to get his attention. And he has not yet sanctioned the russian sanctions that president obama enlisted as well it is important to note. Michael, thank you so much. Youre welcome. It may be hard to get your kids away from the new tech toys they got for christmas. Eye doctor Christopher Starr is in our toyota green room. Up next, what the digital devices may be doing to in our morning round new evidence that digital devices can hurt your childrens eyesight. The average kid spent more than 7. 5 hours a day in front of a screen. A new study finds schoolage children who spent seven hours or more a week using computers or mobile video games triple their risk for nearsightedness. Dr. Christopher starr is an ophthamologist in new york city. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. What is myopia . Am i saying that right . Yes. How common is it in children . Very common these days. First of all, that is nearsightedness, which means being sighted at near. Usually the near vision is okay but distance vision is blurry but needs glasses or contact lens. Conversely, farsighted means the opposite. The rates of myopia are increasing worldwide. The india study we just talked about, a usc study showed the rate of myopia in the u. S. Has doubled in the last 50 years. In Asian Countries it is even higher. As far as reasons why it is going up, there was one study that found kids eight and under spent over two hours on screens. Yes. And the reason why thats a problem, it is not so much that the device is sending a magic signal to the eye that is damaging it. It is that when you are on the devices you tend to be inside and not outdoors in the sunlight. Interestingly, sunlight actually triggers dope me triggers dopamine which is a neuro transmitter that keeps the eye from elongating. This isnt when your mother used to warn you, dont get up on top of the tv. No, it is not the same. That is one of the warning signs, by the way, if a kid is sitting too close to the television, it might be a sign theyre nearsighted and cant see until they get close. Lets be honest. It is the new normal. Were not taking away our devices now. Sure. Doo it, bianna. Is there anything that can be done to protect their eyes though with technology that you can put on the screens . Thats a good question. Not really. Nothing i know of. It is more about limiting the time and sort of encouraging them to get outside in the sun. But no Screen Protector is going to make a difference. Hard to do that when it is 10 degrees outside. Exactly. What are the signs parents and teachers need to be looking for. There are a few things, and this is a great time of year to observe your kids. Theyre home from school, you might be off from work as well. Things like squinting, if theyre squinting to see things, thats a good sign theres a problem. If theyre sitting too close to the television or holding their digital device right here, thats a problem. But other things like attention, like if they used to be very much interested in reading or drawing and all of a sudden theyre not interested in it or theyre reading and they lose their place online, those are signs there might be a vision problem. Some of the learning disabilities like adhd are sometimes misattributed to those things rather than a visual problem. Learning is about 80 of visual. If you think of the traditional way we learn, you need good vision to learn. As you said, great time now. It is a great time to sit and look at them. Thank you very much. The president of harvard durld world war ii led the program to build the First Nuclear bomb and spent the rest of his life worrying about it. Ahead, his granddaughter explains why his warning is especially important now. Youre watching cbs this morning. 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And now his granddaughter is writing his life and career. Man of the hour is published by simon and schuster of cbs. Cone nanlt was in charge of bringing america into the nuclear age, but his grandfather said his efforts to control it were ignored. This was his nightmare scenario that we would have this enormous arms race and we would inevitably find ourselves, as he said, like two gun men with itchy trigger fingers. Reporter jennet conanconant grandfather wasnt someone to give in to fear. My grandfather was so terrified of a nuclear conflict. I think it would have upheld for almost 70 years would have surprised him. Reporter in the late 30s conant was a brilliant chemist and a successful president of harvard university, but his life changed course after Albert Weinstein warned about the potential for extremely powerful bombs. That triggered a desperate race to build a Nuclear Weapon before hitlers germany, and the task of winning fell to conant and a secret team of scientists. He was the supervisor of everything that happened in terms of the bombs development. Reporter what happened in the summer of 1945 was the first open air test of a Nuclear Weapon, a blast so shocking that conant from a nearby bunker was sure the team had miscalculated. And he thought in that moment the world is over. He did. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. Reporter just three weeks later, hiroshima and then nagasaki. Still the only wartime use of a Nuclear Weapon. We have spent more than 2 billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history, and we have won. Reporter hundreds of thousands died in the blast and their aftermath. People also asked me, you know, did they feel guilty. They really felt they had done the right thing in building the bomb. It did shorten the war. It did save lives. Reporter and yet conant and his colleagues warned of the need to control the bomb by sharing the science and striking a global deal to curtail production, but the scientists were overruled. And today do you feel safer or less safe . Oh, were less safe. We have this massive destructionive force out there and ultimately we have no sane option, but for the International Community to come together to try and find a way to control these weapons. There hasnt been a Mushroom Cloud seen live in seven decades. Dont tempt fate. Thats what my grandfather would say. These are not weapons to play with. We must find a more sane way forward. We must, but will we . I hope and pray. Reporter this years Nobel Peace Prize went to an organization hoping to ban weapons and this last summer they advanced the very first treaty to do so. The United States boycotted the talks saying the timing is not right to lay down nuclear arms. I cannot get over the image of her grandfather in the desert watching the very First Nuclear explosion and not being sure if theyve done the math right. They dont know if the explosion explosion is ever going to end. Dont tempt fate. Lionel richie said he joined a band to meet women in college. Not a big surprise. They would later become the commodores. How the group that made him famous helped the Kennedy Center honoree find his true self. Youre watching cbs this morning. Is cold hard cash becoming a thing of the past . Awaiting more test results on a dead whale, that washed up in point reyes. Its a male humpback, about 30 good morning. Its 8 25. Im anne makovec. Biologists are awaiting more test results on a dead whale that washed up in point reyes. It is a male hump back about 30 feet long. Skin and muscle tissue samples will be sent for more testing and a final report is expected in a couple of weeks. Another candidate cast entered has entered special election to replace the late mayor ed lee. Ellen lee zhou is in the department of public health. Raffic and weather in just a moment. We have a trouble spot in walnut creek. A Traffic Alert is issued for southbound 680 right at main street. They have two lanes shut. An accident involving a dump truck, the dump truck spilled mud in the freeway. So a lot of debris and traffic in the area. So it is affecting your drive time this morning. If you are travel southbound 680 from willow pass road at least down to highway 24, that will take you 12 minutes now. So an extra 7 minutes for your drive time there. Speeds down to about 7 Miles Per Hour in some spots. So very slow and go conditions. Two lanes shut down south 680 right before highway 24. If you want to avoid those delays, use bart. Thats a great alternate. All trains are on time. No troubles for ace, muni or caltrain. Thats a good choice also. It is not clear as far as your skies are concerned. Taking a live look out at the Transamerica Pyramid you can see see the tiptop of the Salesforce Tower. That is keeping temperatures in San Francisco insulated. 46 degrees in the city. Santa rosa 33 degrees. 41 in concord. 46 in San Francisco. 46 in oakland. Fog burns off with seasonal temperatures later on today. 60s and 50s in the area. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Right now it is time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The hill says the library of congress will no longer collect every public tweet. The library says beginning january 1st it will only archive tweets connected to certain themes including elections and Public Policy posts. The library says the change is partly because twitter doubled its character limit. Its also hard to keep up with the rising number of tweets. Especially possibly from one in particular. Youre right. Newsweek says more pregnant women are using marijuana posing an unknown danger to their baby. The study looked at 72 pregnant women at a california over eight years. Nearly onequarter of the women under 18 had used marijuana, those 18 to 24 used it while pregnant. Researchers say the impact of prenatal marijuana use has not been very well studied. Usa today says u. S. Home prices are going up faster than the size of our paychecks. Home prices climbed 6. 2 this year from 2016. That is more than double the pace of wage growth. In metro areas with blooming job markets where prices are rising faster, it means more people can end up staying as renters. Business insider says a thimble sized gadget is the worlds smallest fully functional cell phone. Its lighter than a coin. The maker said it was created as a joke. Nobody could use it. They now recommend carrying it when you jog or as a backup phone for a night out. The company has raised more than 100,000 on its kickstarter page. It looks like my 5yearolds lego. And environmental experts tell the New York Times dont just throw away your christmas tree. They say trees can be recycled to give back to the planet. Old trees can be used to support sand dunes. And create fish environments at the bottoms of lakes and can be turned into mulch in parks and community gardens. New technology is transforming the way we pay for things. Mobile transactions worldwide are expected to top 721 billion this year as customer us and businesses turn away from cash. In a recent survey, 75 of shoppers expect mobile payments to grow in the next five years. Robert safian is the editor. And managing director of the business magazine of that company. Joins us now, good morning. Good morning. Why are we getting away from using cash . First of all there are restaurants and places that wont let you use cash. They want you do this. Part of it is we have these devices with us all the time wherever we are, right, and we have our wallets with us. They may be in our pocket or our bag, but theyre not out and a part of us in the same way. So businesses are trying and as consumers, were more comfortable using them all the time. We see it on airplanes as well. It definitely is convenient. Is there any downside for consumers . Well, there are risks for some of it. Risks for certain privacy issues if youre paying for everything with your phone as opposed to your cash, you can be tracked, right . And theres the fear or question about electronics fraud, identity fraud. Things can be stolen. Listen, the reason restaurants part of the reason they want you to pay with crash, not credit card, they dont have to worry about cash. Robberies, but there are electronic thieves that are out there, so these are two different sides to it. You know, robert, one of the two things people worry about, it is easy to spend when all youre doing is hitting that little thumbprint on your iphone this is something weve been talk about. This is a continuation of the same types of things, technological changes from credit cards to atms. This genie is not going back in the box. The reason its happening, its easier for retailers, its easier for us as consumers to like it. We look at peer to peer. You look at venmo. You want to split the cost for a gift for your grandmother, you can do it via text. Very, very easy. Is it generational, though . Owneh, i think it has starte with millennials, certainly. This is something thats not going to change. Now, there are groups of people who are left out in this. If youre in part of the unbanked part of our population. It means that theres establishment and Economic Activity that you cant participate in. So that is one of the societal challenges we have to deal with as the proliferation continues. This is a global trend, right . Were seeing this across the globe . Absolutely. In sweden, in china. Wherever people are more connected to their phones and doing more activities on their phone, the more Economic Activity, youre going to see more business. Its not going to change. Its really interesting. How about the impact overall on the economy . Is there an advantage to not using cash . For businesses and banks, the reason they want to do it, there are a lot of transactions, when you use your credit card, the bank makes a small piece of money on it, right . Right. So all of these cash transactions, theyre not making money on. This is part of the reason the banks are pushing into this area and Technology Companies are using it as a way themselves to get into the banking business, to get into that part of the transaction. Venmo, the peertopeer network is run by paypal. If you bought paypal stock earlier this year youre very happy about it, 90 this year. As long as they dont start tacking on fees. Every time you use the phones or Global Technology . Right. You dont necessarily see the fees buried inside. Convenient though. Mmhmm. Robert safian. Thank you very much. Good to see you. Lionel richie said it wasnt easy to become a superstar. I grew up extremely shy, and going out on stage used to be torture for me for many years. Did you have stage fright . Please. Panic attack. Really. No kidding. And, of course, when i went solo, i really had a panic attack. All night long, how the Kennedy Center nominee learned music from his grandmother and built an extraordinary you could save energy by weaving your own shoes. Out of flax. Or simply adjust your thermostat. Do your thing, with Energy Upgrade california. Sing along with lionel. Lionel richies hit song hello is from his grammywinning album, cant slow down. Its one of four grammys ritchey has an oscar. His latest is a Kennedy Center honor. It aired last night on cbs. Alex wagner spoke with him at his home to learn how a shy boy from alabama became an influential star. Everybody, lets get up on our feet. You hear about these awarding your entire lifetime. And then it finally happens its almost disbelief. You know, lionel, my brother, no one deserves this award more than you do. But im easy its one of those things where you walk in the backyard, sit down quietly and go, how did this happen. Reporter it happened because of a decades worth of massive hits. Oh what a feeling reporter especially ballads. Youve been called the king of love songs. My question is are you a romantic . Im a hopeless disgusting romantic. I can fall in love in 15 seconds on anything and everybody. When i walk on stage, i meet the people ive never met before. They know me forever. I walk out on stage and theyre my old friends right away. What is it like for you . One big night of ham sandwich, one big great karaoke night. The more i give them to do, the louder they get. Do you think when youre playing or it just comes to you . And you dont think when you write. Ill go. Next day. Then third day. Three times a lady and then nothing. Easy, easy like sunday morning same cord. The cords dont go anywhere. Cords dont change. It tees melody you hear on top. Reporter ritchie found music growing up in tuskegee, alabama. His grandmother taught him how to formally play. Were you trained . No. I was terrible. And my grandmother, god bless her, tried her best to teach me how to play. She would show me how to play the piece properly on the piano with the hand music. Instead of watching the music, i would watch her hands. She would leave and say go rye hers and ill be back in a moment. I would play by ear not knowing that was special. As soon as she walked away, i wouldnt play anybodys music. I played my own, not knowing that was called a songwriter. He took his song writing to college. It was not supposed to be the career. Shes a brick house that band would become the commodores. Did you ever doubt you could achieve success . When youre 19 to 25, ever possible. Were the black beatles, were the commodore, and were going to take over the world. Did you believe you were the black beetles . I believed it. Not just knew it. We didnt have one song, but we were the opening act for the jackson 5 and were on our way. Reporter the commodores ruled the charts in the 1970s, but the attention ritchie was getting as a songwriter convinced him it was time to go solo. 14 years of amazing times. I always tell people every day, thank god for the commodores because without them, i would have never discovered lionel ritchie. Reporter and the world discovered a superstar. Hello, is this me youre looking for can you tell me how you got the idea for hello . It was a joke. My producer James Anthony carmichael was coming to the house. I came Walking Around the corner and sate, hello, id, hello, is e looking for. He said finish that. I finished the song and we finished finifi lushed it up with strings. Lushed it up. Lushed it up. I can see it in your eyes and feel it in your eyes. Reporter but one of ritchies most crowning achievements was anything be solo music. Teaming up with Michael Jackson in 1985 wrote we are the world and recorded it with 40 singers including the biggest stars of the day. The single raised more than 60 million for african famine relief. Every time i hear the song, its even larger than i could ever imagine. We are the world we are the children at the end, that night, when we finally played it back at 7 30, 8 00 in the morning, it was another planet. It was another planet. Did you ever machlk back in alabama that youd end up in this life . Its not where you start. Its where you end up. But when i want to go get grounded, i go back to tuskegee, alabama, i still have that home. I was born and raised by the tuskegee airmen. I am standing on the shoulders of those people. I want them to understand this is possible. Yes, im on my way its not where you started. Its where you end up. Im mighty glad you stayed the music weve had. We just relived our childhood. Yes. Say you say me from white knights. That is my russian background. That song impacted my entire family. Hello. I remember my crush, shane doyle. We could go on. I dance on the ceilings even today. Yes, you do. Like how he said when youre young, anything is possible and its so true. It really is. You can hear alex wagners entire interview with Lionel Richie on our cbs podcast. Find it on apples itunes and podcast app. Ahead two best friends of hawaii discover the true meaning of brotherly love. Youre watching cbs this morning. Think of your fellow man, lend him a helping hand, put a little love in your heart. Youll see its getting late, oh please dont hesitate. Put a little love in your heart. In your heart. In your heart. In your heart. In your heart. vo get zero percent financing for 63 months on select models, plus well donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity. Without further ado, my brother. A pair of friends made that surprising announcement in hawaii last weekend. Theyve known each other for 60 years. A dna matching website recently revealed they had the same birth mother. The brothers called the discovery a christmas miracle. Thats an understatement. Wow, amazing. Amazing what science can put together. Bring families together. That does it for us. Be sure to tune in to the cbs ev whoa the mercedesbenz winter event is back and you wont want to stop for anything else. [ barks ] ho lease the cla250 for 329 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. A memorial bellringing ceremony for officer Andrew Camilleri will be held at the chp good morning, its 8 55. Im anne makovec. A memorial bell ringing ceremony for officer Andrew Camilleri. The officer died after a car slammed into the patrol vehicle on Christmas Eve. It happened on interstate 880 in hayward. Investigators believe the other driver was under the influence of alcohol and marijuana. San jose investigators looking into a grass fire at a homeless encampment near curtner and stone avenues at about 7 p. M. Last night. A stretch of curtner was closed as crews put out the flames last night. And stanford swimmer and olympian Katie Ledecky has been named Associated Press female athlete of the year. She won five golds and a silver at the aquatic World Championship in budapest. Traffic and weather coming up next. We have been tracking an accident along walnut creek south 680. The good news is chp just canceled the Traffic Alert associated with t southbound 680 at 24, a dump truck and vehicle crash. There was debris in the road. Everything is cleared. Damage is done, still a little slow and go as you work your way through there so expect some delays. Past that, though, traffic is improving nicely on 680. If you are heading through the maze this morning, westbound 580 right around 24, this is a live look at conditions heading towards oakland. A little foggy out there but moving along. No delays to report and clear at the bay bridge. In fact, all the way clear into San Francisco. Heres emily. It is certainly foggy out there, in fact taking a live look out at the sutro tower cameras towards the east, you can see just the very tiptop of the Salesforce Tower peeking out but as you can see, above the fog, there is sunshine. Your temperatures right now in San Francisco, nice and mild, 46 degrees. 45 degrees in concord. Santa rosa cooler at 37 degrees. Your High Temperature is in the inland areas will be the mid to low60s. Cooling off the closer you get to the water. Around 60 around the bay and then along the coast you will be in the high 50s. Nice and sunny today, all the way through the weekend before those temperatures start to climb tomorrow. And then dip again through the weekend for a nice new years 2018. Wayne high pitched sounds you got the car tiffany oh, yeah, thats good. Wayne you won the big deal oh, my god wayne cat gray, superhuman . Jonathan its a trip to belize wayne perfect. Jonathan true that. Wayne but thats why you tune in. Happy hour jonathan its time for lets make a deal. Now heres tvs big dealer, wayne brady. Wayne hey, everybody. Welcome to lets make a deal. This is it, season nine. This has been a great week, because every single day this week weve stacked the deck with huge prizes. And today is no different. Today someone could win this. Tiffany coyne . Jonathan its a trip to germany and a bmw. cheers and applause experience history firsthand with a fivenight stay