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Today facebook said that it is partnering with Fact Checkers and news organizations to crack down on fake news, which plagued the election. Stories with little credibility will now be marked disputed and will slide lower down in users news feeds. Tonight millions in the midwest and the northeast are getting a visitor from the north pole in the form of arctic air and blinding snow. There were whiteout conditions across upstate new york. On a pennsylvania interstate 59 cars and trucks piled up more quickly than the snow. Demarco morgan is in a town where gusts whipping off lake ontario make it feel well below zero. Reporter officials in jefferson county, pennsylvania blamed whiteout conditions for this massive pileup on people. 22 tractortrailers and 37 cars lost control on the slick, snowy highway. The winter blast continues to pound much of the country. Lakeeffect snow warnings, watches and wind chill advisories are in effect from northeast ohio, where the snowfall caused massive delays on roads and highways to upstate new york. In rochester snow and strong winds also created blinding conditions for motorists. Dangerous roads also made it impossible for a food bank in adams, new york to receive a muchneeded delivery on time. Its sad, you know, but theres nothing we could do about it. Reporter nancy abbott is the food banks coordinator. Theres about 100 people each month that come. You know, its an extra. It helps people that are in need. Reporter this is the third time this season that superintendent Marybeth Denny has had to cancel classes in South Jefferson county, new york. The forecast said that we were going to have high winds and whiteout conditions throughout the day and i jus cant put buses on the road in that. Reporter the wind chill will likely get down to negative 15 before the night is out. As for Road Conditions in these parts, scott, officials have asked residents to avoid unnecessary travel until further notice. Demarco morgan with the big chill. Now lets check in with chief meteorologist eric fisher of cbs station in boston, wbz. Eric, whats next . Scotta that cold air still on the move tonight and the core of it swinging down into the northeast. This will be the coolest air there since back on valentines day. Wind chill values well below zero and the worst of it over new england and new york when we wake up tomorrow morning. High temperatures stuck at or below freezing from washington, d. C. Into cincinnati, the ohio valley, northward for tomorrow. And as soon as we ge toward the weekend, a brief pattern shift, but its basically just reloading the pattern. Well get a quick warmup across the east but another blast of very harsh air moves down across the middle of the country. Temps 20 to 40 below average. These are air temps, not wind chill values on sunday morning approaching 30 below zero dakotas. And scott, in chicago as the packers come to town, it could be the coldest game ever played at soldier field. Eric fisher, thanks. Today in syria hundreds of civilians escaped aleppo in a deal that gives the assad dictatorship control of a city ruined by syrian and russian bombs. Air strikes intensified in recent days, and today secretary of state john kerry called them nothing short of a massacre. The only hope syrians have under this bombardment is a force of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets. This sunday on 60 minutes, youll see their nearly miraculous rescues, like this. This little boy was alone and nearly invisible when the White Helmets happened to spot just [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Reporter this is that same boy, his face freed. They excavated the ruin hour by hour. The White Helmets say they have saved 70,000. And with each they shout their gratitude to god. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar. Reporter majd ka lav and radi saad quit college to join the White Helmets. There was a woman and her husband, he told us. Only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. We could see her moving her fingers like this. Fingers or here the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. The leg led to hips and a torso. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar reporter but then they uncovered a face. More often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. As of tonight, 154 white helmet volunteers have been killed in the line of duty. Our story this sunday on 60 minutes. We learned more today about the Chattanooga School bus crash last month that killed six children. The driver is charged with vehicular homicide. Police said he was speeding about 20 miles an hour over the speed limit and had used his cell phone on the bus. They still dont know whether he was using it at the time of the crash. Two children are still hospital. Tonight there is a water emergency in corpus christi, texas. More than 300,000 residents are being warned not to use tap water for anything. A chemical from an Asphalt Plant is leaking into the water, and people lined up for bottled water today with no idea how long this will last. Coming up, fedexercising for a marathon. Which means, youre controlling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. And when your days over, your cough is still under control. Thanks to the 1 12hour cough medicine. Delsym. The cough controller. Jack knocked over a candlestick, s, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. Fight heartburn fast. With tums chewy delights. 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The increase in Online Shopping will drive up the volume of packages this Holiday Season. U. P. S. Will handle 14 more packages that than qulaefrt and fedex is expected to increase thm by 10 . The major shippers are working overtime to handle the avalanche of orders and prevent shopper discontent. Upss on time delivery rate was 93. 1 last week. Fedex ground was 96. 2 . Considering they move millions of packages a day, even a few Percentage Points means hundreds of thousands of late deliveries. Satish jindel of ship matrix tracks the carriers. Christmas is on sunday. Even though saturday is not a working day, if they find packages that didnt make it on time when people ordered it correctly, they will put people on the streets to make a delivery so people are not disappointed. Reporter tomorrow is expected to be one of the busiest online shoppinay the year. Scott, it happens to be the last day packages can be guaranteed to arrive by christmas without an extra charge. Santa needs the help. Don dahler, thanks. Up next, well remember craig sager, the sportscaster, and his outfits. How wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. Now were going to show you how degree dry spray is different. Degree dry spray. Degree. It wont let you down. Im good. . I just took new mucinex clear and cool. What is this sudden cooooling thing happening . Its got a menthol burst. You can feel it right away. New Mucinex Fastmax clear cool. Feel the menthol burst. And clear your worst cold symptoms. Lets end this. Dobecause youve got ams lot of cheering to do get fast sinus relief. With vicks sinex. And get your head back in the game. Sinex. The congestion, pressure, pain to clear your head, medicine. Sportscaster craig sager died today after a long battle with leukemia. Sager worked nba games on tnt for nearly a quarter century. Known for pointed questions and one outrageous outfit drew a foul from nba star kevin garnett. You take this right here, i dont care if its versace, name brand its sai no, sai, i dont care. You take this and you burn it. 1974 when hank aaron hit his recordbreaking 715th home run, sager, a young radio reporter, dashed onto the field and scored an exclusive interview. The great craig sager was 65. Dolly parton held a telethon this week that raised 9 million for victims of wildfires in the great smoky mountains. 14 people were killed in those fires. 2,000 buildings burned. Two juveniles are charged with arson. Michelle obama gave her final oneonone interview as first lady to Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming cbs special and shared her thoughts about race. Color, wealth, these tng much of a role in how we see one another. And its sad because the thing that least defines us as people is the color of our skin. Theres more of the interview tomorrow on cbs this morning. The oprah special airs monday on cbs. Up next, Steve Hartman with the untold story behind a holiday classic. tis the night before Steve Hartmans annual sleigh ridelong with secret santa. Tonight steve shows us how this santa got off the ground. Merry christmas to you, sweetie. Reporter its the one story that never gets old. Every year we ride with secret santa as he and his elves hand out hundreds of hundreds to random strangers across the country. Oh, my god, this is crazy reporter youve no doubt seen the happy endings. But almost no one knows the humble beginning. Thank you so much. Reporter the legend of secret santa can actually be traced back to a single act of kindness in houston, mississippi. It was 1971. A homeless man had wandered into town, and he was starving. The stranger stopped here at the dixie diner and ordered the biggest breakfast on the menu. His plan was to sneak out before the bill came. But the owner, a guy named ted horn, sensed what was about to happen. So he snuck up behind the guy with a 20 in his hand and said, i think you may have dropped this. And that was the end of it as far as he was concerned. Reporter david and sandra horn are teds children. They say their dad died in 2009 but that one gift keeps giving. That one little 20, just look what it did. Its difficult to imagine that. Reporter the money went to a man named larry stewart, who vowed that day if he ever got rich he would return the favor in spades larry eventually made millions in cable and Long Distance and became the first secret santa. His identity revealed only after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006. Merry christmas. Reporter which brings us to larrys good friend. Larry was hospitalized santa. And i went up to visit him at night. Moonlight shining in, kind of surreal. So i asked larry, i said do you have any regrets . And he said yes. I said what is it . He said, i just wish i could have helped more people. Reporter after giving away more than 1 million to total strangers, larry still felt more needed to be done. So thats when i assumed the responsibility. Reporter over the last decade this new secret santa has run the total to more than 2 million and counting. Tomorrow well take you on his latest sleigh ride, which comes with a twist. Lets just have fun. Reporter this time the job of giving the green will fall to some deserving elves in blue. Until then, im Steve Hartman on the road in kansas city, kansas. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be be sure not to miss cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center york city, im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. American intelligence officials now say the president of russia himself approved the hacking of our president ial election. Sources confirm to cbs news they believe Vladimir Putin was aware of the attacks that started in july of 2015. This is the first time the hacking is being linked directly to putin. Jeff pegues has more from washington. The evidence linking the hack to Vladimir Putin comes from what intelligence Officials Say are a variety of sources. Hundreds of people from the kremlin, the Russian Military and the Intelligence Directorate may have been involved in the elaborate network of cyber espionage. Units nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. Investigators believe that putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process. U. S. Officials say it was an added bonus that donald trump, seen as more friendly to russian interests, became the republican nominee. The hack that ultimately breached computers at the Democratic National committee began in the summer of 2015. These arent super sophisticated attacks. Reporter clint watt is a fellow at the center for cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington university. What russia does well is they target it at key people they want to gain information from and they do it on a large scale hitting thousands of people over the course of time. Reporter today in japan Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters the u. S. Accusations are silly and futile. And president elect trump tweeted, if russia or some did the white house wait so long to act . Why did they only complain after hillary lost . But mr. Trump is wrong. The Obama Administration did publicly blame russia for the hacks in early october. Thats a full month before the election. The president elect is getting closer to filling his cabinet. On thursday mr. Trump selected montana congressman ryan zinke for interior secretary. Meanwhile, he continues to meet possible cabinet picks and Business Leaders at trump tower. On wednesday the president elect met with the ceos of apple, google, and amazon but not twitter. Heres nancy cordes. Well, they did not get a dressing down by donald trump the way media executives did a few weeks ago, even though Silicon Valley leaders were largely critical of the president elect when he was running. Instead, he and they declared the meeting very productive and he told them his door would always be open to them. Were going to be there for and youll call my people, youll call me. It doesnt make any difference. We have no formal chain of command around here. Reporter mr. Trumps meeting with facebooks sheryl sandberg, apples tim cook, and others lasted more than 90 minutes. The group discussed jobs, taxes and specific Innovative Solutions that have been blocked by narrow thinking in washington. I wont tell you the hundreds of calls weve had asking to come to this meeting. Reporter its a shift from the campaign when some of these Industry Leaders kept their distance from mr. Trump. Wikileaks revealed Googles Eric Schmidt had been working with Hillary Clintons campaign since 2014. Teslas elon musk said mr. Trump is not the right guy for america. And amazons jeff bezos publicly dueled with the president elect. T thas not an appropriate way for a president ial candidate to behave. You know, its amazon. He wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it. Thats not dorsey was not invited to the round table, even though mr. Trump is a famously avid tweeter. That led some to assume the trump team is nursing a grudge after twitter reneged on an agreement to provide a special emoji to go along with the hashtag crooked hillary. In a statement twitter said they ultimately decided not to permit this particular format for any political advertising. So the conference table was only big. Reporter rnc Communications Director sean spicer insisted there was no attempt to shut twitter out. If you go down the list of the Top Tech Companies i guarantee you youll find additional ones that werent there. Reporter and twitter is smaller than the other companies that were represented in the room. Also in the room were mr. Trumps two sons, eric and don jr. , despite his vows to turn his business over to them and create a wall between the business and the white house. New Research Shows hundreds of Airline Pilots around the world are likely flying depressed. Some even report having suicidal thoughts. The study comes after last years germanwings crash in the french alps. A copilot intentionally flew his plane into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board. Kris van cleave explains why some pilots keep quiet about depression. Reporter the study uses a commonly used questionnaire to help pinpoint signs of depression. It comes at a time when the faa and its european counterpart are stepping up efforts to address Mental Health issues. The researchers say there is more work to do. Pilots identify with their job, with who they its a part of us. Reporter in 2008 Airline Pilot colin hughes says he made the decision to ground himself after being prescribed antidepressants. Having that dream at that time felt like was being shattered. Reporter he told us hes now flying again but says depression is a topic the industry doesnt like to talk about. Pilots are people too. We have feelings and emotions just like everyone else. Reporter new researchnd surveyed met the threshold for clinical depression. 4 admitted to having ewesidal thoughts. The Current System is set up and designed all around selfreport. Reporter Harvard University Professor Joseph allen worked on the study just published in the Online Medical journal environMental Health. For many of us people in the general population they can seek treatment or counseling. Whereas pilots if they do so they run the risk of severe impact to their career. Reporter seeking treatment or reporting an issue can result in a pilot being grounded. Since 2015 the faa has started working with airlines and the pilots unions to increase the understanding of Mental Health issues and the symptoms while trying to reduce the stigma of selfreporting while improving treatment options. But issues like depression are believed to remain underreported. Pilots who are not fit to fly should not fly. But we need to make pathways for them to come back to work when their issues are resolved. Reporter retired Airline Captain Sully Sullenberger cbs news aviation and safety expert. Sullenberger maz worked to try to reduce the sti ma of Mental Health issues after his father took his own life after a battle with depression. Its likely given these statistics i probably have flown with someone who had thoughts, they just didnt share them with me. Selfreporting is critically important. Reporter now, the faa has stopped short of recommending routine psychological screening of pilots, saying theres no convincing evidence it would increase safkraecrease safety. Pilots taking antidepressants can be grounded. Researchers found the level of depression in pilots is comparable to other high stress jobs. The trade group that represents airlines didnt comment. The Pilots Association says flying is still the safest mode of transportation. The cbs overnight news will be right back. You love the soft feel when you take care of them. And at amope we love it too. But that annoying hard skin just keeps coming back. And always way, way, way too soon. No matter what you do. Amope presents pedi perfect. A new level of hard skin removal. 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Lesl leslie stahl found out in a story for 60 minutes. I know donald trump. I know him very well. And i think his attitude, his support for israel is clear. He feels very warmly about the jewish state, about the jewish people, and about jewish people. Theres no question about that. With trump do you think israel will not be as at odds with the United States as you have been under the Obama Administration . Yeah, we had opinions with i had differences of opinion with president obama, and most well known of course is iran. Was it personal between the two of you . No. No. I dont think so. I think that suppose we had the greatest of personal chemistry. Okay . So what, you think i wouldnt stand up against the iran deal if i thought, as i did, that it endangers the existence of israel . Of course i would. Reporter he says it wasnt personal. But there were times when it sure seemed that way. The relationship, often rocky, hit bottom when mr. Netanyahu took the provocative step last year of lobbying against the Iran Nuclear Deal and by extension president obama in a speech before congress. It doesnt block irans path to the bomb. It paves irans path to the bomb. So why would anyone make this deal . When you campaigned against him and congress, it was read as a lack of respect and something that had never been done before. No. It was not born of any disrespect because i have the greatest respect for him. I had then and i have now. But do you regret that you did that . No. On the contrary. I think that its my responsibility to speak up when something threatens our very future. Reporter he says hes going to see mr. Trump soon, to lobby him to scuttle the deal. The president elect has called the agreement stupid and a disgrace. But trumps choice for defense secretary, general james mattis, has advised against pulling out. If it were to be abrogated, wouldnt that put you in a more precarious position than you are now . Because they would obviously then rush to the bomb. I think iran didnt rush to the bomb before there was a deal. Really . No. Because they were afraid of retribution. Okay. Then what . I think what options we have are much more than you think. Many more. And ill talk about them like what . President trump well, i think quite a few, actually. Because if you put sanctions back on, the other signatories what about the silver lining, that because of this deal you now have all these better relationships with your neighbors. Well, i will say this. The only good thing i can say about the deal with iran is that it brought the arab states and israel closer together. Its the old proverb, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. On a trip to the desert town of be beersheva he told us theres been a tectonic shift. Its been reported israel and the arab world are sharing intelligence. All i can tell you is that israels position in the arab world has changed because they no longer see israel as their enemy but as their ally in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant islam, those led by iran, the shiites, or those led by daesh, by isis, the militant sunnis. We hear that you have dramatically improved your relationship with egypt. Thats correct. Is that correct . Yes. Jordan . Yes. Saudi arabia. No comment. I have to ask you because its the most fascinating of all. Israel and saudi arabia. Are you actually developing an antiiran alliance in the middle east . It doesnt have to be developed. Its there anyway. Reporter israel is developing a whole skein of new alliances, in some cases with countries that have been challenging the u. S. Around the world. Like russia, which has placed its troops in syria, israels nextdoor neighbor. How would you describe your relationship with russia right now . Its amicable. But the minute mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in syria, i went to see him. And i said, look, heres what im doing. Im not intervening in syria. But at the same time, if syria tries to intervene with us, if iran tries to use syria to attack us, well stop it. Youre telling this to putin, i said we should avoid this. And he said, i agree. So we coordinated between our militaries because no one wants an inadvertent israelirussian clash. You have a friendship with mr. Putin and a friendship with china. You seem to be inching toward an antiamerican bloc god, no. Let me tell you something. Well, talk about that. Because i think theres an impression of that. Thats a false impression. First of all, theres an irreplaceable ally. Its called the United States of america. But here you are making friends with our adversaries. No. You have relations with russia and you have relations with china. We can have relations, economic relations, trade relations with other countries as you do. Why not . Reporter he has used economic and trade relations to improve israels standing in the world by selling and in some cases giving away its inventions. Israel boasts of more startups per capita than anywhere in the world. Many based in bersheva. And nations have lined up to buy drones, as india has, and cuttingedge agricultural technology, as china has. Theres excitement about a new innovation that extracts Drinking Water out of air. So this is israeli diplomacy through technology. Exactly right. Countries that used to vote against you regularly at the u. N. Are now your clients. I mean, african nations. Its a revolution there. We cant keep up. Reporter whats surprising is that hes making progress with all these countries without making any progress with the palestinians, who have lived under Israeli Occupation in the west bank for half a century. What about the quality of palestinians lives . You know what people call the occupation. Its 50 years. You still have checkpoints. People have to be cleared. Soldiers everywhere in their lives. Actually, ive lifted checkpoints quite a bit. And were trying to create bridges and thoroughfares and so on so we can have freer movement. And palestinians know, they look at aleppo in syria and they look at yemen, they look at libya, they look at other places, and they know that our intention is coexistence. You told us that israel is less isolated today than it has been many years in the past. And yet at the same time youre losing support in western europe. Isolated . A all these countries are coming to israel not western europe. Not your natural allies or your older allies. They call you colonial. Theyre coming around they call you occupiers. But theyre coming around too. To watch the full report go to cbsnews. Com and click on 60 minutes. Well be right back. Our strongest prov formula ever. Strong is beautiful. Delsym helpswhich means, impulse to cough for 12 hours. Youre controlling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. Delsym. The 1 12hour cough medicine. On average, one american dies every four minutes from a stroke. Chances of survival jump if emergency treatment starts quickly. Thats because almost 2 million brain cells die every minute during a stroke. A florida neurosurgeon is using fast as possible. And David Begnaud shows us how. Reporter theres just one surgeon who operates on all of the stroke victims at Palmetto General Hospital outside miami. This guy performs about 100 emergncy procedures every year, and he needs to be there whenever the call comes. That means if hes with his family, on the weekend, it doesnt matter. This guy feels an obligation to respond. Theres a stroke now . Yeah. They Just Announced it. Oh. Can i just try to find out yeah, please. Absolutely. Reporter in this case dr. Ratesh khashal was already here at Palmetto General Hospital but he often has to drive in to treat stroke victims. Depending on the time of day his 15minute commute can easily stretch into 45 minutes. Just the amount of damage that can happen in just about half an hour delay is spectacular. Reporter but now damage control for his patients. He uses emergency lights on his personal car, speeding his arrival to folks like robert buslow, whose family dialed 911 when tying his shoes and sweeping the porch. How bad was it . It was considered a fatal stroke if it wasnt taken care of. Reporter the neurosurgeon did take care of it before buslow even now what was happening. He must have gotten there very quick because the moment i got in there i was in the scanners going from one to the other and all of a sudden he got it out. Reporter just as he did for the patient who arrived when we were there. Khaslel pulled out a tiny blood clot like this. If i did not have the lights, if it had taken me another half hour to get to him things would have been very different. Potentially he probably would have been paralyzed on the right side and would have never been able to speak. The reason i have absolutely no ill effects is because dr. Khashel got there very, very quick. Reporter no sirens, though, right . . No sirens. Reporter do you like honk your horn . Yeah, usually, if i need to. Reporter we mounted a camera inside his car to see how it works. The lights allow him to drive on the shoulder of the highway around traffic backups. The Fire Department installed this after first checking to make sure still has to abide by all traffic laws. Reporter sew has to stop at the red light, go the speed limit. He can just sort of move through the backup on the freeway. And as people see the vehicle coming they usually yield. It does have risks. There are accidents that occur, crashes that occur. Reporter dr. Douglas kupas of the National Association of state ems officials, says ems medical directors sometimes respond to scenes with lights and sirens on their cars but that this is the first time hes heard of a surgeon using emergency lights. Whenever theres a jam. Otherwise id never use the lights. Reporter he worked 350 days last year, and he measures success by the minute. What we see is that any of these delays, those brain cells really translate to this person being able to walk out of this hospital on his own or go to a nursing home and be paralyzed for the rest of his life. Reporter so Health Officials suggest the best way for stroke victims to save time is recognize the symptoms. Theres an watch for these things. Uber started offering selfdriving rides this week in San Francisco. Just hours after the cars hit the roads wednesday, state regulators told the company to stop. Dash cam video caught a selfdriving uber blowing through a red light near someone who was crossing the streets. Heres john blackstone. Reporter were here at the stoplight where a pedestrian was just stepping off the curb as that uber car equipped for selfdriving sailed right through a red light. Now, no one was hurt here, but uber is on a collision course with state regulators who say the Company Needs a permit to test selfdriving cars in californ california. Only hours after a small number of ubers experimental vehicles went into service in San Francisco Californias Department of Motor Vehicles is illegal for the company to operate its selfdriving vehicles on public roads until it receives an Autonomous Vehicle testing permit. Uber contends it doesnt need a permit because the vehicles are operating with a safety driver behind the wheel. In a blog post on wednesday uber said complex rules and requirements could have the unintended consequence of slowing innovation. Uber has a long history of just kind of barreling into places where it wants to be. Reporter alex davies is the transportation editor for wired magazine. Its gone into cities all over the World Without really announcing itself to regulators, without much regard for the way the taxi industry is traditionally regulated. Reporter on wednesday dash cam video captured what appeared to be one of ubers specially equipped vehicles sailing through a red light just as someone stepped off the curb. Uber called the incident human error and said the vehicle was not part of the Pilot Program and was not carrying any customers. The pedestrian had already started coming off the sidewalk. Concerning. Reporter Jessica Felix was behind the wheel of the cab whose dash cam recorded the incident. We were on a busy 3rd street. It was 10 30. There was rush hour and people crossing the street. Its just neglectful. Reporter in its letter to uber the dmv notes, 20 manufacturers have already obtained permits to test hundreds of cars on california roads. Uber shall do the same. And if it doesnt the dmv threatens legal action to get ubers test cars off the road. No matter what happens in california, ubers going to move ahead with this technology. Its a huge Business Opportunity for it and lots of other companies in this space. Reportr its not clear whether or not uber will be pulling its selfdriving technology from the roads here until it gets a permit. As for the driver who went through the red light here, uber says that that driver has been suspended. The company will investigate. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im don dahler. Murder driven by hate. The white gunman who killed nine africanamericans at a bible study is convicted of hate crimes. He could get the Death Penalty. Also tonight, cbs news has learned alarming details of a Lightning Strike by russian erhack ts athe heart of the u. S. Military. Theyre down to the home stretch. Its the crunch before christmas for package deliverers. Were really geared up here. And Steve Hartman lets us in on there sec t this is crazy. Of secret santa. Youve no doubt seen the happy endings. But almost no one knows the le announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Dylann roof alone decided who would live or die when he opened fire on a group of africanamericans who had invited him into their bible study. He killed 9 of the 12. Now a jury of nine whites, three blacks will decide whether he lives after convicting him of all 33 counts in a federal hate crimes trial. Mark strassmann is at the courthouse in charleston, south carolina. Reporter dylann roofs jury took two hours to find him guilty of gunning down nine bible studiers in a church because they were black. Oh, my goodness. I could go on and on about tywanza. Reporter Felicia Sanders survived the attack. Her son tywanza was killed right in front of her. During her testimony she called out roof for refusing to look at her. That goes to show you how cold and callous he is. You slaughtered nine people and you sit there and dont even look . Reporter this morning in closing arguments federal prosecutor Nathan Williams called roof a man of immense hatred who committed an act of tremendous cowardice, shooting them as they had their eyes closed in prayer, shooting them on the ground. Prosecutors showed roof buying the murder weapon, firing it in his back yard, entering the mother emanuel church, and leaving after the killings Still Holding the glock. 45. He also confessed to fbi agents. I did it. Reporter defense lawyer david bruck conceded to jurors that roof was guilty but suggested mental illness. The massacre had a mad energy and there is something wrong with roofs perception, with how he is taking in reality. Sharon risher watched every day of the trial. She lost her mother, ethel lance, and two of her cousins in roofs rampage. Some people would dy roof is the poster child of why the Death Penalty exists. Right. Thats true. If this case didnt warrant the Death Penalty, then i dont know what case would have. Reporter the Death Penalty phase of this trial begins january 3rd and roof wants to act as his own lawyer. Scott, the judge told him today, okay, thats fine, you can do that, but you cant change your mind once the penalty phase begins. Mark strassmann for us tonight. Mark, thank you. We have exclusive new information tonight about an attack on the pentagon by russian hackers. National security correspondent david martin has learned how last year they seized the email system used by the nations top military officers, the joint chiefs of staff. Reporter then chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey, was alerted to the attack by an Early Morning phone call from the director of the National Security agency, admiral mike rogers. Now retired, dempsey told cbs news, the attack was proceeding at an alarming speed. Within an hour hackers had seized control of the unclassified email system used by the pentagons joint staff. The organization of some 3,500 military officers and civilians who work for the chairman. In that time the hackers seized the computer credentials of dempsey and hundreds of other senior officers. The passwords and electronic signatures they use to sign onto the network. The only way to stop the attack was to take the network down. The attack, which officials now blame on russia, began with 30,000 emails sent to a west coast university. Of those 30,000 four were forwarded to members of the joint staff and one was opened, allowing the hackers in. Since it was an unclassified network, the attack had no Real Intelligence value. It was not spying but a fullon assault whose only apparent purpose was to cause damage and rc both hardware and software, which took about two weeks to accomplish. The motive for the attack was believed to be russian anger at economic sanctions orchestrated by the Obama Administration in response to Vladimir Putins annexation of crimea and interference in ukraine. Cyber attacks have come to be known as weapons of mass disruption, and it is now clear russia has used them both to meddle in u. S. Elections and to do harm to the american military. Scott . David martin breaking this story at the pentagon tonight. David, thank you. U. S. Intelligence believes that the cyber attack on the email of the Democratic National committee was ordered by the russian president himself, Vladimir Putin. Heres Homeland Security correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter the evidence linking the hack to Vladimir Putin comes from what intelligence Officials Say are a variety of sources. Hundreds of people from the kremlin, the Russian Military, and the Intelligence Directorate may have been involved in the elaborate network of cyber espionage. It included two separate hacking units nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. Investigators believe that putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process. U. S. Officials say it was an added bonus that donald trump, seen as more friendly to russian interests, became the republican nominee. The hack that ultimately breached computers at the Democratic National committee began in the summer of 2015. These arent super sophisticated attacks. Reporter clint watts is a fellow at the center for cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington university. What russia does well is they target key people that they want to gain information from and they do it on a large scale, hitting thousands of people over the course of time. Reporter today in japan Russian Foreign minister sergei accusations are silly and futile and president elect trump tweeted, if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act . Why did they only complain after hillary lost . But mr. Trump is wrong. The Obama Administration did publicly blame russia for the hacks in early october. Thats a full month before the election. But scott, other than its statement it is unclear what, if anything, the u. S. Has done to retaliate. Jeff pegues in our washington newsroom. Jeff, thank you. The president will no doubt be asked about this at his final News Conference tomorrow. You can see it right here on cbs at 2 15 eastern time. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Today facebook said that it is partnering with Fact Checkers and news organizations to crack down on fake news, which plagued the election. Stories with little credibility will now be marked disputed and will slide lower down in users news feeds. Tonight millions in the midwest and the northeast are getting a visitor from the north pole in the form of arctic air and blinding snow. There were whiteout conditions across upstate new york. On a pennsylvania interstate 59 cars and trucks piled up more quickly than the snow. Demarco morgan is in a town where gusts whipping off lake ontario make it feel well below zero. Reporter officials in jefferson county, pennsylvania blamed whiteout conditions for this massive pileup on interstate 80, injuring three people. 22 tractortrailers and 37 cars lost control on the slick, snowy highway. The winter blast continues to pound much of the country. Lakeeffect snow warnings, watches and wind chill advisories are in effect from northeast ohio, where the snowfall caused massive delays on roads and highways to upstate new york. In rochester snow and strong winds also created blinding conditions for motorists. Dangerous roads also made it impossible for a food bank in adams, new york to receive a muchneeded delivery on time. Its sad, you know, but theres nothing we could do about it. Reporter nancy abbott is the food banks coordinator. Theres about 100 people each month that come. You know, its an extra. It helps people that are in need. Reporter this is the third time this season that superintendent Marybeth Denny has had to cancel classes in york. The forecast said that we were going to have high winds and whiteout conditions throughout the day and i just cant put buses on the road in that. Reporter the wind chill will likely get down to negative 15 before the night is out. As for Road Conditions in these parts, scott, officials have asked residents to avoid unnecessary travel until further notice. Demarco morgan with the big chill. Now lets check in with chief meteorologist eric fisher of our cbs station in boston, wbz. Eric, whats next . Scott, that cold air still on the move tonight and the core of it swinging down into the northeast. This will be the coolest air there since back on valentines day. Wind chill values well below zero and the worst of it over new england and new york when we wake up tomorrow morning. High temperatures stuck at or below freezing from washington, d. C. , cincinnati, the ohio valley northward for tomorrow. And as soon as we ge toward the weekend, a brief pattern shift, but its basically just reloading the pattern. Well get a quick warmup across the east but another blast of very harsh air moves down across the middle of the country. These are air temps, not wind chill values on sunday morning approaching 30 below zero in the dakotas. And scott, in chicago as the packers come to town, it could be the coldest game ever played at soldier field. Eric fisher, thanks. Today in syria hundreds of civilians escaped aleppo in a deal that gives the assad dictatorship control of a city ruined by syrian and russian bombs. Air strikes intensified in recent days, and today secretary of state john kerry called them nothing short of a massacre. The only hope syrians have under this bombardment is a force of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets. This sunday on 60 minutes, youll see their nearly miraculous rescues, like this. This little boy was alone and nearly invisible when the White Helmets happened to spot just his hair in the pulverized concrete of his home. Bare hands were in a race with suffocation. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Reporter this is that same boy, his face freed. They excavated the ruin hour by hour. The White Helmets say they have saved 70,000. And with each they shout their gratitude to god. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar. Reporter majd khalaf and radi saad quit college to join the White Helmets. There was a woman and her husband, he told us. Only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. We could see her moving her fingers like this. Fingers or here the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. The leg led to hipan allahu akbar. Allahu akbar reporter but then they uncovered a face. More often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. As of tonight, 154 white helmet volunteers have been killed in the line of duty. Our story this sunday on 60 minutes. We learned more today about the Chattanooga School bus crash last month that killed six children. The driver is charged with vehicular homicide. Police said he was speeding about 20 miles an hour over the speed limit and had used his cell phone on the bus. They still dont know whether he was using it at the time of the crash. Two chilen hospital. Tonight there is a water emergency in corpus christi, texas. More than 300,000 residents are being warned not to use tap water for anything. A chemical from an Asphalt Plant is leaking into the water, and people lined up for bottled water today with no idea how long this will last. Coming up, fedexercising for a marathon. A Silicon Valley server farm. The vault to mans greatest wonders. Selfies, cat videos and winking emojis. Speaking of tech wonders, with the geico app you can get roadside assistance, digital id cards. 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On monday ups expects to deliver 339 packages per second. Today the folks at fedex showed don dahler how theyre preparing for the christmas crunch. Reporter at its Distribution Centers like this one in the bronx fedex has beefed up staffing and increased workers hours to handle a Record Number of shipments. Managing director nanette malebranche. Weve been preparing all year for this, ever since last peak. We have 50,000 additional Seasonal Workers on board. Weve got 15 meteorologists 24 7 around the clock watching the weather worldwide. And were really geared up here. Reporter its not just fedex gearing up. Ups also expected to break its record of more than 700 million packages delivered. The company relocated hundreds of staff to its shipping hubs to pitch in. The increase in Online Shopping will drive up the volume of packages this Holiday Season. U. P. S. Will handle 14 more packages that than last year and fedex is expected to increase thm by 10 . The major shippers are working overtime to handle the avalanche of orders and prevent shopper discontent. Upss on time delivery rate was 93. 1 last week. Fedex ground was 96. 2 . Considering they move millions of packages a day, even a few Percentage Points means hundreds of thousands of late deliveries. Satish jindel of ship matrix tracks the carriers. Christmas is on sunday. Even though saturday is not a working day, if they find packages that didnt make it on time when people ordered it correctly, they will put people on the streets to make a delivery so people are not disappointed. Reporter tomorrow is expected to be one of the busiest Online Shopping days of the year. Scott, it happens to be the last day packages can be guaranteed to arrive by christmas without an extra charge. Santa needs the help. Don dahler, thanks. Up next, well remember craig sager, the sportscaster, and his outfits. And my cold medicines ugh, iwearing off. Chtime im dragging. Yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. Or, take mucinex. One pill fights congestion for 12 hours. No thank you very much, shes gonna stick with the shortterm stuff. 12 hours . Guess i wont be seeing you for a while. Is that a bisque . I just lost my appetite. Why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours . Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Sportscaster craig sager died today aft l with leukemia. Sager worked nba games on tnt for nearly a quarter century. Known for pointed questions and loud suits. One outrageous outfit drew a foul from nba star kevin garnett. You take this right here, i dont care if its versace, name brand its sai no, sai, i dont care. You take this and you burn it. 1974 when hank aaron hit his recordbreaking 715th home run, sager, a young radio reporter, dashed onto the field and scored an exclusive interview. The great craig sager was 65. Dolly parton held a telethon this week that raised 9 million for victims of wildfires in the great smoky mountains. 14 people were killed in those fires. 2,000 buildings burned. Two juveniles are charged with arson. Michelle obama gave her final oneonone interview as first lady to Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming cbs special and shared her thoughts about race. Color, wealth, these things d much of a role in how we see one another. And its sad because the thing that least defines us as people is the color of our skin. Theres more of the interview tomorrow on cbs this morning. The oprah special airs monday on cbs. Up next, Steve Hartman with the untold story behind a holiday classic. tis the night before Steve Hartmans annual sleigh ridealong with secret santa. Tonight steve shows us how this santa got off the ground. Merry christmas to you, sweetie. Reporter its the one story that never gets old. Every year we ride with secret santa as he and his elves hand out hundreds of hundreds to random strangers across the country. Oh, my god, this is crazy reporter youve no doubt seen the happy endings. But almost no one knows the humble beginning. Thank you so much. Reporter the legend of secret santa can actually be traced back to a single act of kindness in houston, mississippi. It was 1971. A homeless man had wandered into town, and he was starving. The stranger stopped here at the dixie diner and ordered the biggest breakfast on the menu. The bill came. But the owner, a guy named ted horn, sensed what was about to happen. So he snuck up behind the guy with a 20 bill in his hand and said, i think you may have dropped this. And that was the end of it as far as he was concerned. Reporter david and sandra horn are teds children. They say their dad died in 2009 but that one gift keeps giving. That one little 20, just look what it did. Its difficult to imagine that. Reporter the money went to a man named larry stewart, who vowed that day if he ever got rich he would return the favor in spades larry eventually made millions in cable and Long Distance and became the first secret santa. His identity revealed only after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006. Merry christmas. Reporter which brings us to larrys good friend. Larry was hospitalized reporter the current secret santa. And i went up to visit him at night. Moonlight shining in, kind of surreal. So i asked larry, i said do you have any regrets . And he said yes. I said what is it . He said, i just wish i could have helped more people. Reporter after giving away more than 1 million to total strangers, larry still felt more needed to be done. So thats when i assumed the responsibility. Reporter over the last decade this new secret santa has run the total to more than 2 million and counting. Tomorrow well take you on his latest sleigh ride, which comes with a twist. Lets just have fun. Reporter this time the job of giving the green will fall to some deserving elves in blue. Until then, im Steve Hartman on the road in kansas city, kansas. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be sure not to miss cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. American intelligence officials now say the president of russia himself approved the hacking of our president ial election. Sources confirm to cbs news they believe Vladimir Putin was aware of the attacks that started in july of 2015. This is the first time the hacking is being linked directly to putin. Jeff pegues has more from washington. The evidence linking the hack to Vladimir Putin comes from what intelligence Officials Say are a variety of sources. Hundreds of people from the kremlin, the Russian Military and the Intelligence Directorate may have been involved in the elaborate network of cyber espionage. It included two separate hacking units nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. Investigators believe that putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process. U. S. Officials say it was an added bonus that donald trump, seen as more friendly to russian interests, became the republican nominee. The hack that ultimately breached computers at the Democratic National committee began in the summer of 2015. These arent super sophisticated attacks. Reporter clint watt is a fellow at the center for cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington university. What russia does well is they target it at key people they want to gain information from and they do it on a large scale hitting thousands of people over the course of time. Reporter today in japan Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters the u. S. Accusations are silly and futile. And president elect trump tweeted, if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act . Why did they only complain after hillary lost . But mr. Trump is wrong. The Obama Administration did publicly blame russia for the hacks in early october. Thats a full month before the election. The president elect is getting closer to filling his cabinet. On thursday mr. Trump selected montana congressman ryan zinke for interior secretary. Meanwhile, he continues to meet possible cabinet picks and Business Leaders at trump tower. On wednesday the president elect met with the ceos of apple, google, and amazon but not twitter. Heres nancy cordes. Well, they did not get a dressing down by donald trump the way media executives did a few weeks ago, even though Silicon Valley leaders were largely critical of the president elect when he was running. Instead, he and they declared the meeting very productive and he told them his door would always be open to them. Were going to be there for you. And youll call my peoe, we have no formal chain of command around here. Reporter mr. Trumps meeting with facebooks sheryl sandberg, apples tim cook, and others lasted more than 90 minutes. The group discussed jobs, taxes and specific Innovative Solutions that have been blocked by narrow thinking in washington. I wont tell you the hundreds of calls weve had asking to come to this meeting. Reporter its a shift from the campaign when some of these Industry Leaders kept their distance from mr. Trump. Wikileaks revealed Googles Eric Schmidt had been working with Hillary Clintons campaign since 2014. Teslas elon musk said mr. Trump is not the right guy for america. And amazons jeff bezos publicly dueled with the president elect. Thats not an appropriate way for a president ial candidate to behave. You know, its amazon. He wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it. Thats not right. Reporter twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey was not invited to the round table, even though mr. Trump is a famously avid tweeter. That led some to assume the trump team is nursing a grudge after twitter reneged on an agreement to provide a special emoji to go along with the hashtag crooked hillary. In a statement twitter said they ultimately decided not to permit this particular format for any political advertising. The conference table was only so big. Reporter rnc Communications Director sean spicer insisted there was no attempt to shut twitter out. If you go down the list of the Top Tech Companies i guarantee you youll find additional ones that werent there. Reporter and twitter is smaller than the other companies that were represented in the room. Also in the room were mr. Trumps two sons, eric and don jr. , despite his vows to turn his business over to them and create a wall between the business and the white house. New Research Shows hundreds of Airline Pilots around the world are likely flying while depressed. Some even report having suicidal the study comes after last years germanwings crash in the french alps. A copilot intentionally flew his plane into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board. Kris van cleave explains why some pilots keep quiet about depression. Reporter the study uses a commonly used questionnaire to help pinpoint signs of depression. It comes at a time when the faa and its european counterpart are stepping up efforts to address Mental Health issues. The researchers sathere is more work to do. Pilots identify with their job, with who they its a part of us. Reporter in 2008 Airline Pilot colin hughes says he made the decision to ground himself after being prescribed antidepressants. Having that dream at that time it felt like was being shattered. Reporter he told us hes now flying again but says depression is a topic the industry doesnt like to talk about. Pilots are people too. We have feelings and emotions just like everyone else. Reporter new reseafo surveyed met the threshold for clinical depression. 4 admitted to having suicidal thoughts. The Current System is set up and designed all around selfreport. Reporter Harvard University Professor Joseph allen worked on the study just published in the Online Medical journal environMental Health. For many of us people in the general population they can often seek treatment or counseling. Whereas pilots if they do so they run the risk of severe impact to their career. Reporter seeking treatment or reporting an issue can result in a pilot being grounded. Since 2015 the faa has starte working with airlines and the pilots unions to increase the understanding of Mental Health issues and the symptoms while trying to reduce the stigma of selfreporting while improving treatment options. But issues like depression are believed to remain underreported. Pilots who are not fit to fly should not fly. But we need to make pathways for them to come back to work when their issues are resolved. Captain Sully Sullenberger is a cbs news aviation and safety expert. Sullenberger has worked to try to reduce the stigma of Mental Health issues after his father took his own life after a battle with depression. Its likely given these statistics i probably have flown with someone who had thoughts, they just didnt share them with me. Selfreporting is critically important. Reporter now, the faa has stopped short of recommending routine psychological screening of pilots, saying theres no convincing evidence it would increase safety. Pilots taking antidepressants can be grounded. Researchers found the level of depression in pilots is comparable to other high stress jobs. The trade group that represents airlines didnt comment. The Airline Pilots Association Says Airline Travel is still the safest mode of transportation. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Take delsym, the 1 12hour uncontrolcough medicine. It helps control the impulse to cough for 12 hours. Which means, youre controlling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. And when your days over, your cough is still under control. Thanks to the 1 12hour cough medicine. Just how wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. Now were going to show you how degree dry spray is different. Degree dry spray. Degree. It wont let you down. One of the toughest global challenges facing the next president is taking on several overlapping conflicts in the middle east. As a close american ally israel plays a key role in the future of the region. So what does the longtime leader of israel think about president elect trump, and how will they Work Together . Leslie stahl found out in a story for 60 minutes. I know donald trump. I know him very well. And i think his attitude, his support for israel is clear. He feels very warmly about the jewish state, about the jewish people, and about jewish people. Theres no question about that. With trump do you think israel will not be as at odds with the United States as you have been under the Obama Administration . Yeah, we had differences of opinions with i had president obama, and most well known of course is iran. Was it personal between the two of you . No. No. I dont think so. I think that suppose we had the greatest of personal chemistry. Okay . So what, you think i wouldnt stand up against the iran deal if i thought, as i did, that it endangers the existence of israel . Of course i would. Reporter he says it wasnt personal. But there were times when it sure seemed that way. The relationship, often rocky, hit bottom when mr. Netanyahu took the provocative step last year of lobbying against the Iran Nuclear Deal and by extension president obama in a speech before congress. It doesnt block irans path to the bomb. It paves irans path to the bomb. So why would anyone make this deal . When you campaigned against him and you spoke to the congress, it was read as a lack of respect and something that had never been done before. No. It was not born of any disrespect because i have the greatest respect for him. I had then and i have now. But do you regret that you did that . No. On the contrary. I think that its my responsibility to speak up when something threatens our very future. Reporter he says hes going to see mr. Trump soon, to lobby him to scuttle the deal. The president elect has called the agreement stupid and a disgrace. But trumps choice for defense secretary, general james mattis, has advised against pulling out. If it were to be abrogated, wouldnt that put you in a more precarious position than you are now . Because they would obviously then rush to the bomb. I think iran didnt rush to the bomb before there was a deal. Really . No. Because they were afraid of retribution. Okay. Get rid of the deal. Then what . I think what options we have are much more than you think. Many more. And ill talk about them like what . President trump well, i think quite a few, actually. Because if you put sanctions back on, the other signatories to the deal wont. There are various ways of undoing it. You have something in your mind. Yeah, i have about five things. Well, give me one. Id like to talk to the president before i talk to 60 minutes. What about the intelligence that the west is getting from onsite inspections . Apparently most of the Intelligence Community thinks its worth keeping the deal for that intelligence. I think we have the deal is not the critical thing of intelligence. Intelligence is the critical thing. Which israel is really good at. Which were very good at. And with a little help from our friends you dont think youre gaining that much from these onsite inspections for intelligence . Yeah. No. What about the silver lining, that because of this deal you now have all these better relationships with your neighbors. Well, thats true. I will say this. The only good thing i can say about the deal with iran is that it brought the arab states and israel closer together. Its the old proverb, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. On a trip to the desert town of beersheva he told us theres been a tectonic shift. Its been reported israel and the arab world are sharing intelligence. All i can tell you is that israels position in the arab world has changed because they no longer see israel as their enemy but as their ally in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant islam, those led by iran, the shiites, or those led by daesh, by isis, the militant sunnis. We hear that you have dramatically improved your relationship with egypt. Thats correct. Is that correct . Yes. Jordan . Yes. Saudi arabia. No comment. I have to ask you because its the most fascinating of all. Israel and saudi arabia. Are you actually developing an antiiran alliance in the middle east . It doesnt have to be developed. Its there anyway. Reporter israel is developing a whole skein of new alliances, in some cases with countries that have been challenging the u. S. Around the world. Like russia, which has placed its troops in syria, israels nextdoor neighbor. How would you describe your relationship with russia right now . Its amicable. But the minute mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in syria, i went to see him. And i said, look, heres what im doing. Im not intervening in syria. But at the same time, if syria tries to intervene with us, if iran tries to use syria to attack us, well stop it. Youre telling this to putin, that you will attack . I said we should avoid this. And he said, i agree. So we coordinated between our militaries because no one wants an inadvertent israelirussian clash. You have a friendship with mr. Putin and a friendship with china. You seem to be inching toward an antiamerican bloc god, no. Let me tell you something. Well, talk about that. Because i think theres an impression of that. Thats a false impression. First of all, theres an irreplaceable ally. Its called the United States of america. But here you are making friends with our adversaries. No. You have relations with russia and you have relations with china. We can have relations, economic relations, trade relations with other countries as you do. Why not . Reporter he has used economic and trade relations to improve israels standing in the world by selling and in some cases giving away its hightech inventions. Israel boasts of more startups per capita than anywhere in the world. Many based in bersheva. And nations have lined up to buy drones, as india has, and cuttingedge agricultural technology, as china has. Theres excitement about a new innovation that extracts Drinking Water out of air. So this is israeli diplomacy through technology. Exactly right. Countries that used to vote against you regularly at the u. N. Are now your clients. I mean, african nations. Its a revolution there. We cant keep up. Reporter whats surprising is that hes making progress with all these countries without making any progress with the palestinians, who have lived under Israeli Occupation in the west bank for half a century. What about the quality of palestinians lives . You know, its 50 years since what people call the occupation. Its 50 years. You still have checkpoints. People have to be cleared. Soldiers everywhere in their lives. Actually, ive lifted checkpoints quite a bit. And were trying to create bridges and thoroughfares and so on so we can have freer movement. And palestinians know, they look at aleppo in syria and they look at yemen, they look at libya, they look at other places, and they know that our intention is coexistence. You told us that israel is less isolated today than it has been many years in the past. And yet at the same time youre losing support in western europe. Isolated . All these countries are coming to israel not western europe. Not your natural allies or your older allies. They call you colonial. Theyre coming around they call you occupiers. Well, they call us a lot of things but theyre coming around, too let me tell you. To watch the full report go to cbsnews. 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Ratesh khashal was already here at Palmetto General Hospital but he often has to drive in to treat stroke victims. Depending on the time of day his 15minute commute can easily stretch into 45 minutes. Just the amount of damage that can happen in just about half an hour delay is spectacular. Reporter but now damage control for his patients. He uses emergency lights on his personal car, speeding his arrival to folks like robert buslow, whose family dialed 911 when he suddenly had trouble tying his shoes and sweeping the porch. How bad was it . It was considered a fatal stroke if it wasnt taken care of. Reporter the neurosurgeon did take care of it before buslow even knew what was happening. He must have gotten there very quick because the moment i got in there i was in the scanners going from one to the other and then all of a sudden he got it out. Reporter just as he did for the patient who arrived when we were there. Khashel pulled out a tiny blood clot like this. If i did not have the lights, if it had taken me another half hour to get to him things would have been very different. Potentially he probably would have been paralyzed on the right side and would have never been able to speak. The reason i have absolutely no ill effects is because dr. Khashel got there very, very quick. Reporter no sirens, though, right . No sirens. Reporter do you like honk your horn . Yeah, usually, if i need to. Reporter we mounted a camera inside his car to see how it works. The lights allow him to drive on the shoulder of the highway the Fire Department installed this after first checking to make sure it was legal. Still has to abide by all traffic laws. Reporter so he has to stop at the red light, go the speed limit. He can just sort of move through the backup on the freeway. And as people see the vehicle coming they usually yield. It does have risks. There are accidents that occur, crashes that occur. Reporter dr. Douglas kupas of the National Association of state ems officials, says ems medical directors sometimes respond to scenes with lights and sirens on their cars but that this is the first time hes heard of a surgeon using emergency lights. Whenever theres a jam. Otherwise id never use the lights. Reporter he worked 350 days last year, and he measures success by the minute. What we see is that any of these delays, those brain cells really translate to this person being able to walk out of this hospital on his own or go to a nursing home and be paralyzed for the rest of his life. Reporter so Health Officials suggest the best way for stroke victims to save time is recognize the symptoms. Theres an acronym, f. A. S. T. A drooping face, arm weakness or speech problems, and to get help as soo as soo captioning funded by cbs its friday, december 16th, 2016. This is the cbs morning news. Make America Great again. Thank you. President elect donald trump continues his thank you tour, as president obama vows to take actions against russia for election hacking. And cold blast. Icy temperatures and cold snow coasttocoast. We will tell you when the cold snap will break. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green