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System that looks a lot like ours. See hour Artificial Intelligence from google gave astronomers a breakthrough. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Senator rubio will be there. Were doing very well on the tax front. We have tremendous support, tremendous spirit. Dissension within the ranks threatens the tax reform. He wont vote unless the child tax reform credit is made more generous. President trump spoke with russian leader vladimir putin. They talked about the crisis over north Koreas Nuclear program. The new York City Police department is investigating allegations of rape against music mogul russell wilson. He denies the accusations. Its like trying to drink from a fire hose. A firefighter has died while battling the thomas fire flames northwest of los angeles. Tragic and devastating day. All that in florida, a man riding a jet ski was worn into the water. An offduty sheriffs deputy was nearby. I got you, bro. Hes in for the touchdown. And all that matters the fcc did something absolutely despicable. They voted to put an end to Net Neutrality. If youre watching this show online right now, i just want to remind you on cbs this morning. On tuesday, very unexpectedly my wife julia gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. My wife will probably kill me but id love to show you a picture of us with our little girl. There we are. Here we are. I cant believe it. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. James corden has joked. That was brad and angelina. They did have a little baby girl. Theyve been confused sometimes for sure. All the time. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im gayle king along with face the nations John Dickerson whos been with us all week and, of course bianna golodryga. Norah odonnell is on assignment. We begin with this. The republicans have promised to finish the tax reform by christmas. The clock is ticking and theyve reached a stumbling block. That means the gop has not nailed down enough votes to pass the overhaul. Rubio has said hell vote no if that credit isnt increased. Lee is officially undecided. President trump and other gop leaders say they can work out the problem. But there are other problems including the hecht of two key republicans. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest obstacles to tackle tax reform. Good morning. Good morning. The republicans are planning to unveil the text of their bill actually today so people can read it before they hope what will be a vote as early as monday. But in the meantime theyve run into several significant problems with no easy solutions. I think that senator rubio will be there. Republican leaders are scrambling after Floridas Marco Rubio and utahs mike lee issued an ultimatum. Theyre demanding that the refundable Child Tax Credit be increased by more than 100. An earlier bill would have doubled it. Unless they can find way to add to the 1,100 figure i support the bill. Tennessees bob corker could also be a no. Hes worried about what the bill will do to the debt. And then there are the two republican senators who are ailing and have missed votes all week. Arizonas john mccain and mississippis mike cochran. Mike pence is skipping a trip to jerusalem in case hes needed to break a tie. There could also be an issue with senate rules. The plan cant cost more than 1. 5 trillion but this version appears to be even more expensive than the left. Democrats argue that the bill is a giveaway to big businesses that are already thriving. It permanently slashes the Corporate Tax rate and does not close many corporate loopholes as republicans initially promised. Its a monumental con job. The individual cut rates are set for sun set after 2025. Theyre now considering moving that date up to save money. This is being rushed to judgment and the American People by substantial numbers believe this bill is not good for them. These republican challenges do not get any easier if they buy themselves some time. In a couple of weeks, they are going to lose a senate seat due to that democratic win in the Alabama Senate race. And so gayle, they are really working to figure out what they can do right now. Yeah. Theyre scrambling. Thank you very much nancy. John do you think republican senators can really vote against the bill or is this all for show . Corker of tennessee already voted against the version, so hes probably where hes going to be. Marco rubio is a little bit hes getting a little bit of negotiation out of this. Im surprised more senators dont do this. Yo get a lot of gift baskets when youre the person. What theyre in the sense doing is focusing on the last mile of legislation on this notion that basically a lot of the benefits of this tax package either goes to the wealthy or the corporations. Why not a little bit for the working poor . It kind of crystallizes at the last moment here an argument democrats have been making about the bill. When it actually comes to the bill, what do you think theyll do . I dont predict, gayle, especially in this Political Climate but theres timing as nancy suggest, which means i think well have a little burst of excitement at the end. And the president is putting a lot of pressure on them too. He sure is. Well see if hes a salesman. This weekend on face the nation john will speak with senator James Lankford. Last week the president said the bureaus reputation is quote, in tatters over its handling of recent investigations. Julianna goldman is at the white house. Julianna, good morning. Reporter good morning. With most president s speaking to the fbi would be par for the course. This is actually President Trumps first visit to the fbi. His last visit was canceled after he fired former fbi director james comey who was very popular at the bureau. He called comey a liar and a leaker. Todays circumstances perhaps just as fraught considering the Ongoing Investigation thats reached Top White House aides and remember President Trump said the fbis reputation was the worst in history. This is after they found text mojs disparaging candidate trump from a cia agent. It was said there is no finer institution, so, bianna we will have to see whether President Trump echoes those sentiments later today during his speech. Julianna thank you. President trump meantime called russias president yesterday to say thank you. They spoke after Vladimir Putins yearend session with the reporters where the white house said he acknowledged americas strong economic performance. Elizabeth palmer attended the conference. Shes outside the kremlin in mom cow with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Not only did he mention the financial markets, he gave credit to President Trump. President putin had nothing good to say about america, but he did praise donald trump. He dismissed the russian allegations of meddling in the American Election as just the work of people opposed to donald trump who wanted to undermine his legitimacy which is by the way, exactly the explanation used by the up with President Trump andriticizing america is a very good way for president putin who still sees the u. S. As an enemy of exacerbating the turmoil and divide in american politics. Gayle . Elizabeth palmer reporting from moscow. Thank you. Bianna . States are considering lawsuits after the fcc ruled on Net Neutrality. The new those renovations were blocking innovation. The appeal could content providers like Google Facebook twitter, and netflix. They say the fight i commission moved forward i aotesters and lawmakers gathered threatened to overthrow the ruling. We are out here in the cold to turn the heat up on the federal Communications Commission it is time for us to restore internet freedom. Reporter the chairman a. We should have a level playing field. Those against the measure say they will charge consumers for highspeed internet and those who cant afford it will be left with poor connection. On wednesday critics of chairman pai launched attacks. He appeared in this video which many saw as moxing their concerns. He doesnt seem to care. He has refused to cooperate. He sort of laughed that off. New York Attorney general Eric Schneiderman said hell sue the fcc claiming the÷i process of voting was not sound because it was wrought with millions of fake comments. Not what the American People deserve and this is not something the courts are going to put up with. Reporter and they refused to listen to public attention. This appeal wont go into effect for a few months, so consumers wont be seeing the changes today. The fcc is trying to ease some concerns saying if they do raise your rates, they have to disclose that. Of course, they can do it in the fine print that nobody actually reads. Nobody reads fine print or very few do. We should start. Youre right. The new york Police Department is investigating sexualo1 allegations against music mogul russell simmons. One woman said he held her down while she kicked and screamed. A spokesman said quote, russell will fully support and will continue with the police inquiry. He denies the accusations. Variety reports on accusations of assault from three women. One says the actor exposed himself in a New York Hotel room when she was 16. Two others in the article said hoffman sexually assaulted them in the 1980s. His attorney calls them defamatory falsehoods. A dallas mother is in jail this morning accused of faking her 8yearold sons multiple illnesses. Christopher bowen had more than 300 doctor visits and endured more than 13 major surgeries. His mother is now charged with injury to a child. Omar sri a franvillafranca has more. Doctors at this hospital blew the whistle and Child Protective Services found that the child had a feeding tube was on oxygen was taking seizure medication and he might not have needed any of it. More than 300 doctor visits 13 surgeries. Yes. Christopher bowens father said he has been trying tostody of his son for the past three years, but christophers mother Kayleen Bowen Wright claimed her son was on his deathbed each time they were in court. As soon as she would get on the stand each and every time she would basically start crying saying he was in a coma. Reporter a local news story covered a report in which there was a fundraiser to help him. In the past two years at least two other fundraisers were ran online. Did you worry she might kill him . I figured one time that might end cause. Reporter Child Protective Services says for eight years bowen wright put her son through medical tests and surgeries. But they began to suspect christopher wasnt really sick last month. They called cps. An affidavit believe bowen wright may suffer from a Mental Illness where a caregiver fakes or creates symptoms for sympathy or attention. Those are certainly elements of cases. These investigations are very rare. They dont come up very often. The 8yearold and siblings are in foster care. His son now appears to be healthy. Im so sorry that i wasnt able to be there to stop the harm thats been done unto you. We have reached out but havent heard back. We heard they do go doctor shopping so they can avoid being caugh. As for ryan, hell be in Court Next Week hoping to get custody omar thanks. Nasa is cel groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence helped to discover a new planet. They used advance learning technology by google to find this thousands of years away called kepler 90i. Good morning. Morning. Nasa researchers have known about this faraway solar system for some time, but its the discovery of how it was made that has the Scientific Community very optimistic. In the neverending search for life beyond planet earth, nasa scientists have uncovered the only other eight planets they know of that circles the sun. With help from google and their Software Scientists analyze thousands of data points from this nasa planting space telescope on kepler. Having all this information coming from kepler for scientists is like trying to drink from a fire hose. Reporter astronomer derrick pitts. The google system has been able to search through that pile of information much faster than ns have been able to dig through it. If you think about the of the number of stars in the galaxy to the number sands o its as i weve been asked to search all the grains on the earth and search for the red ones. Reporter unlike earth the temperature on the surface of this planet is about 800 degrees fahrenheit which is far too hor the possidevelopment of life as we know it. Its about 25 hundred light years away. That means even yeah. Current rocketou knowt direction. Take us millions of years just reach kepler 90i. The new planet orbits the star what about you . Right g bgtheres a chance. You know there are other possibilities of hiding planets in that system. You never know. Y they just found this one. 8 800 degrees. Thats a lot of sunscreen. I didnt know you were a science geek. Thanks very much. One of the 5 largestammvpany companies, did they get off easy in an opioid ca this is the biggest case in the history of the Drug Enforcement administration. Ahead, well hear from a former dea insider i a free ea 7v yh cp an capture suicide bombers. And well talk about rail hubs. Youre watching cbs this morning. Announcer portion of cbs this mo lets go places. So your folks took it pretty hard, huh. They loved that tree. It really meant a lot to them. This is our tree. Lets bring everyone closer this holiday. Toyota. Lets go places. Vp cn manolo youre so cold, come in whats wrong . Its dry. Your scalp . 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Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Good morning, im rahel solomon, the cow who led police on two different chases has been officially relieved of her duties, in a liver nativity scene in old city. Take a look, ginger the new star of the nativity scene at fourth and race streets ginger the calf of stormy who you may remember stopped once end ending up onu i95, then parking garage in old city, her mom isagriculture high school. Now, we check yet again. Are interesting, flipped forecast to this time, in the am, primarily north and western counties got hit the hardest, now youre in the pm ho south and it, so advisory is going to be in effect heruue,iall do start to rebound over the span of the weekends but focus on today one to 3 inches every snow expected through the afternoon evening, in the hardest hit areas. And more like coating though head inland to the north and to 2 inches in philadelphia, meisha. Good to know, all right katie, thank you so much. Still waiting for the talcony palmyra bridge going up, questionedly scheduled seven minutes ago still hasnt done so yet. Keep an eye out for that, it should be, delays on route onecause every disable troll any media. Rahel, over to you. Meisha thank you. Next update 7 55, up next, new tsa technology that could detect excon sealed explosives. H3f war theaters across the country last night to be the first to see jedi. They were the first ones. The eighth installment of the iconic fra expected to dominate the box office thisi q . Final screen appearance aspirin says leah. Thats going to beittersweet see her that way. My prediction is its going to umber one this week. What do you think . My husbands probably in that line. That guy stole my darth malcolm stum. Democratic senator said the final will not allow churches tose political candidates. Theyre worki rl4econcile the house andll. Dq ey hadca part camps underirefighter battling the massive thomas fire died. 32yearold cory iverson died his wife is expectingre condition to last through the weekend. Thomas fire covers 379 square miles northwest of los angeles. Its the fourthfornias history. Such a sad story. Today is Free Shipping day. 1t jj costs on all o more than 900s areteticipateing this year. Mi the Washington Post on crisis wherep a. Ever pursued against a drug company. Retired dea agent Dave Schiller spoke for the minutes. He said the settlement against the drug company mackissen is too lenient. This is the best case weve ever had in the history of the Drug Enforcement agency. How do we not go out there in the height of the epidemic when people are dying everywhere. Doesnt somebody have to be held accountable . Reporter Holding Mckesson accountable means going after the Largest Company in the world. They earn almost 200 billion a year in revenue, about the same ascs e the 1990s theyve made billions. Before he retired in august schiller had supervised investigations in Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering cases, but he considered the case against mckesson to be the single most important investigation of his lifetime. What did they do that was wrong . The issue with mckes son is they were providing millions andsscnoe plions be to n sortdiligence. This wasnt just h california. It was happening in detroit michigan and new york it was a national problemdy wanted to dealit. Werecu join eded by your firstysreport jawdropping for a lot of people 8 who were what you revealed for the very firstff time. Now youre back talking about the dea and mckesson. What is the accusation . The dea requires distributors like mckesson report what they call suspicious orders. These are orders that are unusually large or of unusual frequency, and back in 2008 mckesson paid a more than 13 million in a settlement because the deanu said they were sending huge numbers of suspicious orders around the country. Shortly after they signed that settlement dea investigators saw mckesson doing pretty much the same thing, sending 0i thousands and thousands and thousands of suspicious orders around the country. And they said that since this was the second time that they found the company doing it they wanted to come down hard on them. They wanted to use them as an example to the rest of the industry. They wanted to come down hard but the attorneys in washington the dea attorneys in washington, they were a little more lenient, and thats what our story is about. Lenny, why were they more lenient . Where was th between the dea and the lawyers . If you watch cop shows you know the investigators are always aggressive and the attorneys are always a little more cautious. The attorneys have to evaluate what can we prove . What can we win in court . Theres a very l divide between those two in this case. What we didnt realize is how big the gap was, how egregious conduct of mckesson was and why the investigators thought it was worth so much larger punishment. Was it about motivation from mckesson . It could have been sloppy behavior and not intent. Is that what intent was . Intent is always hardurt. Thats always a stumbling block. What investigators said and youll see on sunday they had intent. The lawyers disagree. It sounds like some of the 3d ythli law includingf that has thats what we found. We went down to washington and were talking to senators there and were saying for the law that we did first piece about, the dea sort of tied their hands when it came to going after these companies. The lawmakers it was only a threepage law. Many of them said they didnt know what was in it. What was mckessons response to your investigation . We tried to get someone from mckesson to talk to us on camera camera, and they declined. But we spoke to the lead attorney many times through the course of this and he basically told usompany and the dea lawyers all agreed that it was fruitless to look back and go back over alleged wrongdoings, that what they wanted to do from now on was look forward. And going forward, the company said that it no longer and the to watch the company and make sure that they2o behave. All bink the Washington Post and right airports have met detectors, do you stop suicide bombers . 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Its being tried all around the country including in washington, d. C. Kris van cleave is inside washingtons Union Station right now. Kris, good morning. Reporter good morning. Whether its an airport, subway at Union Station, you have a common problem. What do you do where the public gathers. You can use police and bombsniffing dogs but this will help. This bomb goes off in a crowded tunnel. Its the kind of suicide bomber attack that this system is trying to stop using scanners to identify people terning the Transit System for dense items hidden under their clothing like an exploding vest. When that turns from green to red, we know weve identified someone who needs more of a closer look at. We can quickly isolate them and move to the area. If there is a threat we can contain that much easier. Reporter theyre currently using it whether four of the major commuter lines connect. More than 80,000 passengers move through here each day. The scanners are designed to operate in the background scanning people real time without using radiation. Theres no Silver Bullet no technical Silver Bullet to protect all acts of terrorism, but clearly as a layer of defense, it can play a role and make it harder for the bad guys. They hope it can lead to better detection be it at a train station or afrmt this is being looked at here outside washington, d. C. The goal is to eventually be able to scan people as they pass by. What you want is a scanner where people keep walking. They keep walking. They dont even notice theyre being screened while theyre doing it. The tsa says amtrak used the screener here during the business thanksgiving travel holiday season. We know new jersey has also tried out the scanners. More testing will be needed. Kris van cleave thanks. 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Good morning im jim donovan, cbs3, holiday fest, heads to bethlehem this evening, this is live picture from the christmas city, the spirit of the season can be found everywhere in the city including the famous star on south mountain. Our kate bilo and Vittoria Woodill will be live from bethlehem tonight on Eyewitness News beginning at 5 00. Now we send it over to katie for a look at todays forecast actually, very light snow, working it way through to add to the christmas spirit, add to the wintery feel out there. But youre going to see the heaviest of the snow from the next disturbance come in across the southeast half of the area. Winter weather advisory going into effect 1 00 p. M. For coating up to 2 inches of snow in the city then to the south and east, maybe as many as 3 inches locally possibly, see little more at the general window as well, one to 3 inches in the heaviest hit area high hits 32 degrees however today so cold day nice rebounds coming our way by tuesday up to 50 degrees. Welcome back. Still looking busy out there so take a look, schuylkill eastbound montgomery drive bumper to bumper conditions moving in the eastbound direction, and kind of similar story here, 95 southbound, cottman, still very, very slow push all the way into center city, so still have to give yourselves extra time there. And construction on 422 east between sanatoga, starting 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Jim. Thank you shall meisha, next update, 8 25, the big medical advances we its happy friday to you on this 15th of december 2017. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Ahead, bob woodward of the Washington Post looks aet the tax overhaul and other issues affecting President Trump. And dr. David agus is here in studio 57 today with some of the new therapies that could make us healthier next year. We all want that. But first heres todays eye opener at 8 00. Republican leaders made a promise to finish the tax reform by christmas and the plans just hit a major stumbling block. It does not get any easier if they buy themselves some time. Theyre going to lose a senate seat. Im surprised more senators dont do this. You get a lot of gift baskets, you get what you want when youre the person. This is President Trumps first visit to the fbi. He canceled the first visit after firing former fbi director james comey. Theyre facing lawsuits after they removed Net Neutrality rules on internet providers. There are other possibilities of hiding planets in that system. You never know. They just found this one. 800 degrees. Thats a lot of sunscreen you have to block out. Have you ever done this before . All the time. Look at this. A little sidewinder. Oh, man. You got the money. So how long has he been practicing that shot . It was a money shot. It looked like he was hauling a medicine ball out of that pocket. Nicely done. I im gayle king with John Dickerson and bianna golodryga. Gop senator marco rubio says he cannot vote for this because the child tax too small. Republicans can only afford to lose two votes in the snachlt marco rubio and mike lee who was undecided want the Child Tax Credit increased. Senators agreed to more but it was cut back in negotiations with house republicans. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. At the same time the republicans are now trying to make that tax credit more generous theyve got other lawmakers saying this bill is already too expensive. Tennessees bob corker for instance, he voted once before and could vote no again because he believes theres going to be a very heavy load on the debt if this bill gets passed. Then there are two other republican senators. John mccain and mississippis thad cochran who are ill and have missed votes all week. A spokesman for cochran said hes available for votes as needed, but mccain whos battling brain cancer in the hospital, no one knows when he might return. They can only afford to lose two gop votes. In january, that margin drops to an even slimmer 5149 votes, which amplifies the pressure on them to get this done quickly. In fact, Vice President mike pence was slated to visit jerusalem next week. He has now delayed that trip, gayle, so he can be here to cast a tiebreaking vote if needed. Hey nancy, big story yesterday and last night reporting that paul ryan thinking about retiring after 2018. What are you hearing about that rumor and his future on capitol hill . He says hes not going anywhere any time soon but like any leader he will probably take stock after the 2018 midterm elections, if his party is still in control of the house, what is his relationship like with the very conservative freedom caucus. He sometimes tangles with those members. What is his relationship like with President Trump . Right now its pretty good. In fact the president told ryan yesterday that if these reports are true hell be very unhappy, but were told that ryan assured the president that he isnt going anywhere. And if hes unhappy, would you know it if President Trump was unhappy . Would you know . We might get a tweet or two. If youre unhappy and you know it, go to twitter. Nancy, thanks. Bob woodward associate editor of the Washington Post joins us. He and Lenny Bernstein led the watergate scandal. Thats woodward on the right in this photo. Bob, good morning. Good morning. When you look at this lastminute negotiation over the tax bill does it look familiar to legislation you receive before . The lastminute negotiation . Well this is exactly the way not to do tax reform. I remember in the 70s when i started reporting, lawyers said the tax code was about that big on the shelf. Its now this big. You cant go at it in this way. It would make so much sense for everyone to just say lets wait till after christmas. Lets let people see what this is. Its an important issue. It affects everyone. But, you know were in the era of impatience and speed and political promises so it looks like something might happen. Well see. Well, you know talk about waiting till after christmas, bob, the democrats are saying they want to delay the vote until after senator doug jones senatorelect doug jones is seated in january. Do you see any chance of that happening . Thats unlikely. Theres a momentum to this. President trump has made it very clear he doesnt want to end the year without some success, some accomplishment, but lets you know, this is if you go back to the beginning of the Obama Presidency when they rammed through obamacare and really have been paying for it since because i remember talking last year with trump about this when he was a candidate that all successful politics is coalition building. Youve got to include some on the other side. And trump said oh absolutely. I know that. But were not seeing it practiced by both sides. Too bad. Bob, let me move on to the Russian Investigation especially about trumps advisers having to tiptoe around the russia issue any time it comes up. There are some who think hes trying to discredit bob mueller and some are trying to discredit bob mueller in the hopes of one day firing him. What is the likelihood of that happening . The future is veiled on this. Obviously theres tension. If trump is correct he thinks theres no collusion and nothing here he should welcome a full investigation. That post story shows he does not agree with the overwhelming conclusion of the intelligence community. So, again, this is something were going to have to wait and see about. But, you know that is not the emotional culture were living in, wait and see. Its lets do it lets have a fight. Lets have a political skirmish. Bob, you have covered a lot of National Security systems within different administrations. You know about the coordination thats required the dance steps that are required to make good policy. With that knowledge, assess that reporting about what is done in the National Security apparatus around the president with respect to russia and what that means for just making good decisions. Well, you know, thats kind of a side issue. Im doing a book on trump for next year and trying to look at the big picture and some of the components. The good news is in the first year of the trump administration, we have not had a major escalation of a war or a new war. And as you get into the weeds on this where i have some time to do that there is a rather long and serious debate on lots of these issues like the middle east, how to deal with china, north korea. So its not all bad news. But this tension on russia needs to be settled. All right. Bob woodward, thanks. Sunday on face the nation, well talk with senators James Lankford and bernie sand ders. Well see you sunday. Youve got long week john. The man never takes a break. Well 2018 could be a year of big Health Breakthroughs from editing dna to cures diseases with vaccines. Dr. David agus who also doesnt take a break is in the green ro the global cost of cyber crimes could reportedly hit 6 billion. Ahead, one of the worlds top Cyber Companies will show us the biggest threats in 2018 and how to fight back. Youre watching cbs this morning. 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In 2017 weve seen headlines for new goals for Blood Pressure and child hood leukemia and gene edits and how pigs can become new organ donors. We could see better flu vaccines to fight the flu. Dr. David agus is here. All the time we hear its not good. What do you say . It wasnt good in australia. Even if it doesnt prevent the flu, it will tamp it down. Youre talking about better vaccines in 2018. We always like to get a good shot. What are you bringing to the table . There are two major advances in the vaccine. Theres one i had this week which is a shingles vaccine. A third of us are going to get shingles. Its a reactivation of chicken pox. I dont know what it is. Its a reactivation of chicken pox. It comes on hard. It comes on hard. Hits a third of us. 200,000 cases a year. The old vaccine is okay but this is recommended for everybody 50 and older. Its a pain in my arm but its going to prevent me from getting it in the future. This notion of going in once a year and getting a shot for the flu hopefully is the old. Hopefully we can target the inside which is more stable. Those are in Clinical Trials and very exciting. The universal is you do it once . A booster a decade down the road but it wont be a yearly shot. Weve been hearing the promise of gene therapy for many years. Is 2018 the year where its going to come into fruition . Its wild. We have this gene crispr. Now were going to see acrosstheboard diseases edited with this dna. A spell checker. Imagine in the future a child not being born again with a genetic disease. But as we know from spellchecker, sometimes auto correct can Say Something you dont mean. With crispr who is monitoring how they so they dont go too far in editing jeans. Do you want to talk about something that happened with auto corrector . You really hit an important part. Im not sure who regulates this. If we regulate it here, somebodys going to go to canada to get it done. We need real leadership here. What if someone wants to make their child bigger or smarter or blonder or whatever they want to do. They conceivably can do. This is an area like spiderman says, with great power comes great responsibility. A lot of ethical questions surely. What are your biggest concerns . Thats it. Thats the biggest concern. Whos in charge. You need leadership. And right now in the health space, which is almost a third of our economy we dont have real leadership. We did mayor bloomberg was a great Health Leader for the city of new york. We havent had a great one yet. I almost didnt recognize you. You didnt have on your traditional black sweater. I heard people fell down on the dance floor when you walked in the door not wearing black. This was new four years ago and it makes me a little uncomfortable that im doing it. Does it make you uncomfortable . Yes, yes. Hes a new man with the shingles vaccine. Im going to get you a green sweater, purple. Dr. David agus thanks. Yellow. Lock your computer and demand money. Ahead, the digital threats you should watch out for in 2018. Youre watching cbs this morning. Hen people take action ag New York New York its a helluva town cut, cut, cut, cut. Fame im going to live forever im going to learn how to fly fame im going to make it forever that is hilarious. James corden played his crosswalk music. Hugh jackman and zac efron performed, too, on guys and dolls trying not to block traffic in new york city. You know whats good about that . People sitting in their cars smiling. In new york they were honking their horns. Ill have to find those shorts with white piping. Amazon will start selling Google Chrome cast gadgets again. Its seen as a peace offering. They have clashed over the availability of their products on each others services. Amazon said yesterday the standard Google Chrome cast video streaming stick and the ultra model will return to amazons global store. It did not say when google blocked the amazon devices. Grande posted a photo of herself at work inside a recording studio. She appears to be mixing tracks on a computer. Grande briefly suspended her tour after the may attack that killed 22 people and wounded 250 others. It will be good to hear new music from her. Kensington palace announced prince harry and Meghan Markle will marry on monday may 18th. The wedding will take place at Windsor Castle on monday may 19th. Thats cheaper, isnt it . Thats saturday. Live from the cbs Broadcast Center in philadelphia. This is cbs3 Eyewitness News. Good morning im rahel solomon, fraternities at penn state may have to make more changes. Recommendations on combating hazing and excessive Alcohol Consumption will be highlighted and a grand jury report scheduled for release later this morning. The grand jury began its investigation ten months ago after the death of 19 year old Timothy Piazza during a from a Fraternity Pledge party. All right we check in now with Katie Fehlinger with a check of todays forecast, look like snow for the thirds time this week. Another rounds. Looks like it will be generally light round of snow. Allinall couple every inches likely to fall in a few areas, we take a look outside live neighborhood network, i suspect this location, at the bern ville jr. High school, quick coating. Snow will actually start in this area first, mover in from west to east, between one p. M. To 3 00 p. M. Then the heaviest of the snow is going to be developing, and it will also be falling in the southeast corner of our area at it heaviest, thats where youre most likely to pick up one to 3 inches, maybe to up 2 inches in the sit at least but all tapering off later on this evening and it is out of here before midnight. So by tomorrow, the weekends allinall is actually looking pretty good after this lil rounds of snow. In fact, we should see more sun than anything, and also nice little rebounds on the thermometer to come with it. Nice to see 509s back. Katie, thank you so muchment looking outside right now burlington ton bristol bridge scheduled to go up in the next three, four minutes so heads up on that, still down, also, 202 north past route 401 we had accident here, thats now since been cleared. But you can still see some residual backups come around the s curve t looks like bumper to bumper conditions here but again the accident has clearedment then just another quick peak at the volume at 95 nice birdseye view here, it is getting little better in the area. Rahel, over to you. Thank you next update 85 00, a ahead the biggest cyber threat could face in the new year, good morning. Toasting dad im not one for speeches. But heres to. To many more years of friendship. And feasts crowd [laughing, cheering] to presents a mi familia que lo es todo. To being right here, right now, with you. Sfx dog bark. And you. Toasting dad i guess what im trying to say is heres to family. Were proud to bring your family amazing value every day. T. J. Maxx. Marshalls. Homegoods. Family is the greatest gift. radio playing in background the weekends almost here. Hold on a little bit longer. Welcome back to cbs this morning. A recent report says cyber crime is now costing the world trillions of dollars every year. The u. S. Has seen a number of massive Cyber Attacks in 2017. Uber verizon, anthem microsoft and others were hacked. They locked people out of nearly every country and forced some users to pay a ransom. And the equifax hack exposed over 145 million americans. With a look now at the biggest threat of 2018 greg clark with symantec. Great to have you with us. That was quite frightening when you recall the list of attacks this year. I tell you. Theres never a dull day in cyber security. Its a fascinating case. Aisle tell you. Working at symantec is an honor and sometimes the things i see, we should get movie rights. A lot of them are distracting, disturbing and impact, when you look at the wanna cry one, that affects hospitals. I would say extortion, ransom, and things like that are here to stay. Weve seen hackers investing in tools for other hackers to build ransom wear extortion ware that can be used. Wanna cry can get anywhere really fast. When you see that its a crisis we have to be careful with. Ill tell you what the extortions and rectangle ss and ransoms are here to stay. Twhanlt to make money. What should we do as individuals to protect ourselves . I think people think about companies. Individuals need to worry too. I think the Cyber Defense problems split into two areas like you mentioned, gayle, which is theres a corporate side, a government side that has to have extreme care which well talk about that and theres the consumer side where all normal citizens need to take responsibility for some things, take care of our digital safety. Cyber safety. And there are simple things we should do . Like . Always get a multifactor identification. More than just a username password. Many institutions will call back and say, hey, greg, is this you. I think thats important. Also taking responsibility for your identity in cyber space is an extremely important thing. And what this means is this isnt just about credit cards. They can get a drivers license. Apply for a mortgage in your kids name make a Fraudulent Health care claim. So they steal identity information to manufacture. How do we know its happening, greg. What do you do . You make one call to life lock and you get a call back that says hey, are you making this call in is sacramento right now and you say, no thats not me that causes a bunch of things to happen to take care of your identity. These are important things. The responsibility of the identity of yourself your family, your loved ones is extremely important. We call this digital safety. We think it is kind of a new category that consumers need to step up to. Some people know to be careful when theyre at a keyboard, but what about when theyve got a virtual tv or personal assistant whos always listening . Any time you have a piece of internetenabled Consumer Electronics electronics, that means it wants to get on your wifi and talk to your iphone android, you can control it there. It can be a toy, a camera a doorbell. These things have all got computers in them and they can have vulnerabilities. Over time criminals can understand what the vulnerabilities are and they can put them in your home Consumer Electronics. The internet had a problem last year that stopped a bunch of Services Like netflix. It was executed by Consumer Electronics that had that software in it. What should you do . You should put in some technology that helps clean up all of the neighborhood around known bad inside those house inside your house and nongood. We recently launched a pruchlkt its a wifi router. Wait does is watches all Consumer Electronics. It knows what good is and what good is. When it finds it it will take it offline. We think the consumer should take responsibility for the Network Inside your house. It is a place of criminal activity and there are technologies that can help clean it up, and we think that this will become more and more of a problem. We recently launched the product in the telemetry the information we get about whats happening inside the house is you know fascinating. There are a lot of devices. A lot of it is compromised. Like you said big problems for consumers, company, and governments around the world. Yes. Mo rocco went to den marc to forage for food. Reporter these are some of the vegetables that will end up on the menu of one of the top restaurants here in copenhagen. Coming up on cbs this morning, ill be in octopus. These are sardines. Almost. Its mackerel. Octopus, no thank you. Thats nationally acclaimed chef rene redzepi. It reopens next month, but cbss mo rocco didnt have go to denmark for the recipe. The chefs wife nadine is now being heralded for her cooking at home. Reporter if youre going to forage in someones garden you can taste this. This is called ground elder. Reporter make it the garden of a worldclass chef. There may be a bit of soil in it but thats okay. Reporter rene redzepi put norway on track. It made headlines in the world with ingredients like live ants locally grown and it topped the list of restaurants four times. But at the home he shares with his wife nadine and three daughters, the chef is rarely in the kitchen. And you cook together at home . I mean we could, but i like no we could, but she thinks im messy. A little bit. The couple met at noma before the restaurant became famous. We actually met on the elevator going up to the changing room. There was an awkward silence. And nadine said so how long have you worked here. And i thought that was perfect. In your role at the restaurant at first was waiting tables. But i liked being there so much. For some reason i took lots and lots of shifts. I ended up maryrying. She cooked for him. It was our first date you know. Did you have any idea how much that would resonate with him . No. Okay. It was meant to be right . Thats it. It was. That was it. Do you want to get a chopping board . Shes run this kitchen ever since. Just dont break the egg yolk. During our visit she showed us how to make Wild Mushroom porridge with eggs. She has her first cookbook. If there are any bugs on them just brush them off. No bugs on the menu here. The cookbook also includes her husbands family dinner favorite. Roast chicken. Is it tender . Yes, so tender. But nadine she stuffs it. If its not stuffed, it cooks the breast from within and thats when you get dry chicken. Many of nadines dishes are inspired by the familys travels. Her mothers chicken with indian bread, middle eastern beef with lentils and japanese gyoza. I think its acting like a sponge every time you go there. Reporter variety is essential with three smaller mouths to need. You want to make them happy. Every night at the dinner table, will your kids actually eat it. Theyre the toughest critics of all, right . And the ones that matter most. Well, you know kids are amazing, but theyre also can we say pain in the ass . Absolutely. One week they want white food only like pastas and bread you know. Next week they love raw things right . They eat raw broccoli. Yep. So this is an array of things we have. Reporter with noma set to reopen in a new location the restaurants test kitchen moved into a building in the familys backyard. I thought that was a walrus. Reporter a proximity thats beneficial for both rene and nadine redzepi. What would your cooking be like if you never met nadine . If i wouldnt have met nadine, i dont think it would have at all been what it is. Look at these. Yeah the potatoes. Oh man. Reporter for cbs this morning, im mo rocca at the redzepi res zensidence in copenhagen. I love it. Theyre so cute. And i love that top chefs have picky kids. What parent thinks their kids are a pain in the butt . Anybody . Who doesnt. With food comes love gayle. We invite you to subscribe to cbs podcasts. Find them all on apples ipod and podcast apps. Thanks for the ridealong, captain ive never been in one of these before, even though geico has been ohhh. Ooh ohh here we go here we go. You got cut off there, what were you saying . Oooo. Oh no no. Maybe that geico has been proudly serving the military for over 75 years . Is that what you wanted to say . Mhmmm. I have to say, you seemed a lot chattier on tv. Geico. Proudly serving the military for over 75 years. You ok back there, buddy . more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. clapping and the United States Postal Service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. Christmas is around the corner. Tomorrow on cbs this morning saturday, in this season of giving, how one charity is working to save the spirit of the holidays. Well introduce you to a couple who made it their mission to donate thousands of Christmas Trees to families who cant afford them. Thats tomorrow on cbs this morning saturday. That will do it for us john. I went all week without mentioning you were in People Magazine as one of the beautiful people. Be sure to tune in to cbs this morning evening news with jeff glor. As we leave you, lets take a look at all that mattered this week. I think i have been waiting all my life and now i just dont know what the hell to say. Traditionally republicans in the state of alabama surprised the world by electing a democratic senator. A win by jones seemed highly unlikely unlikely. I have been painted in an unlikely like. Losing that seat is going to put more pressure on the republicans. Most are relieved. Paul ryan . Im not going to quote people. We have breaking news here in new york city because of an explosion. Thousands are headed there. Its a massive crime scene. How difficult is it to stop a lone wolf . Its very difficult and getting harder. In the middle of december its unprecedented. I was sexually assaulted my freshman year. What happened to that person. He graduated. And you. I left. 38 of the assaults happen prior to arriving at the air force academy. That was stunning. The president understandable devoid of the depth of any knowledge on foreign policy. I was out last week because this guy had heart surgery. But look. Hes fine, everybody. Santa claus is coming to town the weather outside is frightful. The colts and bills playing in 6 inch snow was delightful. Shady mccoy. Just call me shady. Shady. We can do it. Lets go. Sir james dyson is the founder and chief another of dyson. Whats at the heart of creations and innovations . Actually its not very hard. A lot of things dont work very well. When they first found you were interested they said there was no way jodie bloody foster would do this. I slept an average of 4 hours and 25 minutes. Oh my goodness. You feel bad for me dont you. I do. Rock me like a baby. Nancy cordes interviewed Bob Schieffer as walter cronkite. They collect more information than you realize. Do you have one . We talk to it all the time. Sometimes it responds when youre not talking to it. Are you worried, gayle . Im constantly worried, gayle. But its nice to have something to talk to when youre alone. Welcome to the show. Theyre saying we have to wrap it up. Gayle is still talking. I know. I might have to stay. Were taking over the show. You can leave now. You know whats very funny this room would be filled with astounds people. Clickety clickety. Go to commercial. I getting a cancer diagnosis is difficult. Getting an appointment to discuss your Treatment Options shouldnt be. Meet with a ctca cancer specialist in philadelphia, in as little as 24 hours. Learn more at cancercenter. Com appointment good morning, im jim donovan, the bucks county man who police say is responsible for the death of his own two year olson faces a Court Hearing at noon today. Police say 27 year old Christopher Coon was alluding police after walmart theft last october with his son in his car. Authority say coon ran a red light, his another car his another car the boy was thrown from the vehicle and died at a hospital. Coon was arrest add short time later. Now we turn to katie for a look at the forecast. We do have some snow that eventually works its way into the delaware vale, jim. It is not even present on the radar just yet. But with time, actually going to see the radar blossom a little bit. Into the afternoon start to see some snow break out. Currently our temperatures are nice and cold. So that cold will set the stage for some snow to fall into the afternoon and evening heres the expectation coating to 2 inches along i95 maybe as many as 3 inches so the further south and east you travel meanwhile it is just a quick coating for the farthest north and western suburbs, but making a lot of snow up at the ski resorts so they should have pretty good weekends. But again it will primarily fall through the afternoon and evening. By tomorrow even as earl a late tonight that system is well gone. Out of here. We begin nice little rebounds, in fact, all the way to up 50 by tuesday meisha. Sounds great to me, thanks, katie. Looking outside right now still have some problems, we do have disable vehicle route one southbound before neshaminy. Left lane compromised and you can see how busy it is, also Service Personnel drivers outside their vehicles, just heads up on this, be very careful, looks like actually starting to slow down now. Construction in delaware 95 north and south between 202 and christianna, left lane blocking until 1 00 p. M. 495 at edgemore right lane block, also until 4 00 p. M. And quick peak at the burlington bristol bridge. So, it is up right now hopefully coming back down, sometime very shortly. Jim, back over to you. Thank you shall meisha. Thats Eyewitness News for now. Join us for Eyewitness News today at noon, im jim donovan make it a great were on a mission to show drip coffee drinkers, its time to wake up to keurig. Wakey wakey rise and shine oh my gosh how are you . Well watch this. I pop that in there. Press brew. Thats it. So rich. I love it. Thats why you should be a keurig man fullbodied. Are you sure youre describing the coffee and not me . Announcer today on the doctors friday news feed. Bombshell after bombshell which starce stars are caught up in the expose. And a staggering 639 pounds. 2 liters of fruit punch a day. Breakfast drivethrew. What scares you the most . Now, one of the most amazing transformations ever seen on tv. Thats today [ applause ] new Sexual Misconduct allegations are emerging from hollywood to washington, nfl starce to celebrity chefs. Joining us to weigh in this morning is