Other for how long . 1887. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. For a third night, night is about to fall in oakland, california, and for a third night, recovery teams are searching for the victims of a fire at a warehouse that was beings used illegally as a dance club. This is a live picture. And this is our first look inside the warehouse before the fire as Police Inspectors checked it back in october. We dont know why action was not taken then on the complaints filed by residents. Today the death toll rose to 36, but it is likely more victims are buried under the collapsed roof. We are only beginning to learn who they were. Some were foreigners. Our David Begnaud begins our coverage. Reporter firefighters were at the scene within three minutes, but the entire building was already in flames. Nancy omalley is the Alameda County district attorney. The range of charges could be murder all the way to involuntary manslaughter, and until we know what the evidence shows us, there may be other charges if the evidence presents that. Reporter 75 of the building has now been searched. For the last 48 hours, recovery workers have used buckets to separate personal possessions and Building Materials from human remains. No one knows exactly how many people were inside the space during the fire. The warehouse known as the ghost ship was two stories tall. There were no sprinklers or fire alarms. The upper floor contained a floor and event space. Two sets of rickety stairs led to a bottom level, makeshift living spaces. That place is a deathtrap. Reporter shelly mack says she rented a trailer for a few months in 2014. She called police at least three times to report dangerous conditions. They would block the back stairway because they didnt want people walking down the stairway and tripping over all the illegal cords. Reporter investigators just released photos from inside of the warehouse, this one blown up shows investigators you can see the buckets that they used to make some of the recovery of those human remains. This is one of the multiple pictures released. Scott, three of the 36 people have not been identified and tonight their family members are being asked to preserve personal items such as a toothbrush so that positive identifications can be made with d. N. A. Pelley David Begnaud on the scene. David, thank you. And carter evans is looking into the building and its owners. Fire, fire. Reporter max ohr was in the building late friday night. By the time i grabbed fire extinguisher and grabbed back, no more than 16 seconds elapsed and the entire back was engulfed in flames. Reporter no one was supposed to be living there, and the building was under investigation for potential Code Violations related to unpermitted construction inside. Oakland mayor libby schaaf. All i know is we were not able to gain access to the interior of the building. Reporter did you ever see any inspectors visit there . No. No. And if there were, we would have let them in. Reporter ohr lived in the warehouse and say Oakland Police have seen the inside of the building a number of times. Cbs news obtained this Video Showing Police in the building this october. Were told they were there to access the roof of a neighboring building. Now police are trying to determine if those officers reported the Living Conditions to the city according to spokeswoman janna watson. If they should notice any type of violation, if they should notice any criminal activity, we record it, we document it, we forward it. Reporter city records show the warehouse and the two adjacent buildings are owned by chor ng trust. The roughly two dozen tenants paid a total of about 4,500 in rent. The owner has five other buildings in the area. What about the owner of this building . The owner of this building has had significant legal advice at this point. We assume that there are going to be many, many questions. Reporter investigators now believe theyve located the origin of the fire in the back of the building, but there is still no official cause. Scott, people who live there tell me they believe the fire could be electrical in nature because of all the old faulty wiring in the building. Pelley carter evans for us tonight. Carter, thank you. So far 33 victims have been identified. Mireya villarreal has that part of the story. All i can hope is it was as quick and swift as possible, but theres in way of knowing that. Reporter randy widdenauer can only pray his son didnt suffer. His son is one of at least 36 people who died in fridays fire. He washed dishes during the day so he could pursue his music career at night. I could never criticize him because i was right there with him, hoping that maybe your dreams will come true for you. Reporter 22yearold musical artist was loved and admired by everyone she met. Her passing is an excruciating loss. David kline recently graduated from u. C. Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and was at fridays music event with a friend. His brother says his smile and his presence changed every person that was lucky enough to feel his warmth and light. Several other victims were also artists and musicians. So far ranging in ages from 17 to 35. Amanda brown worked with several of the people who were performing friday night at the ghost ship and knew them personally. I dont want these particular people to be gone, because i find them to be inspiring and i find them to be creative and sort of the glue that holds us all together. Reporter cbs has learned the youngest victim so far is a 17 yearold boy whose father works with the Alameda County sheriffs department. Throughout the day, hundreds of people have come here to pay their respects at the memorial behind me. Tonight there will be a vigil for the victims and the missing. Scott, thousands are expected to attend. Pelley more of the latest details on cbs this morning tomorrow. Mireya villarreal, thanks. In another breaking news story tonight, a mistrial has been declared in the murder case of a black man who was shot in the back by a north charleston, south carolina, Police Officer. A unanimous verdict was required, but the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked. Mark strassmann was there when the decision came down. Mark . Reporter scott, the jury deliberated for 22 hours. They could only agree there was no point continuing. The cell phone video of a white Police Officer shooting a fleeing black suspect in the back shocked the country, but in court, a mistrial became a real possibility last friday when a juror wrote the judge that in good conscience he or she could not consider a guilty verdict, and the scott family said they were prepared to be disappointed. One of their lawyers added that Michael Slager cannot escape what is coming to him, but for now slager remains free on bail. Pelley it is up to the prosecutor to decide whether to have another trial. Whats likely to happen . Scott, scarlet wilson is going to retry slager, but first she also has to prosecute the states case against dylann roof. Hes the 22yearold charged with the Charleston Church massacre here last year, killing nine people. His federal trial here starts on wednesday, so it could be months before slager is retried. Pelley Mark Strassmann at the courthouse for us tonight. Mark, thank you. A note on the president ial transition. The trump brain trust will include a brain surgeon. Today the president elect said he will nominate former rival dr. Ben carson to be secretary of housing and urban development. One of the big surprises of the president ial campaign was the explosion of fake news on the internet. Fantastic tales that some believed to be true. Chip reid reports that one phony item led to a dangerous situation in washington. Reporter 28yearold edgar welch was arrested in washington sunday afternoon outside comet ping pong, a popular family pizza parlor. D. C. Police say welch fired at least one round into the restaurant floor with an ar15 rifle like this one on his facebook page. No one was injured. Police say welch drove all the way from North Carolina to self investigate pizzagate, a fictitious online conspiracy theory. Pizzagate started on the internet shortly before election day when rightwing sites that make up fake news spread rumors that Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex trafficking ring in d. C. Court comments say welch read online that the comet restaurant was harboring child sex slaves and he was armed to help rescue them. He surrendered peacefully when he found no evidence that underage children were being harbored in the restaurant. Pizzagate has been pushed by michael g. Flynn, son of retired general michael t. Flynn, chosen by President Trump to be his National Security adviser. The two were seen together at trump tower last month. After welchs arrest, the younger flynn tweeted, until pizzagate is proven to be false, it will remain a story. General flynn has also spread stories claiming to link mrs. Clinton to criminal activity. Six days before the election, flynn tweeted, you decide, nypd blows whistle on new hillary e mail, money laundering, sex crimes with children, et cetera, must read. The story he referred to was fake. This is not first time pizzagate believers have confronted comet ping pong owner he says hes been getting threats for weeks. These stories are completely and entirely false. What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and reckless conspiracy theories do come with consequences. This was a terrifying experience for my children. Reporter this man was at comet ping pong with his wife and three children when welch walked in. This is nothing but terrorism, and it should be condemned as such. Reporter in addition to the ar15, welch was carrying a handgun and a shotgun was found in his car. Scott, hes been charged with multiple offenses. Pelley chip reid, thanks. Tonight protesters are celebrating an unexpected victory in their fight to block an oil pipeline in north dakota. An occupation began in the summer, and yesterday the army corps of engineers refused to issue a Building Permit for a section near the Standing Rock sioux reservation. Omar villafranca is covering the protests. Reporter scott, while thousands are bracing for blizzardlike condition, the mood here is definitely warm. Cheers erupted and tears flowed as news spread throughout the camp that pipeline construction would not continue under the missouri river. That provides water to the sioux reservation. But many activists told me despite the news, theyre still staying to make sure this isnt just a temporary victory. Energy transfer partner, the Company Funding the pipeline, called the decision purely political. Theyre counting on the Incoming Trump administration to reverse the decision. Today a spokesperson for president elect trump said that incoming president supports the construction of the pipeline. People here are bracing for more snow and, scott, the forecast calls for subzero temperatures. Pelley omar villafranca, thanks. Today the u. N. Security council tried to impose a ceasefire to allow civilians to escape aleppo, syria, but russia and china vetoed the plan. No surprise. Russia is backing the Syrian Military as it destroys neighborhoods held by rebels. War correspondent debora patta is in aleppo. Reporter this town was once a thriving aleppo neighborhood, but look at it now. Bitter fighting between rebels and the government has destroyed it. A Syrian Government soldier leads us to the body of a man he says was a rebel fighter. The rebels in eastern aleppo are being pushed back by the syrian army together with russias military muscle. When a mortar landed on a mobile hospital, we were summoned to see the aftermath, but when we got there, we found russian troops. A russian general told us two nurses had been killed. They are not opposition fighters. They are terrorist, he said. They kill civilians. The civilians who are bearing the full brunt of this battle under syrian and russian bombs. If they want to escape the bombing, they must run the gauntlet of this road, becoming vulnerable to sniper fire. This man fled to this shelter with his three sons. He told us the men inside eastern aleppo are equally scared of being killed by the rebel fighters as they are of being captured or killed by pro government fighters. They are just very afraid, he said. Simply stuck in the middle and not taking sides. Next door 100yearold Fatima Al Hamoud lets out a mournful wail. My heart is broken for syria, she cries. She never took a side and never imagined she would end up like this. Its clear from the devastation we saw, scott, that syrian and Russian Forces have not held back and that they are prepared to take back aleppo no matter how many lives are lost. Pelley debora patta reporting from the war zone tonight. Debora, thank you. Coming up next, police shut down a crime that held thousands of computers hostage. Hat held thousands of computers hostage. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Yes, eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots. Eliquis also had significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. Both made me turn around my thinking. Dont stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. 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And europe have broken up a network of crooks who helped other criminals hijack computers around the world. Heres jeff pegues. Reporter police in ukraine raided an apartment and arrested this man believed to be connected to the cyber theft ring that investigators have dubbed the avalanche network. Authorities say the network had computer servers in at least four countries and stole hundreds of millions of dollars. The acting u. S. Attorney for the Western District of pennsylvania. We successfully identified 250,000 infected computers in 189 Different Countries throughout the world. We calculate that 20,000 of those malware infected computers are here in the united states. Reporter in allegheny county, pennsylvania, investigators accused the cyber thieves of taking over and freezing some Government Computers until a ransom was paid, and criminals hacked two unnamed Pennsylvania Companies and attempted wire transfers totaling more than 600,000. They used Goznym Malware which infects comput r victims click on a phony link. Investigators say those behind avalanche were providing servers for other criminals to use in cyber attacks, often stolen money was then laundered through money mules, unsuspecting people who were tricked into participating. The big break in the operation came when German Police reverse engineered the code that operation avalanche was using. Scott, then german investigators brought in the f. B. I. To help trace the servers, some of which were in the u. S. And canada. Pelley jeff pegues, thanks in a moment, the best of the best. Life in the fast lane life in the fast lane complicated cash back cards . Some cards limit where you earn bonus cash back to places they choose. Then they change those places every few months. Quicksilver keeps it simple. With quicksilver you always earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase, everywhere. tis the season for simple. Whats in your wallet . 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Pelley the bible says theres a time for everything, and in a nation so sharply divided, two churches in macon, georgia, have decided its a time the heal. James brown has their story. Put your hands together. Reporter its sunday morning, and First Baptist church is making a joyful noise. Just around the corner, First Baptist church of christ is starting its worship. Like many churches in america, the difference between the two is pretty much black and white. The First Baptist church, thats the one i pastor. First Baptist Church of christ is where i pastor. Reporter and you have been just around the corner from each other for how long . 1887. Reporter and how often have you interacted with one with another . Maybe once or twice. Reporter pastor Scott Dickerson and james jersey met two years ago and decided it was time for their congregations to get to know each other, because not only do their churches share a name, but they share a history. In 1826 there was only one First Baptist church in macon, white slave owners worshipped in the front with their sleeves in the back. But by 1845, Church Records show that the slaves outnumbered their owners 21. So a separate church for blacks was formed. Most people are familiar with what dr. Martin luther king, jr. , said, the most segregated hour in america is worship hour. Is that still the case . The reality is, yes, it still is. I think, so but i think we wouldnt worry so much about that one hour a week of being divided if we werent so divided the other hours of the week. Reporter after the tragic murders at a Charleston Church last year, the two pastors got their two churches together for a series of meetings to talk about race and its impact on their community. We were the only nonafrican american church. Reporter on this night just before thanksgiving, Church Members met to break bread, and walls that have separated them for years. One door that said colored and one door that said white. I think that was my first consciousness. Reporter for three hours they shared funny stories and sad one, too, and by the end of the night, the two congregations grew closer. We talked to members of both churches the next day. 19yearold Ethan Thompson may have summed it up best. This series has taught me that despite what the world is telling us right now, that this kind of conversation is possible. Reporter a conversation that perhaps can build a new future. James brown, cbs news, macon. Pelley empathy leads to hope. Thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by what life was really like inside the commune, some call a death live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 murder charges now possible in the massive oakland warehouse fire. Former tenants reveal what life was really like inside the can the commune some called a death trap. More from students, teachers, and musicians who lost their lives in one of the worst fires in modern california history. And chopper 5 is over the operation recovery operations have resumed but the sheriff says tonight he does not believe any additional bodies will be found. I am allen martin. And i am veronica de la cruz. 36 bodies recovered from the structure. 33 victims identified including a 17yearold. Investigators say the origin of the fire was at the back of the building. Criminal charges could be including murder. We have a series of reports about what we have learned from the victims and we began with juliette goodrich. Truck were just a few feet from the warehouse. We were told today this is not a criminal investigation. It has been confirmed and this area has been deemed a crime scene. Even though they dont anticipate finding any more bodies inside, search and recovery is still a priority. Before they can even do that, they have to make sure that that building, that warehouse, is safe. We want to show you some video we just got from chopper 5. Crews have been brought in by crane and heavy equipment inside the warehouse. There have been working from a platform lower down to be able to secure one side of the building. That is when firefighters were able to continue search