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One of the factors we look at is what we expect to be a more positive u. S. Manufacturing Business Environment under president elect trump and also looking at the progrowth policies and reforms both tax and regulatory reforms that hes been talking about, so it is a consideration, and its a vote of confidence that hell be able to deliver on those things. Also today mr. Trump threatened to take action against general motors. He tweeted, gm is sending mexicanmade models of chevy cruze to u. S. Car dealers tax free across u. S. Border. Make in usa or pay big border tax. In response, gm said most chevy cruze models are built in the u. S. , only a small number of hatchback models are imported from mexico. The Holiday Travel season came to an end with a series of head scratching incidents. First Customs Computers went out for several hours yesterday at a number of International Airports causing long lines for returning travelers. Kris van cleave is following this. Kris . Reporter jeff, customs says theres no signs of any sinister activity here, but this outage couldnt have come at a worse time. It was like a line of 1,000 people or more, and it was absolutely despicable. Reporter it was a nightmare for International Flyers with lines lasting for hours. Miamis airport was particularly hard hit. The outage came right as 30 or so flights were arriving. Officers had to manually check each passenger before they could be cleared. Flyers who have global entry and are used to speeding through customs in minutes, well, last night it took hours. Hundreds missed their connecting flights. Appears to be due to a Software Update that was installed last week. That update caused the system to crash. But, jeff, at this point everything appears to be running normally. Kris, there were a couple other unnerving airline events over the past couple days. Reporter absolutely. Take a look at this video. Southwest flight 3556 flying from san antonio to orlando. The airline says the 133 passengers on board had to put on oxygen masks after a pressurization problem developed in flight. The boeing 737 diverted to jacksonville, where it was met by emergency vehicles. There were no injuries. And a baggage worker was not injured sunday after being locked in the cargo hold of a United Express flight from charlotte. Crews on the ground at washingtons Dulles Airport found him there once the plane landed after an hourlong flight. The worker declined medical attention. We should tell you that cargo hold is pressurized. Still, the faa is going to investigate how this situation happened and how no one appeared to notice that it had happened. Jeff . Kris van cleave, thank you. The deep south is drying out and cleaning up after severe storms, including tornadoes that swept through several states yesterday. At least five people were killed. Omar villafranca is following this. Reporter residents in Southeast Alabama woke up in the path of the storms destruction. In rehobeth, four people were killed when powerful winds sent this 50foot tree crashing into a mobile home. Next door, j. P. Kelley spent the morning corralling his cows. The storm raked across his family farm, destroying a 50 yearold barn. Its the worst wind that i have been through. Reporter he rode out the storm with his wife, huddled in an interior room of his home. The tornado sirens went off probably 30 seconds ahead of it. Reporter is that all the time you had . I think so us reporter in jackson, alabama, blinding rain flooded the streets while the high winds ripped the roofs off of homes and left thousands without power. Even animals at the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo had to duck for cover after the storm shredded their enclosures. Patti hall is the zoos director. Our perimeter fence, part of that, about 30 feet of that has been taken down, and it has disappeared. It has gone away. Reporter the system shifted east to georgia where Kenny Simmons and his wife watched the fastmoving storm hit their home. The whole trailer started shaking. I looked at her. She grabbed ahold of me. I grabbed ahold of her. The winds came through. Reporter nearly 80,000 people in two states are without power. Jeff, cleanup is expected to take several weeks here, and there are more storms in the forecast for this weekend. Omar, thank you very much. Coming up next, a dresser tumbles and a 2yearold saves his twin bother. Also ahead, a tragic mistake calls attention to the dangers and new evidence about what sank the titanic. Ugh, its only lunchtime and my cold medicines wearing off. 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. 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The company could not confirm that but says it tells consumers all dressers must be secured to the wall using anchors it provides. Ikea recalled millions of dressers last year following the deaths of three children. In amarillo, texas, four children were killed yesterday in an accidental poisoning at their home. Their father set off a Chemical Reaction while using professional grade pesticide. Mireya villarreal is there. Reporter amarillo investigators say the father caused the deadly Chemical Reaction when he sprinkled pellets of a pesticide called weevilcide under the home and tried to wash them away. Reporter fire captain larry david says the water intensified the release of the toxic gas aluminum phosphide, which killed several Family Members as they slept. Do we know how the homeowner got his hands on this chemical . Were not positive. We were told the homeowner was given this chemical by a friend. Reporter the Environmental Protection agency restricts the purchase of weevilcide to licensed professionals and warns it should not be used within 100 feet of a home. The four children killed were ages 7 to 17. Six other Family Members are in stable condition. Has hazmat teams returned to the house today beginning the process of cleaning one of the worst poisoning accidents ever in amarillo history. The pesticide pellets are smaller than this dime, which will make finding them all and decontaminating the home extremely difficult. Jeff, experts say that if you need this level of pesticide, follow the law and use a professional. Mireya, thank you very much. Millions were looking into a crystal ball, but no one saw it coming. The great new years eve jewel heist, next. I really did save hundreds on my Car Insurance with geico. I should take a closer look at geico. Geico has a long history of great savings and great service. Over seventyfive years. Wait. Seventyfive years . That is great. 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On new years eve, thousands of new York City Police officers had their eyes on the ball, and thats apparently what a band of jewel thieves was counting on. Heres don dahler. Reporter at the exact moment 1 million revelers were ringing in the new year in times square, blocks away three burglars smashed their way to an estimated 6 million fortune in gems and jewelry. As two of the men used a sledgehammer and heavy wrench to break into the offices of gregg ruth, a commercial jewelry company, one caught sight of the surveillance camera and put it out of commission. The Jewelry Store is in a non descript building in midtown manhattan. Authorities say the thieves made their way to the sixthfloor offices and waited until the stroke of midnight before making their move. 7,000 nypd officers were on the nypd is looking at this as a possible inside job. The freight entrance would ordinarily be locked. And the burglars either found two of the four safes already open or they had the combinations. Former fbi agent manny gomez. The timing was no accident. The focus on that day was terrorism, active shooter, violent crimes. Burglary of a Jewelry Store was not on their radar, and thats why these perpetrators acted on new years eve. Reporter detectives are currently interviewing employees and anyone else who might recognize this man. Gregg ruth jewelers specializes in rare pink and yellow diamonds. There was reportedly another 7 million in jewelry in the other two safes, but, jeff, those were left unopened. All right, don. Thank you. What sank the titanic. A change of course from investigators. That story is next. I am the founder and director of slam dunk for diabetes. Slam dunk for diabetes is the only day basketball camp in the country and we provide the opportunity for children with prediabetes and type 1 and type 2 diabetes to get together, play ball and to learn to manage their diabetes. [olivia] when i first got to the camp, it wasnt like oh its so sad, all the kids have diabetes, it wasnt that at all, it was happiness, it was kids laughing and running and playing and i wanted to be a part of that so much. [monica joyce] coming back year after year, what olivia learned is that she really isnt alone. [olivia] she created a world for diabetic kids to play and be normal and have fun and meet people and meet other kids that have diabetes. I cant thank her enough [monica joyce] i met olivia in 2004 and i said to people, stick around, olivia is going to set the world on fire one day. Olivia has really been a marvelous example of what camp can do for children more than a century after the titanic sank in the north atlantic, there are new clues to the cause of the disaster. Researchers say it wasnt just ice but fire. Heres mark phillips. She was the largest ship ever built. Reporter the documentary gives a new twist to an ol story. And yet her Maiden Voyage would be her last. The titanic went down, she hit an iceberg, and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 lives with her, but that, the filmmakeayrs s, isnt the whole story. The whole story involves a fire that had been smoldering for days in one of the vessels coal storage bunkers. Look at this anomaly in the hull. Reporter a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened its sinking. The new theory comes from recently discovered old photos of the titanics launching. They gambled . Yes. Reporter irish journalist Senan Maloney had been working on the fire theory for years. He says the dark patch on the titanics hull shows the coal was burning even as the ship was being launched. The intensity of the fire not only weakened the forward bulkhead but also may have caused that severe deformity to the hull and the ship put to sea with an outofcontrol fire that required 12 men to try to tackle it for most of the Maiden Voyage. Reporter the coal fire was known about at the time and was dismissed as the cause of the disaster by the official inquiry that followed it. The smoldering fuel was dug out and burned in the ships boilers, but maloney says the need to get rid of that burning coal quickly may have been one of the reasons titanic kept going at high speed despite knowing here were icebergs around. Almost 105 years later, theres still enough doubt and interest to keep the story of the worlds most famous maritime disaster alive. Mark phillips, cbs news, london. That is the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. 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 jeff glor. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im jericka duncan. The 115th congress has been sworn in. Seven new senators and 52 members of the house took the office. When donald trump is sworn in january 20th, the republicans will control the white house and both houses of congresses for the first time in a decade. The first order of business in the house was to kill a republican plan to gut the congressional ethics office. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. Do you solemnly swear. Reporter the first controversy of the 115th congress came even before members were sworn in. House republicante the office of congressional ethics only to reverse themselves 19 hours later in the face of bipartisan condemnation. Virginia republican dave brat. Part of it is the headlines where we were backing off on ethics. Thats not a good headline when it comes to messaging. Reporter the white house called it revealing. Thats not draining the swamp. Reporter the final straw came in the form of a social media swolding from president elect donald trump, who urged the party to focus on tax reform, health care and so many greater things of far greater importance. That prompted an emergency meeting and an aboutface. Its been withdrawn. Its been withdrawn. Reporter republicans say they still intend to reform the office, which currently has the power to investigate anonymous complaints that can turn out to be baseless. Iowas steve king. Jesus had the right the face his accusers. He asserted that before the high priest, and were saying members of congress shouldnt . Reporter some democrats saw todays flipflop as a gift, but missouris Emmanuel Cleaver argued the episode hurt both sides. Everybody is getting an avalanche of angry phone calls from around the country on this issue. Reporter what are people saying . Well, theyre saying you guys are trying to remove any kind of ethical standards. You guys want to be able to do wrong and hide. Plans for president elect trumps inauguration are moving along. Thousands of protesters are expected to line the parade route causing headaches for kret service. And dozens of alist performers say they want nothing to do with the parade or the parties to foll follow. Reporter performing in an inaugural parade is considered an honor, something to cheer. These days its also considered something to protest. The mormon tabernacle choir often participates. It has sung in five inaugurations over the last half century. But thisim chamberlain resigned from the choir rather than sing for president elect donald trump. I have to take a stance against something that i see as coming across to others throughout the world as supporting someone with horrible practices and beliefs, and i cant support that. Reporter groups from new yorks Marist College will perform for the first time, but several students are refusing to appear, and the college is under pressure from alumni like Kelly Hetrick to back out. Its also sending the message that were okay with the things that the president elect says. Reporter alabamas oldest private historically black liberal arts college also plans to march, but its taking some heat for doing it. There are petitions online, both for and against the Talladega College marching bands appearance. Were open arms to everybody. Reporter but Boris Epshteyn with the Trump Inaugural Committee says who is in and who is d i will tell you, this will be an inaugural unlike any other, and it will truly, truly, truly show off the best of america. The big political changes are not limited to washington. After this latest election, Recreational Marijuana use is now allowed in eight states and washington, d. C. As for medical marijuana, its legal in 28 states, along with the nations capital. One study predicts the Legal Marijuana market will be a 21 billion industry within the next three years. Thats got a lot of younger americans looking at pot as a harmless drug that could generate even more problems. John blackstone has the story from a Marijuana Store in san francisco. Were here at spark, a medical marijuana dispensary. Despite legalization in california, this is the only place you can legally buy marijuana in california while the state develops rules for anyone over the age of 21. A new Study Suggests that legalization for adults may be impacting the way some teenagers view the risks of marijuana. Clay hurst and his mother now agree that teenage use of marijuana can be dangerous. But when clay was 14, he didnt see the risk. My son is an addict, and he has was an addict. He has been in recovery for over five years. Reporter you were a young teenager when you started using marijuana. Uhhuh. What attracted you to it . Knowing your parents are not going to support you as a 14yearold smoking marijuana, so its kind of the danger, the rush of that. He started using just very casually, and then it started being more of a daily habit, and that was quite alarming. He was really spaced out and zoned out all the time. Reporter clay started ecta ectasy, prescription drugs and alcohol. You put your family through some hard times. Absolutely. I was one of the lucky ones. A lot of my friends, it did not end that way. I had a few die, a few overdose. Reporter today he helps educate young people about the dangers of drugs. We know that early initiation of marijuana use is associated with a greater risk for marijuana dependence later on in life. Reporter coauthor of a new study of marijuana use by teenagers in colorado and washington, two states that legalized use of marijuana for adults in 2012. We found very Different Things in colorado and washington. Reporter in washington state, she found that since 2012, marijuana use among 8th graders has increased by 2 and 10th graders by 4. 1 . And the perceived harmfulness of pot has declined by legalization had no impact on marijuana use by teenagers. The risk to young people appear not to risk. For many years now, people have argued that its a bad idea to legalize marijuana for adults, because that will lead to more young people getting in trouble with marijuana. If anything, the latest results prove that is not the case. Reporter but the conflicting results point to the need for more study of the impact of legalization for teenagers. We know that longterm use is associated with Mental Health problems, economic and social problems, financial difficulties. Thats what we really want to prevent. Reporter it could be another year before sellers in california receive permits for resale sell of marijuana. Mythey have to be great on themy tinside and outside. 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How many bottles do you go through a day . Between 60 and 80 bottles per day. Thats a lot of dackaries. Is this just from today . Yeah. Reporter all those bottles were filled with Havana Club Rum, produced by a 5050 joint venture between the cuban government and a french beverage giant. Which sent jerome to cuba to run the business. We met him in a place thats rarely open to outsiders. A warehouse stacked to the ceiling with oak barrels full of rum. We built a very great success. When we started the partnership in 1993, we sold 5 million bottles a year. Today we sell 50 million bottles a year. Reporter 50 million bottles. 11 million of them sold here in cuba. The tourists drinking here are obvious. But we went looking down the side drinking it, too. And domino games and dance halls and discos. And sipping it along havanas sea front promenade. To distill and age all that rum, the cuban government relies on azbel morales. He loves talking about rum, but he says to really understand it, you have to drink it. [ speaking Foreign Language ] the first sip will impact you the most, he says, and mange you anxious for a second. I am anxious to continue the second sip. Reporter and a third and a fourth. We dont have anything else to do today, do we . Reporter and the cuban cigar that he says pairs perfectly with this havana club, as we drank and smoked, morales told me cubans aren gene. And to be Real Havana Club rum, he said it must be made from cuban sugar cain and aged in the hot and sticky cuban climate. Heres where it gets confusing. This is another bottle of Havana Club Rum. Exact same name, but you can see right here, this one is made in puerto rico. And its read by bicardi. How in the world can you say havana club when youre making it in puerto rico . Just the way that you say im calling it arizona iced tea and im not making it in arizona. Reporter rick wilson is an executive at bacardi. Originally a Cuban Company and now the largest privately held liquor business in the world. The true havana club, made with the recipe of the original founders is the Havana Club Bacardi is making and selling here in the united states. Reporter bacardi bought recipe from the family of this woman. And it was one of the healthiest families in cuba . Definitely. Reporter the family fortune was built on sugar and shipping and rum. Havana club rum. Like hundreds of other cuban companies, theirs was confiscated shortly after Fidel Castros revolution in 1959. They took over the company on december 31st, 1959. Do you remember that day . I remember that day vividly. My husband came home. He went to work early, and then he came home and he says theyve thrown us out. Its over. Its over he said . He said, its over. Reporter all of their assets gone, she and her husband were ordered to leave cuba with only the clothes on their backs. How much money didou nothing, nothing, nothing. What was it like when you got on the plane . Everybody on the entire plane was crying. I remember, i look out the window as we were taking off, and i say to my husband, take a good look, because youre not going to see it again. Reporter in cuba, they and bacardi had been competitors. But when the revolution came, rick wilson says bacardi had an advantage. Bacardi, unlike most other cuban families and companies, had assets outside of cuba. Is that the reason they were able to survive . Yes. Because we could continue to produce and sell our product, unlike them. Everything they had was in cuba, everything. Reporter everything except the recipe for Havana Club Rum. They eventually sold it to this version in puerto rico. They did it to compete with this version, made by the cuban government and their partner. That set off the longest bar fight ever. It has been fought, both in the court where is the latest lawsuit is pending, and the marketplace, between two of the Worlds Largest liquor companies. Pinot ricard produces vodka, scotch and gin. Bacardi makes vodka and sapphire gin. And now they both make Havana Club Rum and both claim the moral high round. It wasnt they looked up and were a competitor to you . We dont mind competition from them. Pinot ricard, though, is partnering with the cuban government, who has confiscated the assets of a family, compensation paid. Its hard to believe that a company like bacardi is just making a moral argument. Were not, were making a moral and a legal argument. And the legal argument is . Theft. It comes down its stolen property. Thats what it comes down to. The bacardi family will say that this havana club is stolen property. Well, you see the place we are in or distillery . It was built in 2007. And none of these facilities were used before the revolution . None of these facilities were used before the revolution, no. Reporter as he dismisses the argument that the Havana Club Rum he produces for pinot ricard in cuba is not the real thing because its not made from the original family recipe. The recipe remains in this land, he said. Sit here in this climate, the culture. Its very simple. To make a cuban rum, you need to make it in cuba. It doesnt take more than that. You cannot make cuban rum in puerto rico. Reporter and they cannot claim, he insists, to own the Havana Club Rum decades after abandoning it. How do you feel them saying the family abandoned the brand . They can say whatever they want. They can say that we abandoned. We didnt abandon anything. They threw us out. Reporter the castro government did that. The french company, pinot ricard, came along much later, and turned the Cuban Havana Club into a global brand and icon of cuban culture. You can see the full report on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. A post using the hashtag justrobbedthesafe so, what are we supposed to think . Switching to geico could save you a bunch of money on Car Insurance. Excellent point. Case dismissed. Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance woo because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. America has been employing lovable mascots for years. They run around the field, sometimes interacting with players or fans. But in japan, mascots are the main event, generating more than 16 billion a year. Adriana diaz has that story. Reporter theyre cooky, cuddly, and for some, a little creepy. Acts. Theyre the main event. Its been dubbed the capital of cute, and at the worlds character summit outside tokyo, you can see why. You can love mascots just like people, everything about them is cute. Cuteness, or kawaii in japanese, dominates pop culture. Thats why from young to old, the japanese are smitten. But dont be fooled, mascots are master salesman. Danny chu makes a living off his dolllike mascot. Shes an official tourism ambassador for japan, appearing on planes and buses. Chu says mascots are an essential Marketing Tool here. Whether its branding or new customers, folks that like a particular character, they would reporter the government alone has thousands of them. Take pipo kuhn with tokyo police. The bowl shaped toilet kuhn with waste management. The disarming waka pi, who promotes a prison of all things. And this is tom, the u. S. Embassy mascot. But for every dlister, some hit it big and cash in. The feisty pair funashai earns millions a year, and even has a hit single. And domo has appeared in u. S. Tv adds for 7eleven and target. But when it comes to celebrity, kumamo is king, generating billions through tourism and bearrelated you guessed it, theres a school for that. The owner is a mascot veteran. 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In the security footage, you can see norah randomly reaching out to him. Her mom, tara, says it was quite embarrassing. She said, hi, old person, its my birthday today. Yeah. Reporter and then had the audacity to ask for a hug. I said, a hug . Absolutely. Reporter norah got her hug and asked her mom to take a picture of her with her new friend. She just wanted to make him feel loved and give him a hug. His little lip quivered and it was just sweet. I said, you dont know, this is the first time for quite a while that ive been this happy. Reporter that all happened back in september, and his has only gotten wider since. Hi, sweet heart, come in. Reporter today, norah visits at least one a week. And every time, its the Grocery Store all over again. I knew i was going to get a hug. Reporter their last visit was over christmas. He got her some dressup clothes and she got him a gallery of framed photos. Its a bridge. Oh, okay. Reporter by the way, dan does have grand kids of his own. But theyre grown and gone. And norah does have grandparents, but her mom says this is a completely different kind of bond, that almost defies explanation. She fell asleep holding a picture of him. What . She opened me to a love that i didnt know existed. Do you feel like you have a purpose now . Of course. Norah. I know i made room in my heart for a lot more. Reporter steve hartman, on the road, in augusta, georgia. For this wednesday. From the cbs Broadcast Center in new york city, im jericka duncan. The 115th Congress Opens for business with an abrupt aboutface by House Republicans. Under pressure from the president elect, they abandon plans to weaken an ethics panel. Jesus had the right to face his accusers. Also tonight, preaching to the choir. Im speaking out according to my conscience. Why a former membnder aer oth trump critics say skip the inauguration. Frightening moments aboard a Southwest Airlines flight. As the clock struck midnight, thstves aruck Jewelry Store and made away with millions. Plus researchers say it wasnt just the iceberg. New clues to what sank the titanic. Th news. The new congress was sworn in today with republicans again in control of both the houses. But first there was a fire to put out. It started when House Republicans attempted to weaken an ethics panel over the objections of their own leaders, and it turns out the president elect. Conditional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Do you solemnly swear reporter the first controversy of the 115th congress came even before members were sworn in. House republicans voted to gut the office of congressional ethics only to reverse themselves 19 hours later in the face of bipartisan condemnation. Virginia republican dave brat. Part of it is the headlines where we were backing off on ethics. Thats not a good headline when it comes to messaging. Reporter the white house called it revealing. Thats not draining the swamp. Reporter the final straw came in the form of a social media scolding from president t who urged the party to focus on tax reform, health care and so many greater things of far greater importance. That prompted an emergency meeting and an aboutface. Its been withdrawn. Its been withdrawn. Reporter republicans say they still intend to reform the office, which currently has the power to investigate anonymous complaints that can turn out to be baseless. Iowas steve king. Jesus had the right the face his accusers. He asserted that before the high priest, and were saying members of congress shouldnt . Reporter some democrats saw todays flipflop as a gift, but missouris Emmanuel Cleaver argued the episode hurt both sides. Everybody is getting an avalanche of angry phone calls from around the country on this issue. Reporter what are people saying . Well, theyre saying you guys are trying to remove any kind of ethical standards. You guys want to be able to do wrong and hide. All right, nancy, what are the republican priorities now . Reporter well, their first goal in this new congress, jeff, is to do away with obamacare, unsuccessfully to do for years but now have their shot with a republican soon to be in the white house. So theyre aiming to pass a bill by the end of the week that would make it easier for them to repeal the entire Health Care Law within the next month or two. President obama is coming up here to capitol hill tomorrow, urging democrats to stand their ground, though, jeff, its not clear that they have much legislatively they can do about it. And nancy, 34 senators sworn in today as well as the entire house. Can you talk about some of the new faces . Well, there are some firsts here in the senate. Kamala harris of california is part indianamerican. You have katherine cortezmasto of nevada, the first latina in the senate. Liz cheney is now a member of the house of representatives, the daughter, of course, of former Vice President dick cheney. Shes representing wyoming, and adriana espaillat, a once undocumented immigrant. That is a first for congress. Much. It is tminus 17 days and counting to the trump inauguration. Anna warner says there is some controversy about the parade that will follow along pennsylvania avenue. Reporter performing in an inaugural parade is considered an honor, something to cheer. These days its also considered something to protest. The mormon tabernacle choir often participates. It has sung in five inaugurations over the last half century. But this time member Jan Chamberlain resigned from the choir rather than sing for president elect donald trump. I have to take a stance against something that i see as coming across to others throughout the world as supporting someone with horrible practices and beliefs, and i cant support that. Reporter groups from new yorks Marist College will perform for the first time, but several students are refusing to appear, and the college is under pressure from alumni like Kelly Hetrick to back out. Its also sending the message that were okay with the things that the president elect says. Reporter alabamas oldest private historically black liberal arts college also plans to march, but its taking some heat for doing it. There are petitions online, both for and against the Talladega College marching bands appearance. Were open arms to everybody. Reporter but Boris Epshteyn with the Trump Inaugural Committee says who is in and who is not does not matter. I will tell you, this will be an inaugural unlike any other, and it will truly, truly, truly show off the best of america. Reporter important people who have now confirmed that they will attend, president s jimmy carter, george w. Bush and his wife laura, and hillary and president bill clinton. Anna werner, cbs news, new york. Police in turkey are rounding up people who may have information new years. But the hunt continues for the man who shot up a trendy nightclub. Today we got a closer look at the man police are after. Jonathan vigliotti is in istanbul. Reporter new video today from the Turkish Police showed the suspected gunman filming himself in istanbul days before the nightclub attack. It is similar to a video that surfaced after the attack on the berlin Christmas Market where an isisinspired militant also took selfies. Turkish police have still not released the gunmans name. Its not clear if they have it yet. What they do know is that he arrived at the club by taxi, striking at 1 15 a. M. He killed a Police Officer at the entrance and barely missed the clubs coowner, who jumped over a railing. When i opened my eyes, he was still there, said ali unal. I was thinking of jumping on him, but he seemed so professional and flexible. Inside the gunman moved methodically, using several ammunition clips, indications he may be an experienced shooter. In his wake, 39 dead, nearly 70 injured, many of them tourists. Police say he left the club in another taxi heading to an apartment near the airport only to walk casually away. Police searched the apartment but turned up nothing. [ gunfire ] isis sympathizers online are already claiming the gunman has escaped back the isis territory, possibly across the border to syria. Police have now detained 16 people, including two at the airport who Police Believe may have helped the killer in his attack. The Turkish Police have taken an unusual approach to handling this investigation, leaking a steady drip of information to friendly local media instead of going on the record. Jeff, this allows them to release crucial photos of the suspect while giving them deniability if they dont catch him. All right, jonathan, thank you. The overnight news will be right back. Under pressure from the president elect, ford today scrapped plans to build a factory in mexico. Instead it will expand a plant in michigan to build electric and selfdriving vehicles. The company says that will create 700 jobs. Here was fords ceo mark fields on our streaming network cbsn. One of the factors we look at is what we expect to be a more positive u. S. Manufacturing Business Environment under president elect trump and also looking at the progrowth policies and reforms both tax and regulatory reforms that hes been talking about, so it is a consideration, and its a vote of confidence that hell be able to deliver on those things. Also today mr. Trump threatened to take action against general motors. He tweeted, gm is sending mexicanmade models of chevy cruze to u. S. Car dealers tax free across u. S. Border. Tax. In response, gm said most chevy cruze models are built in the phatchback models are imported from mexico. The Holiday Travel season came to an end with a series of headscratching incidents. First Customs Computers went out for several hours yesterday at a number of International Airports causing long lines for returning travelers. Kris van cleave is following this. Kris . Reporter jeff, customs says theres no signs of any sinister activity here, but this outage couldnt have come at a worse time. It was like a line of 1,000 people or more, and it was absolutely despicable. Reporter it was a nightmare for International Flyers with lines lasting for hours. Miamis airport was particularly hard hit. The outage came right as 30 or so flights were arriving. Officers had to manually check each passenger before they could be cleared. Flyers who have global entry and are used to speeding through customs in minutes, well, last night it took hours. Hundreds missed their connecting flights. Appears to be due to a Software Update that was installed last week. That update caused the system to crash. But, jeff, at this point everything appears to be running normally. Kris, there were a couple other unnerving airline events over the past couple days. Reporter absolutely. Take a look at this video. Southwest flight 3556 flying from san antonio to orlando. The airline says the 133 passengers on board had to put on oxygen masks after a pressurization problem developed in flight. The boeing 737 diverted to jacksonville, where it was met by emergency vehicles. There were no injuries. And a baggage worker was not injured sunday after being locked in the cargo hold of a United Express flight from charlotte. Crews on the ground at washingtons Dulles Airport found him there once the plane landed after an hourlong flight. The worker declined medical attention. We should tell you that cargo hold is pressurized. Still, the faa is going to investigate how this situation happened a h to notice that it had happened. jeff . Kris van cleave, thank you. The deep south is drying out and cleaning up after severe storms, including tornadoes that swept through several states yesterday. At least five people were killed. Omar villafranca is following this. Reporter residents in Southeast Alabama woke up in the path of the storms destruction. In rehobeth, four people were killed when powerful winds sent this 50foot tree crashing into a mobile home. Next door, j. P. Kelley spent the morning corralling his cows. The storm raked across his family farm, destroying a 50 yearold barn. Its the worst wind that i have been through. Reporter he rode out the storm with his wife, huddled in an interior room of his home. The tornado sirens went off probably 30 seconds ahead of it. Reporter is that all the time you had . I think so because it built reporter in jackson, alabama, blinding rain flooded the streets while the high winds ripped the roofs off of homes and left thousands without power. Even animals at the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo had to duck for cover after the storm shredded their enclosures. Patti hall is the zoos director. Our perimeter fence, part of that, about 30 feet of that has been taken down, and it has disappeared. It has gone away. Reporter the system shifted east to georgia where Kenny Simmons and his wife watched the fastmoving storm hit their home. The whole trailer started shaking. I looked at her. She grabbed ahold of me. I grabbed ahold of her. The winds came through. Reporter nearly 80,000 people in two states are without power. Jeff, cleanup is expected to take several weeks here, and there are more storms in the forecast for this weekend. Omar, thank you very much. Coming up next, a dresser tumbles and a 2yearold saves his twin brother. Also ahead, a tragic mistake calls attention to the dangers of pesticides at home. And new evidence about what sank the titanic. My swthis scarf all thatsara. Left to remem. 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Mireya villarreal is there. Investigators say the father caused the deadly Chemical Reaction when he sprinkled pellets of a pesticide called weevilcide under the home and tried to wash them away. There are eight people sick in the house and one is not waking up. Reporter fire captain larry david says the water intensified the release of the toxic gas aluminum phosphide, which killed several Family Members as they slept. Do we know how the homeowner got his hands on this chemical . Were not positive. We were told the homeowner was given this chemical by a friend. Reporter the Environmental Protection agency restricts the purchase of weevilcide to licensed professionals and warns it should not be used within 100 feet of a home. The four children killed were ages 7 to 17. Six other Family Members are in stable condition. Haz mat teams returned to the house today beginning the process of cleaning one of the in amarillo history. The pesticide pellets are smaller than this dime, which will make finding them all and decontaminating the home extremely difficult. Jeff, experts say that if you need this level of pesticide, follow the law and use a professional. Mireya, thank you very much. Millions were looking into a crystal ball, but no one saw it coming. The great new years eve jewel heist, next. In his role as president of the senate, joe biden swore in new members today, but as it often happens, kids stole the show. That you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office youre about to take. So help you god. I will. [ crying ] shes not so sure. How are you doing . Politicians are used to kissing babies. This one vetoed that idea. Researchers say they discovered a new organ in the human body. It is called the mesentery. It attaches the intestines to e abdomen. Scientists have known about it since the days of leonardo da it was long thought to be several separate structures, but now Research Shows it functions as one organ. On new years eve, thousands of new York City Police officers had their eyes on the ball, and thats apparently what a band of jewel thieves was counting on. Heres don dahler. Reporter at the exact moment 1 million revelers were ringing in the new year in times square, blocks away three burglars smashed their way to an estimated 6 million fortune in gems and jewelry. As two of the men used a sledgehammer and heavy wrench to break into the offices of gregg ruth, a commercial jewelry ancompney, o caught sight of the surveillance camera and put it out of commission. The Jewelry Store is in a nondescript building in midtown manhattan. Authorities say the thieves made their way to the sixthfloor offices and waited until the stroke of midnight before making their move. 7,00ny nearby. The nypd is looking at this as a possible inside job. The freight entrance would ordinarily be locked. And the burglars either found two of the four safes already open or they had the combinations. Former fbi agent manny gomez. The timing was no accident. The focus on that day was terrorism, active shooter, violent crimes. Burglary of a Jewelry Store was not on their radar, and thats why these perpetrators acted on new years eve. Reporter detectives are currently interviewing employees and anyone else who might recognize this man. Gregg ruth jewelers specializes in rare pink and yellow diamonds. There was reportedly another 7 million in jewelry in the other two safes, but, jeff, those were left unopened. All right, don. Thank you. What sank the titanic. A change of course from investigators. That story is next. A promise that hit the beaches of normandy. A covenant that split the skies over berlin. A vow that captured iwo jima. Omise was made. A solemn oath that liberated seoul. 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And yet her Maiden Voyage reporter Everybody Knows why the titanic went down, she hit an iceberg, and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 lives with her, but that, the filmmakers say, isnt the whole story. The whole story involves a fire that had been smoldering for days in one of the vessels coal storage bunkers. Look at this anomaly in the hull. Reporter a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened it sinking. The new theory comes from recently discovered old photos of the titanics launching. They gambled . Yes. Reporter irish journalist Senan Maloney had been working on the fire theory for years. He says the dark patch on the titanics hull shows the coal was burning even as the ship was being launched. The intensity of the fire not only weakened the forward bulkhead but also may have caused that severe deformity to the hull and the ship put to sea with an outofcontrol fire that it for most of the Maiden Voyage. Reporter the coal fire was known about at the time and was dismissed as the cause of the disaster by the official inquiry that followed it. The smoldering fuel was dug out and burned in the ships boilers, but maloney says the need to get rid of that burning coal quickly may have been one of the reasons titanic kept going at high speed despite knowing there were icebergs around. Almost 105 years later, theres still enough doubt and interest to keep the story of the worlds most famous maritime disaster alive. Mark phillips, cbs news, london. That is the overnight news for this wednesday. For some of you the news continues. 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 jeff glor. This is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im jericka duncan. The 115th congress has been sworn in. Seven new senators and 52 new members of the house took the oath of office. When donald trump is sworn in january 20th, the republicans will control the white house and both houses of congresses for the first time in a decade. Theyre promising big changes, but the first order of business in the house was to kill a republican plan to gut the congressional ethics office. Nancy cordes begins our coverage. Do you solemnly swear. Reporter the first controversy of the 115th congress came even before members were sworn in. House republicans voted to gut the office of congressional ethics only to reverse themselves 19 hours later in the face of bipartisan condemnation. Virginia republican dave brat. Part of it is the headlines where we were backing off on ethics. Thats not a good headline when it comes to messaging. Reporter the white house called it revealing. Thats not draining the swamp. Reporter the final straw came in the form of a social media scolding from president elect donald trump, who urged the party to focus on tax reform, health care and so many greater things of far greater importance. That prompted an emergency meeting and an aboutface. Its been withdrawn. Its been withdrawn. Reporter republicans say they still intend to reform the office, which currently has the power to investigate anonymous complaints that can turn out to be baseless. Iowas steve king. Jesus had the right the face his accusers. He asserted that before the high priest, and were saying members of congress shouldnt . Reporter some democrats saw todays flipflop as a gift, but missouris emmanuel clear argued the episode hurt both sides. Everybody is getting an avalanche of angry phone calls from around the country on this issue. Reporter what are people saying . Well, theyre saying you guys are trying to remove any kind of ethical standards. You guys want to be able to do wrong and hide. Plans for president elect trumps inauguration are moving along in fits and starts. Thousands of protesters are expected to line the parade route causing headaches for the secret service. And dozens of alist performers say they want nothing to do with the parade or the parties to follow. Anna wesh werner has more. Reporter performing in an inaugural parade is considered an honor, something to cheer. These days its also considered something to protest. The mormon tabernacle choir often participates. It has sung in five inaugurations over the last half century. But this time member j chamberlain resigned from the choir rather than sing for president elect donald trump. I have to take a stance against something that i see as coming across to others throughout the world as supporting someone with horrible practices and beliefs, and i cant support that. Reporter groups from new yorks Marist College will perform for the first time, but several students are refusing to appear, and the college is under pressure from alumni like Kelly Hetrick to back out. Its also sending the message that were okay with the things that the president elect says. Reporter alabamas oldest private historically black liberal arts college also plans to march, but its taking some heat for doing it. There are petitions online, both for and against the Talladega College marching bands appearance. Were open arms to everybody. Reporter but Boris Epshteyn with the Trump Inaugural Committee says who is in and who is not does not matt i will tell you, this will be an inaugural unlike any other, and it will truly, truly, truly show off the best of america. The big political changes are not limited to washington. After this latest election, Recreational Marijuana use is now allowed in eight states and washington, d. C. As for medical marijuana, its legal in 28 states, along with the nations capital. One study predicts the Legal Marijuana market will be a 21 billion industry within the next three years. Thats got a lot of younger americans looking at pot as a harmless drug that could generate even more problems. John blackstone has the story from a Marijuana Store in san francisco. Were here at spark, a medical marijuana dispensary. Despite legalization in california, this is the only place you can legally buy marijuana in california while the state develops rules for the retail sell of ea a new Study Suggests that legalization for adults may be impacting the way some teenagers view the risks of marijuana. Clay hurst and his mother now agree that teenage use of marijuana can be dangerous. But when clay was 14, he didnt see the risk. My son is an addict, and he has was an addict. He has been in recovery for over five years. Reporter you were a young teenager when you started using marijuana . Uhhuh. What attracted you to it . The tabu idea. Knowing your parents are not going to support you as a 14yearold smoking marijuana, so its kind of the danger, the rush of that. He started using just very casually, and then it started being more of a daily habit, and that was quite alarming. He was really spaced out and zoned out all the time. Reporter clay started using ectasy, prescription drugs and alcohol. You put your family through some tough times. Absolutely. Fortunately for me, i was one of the lucky ones. For a lot of my friends, it did not end up that way. I had a few die, a few overdose. Reporter today he helps educate young people about the dangers of drugs. We know that early initiation of marijuana use is associated with a greater risk for marijuana dependence later on in life. Reporter meg delane is coauthor of a new study of marijuana use by teenagers in washington and colorado, two states that legalized use of Recreational Marijuana for adults in 2012. We found very Different Things in colorado and washington. Reporter in washington state, she found that since 2012, marijuana use among 8th graders has increased by 2 and among 10th graders by 4. 1 . And the perceived harmfulness of pot has declined by about but in colorado, her study found legalization had no impact on marijuana use by teenagers. The risk to young people appear not to exist. Reporter Ethan Nadelman promotes letization. For many years, people have argued that its a bad idea to legalize marijuana for adults, because that will lead to more young people getting in trouble with marijuana. If anything, the latest results prove that is not the case. Reporter but the conflicting results in washington and Colorado Point to the need for more study of the impact of legalization for teenagers. We know that longterm use is associated with more problems like Mental Health problems, economic and social problems, financial difficulties. Thats what we really want to prevent. 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The head bartender needs to double up on rum bottles just to keep up with demand. How many bottles do you go through a day . Day. Thats a lot of dackaries. Is this just from today . Yeah. Reporter all those bottles were filled with Havana Club Rum, produced by a 5050 joint venture between the cuban government and a french beverage giant, Pernod Ricard. Which sent jerome to cuba to run the business. We met him in a place thats rarely open to outsiders. A warehouse stacked to the ceiling with oak barrels full of at domino games and dance halls and discos. And sipping it along havanas sea front promenade. To distill and age all that rum, the cuban government relies on azbel morales. Havana clubs master rum maker. He loves talking about rum, but he says to really understand it, you have to drink it. [ speaking Foreign Language ] the first sip will impact you the most, he says, and make you anxious for a second. I am anxious to continue the second sip. Reporter and a third and a fourth. We dont have anything else to do today, do we . Reporter and the cuban cigar that he says pairs perfectly with this havana club, as we drank and smoked, morales told me cubans are born with a rum gene. He said it must be made from cuban sugar cane and aged in the hot and sticky cuban climate. Heres where it gets confusing. This is another bottle of Havana Club Rum. Exact same name, but you can see right here, this one is made in puerto rico. And its made by ka bacardi. How in the world can you say havana club when youre making it in puerto rico . Just the way that you say im calling it arizona iced tea and im not making it in arizona. Reporter rick wilson is an executive at bacardi. Originally a Cuban Company and now the largest privately held liquor business in the world. The true havana club, made with the recipe of o founders is the Havana Club Bacardi is making and selling here in the united states. Reporter bacardi bought that original recipe from the family arechabala. And it was one of the healthiest families in cuba . Definitely. Reporter the arechabala fortune was built on sugar and shipping and rum. Havana club rum. Like hundreds of other cuban companies, theirs was confiscated shortly after Fidel Castros revolution in 1959. They took over the company on december 31st, 1959. Do you remember that day . I remember that day vividly. My husband came home. He went to work early, and then he came home and he says theyve thrown us out. Its over. Its over he said . He said, its over. Reporter all of their assets gone, she and her husband were ordered to leave cuba with only the clothes on their backs. How much money did you have in your pockets . Absolutely nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing. On the plane . Everybody on the entire plane was crying. I remember, i look out the window as we were taking off, and i say to my husband, take a good look, because youre not going to see it again. Reporter in cuba, the arechabalas and bacardis had been competitors, each making and selling popular brands of rum. But when the revolution came, rick wilson says bacardi had an advantage. Bacardi, unlike most other cuban families and companies, had assets outside of cuba. Is that the reason they were able to survive . Yes. Because we could continue to produce and sell our product, unlike them. The arechabalas, everything they had was in cuba, everything. Reporter everything except the recipe for Havana Club Rum. The arechabalas eventually sold it to their old rival bacardi, which makes t they did it to compete with this version, made by the cuban government and their partner Pernod Ricard. That set off the longest bar fight ever. It has been fought, both in the court where is the latest lawsuit is pending, and the marketplace, between two of the Worlds Largest liquor companies. Pernod ricard produces vodka, scotch and beef eater gin. Bacardi makes gray goose vodka and sapphire gin. And now they both make havana o moral high round. It wasnt that Pernod Ricard stepped up and looked to be a competitor with you . We dont mind competition from them. Pernod ricard, though, is partnering with the cuban government, who has confiscated the assets of a family, no compensation paid. Its hard to believe that a company like bacardi is just making a moral argument. Were not, were making a moral and a legal argument. And the legal argument is . Theft. It comes down its stolen property. Thats what it comes down to. The bacardi family will say that this havana club is stolen property. Well, you see the place we are in or distillery . It was built in 2007. And none of these facilities were used before the revolution . None of these facilities were used before the revolution, no. Reporter as he dismisses the argument that the Havana Club Rum he produces for Pernod Ricard in cuba is not the real thing because its not made from the original family recipe. The recipe remains in this land, he said. It is here in this climate, the culture. Its very simple. To make a cuban rum, you need to make it in cuba. It doesnt take more than that. You cannot make cuban rum in puerto rico. Reporter and the arechabalas cannot, he insists, claim to own the Havana Club Rum brand decades after abandoning it. How do you feel them saying the family abandoned the brand . They can say whatever they want. They can say that we abandoned. We didnt abandon anything. They threw us out. Reporter the castro government did that. The french company, Pernod Ricard, came along much later, and turned the Cuban Havana Club into a global brand and icon of cuban culture. You can see the full report on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. Member in your home. But lysol kills 99. 9 of germs including 8 cold and flu viruses. To help protect your home because my teeth are yellow. These photos . Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . 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Shes an official tourism ambassador for japan, appearing on planes and buses. Chu says mascots are an essential Marketing Tool here. Whether its branding or new customers, folks that like a particular character, they would go and buy those goods. Reporter the government alone has ou take pipo kuhn with tokyo police. The bowl shaped toilet kuhn with waste management. The disarming waka pi, who promotes a prison of all things. And not one to be left out, this is tom, the u. S. Embassy mascot. But for every dlister, some hit it big and cash in. The feisty pair funashai earns millions a year through merchandising and even has a hit single. And domo, the mascot for japans public broadcaster, has appeared in u. S. Tv ads for 7eleven and target. But when it comes to celebrity, kumamon is king, generating billions through tourism and bearrelated products. So how does one become a mascot . You guessed it, theres a school for that. The owner is a mascot veteran. Its Common Knowledge that when you want to draw a crowd, use a mascot, she said. So lots of companies are creating their own to boost their profile. She teaches exaggerated moves that will work under heavy suits and the nonnegotiable mascot code, never break character or admit theres a human inside. Thats why we werent allowed to film them suiting up. But we saw the before, and the after. 51yearold shinji gave up Computer Programming for a mascot career. In my regular life, im just a middle age guy, but in costume, i can forget myself and be someone else. Hard work that generates billions. But the currency of smiles and hugs may have no match. Captioning funded by cbs its wednesday, january 4th, 2017. This is the cbs morning news. With a rocky day one in the books for the new congress, lawmakers today are in for a battle between the president and the next Vice President over obamacare. Overnight Turkish Police arrested several subjects linked to the attack at the nightclub but theyre still looking for this person. And the cops slammed a girl to the ground in a cafeteria. What they said moments before the takedown