We were giving him a bath. We felt a lump on his left side. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. We are following the possibility of a Government Shutdown tomorrow night very closely, and well have more on that in just a moment. But first, new information has been released from california on a case that has stunned people around the world. In riverside county, the parents of 13 children, age229, were charged today with imprisoning, abusing, and torturing them. David begnaud is at the courthouse. The victims report that as a punishment, starting many years ago, they began to be tied up, first with ropes. Reporter District Attorney mike hestrin provided the first chilling details of the abuse allegedly inflicted on the 13 turpin children over the last eight years regular beatings, strangulation, and starvation. One of the children, at age 12, is the weight of an average sevenyearold. Reporter the torture allegedly occurred at three different homes, intensifying in recent years. The kids were chained in rooms for weeks, even months at a time, not even allowed to go to the restroom. One victim at one point was tied up and hog tied, and then when that victim was able to escape the ropes, these defendants eventually began using chains and padlocks to chain up the victims to their beds. Several of the victims have Cognitive Impairment and neuropathy, which is nerve damage, as a result of this extreme and prolonged physical abuse. None of the victims were allowed to shower more than once a year. One of the reasons for the punishments were if the children were found to wash their hands above the wrist area, they were accused of playing in the water, and they would be chained up. Supposedly home schooled, the children lacked even they lack a basic knowledge of life. Many of the children didnt know what a Police Officer was. About the only thing the children were allowed to do in their rooms or chained up was to write in journals. We now have recovered those journals, hundreds of them. They would buy food, including pies, apple pies, pumpkin pies, leave it on the counter, let the children look at it, but not eat the food. Reporter the children were discovered after their 17yearold sister escaped through a window. She called police in a plan that was apparently in the making for the last two years. She took another sibling with her who eventually got scared and went back. Three of the kids were chained when the police arrived. The parents just pleaded not guilty at the courthouse behind me pup know, you heard the District Attorney talk about the kids lacking basic knowledge. Well, Child Protective Services is trying to figure out whether or not the adult kids can even live and manage on their own. Jeff, people are calling from all over the world offering to adopt these kids. Glor david begnaud, thank you very much. Now the countdown to a possible shutdown of the government at midnight tomorrow night. It could happen unless democrats and republicans can reach an agreement soon. Heres chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes. Who is running this Republican Party . Who is making decisions . Reporter lawmakers warmed up for the shutdown blame game today. Democrats, if theyre going to shut down the government, can do that. Reporter as highlevel talks over a daca deal stalled so you dont think thats going anywhere. Well, i dont know. I havent seen any evidence of anything. Reporter most congressional leaders agree that socalled dreamers should be allowed to apply for legal status. I think we can solve it in 30 minutes if people wanted to. Reporter but some conservatives, including those in the white house, want big concessions in exchange, as immigrants protest from coast to coast, democrats say without a deal, theyll vote against a bill to fund the government past midnight tomorrow. Frankly, a lot of the current mess is the mess of the president s making. Reporter some republicans share that view. Im not sure what the president means. Reporter they fumed today when mr. Trump knocked their spending bill in a tweet, even though the white house supports it. The president likes to do things in an unconventional way. He does it with his phone. Reporter House Speaker paul ryan once again played cleanup. How do you negotiate with democrats and your own members if youre not sure where where he stands . I do i am sure why he stands. He fully support the legislation. I talked to him an hour and a half ago. Reporter federal agencies are now prepping for the first shutdown since 2013. Were ready if thats what happens. We hope not. T. S. A. Agents and air Traffic Controllers would remain on duty, but many government employees, including some civilian defense workers would be furloughed, their pay uncertain. The group that loses big would be the military, and were never letting our military lose at any point. Reporter the house is slated to vote on government funding tonight, and g. O. P. Leaders insist they have the votes to pass it. But even if theyre right, democrats can block it in the senate. If there is a way to head off this shutdown, jeff, no ones revealed it yet. Glor nancy cordes, thank you. Severe Winter Weather has now killed at least 11 people this week from texas to maine. Most of the deaths were in the south, many in crashes on icy roads. Others froze to death. In virginia air, boy died in a sledding accident. As the flu epidemic worsens, the disease is widespread in every state now except hawaii. Missouri is especially hard hit, more than 40,000 cases so far this season in missouri, compared to 6,000 this time last year. Dean reynolds is there. Ill be swabbing you for flu. You have ever done this before . No. Reporter Chloe Tennant came to total access urgent care in st. Louis complaining of flulike symptoms. 15 minutes later, after a battery of tests, dr. Paul hinrichs delivered the bad news. So your influenza a. Is positive. How are you today . Reporter its a common diagnosis these days across missouri and across the country. Ive been doing this a long time, and i have never seen such a high concentration of flu cases all at one time. Reporter at this clinic, theyve been seeing 1,000 hacking, sneezing, feverish patients a day, about twice the usual amount. One minute you feel okay, the next minute or hour you have acute onset of fever. It can be as high as 103, 104, sometimes. Reporter at st. Louis Childrens Hospital they, take no chances with visitors. We were outfitted with an isolation gown, protective gloves, and a mask before talking to sixyearold Daniel Harris whose temperature had spiked to 103 degrees. Daniel, how do you feel . Not well. Reporter daniel, who also has cerebral palsy, has had the flu for eight days, and his parents brought him here last night after he suffered a seizure. His mother, ruth, was at his bedside. What did we say . Its the pits right. The flu is the pits. No fun. coughing reporter the combination of Holiday Travel and kids returning to school created something of a breeding ground for this flu outbreak, and doctors here in missouri believe theyre in for at least 10 more very rough days before it subsides. Jeff. Glor dean reynolds, thank you very much. Police in phoenix said today theyve arrested a serial killer responsible for nine murders. The suspect is someone theyve had in custody for a month. Carter evans has more on this. Reporter cleophus cooksys youtube page contained this ominous rap. Reporter in middecember. , Phoenix Police arrested cooksey for allegedly murdering his mother and stepfather. While cooksey was in jail, detectives were still investigating seven other unsolved murders. All occurred between thanksgiving and christmas in the surrounding area. Nine deaths, three weeks, nine people shot in our community. Reporter all died from gunshot wounds, and all, allegedly, traced back to cooksey, because of technology. It all kind of clicked together. Its like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Reporter phoenix is one of five cities in a Pilot Program that lets police immediately share and process ballistics evidence from different crime scenes in hours instead of weeks. Phoenix mayor greg stanton it means police can make an arrest and stop the killer before he claims another life. Our streets are safer today. Reporter now, cooksey has been in custody for a month. During that time, investigators were able to do ballistics testing with equipment they now have right here at headquarters. It was because of that that they were able to link him to these other murders much faster than they ever would have been able to before. And, jeff, they say, cooksey could even be connected to more crimes. Glor carter evans in phoenix. Thank you very much. Some wells fargo customers were awfully surprised last night to find their Bank Balances had suddenly dropped to zero. The banks automatic billpaying service had billed them multiple times for the same charge. Today, wells fargo said it was a computer glitch. The accounts have been corrected and customers will not be charged an overdraft fee. Cities all over america are competing to host a new Amazon Headquarters and jobs that go with it. Today, amazon whittled down the choice from 238 to 20. Mark strassmann is in atlanta, one of the finalists. Theres never, ever been a more exciting time in philadelphia than right now. Reporter finding a home for amazons Second Headquarters, the Company Calls it hq2, became corporate catnip to a frenzy of souters coast to coast. Amazons Second Headquarters is, obviously, d. C. Reporter American Communities courted with gifts of land and tax incentives worth billions. Stonecrest, georgia, proposed 345 free acres and even changing its name. Welcome to amazon, georgia. Reporter deliberations were secret, but amazon had a type in mind. A metropolitan area of more than one Million People thats a hub for top tech talent. Atlanta touted its airport, horizon, and business climate. The city made amazons final cut, a birthday present for the new mayor. Number of jobs and just how it really can positively change the landscape of the city. Its a big deal. Reporter these 20 names on amazons new dance cards fall heavily in the midwest, southeast, and northeast. Heres why amazon, the Worlds Largest internet retailer, proposalses spending 5 billion to build hq2 and create up to 50,000 jobs that average 100,000. I would hope that cities dont enter into a bidding war. Reporter amy lou, a policy expert at the brookings institute, warns suiters that overspend is only one potential pitfall. Seattle, amazons world headquarters, has seen a surge in housing costs and traffic congestion. It will stress the housing market. It will stress the wages in the community, including really leaving some parts of the community behind. Reporter for the 20 finalists, this corporate courtship may only intensify in the weeks ahead. Here in georgia, jeff, governor nathan deal may call the legislature into special session to come up with a public that will reel in amazon. Glor Mark Strassmann in atlanta, thank you. Now to other stories were following in the evening newsfeed. As he awaits sentencing for sexual abuse, former u. S. A. Gymnastics doctor larry nassar asked the judge today to spare him from hearing his victims testimony. He said hes not strong enough. The judge said, essentially, too bad. At least 105 victims are expected to make statements before nasser is sentenced. In harrisburg, pennsylvania, today, a deputy u. S. Marshall was shot to death while serving a warrant. The deputy was attempting to arrest a woman wanted for making terror threats when a man at the same house opened fire. Another officer was wounded. The gunman was killed in a shootout. Nasa said today the global surface temperature last year of the second warmest on records that go back to 1880. Scientists at noaa pegged it as the third warmest. Both say the five warmest years have occurred since 2010. Theres much more ahead on tonights cbs evening news. Reporter we have no idea, really, how much tomorrow is left. Reporter mudslide cleanup is far from over, and rainy season is just beginning in california. 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Help protect yourself against pneumococcal pneumonia. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about prevnar 13®. Glor more than a week after mudslides killed at least 20 people in montecito, california, three others are still missing. Nearly 130 homes were destroyed when torrential rain washed out hillsides that were scorched last month by a wildfire. Jamie yuccas now on whats being done with the mountens of mud. Reporter mud, cars, and remnants of 100yearold trees now fill 11 debris fields in montecito. This debris flow was over 1,000 feet wide. Reporter so three football fields worth of debris came slamming in. Tom fayram is in charge of clearing all this out. He said each of these rocks weighs up to five tons. The mudslide was so large tchanged the elevation in some neighborhoods by as much as six feet. Our main job is to race to open up every creek channel, get every bridge unplugged, because we will get rain and so we have to be ready for it. Reporter the same massive cleanup effort is happening along highway 101, where trucks are hauling away thousands of pounds of debris every day. More than 20 Million Pounds have been dumped here at the Ventura County fairgrounds. Rocks, trees, plastics and metals are sorted out, and then taken to either a recycling center or a landfill. The county is having to dump some cleaned mud at the beach. Its all a race against the clock until the next storm. It was just a Little Village in the forest, and it was beautiful. Reporter this is Marybeth Myers cottage before the mudslide. Now, this is all you see. She lost 12 of her 24 neighbors on her street. No one lived through that storm that was on my street. Theyre just gone. Weror were lucky enough to theo be there like i was. Reporter fighting the cold, she spent the frigid night at her office with her dogs. I dont know why im here. But i know one thing im really grateful. Reporter as you can see, cleanup is far from over, and were just at the beginning of rainy season in california. Jeff, that means any new storm could send crews back to square one. Glor jamie yuccas, thank you very much. Up next here, a Prince Sports a new do. Glor a Marriage Proposal from the pope. It happened and we can explain. A steward and stewardess on the popes plane in chile today told him they never had the Church Wedding they wanted, so the pope popped the question what if he married them in the sky. Francis said he would. They said i do, and the pope pronounced them husband and wife. In australia today, a firstofakind rescue. Two teenagers were struggling in a rip current. Nearby, lifeguards were being trained to use drones for rescue so they flew one out to the swimmers and had it drop an inflatable rescue pod. The drone got there in just over a minute. A future king of england is giving the world a look at his crown. Prince william debuted a new buzz cut today. 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You think its something that oldier people get and people that Smoke Cigarettes and that sort of thing, and its not the case at all. Reporter in 2014, solder had surgery for testicular cancer and kept playing. The next year, cancer really hit home for solder and his wife, lexi. Hudson, their first child, was three months old. We were giving him a bath. We felt a lump on his left side, which felt weird, you know. Weve never noticed it before. Reporter hudson had a rare kidney cancer. Hudson has tumors in both kidneys, and then in each kidney, he has multiple tumors. Emotionally, we were, like, brunt. Yeah. Reporter a year of chemotherapy shrank hudsons tumors, but three months ago, they started froag again, which means the twoyearold is back on chemo are you like is this ever going to go away . Yeah. We have faith that it will get better. I totally believe he will be okay. Reporter when the patriots won their fifth super bowl last year, hudson was in houston. Its the n. F. L. s ultimate moment, but not solders, not anymore. Before, my biggest stress, my biggest worry, all my concerns were coming from football. And now football is a way that i can release from a lot of the stresses in life. Reporter your job is to protect tom brady. Right. Reporter you would do anything to protect your son from this. Right. Reporter its got to be couple of humbling. You get cancer, it doesnt matter who you are, it knocks anyone out. You realize were all human beings and we all strug dispel we all have these battles we have to go through. Reporter for the solders, hudsons battle could redefine the meaning of winning. Mark strassmann, cbs news, foxborough, massachusetts. Glor and that is the cbs evening news tonight. Im jeff glor. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org world exclusive. Why . The guy who whacked ice queen Nancy Kerrigan on the knee breaks his silence. The story behind i tanya. 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