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>> i think so too. a good sense of humor mr. southwest man on the tarmac. >> absolutely. i'm norah o'donnell with gayle king and anthony mason who's with us all week. great to have you. >> great to be here. thousands are still stuck in atlanta's airport as a power outage shut down the world's busiest fire knocked out power for nearly 11 hours. power was restored just before midnight. >> more than 1,100 flights were canceled yesterday andmore more than 300 today. some were stuck on the tarmac for at least seven hours with no food and water. >> officials are still evaluating the cause. kris van cleave is at hartsfield-jackson with the major disruption at the key hub. kris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. many of those 30,000 travelers are going to be trying to get out of here today. let me show you what the airport looks like as we take a view here. this really came at an awful time. the airlines look at sunday as the start of the christmas travel rush. this is an airport that's busy on a good day. 275,000 passengers on average, 2,500 planes coming and going. so today really becomes about recovery. tears of joy late sunday night at hartsfield-jackson when the lights finally came back on. >> it was great when the lights came back on. that was exciting. >> backout in atlanta. >> reporter: but for much of the day, this is what the inside of the nation's busiest airport looked like. thousands of passengers stranded inside as the airport ground to a standstill. >> we were literally carrying old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs and my heart was racing because i'm scared for these people's lives. >> we had to walk down the escalator, which is a nightmare and then we had to go through the tunnels that are pitch black. it was scary. that was a nightmare. >> reporter: hundreds more were stuck inside airplanes waiting for a gate. >> we sat on the plane for six hours. i have my 5-month-old with me. we're trying to get to florida. all flights are canceled. >> reporter: a fire in the underground hub took out the power station. >> i want to be very clear. we do have a redundant system but it was impacted by the intensity of the fire. >> reporter: the power outage hit delta the hardest. atlanta is its main hub. continued issues monday in atlanta could mean problems at airports across the country. >> as a result you have this terrible mess with airplanes not where they should be crews not where they should be, and passengers not where they should be. >> reporter: that's why delta canceled more than 300 flights mainly this morning as they try to restart normal operations midday. of course, the big question now is how does a your primary system take out the redundant system. that's going to be a question flyers are going to want answers to. >> thank you. president trump says he will not fire special counsel robert mueller. he spoke out last night after accused mueller of improperly obtained tens of thousands of e-mails prior to the time mr. trump took office. paula reid good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a lawyer for mr. trump's transition team says some of the e-mails that mueller has obtained with obtained illegally. he quashed capitol hill rumors that he was poised to fire special counsel robert mueller. >> no, i'm not. no. what else? what? are you surprised? >> reporter: democrats and others agree on mueller's integrity. >> i have confidence in director mueller. >> i do not at all believe mr. mueller has been compromised or his investigation. reproach. >> reporter: but the president said he was troubled by allegations made by hisgu that mueller unauthorized access to thousands of e-mails. >> it's not looking good. it's not looking good. it's quite sad to see that. my people are very upset about it. >> reporter: mueller is pushing back and said the e-mails were obtained legally. in a rare statement his spokesman said when we have obtained e-mail we have secured, consent, or appropriate process. >> i can't imagine it, frankly. as we said there's no collusion, no collusion whatsoever. but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. >> reporter: the mueller probe faces increasing attacks from republicans over a top fbi investigator who was dismissed from the investigation. >> let's get all the documents, let's bring them in for depositions. >> reporter: now republicans say they will s&p fbi counterintelligence agent peter strzok and senior fbi agent page who campaigned throughoup3t campaign. white house press secretary sarah sanders says the white house continues to fullyate with the special counsel's probe and they expect it to wrap up soon but sources close to the case say this investigation will go well into next year. >> all right, paula. thank you. president trump will unveil his national security strategy in a speech today and he'll singing out china and russia's threat to america's interest. mr. putin thanked mr. trump for sharing information from the cia that allowed russia to intercept a terror attack in st. petersburg. russia made an arrest and found bomb materials. margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret good morning. >> good morning. the two presidents spoke for the second time in four days. in rare statement vladimir putin thanked mr. trump and the cia for providing that information that helped to thwart the potential terrorist attack on russian soil. he said quote, the positive things that can happen when our countries work together. mr. trump did praise the cia in light of his own past criticism of the agency. in this case he thanked, quote, the entire intelligence community on a job well done. but this afternoon when mr. trump unveils his national security strategy he'll call out china and russia. he'll call them quote, revisionist powers attempting to erode prosperity. it is clear, anthony, from the national security counsel's point of view here they see mr. putin as an adversary despite the administration's attempts to broker friendlier relations. >> margaret brennan. thanks margaret. congressional republicans say their landmark tax reform bill will be on the president's desk this week. the house of representatives intends to vote on the plan tomorrow. the senate is intending to vote no later than wednesday. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the approaching end of a long quest for republicans. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. there is no more tinkering. the tax bill is set, and the republicans insist they have the votes to pass it. now they need to prove to the american people the tax cuts are worth the cost. >> this is a historic event. >> treasury secretary steve mnuchin says the traction plan will primarily benefit the middle class. >> this will be very large tax cuts for working families. >> working families may need some convincing. a recent cbs news poll found almost 70% of americans think the plan will help the wealthy. >> it's a huge giveaway to big corporations. >> democrats pointed to a last-minute deductiontax bill benefiting those with real estate income like president trump and former holdout senator bob corker. >> is that how you got senator corker, with this provision? >> the provision you're talking about, honestly, is just one piece of a thousand-page bill. >> in a statement last night corker said he had no knowledge of the pass-through bill in question and asked how it made it into the final conference report. the bill that's planned to be passed tomorrow will reduce rates. >> this is something that's designed to energize the economy. it should work. >> the question, will it boost the economy enough to justify the price tag. >> this bill is not going to pay for itself. everybody knows that. battling brain cancer will not be here to vote for i understandç'w he'll come if we ever needed his vote which i believe we won't. ccain's son-in-law told journalists mccain was flown home sunday to spend the holidays with his family. >> he remains one of the toughest men on the earth. >> the fact that they're moving ahead without mccain shows they don't believe they'll need his vote at the end and the handful of gop holdouts will end up voting yes when push comes to shove, anthony. >> nancy, have we seen anything? >> there could be something there that gives lawmakers cold feet. that will show us who wins and who loses from this tax plan. i have to tell you even democrats i have spoken to think at this point republicans have this in the bag even though they believe it will hurt them plitt ukly in the long run. >> nancy cordes thank ss. at 270,000 acres, the thomas fire is the third largest wildfire in history. a funeral procession for a firefighter crossed five first responders saluted as it pasted. carter carter evans is in month see area. >> firefighters say yesterday was one of the most productive days they've had on this two-week-old fire. there are some 8,500 firefighters working right now to stop the flames. the thomas fire roared back to life over the weekend as wind gusts hitting 70 miles per hour pushed the flames into the wealthy community of montecito near santa barbara. this is what her home looked like on friday, but this is the devastation she returned to on sunday night. >> it's hard. we've had our moments. we've been crying until we got here. >> reporter: on saturday more than 3,000 in and around montecito were forced to evacuate. >> these flames are high. they're scary to look at. >> reporter: firefighters were able to keep the number damage order destroyed to 15. >> the fear storm destroyed this home. >> when that wind was blowing, there's nothing you could do. >> there's no way to stop a fire front like that. >> reporter: it's now scorched over 2,400 square miles. if it was to place the fire over new york city 40 miles wide it would reach from new jersey into long island. over 700 homes have been destroyed and over 18,000 include 3g 2-year-old firefighter cory iverson who died thursday from burns and smoke inhalation. firefighters and other mourner lined the streets foression. he's survivedear-old daughter. mandatory still in place and there there's no wind right now. that is great news. they're fighting to get a containment line all the way around the fire winds are forced to return. >> can't say enough about the job that the firefighters are doing there. thank you so much carter. carolina panthers owner jerry richardson says he will sell the nfl franchise after he was accused of workplace misconduct. "sports illustrated" reports that richardson or the team has paid confidential payouts to employees. bianna golodryga has more. good morning. >> good morning, gayle. they're investigating the allegations and despite a long release yesterday by richardson the former nfl player turned team owner has yet to address the arcizations directly but the new report reveals a pattern of behavior that created a hostile work environment. since the panthers' arrival in north carolina more than two decades ago, billionaire owner jerry richardson has been at the helm, and during that time according to "sports illustrated," at least four female employees received financial settlements from either richardson or the team. misconduct allegations range from sexual to racial. there was the seatbelt maneuver. inviting female employees to lunch and when seating them in his car, he's brushed their breasts. he's asked to shave their legs barefoot massages and wentz too low down the spine and he made racial slurs againsthings they've done in the past. >> reporter: quarterback cam newton says despite the allegation richardson's impact on the team has been positive. >> he's had asuch a father-like role in the present and the past. >> reporter: in an open letter richardson told fans said i it's time to turn the franchise over to new ownership. i will put the team up for sale at the conclusion of this nfl season. >> i will be the best nfl owner you can imagine. >> reporter: high-profile potential buyers are already showing interest including sean combs and golden state warrior steph curry. >> that would be something. richardson purchased the panthers back in 1993 for some $200 million. its net worth is now $2.3 billion. the panthers released a statement saying the entire organization is committed to providing a safe comfortable, and diverse vieshtenvironment. a lot of people are comparing this to don sterling of the l.a. chargers. >> that's creepy. that's jaw dropping to hear. >> these are some interesting buyers there though. bianna thanks. for the first time the pentagon admits it conducted secret ufo research. ahead, one apparent encounter caught on camera and how the rtd rtd. the u.s. air force academy is investigating how to handle sexual assault. why one survivor says the changes don't do enough to protect victims from retaliation after reporting assaults. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by toyota. let's 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. ♪ let's bring everyone closer this holiday. toyota. let's go places. parodontax the toothpaste that helps prevent bleeding gums. if you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. help stop the journey of gum disease. try parodontax toothpaste. ♪ hey girlfriend, how's your cafe au lait? oh, it's actually... sfx: (short balloon squeal) it's ver... sfx: (balloon squeals) ok can we... sfx: (balloon squeals) i'm being so serious right now... i really want to know how your coffee is. it's... sfx: (balloon squeals) hahahaha, i had a 2nd balloon goodbye! oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasn't it? yeah. happens to more people than you think. try lactaid, it's real milk, without that annoying lactose. mmm. good right? yeah. lactaid. it's the milk that doesn't mess with you. fred would do anything for his daughter. get in, fred! even if it means being the back half of a unicorn. fear not fred, the front half washed his shirt with gain. and that smell puts the giddy in “giddy-up”! ah... the irresistible scent of gain flings laundry detergent. you can't help but smell happy. hey, guys. where are the cookies for the... bake sale? bake... bake sale? need to bake in a hurry? use new country crock buttery sticks with sunflower oil. there's no softening required. so baking is delicious and easy. ooh, cookies! ah, ah, ah! 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>> good morning, we collect the toys this weekend at our holiday party we had over 1500 people at the please tou muse fantastic i couldn't be prouder of the number of folks that brought toys for the salvation army. it is really important faust us to support the community and the salvation army, such great work. >> talk about, that because i think that i actually interviewed two guys last year as well for our "joy of sharing" toyfest why is this such a commitment for pwc? >> real important for our people want to give back, we look at different communities the salvation army, and this time of work does such fantastic work for the children. >> we thank you for your continued support all of these years, come on down, 1555 hamilton street in the city's spring garden section next to pcp. matt i send it out to you lot of good happening in the parking lot but i hear you have a pretty good forecast too? >> great day for folks to come down and donate all of the gifts to toyfest today, do you have a gift come down early no problems out there weather wise and take a peak outside on our neighborhood network this morning, you see up in bern ville, some clouds, still little bit of snow on the ground 32 degrees, but looks like it get little warmer as you head close to the city, 39 in philly. forty down in atlantic city and check out the day planner to up 45 by lunch time melting all of the left over snow, 49 degrees, for the high temperature today. also take a look look at traffic this monday morning trying to move along but there is multi-vehicle accident, this morning on i76 eastbound just pastis has been moved to the shoulder but there is still causing major delays this is just past the blue route, on 76 eastbound also, we have an accident this is involving a pedestrian. this is on 611, old york road, at morris avenue. abington, there are injuries reported. make sure to use caution this area. and len eights look, traffic jammed moving westbound toward i76. rahel? >> all right matt, thank you again, 1555 hamilton street the and we've been out here from 6:00 a.m. out here until 8:00 p.m. we see you again at 7:55 for now i send it back to cbs this morning. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ fo have made gillette the #1 shave in america. now get gillette quality at lower prices -- every day. brought to you by 1200 workers in boston -- we're proud of giving you our best. gillette. the best a man can get. % fans were angry last night and they're still angry this morning over the controversial ending to the steelers game. did you see this? yeah, but look at the other replay on the other side. steelers fans thought they scored a game-winning touchdown the in the final minute but officials waved it off. the patriots won, 27-24, taking a very important step toward the playoffs. that really did look like one of those plays that could have gone either way. i know norah, at your house you were doing the hula. >> there was screaming, jumping up and down. it was the most incredible ending to the game preceded by brady and gronk touching down. >> i looked at that and thought, i don't know. >> i was going to say, good thing that research official was not in pittsburgh last night. >> he would have needed security. >> that's what's so great about football, is plays like that. >> great game. both teams did a really nice job. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning. treasury secretary steve mnuchin says a government shutdown is unlikely. he said, i can't rule it out, but i can't imagine it occurred. it keeps the government running until this friday. the measure bought time for republicans to finish negotiations on their tax bill. time is running out to get your holiday gifts sent out in time for christmas. guess i'd better get moving huh. today is the last day for amazon standard shipping and three-day select at ups. if you plan to use the u.s. postal service, tomorrow is the cut-off for first class mail. tomorrow is the last day. >> anthony, i wear a size 10 shoe 11 for designer. and we heard chick-fil-a sprang into work yesterday to help provide food for those stranded at the airport. in a tweet the hartsfield-jackson atlanta the inner national airport called the gesture a miracle. our separate six-month cbs news investigation looked into how the academy handles assault cases. we spoke to more than a dozen current and former cadets who told us they faced retaliation from peers and military leadership for reporting sexual assaults. the academy's superintendent says he's now open to all ideas that would help support victims. >> it's a real opportunity for us to get out and be part of the national conversation. the reckoning, the "me too" movement, the things that we're talking about. >> lieutenant general superintendent jay silveria at the air force academy in colorado springs said it is investigating the expansion of the investigation with better staff and efforts. >> i intend to be relentless in pursuing the perpetrators of these horrible crimes and holding them accountable, but i also desperately want to help all of the victims in any way that i can. >> his remarks to the colorado springs "gazette" newspaper came days after denying on "cbs this morning" that the academy had a problem with the way it handles sexual assault. >> do you think there are problems there? >> i don't think there are problems, and let me tell you why. we know that across the nation and across campuses, this is underreported. so i want reporting to go up so that i can provide that care provide that support. >> last month the academy released a scathing investigation into its sexual assault prevention and response office, accuseing former director teresa beasley of a lack of competency to jeopardize victim care. beasley told cbs news she's been made a scapegoat for standing up to leadership and advocating for survivors. >> is the air force academy supportive of those who report sexual assault? >> i would have to say absolutely not, no. >> more than a dozen current and former cadets told cbs news they reported their assaults only to experience retaliation by their peers and their commanders. >> i was terrified of reporting because i've heard of things that happen to people and it did happen to me so it's not stories. >> reporter: lieutenant general silveria is also open to allowing cadets who were sexually assault to transfer to another military academy. >> the focus shouldn't be moving survivors and disrupting their lives. there should be reforming so there isn't retaliation against those who report. who authoredmemoir. >> they're often traumatized in ways that will affect them for the rest of their lives, and meanwhile perpetrators continue to graduate and serve in the armed services. >> the air force academy tells cbs news that in the past five years one cadet perpetrator of sexual assault has been convicted in a court-martial proceeding. others accused were pushed out of the academy. >> your report norah opened a lot of eyes. people stopped me on the street to talk about it. so i wonder if the general looked back at your two pieces and said let me do that again. think a lot of people felt he dropped the ball here. >> i think the key is not only how do they fix the problem, but why isn't there a focus on prevention. >> which is exactly right and for women to continue to please speak out. >> agreed. more than 300 passengers aboard a caribbean cruise ship are recovering after falling ill with a nasty stomach virus. the royal caribbean cruise ship "independence" returned fort in florida after a five-day cruise. more than 500 people were on board. the ship said it would be thoroughly cleaned.- they show the crew san tieszing it before new passengers board it. >> welcome aboard. ♪ exciting and new come aboard you'll lose lots of weight ♪ >> here's your stomach distress bag. >> and they said they cleaned it up. >> they do know how to do that. >> they do know how to do it. prince harry interviewed barack obama before a bbc program. >> do i have to speak faster? 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if you can't be here to help us fill up this truck, there is still ways that you can get involved. let's take a look at the screen you can make a donation, you can make a 10-dollar donation to the salvation army, by texting joy the word joy to 41444. now, salvation army truck is here they're serving hot chocolate and coffee until 8:00. we low love to you come down and join us, ukee will be here later on, kate bilo, nicole old out in a little bit. drop off toy and say hello. meantime to up matt with a check of the weather. >> good morning nice start to the day sunshine later this afternoon, storm scan3 this morning, had very light sprinkles early on, that has since cleared. again, some cloud cover right now, but that will be giving way to breaks every sunday shine later this afternoonow temperatures have been holding steady in the mid 30's through most of the morning we sit at 37 degrees right now philly millville wilmington and dover 35 in allentown and as we get a look what we can expect across the region afternoon, 49 in philly, 50 down the shore even relatively mild up in the poconos high of 40 degrees. our traffic on this monday morning, well, looking at couple of accidents out there. the first one this is an accident on i76 westbound just past montgomery drive. a vehicle turned sideways, and the right lane is blocked by fire and ems crews again westbound, 76, right past montgomery drive. there is also a disable vehicle, on i76 eastbound and 30th streetment blocking the right lane. and an earlier accident still remains on the shoulder of 76 eastbound past gladwynn, traffic delayed back to the blue route. >> thank you matt, hope us fill up this trick here until 8:00. we now return to cbs this morning. have a great day everyone. good morning. it's monday december 18let, 2017. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the power is back on at the world's busiest airport, but peter greenberg is here with how the outage in atlanta is still having a ripple effect across the country. plus driving a car faster than most airplanes can fly. we'll meet the man who wants to go a thousand miles an hour. he feels the need the need for speed. but first your "eye opener" at 8:00. thousands are stuck at the airport after a massive power outage shut down the world's busiest airport. >> many of those travelers are going to be trying to get out of here today. >> a lawyer for president trump's transition team claims some of the e-mails bob mueller's team gathered contained personal information. >> president trump thanked them. >> no more tinkering. the tax bill is set, and republicans insist they have the votes to pass it. now they just need to prove to the american people that the tax cuts are worth the cost. the former nfl player turned team owner has yet to address the accusations directly. >> freeman at the horn for three. >> when you finally break through and get that win over a power fight conference team you dance. that's exactly what spartans' head coach wes miller did in the locker room. that's what victory looks like in the locker room. >> they're pumped up. >> i like to see happy people. >> that's what my living room looked like after the patriots win. >> i believe it. i've seen that crew after a game. i'm gayle king along with norah o'donnell and anthony mason who will be here with us all week. an electrical fire left an estimated 30,000 passengers stramted ed stranded in the airport and on the tarmac. >> crews took nearly 11 hours to restore power. more than 1,100 flights were canceled yesterday by the time power was restored. more than 400 flights are canceled today. >> this is affecting travel across the entire country. kris van cleave is at hartsfield-jackson international airport in atlanta this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. airlines are trying to get back to normal. still, you heard 400-plus cancellations today. georgia power tell us they believe this fire may have started because of an fire in an underground electrical facility that may have involved what they call a piece of switch gear that failed and the fire damaged backup systems. delta is by far the most affected airlines here. they serve about 75% of the passengers out of the airport. the airline has canceled more than 300 flights again today. they say they did that with the goal of getting back to normal operations by the afternoon. when the storm hit atlanta back in april, it grounded flights, took delta five days and about cellations to get back on track. a that time delta said they need to make significant improvements. this will be a good test of those changes, gayle? >> thank you very much. cbs news travel editor peter greenberg joins us at the table. peter, everyone wants to know how long it's going to take to get back to normal. just because the planes are flying doesn't mean the passengers are. >> that's right. it will probably take them 24 hours to get back to speed. they canceled 900 today. they've got to get the planes back to atlanta so they can operate those. they will do that. but the crews are out of sequence, the planes are out of cycle. that's part a. part b, what's going to happen for the passengers. the planes are full for the rest of this week. if you were holding for a reservation for the 17th which was yesterday, you're not getting out today or tomorrow. >> how significantly does this ripplether airports? >> big time. it's not that they through it. they fly through it. you have people throughout the country who can't get back to where they wanted to go. plan b for them is how are they going to get there without going through atlanta. >> the atlanta mayor said the backup power system also went down. >> you need a dedicated power system and backup power system not substations along the line. when that happened it tripped and tripped and tripped and they couldn't handle it. remember when you close an airport, it's ground stop. that's why nobody could move. they couldn't operate the jet ways and escalators. let's not talk about where the bags went. >> what about direct flights. they also take a big hit here too. >> they do. we're talking about international flights. they're diverted. they're low on fuel and they can't get their passengers back until they get them back through atlanta. so those international flights, you've got people overseas who can't get out because the planes haven't come back. >> i've got daughter coming home from college and people traveling over the holidays and they're sitting at home is this going to affect me. >> it is. you have to come up with a contrarian view of travel. nonstop flights, forget them. they're full. if you're traveling welcome to st. louis, chicago, salt lake city because you're not going to get there nonstop. what airlines are doing is offering waivers. they're all saying if you were going through or to atlanta, you can rebook or cancel with no that's the good news. the bad news is rebooking ain't going to be easy. >> peter greenberg, you always have the best information. >> thank you. >> thank you, thank you. president trump's strategy calls for competition with countries like russia and china. the president will change longstanding policy to focus on homeland and economic security. they'll protect the critical infrastructure. it does not name climate change as a national security threat. the president is expected to discuss environmental leadership. he's likely to reaffirm the u.s. commitment to nato. a driver is training to get behind the wheel of a 1,000-mile-an-hour car by going high above the ground. we'll go along for a flight to find out how midair stunts are preparing him to handle ahead, john blackstone deep in the woods following the paths of thousands of tree lovers. >> reporter: in northern california the dense redwood forests, a once secret grove of giant trees has become a social media sensation, but can too many admirers harm the health of these centuries-old redwoods coming up on "cbs this morning." ♪ psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way? 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yes. that's our only defense. >> reporter: by staying on the trails visitors can still see the forest and save the trees. john blackstone crescent city california. >> i was wondering what was wrong with it. i like the idea don't you? >> raised walkways. would be such a shame to lose those trees. such a ma judge tick shot. >> i want to go. ahead, we look at what it takes to build a car that goes over 1,000 miles an hour. >> reporter: creating a car to go 1,000 miles an hour but how do you learn to drive it? flying me upside down in a stunt plane to understand the force of gravity during the drive. we'll have the story coming up on "cbs this morning." at college inn we craft a deeper, richer broth because every detail matters. we select all-natural chicken and flavorful herbs and spices. college inn broth helps you make every meal delicious. college inn, delicious is in the details. this morning in our "pushing the limits" series we take a look at a project redefining speed. they hope they can travel more than 1,000 miles an hour. it would shatter the current land speed record. charlie d'agata took to the sky with the car's driver. he's a former jet fighter pilot. he's putting his body through a toll by flying an aerobatic plane. >> reporter: this is just a hint of what's to come a test run. crank the beast up to a mere 200 miles an hour and the see how she handles. ten years and $40 million in the making, the man behind the wheel and the project is andy green. the former raf fighter pilot, he's held the record since 1997 before you could google land speed record. >> it doesn't leap into the air to explode, i was delighted to find out. it is possible to drive supersonic, but we did it. >> reporter: if that bloodhound has doors, they're aiming to blow them off. >> it would shatter it. >> we're going to have an engineers adventure that will push back the boundaries of physics, literally push back the boundaries of human endeavor. >> reporter: to get a hint of what that feels like green took me up in a stunt plane to explain the g load the body experiences during the real thing, simulating the exact conditions of the 1,000-mile-an-hour run. i was just hoping i didn't pass out. >> that's 20 miles an hour for second. eight seconds later we're doing 200 miles an hour. 355. we're going to fire now. 1,000, 1, 1,000, 2. we're doing 500 miles an hour already. >> reporter: as the blood rushed to my head i felt like it was going to explode. then came the worst part of all. deceleration at three times the force of gravity. >> three, two, one. 800 miles an hour. 750. we're already down below the speed of sound. still slowing down. it feels so slow. how are you feeling now? >> exhilarated. boy, it feels like you just got slammed right in the chest. i mean the force on the body. >> that's exactly so. it's fairly unpleasant. >> i didn't know which way was up. literally i didn't know which way was up. >> reporter: the gut-wrenching g-forces from tapping into the lunatic fringe of technology. it took the rolls-royce jet engine found in a euro fighter and mounted it on top of a rocket. yes, a rocket. this is what it looked like in testing. the stats are face-meltingly staggering. 25,000 feet the altitude it would reach if pointed straight in the air. 17 times the height of the empire state building. 135,000 horsepower. every indy 500 car on the track combined seven times over. at top speeds she'll cover a mile in 3.6 seconds, more than four football fields per second. >> oh, baby oh baby. >> reporter: big stiff competition from the united states and the proven 500-mile-per-hour north american eagle and from australia down under, tin vader, although still primarily in the planning stages. bloodhound leads the hunt for now, which brings us back to that test run. those signs of nerves as green dons his fireproof onesie. it's as fast as this car has ever gone, but the plan is to reach five times that speed. >> reporter: the result, 210 miles per hour. >> when you got out of there, you were as giddy as i've seen you. exciting day for you? >> we came here to show how good this car is and how ready it is for the car to go faster. the car didn't just do that. it did it in spades. >> reporter: the team is now gearing up to smash their own world record next year. and with the competition choking on the afterburner, the only thing the blood hound is chasing is destiny. for "cbs this morning" charlie >> good morning, i'm jim done advantage our drive-thru toy drop off for toy toyfest is in full campaign. joining with the uso boys and guesser club of camden county and salvation army to collect toys for children in need. rahel solomon joins us, so i hope the truck is filling up? >> it is getting there jim no where near where it should be. good morning everyone, yes we're out here for our "joy of sharing" toyfest we started at 6:00 a.m.ment we will be here until 8:00 p.m. don't wait that long. come over and see us, jim and i will both be here in 1230, then later in the day ukee, kate bilo, the whole crew will be out here, but the goal to get this truck behind me, this massive salvation army truck hine me, completely full. and jim as you allude dollars to, it is starting to fill up, not nearly as full as it should be. so our goal to have this overflowing, we want to have have a second truck we want this to be so full, that we need to do a second run. but, you know, the toys that we have already out here, these are either from our viewers who have dropped toys off in our lobby or some of the folks who work at cbs-3. i know katie fehlinger she tweeted yesterday that she and her girls were here dropping off toys. i did not plan as well as katie so what i it, i didn't have tsarnaev so i just text for $10 donation you can teixeira joy to 41444 that's automatic 10-dollar donation or you can donate more if you would like to. so really no excuse. if you want to help some kids who may not wake to up a present, or otherwise would not wake to up present on christmas day good day to do it at 55, hamilton street, right next to masterman high school next to pcc yes either bring toy can't go wrong with a doll baby, i've seen some footballs here or you can just text a donation, so jim, i send it back to you but we will be out here all day long. >> thank you so much rahel. now we turn to matt peterson for a look at the forecast, hey, matt. >> good morning everyone, we are waking up to relatively quiet conditions and temperatures that are a little bit warmer than the last couple of days here across the delaware valley. some cloud cover is out there. here early on, on our monday, but we will see sunshine break through the cloud going through the afternoon. now, temperatures will reflect it as we get little bit warmer in the day as what, we could be up near 50 degrees, that's seasonably warm. close to the average but little bit above. that means that any left over snow that is out there from last week, and through the lasted through the weekends, is likely to melt before the day is all said and done. here are the temperatures that we're looking at here, so far this morning. we're in that mid 30 range for lots of folks still the freezing mark in mount pocono, 35 allentown trenton, 37 in philadelphia. and now we hover in the low 40 's for a lot of the morning along the shore points, atlantic city and wildwood, now, down to 39 degrees. we will watch our temperatures rebounds though, as we go through the afternoon in general, we will be looking at temperatures just shy of 50 for highs today. getting a check of the traffic as well, on this monday morning looking at the area where police are still on the scene after accident, 46 westbound past montgomery drive, right lane was blocked earlier, now the shoulder that is blocked there. we're also looking at malfunctioning traffic lights this morning these are causing delays on the inbound ben franklin parkway between the art museum and logan circle traffic is beingc diverted on to the outer lanes at this time. there is also an accident on 295 northbound, at route 42 in bellmawr new jersey, the left lane blocked there. jim? >> thank you matt, next update 85:00, a ahead on cbs this morning actor christi his new film hostile. i'm jim donovan welcome back to "cbs this morning." you know where we go first thing at this time? anthony, do you know where we go? >> the green room gayle. >> we're going to the green room. guess who's there. one of them knows all things tech. the other guy is an academy award-winning actor. hello, you two. hello, christian bale. they're joining us at the table. christian's got an amazing movie coming out. we'll let him tell us all about it. >> looking forward to that. right now it's time to show you this morning's headlines from all around the globe. some celebrity chevls are coming out. more than 14% of the sexual harassment claims filed in the u.s. between 2005 and 2015 were in the food service and hospitality sector. last year 40% of the women experienced unwanted sexual behaviors on the job. cbs los angeles station, that's kcbs reports on a study that suggests more people are choosing uber for hospital trips than an ambulance. researchers looked at balance rates in more than 750 u.s. cities between 2013 and 2015. that's when uber was introduced into those markets. and the data appears to show ambulance rates declined. if you're convictinged of a marijuana crime in california it might go away thanks to legal pot. as of september, at least 4,500 people have filed petitions to have their sentences reduced, redesignated, or thrown out. after legal recreational marijuana sales started in california on january 1st criminal records could be cleared or sharply reduced. those who want their marijuana convictions changed must present their cases in court. "the times of london" reports french sailor francois gabart sailed around the world. he knocked 6 1/2 days off the previous record. he said he barely slept since setting say on november 4th. "the new york times" reports one of the world's most expensive homes is just another bauble for the saudi prince. they followed papas between the purch2015 of france. it led to prince mohamed bin salman. he bought a yacht and most recently paid $450 million for a da vinci pangt. leading an anti-corruption crackdown on the elite. >> there goes the neighborhood. he's going to drive up all the a yacht for and >> with a little money left over. >> apparently a house that you can control everything from your iphone. >> for that price, i would hope so. silicon valley saw new changes on social media. this morning we're high lighting some of the biggest stories and new developments we covered in 2017 as we take a look back at a year in tech. ♪ apple's new flagship iphone is the most expensive they have ever produced. >> we call this face i.d. >> facebook reveals russian agents bought roughly 3,000 ads. >> i don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. >> we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. >> they spent the last year trying to make instagram nicer. uber promises an urgent investigation into sexual harassment claims. >> i've heard lots of horror stories from women. >> equifax is dealing with fallout this morning over its massive data breach. >> you may be wondering why it took ub ear year to disclose to stolen data. >> they thought they could de delete it and it would be fine. >> alexei how many tablespoons are in 3/4 cup. >> they say things you wouldn't want to be heard. we should be cautious. >> nick thompson covered these stories for us throughout the year. he's looking forward to what we can expect in 2018. good morning. >> good morning, norah. >> i know we're wrapping up the year. what are one of the things we have to do as we saw them all testify before congress about russian interference in our elections. where does that take us? >> well, there's going to be that specific investigation that goes further. what i think is there is a moral reckoning where they're really thinking about the influence they have on the world and a lot of that was triggered by the influence they had on the election where they thought, wait a second were responsible for the hostility? were we responsible for what happened? >> you heard tim cook say for the first time moral responsibility. >> absolutely. you saw just this week facebook saying, you know we've been studying weather social media is good for you. that's crazy, that facebook is saying we're going to take a look back and decide whether the thing we do is good. it turns out it is if you use it actively not passishly. it was an interesting study put out. >> do you think silicon valley is becoming more introspective and taking stock? >> yes absolutely. i think that's the biggest shift between this year and last year. in the olden days three years ago, four years ago, they were saying you're the most powerful company in the world. think about it seriously. they're like, yeah okay okay. >> for so long they denied they that kind of influence and impact. >> they don't deny it anymore. >> what about sexual harassment in silicon valley? >> you saw it starting to come out. people are getting in trouble. the thing that captivates silicon valley that's so important is gender equality. they'll reshape all these platforms and technology and all of the algorithms are written by men. you have a big problem. they shape society down the road. sexual harassment is a big issuing but it's not quite the way it works with the media. >> this is so interesting. this is really jodi kantor's point in "the new york times." who writes the stories who makes the decision who are the engineers who write the plan? >> if you see all the women are in the kitchen, then it writes the way a robot will act and sudenly you have robots acting on the gender bias data set down the road and you need somebody to stop it at some point and it's more likely of a woman to stop that. it's something silicon valley is thinking about a lot. >> new rules for twitter to curb hate. what does that mean for the future of twitter? >> twitter has a really hard problem based on the culture the structure of the system. instagram, you know one of the big things in the year was all these companies trying to curb hate. instagram has a much easier time doing it than twitter because twitter is a much more open fast-moving political forum. >> but twitter says they're going to suspend them. >> starting today. that's going to be interesting how they define hate group and who they knock off there. it's going to get messy. >> there goes that moral responsibility. >> yes. oscar winner christian bale learns a native american language for his latest movie. he's in the toyota green room in we are the tv doctors of america. and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way. i played a doctor on tv, but now i'm helping save lives for real. i'm partnering with cigna healthspring to remind everyone how important preventive care is to people my age. so go, know, and take control of your health. cigna healthspring. together, all the way. cancer challenges us. to find smarter solutions. to offer more precise and less invasive treatment options than before. like advanced genomic testing and immunotherapy. see how we're fighting to outsmart cancer at cancercenter.com/outsmart christian bale has started dozens of box office hits. they include, of "the dark knight" trilo heh$ played bruce wayne and "batman."laus in films like "american hustle," and "the big short." >> his new movie is a western set in 1892. he's on a journey to escort a um family back to native land. so bale plays the captain. he expresses reluctance wo his rival. i saw what whene with wasn't a -- you dare laugh. there wasn't enough left of those poor men to fill bail. understand, when we lay ourut here, we're all prisoners. i hate ank of to hate>n ri ise. they said he is there in a black and white chec b christian bale. new look. he wrote this part for you. that doesn't mean you had to part. >> no. >> you r thought >> it's very -- it tells the story of american in many ways. it's ñ it's american history. it's violent, but that's american history as well. it's gripping beyond belief. it's all about overcoming hatred and bigotry and you see there. he's a bigoted and hate-filled man. and indian chief. >> there's the big difference, the blocker, the character you see there, his job is to -- well it's genocide. his job is genocide. he knows that. this isn't your mom and hat, black hat, good cowboy, bad indian. it's not that as all. it's recognizingnocide the great painblocker, he the hatred is real and he's threatened the threatened to court-martial. it's how do you overcome hatred and fighting without rendering the deaths of your friends and brothers in arms meaningfulness. >> it's a physical and emotional journey. surprisingly sadly relevant more so since we stopped filming, you amard hatred. >> you say this isday. >> how so? 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