Transcripts For KYW CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 20161213

Exactly. Money, honey. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley today president elect donald trump named the c. E. O. Of exxonmobil, Rex Tillerson, to be secretary of state. The Senior Member of the cabinet. Tillerson was chosen because hes made successful deals with heads of state all around the world, but those could be ties that bind. Tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with Vladimir Putin of russia. The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince exxon to acknowledge climate change. Also today, mr. Trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that perry once vowed to scrap. Major garrett begins our coverage. We just couldnt be more grateful that someone of Rex Tillersons proven will leadership and accomplishment has been willing to step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. Reporter Rex Tillersons move from exxonmobil c. E. O. To secretary of state nominee began with a meeting last month between Vice President elect mike pence and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. Rice, along with fellow former secretary of state james baker and former defense secretary robert gates strongly recommended tillerson for the post. After his second facetoface meeting with mr. Trump on saturday, tillerson emerged as the president elects choice, beating out candidates such as mitt romney, rudy giuliani, and balk corker. And to me, a great advantage, is he knows many of the players and he knows them well. He does massive deals with russia. Reporter those deals with russia may be tillersons biggest hurdle to confirmation. Hes grown so close to president Vladimir Putin, he was ordered russias order of friendship in 2013. Certainly it should be a matter of concern. Reporter republican senators like arizonas john mccain have expressed concern about the tillerson pick. Maybe those ties are strictly commercial and got to do with his business in the oil business, fine. Well give him a fair hearing. Reporter but mccains fellow senator from arizona jeff flake tweeted support of g. O. P. Establishment figures carries considerable weight. President elect trump has also selected former Texas Governor rick perry as energy secretary, the agency he famously could not name during a 2012 president ial debate. The third agency of government i would do away with, the education, the. Reporter perry joins an emerging trump cabinet at odds with some of the Core Missions of their agencies. The nominee for the department of health and Human Services wants to repeal obamacare. The nominee for the Environmental Protection agency has previously filed suits against the agency over regulation, and the nominee for labor secretary wants to repeal regulations guaranteeing overtime pay and worker safety. Here in wisconsin, supporters started lining up for tonights rally this morning in temperatures well below freezing. Scotts, the states recently concluded added 131 votes to mr. Trumps margin of victory. Pelley major garrett, thanks. Our state Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan takes a look at the ties between the exxon tiger and the russian bear. We have a very close relationship. I dont agree with everything hes doing. Reporter Rex Tillerson has worked with russian president Vladimir Putin since 1999, negotiating billion dollar oil deals that benefited both exxon and stateowned Russian Energy giant rosneft. Tillerson said earlier this year that their relationship was strictly business. But im not here to represent the United States governments interests. Im not here to defend it, nor am i here to criticize it. Thats not what i do. Im a businessman. Reporter he strongly opposed u. S. Financial sanctions on russia, put in place after they invaded parts of ukraine and carried out war crimes in syria. If the sanctions were lifted, exxon consumed resume Certain Energy products in russia. Hes much more than a business executive. Hes a worldclass player. Reporter tillerson also has deep relationships in many of the nearly 60 Foreign Countries where exxonmobil operates. Those include strained allies like saudi arabia and qatar and countries with questionable human rights records like chad and angola. Unlike president elect trump, tillerson is subject to federal conflict of interest laws and will have to shield himself from his significant business interests. Tillerson currently owns well over 200 million of company stock, and exxons board is meeting soon to decide how to unwind his financial stake. Former ambassador and white House Counsel norman eisen. You have such a huge portfolio, your decision affect industry. A single statement or tweet can move an entire market, so you need to be very, very conflictfree. Reporter since tillersons name first surfaced as a potential secretary of state, exxonmobil shares have gained about 6 . Scott, the question here at the state department is whether tillerson will oppose highstakes Foreign Policy challenges as a deal maker or as a diplomat. Pelley Margaret Brennan, thanks. Here in new york at trump tower, there is a steady flow of the rich and famous visiting the president elect. Vogue Editorinchief Anna Wintour was there today. So were former football stars jim brown and ray lewis. And rap mogul kanye west who says he talked to mr. Trump about multicultural issues including bullying and urban violence was. There. West once said he too wants to run for president. Now to a grim reality that the new president will face right away. His first Foreign Policy challenge is likely to be syria. Tonight the syrian dictatorship and its russian allies say they have broken the rebellion in the countrys largest city, aleppo. Rebels are evacuating now after years of siege, starvation, and devastating air strikes. Last night thousands protested at the russian consulate in istanbul, turkey, demanding an end to the bloodbath. Aleppo once held two million residents and treasures of early civilization, but there is nothing like civilization there today. Debora patta reports. Reporter the situation today was described by the United Nations as a complete meltdown of humanity. [gunfire] the u. N. Said it had evidence that progovernment militias massacred 82 civilians, some in their homes, others as they tried to run away. 11 women and 13 children were among them. Eyewitnesses described streets lined with bodies, people too scared to collect their loved ones for fear of being shot. Activists abdulhafi alhamdo is in eastern helpo. We are facing one of the most difficult or the most serious or the most horrible massacres that is in history. Reporter for the injured, there is no medical help. This man desperately tries to put out the flames that engulfed his body. And drenched in misery, civilians make a last attempt to get out. These children are utterly defenseless. All they have is each other for protection. The Syrian Military has now taken back aleppo and couldless civilians have paid for this with their lives. In a conflict that already has a long list of atrocities committed against civilian, scott, the past 48 hours has been even worse. However, the russians and the syrians have denied any wrongdoing, saying now that aleppo is fully under their control, all military operations have stopped. Pelley debora patta in beirut tonight. Deborah, thank you. Four marine sergeants are facing courtmartial for their role in the alleged abuse of recruits at the Parris Island boot camp in south carolina. Theyre the first to be charged, but as david martin reports, almost certainly not the last. Reporter its 6 30 a. M. , and these recruits have been up since 4 00. The training at Parris Island is supposed to be tough, but investigations have found it to be downright cruel. Drill instructors abusing, humiliating and hazing recruits, none of it permitted according to commanding general austin renforth. When you put your hands on a young man or woman, you have crossed a line, and were not going to tolerate it. Rawft but these investigations show it was tolerated until last spring when the abuses came to light. An email sent to the white house entitled concerned loved ones of innocent recruits described incidents of drill instructors withholding food, drinking on the job, calling recruits terrorist, using homophobic slurs and warning them that snitches get stitches. The most notorious case involving a muslim recruit who allegedly jumped to his death after being slapped by a drill sergeant is still under investigation. That same drill instructor allegedly ordered another muslim recruit into a clothes dryer. Renforth was supposed to fix all this when he assumed command. You cant jump them . No. Cant slap them . No. Reporter can they call them names . They cannot. Any allegation of recruit abuse comes directly to me. Reporter but since then, one recruit has died after bein3 found unresponsive in his bunk and a second is in Critical Condition after jumping from a secondfloor landing. Both cases are still under investigation, although neither appears to involve abuse. The earlier incidents of abuse documented in these investigations are expected to result in more charges ranging from assault to dereliction of duty. But renforth says the training at Parris Island will remain as tough, though not as cruel, as ever. David martin, cbs news, Parris Island, south carolina. Pelley in the weather, it will be bitter cold tonight in the upper midwest, and jamie yuccas is covering the arctic blast. Reporter minnesota knows how to deal with frigid temperatures. As a matter of fact, this is a beatthecold Party Happening in one familys backyard. You can see theyve turned it into an ice rink. The upper midwest and great lakes regions will both deal with 15 to 20degree below normal temperatures for the rest of the week. That arctic air will then head east and new england could see recordbreaking low temperatures by thursday. Theres another storm system brewing in the pacific northwest, and that means that temperatures will be below normal for half of the country as that cold airheads south and east, scott. Pelley jamie yuccas, thanks. There are criminal charges tonight after a cbs news investigation into an alleged fraud that cost u. S. Taxpayers 2 billion last year. Jim axelrod and producer emily rand broke the story. Picked off. Reporter former college and nfl linebacker monte groh surrendered at the federal courthouse in miami to face charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, health care fraud, taking kickbacks and Money Laundering for his part in the nationwide fraud. Every patient that i have loves these products. Reporter that cbs news exposed last year. One of the people working with groh was this woman. She peddled pain cream to members of the military at no cost to them. Heres this amazing cream. Its completely free. All you have to do is type in your Number Online and submit it. Reporter she told us tricare, the militarys Health Benefit plan, paid out relatively 25,000 for a onemonth supply. If you want to feel bad or do your own research, you can do like the rest of us did. We got over it quick once we started making our money. Reporter she turned herself in last friday to face a charge of conspiracy to receive kickbacks. Cbs news has learned she was just one of dozens working with groh to generate business for a Compounding Pharmacy in florida. How much is the pharmacy making . Oh, millions. Reporter groh had nothing to say as he left the courthouse this afternoon. Monte groh is out on 600,000 bond. He had to surrender his passport. Scott. Pelley and there was no evidence these pain creams ever actually worked. Jim axelrod, thank you. Coming up next on the cbs evening news, confusion and chaos as a crew of 33 disappears in the bermuda triangle. If you could see your cough, youd see just how far it can spread. Robitussin dm max is now better tasting, with the same fast powerful cough relief. Robitussin dm max. Because its never just a cough. When i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. I just snapped a photo and got an estimate in 24 hours. My Insurance Company definitely doesnt have that. 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He then said of his captain, i trust what hes saying, its just being 20 miles away from 100knot winds, this doesnt even sound right. Patricia quammies husband theo was a member of the crew. I would have thrown the captain overboard and tried to save myself and the ship. Its just devastating that Something Like this happened. Reporter around 4 00 a. M. , the captain returned to the bridge, downplaying the rough seas. This is every day in alaska, he said. An hour later it was clear the captain was wrong. The ships engineer was worried. Ive never seen it list like this. Ive never seen it hang like this. At 5 43, the el faro was taking on water. The captain finally said, we got a problem. 30 minutes later the ship lost propulsion. At 6 55, the captain made his first of two distress calls. We are in dire straits right now. At 7 29, the crew reported cargo crashing into the ocean as Hurricane Joaquin pounded the el faro. Captain davidson, ring the abandoned ship alarm. Get into you rafts. Everybody get off, get off the ship. Stay together. The captain tried to calm the other crew member on the bridge. You got to get up. You got to snap out of it. We got to get out. The helmsman. Youre going to leave me. Im in the heaving you. Lets go, the captain said. Just seconds before that cuts out, the helmsman said, im gone, or im a goner. No youre not, the captain yelled back. Investigators are trying to determine what information the captain had. The storm track emailed to him at 11 00 p. M. Wasnt downloaded at 11 00 p. M. Wasnt downloaded for nearly six hours. Pelley kris van cleve, thank you. Well be right back. 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. 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Her kitchen always made her happy, but when she kept getting rejected for jobs, she decided it was going to make her money, and colletteys cookies was born. You smell chocolate chip and money. Money, honey. Reporter Rosemary Alfredo is her mother. I think all of that rejection made her say, ill show them. Reporter so she sold cookies to the golden goose, whose owner was the only grocer in boston to give her shelf space. The entrepreneur has already started a cookie business in boston. Then the cbs station ran a story that went viral. Now she has to fill 4,000 orders from around the country with a dozen per order, collette has to bake 50,000 cookies. Okay. Reporter the commonwealth kitchen, a nonprofit business incubator, has stepped in to help her scale up and collette is now closer to her real dream. Your Successful Company will be a model for other people with disabilities. Exactly. Reporter theyll say, if collette can do it. They can do it. Reporter turns out the secret ingredient she bakes into her cookies is not such a mystery after all. Is the secret ingredient youve been protecting so much, it is love . Yes, it is. Always, always love. Reporter which makes both the khakis and the special young woman baking them about as sweet as they come. Jim axelrod, cbs news, boston. Pelley ill take a dozen. For all of us at cbs news all around the world tonight, why kanye met with trump. Hes a good man. Im at trump tower. Why this was one of kanyes first stops after being hospitalizzd for a breakdown. Ill see you soon. We have new details about their private meeting. Plus what Orlando Bloom is telling us about his girlfriend katy perry. Its amazing that we can do this together. And james corden gets his dream guest. Bruno mars. Bruno mars. Bruno mars. And e. T. Gets four secrets from their epic carpool karaoke. Look plus inside j. Laws and chris pratts insult war. Where do you keep your office . Humiliating, but hilarious. 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