Fbi said that his battle with apple is the toughest fight hes faced in government. A federal magistrate ordered apple to unlock the iphone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, but today apple told the court that order is dangerous. Reporter in its filing apple says the fbi is seeking a dangerous power and it would be forced to dead sit six to ten apple engineers to create new code that apple calls government operating system. Apple says there would have to be a Government Forensic Lab on Company Grounds that could be used to open other hundreds of seized devices in law enforcements possession. Apple says if it creates the software to break into the iphone, hackers will view the code as a major prize. The Company Believes the case triggers First Amendment kwoed is equivalent to free speech. Fbi director james comey reassured members of congress that they wanted access to the phone of the San Bernardino terrorist. He said the fbi is standing on firm legal ground, but Congress Needs to set the limits on how far government investigators can go. I love encryption. Its a groeat thing. Reporter apple agrees that congress should have a bigger role in this debate, but the court case is moving forward. Google and facebook are expected to file legal papers in support of apple. Jeff, thank you. Tornados in several states yesterday killed at least four virginia where we find chip reed tonight. Its experience. You got experience to talk about it. Reporter this man was about to sit down right here to watch tv when the tornado slammed into his mobile home sheering off the roof and the wall. Do you feel lucky to be alive . Im not lucky, im blessed. Reporter but the tornado tore the home next door off the foundation. A 2yearold boy and his father were killed. Somehow the boys mother survived with serious injuries. In near by nevada 178 buildings were destroyed. At least three tornados were reported in north carolina. In oxford parts of this farm were levelled. In pennsylvania a tornado ripped a downpour led to flash flooding around washington, d. C. And left a major road flooded. In the new york area a gust of wind sent this truck airborne. Look at this, off queens new york, 12foot waves capsized a boat as it was trying to rescue fisherman and back here in virginia youre looking at a photograph of tires before the tornado. Knew youre looking at the building after the tornado. This was the garage door. That up there is the metal that was once the roof. Its a good example of what happens when a tornado meets a Building Made of sheet metal. I want to point out no one was injured in the coast guard incident today. Thank you very much. The worlds appetite for portable electronics has triggered a huge demand for rechargeable batteries, but many of these are bursting into flames in places you would least reporter when the fire first ignited employees at this kentucky gas station thought it was a bo am. It turned out to be an e cigarette that exploded in joshs pants. He suffered third degree burns. Its the latest incident involving batteries for e cigarettes. He had to be placed in a coma for three days after one blew up in his mouth. To be an alternative of smoking cigarettes. Reporter the same battery cells also power hover boards. Since december there have been incidents of hover boards catching on fire. Jay is a an engineer at a university. He says to make this product cheaper and more powerful has led some companies to cut corners. What were seeing is a situation where many of these batteries are simply not made to batteries that are made say at sony or upon son. Reporter he says that items are considered high power applications applications. Their batteries are badly designed they can overheat. Is it something that the user is doing incorrectly . No. In general with this kind of technology its difficult for the user to be at fault. Theres a well controlled charging circuit and a good package that the cell lives in. Both of those things should be designed to protect the user. Reporter these incident are rare and users should use come pat billow batteries and chargers. They should avoid contact with coins, keys and jeelry. Theres a plan to give wider air passengers wider seats. Gift from a legend. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Our clothes can stretch out in the wash, ruining them forever. Protect your clothes from stretching, fading, and fuzz. With downy fabric conditioner. It helps protect clothes from the damage of the wash. So your favorite clothes stay your favorite clothes. Downy fabric conditioner. Wash in the wow. 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Hes offered a bill to ask the faa to minimize seat standards. If people cant get out in an emergency condition they lose lives. It shouldnt be after theres an accident. Its too late and people are dead. Reporter will an airline say they want these seats and will in a plane. The nba. Heart problems account for 3 4 of sports related deaths in young athletes. Now a new study may help save lives. Reporter two years ago he was one of the colleges top basketball players and then a physical revealed a heart problem ending his career. I just didnt know what to do with it, but it was just just accepting that life and health is more important than a game. Reporter in the u. S. Sports related sudden cardiac death is highest among basketball players. One question is whats a normal heart size for these athletes . The heart ultrasounds of more than 500 nba players. When you first saw them you thought these are abnormal. The first instinct is to say theyre enlarged. Were not used to seeing hearts this big. The average nba player is 67. Reporter it turned out the heart gets bigger with exercise, other the hearts of the nba players were about 10 thicker than normal, that was not felt to be dangerous. The research establishes a baseline for doctors going forward. How does this help us . This should help us distinguish those changes from dangerous heart conditions that can lead to sudden cardiac death. Reporter in addition they found that the major artery leaving the heart is also bigger in these athletes and knowing that will help with future diagnosis. The doctor says this is a molds soccers biggest star came through today for his biggest fan. This 5yearold from afghanistan was photographed wearing a shirt made from a plastic bag. It went online and he sent him an auto graphed shirt from the national team. The bag has been retired. Up next, a math teachers we end tonight with a solution to a math problem that succeed at caclus . Reporter from the outside lingon high school does not look like a place that inspires greatness, old with gates on the windows in aovernigh news for this friday. For some of you the news continues nds a for others check back with us later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From new york city, good night. The guns are supposed to fall silent tonight in syria where a cease fire is scheduled to take effect at midnight. The temporary truce brokered by the United States and russia is designed to allow food and medicine to reach cities and bring the Syrian Government back to the negotiating table in geneva. Not all the hospital tillties will stop. Syrian Government Forces remain on the offensive against them. Elizabeth palmer is on the front lines outside damascus. Reporter this used to be a neighborhood. Now its a battlefield where the syrian army says its got the enemy on the run. Theres just been an air strike behind me. Were about five miles from the center of damascus and the syrian army is trying to clear fighters. Theres certainly no cease fire here at the moment and theres not going to be any time soon. One of the syrian soldiers takes us to see the buildings half a mile away where he says the rebels are now hiding. Overhead we can hear the helicopters scouting their target, then what are they hitting. Theyre terrorists, he says. Those are barrel bombs . Barrel bombs are basically filled with explosives rolled out of a chopper. Inaccurate. Over there . No, no, he says, only fighters, but there are fighters families too cowering under the attacks. Fighters where they hid and fought for years. The general leads the way through ruins he now controls. Youre still using air strikes in the suburb in order to fight . Yes, he says, because theyre dangerous for syria and the world so were justified in using any weapons that are legal. But that means that when this overstretched and under trained army does gain ground, its victories look like nothing more than a few blocks of rubble, but the truth is that by now all sides in this war are completely exhausted and unlikely as it sounds a couple of suburbs over the army has actually be negotiated a mini truce to allow food and supplies to reach the civilians. Closer to home another day of Severe Weather is in the the deadly storms spawned tornados as far north as pennsylvania and knocked out power to tens of thousands to the new england. Tim reed is at one strike. Its the experience man. You got experience to talk about it. Reporter vincent was about to sit down right here to watch tv when the tornado slammed into his mobile home sheering off the roof and the wall. Do you feel lucky to be alive . Im not lucky. Im blessed. Reporter but the tornado tore his neighbors home from the foundation and sent it sailing across the highway. A 2yearold boy, his father and another man died. They were found 300 yards away. Somehow the boys mother survived with serious injuries. A 78yearold man died and buildings were damaged after a funnel cloud left a path of destruction. Reported in north carolina. In pennsylvania a tornado ripped through Amish Country hitting farms and this structure. There was flash flooding around washington, d. C. And left a major road flooded for the morning commute. In the new york area a gust of wind sent this truck airborne. Take a look at this, off queens new york 12foot waves capsized a boat and back here in virginia youre looking at a photograph of a plus tires before the tornado. Now youre looking at aplus tires after the tornado. This was the garage door. That was once the roof. Its a good example of what happens when a tornado meets a building. There are new concerns over this time it has nothing to do with smoke. This man suffered burns when the battery from the ecigarette exploded. Reporter this latest incident is raising concerns about the ecigarette industry when it comes to the batteries. Surveillance footage captured the moment joshs pants burst into flames at a kentucky gas station. He runs outside struggling to ditch his clothes before a man dousz him with a fire extissue wisher. He posted just had an ecig battery blow up. Its an alternative to smoking cigarettes, its supposed to be a safer way of doing it. Reporter he was placed in a medically induced coma for three days after he says an ecigarette blew up in his mouth earlier this week an Ohio Fire Department issued a warning on its Facebook Page after an e cigarette battery exploded inside the pocket of the victims lab coat. People reported more than two dozens incidents of explosions and fires caused by ecigarettes between 2009 and 2014. It has the same fuel capability as gasoline. Reporter many are linked to the battery overcharging, manufacturing defects and punctures can cause it to overheat trigering an explosion. The batteries are the same type found in hover boards which have been criticized of catching fire. In terms of the product itself, you are comparing apples to apples between what happens to the hover board and the ecigarette. Reporter advocates maintain in a statement the American Vaping Association says when charged and used under proper conditions batteries pose no more of a fire risk than other batteries. The food Ug Administration does not regulate ecigarettes. Makers say you should avoid contact with coins and keys and things we have in our pockets. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Degree motionsense is the worlds first deodorant activated by movement. As you move, fragrance capsules burst to release extra freshness all day. Motionsense. Protection to keep you moving. Your heart loves omega3s. 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Reporter huddle has employees working in 14 countries, but the new headquarters is going up right here where it all began. For cbs this morning. Your smartphone is a portable computer in your pocket that means it can fall victim to hackers and they do it through those apps that you download. A Security Firm found that between 75 and 80 of the top iphones were breached. The number jumps to 97 on the top paid apps on those devices. Reporter whether its apps that help add tiesers target you or help hackers rip you off, youll want to do your homework before downloading apps. Any way i had money that they could take, they got hold of it. Reporter susan was a victim after she used a debit card to download a slot machine app. It was something that you purchased once for 15. Reporter when she went to reload the game she found hundreds of purchases had been made. More than 5,000 worth of transactions. My heart sank. I sat there and looking at it and i physically i was sick because i didnt know what they were. Some of the information these apps ask for are beyond what they should be asking for. Surprise to Cyber Security expert. He says certain apps are designed to steal your personal information. What are the consequences for me as a consumer . Youre going to lose your identity. Youre going to wonder how someone got in your bank account and paid a bill. Reporter he says when you download an app youre giving the app permission to access other parts of your phone, like an alarm clock app that can track phone calls. Do you think an alarm clock needs all that permission, your call information, call history, your device id . This to me is not a safe alarm clock. Reporter and then the weather and flashlight app that exploit apps to capture information as he showed us in a demonstration of what could happen when somomne takes a photo of a check to send to their bank. The flashlight app spies on the camera. Reporter last year they discovered 11 malware apps that gathered information and sentenced it to a remote server. It included text messages. Apple fought back by removing the apps and putting stricter security measures in place. They build a profile on you. Reporter some apps are collecting information simply for adds advertising purposes. In 2014 the federal trade commission settled a lawsuit alleging it transmitted consumers personal information without telling them. He says hes found another flashlight app that can do much more troubling things. Approximate one turns on your micro phone in the background, listens in on you and sends an encrypted tunnel to a server we discovered. Theyre listening to peoples conversations and sending that audio back to beijing . Weve tracked it. Reporter is this on this map . On information drive in beijing. Reporter he gave a report on that app to the fbi. Because to me its spy ware. 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Even to the last minute there were people like i dont know can you call it uptown funk. Maybe you should call it just watch. Reporter my guess is if you went up to ten people on the street and say whos song is that, they would say bruno mars. Does it bother you . No. Reporter he made a name for himself producing amys 2006 album. Back to black won five grammys. He recalls the casual conversation about her family that led to their biggest hit. We were Walking Around new york where my studio used to be me house and i said what happened and they tried to make me go to rehab and i saiai no no no. Reporter he says he was unaware at the time how troubled she was. The oscar documented amy shows her tragic fall that ended in her death. Ive seen it twice. Reporter what it was like to watch that. Its difficult to watch. I love watching the first hour. Reporter it was his friendship that led him to another young british woman writing her first album, adele. 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She used them for feminine hygiene for decades. Her lawyer says those products ultimately caused her death. Johnson and johnson knew of the association of talc and Ovarian Cancer starting back in 1979. Society says results of studies on a possible link between talcum powder and Ovarian Cancer have been mixed with some studies a slightly increased risk and some reporting no increase. But the doctor for the plaintiff conducted his own study yr in december that he says shows an increased risk sfl there have been more than 20 studies andnd the majority of these have found an elevated risk. Reporter during trial her lawyers introduced into evidence this 1977 letter in which johnson and johnsons own consultant said denying the risks, denying the obvious in the face of all evidence to the contrary. They made a decision not to warn the customers that were using a very dangerous product. Reporter on monday a jury pay foxs family 10 million in damages and another 62 million in punitive damages. 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Ive hired by the way ive hired tens of thousands of people. Youve hired nobody. Youve had nothing but problems from your credit cards et cetera. You havent hired one person. He hired workers from poland and he had to pay 1 million. Thats wrong. People can look it up. Im sure people are googling it polish workers, youll see 1 million for hiring illegal workers on his projects. He did it. That happened. Ive hired tens of thousands of people over my lifetime. Tens of thousands. Many from other countries. Be quiet. Let me talk within ive hired tens of thousands of people. He brings up something from 30 years ago. It worked out very well. Everybody was happy. By the way, the laws were totally different. That was a whole different world, but ive hired people. Nobody up here has hired people. Marco is right that a federal government found donald guilty of being porltart of a conspiracy and found a 1 million judgment against him. Mr. Trump. I can only say this and ive said it loud and clear for many years and many of these people are sitting in the audience is packed with them and theyre packed with you, ive had an amazing relationship with politicians, both democrat, republican, because i was a businessman. As one magazine hes a world class businessman. I got along with everybody. You get along with nobody. You dont have one republican you dont have one republican senator and you work with them every day of your life, although you skipped a lot of time, these are minor details, but you dont have one republican senator backing you. You dont have the endorsement of one republican senator and you work with these people. You should be ashamed of yourself. I think donald is right, he is promising if hes elected he will cut deals in washington. He is right, hes given hundreds of the next democratic primary is saturday in South Carolina we could turn this into ary vooif al. Reporter Hillary Clinton and her preacher came out today as she Court Reporter black crowds in South Carolina. I think we need more singing, dont you . I sing because im happy. Reporter in michigan Bernie Sanders was focussed on minorities too meeting with residents in flint. This water is brown and they continue to ignore it. Reporter neither candidate can win in the delegate rich super tuesday states without minority support. In 2008 africanamericans alone made up half of the democratic electorate in alabama and georgia and nearly a third in virginia and tennessee. 32 of democratic voters in texas were hispanic. When you have people like trump saying that mexicans are rapists or criminals that is an outrage. Reporter a new National Poll among hispanic voters by a margin of two to one. Her husbands crime bill has been a Sticking Point for some. Two black lives protesters interrupted a fundraiser last night. Can i talk . Reporter the protesters were escorted out and clinton later said she was sorry for some of the terms she used in the 90s including the phrase super predators. She says it was a poor choice of words. Both clinton and sanders want to reform the way drug crimes in particular are handled because they say too many young blacks and latinos are ending up behind bars. This evening president obama claimed progress against the isis terrorist group in syria. He said that isis has lost 40 of its territory, cut the pay of using civilians as human shields, but the wider war in syria is not going mr. Obamas way. American backed rebels are on the run. The forces of the assad dictatorship are advancing for the first time in years because of russian air support and iranian troops. It is rare dpor a reporter to get into syria, but our Elizabeth Palmer covered the dictators advance today. Reporter this used to be a neighborhood. Now its a battlefield where the syrian army says its got the enemy on the run. Theres just been an air strike behind me. Were about five miles from the center of damascus and the syrian army is trying to clear this suburb of opposition fighters. There is certainly no cease fire here at the moment and theres not going to be in he time soon. One of the syrian soldiers takes mile away where he says the rebels are now hiding. Overhead we can hear the helicopters scouting their target, then what are they hitting . Theyre terrorists, he says. Those are barrel bombs . Barrel bombs are basically con sters filled with explosives rolled out of a chopper. Theyre cheap, but horribly inaccurate. Are there any civil yaps left over there . No, no, he says, only fighters, but there are fighters families cowering under the attacks. Near by we enter tunnels soldiers say were dug by by fighters where they hid and fought for years. The general leads the way through ruins he now controls. In the suburb in order to fight . Dangerous for syria and the world so were justified in using any weapons that are legal, but that means when this overstretched and under trained army does gain ground, its victories look like nothing more than a few blocks of rubble. But the truth is that by now all sides in this war are completely exhausted and unlikely as it sounds just a couple of suburbs over the army has reached a mini truce with the rebels to allow food and supplies to reach rare firsthand reporting f. B. I. Said that his battle with apple is the toughest fight hes faced in government. A federal magistrate ordered apple to unlock the iphone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, but today, apple told the court that order is dangerous. Jeff pegues has more. Reporter in its filing, apple says the f. B. I. Is seeking a dangerous power and that it would be forced to dedicate six to 10 apple engineers to create new code that apple calls the government operating system or government o. S. Apple said there would even have to be a governments Forensics Lab on Company Grounds that could be used to open hundreds of other seized devices in law enforcements possession. Apple says if it creates software to break into the iphone, criminals will this is the hardest question i have seen in government. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey reassured members of Congress Today that the bureau only wanted access to the iphone used by San Bernardino terrorist syed farook. Comey said the f. B. I. Is standing on firm legal ground, but Congress Needs to set the limits on how far government investigators can go. Im a huge fan of privacy. I love encryption. Its a great thing. But our need for Public Safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other, and weve got to sort that out as a people. Reporter apple agrees that congress should have a bigger role in this debate, butscott, the court case is moving forward. Google and facebook are expected to file legal papers in support of apple. Pelley jeff pegues for us tonight. Jeff, thank you. Tornadoes in several states yesterday killed at least four people, including three in waverly, virginia, where we find chip reid tonight. Man, its an experience, man. You got to experience it to talk reporter Vincent Donald was about to sit down right here to watch tv when the tornado slammed into his mobile home, sheering off the roof and the wall. Do you feel lucky to be alive . Im not lucky. Im blessed. Reporter but the tornado tore his neighbors mobile home from its foundation and sent it sailing across a highway. A twoyearold boy, his father, and another man died. Their bodies and other debris were found 300 yards away. Somehow, the boys mother survived with serious injuries. In nearby appomattox, virginia, a 78yearold man died and 100 buildings were damaged after a funnel cloud left an eightmile path of destruction. At least three tornadoes were reported in north carolina. In oxford, parts of this farm were leveled. In pennsylvania, a tornado ripped through Amish Country, hitting structures in narvon. A torrential downpour lead to flash flooding in and around washington, d. C. And left one morning commute. In the new york area, a gust of wind sent this truck airborne. And, scott, take a look at this. Off queens, new york, 12foot waves capsized a Coast Guard Boat as it was trying to rescue fishermen on another vessel that had run aground. And back here in waverly, virginia, youre looking at a photograph of aplus tires before the tornado. Now youre looking at aplus tires after the tornado. This was the garage door. That up there is the metal that was once the roof. Scott, its a good example of what happens when a tornado meets a Building Made of sheet metal. Pelley and we want to point out, no one was injured in the coast guard incident today. Chip, thanks very much. The worlds appetite for portable electronics has triggered huge demand for rechargeable batteries, but many of these batteries are now bursting into flames in places you would least expect. Vinita nair is looking into this. Ignited, employees at this kentucky gas station thought it was a bomb. It turned out to be an e cigarette that exploded in Josh Hamiltons pants. He suffered third degree burns. Its just the latest incident involving defective lithium ion batteries that power e cigarettes. 22yearold Evan Spahlinger had to be placed in a medically induced coma for three days after one of them blew up in his mouth. Its an alternative to smoking cigarettes. Its supposed to be a safer and a healthier way of doing it. Reporter the same battery cells that power ecigarettes, also power hoverboards. Since december there have been 52 reported incidents involving hoverboards catching on fire. Jay whitacre is a professor at Carnegie Mellon university. He said the demand to make these products cheaper and more powerful has led some companies to cut corners. What were seeing right now is a situation where maybe some of these batteries are simply not made to the same standard as at sony or panasonic, which have much more stringent quality control. Reporter whitacre says that lithiumionpowered items like ecigarettes and hoverboards are considered highpower applications. If their batteries are badly designgn when they are charged they can overheat. Is it something that the user is doing incorrectly . No. In general, with this kind of technology, its very difficult for the user to be at fault. There is a wellcontrolled charging circuit, and there should be a good package that the cell lives in. Both of those things should be designed to protect the user. Reporter industry advocates say these incidents are still rare and that users should always use compatible batteries and chargers. They say to avoid battery contact with metal objects, scott, such as coins, keys, or jewelry. Pelley vinita nair, thank you very much. Theres a plan to give wider air passengers wider seats. Well get to the bottom of it. And a young fan bags quite a even news continues. Its not always as easy for me as it is for him. Its easy for me cause look at her. Aw. So we use ky ultragel. It enhances my bodys natural moisture so i can get into the swing of it a bit quicker. And when i know shes feeling like that, it makes me feel like were both. And i enjoy it. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. Check this out, bro. Whats that, broheim . I switched to geico and got more. More savings on Car Insurance . Yeah brofessor, and more. Like renters insurance. More ways to save. Nice, brotato chip. 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It could seat the traditional three passengers, shift to two people who need Additional Space, including overweight passengers, or even fit a fourth person, like two parents and two small children. The airlines will consider anything that allows them to make a buck. Reporter Ben Mutzabaugh is e editor of usa todays today in the sky blog. If weve seen nothing else in the airline industry, theyre very clever about coming up with ways to sell seats to passengers, especially when they can charge more for either seats that are less awful. Reporter airbus previously sought patents for a design stacking passengers and this semistanding concept. Seat maker zodiac created a hexagon pattern where the middle seat faces the passengers in the aisle and window while adding up to 30 more passengers per plane. Tennessee congressman Stephen Cohen worries extra seats could jeopardize safety making it hard to evacuate within the required 90 seconds as seen in this video. Hes authored a bill requiring the f. A. A. To set minimum seat size standards. If people cant get out of an airplane in emergency conditions they lose their lives. It shouldnt be after theres an accident. After theres an accident, its too late and people are dead. Reporter the big question now, scott, will an airline say they want these seats and will safety regulators ever allow them to be installed in a plane . Pelley kris van cleave, thank you, kris. Whats killing players in the what a new study has found next. Pelley heart problems account for threequarters of sportsrelated deaths in young athletes. Now, a new study may help save lives, and heres dr. Jon lapook. Reporter two years ago, nations top college basastball players. Then, a physical before the n. B. A. Draft revealed a heart problem, ending his career. I just didnt know what to do with it, but it was just you know, just accepting it, accepting that life and health is more important than a game. Reporter in the u. S. , sportsrelated sudden cardiac death is highest among basketball players. One big question is whats a normal heart size for these athletes . To find out, dr. David engel and colleagues reviewed the heart ultrasounds of more than 500 when you first saw them, you thought these are big hearts. These are abnormal . The first instinct is to say these hearts are enlarged. Were not used to seeing hearts for people that are this big. The average n. B. A. Player is 67 and the average weight is 222 pounds. Reporter it turns out, like any other muscle, the heart gets bigger with exercise, although the hearts of the n. B. A. Players were about 10 thicker than normal, that was not felt to be dangerous. The research establishes a baseline for doctors going forward. And how does this help us . This should help us distinguish those changes from can lead to sudden cardiac death. Reporter in addition, they found that the aorta, the major artery leaving the heart, is also bigger in these athletes and knowing that will help with future diagnosis. Scott, dr. Engel says this is now a model for evaluating pelley jon lapook, thank you very much, jon. Biggest fan. Murtaza ahmadi, a fiveyearold from afghanistan was photographed wearing a lionel messi shirt made from a plastic bag. It went viral so messi sent him an autographed shirt from argentinas national team. The bag has been retired. Up next, a math teachers pelley we end tonight with a solution to a math problem that has stumped the best minds for centuries. How do you get school kids to succeed at calculus . Heres mireya villarreal. Reporter from the outside, Lincoln High School does not look like a place that inspires greatness. Old, with gates on the windows, in a tough east l. A. Neighborhood. Today is all about making your life easier. Reporter but look beyond all of that, and youll find this man, anthony yom. This is almost similar to this guy right here, right . Reporter the son of korean immigrants, yom teaches what is considered the hardest class in school, advanced placement calculus. One of my strategies, really to make sure to provide that environment where kids are not shamed of asking questions. Do you get it . Reporter his approach to teaching goes beyond calculating the slope of a curve. Yom makes his class meet after school, on weekends, and even holidays. The hard work has paid off. Know for sure, once they get the score and if i ask them, hey, was it worth it . Every single one of them say it was so worth it. Reporter for three years in a row, every student that has walked into his class has passed the a. P. Calculus test. And this year, one student, Cedrick Argueta, got every question right. His style of teaching commands respect and his personality is very likable. He gets to know his students on a personal level. Reporter what is the secret here . They know that i sincerely care about them, and its prep for them. Reporter with love . Yeah, with love. Reporter Cedrick Argueta and yom were both ordered by the l. A. School board and president obama invited cedrick to the white house science fair. The 17yearold wants to go to caltech and become a rocket scientist, while yoms focus is on his next batch of calculus students. This is not rocket science. Reporter mireya villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. The guns are supposed to fall silent tonight in syria where a cease fire is scheduled to take effect at midnight. The temporary truce broked by the United States and russia is designed to allow food and medicine to reach cities and bring the Syrian Government and its opponents back to the negotiating table. Not all the hospital tillties will stop. The islamic state. Elizabeth palmer is on the front lines outside damascus. Reporter this used to be a neighborhood. Now its a battlefield where the syrian army says its got the en enemy on the run. Theres been an air strike behind me. Were about five miles from the center of damascus and the this area of opposition fighters . Fighters. Theres no cease fire for the moment. He takes us to see buildings half a mile away. Overhead we can p hear the helicopters scouting their target, then what are they hitting . Theyre terrorists, he says. Those are barrel bombs . Yeah. Barrel bombs are basically cannisters filled with explosives rolled out of a chopper. Theyre chchp, but horribly inaccurate. Are there civilians left over there . No, there are only fighters, but there are fighters families near by we enter tunnels dug by soldiers where they hid and fought for years. The general in charge leads the way through ruins he now controls. Youre still using air strikes in the suburb in order to fight . Yes, he says, because theyre dangerous for syria and the world so were just justified in using any weapons that are legal, but that means when this overstretched army does gain ground its victories look like nothing more than a few blocks of rubble, but the truth is that by now all sides in this war are completely exhausted and unlikely as it sounds a couple of suburbs over the army has actually negotiated a mini truce with the rebels to allow food cbs news. Closer to home, another day of Severe Weather is in the forecast for much of the eastern the deadly storms spawneded tornados as far north to pennsylvania and knocked out power. Chip reed is at one tornado site. Reporter Vincent Donald was about to sit down right here to watch tv when the tornado slammed into his mobile home sheering off the roof and wall. Do you feel lucky to be alive. Yes. Reporter but the tornado tore his neighbors home from the foundation. A 2yearold boy and his father died. Somehow the boys mother survived with serious injuries. In near by va 78yearold man died after a funnel cloud left an eight mile path of destruction. Record in north carolina. In pennsylvania a tornado ripped through Amish Country hittingng farmrm and this structure. A down pour led to flash flooding around washington, d. C. And left a major road flooded for the morning commute. In the new york area a gust of wind sent this truck airborne. Take a look at this. Off queens new york 12 foot waves capsized a Coast Guard Boat. Back here in virginia yoo urure looking at a photograph of tornado. This was the garage door and that was once the roof. Its a good example much what buildidi. There are new concerns over a man from kentucky suffered Second Degree burns when the battery exploded in his pocket. Reporter this latest incident caught on tape is raising new concerns about the multi billionaire dollar ecigarette injury and the batteries. Surveillance footage captured the moment joshs pants burst into flames at a kentucky gas station. He runs outside struggling to ditch his clotheses before a man douzs him. Haumton posted on facebook just had an ecig blow up inside my pocket. Its the latest incident linked to electronic vaporizers across the country. Its supposed to be a safer and healthier way of smoking cigarettes. He was placed in a coma after he says an ecigarette blew up in earlier this week an Ohio Fire Department issued a warning on its facebook charge of a an ecigarette battery exploded inside the pocket of a victims lab coat. People reported more than two dozen incidents of explosions and fires caused by ecigarettes between 2009 and 2014. It has the same fuel capability of gasoline. Reporter it is linked to the battery. Over charng, manufacturing defects and punctures can cause it to overheat. The batteries are the same type found in many hoverboards which have caught fire. In terms. 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Reporter he Services Sports teams. Coaches post their game film to the site and the softd aware analyzes it. What is it about linkon that works . Its a supportive community. Reporter paul compared it like this. We have a core value and one of our core values is fire the. [ bleep] reporter you realize that people from new york and San Francisco will be watching this . You know where to find me. Reporter another competitive edge, everything is cheaper. The median home here sells for 158,000. You can grow your team faster with less capitol, same with our office space. Reporter today this area is becoming a mini palto alto. Just hear from people that come visit and check out the town like they go this is cool. This is really cool. It is, right . Reporter t tre are challenges. Companies have struggling to attract outside talent and investors. 75 of investment last year went to three states, but thats changing. I dont think that reflects the distribution of great people with great ideas. Revolution, a Venture Capital firm. It plans to invest close to 1 billion in Tech Companies inside the coasts. Some people call it the flyover country. We think they are great people building great businesses. Reporter hulds started with three employees. It now has 400. You are the microsoft. Its been an amazing ride. I think thats what the most fun part of it is. Reporter huddle has employees working in 14 countries, but its new headquarters is going up right here where it all began. For cbs this morning, nebraska. Your smartphone is essentially a portable computer in your pockets, that means it can fall victim to hackers and they do it through apps that you download. A Security Firm found 80 of the iphones were breached. The number jumps to 97 among the top paid apps on those devices. Reporter whether its apps that helps advertisers target you or helps hackers rip you off, youll want to do your homework before downloading apps. Any way i had money they got it. Reporter california susan harvey downloaded an app. It was something you purchased once for like 15. Reporter when she went to reload the game she found hundreds of purchases had been made. My heart sank. I just sat there looking at it and i physically i was sick because i didnt know what they were. Some of the information these apps ask for are way beyond what they should be asking for. Surprise to Cyber Security expert whose company tracks malware. Reporter what are the consequences for me as a consumer . Youre going to wonder why there was a transaction, wonder how someone got in your bank account and paid a bill. Reporter when you download an app, youre giving the app permission to access other parts of your phone like an alarm clock app that can track phone calls. Do you think an alarm clock needs all that permission, your call information, calls youve made, your device id. This is not a alarm clock. Reporter and the weather and flashlight apps as he showed us in a demonstration of what could happen when someone takes a photo of a check to sends to the bank. Reporter what happens to the it grabs a copy of the it. Reporter last year the Group Discovered 11 malware apps on iphones that sent information to a remote server. The information included text messages, skype calls and photos. Apple fought back by removing the apps and putting stricter security measure in place. They get at your lists to build a profile on you. Reporter some apps are collecting information for advertising purposes. In 2014 a lawsuit was settled with a company over the flashlight app alleging it transmitted information to third parties without telling consumers with. But he says hes found a flashlight app that can do more troubling things. This turns on your micro phone in the background and server we discovered in beijing. Reporter youre saying theyre listening to conversations and sending that audio back to beijing . Yeah, weve tracked it. Reporter where is it . On information drive in beijing beijing beijing. Reporter he gave a report to the fbi. His recommdation. We really have to look at our phone and say this is really a personal computer that fits in our pocket, lets shut down all the apps we dont use, lets delete apps that dont make sense and reduce the rick of being spied on. Reporter the creator of the brightest flashlight app seltsed with the ftc. Susan sued google over her alleged hack, but a judge dismissed it saying she and her attorney filed too late. Android devices had bad apps. I think we shouldve taken a left at the river. Tarzan know where tarzan go tarzan does not know where tarzan go. Hey, excuse me, do you know where the waterfall is . Waterfall . No, me tarzan, king of jungle. Why dont you want to just ask somebody . If youre a couple, you fight over directions. Its what you do. 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Even to the last minute there were people were like can you call it uptown funk. My guess is if you went up to ten people on the street and said whose song is uptown fupg ey would say bruno mars. Does it bother you. No. Reporter he made a name for himself producing the critically acclaimed 2006 album. Back to black won five grammys. He recalls the casual conversation about her family that led to their biggest hit. We were Walking Around soho in new york and she says yeah they came over to my house and i was like they tried to make me go to rehab, but i was like no reporter he says he was unaware at the time of how troubled she really was. The oscar nominated documentary amy follows her death at age 27. Ive seen it twice. Reporter what was it like to watch that . Its difficult to watch. I love the first hour because its like spending time with an old friend again. Reporter it was his friendship with her that led him to another young british woman writing her first album, adele she instantly seemed so grown up and mature, not just in her voice, but she knew what she wanted. For 19 and adeles latest smash 25. But it was working with music royalty Paul Mccartny that made him most nervous. It was incredible. Its everything rolled in one. You have to get over that im working with paul really quickly because you have to be on your toes. Reporter these days he is settling into his new found fame and the realizization that it may be hard to top his latest success. The thing to remember is like where uptown funk camefrom, that moment of joy of playing finetuning the heck out of johnson and johnson is fighting back against a 72 million verdict. Woman who claims the talcum products caused her Ovarian Cancer. More than a thousand other cases are pending from coast to coast. Ana warner reports. Reporter she was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in march of 2013 with. Her lawsuit claimed the talcum powder in cars no photogenic the company has known about it for decades. Generations of women have used johnson and johnsons to help them feel clean and fresh. Its a feeling you never outgrow. Reporter she used them for hygiene for decades. Her lawyer says those products ultimately caused her death. Johnson and johnson knew of the association of tc and Ovarian Cancer starting back in 1979. Society says results of studies on a possible link between talcum powder have been mixed with some studies reporting a slightly increased risk and some studies reporting no increase, but the expert for the plaintiff conducted his own study that shows an increased risk. There have been more than 20 studies and the majority of these have found an elevated risk. Reporter during trial foxs lawyers introduced into evidence in which johnson and johnsons lawyer said it could be perceived of denying the obvious in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. They made a decision not to warn the customers that they reporter on monday a 10 million and another 62 million in punitive damages. The whole fight was for not just for her, but so many other women. Reporter johnson and johnson said in a statement it sympathizes with foxs family, but said the verdict goes against decades of sound science proving the safety of talc. It also said the talcum powder its friday, february 26th, 2016. This is the cbs morning news. Targeted at random. A gunman opens fire at his workplace killing at least three people before he is brought down by a hero cop. Do you know where donald is now . No, no, no. Reporter donald trump fender off closest attacks from fell competitors before super tuesday. Adding inging insult to injury. Passengers cheer as a father and boy, when they are removed from a flight. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im meg oliver in for annemarie this morning, at least ten people are in Critical Condition following a deadly mass shooting in kansas. Three people were killed and 14 more wounded. Police say the gunman identified