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53 is just too young. Music fans mourn the loss of a legend. Wake me up before you go go George Michael died Christmas Day. His manager said Heart Failure was the cause. The pop artist enjoyed a string of hits. Dont let the sun go down on me Freedom Freedom freedom you got to give for what you take you barely can see down the street. Everything is burieburied. Folks will be digging out in poe northeast following a ulwerf christmas storm. Today has been nuts. A lot of slideoffs, accidents. Russia fgnoreiis minteray ss a highly technical fault likely to blame for a crash that killed 92 people. Trump announcing hell shut down his charitable tovoid aiming conflicts of interest. Untangling himself is not easy. No question about that. A massive sinkhole in michigs an iptproming a state of emergency for more than 20 families who have been evacuated so far. A mveassi seal ran amuck and they tried to find out why he is on the run but ed, my lips on sealed. All that. The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the afc north ti tle. The Kansas City Chiefs win their 11th. That was a Feliz Navidad dah, dah, dah. President obama spending christmas in hawaii. He took himout to thank the troops for the past eight years. It heeas bn the privilege of my life to serve at your chief. On cbs this morning. You going to shake my hand . All right. Stephen colbert. I dont know where that hand has been announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im josh elliott with Margaret Brennan and vladimir duthiers. Charlie rose, Norah Odonnell and gayle king are all deservedly off. Pop music fans around the world are remembering a superstar of the 1980s and 90s. George michael died suddenly on Christmas Day at his home in england. I got to have faith because i gotha to ve faith faith faith i got to have faith faith faith such a great song love it. Michaels biggest hit too. Faith marked his emergence as a solo star and sex symbol easeme. The grammy winner sold tens of thousands of albums and as famous as his lifestyle. George michael burst pop scene in 1982 as a duo of the group wham oonch with guitarist Andrew Ridgeley they had a number of hits. A prolific song writer, michael was known as the Creative Force of the group and in 1986, he leftwham for a solo career. I got to have faith reporter his first solo album faith topped the charts in 1987 and providing hits that were both provof vokive and cashy. He was a singer. He was a songwriter and video visionary. Reporter but the entertainer also struggled with depression and drugs and had several runins with the law. Most famously in was arrested for lewd conduct in a restroom at Will Rogers Memorial park in beverly hills. He became known what he became known for winning grammys or selling record. Reporter he apologized to his fans after the incident and revealed that he is gay. I dont feel any shame. I feel stupid and i feel reckless and weak for having allowed my sexuality to be exposed this way. Reporter although the 80s an90s would be the height of michaels commercial success, he would go on to release dozens of records and was still filling stadiums more than two decade into his career. Dont let the sun go down on me reporter the 53yearold passed away on sunday in his sleep. That was a hit he sang with elton john. After learning of his death last night, elton john posted this saying i have lost a deep friend. The kindest most generous soul and brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and all of his fans. A brilliant artist. We grew up on that music. And that song last christmas on is going to be more poignant, i think. We had a singalong on the couch. Carrie fishers family says she is in stable condition this morning at A Los Angeles hospital. The 60yearold actress was put in intensive care after going in cardiac arrest from london on friday. Her costars Harrison Ford and mark hamel among the many sending their well wishes. Fishers mother Actress Debbie Reynolds tweeted this. For all of your fans and friends, i thank you for your prayers and good wishes. A dangerous winter storm threatens millions of people across the northern u. S. Today. Drivs to stay off the roads. After nearly a foot of snow fell in some areas overnight. This morning, there are blizzard warnings for much of north and south dakota with more snow and ice sweeping the region. Also rain and thunderstorms stretch from parts of minnesota all the way south to houston. Racial slavik of wcco is in our minneapolis station. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The biggest concern in minnesota is ice. Salt washed off the roads overnight because of the rain and could cause ramps and bridges to freeze and why state officials are urging drivers to avoid any unnecessary travel. Here in minneapolis, it wasnt much of a White Christmas as it was a wet one. Freezing rain created dangerous Road Conditions for drivers. When you catch that very small edge of ice and that is what is going to send you spinning on the roads. Reporter icy pavement caused this semi truck to tip on its side on interstate 494. No one was hurt. Blanketed the rest of the Northern Plains on sunday. Near whiteout conditions made traveling nearly impossible on. Plows struggled to keep up spreading salt and sand across roadways. State officials shut down hundreds of miles of highway to fight the snow. Never seen so much snow in my life. Reporter bismarck, north dakota had a snow emergency restricting vehicles on city streets to help crews keep routes clear. Nearly 200 meals east in fargo, officials declared a travel alert after freezing rain and snow created slick and slushy conditions. And in south dakota. Reporter thousands lost power thanks to snow and ice and 60mileperhour wind gusts and officials closed a stretch of interstate 90 telling drivers to stay off the road. Temperatures are freezing right now and expected to drop throughout the day. No snow in the forecast, but travel conditions are expected vlad . Rachel slavik, thanks. Megan glaros of wbbmtv is tracking the storm as it moves east. Reporter good morning. But not a good morning for travel across the Northern Plains and into the great lakes. We either have wind advisories for parts of wisconsin, minnesota, and iowa and stretching back into the dakotas but even blizzard warnings still in effect for south and north dakota this morning. Talking about intense snowfall. Paired with intense winds. Not a good combination for travel. Whiteout conditions expected there. We also will have some locations dealing with ice potential across parts of wisconsin and minnesota, and combine all of this, travel will certainly be impacted in that area. That storm system progresses on off to the east throughout the course of the dayoday and finally clearing for folks across the Northern Plains and forcing rain and snow across the eastern seaboard. Travel today is impacted in the areaha new york and new england and stretching into the Northern Plains. But part of the country gets a nice warmup today. Chicago hits 53. Cleveland, 64, and dallas at 70. Margaret . Megan, thank you. President elect donald trump and his family are working to resolve potential conflicts of interest 25 days before he is sworn in. The president elect released a Christmas Eve statement saying he would shut down his Charitable Foundation, but the time line isnt clear. New yorks attorney general is investigating the charity, so legally, mr. Trump cannot dissolve it. Julianna goldman shows us the complicated effort. Reporter good morning. This week, mr. Trump will continue to spend the holidays at his maralago in florida where he is meeting with advisers and finalizing staff picks and behind the scenes working to untangle any conflict of business interest between his businesses and his presidency and we may never know the confli not released his tax returns. At a Christmas Eve service, president elect trump and his wife were welcomed for a standing ovation. Earlier in the day, mr. Trump announced he would shudder his nonprofit the donald j. Trump foundation. To avoid even the appearance of any conflict with my role as president , i have decided to continue to pursue my strong interests in philanthropy in other ways. Since the campaign a series of controversies surrounding the charity. According to its tax filings from 2009 to 2014, mr. Trump did not give his foundation any money. For 2015, the foundation admitted to a practice known as selfdealing. The use of Charity Funds for ones own benefit which is a violation of irs rules. The admission came after a series of reports questioning whether Foundation Money was used to settle business lawsuits. The new York Attorney general opened an investigation and ordered the foundation to stop raising money. His office says while there is no time line for the investigation, mr. Trumps charity cannot legally be dissolved until the investigation is complete. Mr. Trumps announcement followed his son erics move to stop raising money for his own charity amid questions that donors could be seeking to curry influence. In response the president elect tweeted isnt this a ridiculous shame in last week, Newt Gingrich one of mr. Trumps closest allies said the president elect needs to do more than. This is not a country with trusting people with power. This is a country that wants accountability. Reporter there has has been staffing drama this past holiday weekend. Two days after announcing that jason miller would be White House Communications director, miller said he would not be taking the job in order to spend more time with his family. Thank you. Israeli is blasting the Obama Administration this morning over a vote at the united nations. A in the Security Council after fridays vote. The resolution condemns israeli settlement activity in the west bank and east jerusalem. The u. S. Abstained instead of blocking the measure. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned the u. S. Ambassador to israeli to express his anger. Errol barnett has more. Reporter in a highly unusual move, the israeli Prime Minister met with the u. S. Ambassador of israeli on Christmas Day. He also summoned envoys from 10 of the 14 other nations that voted yes. Netanyahu said sunday that israeli cannot and will not accept the Security Councils decision. As i told john kerry on thursday, friends dont take friends to the Security Council. Reporter israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pointing fingers at the Obama Administration, over states resolution that condemns settlement construction ghewest bank and jerusalem. Homes that are considered illegal under international law. On friday, the u. S. Declined to veto the u. N. Resolution. That would have shielded israeli from the measure. U. S. Ambassador to the United States Samantha Power explained the White House Position is not new. The United States has been sending a message that the settlements must stop, privately and publicly, for nearly five decades. Reporter this is the latest blow to the relationship between president obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Despite an arrangement that grants israeli more than 3 billion in u. S. Military assistance every year, netanyahu spokesman lashed out on sunday. We have ironclad information, frankly, that the administration really helped push this resolution and helped craft it. Reporter on friday, the white house said it has, quote, exhausted every effort to pursue a twostate solution through negotiations. And explained the decision to abstain happened within the absence of any meaningful Peace Process in the face of accelerated settlement activity. Prime minister netanyahu noted sunday how israeli is looking forward to the next administration, after donald trump weighed in on the resolution over the weekend. He even promised an Israeli Palestinian peace deal on his watch by sending this tweet. Quote, the big loss yesterday for israeli in the United States will make it much harder to negotiate peace. Too bad, but we will get it done any way errol, thanks. This morning, rescue workers in russia found a fuselage of a plane that crashed killing dozens. The military plane was headed to a base yesterday in syria and crashed into the black sea minutes after takeoff. L believed to be dead and thousands of people, including 100 divers searched the crash site yesterday and they recovered 11 bodies. The plane was flying a world famous russian army cir to perform in a new years concert. The minister said pilot error or a technical issue likely caused the crash. A powerful typhoon forced thousands of people out of their homes on Christmas Day in the philippines. At least four people have died. The typhoon passed north of manila before moving into the South China Sea and made landfall with gusts of 15 myer. It cut power to five provinces. New concerns in britain for Queen Elizabeth who did not attend church on christmas for the first time in decades. Other royals, including her husband prince phillip, went without her. Buckingham palace spokesperson said she is still recovering from a heavy cold and needed to stay inside. The queen still offered a recorded Christmas Day message, praising Unsung Heroes and others who inspire her. Barry petersen is in london with more on the queens state of health. Barry, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. When most of us get a cold, our friends wish us well. But when the queen gets sick and breaks with decade of christmas tradition, a whole nation worries. Prince charles and prince harry were at Christmas Services near the royal estate in northeast england, as was her husband prince phillip. She was notable by her absence. She is, says the palace, suffering from what it called a heavy cold. The queen is supreme governor of the church of england and said to be very runnieligious and no missed this Christmas Service and shaking hands with wellwishers in nearly 30 years. Think of at 90 and suffering a reporter the palace delayed her annual christmas journey to her estate. That trip usually takes place on a train. Instead, she caught a lift on a helicopter that picked her up at Buckingham Palace but the nation did hear from the queen in her annual christmas message taped weeks ago where she talked of the winners she met in the paralympic games. Inspiration fed the aspiration and having discovered abilities they scarcely knew they had. These athletes allow inspiring others. Reporter there was still plenty of royal watching available. William and kate spent this christmas with her family. Bringing along the royal pair that inspire all esthose oohs a the two Holding Tight to their christmas treats. Ah, indeed. It is cause for concern when anyone in their 90s becomes ill but its worth noting that the family. The queens mother lived to the ripe old age of 101. Margaret . Wow. Barry, thank you. Something very loving, i will say, about a couple suffering the same malady. Everybody knows im a huge monarchy lover fan. I love the history of it. Really . Yes. When we have time, ill explain how elizabeth is related to william, the conqueror. Who knew. More to come. Madeup news leads to a standoff over nuclear weapons. Ahead, we will tell you about a fake story that set off a really potential dangerous a marine who lost all of his limbs in combat will be able to touch and hold again. Ahead, see how the sergeant is now living his life after a remarkable operation that gave him a strangers hand. The news is back in the morning t not to be focusingo finaon my moderatepe. To severe chronic plaque psoriasis. So i made a decision to talk to my dermatologist about humira. Humira works inside my body to target and help block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to my symptoms. In clinical trials, most adults taking humira were clear or almost clear, and many saw 75 and even 90 clearance in just 4 months. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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The visit to the Marine Corps Base in hawaii to salute the troops has been a christmas tradition for the president and the first lady a like hes indicating they will be back after leaving the white house. President joking there about hitting the gym. Every time you go with him on the road, first thing he does in the morning, it shams tes the r of us. Fountain president of the United States can get up and go to the gym. Something tells me he will be back in hawaii. For sure. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Coming up in this half hour, a Wounded Warrior has a new reason to enjoy the holidays. He underwent a remarkable as you recall surgical transformation. What he did creates a lifelong dream. A Nuclear Threat triggered by fake news. Pakistans president was fooled bied madeup news about his country. Ahead the growing concern about worldwide consequences of false stories. Time to show you some of the mornings headlines from around the globe. The Washington Post says the opportunity to shape the judiciary. He will have to appoint an estimated 103 federal judges when he takes office and one Supreme Court justice. President obama inherited just 54 initial openings in 2008. Federal judges increasing decide hot button issues such as state gun control and abortion restrictions and immigration. A marathon woman was found on saturday two days into her journey. She was looking for help after she and her family were stranded by snow in a rental car. She was unconscious but suffering from cold exposure. Her husband and son were treated for frostbite. Time has the full text of the popes Christmas Day message. He dedicated it to all people, especially those scarred by war and wished peace to the victims peace to those who lost a loved one as a result of terrorism. Wall street journal says similarities are emerging among the suspects in european terror attacks. Investigators say the tunisian for last weeks bus attack was a cocaine dealer. Others are brushes with the law before pledging loyalty to isis. Britains guardian says the discovery of a world war ii bomb forced more than 50,000 germans out of their homes on christmas. The evacuation in augsburg was the biggest since the war ended in 1945. Construction workers found it last week. Officials chose Christmas Day to diffuse it because there is less traffic. Merry christmas. Yeah. Once it was diffused everyone was allowed to go home. Situation between israeli and pakistani. A tweet went out apparently responding to a false story that israeli had threatened to use its nuclear arsenal. The tweet reminded israeli of Pakistans Nuclear weapons. Tony doukoupil is here about th madeup news and power of a tweet. Reporter it started with a fake news article but then came the tweet from pakistans defense minister both eluding to the use of force and not the first instance of fake information creating a very real controversy. This article published last week by the website awdnews. Com falsely quoted a former top israeli official saying his country would destroy pakistan with a nuclear attack. In an apparent response, pakistans defense minister tweeted israeli forgets pakistan is a Nuclear State too. The israeliin claim, tweeting back, reports referred to by the pakistani defense minister are entirely false. Everyone should be on their guard against this kind of misinformation. Reporter John Greenberg is a National Staff writer for politifact. We have seen rumors circulate on the internet and we have see fake news show up in the u. S. President ial election in ways that we havent seen before. That level of escalation is truly frightening. Reporter in november, retired general michael flynn, president elect trumps pick for National Security adviser, tweeted a link to a fake news article that falsely connected Hillary Clinton and child exploitation. Earlier this month, a North Carolina man, armed want assault rifle, fired at least one shot into a washington, d. C. Pizza parlor while a theory that clinton was involved in child trafficking. It is now clear that socalled fake news can have worldwide consequences. Reporter following the incident dubbed pizza gate, clinton addressed the fake news controversies. Its apparent that the leaders in the private sector and the Public Sector step up to protect our democracy. Fake news is generally intended to get an emotional rise. The first thing to do is go and search on the web to see if either the website or that information has anything to it of substance. Reporter and pakistans defense minister late tweeted a clarifying statement saying their Nuclear Program is only a deterrent to protect their freedom and they desire to coexist in peace. Meanwhile, the twitter handle for awdnews appears to have been suspended. Cbs this morning reached out to twitter for an explanation, but we have yet to hear back. Strange new world. Ny, thank you. Relearning how to reach out and touch. Im just grateful that im going to have this opportunity to be able to hold somebodys hand again, to possibly be able to fulfill my dreams, my lifelong dream. Ahead, how this doublearmed transplant patient is managing everyday activities that most of us take for granted. We invite you to subji to o subscribe to our cbs this morning podcast. Find them on itunes and apples podcast app. We will be right back. Why am i so devastatingly handsome, im in a fragrance. Ad, and my sweethearts gone sayonara. This scarf, all thats left to remember. 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Reporter that was two years ago when john peck, a marine who lost all four limbs to an explosion in afghanistan in 2010, learned he might not have to rely on prosthetic arms for the rest of his life. These things, like suck. They are horrible. Reporter this summer, peck was wheeled into an operating room at brigham and Womens Hospital in boston for a 14hour surgery. Packed in ice chests arms from a young man who had been declared brain dead 36 hours earlier, were rushed in to be attached to pecks stumps. Dr. Simon talbot let a team of 60 surgeons and nurses and technicians. Is there a moment of truth in these surgeries, the moment when you know youve succeeded in attaching that arm . There is fabulous moment of truth when blood flows into the hand and you see it turn pink. E look at that. Pulse. Perfect. And that is that moment where you get butterflies and you know that this arm is actually back on and back alive again. The tip of the thumb is still coming back. Reporter when peck woke up the next day he had someones arms. I feel like these things are compressing and everything. Reporter before he can use them, his own nerves have to grow down to the fingertips and a slow and sometimes agonizing process. As those nerves grow back, sometimes they can give unusual sensations to people, sensations like electric shock and sensation like burning. There is one night in the icu, i was crying. I was in a lot of pain. Even through all of the meds i was on. I contemplated calling the doctor and be like, look, doc, i cant handle this pain and you have to take these arms after of me. Bring your arm out straight. Reporter he withstood the pain and his medical team constantly looking for any sign that new arms. Lets not sugar coat this. You got a lot of hard, hard work to do with an uncertain outcome. Yeah. Reporter thats pretty dawning. Any day, my body can say, nope, not having it and go back to brigham and get my arms reamputated even higher than i was before. Feel okay or too snug . Yeah, its too snug. Reporter the arms are in praises to protect them from strain and it could be a year before he has sensation in his fingers. Its very different having to kind of relearn, right . Because you learned with a prosthetic and you got that down. Now you got these arms back and you kind of got to relearn how to use them. Reporter two years ago when we first met john peck he was living in a handicapped accessible house. As you can see, the countertops are lowered. Reporter just putting the food on the table was an exercise in frustration. With this. Grabbing. Come here reporter all he is trying to do here is scramble a few eggs someone else has already taken out of the shell. Thats how i have to open up it tupperware. Even when new arms he has to learn how to sit up all over again. Youre not able to push off with your arms yet . No. Reporter but you will be . Oh, yes. As soon as those doctors give me that okay, ill be sitting up like a pro again. That is the head of the bed. Reporter everyday tasks the rest of us take for granted are now within his reach, thanks to the arms of a dead stranger. You dont know who the donor is . I do not. Reporter but his family may be watching this. Yeah. Reporter what would you like to tell the family . Im just grateful that im going to have this opportunity to be able to hold somebodys hand again, to to fulfill my dreams, my lifelong dreams. Reporter that dream, even when had he no arms, is to become a celebrity chef. I am going to compete on the next Food Network Star and im going to win it. And then im going to open up a restaurant. Reporter and if he never recovers enough dexterity to slice and dice, peck says, hell just run the place. For cbs this morning saturday, david martin in boston. From using his teeth to make scrambled eggs to now. Check out this picture posted on facebook showing peck using both arms to make dinner on Christmas Eve that is tremendous. Remarkable thing. Inspiration and perseverance. Wow. Good luck to him. That is such a tremendous story. I cant imagine what the family who allowed those limbs to be given up is thinking when they see this. I hope are happy. I look forward to a reservation in that restaurant. Yes. No one expected the quite like this. Ahead, how this trick play broke an nfl record and the internet first, its time to check your local weather. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by delsym. It helps control the impulse to cough for 12 hours. Uncontrollable cough, take delsym, the 1 12hour cough medicine. It helps control the impulse to cough for 12 hours. Trolling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. 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More real news ahead, including deep discounts for holiday shoppers. This years deals were better than ever before, but will the savings continue into the new year . We will find out. First, heres a look at todays eye opener at 8 00. Pop music fans around the world are remembering a superstar of the 1980s and 90s. The biggest concern in minnesota is ice. State officials are urging drivers to avoid unnecessary travel. Not a good morningor f travel anywhere across parts of the Northern Plains and into the great lakes. This week, mr. Trump will continue working to untangle any potentl presidency. Netanyahu said sunday that isi raelcannot and wnoill t accept the Security Councils decision. When most of us get a cold, our friend wish us well. But when the queen gets sick and breaksh wit decade of christmas tradition, a whole nation worries. Thank you very much. Everybody, god bless you. The president is joking about hitting the gym. 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President elect donald trump says he will shut down his Charitable Foundation to avoid conflicts of interest, but we dont know when. Mr. Trump and his wife went to church on christmas each ve in paucpalm beach, florida and got a standing ovation. New questions about his time line for dissolving his foundation. The president elect said in a statement, quote, i dont want to allow good work to be associated with a possible conflict of interest. The foundation has admitted selfdealing or using Charity Funds for its own benefit. New yorks attorney general has been investigating whether Foundation Money benefited the trump campaign. He says the foundation cannot close until that investigation is complete. Retailers gave ever holiday discounts this year. The wall street journal says one study of Online Transactions found 79 more involved promotions at the start of the Holiday Shopping season compared to last year. So how will those deals Impact Retail sales and will the savings continue into 2017 . Bloomberg News Reporter Shannon Pettypiece is here to answer all. Consumers seeing better discounts this holiday season. How come . If you didnt get 20 off you were not trying. This is a big deal season for shoppers. Two things going on here. One, we are addicted to deals. The 20 and 40 at some stores are table stakes so retailers have to keep upping the game to get people excited. So we saw 75 . 50 off clearance items. The other factor is online. Retailers can price match realtime, chasing each other to the bottom and trying to get the lure that shopper even it means taking a loss because they want the business and they are hoping once you get to their website, youll buy a few other things and come to them maybe next time youre looking for an item online. Are we going to see these kind of discounts continue . Have the retailers gotten it under control yet . They are already continuing. I was looking around this morning. Even highend retailers saks has 70 off and one calf i dont think. The retailers were curtailing their inventory going into the holidays and didnt buy as much as last holiday season. I think an niche big surge in deal but i dont know how long they will last. In february march a lot of sweats and coats will be gone so get it now because the inventory is not what it used to be last year. Holiday sales are expected to rise 3. 6 this year but retail sales in november only rose 0. 1 . Why do you think the Sales Numbers will be what they are this season . So things did get slow start. Part of that could be weather. The retailers are hoping that this last week of christmas, there was a real big push. Slow start but maybe the procrastinators faith showed up so we will see when the final numbers come in how good the last couple of days were. 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To put that a perspective, i am 52 and i just learned its not pronounced choppin. A long time classical musical star is a now a kennedy honoree. Martha argerich played in the concert halls in 1960s and she described as a genius and a recogni recluse. She sat down with seth doane where they talked about her remarkable and enduring career reporter there are few people on the planet who can make a piano do this. Martha argerich has a dazzling ability to pull emotions from these 88 keys. The the. Its complicated. Its not a relationship like that. I love the piano. I love to practice and i love to play. Its not like this. Reporter im surprised. Its not like this. Sometimes its like this. Good. But its not always. Sometimes i dont want to practice. I dont want to play. What is this . And i dont like the sound of the piano with other instruments. I like strings a lot. Reporter off stage, the unpredictable argerich reveals a personality as complex as the music she plays. The piano doesnt love me to day. When the piano doesnt like me, i dont play it. I say that. Reporter but the piano is an intimate object. I dont feel it like that. Reporter it certainly comes alive in her hand. She calls the piano her oldest companion, but specifies its not always a friend. Sotohear you speak, it sound like youre talking about a person, a relationship. Uhhuh. Well, thats what it is. Reporter that sometimes rocky relationship has taken her from her native argentina to the worlds greatest performance halls. A documentary made by one of her three daughters shows argerich behind the scenes, at times, anxious about playing. I really dont want to play, you know . Reporter she is known to cancel concerts. And dislike doing interviews. Hello. Reporter but on the day we met in a dressing room in rome she was warm and endearing. It goes okay. Reporter and treated us to a little concert. Reporter later, we watched her practice with antonio palpona who lead italys famed orchestra that she will perform with in the u. S. Next fall. She rarely does solos because they make her lonely. Music is wonderful. But the profession is not. Reporter now 75, she has battled cancer two times and had three marriages, and says the piano often kept her away from her daughters. During our interview, she suggested one daughter, annie, join us and share her seat. You see . Reporter argerich does things her way. We had a fun life, actually. We lived in a big house that was open all the time. Reporter and there was always music, particularly late into the night. So i would go to bed and i could hear. Reporter you would be trying to sleep and you would hear your mom practice . No, didnt try. Slept. Its normaor piano. Reporter all the time . Yes. Absolutely. Miss martha argerich. Reporter it was annie who first learned her mom was going to receive the Kennedy Center honor, and recognition from president barack obama. She doesnt just play the piano. She possesses it. As a critic once wrote, she is an unaffected interpreter whose native language is music. Reporter she seems to almost shrug off such praise. Would you do it differently, if you could, looking back . I think so. Reporter what would you do . But i didnt choose it. Reporter what do you mean you didnt choose it . I didnt choose. I was a pianist before i could decide that i was one or that i was going to. I didnt choose it. Its not a choice. Reporter not a choice. Rather, a natural ability. Argerich told us one always wants to do something one is not doing. Its a statement that revealed for cbs this morning saturday, seth doane, rome. You can watch the 39th annual Kennedy Center honors tomorrow night at 9 00 8 00 central here on cbs. A lot of amazing performances. I cant imagine just what it must be like to be that good, really at anything. Certainly the piano. The speed at which her fingers move across the keyboard is fascinating. President obama and her daughters solve a code and escape with seconds to spare. Ahead, how the first family is spending christmas in hawaii. Youre watching cbs this morning. When coughing keeps your family awake. Ntly. In our next half hour, we have a special holiday card for your family from our family. So to make time for that we will show you some of these headlines early. The arctic is getting warmer and the continents are growing colder. Last month, temperatures in the arctic spiked 36 degrees above normal. That warm spell corresponded with extreme cold over siberia and some believe the pattern is driven by low sea ice caused by climate change. Im the president went out for hawaii shaved ice after solving riddles inside a game room in honolulu. The manager of breakout waikiki says the obamas escaped with time to spare. 12 seconds to be exact. A nation exhails. Where the heaviest drinking americans live. Wisconsin is the only state where more than 60 of people 12 and older drink at least once a month. Water . December is the peak drinking month in the u. S. Because of the holidays. Wow. Okay on. Millions of immigrants used ellis island as the gateway to the american dream. He with will go there t to create a snapshot of history. Your local news is next. Anything with a screen is a tv. Stream 130 live channels. Plus 40,000 on demand tv shows and movies, all on the go. You can even download from your x1 dvr and watch it offline. Only xfinity gives you more to stream to any screen. Download the xfinity tv app today. Welcome back to cbs this morning. The managers of our National Parks have made photography a priority for decade. The National Park service just hired a photographer to document the human touch on the american landscape. One of his very first assignments focuses on ellis island in new york harbor. As part of our series america the beautiful jim axelrod met a man who wants his work to reveal more of the fabric of our nation. Reporter while at first look, his work space doesnt look so dreamy. An area like this, is this a challenge for you . This area is very much a challenge for me. Reporter this building abandoned for 60 years, boarded up and filled with debris, is actually supplying photographer jared bortise with a challenge. You have to make something that is big wide open space. Apparently. Reporter and when youre taking a photograph, especially the way the public consumes photography these days, its all instant, real quick. So what you have to do is try to find a composition and angle that you know is going to capture people and interest them. Reporter or tease tiz is sn his way through a forgotten corner of ellis island. Fall from the splendor of the great haul where 12 Million Immigrants entered the country. This room in particular very evocative for you. Whether its mattress sterilizes or that must grab your eye . Well, absolutely. Reporter ortiz is making sure all parts of the immigrants experience at ellis island are remembered. I definitely think about the emotions. I just cant imagine what it must have been like to go through that boat ride and coming off in that port. It inspires me to do the best can i because its important to get the stories told. Ellis island is important to American History because immigration is important to American History. Reporter historian kenneth c. Davis. 1 in 3 americans is descended from somebody who walked through these halls. Reporter ortiz is one of an exclusive photographers. One like this who capture our National Parks for the library of congress and like adams in the 1940s, jared ortiz uses a large format camera. Its really a control thing. I have to be ne you want to have all control over every aspect of your image, this is the taecamera to use. Reporter each shot could take a half an hour and light. A lot of process involving math and all for one split second, burned into film forever. What im doing is just trying to capture the essence of history and inform the public of what has happened in these locations with my photographs. Reporter for cbs this morning, jim axelrod, ellis island. Such a beautiful story. Yeah. Do you guys have family that passed through ellis island . Apparently. 1 in 3 of us do. 1963, pan am. Im intrigued by people who could go back and look at their ancestors and great grandparents coming through ellis island. What each group has gone througd fascinates me and i love that end shot there with the statue of liberty through the window. Beautiful. Large format for ever. One of our favorite holiday trar traditions here is introducing you to our entire team as they do all of the work that really matters. Helping us bring you all that how do charlie and norah and gayle not dance every time they come out of a commercial break . 2016 is an exciting year for us at cbs this morning. We bring you the news every day with the help and dedication of an entire team. Here is our holiday card to you. Candles burning low lots of mistletoe lots of snow and ice everywhere we go singing carols right outside my door all these things and more all these things and thats what christmas means to me my love thats what christmas means to me you know what i mean i see your smiling face like i never seen before even though i love you i love you more touch my heart for sure all these things and more darling thats what christmas means to me my love thats what christmas means to me my love i feel like running wild and have another child meet the mistletoe kiss you once and then much happiness in the coming year mo deck the hall with holly fill a treat with angel hair pretty pretty lives go to sleep and wake up just before daylight and all these things and more baby all these things and more thats what christmas means to me my love oh, baby we take some unexpected extra steps to raise healthy chickens with no antibiotics ever. Like putting oregano in their water. 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I hope youre having fun with all of your Holiday Gifts that you opened yesterday morning. Apparently, i was a bad boy this year. But, no, i got this; im really excited about this. Oh, congratulations on that aco on that one gift. Yeah, it was a rewrap. It was a regift to myself; i already had it, so it worked. As long as you love yourself, right . Yeah, i do. Youve got to first, youve got to start with yourself and love friends. Hey, listen to this. The first artist was actually here when i was on vacation. And of course when i watched his performance back then, i thought, well, maybe i shouldnt go on vacation anymore. Well, it was a great performance. Oh, my goodness, his voice sounds perfect. If you remember his classic hit, im dreamin, from the 90s, it still sounds great today. And maybe thats because music runs in his family. Ella fitzgerald was a close relative. Yes, and here is Christopher Williams singing dreamin. [song im dreamin begins] oh, yeah, yeah, my, my, my, my, my. Dont wake me, im dreaming. The party with me this morning. Come on, you all. Oh, come on, dc, for real. My, my, my, oh, oh. If im dreaming, then just let me sleep dont wake me up till my dream is complete. Just leave me alone. Turn off the lights and unplug the phone. I cant get over the fact that im with you. Now that i have you, i dont know what to do. Girl, if im dreaming, im dreamin bout you, about the things that i like to do. Dont wake me, im dreaming