that's the biggest thing that i >> "star wars: the force office records. it sold $1 billion worth of tickets faster than any other movie and is doing it without crater george lucas. he has had no role in this film. lucas sat down with charlie rose to discuss life, love and what it means to be a director. >> well, a director is just somebody who's got a fetish with making the world to be what he wants it to be, sort of narcissistic. >> that's you? >> all directors. they're no different. >> and you're a director. >> all directors are vaguely like emperors which is i want to build the society to reflect me and what i want. but a director can do it with a lot less money and just say i'm going to create a world where people can fly. >> george lucas didn't create a new society. >> on its surface, the "star wars" series is a sci-fi sce odyssey with odd creatures and epic space battles. but its genius lies in the simple story beneath all of that. >> he told me you killed him. >> timeless elements like family. >> i am your father. >> is the darkside stronger? >> no, no. >> reporter: and the fight between good and evil. >> i felt a great disturbance in the force. >> reporter: as its crater lucas has been called one of the most innovative filmmakers in history, but in his heart he considers himself a story teller. >> didn't you intend to create three movies when you started? and then you decided only to take one part of that life story? >> yeah, i took the first act but then the first act didn't really work so i said okay, what i'm going to have to do is take put it on the first film. what you do, you've got a bunch of stuff sitting on your desk as you're creating. let me take that and stick that in here and make it. so i wasn't worried that much about the sequels when i was actually making it because i have to make this the best film. then when i moved onto the other ones, i say kenobi is now dead. i killed him. how am i going to fix that. and what am i going to do about the fact that i blew the death star up and that's what the ending is? but part of it was simply when i got down to some of the other movies i was able to create an environment and a world that wasn't possible when i started the first one. so to me, getting yoda to do a sword fight which i'd always wanted to do but could never do it because he was a muppet. >> lucas became a pioneer in the world of special effects. dead ahead. >> reporter: his work forever changed the way films are made. and he changed how they sound, too. >> one, two, 3:004:00 rock. >> in his 1973 hit "american graffiti," lucas opted out of a traditional composer. >> he narrated the entire story with popular songs. make a lovely night >> that's the clearest end point for a teenager is the music. half of what a teenager is is music. you know, and the other half is trouble or raging hormones. but at the same time, it's -- that's what the movie's about. >> reporter: cars and music and raging hormones. >> yeah, i should have called it that. we were looking for a title and you finally figured it out. >> yes. >> the studio wanted to call it another slow night in modesto, but cars, music and raging could have been a hit let's go surfing now the low budget film was one of the most commercially successful films of its time. before he was 40, lucas went on to make the first three "star wars" and indiana jones "raiders of the lost ark." and then he walked away. >> i mean i gave up directing in order to become a dad. you know for 15 years, i just ran a company and was and i know straighter, but it was not doing what i really liked to do which is actually make movies. >> reporter: because you wanted to be a dad? >> because yeah, i -- and i never was one of those things where you don't expect it to happen but once i was a dad, it was like a bolt of lightning struck me. >> reporter: lucas adopted his first daughter with his wife marsha in 1981. two more children and raised them as a single dad. >> everybody says the following things -- they're so very different. then in 2013, he married melody hobson an investment executive and cbs news contributor. >> the thing we discovered which we call a miracle is the fact we're exactly the same. >> together they have a 2-year-old daughter. >> it's a miracle. that's how i see it. it shouldn't have happened and somehow it did. >> reporter: here at skywalker ranch north of san francisco, george is once again able to concentrate on being a father. three years ago, he sold his company lucas films to disney for $4 billion. >> who are you? >> reporter: let me just talk about the "force awakens." >> probably needs this. >> reporter: how do you feel about it? >> well, it's -- you know, i made the decision to sell the company with "star wars." looked at the future, i thought that i was going to have a baby, i looked at the fact that i was married and i looked at the fact that i wanted to build a museum and i looked at the fact that i wanted to make experimental films. so my life was going on a different track. so that started that ball rolling. and so in the end, when i sold it, they hired j.j. to come in. >> are you at peace with this? >> yeah. >> as much as you can be? >> yeah, no, i said look, i'm fine. fortunately i'm old enough to have been through all this stuff before. and i'm sure it will do magnificent business. i'm sure they'll do a great job. you know, it will be different from what i would have done. >> everything he's done has earned him a prestigious kennedy center honor. >> george lucas. he's a pathfinder and a pioneer. >> at the awards his good friend steven spielberg explained the george lucas legacy best. >> george lucas changed movies made one movie every three years. he makes three movies every year. i said when are you going to retire? he said i'm not going to retire. i said, my ultimate dream is to die on a set. and just keel over in the middle of shooting. i said gee, m ambition is to die in bed watching one of your movies on television. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean he's slowing down anytime soon. >> because you have worn all of these hats though, filmmaker, director, story teller, writer, technological innovator, what do you want the first line of your obituary to say? >> i was a great dad. or i tried. 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confused. i was more curious. why is this your english name? >> reporter: in all of this, the 26-year-old jernigan saw an opportunity and launched a website to help chinese find an >> here we have the name. we have the origin, meaning. our target audience is really 18 to about 30. it's people that are kind of getting a little bit more serious about their job or studying abroad or going abroad or even working in china in a multinational company. >> reporter: users can take a quiz or for $45 get a 30-minute one-on-one consultation. jernigan explains the meaning of names and says chinese often want one that's uncommon and similar to their chinese name. >> i always kind of like when chinese people say i don't have an english name. i'm going to stick with my chinese name. we're in china. >> yeah, totally. on our website, we never say chinese people have to have an english name. it's very much a resource for people actively already looking for an english name. almost all of my friends have their english name. >> reporter: meet this 28-year-old, formerly known as 11. the number of her favorite soccer player. >> when you told people my name >> uh-huh. >> -- what did they say? >> that's my trouble. they always say where is seven. 711 eleven is the famous convenience store in china. so they always say where is seven. >> where is seven? >> i don't know. >> you'd say gosh, another 7-eleven joke. >> after working with jern garngs 11 became keera. >> kiera is not that common. it sounds smart and keira knightley. >> sure. >> jernigan says it can be hard to explain why some names just don't work. >> you run into people here named green or yellow but you have the name scarlet and violet. so why? i totally understand why it's confusing. there's a learning curve for all involved. this juice store manager was formerly known as ding. his father. >> evan. >> evan. >> evan? evan? >> that's what your dad said? >> yeah. >> he couldn't pronounce it when you told him? >> yeah. >> reporter: now, this goes both ways. in japan, they have a hard time pronouncing the th in my name seth so they call me sess sue. here in china, the ministry of foreign affairs has given me a chinese name. that's do an. it means much kindness. for "cbs this morning," i'm seth be right back. 2015 is coming to a close and charles osgood looks back on the year that was. >> reporter: january brought the magazine "charlie hebdo." it had lampooned islam. 13 people were killed. millions would soon rally in paris saying charlie. in february, isis shocked the world again. posting online videos of a captured jordanian pilot being burned alive and later the mass beheading of 21 coptic christians. we remember march for the crash of the germanwings jetliner. 150 lives were lost. when the co-pilot deliberately aimed the plane into the french alps. in april, a boston jury convicted marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. a month later he was sentenced to death. may saw the duke and duchess of cambridge present their new elizabeth die and fla to the world. >> i'm always going to be your dad. formerly known as bruce jenner made her debut. and the supreme court made same-sex marriage a right nationwide. a mile long tunnel provided mexico's powerful drug lord el chapo an escape from prison in july. that same month, pluto was revealed in spectacular photos snapped by a nasa spacecraft. in august, news that minnesota dentist walter palmer had killed zimbabwe's beloved cecil the lion for sport triggered global outrage. the photo of 3-year-old alan kurdee's lifeless body on a kurdish beach in september quickly became a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of syrian refugees. october brought an official end to china's controversial one-child policy. allowing families now to have islamic terrorists targeted paris again in november. 130 people would die in multiple attacks. leaving the heart of the french nation badly wounded. and this month, radicalized husband and wife killers would take 14 lives in san bernardino, california. and two weeks ago, 200 nations met in paris to adopt the first global pact to combat climate change. for this wednesday. their cell phones. >> all day the length of the terminal as the passengers try to get through security and to their gates. many flights were canceled or delays. >> crowded chaos took over the terminals. check in lines six rows deep. security checkpoints packed with passengers running out of patience. >> i don't even know. >> 00 flights were canceled or delayed by late this afternoon. on top of the nearly 1400 canceled yesterday with an estimated 80,000 trying to get to their destinations through o'hare today, emotion were high. >> speak to someone. this is such [ bleep ]. >> hundreds were stranded last night with no place to go. scott mill man and his guy of hope were left on the cold hard floor after their flight to oregon was canceled. >> blanket or a mattress. an that's my pillow right here. >> reporter: flightaware said o'hare is critical to air travel nationwide. >> its and i an large hub. american airlines and united airlines, as well. chicago is a vital artery for the air traffic. >> as the wentry mix dumped as much as a foot of snow, delays moved with it. more than 800 flights from three area airports were canceled or delayed and another 400 or so at boston's logan airport. back here at o'hare, american airlines rebooked scott and hope on another flight but it leaves next year on new year's day. will the airline pay for your hotel? >> they won't pay for anything. more day to be normal here at o'hare. part of the problem is that flights on the holidays leave few seats for rebooking. >> adriana diaz with travelers at ho layer. torrential rains. the mississippi river is expected to crest south of st. louis at levels that could exceed historic 1993 flood. yoon, missouri, has already flooded. our st. louis affiliate kmov is there. >> reporter: jim, at least two dozen homes are underwater and a number of businesses, as well. there's a gas station, a hotel, a jimmy john's sandwich shop opened up a week ago is now flooded. there have been 13 deaths from people rushing through flooded roadways. the governor jay nixon has declared a state of emergency today. created what is basically an extra vertical feet of water. there have been mandatory evacuations. in st. louis today, they needed volunteers to fill 20 thousand bags. volunteers that showed up today were children on their holiday break. in some places, water is up to the roof tops in homes and as i showed you some businesses are underwater. here in union missouri, the river is causing all of the flooding and they're saying it will reach an all-time high when it crests later today. >> thank you. let's bring in eric fisher, chief meteorologist boston station wbz. eric, flooding is already bad. how much worse is it going to get? >> we're watching here a widespread area of 8 to 14 inch rainfall just over the last -- that is creating huge issues we've been seeing in the mississippi river basins. we're looking across 20 rivers eaching at least plornlg flooding if not a record flooding. a lot of these crests highest in decades. saltwater feeds into the mississippi river at st. louis cresting on thursday. 14 feet more to rise. the arkansas river at little rock will be cresting on friday at 26 feet. very high water levels. the good news here is that over the next seven days, the weather pattern is going to set up all across the region that will stop the flooding that's expected here but at least it won't exacerbate the problem. garland, texas, has begun to clean up after tornadoes damages or destroyed nearly 800 homes there. david begnaud has a reminder that is property can be replaced but lives cannot. >> bad shape. i lost my wife. she was my best friend. >> ruben porras and petra ruiz were married for ten years with they both worked as paralegals. for christmas, he surprised his wife with a special hair appointment. she was on her way home when she connected with her husband on facetime. >> we were just talking about dinner and all of a sudden, she started screaming. >> she starts screaming and she starts saying, babe, babe. >> what's wronging? >>ing. > it just went black. >> using a mobile app, ruben tracked his wife's phone to the crash site. he asked his brother-in-law to drive him there blocked by fire treks and debris, he ran the last mile and a half to find his wife. >> i looked to my right. it was crushed. i was hoping she would still be alive in there, you know? >> you crawled into the car? >> i crawled into the car to try >> about five hours later, porras came home and called his children together. >> i said, mommy was in a terrible accident. and she's left us. shy will be watching over. >> petra ruiz was one of eight people that died in the city of garland, jim, all of those victims died in their vehicles. >> david with the heart breaking story. be right back. so-called affluenza kid. couch was wanted for possibly violating probation in texas after beating prison time in a fatal drunk driving crash with a defense that left many people shaking their heads. after a three-week manhunt, omar via frank ca says he has been arrested in mexico. >> ethan couch's newly dyed black hair didn't fool authorities who caught the teenager on monday despite looking very different than he did two years ago when he was first charged in the deadly drunk drying accident. tarrant county deanderson. >> we worked a tremendous amount of leads and learned through some interviews that they had planned to disappear, that they even had something that was almost akin to a going away party. >> reporter: investigators say couch and his mother tonya drove a pickup truck into mexico and ended up more than 1200 miles resort town of puerto vallarta. they fled shortly after this video surfaced which appeared to show couch at a party with alcohol. even though he's 18, tarrant county district attorney sharen wilson says couch is only facing juvenile justice. >> i'm not satisfied with four months in a juvenile facility. we're asking for him to be moved to adult court. >> reporter: couch was only 16 when he avoided jail time and was sentenced to ten years probation for killing four people in a drunk driving accident. his defense team argued that the teen suffered from something they termed affluenza, arguing that his rich parents never taught him right from wrong. >> sheriff, now that he is in custody, what do you want to happen to ethan couch in time around? >> well, i'd like for him to be held accountable. i don't think ten years probation was appropriate for killing four innocent people. >> reporter: even if couch's case is transferred to adult court, he only faces four months in jail because he was convicted jim, mexican officials tell cbs news couch and his mother will be flown back to texas tomorrow. >> omar, thank you. chicago police officer jason van dyke pled not guilty today in the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. van dyke faces first degree murder charges after shooting the teenager 16 times. dashcam video of the confrontation sparked days of protests when it was released last month. van dyke's lawyer says he may ask for a change of venue. the last day of the year is always among the most challenging days of the year for the new york city police department. and two days away, paris and san bernardino have only raised the stakes. here's don dahler. >> reporter: with over a million people expected in midtown manhattan and a billion more watching on tv, new york officials are determined to make times square the safest place on earth. mayor bill deblasio. >> we're the best prepared city in the country. we've shown it time and time again. >> reporter: 5,000 uniformed and undercover officers will be in the square. garbage cans removed, manhole covers sealed shot, radiation detectors deployed. this year the nypd established a 500-person special response unit that holds regular drills. at a new operation center in down the manhattan, officers monitor thousands of feeds. on new year's eve the room will be staffed with members of governmental agencies. last week james o'neill gave us a tour. >> do you think people should feel safe? >> i'm not going to tell them to feel safe. i don't think anyone does this work better than the nypd, along with our federal partners. >> reporter: but memories of the paris and california terror attacks are fresh. commissioner bill bratton. >> the pattern this year has been terror attacks on relatively small soft targets square, what about the thousands of businesses outside this area? >> capabilities on the threat analysis beforehand the prevention side as well as the capability to respond very quickly, we believe we are as prepared as anybody can be. >> reporter: spectators coming into this area will all be searched and required to get to their places early and stay there. jim, they will also not be allowed to bring in large bags, backpacks or alcohol. >> don dahler in times square where it will be even busier in two nights. new information about the federal government's handling of the texas ice cream maker blue bell, the subject of a cbs news investigation this fall. cbs news has learned the department of justice has started an investigation into blue bell after their ice cream was linked to a deadly listeria outbreak earlier this year. three people died. an fda investigation found listeria in three of blue bell's oklahoma, and texas. as well as records indicating the company knew one plant was contaminated at least as early as 2013. the fda investigation uncovered other troubling problems. including condensation dripping directly into ice cream and unsanitary equipment. in april, blue bell shut down all three production facilities and recalled all its ice cream. sources tell cbs news, the justice department is trying to determine what blue bell management knew about potentially deadly hazards in their plants and when they knew it. in october, gerald bland who worked at the blue bell factory in bren am, texas, described to cbs news unsanitary conditions on the factor floor. >> on the wall by the three gallon machine, if it would rain real hard and water sat on the roof, it would just trickle down that wall. >> reporter: rain water from the roof. >> from the roof. >> yeah. >> reporter: another worker terry schultz told us his complaints to management about unclean conditions went nowhere. >> the response i got at one point was, is that all you're going to do is come in here and bitch every afternoon? >> what do you think his message to you was? >> production was more importantpthan cleanliness. >> all three plants are now back up and running and by the end of next month, its ice cream will states. blue bell did not respond to our requests for comment today. this investigation into blue bell is being led by the same justice department lawyer who prosecuted the peanut corporation of america. the company's owner stewart parnell got 28 years for shipping salmonella contaminated peanut products. that is the longest sentence ever for a food safety-related crime. coming up next, walking while distracted is sending hundreds to hospitals. a former star of glee" is and mike tyson that's a lot of dishes& no problem. i'll use a lot of detergent. dish issues? get cascade platinum. one pac cleans tough food better than 6 pacs of the bargain brand combined. cascade. let's get these dayquil liquid gels and go. but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same difference. this one is max strength and fights mucus. mucinex fast max. the only cold and flu liquid gel that's max-strength and fights mucus. let's end this. (cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. i did everything i could to make her party perfect. almost everything. you know, 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. but for only $7 a month, rid-x helps break down waste. distraction turn deadly for a man who fell off a cliff in san diego on christmas day. he had been staring at his phone or camera completely unaware of the looming danger. as kris van cleave reports, this type of thing happens all the time. >> reporter: investigators believe joshua burwell may have been trying to take a picture of the sunset when he made the deadly 40-foot fall. san diego lifeguard sergeant bill bender. >> wasn't watching where he was walking looking me down at the device. >> reporter: research shows so-called distracted walking growing problem. the number of er visits for related injuries most often due to falling doubled between 2005 and 2010 to more than 1500 with millennials ages 21 to 25 the >> it's important to recognize this as a problem. >> reporter: surgeon dr. claudette la john believes the true number of injuries is even higher. >> when they come into my office, they'll have an injury and say they tripped over the curb but never admit they were looking down at their phone instead of looking in front of them. >> security cameras capture this had woman who was so focused on her phone she walked into a fountain. this man fell right off the train platform. we spotted jordan video chatting while crossing a busy new york veet. >> i know i shouldn't. >> kelly davis was working away as she walked to lunch. >> have you ever had a moment where you've walked into something or fallen or. >> absolutely, i walked into one of the very short like light posts. >> reporter: she may not be surprised by the findings of a 2014 study that estimated nearly 10% of all pedestrian injuries are due to distraction. jim, i know it sounds obvious, but if you're looking down at obstacle right in front of you in time. >> chris, thank you. an unlikely pedestrian was that is just ahead. one of the stars of the fox tv show "glee" was arrested today for possession of child pornography. mark salling played puck on the program. police say they served a warrant at his home and took the "glee" aired its final episode earlier this year. mike tyson was once one of the most feared plen on the planet, but the heavyweight became a heavy weight on a hoverboard. >> oh, my. >> that could be the hardest he's ever hit the floor. tyson's daughter got him the hoverboard for christmas and clearly, it won this round. in northern california, this question. why did the elephant seal want to cross the road? she tried several times to cross highway 37. wildlife teams shoot her back into san pablo bay each time but she kept coming back. they believe she may be pregnant. late today, they tranquilized her and planned to take her to a some of this country's t we close tonight with a mission to change the composition of classical music. not the sound, but the color. fewer than 4% of symphony musicians in this country are black. lee cowan found it's not for lack of talent. >> reporter: rachmaninoff was seamless on this night in charleston, south carolina. remarkable because this was the very first time many of these musicians had ever played together. maestro marlin daniel conducts not only the orchestra but this festival called the color of music now in its third year. >> you know a lot of musicians of color get pigeon holed into jazz and hip-hop and all these things. >> reporter: it's a stereotype. >> a big stereotype. a lot of people find there are there doing clack cal music but there are actually in reality tons of us. >> reporter: clarinettist robert davis says in most symphonies he sticks out as a black classical artist but not here. >> you usually see the same ones. i came down here and there's another group. like where are they coming from. i was shocked about that. >> reporter: the festival highlights black classical composers. on this night, it was a dolphus hail stark performed one block from the historic church where in june a gunman opened fire killing nine. >> we're very lucky. >> reporter: businessman lee pringle who founded the event helps sites liking there will help diversify other orchestras. >> i think that most orchestras want to change. they just don't know how to change. >> reporter: and how do they change? who look like me. >> reporter: music should be color blind and to make it that way, you have to infuse in it all of the colors. >> reporter: a unique unity that for a few days at least makes for an especially powerful sound. [ applause ] >> lee cowan, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. and that's the overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others collect back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jim axelrod. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com this is the cbs overnight" news. i'm michele miller. police in mexico have captured the so-called affluenza teen, ethan couch and his mother tonya. the pair had been on the run for weeks after a video surfaced that could send the teen to prison for years. at 16 years old, couch killed four people in a drunk driving time by claiming he was so rich don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right now, officials are monitoring 19 levees that are considered vulnerable. the floods have already shut widespread evacuation. >> missouri in the midst of a very historic and dangerous flooding event. >> reporter: missouri governor jay nixon called in the national guard as the state grapples with deadly flooding. volunteers throughout st. louis worked late tuesday night laying out sandbags. the situation was dire at this water treatment plant in the town of high ridge. its reserves only contain enough water up to four days. >> we are all going to get through it and have to work together as a community and get through it. >> reporter: the winter deluge has left the town of union under water. rising water along the mississippi and other major rivers have forced people out. >> we took everything important out of aurour basement which is strictly storage anyone and cleaned the house out of clothes and things that can't be replaced and important things, worst by getting things up to higher grounds. >> reporter: water levels in some locations could exceed those not seen since the great flood the 1993 but officials maintain they are prepared. >> in terms of forecasting river levels we are light years better than '93. now we are putting in forecast rainfall so that has given us a much more heads-up. >> reporter: more than 20 people in missouri have been killed in the flooding. the mississippi river in st. louis is expected to reach nearly 15 feet above flood stage in st. louis tomorrow, which would be the second worst flood on record. >> that's pretty bad. don champion in new york, thank you, don. travel delays associated with the weather are not expected to get any better for a few days. there are nearly 1,200 flights cancelled yesterday nationwide and 6,000 were delayed and already about a hundred flights have been cancelled. long lines at chicago's o'hare airport. some passengers stranded in the terminal and became emotional. [ screaming ] this is bull [ bleep ], it's [ bleep ]. >> reporter: o'hare supplied cots for some passengers and others had to sleep on the floor. the system is linked to the system that brought the deadly tornadoes to the midwest. six inches fell in parts of new england and ten inches fell in western maine. more snow and ice is expected today. a moderate earthquake rattled southern california last night. the epi center of the magnitude 4.4 quake was northwest of san bernardino. dozens of aftershocks followed. there are no reports of damage or injuries, though. the national security agency faces new allegations this morning of spying on members of congress. "wall street journal" cites ordered the nsa to eavesdrop on conversations between u.s. lawmakers and israeli officials. it was allegedly part of an effort to make sure the nuclear deal with iran was not derailed. a spokesperson for the national security council tells cbs news we are not going to comment on any specific alleged intelligence activities. we do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance activities unless there is a specific and validated national security purpose. the so-called affluenza teenager could return to the united states sometime today. ethan couch and his mother were found this week in mexico after disappearing from texas. authorities believe the teen may have violated his probation for killing four people while driving drunk. it was a pizza order on a cell phone that led authorities to couch. >> reporter: mexican authorities