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Are suffering from too much love after social media spread their secret location. Well take a rare official tour with forest rangers who are struggling to protect the trees from visitors. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Ive never seen anything like this. This is absurd. My heart was racing. That was a nightmare. A massive power outage cripples atlantas airport. Power has been restored, but the trouble is not over. The president s lawyers are accusing muellers team of improperly obtaining thousands of emails from the president s Transition Team. Is he setting the stage for firing robert mueller. No way. Hes not going to fire him. Were on the verge of getting this done, the single biggest change to the tax system ever that President Trump is going to sign this week. Massive tack breaks for the this is a grossly unfair tax bill. Wildfires in southern california, growing to the largest in the nations history. The flames are like three stories high. Theyre scary to look at. The owner of the Panthers Team is selling the team. All that he blew out candles on a pizza. And all that matters. An explosion of love for ryan shazier after the horrific injury. They didnt know he was coming. That was as loud as ive heard it. That was rocking. On cbs this morning. Two sisters found dance partner at southwest airlines. The air Traffic Controller waving at them and keeping up with them. There goes the i knew it was coming. Announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Thats a good way to start the morning, right . I think so too. A good sense of humor mr. Southwest man on the tarmac. Absolutely. Im Norah Odonnell with gayle king and Anthony Mason whos with us all week. Great to have you. Great to be here. Thousands are still stuck in atlantas airport as a power outage shut down the worlds Busiest Airport. An electrical fire knocked out power for nearly 11 hours. Power was restored just before midnight. More than 1,100 flights were canceled yesterday andmo more tn 300 today. Some were stuck on the tarmac for at least seven hours with no food and water. Officials are still hartsfieldjackson 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 thats 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 hartsfieldjackson 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 nations Busiest Airport looked like. Thousands of passengers stranded inside as the airport ground to a standstill. We were old people down the escalators and up escalators and carrying wheelchairs and my heart was racing because im scared for these peoples 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 5monthold with me. Were 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 pro 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 thats 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 fire in your primary system take out the redundant system. Thats 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 his attorney accused mueller of improperly obtained tens of thousands of emails prior to the time mr. Trump took office. Paula reid, good morning. Reporter good morning. A lawyer for mr. Trumps Transition Team says some of the emails that mueller has obtained with illegally. He quashed capitol hill rumors that he was poised to fire special counsel robert mueller. No, im not. No. What else . What . Are you surprised . Reporter democrats and others agree on muellers integrity. I have confidence in director mueller. I do not at all believe mr. Mueller has been compromised or his investigation. I think hes beyond reproach. Reporter but the president said he was troubled by allegations made by his Transition Team that mueller got unauthorized access to thousands of emails. Its not looking good. Its not looking good. Its quite sad to see that. My people are very upset about it. Reporter mueller is pushing back and said the emails were obtained legally. In a rare statement his spokesman said, when we have obtained email, we have secured, consent, or appropriate i cant imagine it, frankly. As we said theres 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. Lets get all the documents, lets 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 throughout the campaign. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders says the white house continues to fully cooperate with the special counsels 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 hell singing out chinand threat to americas 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 president s 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 security strategy, hell call out china and russia. Hell call them, quote, revisionist powers attempting to erode prosperity. It is clear, anthony, from the National Security counsels point of view here, they see mr. Putin as an adversary despite the administrations 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 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. Its a huge giveaway to big corporations. Democrats pointed to a lastminute deduction added to the tax 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 youre talking about, honestly, is just one piece of a thousandpage bill. In a Statement Last night corker said he had no knowledge of the passthrough bill in question and asked how it made report. The bill thats planned to be passed tomorrow will reduce rates. This is something thats 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. Arizona senator john mccain battling brain cancer will not be here to vote for it. But i understand hell come if we ever needed his vote, which i believe we wont. Mccains soninlaw 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 theyre moving ahead without mccain shows they dont believe theyll need his vote at the end and the handful of gop holdouts will end up voting yes when push 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, thanks. At 270,000 acres, the thomas fire is the Third Largest wildfire in modern california history. A funeral procession for a firefighter crossed five counties. First responders saluted as it pasted. Cart carter evans is in mon see ta area. Firefighters say yesterday was one of the most days theyve had on this twoweekold 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. Its hard. Weve had our moments. Weve 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. Theyre 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 wd theres nothing you could do. Theres no way to stop a fire front like that. Reporter its 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 structures are still threatened. The thomas fire has claimed two lives include 3g 2yearold firefighter cory iverson who died thursday from burns and smoke inhalation. Firefighters and other mourners lined the streets for his funeral procession. Hes survived by his pregnant wife and 2yearold daughter. Mandatory evacuation orders are still in place and there theres no wind right now. That is great news. Theyre fighting to get a containment line all the way around the fire before winds are cant 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. Theyre 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 misconduct allegations range from sexual to racial. There was the seatbelt maneuver. Inviting female employees to lunch and when seating them in his car, hes brushed their breasts. Hes asked to shave their legs, barefoot massages and back rubs that went too low down the spine and he made racial slurs against workers. They picked out things theyve done in the past. Reporter quarterback cam newton says despite the allegation richardsons impact on the team has been positive. Hes had such a fatherl past. Reporter in an open letter richardson told fans said i believe its 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 highprofile 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 viesenvironment. A lot of people are comparing this to don sterling of the l. A. Chargers. Thats creepy. 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 r rtd. The u. S. 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It was the most incredible ending to the game preceded by brady and gronk touching down. I looked at that and thought, i dont know. I was going to say, good thing that Research Official was not in pittsburgh last night. He would have needed security. Thats whats 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 cant rule it out, but i cant 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 time for christmas. Guess id better get moving, huh. Today is the last day for amazon standard shipping and threeday select at ups. If you plan to use the u. S. Postal service, tomorrow is the cutoff for first class mail. Tomorrow is the last day. Anthony, i wear a size 10 shoe, 11 for designer. And we heard chickfila sprang into work yesterday to help provide food for those stranded at the airport. In a tweet the hartsfieldjackson atlanta the inner National Airport called the gesture a miracle. Our separate sixmonth 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 academys superintendent says hes now open to all ideas that would help support victims. Its a real opportunity for us to get out and be part of the national conversation. The reckoning, the me too movement, the things that were 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 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 dont 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, accusing former director Teresa Beasley of a lack of competency to jeopardize victim care. Beasley told cbs news shes 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 experience retaliation by their peers and their commanders. I was terrified of reporting because ive heard of things that happen to people, and it did happen to me, so its not Horror Stories. Reporter Lieutenant General silveria is also open to allowing cadets who were sexually assault to transfer to another military academy. The focus shouldnt be moving survivors and disrupting their lives. There should be reforming so there isnt retaliation against those who report. Lynn hull is a former cadet who authored a memoir. Theyre 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 s Sexual Assault has been convicted in a courtmartial 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 isnt 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 fiveday cruise. More than 500 people were on board. The ship said it would be they show the crew san tieszi it. Welcome aboard. Exciting and new come aboard youll lose lots of weight heres 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. 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Tony dokoupil shows us two ufo encounters captured on camera. Good morning. Good morning. That little known Pentagon Program had a budget of about 22 million according to the Intelligence Officer who used to run it. Most of the sightings were by u. S. Military personnel who have been reporting ufo sightings for decades. This is one of the incidents the pentagon Secretive Group of ufo hunters investigated. Theres a whole fleet of them. My gosh. Reporter this appeared off the coast of california in 2004 and baffled two navy pilots. Its not a drone. Its not something that we can easily say, oh, thats an airplane. Reporter Luis Elizondo ran the advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program at the Defense Department. He believed the way the school bus object moved defied the law of physics. Former nevada senator harry reid championed the ufo program and some of funding reportedly went to one of his donors, robert bigelow, founder of bigelow aerospace. The las vegas tycoon spoke with 60 minutes in may. Do you imagine in our space travels well encounter other forms of intel jernlt life . You dont have go anywhere. You can find it here. Yeah. Its just light right under peoples noses. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Reporter unlike in the movies, most ufos dont turn out to be alien spacecraft. This green fireball above buenos aries in 2015 was likely a meteor while this strange light over los angeles was actually a missile test. I think this is a National Security imperative. We have clear things that we do not understand how they work operating in areas that we cant control. Elizondo refused to tell us how many cases his former group investigated saying that information was sensitive. From 1947 to 1969 an air force program called project blue book looked into more than 12,000 ufo sightings and about 700 of them remain unidentified. Interesting how they bur blurry name advanced aviation identification program. They call it black money for a reason. 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The power is back on at the worlds 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. Well 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 worlds Busiest Airport. Many of those travelers are going to be trying to get here today. A lawyer for President Trumps Transition Team claims some of the emails bob muellers 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. Thats exactly what spartans head coach wes miller did in the locker room. Thats what victory looks like in the locker room. Theyre pumped up. I like to see happy people. Thats what my living room looked like after the patriots win. I believe it. Ive seen that crew after a game. Im gayle king along with Norah Odonnell and Anthony Mason who will be here with us all week. An electrical fire left an estimated 30,000 passengers stramt 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 hartsfieldjackson International Good morning. Reporter good morning. Airlines are trying to get back to normal. Still, you heard 400plus 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 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, Everyone Wants to know how long its going to take to get back to normal. Just because the planes are flying doesnt mean the passengers are. Thats right. It will probably take them 24 hours to get back to speed. They canceled 900 today. Theyve 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. Thats part a. Part b, whats 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, youre not getting out today or tomorrow. How significantly does this ripple out through other airports . Big time. Its not that they through to it. They fly through it. You have people throughout the country who cant get back to where they wanted to go. Plan b for them is how are they through atlanta. The Atlanta Mayor said the backup power system also went down. You need a dedicated power system and backup power system for the airport itself, not substations along the line. When that happened it tripped and tripped and tripped and they couldnt handle it. Remember, when you close an airport, its ground stop. Thats why nobody could move. They couldnt operate the jet ways and escalators. Lets not talk about where the bags went. What about direct flights. They also take a big hit here too. They do. Were talking about international flights. Theyre diverted. Theyre low on fuel and they cant get their passengers back until they get them back through atlanta. So those international flights, youve got people overseas who cant get out because the planes havent come back. Ive got daughter coming home from college and people traveling over the holidays and theyre sitting at home, is this going to you have to come up with a contrarian view of travel. Nonstop flights, forget them. Theyre full. If youre traveling welcome to st. Louis, chicago, Salt Lake City because youre not going to get there nonstop. What airlines are doing is offering waivers. Theyre all saying if you were going through or to atlanta, you can rebook or cancel with no penalty or change fee. Thats the good news. The bad news is rebooking aint going to be easy. Peter greenberg, you always have the best information. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. President trumps strategy calls for competition with countries like russia and china. The president will change longstanding policy to focus on homeland and economic security. Theyll protect the critical infrastructure. It does not name Climate Change as a National Security threat. E discuss environmental leadership. Hes likely to reaffirm the u. S. Commitment to nato. A driver is training to get behind the wheel of a 1,000mileanhour car by going high above the ground. Well go along for a flight to find out how midair stunts are 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 centuriesold redwoods coming up on cbs this morning. Psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way . 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Abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. Abreva acts on it. So you can too. Its raining men the weather girls its almost christmas dad. You remember that song in school. Its hidden deep within Northern Californias redwood forests stands a grove of ancient trees. They were discovered by researchers in 1998 who decided to keep the location secret. But as someone put the cowhere they ar social media. Reporter its like stepping back in time. The towering trees, the exact location of the tallest named the grove of titans has long been kept secret to help preserve them. The earlier philosophy is were not telling people. Were still not telling people. That worked. Reporter brett silver has agreed to lead me there. Home of the largest trees in the world. This is not an official state park trail. No. This is one of the trails visitors have created by searching. Reporter a few years ago someone posted the gps coordinates. Images like this led thousands to the area of the secret grove. Trails creating the social trails. That just enhanced the hunt. Yeah. It peaks peoples interest. People got intrigued into the big tree hunt like trophy hunters. Reporter and like trophy hunters, people posed with the titans, sharing them online as proof of their conquest. You can see the steps leading higher and higher to get that focus. Reporter he studies the damage done by foot traffic. Along with destroying native plants the soil compact caused by standing noekt a red wood harms the roots. Are tree is so tall, so enormous its hard to believe people hanging around down here are going to do it harm. Most of the roots are near the surface. It kills the small roots where nutrients are taken up into the tree to help the tree grow. Someone has put their hand or foot. Broken bark leads them to be vulnerable to insects and disease. And while some live 2,000 years, 95 of californias redwoods have been lost. Cutting their way into trees that may be as old as our civil dags. Reporter the logging industry followed. Now the conservancy is raising money to protect the titans. You walk into the old grove. It puts everything in perspective. Reporter 1. 4 million is needed for raised walkways to help without endangering the trees. The park says its nearly a threeyear project. I know its kind of a reach. They go, are you going to ask people to stay on trail . Yes. Thats 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, dont 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. Well have the story coming up on cbs this morning. This morning in our pushing 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 dagata took to the sky with the cars driver. Hes a former jet fighter pilot. Hes putting his body through a toll by flying an aerobatic plane. Reporter this is just a hint of whats 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, hes held the record since 1997 before you could googl it doesnt 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, theyre aiming to blow them off. It would shatter it. Were 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 1,000mileanhour run. I was just hoping i didnt pass out. Thats 20 miles an hour for second. Eight seconds later were doing 200 miles an hour. 355. 1,000, 1, 1,000, 2. Were 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. Were 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. Thats exactly so. Its fairly unpleasant. I didnt know which way was up. Way was up. Reporter the gutwrenching gforces from tapping into the lunatic fringe of technology. It took the rollsroyce 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 facemeltingly 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 shell 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 500mier 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. Its 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 ive 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 didnt 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 for cbs this morning charlie for mildtomoderate eczema . It can be used almost everywhere on almost everybody. The face of a fisherman . The hand of a ranch hand . The knee of a needle pointer . Prescription eucrisa is a nose to toes eczema ointment. It blocks overactive pde4 enzymes within your skin. And its steroidfree. Do not use if you are allergic to eucrisa or its ingredients. Allergic reactions may occur at or near the application site. Is application site pain. Ask your doctor about eucrisa. What do you think . Hey, think ben will like it . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Just became whatever whayoure about to dout to do after you get coffee. Nothing comes before coffee. Thats why were introducing a new line of cafequality espresso drinks from mccafe. For just two dollars. 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. Were going to the green room. Guess whos there. One of them knows all things tech. The other guy is an Academy Awardwinning actor. Hello, you two. Hello, Christian Bale. Theyre joining us at the table. Christians got an amazing movie coming out. Well let him tell us all about it. Looking forward to that. Right now its time to show you this mornings headlines from all around the globe. Some celebrity chevls are coming out. More than 14 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, thats 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. Thats when uber was introduced into those markets. And the data appears to show ambulance rates declined. If youre 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 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 worlds most expensive homes is just another bauble for the saudi prince. They followed the paper trail between the purchase in 2015 of the chateau in france. It led to prince mohamed bin salm salman. He bought a yacht and most recently paid 450 million for a Leonardo Da Vinci pangt. Hes been leading an anticorruption crackdown on the elite. There goes the neighborhood. Hes going to drive up all the prices. Nice that you can get a yacht for 500 million and a yacht 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 were 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. Apples 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 dont want anyone to u 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. Ive 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 delete it and it would be fine. Alexei, how many tablespoons are in 3 4 cup. They say things you wouldnt want to be heard. We should be cautious. Nick thompson covered these stories for us throughout the year. Hes looking forward to what we can expect in 2018. Good morning. Good morning, norah. I know were wrapping up 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, theres going to be that specific investigation that goes further. What i think is there is a moral reckoning where theyre 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, weve been studying weather social media is good for you. Thats crazy, that facebook is saying were 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 it was an interesting study put out. Do you think Silicon Valley is becoming more introspective and taking stock . Yes, absolutely. I think thats the biggest shift between this year and last year. In the olden days, three years ago, four years ago, they were saying youre the most powerful company in the world. Think about it seriously. Theyre like, yeah, okay, okay. For so long they denied they that kind of influence and impact. They dont 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 thats so important is gender equality. Theyll 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 its not quite the way it works with the media. This is really jodi kantors 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 its more likely of a woman to stop that. Its 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 hate. Instagram has a much easier time doing it than twitter because twitter is a much more open fastmoving political forum. But twitter says theyre going to suspend them. Starting today. Thats going to be interesting how they define hate group and who they knock off there. Its going to get messy. There goes that moral responsibility. Yes. Oscar winner Christian Bale learns a native american language for his latest movie. Hes in the toyota green room in it all starts with a wish. The final days of wish list are here. Hurry in and sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down and a complementary first months payment. Christian bale has started dozens of box office hits. They include, of course, the dark knight trilogy where he played bruce wayne and batman. He earn aid plaus from critics in films like american hustle, and the big short. His new movie is a western set in 1892. Hes on a journey to escort a family back to their native land. So bale plays the captain. He expresses reluctance about g word to help his rival. I saw what happened when they got done with them and there wasnt a dont you dare laugh. There wasnt enough left of those poor men to fill a slot bail. Understand, when we lay our heads down out here, were all prisoners. I hate them. Ive got a war bank of reasons to hate them. Christian bale, good morning and welcome. Good morning. Im embarrassed and walked right past him. I said where is Christian Bale. They said he is there in a black and white checked shirt. I had to go back, oh, hi, Christian Bale. Well talk about your new look. Scott cooper said he wrote this paor take the part. No. You read it and thought what . Its very it tells the story of american in many ways. Its raw, its visceral, but its American History. Its violent, but thats American History as well. Its gripping beyond belief. Its all about overcoming hatred and bigotry and you see there. Hes a bigoted and hatefilled man. And theres the indian chief. Theres the big difference, the blocker, the character you see there, his job is to well, its genocide. His job is genocide. He knows that. This isnt your mom and pops cowboy hat with black hat, black hat, good cowboy, bad indian. Its not that as all. Its recognizing genocide. The great pain plon blocker, he sees his friends killed so hatred is real and hes threatened t threatened to courtmartial. Its how do you overcome hatred and fighting without rendering the deaths of your friends and brothers in arms meaningfulness. Its a physical and emotional journey. Yes. Its one thats become surprisingly sadly relevant more so since we stopped filming, you know, in terms of some americanss and comfort toward expressing hatred. You say this movie is relevant today. How so . Well, in terms of that, in terms of in every way not respecting the other, not respecting people who are different from yourself. And in terms of you know, its well white men run everything. You know, we need so much more diversity. Were going to get so much of a richer culture because of it. We didnt intend that when we were making film, but weve seen these changes, these shifts in america since we shot it, and so its become much more relevant. Youve learned some of the native american language. Yes, so poetic. How did you do that . I had this wonderful person, he would do a blessing for the whole crew which they would be really nervous about because its always about panic about time, time, time on film and it would take time but it would enhance it so much. You would have these horsemen and stuntmen bawling their eyes out. It was a raw miss and it helped with that. It enhanced the film im very indealted to chief philip for that. Can i mention gayle says you look a little different. She walked right past me. So we can say, you put on some weight, but for a role. Quite a lot of weight, yes. How many pounds. It wasnt just for fun. I shaved my head, dyed my brows and put on 40 pounds. This is a canvas by which the superb makeup artists create cheney. How did you gain 40 pounds . Did you just eat i ate whatever when i was pregnant. Did you eat what you wanted . Its the first time i had to do it in the smart way. Ive lost weight, gained weight, never went to a nutritionist. I decided to do it the right way. In the past for drink whiskey and it works, but im in my mid40s. Probably eating cream puffs nonstop. Christian, theres a Great Program called Weight Watchers and i highly recommend it. After christmas. After christmas. Its so good to see you. Good to see you too. Lovely film. Very powerful. Very good in it. I cant wait to see you as dick cheney. I wouldnt have put the two of you together. Thank you, Christian Bale. Thank you. Hostile opens on friday. An airport worker ended up in the middle of a dance party, you could say. Ahead, how two little girls got a member of the ground crew busting moves on the tarmac. Youre going to like this story. You can hear more of our cbs this morning on this podcast on itunes and apples podcast app today. Today we have an interview ben chestnut. Mail chimp is an email mark marketing chimp. They were named 2017 company of the year. Youre watching cbs this morning. Well be right back. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Unlikely participant at the airport the other day. The chicken dance. A member of the ground crew spotted them dancing through the window, so on friday he broke out and did some epic moves himself on the tarmac. The girls mirrored every single step which included flying like an airplane, flapping their arm i love the excitement and the little girls watching him. Z2i1zz z16fz y2i1zy y16fy just became whatever whayoure about to dout to do after you get coffee. Nothing comes before coffee. Thats why were introducing a new line of cafequality espresso drinks from mccafe. Get a small peppermint mocha for just two dollars. Today marquette gets a ballet lesson at the Kennedy Center plus the soulful sounds will get your monday started off right. Its monday december 18 and this is great day washington. [ music ] to good morning and welcome im marquette shepard. Im angie houser. Shes getting a ski lesson. Shes not off. She technically working for you on the ski slopes right . I hope she is careful. Im sure she will be. I hope america is careful because how does this sound, andie, dwayne the rock johnson for president . Well the actor who just received his star on the hollywood walk of fame says he has not ruled out a 2020 run for commanderinchief. The rumors have been swirling for months and he just confirmed with u. S. A. Today its a serious consideration. He says his agenda would be to serve the people and create a better environment for them. Hopefully hes not servingcan you freelance and moon light as president because he has a lot opening in theaters this wednesday. The Washington Post a while ago said that if he ran for president he would win. Oh really . Well hey, we had ronald reagan. And Arnold Schwarzenegger for the governor. Yes and the governor of minnesota. Thats true. Maybe the actors are states men. I wish they would make you take a class or something before you can run. I have to take a class to host a t. V. Show. Im just saying. I gotcha. But lets say my poured gasoline theoretically if rock were to win and become the next president of the United States he would have to deal with things like this. Check this out, guys. We learned over the weekend the pentagon had a secret program that existed for about three years and spent more than 22 million in