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it your job now? way i look at it. i have friends on the other side of the aisle. i have shown we can negotiate and compromise without compromising principle, that peopleith different ideas aren't bad people. they just have different ideas. somewhere in this we got into impugning people's character and motives if we didn't like their ideas. we've got to get back to just debating ideas and not impugning people's motives and character. >> sunday on "60 minutes" speaker ryan will tell us how social security, and his wife, janet, explains why she didn't want him to take the job. there was an outbreak of laser strikes on aircraft across the country overnight. laser pointers, sold at sporting goods stores, were aimed at planes and helicopters in 16 cities. here's kris van cleave. >> the laser was pointed at the pilot. >> reporter: three new york city news choppers became the story last night as they were targeted by people on the ground with dangerously bright green lasers. the news crews directed new york police to the location of one of the incidents and two people were taken into custody. the faa says more than 20 aircraft were hit with lasers last night flying over cities from new york to california, michigan to kentucky. in dallas, three pilots reported laser sightings while on approach to land. last night is part of a record- setting surge of laser strikes as of the middle of october, pilots had reported more than 5,300 incidents. that's nearly a 40% increase over all of 2014. in los angeles, it's enough of a problem that the l.a. police department's air support division equips its 88 airborne officers with special protective glasses. >> it's incapacitating for a few moments. >> reporter: lapd pilot kevin cook has been hit at night while flying low over the city. >> you want to turn away from the light source. except when it illuminates the helicopter you can't turn away from the light source. >> reporter: no one was injured in last night's incident. and no accidents have ever been attributed to a laser strike. scott, it is a crime to shine a laser at an airplane punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison. >> kris van cleave, kris, thanks. in utah tonight, a lesbian couple is fighting a judge's ruling to remove their foster baby. carter evans spoke with them. >> reporter: beckie pierce and days to hold on to the baby girl they've nurtured for months. >> knowing that, that's what we've done and it's been taken away from us is heartbreaking. >> reporter: the couple is legally married in utah and plan to adopt the child. but tuesday, according to lawyers present in the courtroom for utah child welfare agency, judge scott johansen ordered the couple to give up the baby for just one reason. >> he said he's seen studies that say children do worse in homosexual homes than in heterosexual homes. >> reporter: the judge wouldn't tell you what studies he was referring to? >> no, he told the lawyers to do their own research. >> reporter: hoagland and pierce say the judge also ignored pleas from the baby's biological mother to grant them custody. they believe the judge, a bishop in the mormon church, is imposing his religious beliefs over the law. >> this is all about sexual orientation, not what is best for the child. >> he has no other grounds but that. >> reporter: child and family services say the couple passed rigorous background checks and state law is on their side, according to director brent platt. >> any legally married couple in utah can become licensed as foster parents, same-sex couples, heterosexual couples. it's very simple, very straightforward. >> reporter: there's not much time. >> there's not much time at all. she's happy, she bonded and now you're going to take that away from her. she has to start over. >> reporter: the couple is appealing the judge's decision, and child and family services is still trying to determine if it's even legal. we wanted to speak directly with judge johansen but the court told us he is not permitted to talk about pending cases. >> carter evans in salt lake city. carter, thanks. did a mix-up by the maker of birth control pills lead to unwanted pregnancies? 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>> it feels like something that you don't deserve. >> reporter: we asked army captain florent groberg. >> the army and the government and the president decided to award me this medal for the worst day of my life. >> reporter: so how does that feel? >> overwhelming, confusing, not exciting. >> reporter: on august 8, 2012, in afghanistan, groberg was in charge of protecting his brigade commander and a couple other vips as they made a short march to the provincial governor's compound. >> it's just one of those weird moments that you get in combat where as soon as you get on the ground, things just don't feel right. >> reporter: groberg would normally have been at the rear of a protective diamond around the vips. this time, he went to the front. >> i wanted to see where we were walking. i wanted to have eyes on. >> reporter: groberg spotted a man coming towards them from the left. >> he's a threat, and my only thing in the world i have to do that's that specific moment is eliminate the threat, no matter what it takes. >> reporter: why don't you shoot him? >> you can't just start shooting anyone. didn't see a weapon on him. you know, i can't pick up my rifle and shoot him. >> reporter: so groberg, followed by sergeant andrew mahoney, rushed him. >> i dropped my rifle, grabbed him, and realized that at this point, he's got plates on his chest. >> reporter: a suicide bomber. groberg and mahoney threw him to >> when he blew up, his chest first blew up into the ground and took the impact, which is probably the reason why i'm here talking to you here today. >> reporter: and why so many other soldiers who were there were in the audience today. but moments later, a second suicide bomber hiding inside a nearby building detonated his vest, and between them, the bombers killed four men, which made it the worst day of groberg's life. >> this medal that i will be receiving, i'd-- i'd turn it right back in right now, say no thank you. bring my guys back right here. >> reporter: that's what it feels like to be a war hero. david martin, cbs news, washington. and that's the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us just a little later for the morning news. of course, "cbs this morning." york city, i'm scott pelley. this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." the islamic state is claiming responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings in the heart of beirut. the target -- a shiite neighborhood that's a stronghold for the militant group hezbollah. the bombers detonated their explosives at the height of rush hour. the blast killed about four dozen people and wounded hundreds. hezbollah has been battling the islamic state in syria. sends troops to fight alongside the army of bashar al assad. this isn't the first time isis has struck back at hezbollah inside lebanon. and the u.s. stepped up air strikes against the islamic state in iraq. warplanes are supporting kurdish troops trying to recapture the strategic town of sinjar. charlie d'agata is on the ground with kurdish forces. >> reporter: good morning. some of what you see is smoke rising from a series of the latest air strikes targeting isis militants around the city of sinjar. we've lost count of the number of air strikes this morning and overnight that have been launched in that vicinity. they've also been firing artillery into the city. this is all part of a major offensive to retake sinjar. we understand 7,500 kurdish peshmerga forces are closing in on three sides of the city, trying to push isis out. one of the reasons it sits between the two isis strongholds of raqqa in syria and mosul in iraq, so they're trying to cut off supply routes between those two cities, but it's not going to be easy. kurdish peshmerga forces said they fear snipers. now the city may be rife with booby traps, home made bombs beneath the roads and inside buildings. and there's always the concern of suicide bombers. if not on foot, then traveling in vehicles packed with explosives. the latest cbs news, "new york times" poll shows hillary clinton maintaining her commanding lead over bernie sanders heading into saturday's presidential debate in iowa. 52% of likely primary voters support clinton. 33% support sanders. 5% like martin o'malley. nancy cordes reports from drake university in des moines where cbs news will be hosting saturday's debate. >> reporter: good morning. our poll finds that clinton supporters are more likely to say they have made up their minds, so she'll walk on this stage saturday night as the undisputed front-runner. her republican opponents are locked in a serious debate over immigration after tangling over that issue in their debate tuesday night. >> we're going to have a deportation force. and you're going to do it humanely. >> reporter: donald trump doubled down wednesday on his vow to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. in iowa, jeb bush said that would overwhelm the u.s. judicial system. approach, a practical approach, a conservative approach that solves this and does it in a way that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and respects american values. >> reporter: clinton chimed in on twitter, calling trump's plan absurd, inhumane and un-american. >> we are a country of laws. >> reporter: it's a touchy issue for a party worried about a repeat of 2012 when mitt romney's milder proposal turned off hispanic voters. >> the answer is self-deportation. people decide they can do better by going home. >> reporter: when they weren't debating tuesday, republicans were talking about hillary clinton. in an online video, her campaign mocked them for mentioning her more than a middle class in a debate focused on the economy. we just learned that bernie sanders has won the endorsement of the postal workers union, the largest union to back him so far. our new poll, he leads among democratic voters under the age of 45. he's got 46 points to clinton's 40. "face the nation" host john dickerson will host the debate saturday night at 9:00 right here on cbs. federal investigators in akron, ohio are digging through the wreckage of a plane crash that left nine people dead. they still don't know what caused the jet to drop from the sky right outside of akron. don dahler is there. >> reporter: video shows the jet skimming the tree line and then crashing, sparking a massive fire and destroying up to four homes. >> it was very rainy, foggy, overcast. power lines on the ground. >> reporter: on wednesday, investigators examined the charred rubble. >> the left wing hit the ground first and left a witness mark. then the aircraft hit half of an apartment building, destroying it before running up an embankment, behind the building and coming to rest. >> reporter: officials confirm all nine people on board the jet, including both pilots, were killed. denny lukowicz is the ceo of the charter company that operated the plane. >> they were very well seasoned pilots, both of them. >> reporter: the seven passengers on the jet worked for a family run property development company in boca raton. the group was in their second day of a multi city business trip. a message hung on the door of their office on monday. our hearts are broken, it said. investigators talked to a pilot who landed at the pilot before the accident. he was on the same radio frequency as the hawker 700 and said he did not hear any distress calls. the ntsb expects to be on site a total of four or five days. newly released videos are sparking outrage in virginia where a man died after being tased repiecedly by police. jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: this confrontation was caught on a police cruiser and hospital surveillance cameras in south boston, virginia. police picked up 46-year-old linwood lambert, jr., for causing a disturbance at a hotel. tom sweeney is the lambert family lawyer. >> they placed him in handcuffs. they did not put him under arrest. he was not charged with any crime. >> reporter: the officers brought him to halifax regional hospital for medical evaluation. but when they arrived, lambert kicked out the window and bolted toward the emergency room doors. three officers responded by tasing lambert multiple times. >> while he was on the ground, he was repeatedly tased again and placed in shackles on his legs. >> reporter: lambert was then placed under arrest, charged with disorderly conduct and destruction of property. >> instead of being brought into the emergency room, they put him back into the police cruiser. >> reporter: an officer tased lambert again as he sat in the back seat of the police car and warned he wasn't done. >> it appears he's no longer responsive and they drove him back to the jail. >> he ain't moved since we left. >> reporter: an ambulance then transported him from the jail back to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. an autopsy said the cause of death was acute cocaine intoxication. lambert's sister has filed a $25 million civil lawsuit against the officers, the chief of police, the deputy chief of police, and the town of south boston. >> to see what had happened to him was just devastating. >> reporter: her lawyer says the amount of cocaine in lambert's body was low, and the actual cause of death is now clear. >> i think it's obvious on the was tased repeatedly. it's going to have him have a be right back. it's judgment day. back seat chefs peer inside your oven. but you've cleaned all baked-on business from meals past with easy-off, so the only thing they see is that beautiful bird. go ahead. let 'em judge. start the interview with a firm handshake. ay,no! don't do that! try head & shoulders instant relief. it cools on contact, and also keeps you 100% flake free. try head & shoulders instant relief. for cooling relief in a snap. phil! oh no... 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>> best seat in the house. >> reporter: we took off just before sunset and headed east toward miami beach. with a brief spot hovering over a couple in a pool. >> what the heck are you really looking for? to make order out of chaos. i'm looking for patterns beyond the street color and light. >> reporter: what is it like when you're leaning out over the edge of the chopper? >> you forgot about it after a while. you're so focused on getting that image. >> ever think about the fall? >> the only time i thought about it is that high altitude over new york. >> reporter: that's when a physicist says a fall from that high up could last a terrifying 41 seconds. >> i was like, thanks for telling me. now i know. >> too long. >> way too long. >> reporter: once it got dark, we started going higher. helicopters can be like flying blenders. they vibrate wildly and vince has to hold the camera steady shooting at low shutter speeds often as the chopper goes into >> beautiful. >> reporter: the hot florida air got cool and crisp, as we climbed even more. until we were about 8,000 feet. nothing between us and downtown miami except air. >> as a photographer, as an official communicator, you try to get images no one has seen before. that's your goal rngs and -- and that's a pretty tall order in 2015 when everyone has a camera on their phone. >> reporter: he's used to breaking ground, although he's usually on the ground to do it. back in 2008, he was one of the first to shoot video on a 35 millimeter digital camera. his mini movie called "reverie" is something few had ever seen. certainly not from what most could consider a still camera. but that's just him. ever since he was a child, something about the visual just clicked. >> when i was 15, i asked my can i borrow your camera? i picked it up, i took a picture and i was done. >> reporter: he was rarely without a camera after that. and he soon became the youngest staff photographer efficient hired by "the new york times." >> i would always say i want to find something that people can't see or don't want to see. >> reporter: he once scaled the antenna on the empire state building, just to get a shot like this. >> this is about 1475 feet up. >> reporter: in the days after the attacks of 9/11, he was dispatched to pakistan, much to his surprise. >> i was not a war photographer. >> reporter: you didn't want to be on the front lines? >> no. when the bullets fly, i hit the ground and stay down. >> reporter: but staying down turned out had been his secret, capturing not so much the war but the victims of it. >> these were real people, just as afraid as people back in the states. >> reporter: he shared the pulitzer prize for feature he was only 27. >> that and katrina are the two stories that formed me as a journalist. when you see what happened in new orleans to americans, you know, in our country, that really shakes your foundation up pretty seriously. >> reporter: so seriously, that laforet needed a change. he quit his job as a photo journalist and decided to pull away for a while. now you're doing something where there aren't people or perhaps emotions in your pictures anymore. >> there's something very odd that happens when you go up in the air. it's kind of intimate. i can't explain it. >> reporter: vincent laforet has always pushed the envelope. but for him, it's not about being a daredevil. it's about finding and capturing what we often lose on the ground. a sense of peace and perspective. >> i think when you take a step back from anything, you see the things more clearly. and in a visual way, i think "air" is a representation of that, to take some distance from the street level view and you see we're all in this together. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. well, things in the bedroom have always been pretty good. yeah, no complaints. we've always had a lot of fun, but i wanted to try something new. and i'm into that. so we're using k-y love. it's a pleasure gel that magnifies both of our sensations. right, i mean, for both of us, just... yeah, it just takes all those awesome feelings you usually feel and it just makes them... rawr... dare to feel more with new k-y love. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn because you can't beat zero heartburn! ahhh the sweet taste of victory! prilosec otc. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. curing a yeast infection can take days. relieving the itch... can happen instantly. vagisil max strength anti-itch wipes relieve itch and odor instantly as they cleanse. so why wait to feel comfortable? 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>> absolutely. >> reporter: beverly grace jones was born in jamaica. the child of conservative, religious parents. but when they moved to the u.s., jones was left in the care of her grandmother. and her boyfriend, who grace says was abusive. >> it's just a roller coaster ride of joy, seeing myself as a small child and being defined. >> reporter: by 18, jones moved to manhattan and tried modeling. but agencies weren't interested. so when they told you that you were too told, too skinny. >> your mouth is too big, your nose is too small. >> reporter: did you ever want to change yourself? >> god no. no way. i just had to change everybody else. >> reporter: in the '70s, jones moved to paris. european designers loved her chiselled features, physique, and exotic persona. when she returned to new york a few years later, disco was in full swing. her regular appearances at legendary dance club studio 54 were a mix of drug fueled antics and inspired productions. photographers loved her. she was a muse of andy warhol's. >> he was a constant, prayful person. >> did you feel that he was looking at you in a way no one else did? >> yeah. >> how would you define your own sexuality? >> that is such a complicated place. i have a lot of feelings around sex. i started feeling like i'm going to burn in hell, i'm not and that makes me even more fighting against it. >> reporter: yet that sexuality helped fueher career. she abandoned disco in the '80s and recorded six new albums. and took her boldness to the big screen. in 1985, jones played the first female bond villain in "a view to kill." >> someone will take care of you. >> and starred alongside hollywood's famously strong and funny men. >> what's the matter with you? stop that! stop it! >> did society catch up to grace jones? in pop culture, all of these women who are daring to push the envelope. >> i want them to do that. it in an individual way. i just want them to dare themselves to do something different. >> reporter: shock sells now. >> shock always sells, you know? but shock in good taste. >> reporter: taste is relative. but at 67, shock is what keeps grace jones dancing. be right back. approaching medicare eligibility? 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absolutely. >> reporter: in town halls, sponsored by the nfl, emotional fans who have invested in their hometown team for years, in some cases decades, say they feel a sense of betrayal. >> we will always love our team. please do not take it away from us. [ applause ] >> reporter: many contend team owners have made up their minds to move. and that these town halls are just for show. the league's point man on relocation disagrees. >> i think the fans can affect the outcome just as i think fans in the stadium can affect the outcome of a game. people think of it based on nuts and bolts and dollars and scents. but without the fans, there's no game, without the game there's no business. >> reporter: that's why thousands showed up to plead their case to nfl representatives. for fans in san diego, one man in particular has come to represent calculated business interests over their consistent team loyalty. that's the chargers' special counsel, mark fabiani. >> we certainly have to worry about the future of the franchise and to protect the future of the franchise. that's what we're trying to do. >> reporter: and if they decide to move, you're going to break the hearts oh after lot of fans. >> if you had an opportunity to relocate your business to a much bigger market, you've been trying for 14 years to make something work in your existing market and you couldn't, why wouldn't you fight for that market? >> reporter: each team has troubles at home. the league wants upgraded cities but the cities don't want the tax burden that comes with them. meanwhile, los angeles is promising world class stadiums. all privately funded. >> there is among people an understandable concern about spending money on a sports facility when you have potholes in the streets and you have the police department underfunded. >> reporter: the nfl is expected to make a decision on relocation as early as january. the three cities say they want more time to score points with owners before the clock runs

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