Almost sixty million americans are affected by mental illness. Together we can help them with three simple words. My name is chris noth and i will listen. The only thing better than playing a hero in the movies, is being a hero in real life. Like the 50,000 veterans who returned from iraq and afghanistan with devastating injuries. They are true heroes. And theyre why im proud to support paralyzed veterans of america. They make sure veterans with spinal cord injuries get the care and support they need at no cost to them. To learn more, visit pva. Org. Thats pva dot org. Far too many young women around the globe lack crucial medical care, access to education, and a safe place to call home. They need to be empowered and supported. Learn how you can help at girlup. Org. Our other big story tonight closely watching wildfires in southern california. One is in the heart of los angeles. For much of the day, a stretch of the 405, major high was closed. Fires are being fueled by santa ana wind which are expected to kick of again overnight. Nearly 200 structures have burned. Thousand were evacuate from some of l. A. s prestigious and densely populated neighborhood. And carter evans begins our coverage on this. Reporter at day break, a traffic nightmare. The northbound 405 shut down. Dont want to be on the west side this morning. This is what commuters saw on interstate 405. Oh, no. One of the nations busiest free ways. This is freaking crazy. On the ridge above bel air one of l. A. s most exclusive neighborhood as flames raced up the hillside, multimillion dollar homes laid directly in their path. A battle on the ground became desperate. You can see the fire burning ininside it this home right now. The staircase and burning through the garage door even the roof of the home. Nothing Fire Fighters can do. Just a few minutes later. Part of the roof crashed down. From the air, the extent of the damage became apparent. Plumes of smoke stretching for miles above los angeles. Back in bel air. See the flames shooting through the roof of this home. Doesnt matter how much water they put on the fire they cant seem to put it out. Doing the best we can. Really difficult task. Just looks like no amount of walter is enough. No, its not enough. No amount of firefighters was enough either. They still hadnt reached azita kaboods home. This is my neighbors house. Its going to burn down. Please tell them to come. He hosed down as much as he could. The fire next door. What is it like to see your neighbors homes burn. Worst feeling. L. A. County fire with the water drop here. Got a break in the wind. Trying to take advantage of it. Keep the fire from advancing over the hillside. Jeff, those really heavy wind are expected to pick up again tonight. Carter, thank you. Photo from space shows the, smoke from the fires drifting yesterday. Hundred of miles into the pacific. Since then the fires have grown. Plumes have thickened. David begnaud tells us there is a new warning tonight about the wind. Jeff, it happened within two hours, the wind shifted toxic smoke blowing back on shore in Ventura County where the thomas fire is burning. Officials put out an alert to residents in the county telling them there will be a severe impact on air quality and visibility. As you look up at the the most extreme manager was sentenced to seven years in federal prison today for his role in the emissions scandal. Oliver schmidt pled guilty to fraud. Led the office in michigan and covered up the scheme to cheat on diesel emissions test. One day after john conyers stepped down. Pressure building on minnesota senator, al franken to do the same. Same reason. Accusations of sexual misconduct. More than half of frankens fellow democrats in the senate want him out. Here is chief congressional correspondent, nancy cordes. Enough is enough. Reporter female senators led the way today lowering the boom on their friend and colleague. Probably in the best interest of a lot of people he resigns. Final straw a report this morning in politico, former democratic staffer said franken tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of his radio show in 2006. Insisting its my right as an entertainer. Mashed his lips against my face. Leeann tweeden made an accusation, producing this photo of franken appearing to grope her. Women saying that the former comedian grabbed their breasts or buttocks while taking photos with them. Latest disclosure reached a tipping point. Frankens denials didnt help. I cant say i did that. By urging first john conyers and frank tine go. Democrats are hoping to create contrast with the other side. President trump, endorsed Alabama Senate candidate roy moore this week. The Republican National committee resumed funding his campaign despite multiple accusations that moore pursued teenagers, while his 30s. I didnt vote for roy moore. Senate republicans insist their views on moore havent changed. I think he would immediately have, an issue, with the Ethics Committee which they would take up. Frankens colleagues assume he will resign tomorrow. But, frankens office says tonight he still has the not made up his mind. Cbs news has learned that franken and his wife, met with democratic leader, Chuck Schumer at schumers apartment today and that schumer told him, its time to go. Jeff. Thanks to you. New study gives us a clearer picture of the risk of Breast Cancer from Birth Control medication. If it were not for my love for the people i would not protested, if it was not for the support from the people, i would not be on this stage today. Awe all lined with rvs selling from 15,000 on up. This is 701,000. One assistant told me i could drive it away for 699,000. I had this chest cold, but my medicine kept wearing off. coughsah hey, chad i missed you. 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Women using Birth Control methods that involve hormones like the pill or iud had a 20 increase risk of Breast Cancer. Now, most of the Breast Cancers were found in women in their 40s. And women using hormones for less than five years, had no increased risk. After being off them for six months. Is this a surprise . Well, you know in the past, this increased risk had been known, but back then, there were higher dosages of the hormones that were being used. Now finding with relatively lower dosages of hormone seeing increased risk. Millions use Birth Control medication put this in perspective. 20 translates to one more case of Breast Cancer a year for every 7,700 women. One Breast Cancer expert that we spoke to described this increase as small but meaningful. Balance it against potential benefits of using hormones for example. Decreasing the risk of ovarian cancer, and colon cancer and of course there is the benefit of preventing unwanted pregnancy. How do you balance risk and benefit here . Think ultimately a discussion between the doctor or clinician and the woman and you cant be rushed discussion. Slowly discuss specifically what makes sense for her. Jon lapook, thank you very much. Still ahead this painting sold for 450 million. You might be surprised at where it is headed. Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow. But after an electrical fire from faulty wiring, marys vintage clothing and designer shoe collection were ruined. Luckily, the Geico Insurance agency had recently helped mary with renters insurance, and she got a totally fab replacement wardrobe at bloomingdales. Mary was inspired to start her own fashion line, exclusively for little lambs. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. 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. 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Update on the day vin committee painting that sold for 450 million. Salvador mundi will be displayed at abu dhabi at an opened branch of the louvre. The mystery buyer is a saudi prince. What would happen to an astronaut that got loose from the space station while working outside . How about pressing a take me home button. Engineers patented this technology that can return a drifting crew they say member to safety. No small feat when no gravity and no easy way to determine up from down. Up next, dean reynold, channels his inner kuralt. Musguys, im good. Say goodbye to distractions. Now you can last longer with new ky duration spray. This part of Northern Indiana is the birth place for 95 of all the motor coaches in this country. And they cant seem to build them fast enough. The lots at jayco, a subsidiary are lined with rvs, selling for 15,000 on up. Way up. We opted for the luxury of the integra model with thor, ceo, bob martin. Yeah, this is the 701,000. But one of your assistants told me i could drive it away for 699,000. On board there are couches, cabinets, a fridge, the fireplace. And more. People love to travel with their own, their own bedding, their own linens, their own, showers. Showers. Five tvs. Five tvs. During the great recession, unemployment was more, now 2 . Once laid off. Now a foreman. Things loosened up. Come a long way in the industry, we really have. This jayco warehouse will soon need 400 workers at starting salaries near 50,000 a year. Nearby elkhart is now high on the hog with a bustling downtown and a local kfc offering ate 150 hiring bonus. So whats driving the revived rv industry . Low Interest Rates and gas prices and, a renewed wanderlust. I just love being on the road. Andy littlejohn added something else. Romance of the road. Meeting new people. Thats, very important. At a time of deep divisions in the country, americans may once again find Common Ground on the road. Dean reynolds, cbs news, middlebury, indiana. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im jeff glor. Thanks for watching. Welcome to the overnight news. Im michelle miller. President trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the the capital of israel has sent political shock waves through europe and the arab world. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu calls the move an important step toward peace. But palestinian leader, ma museum abbas says the u. S. Just isolated itself from the mideast peace process. Major garrett has the world reaction. We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. President trumps recognition of jerusalem as the the capital of israel rejects the policy of previous president s, and the recommendations of his secretaries of state and defense. This is a long overdue step to advance the peace process, and to work toward a lasting agreement. But Administration Officials could point to no evidence the symbolically important shift in u. S. Policy will accelerate peace talks. Mr. Trumps soninlaw, Jared Kushner its leading that white house effort and has yet to formulate a plan. We will move the American Embassy to the eternal capital of the jewish people, jerusalem. In an appeal to his Christian Conservative base, candidate trump promised the move to. Day he started the effort which is expected to take at least four years. A new embassy, when completed, will be a magnificent tribute to peace. The president made his decision last week, at the urging of Vice President mike pence. Pence himself, a Christian Conservative, and staunch supporter of israel will travel off to the region later this month. There will of course be disagreement, and dissent, regard this announcement. Mr. Trump said the u. S. Would not dictate the terms of of a peace agreement, adding the u. S. Would still support a two state solution if that is what the israelis and palestinians agree to. This sacred city, should call forth the best in humanity. Lifting our sights to what is possible, not pulling us back and down. Senior Administration Officials anticipate palestinians will blow off some steam before realizing the u. S. Is central to any durable peace deal. With this move they say the president is signaling the can tours of the deal will get worse not better the longer the palestinians wait. Jeff glor discussed the president s move with seth doane in jerusalem and Holly Williams in istanbul, turkey. Seth what does this do to immediate prospects of the peace process. Really depend on who you are asking. Israeli side you have people many overjoyed, as israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu came out after with a statement and said in the great 3,000 year history of the jewish peoples connection and belief that jerusalem was their capital, this was a significant day. On the other hand, you have palestinians who feel exactly the opposite. The palestinian president , Mahmoud Abbas said he believed that this disqualified america, disqualified the u. S. From being a negotiator. We asked one Senior Palestinian official about president trumps reputation of being a dealmaker. And she laughed at us. She said, the abcs of deal making are not to give everything to one side. This its how this is being viewed as, by palestinians. The turkish president said this its crossing a red line. Why . Jeff, muslims around the world see this as the a slap in the face. So many of them support palestinian dreams of the statehood. Here in the middle east, many, many people have somehow come to believe that the u. S. Its waging a war against islam and muslim and they will see this as more evidence of that. We heard today from king abdula of jordan, very important u. S. Ally, he was here in turkey meeting with the egyptian president , and said the move could fuel extremism and undermine the war against terrorism. The criticism isnt just coming from muslims. European leaders and china have voiced their concerns. And today, even, the pope spoke out. Saying, that he parade that wisdom and prudence would prevail. Seth, are you seeing protests, now, and, what, what might you expect in the days to come here. We are starting to see protests earlier in the day. But several palestinian groups have called for a day of rage pro tests on friday. Of course, the holy dale here. And then, that is changing the security situation scenario, the look ahead on the ground here. We had a mosque come out and say this announcement opens the gates of hell. Holly, what are you paying attention to in istanbul or parts of the arab world . Jeff, i think there is very much governments in this part of the world can do about this right now. They know that. But next time the u. S. Wants cooperation from middle eastern governments, in this very important part of the world because of oil and location because of terrorism, this wont help. Trying to contain several major wildfires burning in and around los angeles. The newest blaze burning homes in an exclusive neighborhood. Carter evans begins our coverage. Reporter at day break, a traffic nightmare. The northbound 405 shut down. Dont want to be on the west side this morning. This is what commuters saw on interstate 405. Oh, no. One of the nations busiest free ways. This is freaking crazy. On the ridge above bel air one of l. A. s most exclusive neighborhood as flames raced up the hillside, multimillion dollar homes laid directly in their path. A battle on the ground became desperate. You can see the fire burning ininside it this home right now. The staircase and burning through the garage door even the roof of the home. Nothing Fire Fighters can do. Just a few minutes later. Part of the roof crashed down. From the air, the extent of the damage became apparent. Plumes of smoke stretching for miles above los angeles. Back in bel air. See the flames shooting through the roof of this home. Doesnt matter how much water they put on the fire they cant seem to put it out. Doing the best we can. Really difficult task. Just looks like no amount of walter is enough. No, its not enough. No amount of firefighters was enough either. They still hadnt reached azita kaboods home. This is my neighbors house. Its going to burn down. Please tell them to come. He hosed down as much as he could. The fire next door. What is it like to see your neighbors homes burn. Worst feeling. L. A. County fire with the water drop here. Got a break in the wind. Trying to take advantage of it. Keep the fire from advancing over the hillside. Jeff, those really heavy wind are expected to pick up again tonight. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Today marks 76 years since a not all Fish Oil Supplements provide the same omega3 power. Introducing megared advanced triple absorption it supports your heart, joints, brain, and eyes. And is absorbed by your body three times better. So one megared has more omega3 power than three standard fish oil pills. Megared advanced triple absorption. 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. You dont even want to know protection detergent alone doesnt kill bacteria but adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99. 9 of bacteria with 0 bleach. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Today marks 76 years since a day that still lives in infamy. The japanese attack on pearl harbor its what we are talking about. Previously Unknown Sailor who saved six lives on the battleship arizona is now being recognized for his heroism. Here is david martin. This is the moment that sunk the arizona. The japanese bomb went off in the forward ammunition magazine setting off a cataclysmic explosion. There is the arizona 1,000 men believed lost. Donald stratton and they survived and lived well into their 90s. They came to washington to win recognition for the sailor who saved them that day. Got out on the deck on the hot steel deck and, threw us a line. Reporter as stratton told us, the sailor was on the ship, tide up next to the arizona. Stratton and four other men were trapped on that platform. Badly burned about to be roasted alive. Three, four, five throws. Finally get the line over to us. We pulled it across. And tied it off on the arizona. And went hand over hand across the line. To the vessel. About, 70, 80 feet. Probably the only guy that could have got the line over to us. For years, neither man knew who that sailor was. But now they do. Named joe george. Were you the guy who threw the line over. Im the guy, yeah. Before he died, he did an interview for an oral history of the day of infamy. The only record that exists of him telling his own story. One of these books is written about pearl harbor. And the Unknown Sailor. It its so understated here. Were you the guy who threw the line over. Im the guy, yes. Thats kind of how he was about it. His daughter Joanne Taylor never heard hear father tell the story. Awe thought was so emotional. My father had been dead 19 years, i hadnt heard his voice in 19 years. I sat out there in, i sat there in the garage in the car. Surrounded by by fire on the arizona. I just cried. And listened to him talk. Joe george was the kind of sailor you read about in books. My father had a, i would say a wild streak in him. He got himself in trouble. A few times. Amateur heavyweight boxer who fought in friday night smokers. He would take his winnings, go drinking and usually end up another fight which is what happened on the friday night before the pearl are bar attack. He was brought back by the mps to the ship ordered to stay on the ship. Thats why he was there . Thats why he was there that sunday morning. I always say thats where god meant him to be and put him there. Good apparently didnt want joe george stew receive a medal for what he did that day. When his daughter wrote the navy, nothing happened. Have you been surprised by how hard it has been . I will be honest, it can be, overwhelming and depressing sometimes, because, his story is real. And, so it is hard. George had been commended for his actions by cant tin cason young, the Commanding Officer of the vestile. A fact that she learned when she fond this in a drawer in her mothers house. His original logbook. Leaf through and see his career. You can look through there, see the ships he has been on where he was stationed. Uss vestile, pearl harbor. Aided men from u. S. Arizona, fire getting over to the vestile assisted in the ship getting clear of the, arizona. Right. But for her father to receive a medal, Navy Regulations required two sworn affidavits from eyewitnesss. There are only five survivors of the arizona still alive. Two of them, stratton and bruner saved by george. What are the odd . What are the odds of that. Just incredible. Which makes you think his story was meant to be told. These are eyewitness states here. Had it not been for Joseph George and his heroism. We would have all perished in the fire that was engulfing the arizona. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Documents in hand, Joanne Taylor, loren bruner and took their case not just to the senate. 95. Still looks like you got a good couple decades in you. But to the pentagon where they met with secretary of defense mattis, chairman of the joint chiefs and chief of naval operations. Joe george, whose daughter joanne, is with us today. Finally to the white house. And the commanderinchief. Always honor and remember a man whose courage knew no limits. That doesnt happen often . I know. It was a gift from god. It was a blessing. It was wonderful. After that visit to washington your father was no longer the Unknown Sailor. For me, personally, and my family, thats the most wonderful thing that has occurred through all of this. That now he is not the Unknown Sailor. The he is the man who did what he did. I am eternally greatful for that. And history knows. And history. Thats the best part of it. And history will show on the 76th anniversary of pearl harbor, joseph l. George received the bronze star with a v for valor for his actions on december 7th, 1941. Joseph l. George. One of americas greatest rock band is out with a new ialmost everything. You know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by ,000 one of americas greatest rock band is out with a new version of their classic album. Rems automatic for the people first hit the airwaves 25 years ago. Now, the deluxe Anniversary Edition features 20 previously unreleased demos. Our Anthony Mason caught up with two of the band members, in new york. Reporter rem released 15 studio alibles before they disbanded in 2011. But many consider ought matting for the people, their best. You have been quoted as saying, it is your favorite rem album. I think this one is strongest from start to finish. Mike mills, peter buck, phil barry and Michael Stipe went into the studio in 1992. How do you remember this album . Singing drive at the top of the stairwell, in a haunted mansion on the edge of the French Quarter in new orleans. And, and reading the leering off a laptop. First time i use aid competer to write the lyrics. How you recorded the song . Top of the stair, yeah. Reporter the name came from weaver ds soul food in athens, georgia, the bands birth place. They liked the slogan. Wanted to use it as the title of the album. Automatic for the people, would include the song, night swimming. Night swimming deserves a quiet night which started with a mike mills melody. I wrote night swimming when i was goofing on the piano. Michael heard it. Loved it. And said keep playing that. Played it. Played it. While he listened. The track was laid down on the same piano from derek and the dominoes classic. It is recorded on the piano. Not the best in the world. But, the history of it is fantastic. And it sound great. Led zeppelins John Paul Jones arranged the strings for the song. As he did for the albums biggest hilt. Everybody hurts sometimes everybody hurts won the band four mtv video music awards. What the song its, what the song, i think has become, is something that you cant put on the shelf. Thats yours. And everybody any out there. And the last song written for the album is man on the moon. If you believe they put a man on the moon the song was pretty much completed except for any singing. And we all knew it was a song that had to be on the record. And weep knew that something great lurking in there, to get it out. Trouble getting it out. Found inspiration unexpected in the videos of Andy Kauffman. Andy did you hear about this one. The Andy Kauffman thing came out i had no intention writing abut Andy Kauffman. But thats what came out. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. And the chorus of yaz, stipe was an attempt to outdo kurt cobain. My goal was to write a song that had more yeahs than anything kurt had written. A good laugh. I managed to do that. You look that, anthony . Pretty funny. The matic for the people reached number two on the charts. But rem did not tour behind it. Which led to a lot of rumors about your health . People thought i was hiv or living with aid. I wasnt. How do you get through that . I turned away. I just want quiet. I just want to feel like i was adding to the voices of people who were distancing themselves from People Living with hiv that was my community. And so, im not sure that i made the right choice. Youre not . No. What would you have said . Im healthy. I didnt think thats what it was awhat bout. I thought people were trying to force me to talk about my sexuality. I didnt think it was anybodys business. This is an album that, over time seems to have become more popular. Sign of a really good record. One of the things we fry to do from the beginning was make record that when you listen to them you couldnt say thats clearly from 1986. If you uh can do that then a record has a chance of lasting longer. If you believe. I love the idea that the record could find a newer younger audience. Of people that might know some of the songs. But they havent put together that it is rem or those songs created something, album in a far away century, 20th century. Makes me feel, i can look back, 25 years and feel okay about it. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. Testing pc17 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test maint. 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Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. Archaeologists have dug up icons of ancient egypt from a desert in california. Go figure. Here is alex wagner. You are not worthy to receive these ten commandments. In 1956, Charlton Heston made history playing moses in cecil b. Demills, his second take on the biblical tale. 33 years earlier, a silent version of the hebrew exodus from egypt. Both films were ambitious in their scope. While the 1956 version was Ground Breaking in its use of special effects. The silent film required actors, crew and animals along with an immense construction project. Demille commissioned the designer paul aribe, father of art deco to build a lavish set, 12 stories high, 800 feet wide in the sand dunes on the california coast. After the filming wrapped the set was too expensive to move and too valuable to leave for a filmmaker to use. So demille ordered it buried. There was no such thing as over the top. And scott ivan wrote empire of dreams. If they were going to do the civil war they did the civil war. They got a couple of hundred people, or thousand people, did the civil war. If demille is going to recreate egypt he build it on the same scale as ancient egypt was built. Now archaeologists unearthed part of the 21 sphynxs left behind. And a head intact after nearly a century in the sand. Given that the objects hatch lasted 94 years, even though they were only built to last for two months during filming. It really speaks to the craftsmanship and level of skill. Recovery of the hollywood artifacts is difficult. And unlike the ancient sphinx, the ones built by aribe are made of plaster of paris. Despite fragility, the statues have surprising characteristic. Though they were set pieces in a black and white film. They were painted. They would have used pigments to create shadow, light, depth. And prevent very solid look of one color, black or white. So, in the movie these gray. Thats the overnight news for this thursday. From the cbs Broadcast Center right here in new york city, im michelle miller. Captioning funded by cbs its thursday, december 7th, 2017. This is the cbs morning news. Wild fires burn out of control in southern california. Now the firestricken region is bracing for recordstrong winds making it even harder for firefighters to gain control. Bracing for fallout. President trump delivers on a campaign promise, putting the middle east on edge. And road rage turns into a wild westlike shootout on a busy houston street with bystanders caught in the crossfire