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Reporter in alexander county, illinois, the flooding is disastrous, and the temperature is near freezing. Its gotten real bad here. Reporter today the u. S. Coast guard flew us over the spot where the 18mile levee this is where the levee breeched sending water from the Mississippi River into a flood plain. At least 100 structures are flooded, 14,000 acres of the county are under water, and the water is rising. Reporter this is the home of Brandon Dillow and jennifer korte. They built their levee eight feet high. Tonight theyre dry. They learned a lesson during a flood in 2011. Then the levee was five feet high and water got inside the home. Depressing. It changes your whole life. Reporter many like them have been asked to evacuate but refused. David bighams elderly parents got out, but the others stayed behind to save what was left. You worry about everything you got and everything youre going to lose. Reporter from the air you see the home is surrounded by water on three sides. Bigham has 25,000 sandbags and eight water pumps working to keep the property dry. Reporter back near the levee breach, we spotted this herd of deer, victims of the unrelenting flood running for an escape. We noticed tonight the water seems to have dropped about an inch in the last six hours. Thats great news for the bigham family. Friends and family are working around the clock, dead set on saving this house that has been here since 1959. Scott, some of this floodwater could reach memphis by friday. David, thank you very much. Ben tracy is reporting much of this crazy weather is being driven by the warming Pacific Current known as el nio. Reporter el nio has already hit californias mountains. The latest snowpack survey found five feet of snow in the sierras, a welcome sight after four years of drought. Southern california is now bracing for a series of storms. Josh rubenstein is a meteorologist at kcbs in los angeles. Were looking at about an inch to two inches of rain in heels, heres that third system thats moving in on wednesday. The rain from that could linger all the way into friday. Reporter el nio is an intense warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator that changes weather patterns around the world. This is one of the largest on record. In glendora, california, eric erby was stocking up on sandbags. It could happen any time anywhere. It depends on how much. Either way, ill make sure im prepared. Reporter los angeles is designed to prevent flooding, which is why the Los Angeles River is encased in all of this concrete. It may look like a pathetic little stream tonight, but, scott, later this week you could have ten to 20 feet of water filling this channel. Ben tracy, thanks. Well, it was a wave of worry that swept world Financial Markets today after stocks in china plunged. The dow was down as much as 467 points, but it recovered, ending it is the worst start to a year since the great recession. The markets were also rattled by saudi arabia and iran. The two are rivals because the saudis represent the sunni branch of islam and iran is home to the shiite branch. Over the weekend, the saudis executed a shiite cleric. After a furious iranian reaction, countries in the gulf are choosing sides. Heres holly williams. Reporter in iran today, angry protesters denounced saudi arabias execution of the shiite muslim cleric nimr alnimr. His death has opened a 1,400 yearold wound, enflaming tensions between sunni and shiite muslims. In the sunniled kingdom of saudi arabia, alnimr dared to demand equality for shiites and was shot and then arrested in 2012. That Saudi Arabias Embassy was ransacked and burned on saturday. Around 40 people were later arrested, but iran made its feelings clear by renaming this street in honor of the executed cleric. Saudi arabia and iran are already fighting two deadly proxy wars against each other in syria and yemen, taking sides along religious lines. Now there are fears that al nimrs execution will fuel even more violence in the middle east. Shiite muslims also clashed with police in bahrain. They used tear gas and rubber bullets against the protesters. Blaming iran for the escalation, saudi arabia has severed diplomatic ties with tehran. Its ally, bahrain, has followed suit, while the United Arab Emirates has recalled its ambassador. Middle east already torn apart by religious differences, these tensions could destabilize the region even more, especially, scott, if saudi arabia and iran try to use those religious divisions to further their own interests. Holly williams reporting for us tonight in istanbul. Holly, thank you. Is man creating earthquakes in oklahoma . And theyve discovered the wreck of el faro, the worst u. S. Maritime disaster in 30 years. 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Reporter oklahoma, not california, is now americas earthquake capital. Who do you call if you feel an earthquake . Reporter until 2008, the state averaged one or two a year. Now its almost three a day. It was a big boom. And everything started shaking. Reporter including you . Including me. Reporter a 4. 5 magnitude earthquake hit crescent, grocery clerk Lois Gillette hugged a coworker. I thought i was going to fall. There was a lot of stuff fell off the shelves. Reporter oklahoma keeps breaking records for earthquakes with a magnitude of 3. 0 or higher. More than 900 last year alone. But why . Most geologists connect the spike in earthquakes to the states oil and gas industry and its disposal of massive amounts of water into underground caverns. Geologist todd halihan teaches at oklahoma state. Unfortunately there is a side effect and now we are generating seismicity due to the injection wells, theyre startling when you feel them, and there are now a lot of people experiencing reporter Lois Gillette isnt taking sides. I dont know if its manmade. I dont have any idea. Reporter you would just like it to stop . I want it to stop. Reporter one geologist we talked to said no question something has reactivated fault lines here, fault lines that had been dormant for 300 million years. And well be right back. Today the National Transportation safety board said that it may press for more american cargo ship el faro, lost this past october in hurricane joaquin. All 33 crew were killed. Recently on assignment with 60 minutes, we sailed with the ntsbs investigator, tom rothroffy as el faro was discovered 15,000 feet under the atlantic. This is where el faro came to rest, upright, hull largely intact, her name mangled on the stern. Her depth markings reported that this, the bow, had sunk 15 feet into the mud. Her autopsy revealed a body that had been savagely beaten, steel crushed, equipment collapsed. There was no sign of the 33 crew members. Equipment and cargo litter the seabed. Thats a microwave oven, and on the right, thats a printer. Sunroof, part of the cargo. At the top of that white line there is the most surprising part of our video surveys. Theres nothing above there. What should be there . There should be two decks above that. The lower navigation bridge deck and the bridge deck. The two top decks had sheered off, including the bridge, where captain davidson would have been fighting the storm. They were nowhere near the ship. Also missing, the voyage data recorder, like a socalled black box on an airplane. The safety board says it may search again for that data recorder, which would have captured conversations on the our final story coming up next. The government says we need 75 minutes of vigorous exercise a week. Dr. Jon lapook has one way to get it. Reporter this is considered vigorous . Right. Reporter Carol Ewing Garber teaches the science of exercise at columbias teachers college. How many calories a minute do you burn procrastinating . Because im really good at that. I dont think you burn too many at all. Reporter for those who get tired just thinking about strenuous exercise without rest, theres a fitness approach called high intensity interval training or h. I. T. Short bursts of high intensity exertion, say a minute or two of running as fast as you can, followed by a short period of recovery, maybe a slow jog for a few minutes. So ill row for 100 meters. So thats a short row. Im going to try to bring the power up. Reporter h. I. T. Is the mantra at orange theory fitness where eddie diaz is a coach. This will be a Recovery Period here. Get those nice deep breaths in, and after youre done with your ten seconds, you get back to work. Reporter the h. I. T. Regimen varies from place the place. Here the goal is to work out in what they call the orange zone, at a high intensity level for 12 to 20 minutes of an hourlong class. I felt completely out of shape. Reporter 36yearold shelly ramsammy has asthma and used to be afraid of vigorous exertion. She tolerated the interval training well and last summer she had added incentive. I was trying to get fit for a trip. Im going to be in a bikini. I have to get fit. Reporter after building up slowly, exercise experts recommend, she now runs twice as fast as before. Research shows highintensity training stimulates the muscles to burn fat and sugar more effectively. Why is it hot now . Been showing that it can be pretty powerful in improving peoples risk factors for Heart Disease and diabetes. Reporter powerful, too, in getting some people off the couch. Because at the end of the day, exercise works best if you actually do it. Dr. Jon lapook, cbs news, new york. Thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you, the news will continue. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. President obama fired the opening shot in the latest battle over gun control. He met with attorney general Loretta Lynch and fbi director james comey to come up with a strategy to reign in gun violence. The president plans a series of executive actions to make it more difficult for some people to purchase weapons. And hell do it without going through congress. We have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns. We have suicides that are committed by firearms at a rate that far exceeds other countries. We have a frequency of Mass Shootings that far exceeds other countries in frequency. Belief that for us to get our complete arms around the problem, Congress Needs to act. What i asked my team to do is see what more we could do to strengthen our enforcement and prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, to make sure that criminals and people who are mentally unstable, those who could pose a danger to themselves or others are less likely to get a gun. And i have just received back a report from attorney general lynch, director comey, as well as Deputy Director brandon, about some of the ideas and initiatives they think could make a difference. And the good news is, these are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority, and the executive that the overwhelming majority of the american people, including gun owners, support and believe. So over the next several days, well be rolling out these initiatives. Well be making sure that people have a very clear understanding of what can make a difference and what we can do. And although we have to be very clear this is not going to solve every Violent Crime in this country, its not going to prevent every mass shooting, its not going to keep every gun out of the hands of criminals, it will potentially save lives in this country. And spare families the pain and the extraordinary loss that theyve suffered as a consequence of a firearm being in the hands of the wrong people. Im also confident that the recommendations that are being made by my team here are ones with the second amendment, and peoples lawful right to bear arms. Reporter already it has a lot of people on capitol hill fired up. Jan crawford reports. Reporter the president is going to be holding a series of events, then hes going to sign those executive actions he hopes will help curb some of this gun violence. But before we know the details, opponents are sharpening their attacks. My new years resolution is to move forward on our unfinished business. Reporter president obama teased this latest round of executive actions over the weekend. We know we cant stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one . Reporter he signalled a move last month in an interview with norah odonnell, after 14 people were killed in San Bernardino by terrorists using legally purchased firearms. Theres some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these Mass Shootings, but to improve the odds that they dont happen as frequently. After the president side stepped congress with 23 executive actions on gun control, advocates are urging him to do more. The white house is now considering several steps to clarify existing laws, forcing more gun sellers to conduct background checks on potential buyers, and making it more difficult for convicted domestic abusers to acquire firearms. Democratic candidates for president were quick to praise the president s upcoming action. Most gun owners in this country understand that people who should not own guns should not be able to buy them. What if its republican that walks into the white house . Within the first day, the reversed. Reporter the republicans immediately objected. On my first day behind that desk, those orders are gone. The new president comes in, boom, first hour, first minute, you can rescind that. The president for going around congress. This president wants to act this topdown driven approach doesnt create freedom or safety, it doesnt create security. Reporter now with all these legal questions swirling around whether the president even has the authority to do this, to do an endrun around congress, one thing is almost certain, this all is probably going to end up in court. In the wilds of oregon, a group of selfstyled militiamen continue to occupy several buildings in a federal wildlife refuge. The group calls itself citizens for constitutional freedom. Members are apparently armed and are protesting the way the government runs federal lands. Theres no visible Law Enforcement presence in the area, and the fbi insists its seeking a peaceful resolution. John blackstone reports. Reporter while the American Flag is draped over the sign here at the wildlife refuge, and thats the protesters signal that they are in charge here, theyre calling on supporters from across the country to come and join them here. They say theyll stay here as demands are met. At the occupied compound, protesters are setting up camp and settling in for the long haul. Ammon bundy is leading the occupation. He says theyre fighting back against the governments expansion of the over 100yearold federal wildlife refuge at the expense of local ranchers. This refuge here is rightfully owned by the people, and we intend to use it. Reporter back in 2014, bundys father, cliven, was embroiled in a dispute with federal officials over grazing rights on federal land in nevada. That escalated into an armed confrontation. This group set up camp saturday after a march in a nearby town in support of two ranchers. Dwight hammond and his son steven were convicted of setting fires on federal land in 2001 and served jail time. They say it wasnt arson, but their property. In october, a judge added four more years to their sentence. 73yearold hammond says this could be a death sentence for him. This makes it over for me. It just seems like a little overreach for having burned 127 acres. Reporter in a statement, the hammonds attorney reports theyre not associated with bundys group, saying reporter but protesters say they plan to stay put until all local ranchers reclaim land they allege was stolen by the u. S. Government years ago. Well be here as long as it takes, and being as gentle as possible. But this is important. 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The el faro sits in water deeper than the titanic in the heart of the bermuda triangle. All 33 crew members were lost at sea. The worst american shipping disaster in 35 years. The exact cause of the wreck remains a mystery. Scott pelley has the story for 60 minutes. Reporter september 29th, el faro left jacksonville, florida for puerto rico. Captain michael davidson, who had a long career, intended to steer 65 miles south of the storms predicted path. Even in a hurricane, the ship could likely survive by using its turbine engine to keep the bow pointed directly into the waves. But in 18 hours, joaquin spun into a category 3 and slid southwest toward el faro. At 7 a. M. , october 1, davidson made an emergency call to the ships owner, tote maritime. What do we know from the captains last report . We know that he had lost propulsion, that the engineers were unable to restart the main engine. We know that the vessel was listing about 15 degrees and that one of the hatches had popped or come open. Reporter he was taking on water . Correct. Reporter if the ship lost power as the captain reported, you would expect her to turn sideway to the waves, and that is her most vulnerable position . Thats correct. Reporter the ship was approximately here, miles from the eye of the storm. The forecast predicted gusts of 150 miles an hour, and seas of 30 feet. Arrived in a search area of 198 square miles. Chief sonar operator charles kapeka towed a side scan sonar for five days, when he spotted something you dont see in nature, a right angle. Its very straight with a shadow. At this point im calling over saying i think theres something coming up you want to see. Reporter as the sonar scan slowly unfurled, the sound waves reflected the shape of a shift, about 800 feet long. At that point, we talked to the ntsb and said we believe we have found it. But before we give confirmation we then put our curve in the water and did a survey of the hull with moving and still photography. Reporter the cable controlled underwater recovery vehicle can reach 20,000 feet. And these are the cameras . Correct. So heres a pan and tilt camera. You have some lights right here. At 15,000 feet. Correct. Reporter total utter darkness. So any light you have, you have to bring with you. Absolutely. Reporter apache dropped curve down 15,500 feet, nearly three miles. The temperature is about 33 degrees. The pressure is more than 3 tons per square inch. Flurries of tiny marine life drift by, by fish are rare in the impenetrable darkness. This is where el faro came to rest, upright, hull largely in tact. Her name mangled on the stern. Her depth markings reported that this, the bow, had sunk 15 feet into the mud. Her autopsy revealed a body that had been savagely beaten. Steel crushed. Equipment collapsed. There was no sign of the 33 crew members. Equipment and cargo litter the thats a microwave oven. On the right, thats a printer. Here is the top of a car with a sunroof. Part of the cargo. What do we see there . That is a liquid storage container. You can see that its kind of compressed, kind of imploded by the pressure of the sea. Reporter of its 400 cargo containers, only two remain on deck. And toward the stern, in the structure called the house where the crew lived and worked, curve discovered the most chilling evidence of the power of an at the top of that white line there is the most surprising part of our video survey. Theres nothing above there. Reporter what should be there . There should be two decks above that. The lower navigation bridge deck and the bridge deck. Reporter the two top decks had sheered off, including the ridge where captain davidson storm. They were nowhere near the ship. Also missing, the voyage data recorder, like a socalled black box on an airplane. It had been bolted to the top of the bridge and was the one piece tom rothroffy wanted most. Because it would have told us what the crew was experiencing at the time in the minutes before the vessel sank, what they observed, the extent of the flooding, how they are responding. Essentially the events leading up to the actual catastrophe. Reporter im curious. When you first saw the video of the ship, what did you think . Were looking, of course, for the bridge, and the voyage data recorder. We got up to that level and to see just openness was extremely moving and difficult to it was a very big surprise to see that. Just to see the violence of the sea and winds that would have had to have occurred to cause that kind of im sorry. To cause that kind of an event. Reporter because certainly there would have been people on the bridge. Yes. Reporter when that happened. Yes, quite certainly. And the shock and surprise to them, as waves and whatnot, and theyre just washed into the theyre just washed into the ocean. Reporter when you found out the news, how did you tell your son and daughter . How do you say anything to your kids . Reporter jeremy ream left behind two children, 13 and 22, and his wife, tina. And that was hard, because i guess i was in denial. I thought we had to tell my kids that it wasnt looking good for terrible. It was like my chest collapsing and i couldnt breathe. Reporter deb roberts lost her son, michael holland. Deb, do you have an opinion on where responsibility lies in this . Im not a professional, im not an engineer. Im a business manager. I think it was a series of unfortunate events, and without any other information, i truly blame it on hurricane joaquin. Reporter glenn, in your estimation, where does the responsibility for this lie . Youve got to understand, commercial shipping, theyve got to keep that ship moving to make money. Thats the whole horror of this tragedy. 33 people died so that frozen chickens could be delivered on time in puerto rico. Thats it. Reporter the safety board told us that tote maritime, the tote declined to talk to us, other than to say it created a fund for the families and that el faro was regularly maintained. The ship had past two inspections in the months before the accident. A week after we left, apache located those two bridge decks about half a mile from the ship. The windows were blown out. The voyage data recorder was not there. But based on the captains last message, investigator tom rothroffy has a lead on the loss of propulsion. I believe we have an understanding that it was actually the main turbine, the steam turbine, that was lost. Reporter one theory is in violent seas, the propeller might have been thrust out of the water, causing it to spin too fast and shut down the turbine. The captain sailed into this hurricane, we know that much, so were looking at the oversight and the direction, the advice provided by the operating company, tote, to see what information was available to him. Certainly also were looking at the weather forecast. The accuracy and the timeliness of the information when he made his decision to sail where he did. Reporter to your knowledge was he receiving orders from the company to press on . No. From what weve identified so far in the information that weve reviewed, there has been no direct guidance by the company to sail on the route he chose. You can see scotts full report on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. In water. And even though their dentures look clean, in reality theyre not. If a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. Thats why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. 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By now, youve probably seen a lot of Christmas Trees out on the curb waiting to be picked up by sanitation. Steve hartman checked back in on the ugliest Christmas Tree hes ever seen to find out whats become of it. Reporter we returned to redding, pennsylvania to investigate reports that the worlds ugliest Christmas Tree has been somehow immortalized. You may remember back in 2014 it this sorry excuse for a confer was all the rage. And i do mean rage. I think Charlie Brown has a better tree than we do. Everybody who took part in reporter the tree is so ugly, the city decided to take it down before christmas. Just so people wouldnt have to look at it anymore. Workers removed the lights and the pretzel of bethlehem and made arrangements to bring in a new spruced up spruce. Former city councilman Francis Acosta told me this was like that tree in the Charlie Brown story. Although the lesson had obviously eluded him. Who was the moral of that story . Being together. Reporter what did they do with the tree at the end . Save it, embrace it. But its not about Charlie Brown or not Charlie Brown tree, its about a beautiful Christmas Tree for the city. Reporter they really were going to get rid of it. Until the phones started ringing off the hook at city hall. Public opinion changed. And the mayor issued a stay of reexecution, if you will. We will keep this thing here. Reporter and that was the or so i thought. I said were save thing tree and were going to do something with it. And we kept it kind of under wraps. Reporter luke was on the crew that was supposed to mulch this tree after the holidays. But he didnt. I thought there was no way we could run this tree through a chipper after everything that was said and done. We couldnt let that happen. Reporter so luke turned that poultry pine into a piece of art. A bench as quirky as the tree it came from. Today, it sits in city hall. A reminder that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 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For the Third Straight weekend, the film was number one at the box office. Its already the second highest grossing domestic movie of alltime. And its just 20 million short of avatar. Worldwide records will likely fall when the force opens in china. Vlad dutiers reports. You might need this. I think i can handle myself. Thats why im giving it to you. Reporter since the latest chapter the Star Wars Franchise hit theaters three weeks ago, its attracted enough moviegoers to sink the titanic and roar pass jurassic world. Now star wars the force awakens is climbing toward the top spot of the north american box office. Shut up and fly straight. Reporter surpassing avatar film of all time. Scott mendleson is a forbes contributor. When star wars passes avatar, it will be the first time in 18 years that a James Cameron film is not the top of the highest grossing film list. Reporter its that star power that helped make 2015 hollywoods biggest year yet, pushing it past 11 billion in domestic sales for the first time. More than 20 of that came from the top five movies, as the Film Industry battles competitors like netflix and on demand cable. There is concern that so much of the money was in the so few of the big movies. I think as long as those smaller movies are still making money, im not as concerned about the top heavy nature of the industry overall. Just because i think those big films just overperformed. Highest box offices of all time include 1999s the phantom menace and the original star wars a phenomena even critics of the force awakens cant deny. Its destined to be a hit. Not because of the quality but because of the name. Reporter whether the latest installment will take the global record remains to be seen. Its not showing avatar legs. But having said that, its making so much money, who cares . 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