Transcripts For KYW CBS Overnight News 20170103 : comparemel

Transcripts For KYW CBS Overnight News 20170103

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In charleston, South Carolina the penalty stage in dylann roofs trial begin this week. He could face the Death Penalty after being convicted of federal hate crimes in the murders of nine black parishioners at the emmanuel ame church. A judge ruled he is competent to represent himself in court. Mark strassmann is covering the case. Reporter as his own lawyer, dylann roof will make an opening statement, a Closing Argument but call no witnesses. Judge Richard Gergel agrees roof has the constitutional right to defend himself. But advised him i think its a bad idea. The convicted killer has undergone two Mental Health evaluations. David bruck, his Court Appointed lawyer, believes the results could save roofs life. But roof has blocked their release and ordered bruck to step aside. Roof rejects psychology as he wrote in his journal, its a jewish invention and does nothing but invent diseases and tell people they have problems when they dont. Here youve got one side fighting and the other side sleeping. And so you there is no way you can get a just result. Reporter defense lawyer chris adams has worked on dozens of Death Penalty cases, with so much on the line, adams believes Death Penalty defendants like roof should never have the right to defend themselves. The jurors have to get the information they need to reach the right verdict. And he is not going to give them any reasons to spare his life. Reporter at the Mother Emmanuel Church pastor eric manning told us the congregation is divided about whether roof deserves the Death Penalty. You kind of want to ask the question, you want to yell, dont you see the pain that this has caused . Hey, what were you thinking . Reporter starting wednesday, jeff, federal prosecutors will call at least 38 witnesses. Emotional testimony they hope will convince jurors to put roof to death. Mark strassmann, thank you. Housing prices are going up, nationwide the average home now lists for nearly a quarter million dollars. In california it is almost half a million. And in the heart of Silicon Valley all but the highest earners are being priced out. Heres john blackstone. Reporter Jessica Clark has lived all her life in palo alto. But housing is now so expensive here, even her kids know their family cant afford it much longer. They have questions about where are we going to go to school next year. What if we have to move, where are we going to go . And that is questions a six year old shouldnt be asking. Reporter clark and her husband a medical therapist pay 85 of their income on rent. A two bedroom apartment now averages 3,800 a month. Well out of reach for tara hunt, a Kindergarten Teacher who has taught in palo alto for 11 years. She is struggling to stay. Im actually considering moving back home. Reporter in your mid 30s moving back in with your parents. I know a lot of people who are doing it. A lot of my friends are doing it. We dont have any other options. Reporter with the median house price in palo alto now 2. 5 million, nearly doubling in just the last four years, even the reasonably well off feel shut out. Kate downing is a corporate attorney, her husband a software engineer. With your earnings, your husbands earnings, you are in the top 2 . Thats right. And you cant afford a house in palo alto. No. Downing resigned from palo altos Planning Commission in a letter in which she lamented a city becoming a place where young families have no hope of ever putting down roots. She and her husband are moving 40 miles away to buy a house. Reporter should we feel sorry for you . No, no. I dont think anyone should feel sorry for me. But i think the people who should feel sorry for are the people who cant do that. What are you going to tell the people who are our cooks, our cops, our teachers, our nurses, those are people you dont want to lose. You can lose some lawyers, you cant lose the people who are the backbone of your city. I see the end of the road and its a very hopeless feeling. Reporter Jessica Clark worries that her hometown is becoming so wealthy that soon only the extremely wealthy will call it home. John blackstone, cbs news, palo alto. Next, think ceos get paid too much . One city wants to tax them until it hurts. Later, accusations are flying after Mariah Careys new years eve meltdown. And a medical school says it found a recipe for making better doctors. You know your heart loves megared omega3s. But did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too . Introducing megared advanced 4in1. Just one softgel delivers the omega3 power of two regular fish oil pills. So give your body mega support with megared advanced 4in1. For Many Americans wages adjusted for the cost of living havent budged in decades. But as the richest americans get richer, one city is changing laws trying to close the income gap. David begnaud has details. Middle class paychecks havent increased even though corporate profits and ceo pay keeps rising. Reporter its an issue that was raised during the president ial campaign. And you see these guys making these enormous amounts of money it is a total and complete joke. Reporter the widening gap of income inequality between ceos and their employees. In december portland, oregon, city council became the first to do something about it by increasing taxes on businesses with those huge gaps. 10 on Companies Whose ceo make 100 times the average worker, and 25 on ceos who make 250 times that. Ceos nationally in 1965 were making just 20 times ther average employee. 50 years later, its now 248 times. Its socially destabilizing, its economically destabilizing, its politically destabilizing. Steve novick led the push for the new tax which will affect over 500 companies that do business in portland. So frankly, what i am trying to do with this proposal is make America Great again. I have a feeling you didnt vote for donald trump. I did not, but it is true in the 50s and 60s we had an economy that worked for everybody. That made people feel better about society, about government and weve lost that. This ordinance wont do anything to address income inequality. Reporter sandra mcdonouch is ceo of the portland business alliance. She worries this new tax could drive business away from portland. Were concerned about it because it is sending a signal that portland isnt working collaboratively with the people who can create jobs and improve incomes. Reporter the new law goes into effect this month. And is expected to generate between 2. 5 and 3. 5 million. David begnaud, cbs news, portland, oregon. Still ahead here, snafu or sabotage . Mariah carey and the producers are trading accusations. Just dont get any better. Disinfect with lysol bathroom toilet gtrigger. Just stay in the toilet. And lysol power foamer. They kill 99. 9 of germs. To clean and disinfect your bathroom. Lysol that. Queen elizabeth is said to be feeling better after missing church on new years day. She also missed services on christmas day, and has not been seen in public since december 9th. Buckingham palace says the queen who is 90 is battling what they call a heavy cold. A highcrime in hollywood. People woke up new years day to find tarps hung over parts of the famous sign. The os became es spelling hollyweed. The person who did it is wanted for trespassing. Different kind of new years eve performance has left accusations flying. We cant hear but ill just dance through the moment. Mariah carey says a problem with her earpiece forced her to stop singing just minutes before the ball dropped even as prerecorded vocals kept playing behind her. Her manager accused producers of doing it on purpose. Late last night, Dick Clark Productions called that absurd. Next, scalpel, forceps, spatula . Tomorrows doctors need to know their way around the o. R. And the kitchen. Finally tonight, medical school is no joke. Not with classes like anatomy, neuroscience, cell biology and cooking. Yes, cooking. Chip reid has more. Are you a little overwhelmed at this point . I cant cook. You cant cook . No. Reporter this is a required course for firstyear students at Tulane Medical School in new orleans. What is more fun, this or biochemistry . This is more fun. Reporter tulane is leading the way in the booming field of culinary medicine. Tulane has a really good idea about not just making us good doctors but making us good at overall health. I think that is important. Reporter lea sarris is the first chef in the nation on a medical school faculty. I think this is part of it. There is a revolution in the way that physicians are talking to their patients. And including food in that conversation. Some of us started here at tulane with our culinary medical courses. We are now in about 15 of medical schools in the u. S. , they license our curriculum. Reporter the secret is convincing the students that food that is good for you is also good. I think its good. They think its going to taste like cardboard. So i think we pleasantly surprise people. Have you tasted it . Yes. Tastes delicious. Very professional. Are you pretty proud of yourselves . Pretty proud of ourselves. And this is your patients are going to be eating some day . They better. Reporter in the evening, the medical students become teachers, helping Community Members like susan bouchon and Cynthia Edwards learn the secrets of healthy cooking. So your whole family is eating healthier. Yes, theyre eating tofu, theyre eating quinoa, theyre eating whole oats. They dont know. Do they like it . They like it. They love it. My overall cholesterol dropped by like 20 points. My triglycerides dropped by like 17 points. Reporter at Tulane Medical School, the proof is not in the pudding. Its in the whole wheat pasta with lentils and vegetables. Chip reid, cbs news, new orleans. That is the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im jeff glor. This is the cbs overnight news. Hi, everyone, welcome to the overnight news. Im demarco morgan. Isis has claimed responsibility for the terror attack against a terror club in turkey. A gunman killed 39 people and wounding nearly 70 others. The gunman escaped after the attack and police say eight suspects have been detained. Jonathan vigliotti has the latest from istanbul. Reporter club reigna is one of the most popular clubs in the city. One of those places where people line up for hours object to be turned away at the door. Today, police are lined up, a blue tarp has been set up. And behind it, investigators working around the clock to collect evidence from this massive crime scene. Ten, nine, eight reporter cell phone video from inside club reina showed a crowd ringing in the new year. But just one hour into 2017, the gunman struck. Surveillance video shows him exchanging fire with Police Outside on the street, bullets ricocheting off of a car. A camera captures him shooting his way into the club, killing a Police Officer and a civilian. Inside, he reportedly shot anyone in his path. Some initially thought the shots were fireworks, until people started dropping to the ground. The club attracts celebrities and tourists from all over the world. Jake raak, a Small Business owner from greenville, delaware, was injured in the attack. I shot got in the leg. These crazy people came in shooting everything. I saw one person. They were shooting. Reporter a bullet reportedly bounced off his phone and hit him in the leg. His brother, chris, spoke from pennsylvania. Im just very happy my brother is okay, safe, coming home. Its really sad with the rest of the world and whats going on and things. I just pray for their families. Reporter 17,000 police were patrolling the streets on new years eve, amid a wave of attacks in turkey in 2016 from isis and kurdish separatists. The club increased its own security. The interior minister believes the mann acted alone and came prepared, leaving in his wake a shattered nightclub and bloody part to a new year. President elect donald trump is expressing more skepticism that Russian Hackers interfered in the president ial election. He says he has Insider Information about the cyber attacks. He also told reporters that no computer is safe from hacking. Jan crawford is following the trump transition. Reporter president elect trump will sit down for a full briefing with the heads of u. S. Intelligence, as the Obama Administration sanctions go into effect against russia. On new years day, the 35 Russian Diplomats president obama expelled from the country took off from outside washington for russia. Just hours earlier, the president elect was continuing to cast doubt on the intelligence communitys assessment that russia hacked u. S. Cyber systems in the runup to the president ial election. I just want them to be sure, because its a pretty serious charge. I know a lot about hacking, and hacking is a very hard thing to prove. If hes going the have any credibility as president , he needs to stop talking this way and stop denigrating the intelligence community. Hes going to rely on them. Reporter adam schiff, a top democrat on the house intelligence committee, said congress will push for more sanctions against russia. They didnt just steal data, they weaponized it. They dumped it during an election with the specific intent of influencing the outcomes of that election. Reporter the congressional effort is likely to be bipartisan. Republican senator tom cotton says the Obama Administration sanctions were too little too late. What vladamir putin needs is a sense of new boundaries. Hes had a free reign throughout the world over the last eight years. He needs to have a sense of boundaries and to know that costs are going to be imposed. Reporter that hard line comes in the wake of mr. Trumps praise for vladamir putin. After the russian leader declined to retaliate against the u. S. For imposing sanctions, mr. Trump tweeted, great move by v. Putin. I always knew he was very smart. There is a question about whether theres a political retribution here, versus a diplomatic response. Reporter mr. Trumps incoming press secretary says putins delay is a sign of trumps power. As you saw president putin said hes not going to retaliate in the way he suggested. He wants to wait for President Trump to come in. I think that that shows you the power that President Trump has. Reporter he also said that on day one, the president elect is going to side executive orders to repeal Obama Administration regulations. Though he didnt specify which ones. After almost 100 years since it was first imagined, a new subway line in new york city is finally rolling. The Second Avenue extension opened on new years day. The subway arrived as president elect trump promises big spending on similar infrastructure projects. Reporter here it is, planning for the Second Avenue subway in new york began way back in 1929. The project was derailed by the Great Depression and more recently by the financial crisis in 2008. Now that its finally here, an estimated 200,000 new yorkers are expected to use the line every day, and that could cut ten minutes, maybe more, off their travel time. A stretch of new york citys 2nd avenue subway line opened to the public on sunday. Exciting for people not just in new york but across the country. After so many years of closures and delays, we get to finally be here. Reporter raphael drove from virginia for the tenminute ride. I always had a love and passion for trains and something i could not miss. Reporter new york governor andrew cuomo, who pushed for the end of the year deadline, was on hand for the grand opening. Congratulations, you did it. Thank you. Reporter you think its a model for how nationally and other governments could get projects done that are big and ambitious . Yes, i do. Governments dont build. Bureaucracies dont build. Its a different mindset, its a different culture. Leave it to the private sector companies, but let government lay out the overall goals. Reporter three new stops make up the roughly twomile extension of the qline. The final cost, a staggering 4. 5 billion. Digging a tunnel down a crowded road in manhattan is not that easy. Reporter other cities, including washington, d. C. And chicago, are struggling to update their aging tr

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