this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. >> glor: this is our western edition. good evening. the number-two man at f.b.i. surprised senior staff today by stepping down immediately. deputy director andrew mccabe had been planning to retire in march but he moved up his departure under pressure. president trump had been critical of mccabe. he fired mccabe's former boss, james comey. the white house says the president had nothing to do with this. here's justice correspondent jeff pegues. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe was strongly encouraged to step down and the investigation into the clinton private e-mail server may have played a role. in a message sent to f.b.i. employees this afternoon, director christopher wray mentioned the results of an inspector general review of that probe and said the f.b.i. must perform at the highest standards. >> i fully complied with every rule that i was governed by. >> reporter: mccabe oversaw the clinton investigation but became a lightning rod for critics, especially president trump, after it was revealed his wife received almost $700,000 from democratic party sources in her tsuccessful bid for the >>rginia senate. >> she got more than $500,000 from essentially hillary clinton, and is he investigating hillary clinton? mccabe also oversaw the russia investigation when it was run by the f.b.i. after president trump fired james comey as director in may am last year, mccabe became acting director. but he also remained loyal to comey. >> is it accurate the rank and pole no longer supported director comey? >> no, sir. that is not accurate. >> reporter: in recent weeks, epesident trump has stepped up his criticism of mccabe, tweeting he was racing the clock to retire with full benefits. >> there is a perception problem ott there that's not going away. s reporter: ron hosko is a former assistant director of the f.b.i. >> i think white house has applied its fair share of iessure, but what's unknown is what did christopher wray know? the new director of the f.b.i., something presumably caused the director to act. tt reporter: attorney general jeff sessions had also pressured f.b.i. director wray to get rid of mccabe. usile the white house says the president had nothing to do with today's action, he stands by his criticism. jeff? >> glor: jeff pegues, thank you very much. the president makes his second appearance before a joint sessioof congress tomorrow evening to deliver his first state of the union. he is expected in part to talk about the strong economy, etcluding the stock market. margaret brennan has more on this. >> it's going to be good. we worked on it hard, covered a est of territory, including our great success with the markets and with the tax cut. or reporter: for a president who often complains that his successes are underreported, the unfiltered prime time address is a key opportunity to push his agenda. >> it will obviously be must- watch tv. >> reporter: advisers say the dlesident will echo many of the business friendly themes he caoke about last week in davos. >> america is open for business, and we are competitive once teain. >> reporter: the highlights, a promise of improved trade deals, a $1.7 trillion plan to revitalize infrastructure, and a request to congress for $25 bllion to construct a border wall with mexico. in exchange, he'll offer to make 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants future citizens. >> we'll get something done. we hope it's going to be bipartisan. the republicans really don't have the votes to get it done in any other way, so it has to be bipartisan. >> reporter: one thing absent from the speech, the russia investigation hanging over the white house. but he doesn't feel a need to address it? >> i think we've addressed it every single day that we've been here. e ankly, no one cares about this issue and it's certainly not the thing that keeps people up at night. we'd love to talk about all of the things that do, and my guess is that will be the focus of the president's state of the union tomorrow. fi reporter: the president and first lady have invited 15 guests to attend the address. duey include two injured veterans and five individuals who have personal ties to the immigration crackdown, including victims of ms13 gang members. jeff? nk reporter: margaret, thank you. in advance of the president's address, cbs this morning co- host john dickerson sat down with a group of voters in the orlando, florida, area. some voted for mr. trump, others for hillary clinton. >> reporter: angela, it's a year into the trump presidency. is the country better off? >> i believe it is doing much better. the stock market, i know eventually it will end, but i think the economy is doing much better. elm seeing more jobs. >> i completely disagree. i don't think it's doing any ettter. sure, the economy is getting better, it seems, but the economy is not the only thing that we have to look at when we're describing the country as a whole. you know, racial tensions are increasing among whites and blacks, healthcare is a crisis in this country. we've got the opioid crisis. indon't think ultimately as a whole the country is doing any better than it was. >> financially we're doing much better. i think that with the addition of gorsuch our supreme court has improved. on the flip side, as debbie pointed out, there are breaks in the american culture. it used to be a homogeneous culture. it's not anymore. and it is unfortunate. i wish... i hope that we can get back to a point in which americans look at america and we're proud to be americans and we're not divided up into african americans and hispanic americans. ju're all just americans. i wish we could go that way. >> glor: it is a very interesting listen. td there will be much more of john's panel first thing tomorrow on cbs this morning. then john, norah o'donnell, gayle king and i will bring you live coverage of the state of the union address and the democratic response tomorrow evening at 9:00, 8:00 central, that is 6:00 in the west. guch of the union is battling nee flu, the worst case in nearly a decade. it is taking an especially heavy toll on school kids. here's omar villafranca. >> reporter: schools across the heuntry are fighting the flu. classroom by classroom. today bishop lynch high school in dallas resumed classes after it closed last week to let work crews disinfect the entire school property. caitlin casner is a senior with a low-grade fever and isn't taking any chances after her brother was sick with the flu. school nurse patty barton saw more kids in the clinic than in the classroom. >> this year it really is i precedented. i probably saw about 30 kids in here on monday and sent ten epme. s, reporter: the flu is widespread in 49 states, and the c.d.c. says 39 of those have especially high activity. schools in at least 12 states have canceled classes for a few days for clean-up and recovery. tse flu shut down classes today for the 815 students at saint thomas aquinas in dallas, more than 10% of the student body got sick. matthew vereecke, is the school superintendent. >> even if we miss anything, the kids will have chance to go ame, get healthy, and hopefully tot bring that virus back to school. >> it's been a tough influenza season so far this year. >> reporter: dr. daniel jernigan with the c.d.c. says the h3n2 strain of the flu is hitting patients over 65 very hard. but other strains of the flu are olking a toll on younger patients. >> since the winter holidays, we've seen kids are really making up the predominant amount ha influenza-like illness. wu're taking that back to ouhool. it's getting transmitted there. i think that's what's driving a ept of these visits to the u tpatient clinic right now. >> reporter: one of the reasons the flu spread so fast in schools is that students are in close quarters and they share everything. one of the biggest problems, cell phones. te students type on them and share them and end up spreading spe virus. jeff? >> glor: omar villafranca, thank you very much. we have much more information u out the flu on our website. the address is cbsnews.com/flu2018. there was another dangerously close encounter today between u.s. and russian military planes. this one in international air space over the black sea. a russian fighter jet intercepted a navy reconnaissance plane and hung around for two hours and 40 minutes. at one point the two planes were just five feet apart. president trump today ruled out negotiating with the taliban while, as he put it, innocent people are being killed left and right in afghanistan. the taliban claimed responsibility for saturday's attack in kabul. more than 100 were killed and anice that number were hurt when an attacker drove an ambulance packed with explosives into the heart of the city. charlie d'agata reports tonight the fear is terrorists could mount similar ambulance attacks in the west. nosirens ) >> reporter: it's not hard to buy a used ambulance. we posed as buyers and found this one on ebay. but according to security experts like kris phillips, the hisale of emergency vehicles is handing terrorists a lethal weapon. >> the terrorist threat is wider, is more diverse, and it's evolving. and one of those effects will almost certainly be a vehicle bmb. >> it's a threat british security forces tagged a decade ago when they were being used in iraq. they're called trojan vehicles, seemingly ordinary ambulances that are instead packed with explosives. >> you're not going to know that the ambulance coming toward you is a real one or a fake one. >> reporter: phillips says the fear is that tactic will be imported here as terror attacks by islamic militants grow. >> there needs to be some kind of legislation to stop the use of these vehicles. or we're going to have a major problem. >> reporter: we found plenty of examples on ebay. alpolice car with original equipment in the trunk, an ambulance with full emergency markings. most run for just a few thousand dollars. >> anybody can turn up. they can pay cash for the vehicles, and within hours those cehicles can be in the hands of a terrorist cell. o reporter: lord carlile led calls to outlaw the resale of emergency vehicles. so the very thing you had warned against a decade ago is still there? >> yes. here it is. >> reporter: there is still no clear regulations governing the resale of ambulances. lord carlile pointed out last year's ariana grande concert where 60 ambulances raced to the scene, exactly the scenario where a trojan vehicle could exploit the chaos after that initial blast. >> that is the sort of place where the risk of one of these vehicles entering a cordoned off zone in the minutes immediately after the explosion takes place is a very high risk. >> reporter: we contacted the home office, britain's counter- terrorism authority, repeatedly, and were told they're looking into it. ebay says fully operational emergency vehicles are not allowed on their website, and they're reviewing the ads we pointed out. h.ff? >> glor: charlie d'agata, thank su very much. now to some other stories we're following in the evening newsfeed. police in detroit held a vigil today for one of their own. officer glen doss died yesterday. dour days after he was shot responding to a domestic. roses covered his patrol car. doss was 25. his father was heard on the police radio after the shooting pleading for prayers. e suspect was arrested at the scene and is now charged with murder. jackpotting has come to the u.s. hackers are installing malware that forces atms to spit out money like slot machines. they've stolen more than $1 million so far. the secret service is warning companies that operate atms to update their computer systems. cleveland's baseball team will still be called the indians, but chief wahoo will be dropped after the season. critics consider the smiling teage racist. it's been part of the team's heiform for more than 70 years. there is much more ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." >> who knew a fitbit could give away valuable information about the military? 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how do they connect with other bases? what kind of patrol routes do acey have around the area? >> reporter: social networks are a hallmark of the modern era, but jeffrey lewis of the middlebury institute says a lot .ore than just personal information ends up on those networks. >> there's actually one trace that shows the person doing loops as he or she jogs around some nuclear weapons stored in enrkey. so while, yes, i think to some extent this is the new era we live in, this is a particularly frightening example of that era. >> reporter: jeff, this breech could go well beyond the military to include intelligence officers and anyone else who ed a fitness device while working at a sensitive location. >> glor: david martin, thank you for that report tonight. still ahead here, the man who heads the recording academy and why so few women were nominated for grammys. ♪ when you have a cold, stuff happens. 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>> reporter: the squares of a chess board. they're brought together by raydell lacey, who started a program called "not before my parents." >> that's e.j.'s dad. >> reporter: two years ago we sat down with her. >> he got hit in the head. he was slumped over. >> reporter: just days after her grandson e.j. was shot in the head at 19. >> oh, god. oh, god. >> reporter: he was one of 771 chicagoans killed in 2016. b's an agony relived. 21 years before that her daughter was also murdered. in their memory she vowed to be part of a solution. >> no parent should have to bury their child. that's just... they don't go together. that's just not right. >> reporter: two years later, she's delivered on that promise, and not before my parents uses hiess as the tool. >> with chess, you think. you focus. i want to beat him. and i don't have to beat him with these. i can beat him with this, right here. >> reporter: she even drives kids to weekly lessons, and monthly matches with police officers that she hopes will build trust. >> how are you doing now against this officer? >> demolishing him. >> you're demolishing him? e laughs ) >> i'm sure every time he sees me, "oh, that's officer mcclain, i beat him in chess." >> reporter: is this your grandson e.j.'s legacy? >> yes, it is. i know he's looking proud. way to go, nana. go, nana. you all go. >> reporter: raydell lacey lost t r cherished grandson, but her family and her impact continue to grow. adriana diaz, cbs news, chicago. >> mason: and we are looking at her proud, as well. that is the "cbs evening news" ghnight. i'm jeff glor. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org prepared are state crews on the fi kpix5 news begins with the cheating scandal rocking cal fire. just how prepared are state crews on the fire lines? a bombshell video claims instructors routinely gave out answers to tests, a firefighter blowing the whistle on what he calls a culture of cheating in the cal fire academy. >> kpix5's kiet do on the allegations that cost one veteran chief his job. an ed by the sacramento bee >> reporter: first it was a sex and alcohol scandal at its academy a couple of years ago. now it appears as though cal fire is cracking down on cheating test takers. >> almost every sunday night the class would get together with one of the instructors. >> reporter: you're watching an interview conducted by the sacramento bee where the voice of a firefighter has been altered to protect his idea. the bee reported today about a long time chief forced to resign amid a cheating scandal. the report also included this whistle blower describing how students and instructors met every sunday night to go over old tests. >> there were old tests and old study notes that were in circulation between cadets that was recognized as contraband in a sense in that it was specified in policy that it was against the rules to have. >> reporter: and then there's a case of jeff isaacs, a 24 year cal fire veteran, accused of helping fellow firefighter scott phillips with a promotion test in 2016. isaacs was on a cal fire promotion panel and knew what questions would be asked. phillips later told cal fire investigators that isaacs tipped him off to study topics like how to coordinate aircraft or how to enter burning structures. isaacs was later forced to resign. according to the bee, there was a disciplinary letter written to isaacs saying, "your

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