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60 years made an incredible discovery. >> it turns out they're biological brothers. >> it's the best christmas present i could imagine having. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> this kid is a huge cleveland cavaliers fan. what was inside? steph curry's jersey. look at that. upon further inspection, there's a lebron james jersey and he started jumped on the furniture. >> yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> it all ended well. he got what he wanted. >> yes. that is what fandom is all about. >> and true happiness. >> what a happy boy. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm bianna golodryga with dana jacobson and vladier duthiers of our streams cbsn. norah o'donnell and gayle king are off. is it cold? the northern half of the country is wake up in a deep freeze after a record-shattering snowfall along the great lakes. >> icy roads caused dozens of accidents including one that killed four people in missouri and the cold air means more lake-effect snow is likely in hard-hit places like erie, pennsylvania. >> 22 states have windchill warnings. the coldest temperatures this morning are around 30 below. forecasters warn that can cause frostbite in as little as minutes. demarco morgan is in erie where they're already buried under more than five feet of snow. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. that's a lot of snow. up to 7 inches of snow fell overnight since the storm on christmas day dumped a record amount. now city officials are calling on additional snow plows and extra help from the national guard. a snow emergency is in effect in erie, pennsylvania, after a winter blast dumped a record 30 inches of snow in three hours. snow is piled up on the roads, burying cars and bringing traffic to a halt. >> auld i could do was laugh, you know. it's a little ridiculous, but i keep pecking away at it. >> reporter: as people try to dig out, more lake-effect snow keeps piling up. clock. >> we've had our plows out. they've been doing a fantastic job. it's really hard to keep up with this amount of snow. >> slick roads are making for a tough commute. >> i can only do about 20 miles an hour. >> reporter: snow and ice account for 40 accidents on tuesday. at least six people were killed in three separate crashes. and in new england the bitter cold followed the snowstorm. >> the wind is the worst part. you can't do anything about it. >> reporter: now, officials are not sure just how long the city will stay in a state of emergency, but they're asking people to stay inside until the streets are clear. bian bianna, i can tell you it's a mess, but it's absolutely beautiful out here. stay on the inside just to play it safe. >> beautiful but dangerous. demarco, you get inside as well and stay warm. thank you. meteorologist danielle niles of our boston station wbz will continue. danie daniel danielle, good morning. >> good morning. we have dangerous winds from montana to maine. windchill values, 15 to 35 below zero. already experiencing some of that this morning. we'll continue. this is a map for our thursday and even into friday morning as well from international falls stretching down to minneapolis and in through northern new england. we're talking snow. climbing out of the great lakes. it's going to enhance some of that snow and push through the lakes on thursday. another storm coming in to the pacific northwest will dump feet of snow, and the elevations of northern idaho and into montana with 3 to 6 inches here in des moines. a lot of the northern tier in the united states seeing accumulating snow over the next 24 to 48 hours with some areas seeing over a foot in already some of those hard-hit areas with the >> danielle, thank you as always. federal authorities are investigating how a so-called unauthorized passenger boarded a flight from los angeles to tokyo. police interviewed some of the passengers after the plane returned to l.a. last night. nippon airways flight 105 had been in the air only about four hours when it turned around and flew home. don dahler is here with the celebrity couple and the first to report it. >> good morning. it was an unadult male who seemed to be trying to switch seats. he drew the attention of flight attendants and their response drew the attention of one disgruntled passenger with more than 9 million twitter followers. >> hey, guys. i don't know if you can rare. reporting live from l.a.x. >> supermodel chrissy teigen documented all of nippon air wyomings flight from l.a.x. back on this awesome vacation, babe. >> welcome to los angeles. >> she and her husband john legend were on the flight to tokyo when it was forced to turnaround. it landed around 11:36 a.m. it was four hours into an 11 1/2 hour flight when the pilot made a u-turn. the plane was back in los angeles. after all this i'll have spent eight hours on a flight to nowhere, teigen tweeted. the cabin crew became aware that one of the passengers boarded the incorrect flight. as part of the airline's security procedure, the pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport. whether or not there was an unauthorized passenger remains unclear. a spokesperson for l.a.x. police told cbs news there were no security breaches and there was no unauthorized passenger. >> i've never seen people walk around with like a clicker. on the plane seemed off when the flight 'ten dant started to manually count passengers and turned to the internet and tweet chrissy teigen's answers. >> we shouldn't have had to google and read an article about us. >> no arrests have been made. passengers say the crew was apologetic and equally upset about the turnaround. one traveler told us he was losing one missed days of a honeymoon. all he got was a night's room stay and $200 refund. >> in this case cbs stands for the chrissy broadcasting service. president trump promises more in the way of bipartisanship in the new year. the president tweeted the republicans and democrats to come together on a new plan to replace obamacare. chip reid has more this morning. >> good morning. president trump played golf with georgia's senator david perdue. the numbers suggest that could hurt many of his own supporters. >> it ultimately leads to the end of obamacare. essentially i think obamacare is over. >> reporter: the president's prediction of the demise of obamacare comes as about 8.8 million americans in 39 states signed up for health coverage this fall. that's down 4.4% despite the trump administration pulling advertising and slashing the enrollment period from 90 days to 35. >> the fundamental response is people wantea states are signing up faster than blue states. both republicans and democrats yield it as a top priority, making it a central issue in the upcoming midterm election. the congressional budget office states repealing the mandate would increase the number of uninsured by 2027. and 62% of this year's obamacare enrollees live in states president trump won in 2016. >> i do think this is dangerous game for the president. one of his single largest drops in popularity came in march after congressional republicans began moving ahead with obamacare repeal. >> in addition to his tweet on health care, the president also sent out a tweet on the russia investigation in which he referred to the fbi as tainted. he also sent out a tweet about tax cuts predicting they would boost jobs increase next year. >> three major u.s. cities are suing the pentagon for alleged failure to tell them when servicemembers are disqualified from owning a gun. new york city, philadelphia, and san francisco filed a lawsuit yesterday. they want defense officials to openly report all military convictions. david martin is at the pentagon with the legal action and the government response. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the defense department's mission is to protect the united states. but they say pentagon failing to report criminals to the fbi has put the public in danger. devin kelley was able to buy the gun he used to kill 26 worshippers in southern springs outside of san antonio because the air force failed to report his cct if his conviction had been reported, kelley's name would have been added to the database of people not allowed to buy firearms. san francisco city attorney dennis herrera believes court intervention is needed to make sure the defense department does its job in the future. >> it's unfortunate it took that tragedy to highlight and bring out into the mainstream what has been going on for all too long and that is the department of defense's failure to live up to its responsibilities. >> according to the lawsuit, a 2017 defense department study revealed the air force failed to submit final reports in about 14% of cases. the navy and marines and about 36% and the army of about 41%. the pentagon's inspector general told congress earlier this month such failures were long running armed services. >> inadequate training, verification. they didn't take these recommendations as seriouslied a they should have. >> the pentagon has promised to fix the problem but the lawsuit has asked him to compel them to go back over the cases and report all the violent offenders it failed to report to the fbi the first time. the justice department is reviewing the lawsuit to determine its next step. dana. >> >> david martin, thank you. four ohio teams face charges after allegedly throwing an airbag over the overpass on i-75 in toledo. the passenger was hit in the head and died friday. >> three are 14 and the other 113. they had already been charged buth felonious assault. sand bag has died, the teens are being charged with marqise byrd's murder. around 10:00 p.m. a week ago tuesday a woman was driving with her friend marquise byrd under an overpass on interstate 75 in toledo. something came crashing through the passenger side and she pulled over and called 911. >> i don't know what happened to my friend. he's not moving. something hit my car. he's not moving. >> you don't know what hit him? >> he's flat out. he's laid out on my seat. i think he might have smacked his fourhead. >> reporter: police arrested four juveniles after seeing them leave the overpass. they were accused of throwing objects off the overpass. it was a sand bag that hid him. he leaved behind a 2-year-old son and was reportedly engaged to be married. the arr flint, michigan. five teens there are facing charges of second-degree murder after throwing rocks off an overpass, hitting a vehicle and killing 32-year-old kenneth white. meanwhile the four ohio teens are waiting their sentence. >> it's not fun and games. people are losing their lives. and those who committed these offenses are going to prison. >> their case will likely remain in juvenile court in addition to the murder charges the boys are facing charges of felony vehicular vandalism. >> the 911 audio is horrifying. this morning our bbc broadcasters 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ftc's guidance. but in january of this year the ftc found charging resort fees separately without first disclosing the total hotel price likely harms consumers and racine said the ftc was working with the states on their investigation, at least, she says, until the trump administration came in. >> the ftc in a way has gone dark. i think to be honest that has given some confidence to the hospitality industry perhaps they're going to be able to wait out or otherwise evade the efforts of the 47 states because the ftc is no longer our partner. >> you're saying the ftc has backed off. >> that is the case. >> reporter: backed off, he claims, during a crucial time in negotiations with the hotel chain. >> we were heading td settlement. >> really. >> yep. the election hit and all of a sudden the hospitality industry sort of dug in against our position. >> we asked the ftc about racine's allegation. officials there responded with a statement saying the agency was never a co-plaintiff with the 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tweet on the russian investigation who referred to the fbi as tainted and spoke on predictions for the tax cuts. >> the job by three big city mayors say the pentagon falg to warn the fbi put america in danger. >> this guy might have learned a lesson from the last ice age. >> a new hampshire snow blower clears the snow but decided to wear a t-rex suit to make things more blowing. >> at least he's having fun in the old. >> buried in snow. there's nothing like it. >> it feels like groundhog's day. >> good morning, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga with dana jacobson and vladimir duthiers from our streaming cbsn. norah and gayle are off today. temperatures won't get above freezing today and for many, the worst is yet to come. >> the chill follows a winner to storm that pummeled erie, pennsylvania. more than five feet of snow fell on pennsylvania this week alone. demarco morgan, good morning. >> reporter: vlad, good morning to you. it is indeed historic. folks are used to snowfalls, but they have never seen anything like this. you can see it's covered up to the doorstep. story for about every home along this block. already this storm has dropped more than 62 inches of snow on erie. that snow is shattered state and local records. erie got more snow, listen toe this, guys, from this one storm than places like minneapolis, chicago, and boston received in an average year and there could be more to come. a lake-effect snow warning remains in effect until later this and temperatures are expected to remain. they'll be below into the new year and windchills could dip as low as 6 degrees below zero. so officials are calling on additional snow plows and they're getting extra help from the national guard just to deal with this mess here. i said it earlier. it's beautiful, but it is indeed one big mess. so if you have to get out. be careful and be safe. >> demarco, thank you. you stay warm american and intelligence officials say rush tampered with the 2016 elections. now "washington post" reports they never stopped the cyber attacks and the u.s. government has not done much to stop them. >> it's written by former congressman mike rogers and cbs senior contributor michael direct. he's a former director and acting director of the cia. he hosts a podcast. michael, great to see you. thanks so much for coming on an writing that important piece. >> good morning. >> it follows up on a "washington post" report that lists all of the inadequate attempts that the obama administration made trying to tlaurt russi thwart russian meddling. is it just inevitable in the months and years to come? >> it'sinevitable. there are many things to do about it and defend ourselves here at home. legislation that's been proposed that puts the same rules on political messaging on social media that we have on tv, radio, and print. and we can do a better job imposing costs on vladimir putin and russian to make putin think twice about continuing to do this. so there are many things to do about this. we're just not doing them. >> it's been report thad the president has yet to have a cableca cabnca cabinet meeting and many americans don't think this is a pressing issue as well. why do you think that is? >> i don't know. it's a new type of attack on america. this is not a terrorist attack where you can see the consequences immediately. it's not a military attack where you can see the consequences immediately. this is a slow erosion of our confidence and our democracy. this is affecting the way we think about our country, our democracy, and so it's a new type of attack and i think that's the primary reason we're not focused on it. >> how involved is the russian president and what is he hopes to accomplish here? >> vads, i have no doubt that he is fully involved in this. i have no doubt that he approved this. i have no doubt that he's following it closely. he's trying to accomplish two things. one is he is trying to weaken the united states, weaken our influence overseas. if he can create a score for us, he'll weaken overseas. the second thing he's doing which may be the most important thing from our perspective, the greatest threat for him is the democracy from russia. if he can undermine it in the united states, undermine it in western europe, he can raise questions in his own country about the value of democracy. that's very important to him. >> you know, michael, you also write other countries are following suit. did our russian interference failed a well? >> absolutely. it's led over countries to think maybe this is tool they can use. we see the chinese doing this already, the turks doing this in western europe. we see the chinese doing it in tie want i think more countries are going to start doing this unless we deter them from doing so, and they're going to start doing it against us here at home. the chinese have not done it yet, but yo can rest assured we will unless we assure the others going down the road. >> let me ask you because despite the president not acknowledging it, some argue that those around him, that his advisers have now enlisted sanctioning. three prominent russians including the leader of chechnya and now arming ukrainians, something president obama wouldn't go as far as doing. is that the first step? >> tse things. but sanctioning specific individuals will not get putin to think about what he has to do here. we need much broader sanctions. much more pain on the russian economy and the russian middle class to get putin's attention. >> and he's not yet sanctioned the russian sanctions that president obama enlisted as well it's important to note. michael, thank you so much. >> welcome. it may be hard to get your kids away from the new tech toys they got for christmas. eye doctor christopher starr is in our toyota green room. up next, what in our "morning rounds," new evidence that dirge tall devices can hurt your children's eyesight. the average kid spends more than 7 1/2 hours day in front of a screen. a new study finds school age children who spend seven hours or more a week using computers or games triple the risk for my on ya. he joins us at the table. good morning. >> good morning. what is my open ya. >> yes,miopia. >> what is it? near is okay but needs glasses. conversely, far-sightedness, you see far but not up close. those are both very common in kmieldhood and the rates of myopia are increasing worldwide. that india study recently show thad the rate of myopia has doubled in the last 50 years. in asian countries, that rate is even higher. as far as reasons? >> there was one study that found kits spend eight hours and 2 hours? >> yushs ll usually two to thre. the reason that's a problem. ice not that the device is damaging it. you tend to be inside and not outdoors in the sunlight and interestingly, sunlight actually triggers dopamine which actually keeps the eye from g so as the eye's maturing if it stretches too long, it becomes more anding more near sited. >> this isn't when your mother used to warn you don't get on top of the tv. >> no, that's not the same. that is one of the warning signs. if the kids is sitting too close to the television that might be a sign they're near sited. >> let's be honest. this is the new normal. we're not going to take away devices. >> right. >> is there anything that can be done to help protect their eyes with technology that you can put on these screens? >> that's a good question. it's more about limiting the time and sort of encouraging them to get outside in the sun. but the no screen protector isn't going to make any difference. >> hard to do that when it's 10 degrees outside. >> exactly. >> what are signs that parents >> so things like squinting. if they're squinting to see things, like that's a good sign there's a problem. if they're sitting too close to the television or holding their digital device right here, that's a problem. but other things like attention. if they used to be very much interested in reading and drawing and all of a sudden they're not that interested oer if they're reading and losing their place online, those are signs there might be a problem. some of the learning disabilities are sometimes misattributed to those things rather than a vision problem that's causing a kid not able to learn. learning is 80% visual. you need good vision. >> it's a great time. >> it is. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. the president of harvard during world war ii led the program to build the first nuclear bomb and he spent the rest of his life worrying about it. os on why his warning is especially important now. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: cbs morning rounds is sponsored by visionworks because life is meant to be seen. ♪ when food is good and clean and real, it's ok to crave. and with panera catering, there's more to go around. panera. food as it should be. this holiday season... give the gift of effortlessly smooth feet... from amope. amope pedi perfect with diamond crystals. 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"man of the hour" is published by simon and schuster of cbs. >> cone nanlt was in charge of bringing america into the nuclear age,ut said his efforts to control it were ignored. >> this was his nightmare scenario that we would have this enormous arms race and we would inevitably find ourselves, as he said, like two gun men with itchy trigger fingers. >> reporter: jennet conanconant grandfather wasn't someone to give in to fear. >> my grandfather was so terrified of a nuclear conflict. i think it would have upheld for almost 70 years would have surprised him. >> reporter: in the late '30s conant was a brilliant chemist and a successful president of harvard university, but his life changed course after albert weinstein warned about the potential for extremely powerful bombs. that triggered a desperate race to build a nuclear weapon before hitler's germany, and the task of winning fell to conant and a secret team of scientists. >> he was the supervisor of everything that happened in terms of the bombs development. >> reporter: what happened in the summer of 1945 was the first open air test of a nuclear weapon, a blast so shocking that conant from a nearby bunker was sure the team had miscalculated. >> and he thought in that moment the world is over. >> he did. terrifying. absolutely terrifying. >> reporter: just three weeks later, hiroshima and then nagasaki. still the only wartime use of a nuclear weapon. >> we have spent more than $2 billion on the greatest scientific gamble in history, and we have won. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands died in the blast and their >> people also asked me, you know, did they feel guilty. they really felt they had done the right thing in building the bomb. it did shorten the war. it did save lives. >> reporter: and yet conant and his colleagues warned of the need to control the bomb by sharing the science and striking a global deal to curtail production, but the scientists were overruled. and today -- >> do you feel safer or less safe? >> oh, we're less safe. we have this massive destructionive force out there and ultimately we have no sane option, but for the international community to come together to try and find a way to control these weapons. >> there hasn't been a mushroom cloud seen live in seven decades. >> don't tempt fate. that's what my grandfather would say. these are not weapons to play with. we must find a more sane way forward. >> we must, but will we? >> i hope and pray. >>or peace prize went to an organization hoping to ban weapons and this last summer they advanced the very first treaty to do so. the united states boycotted the talks saying the timing is not right to lay down nuclear arms. i cannot get over the image of her grandfather in the desert watching the very first nuclear explosion and not being sure if they've done the math right. they don't know if the explosion explosion is ever going to end. >> don't tempt fate. lionel richie said he joined a band to meet women in college. not a big surprise. they would later become the commodores. how the group that made him famous helped the kennedy center honoree find his true self. you're watching "cbs this morning." is cold hard cash becoming a my wish was a clubhouse, but we call it "the wish house." people visit national parks from all over the world. food tastes better when you don't have to cook it. he was just supposed to be my dog. i don't know why. (vo) we're proud that, on behalf of our owners, the subaru share the love event will have donated over one hundred fifteen million dollars in just ten years. plus we'll donate $250 to charity. welcome back to "cbs this morning." right now it is time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the hill" says the library of congress will no longer collect every public tweet. the library says beginning january 1st it will only archive certain themes. the library says the change is partly because twigle doubled its character limit. it's also hard to keep up with the rising number of tweets. >> especially possibly from one in particular. >> you're right. "nuksweek" says more pregnant women are using marijuana posing a risk to their unborn baby. they looked at pret nearly one-quarter of the women under 18 had used marijuana, those 18 to 24 used it while pregnant. tim pakts has not been very well studied. "usa today" says u.s. home prices are going up faster than the size of our paychecks. they climbet 6.2% from 2016. in metro areas with bloominging job markets where prices are rising faster, it means more people can end up staying as renters. "business insider" says a them bbl sized gadget is the world's tiniest cell phone. it's lighter than a coin. the maker said it was created as a joke. >> no can use it. >> they now recommend carrying it when you jog or as a backup phone for a night out. $100 on its kickstarter page. >> it looks like my 5-year-old's lego. and environmental experts tell "the new york times" don't just throw away your tree. they can be recycled to give back to the planet. they can help build sand dues and create fish environments at the bottoms of lakes and can be turned into mulch in parks and community gardens. mobile transactions worldwide are expected to top $721 billion this year as customers and businesses turn away from cash. in a recent survey, 75% of shoppers expect mobile payments to grow in the next five years. robert safian is the editor. good morning. >> good morning. >> why are we getting away from using cash? >> first of all there are restaurants and places that they want you do this. part of it is we have these devices with us all the time wherever we are, right, and we have our wallets with us. they may be in our pocket or our bag, but they're not out and a part of us in the same way. so businesses are trying and as consumers, we're more comfortable using them all the time. >> we see them on airplanes as well. it's definitely convenient is. there any downside for consumers? >> there are risks for some of it. risks for certain privacy issues if you're paying for everything with your phone as opposed to your cash, you can be tracked, right? and there's the fear or question about electronics fraud, identity fraud. listen, the reason -- part of the rb i they want you to pay by credit card, they don't have to worry about cash, robberies, but there are electronic theevs that are out there achlts these are two different sides to it. >> you know, robert, one of the two thing it is easy to spend when all you're doing is hitting that little thumbprint on your iphone and you've bought something. >> retailers don't carry about that. >> this is something we've been talk about. this is a continuation of the same types of things, technolodge kag changes from credit cards to atms. this genie is not going back in the box. the reason it's happening, it's easier for retailer, it's easier for us as consumers yochl u like it. youvenmo. you want to split the cost for a gift for your grandmother, you can do it via text. >> is it of sa >> there are groups of people who are left out in this. if you're part of the unbanked part of our population, it means there's establishments and economic activity you can't participate in. that's one f the societal challenges we face. >> this is a global trend, right? we're seeing this across the globe? >> absolutely. in sweden, in china. wherever people are more connected to their phones and doing more activities on their phone, the more economic activity, you're going to see more and more of this. it's not going to change. >> it's really interesting. >> how about the impact overall on the economy? is there an advantage to not using cash? >> for businesses and banks, there's a lot of transactions. when you use your credit card, the bank makes a small piece of money and so all these cash tractions, they're n banks are pushing into this area and technology companies are using it as a way themselves to get into the banking business, to get into that part of the traction. venmo, the peer-to-peer network is bougrun by paypal. >> as long as they don't start tacking on fees. >> you don't necessarily see the fees buried inside. >> convenient though. >> mm-hmm. >> robert safian. thank you very much. >> good to see you. lionel richie said it wasn't easy to become a superstar. >> i grew up extremely shy, and going out on stage used to be torture for me for many years. >> did you have stage fright? >> please. panic attack. >> really. >> of course. and when i went solo, i really had a panic kennedy center kick off the new year with a deal that will save you money for the next 2 years guaranteed. get the 100% fiber-optic network with the fastest internet available. plus up to 200 channels. plus phone, plus showtime for 2 years. plus multi-room dvr service for 2 years. plus a 2 year price guarantee. all for just $79.99 per month online with a 2 year agreement. that's a lot of pluses, and over $800 dollars in savings. but hurry this offer ends january 17th. go to getfios.com sing along with lionel. lionel richie's hit song "hello" is from his grammy-winning album, "can't slow down." it's one of four grammys ritchey has an oscar. his latest is a kennedy center honor. it aired last night on cbs. alex wagner spoke with him at his home to learn how a shy boy from alabama became an influential star. >> everybody, let's get up on our feet. >> you hear about these awarding your entire lifetime. and then it finally happens -- it's almost disbelief. >> you know, lionel, my brother, no one deserves this award more than you do. but i'm easy ♪ >> it's one of those things where you walk in the backyard, sit down quietly and go, how did this happen. >> reporter: it happened because of a decade's worth of massive hits. ♪ oh what a feeling >> reporter: especially ballads. you've been called the king of love songs. my question is are you a romantic? >> i'm a hopeless disgusting romantic. i can fall in love in 15 seconds on anything and everybody. when i walk on stage, i meet the people i've never met before. they know me forever. i walk out on stage and they're my old friends right away. >> what is it like for you? >> one big night of ham sandwich, one big great karaoke night. the more i give them to do, the louder they get. >> do you think when you're playing or it just comes to you? >> and you don't think when you write. i'll go. next day. then third day. ♪ three times a lady and then nothing. ♪ easy, easy like sunday morning ♪ same cord. the cords don't go anywhere. cords don't change. it tees melody you hear on top. >> reporter: ritchie found music growing up in tuskegee, alabama. to formally play. >> were you trained? >> no. i was terrible. and my grandmother, god bless her, tried her best to teach me how to play. she would show me how to play the piece properly on the piano with the hand music. instead of watching the music, i would watch her hands. she would leave and say go rye hers and i'll be back in a moment. i would play by ear not knowing that was special. as soon as she walked away, i wouldn't play anybody's music. i played my own, not knowing that was called a songwriter. >> he took his song writing to college. >> it was not supposed to be the career. ♪ she's a brick house ♪ >> that band would become the commodores. >> did you ever doubt you could achieve success? >> when you're 19 everything is possible. we're the black beatles, we're the commodore, and we're going to take over the world. >> did you believe you were the black beetles? >> i believed it. not just knew it. we didn't have one song, but we were the opening act for the jackson 5 and we're on our way. >> reporter: the commodores ruled the charts in the 1970s, but the attention ritchie was getting as a songwriter convinced him it was time to go solo. >> 14 years of amazing times. i always tell people every day, thank god for the commodores because without them, i would have never discovered lionel ritchie. >>. >> reporter: and the world discovered a superstar. ♪ hello, is this me you're looking for ♪ >> can you tell me how you got the idea for >> it was a joke. my producer james anthony carmichael was coming to the house. i came walking around the corner and sate, hello, id, hello, is e looking for. he said finish that. i finished the song and we finished finifi lushed it up with strings. >> lushed it up. >> lushed it up. i can see it in your eyes and feel it in your eyes. >> reporter: but one of ritchie's most crowning achievements was anything be solo music. teaming up with michael jackson in 1985 wrote "we are the world" and recorded it with 40 singers including the biggest stars of the day. the single raised more than $60 million for african relief. >> every time i hear the song, it's even larger than i could ever imagine. ♪ we are the world we are the children ♪ >> at the end, that night, when we finally played it back at 7:30, 8:00 in the morning, it was another planet. it was another planet. >> did you ever machlk back in alabama that you'd end up in this life? >> it's not where you start. it's where you end up. but when i want to go get grounded, i go back to tuskegee, alabama, i still have that home. i was born and raised by the tuskegee airmen. i am standing on the shoulders of those people. i want them to understand this is possible. ♪ yes, i'm on my way >> it's not where you started. it's where you end up. ♪ i'm mighty glad you stayed ♪ >> the music we've had. >> we just relived our childhood. >> yes. >> "say you say me" from white knights. that is my russian background. that song impacted my entire family. >> "hello." i remember my crush, shane doyle. we could go on. >> i dance on the ceilings even today. >> yes, you do. >> like how he said when you're young, anything is possible and it's so true. >> it really is. >> you can hear alex wagner's entire interview with lionel richie on our cbs podcast. find it on apple's itunes and podcast app. ahead two best friends of hawaii discover the true meaning of brotherly love. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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 first month's payment. without further ado, my brother. a pair of friends made that surprising announcement in hawaii last weekend. they've known each other for 60 years. a dna matching website recently revealed they had the same birth mother. the brothers called the discovery a christmas miracle. >> that's an understatement. >> wow, amazing. amazing what science can put together. bring families together. that does it for us. just became whatever whayou're about to dout to do after you get coffee. nothing comes before coffee. that's why we're introducing a new line of café-quality espresso drinks from mccafé. get a small peppermint mocha for just two dollars. [music] welcome to great day washington. i'm markette sheppard. and i'm kristen birset-harris. we are so excited to bring you the best of our fashion and beauty stories from 2017. so we decided to kick off with real housewife of potomac, gizelle bryant. she came in and debuted her new cosmetics line, everyhue beauty. and in true real housewife fashion, she threw some shade. take a look. i'm very excited. everyhue beauty. we have every hue. there's mocha latte, right? caramel. the caramel latte. yes, the light caramel something-i don't know, y'all. sip on that coffee. yeah, gizelle, tells us more. so i started with - and y'all have allowed me to talk about this a lot, so i appreciate it. but now it is here. so i started with a tinted moisturizer because i feel like you always have to start with the skin. yes. and we decided to put a lot of vitamins in it, minerals, vitamin c, vitamin e, aloe, and spf. because a lot of times, especially in our community with our people, they forget that you have to put something on your skin. that's right because you think, oh, i have natural sunscreen. and it's like-no, no, boo-boo. this is how you get wrinkles and get your skin all dried out. right, so we have 12 different hues. okay. and we always said, "oh, black don't crack." well, black gets like ashy. oh, okay. and some other stuff. all right, you're just calling us out today. yes. lk over here so i can see what you're doing. tell us what you're doing to your lovely model here. so my lovely model-tell everybody your name. my name is bessie. bessie-we love some bessie. 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