big pharma? or the doctors prescribing the pills? tonight, an investigation into both. beginning with this doctor we found in a state prison. i see myself as a healer. doctor, you prescribed 1,000 opioid pills to a pregnant woman. i would like to stop. ( ticking ) tim green was a fearsome defender in the n.f.l., and a best-selling author. but he s on 60 minutes tonight to reveal a secret he can no longer hide. he has a.l.s., or lou gehrig s disease. we first interviewed green in 1996, and he seemed to believe this day might come. you said, i think guys would be willing to take ten, 20 years off the end of their lives, in order to get out there on sunday and play. i don t think that the consideration of your physical wellbeing in the future is in the forefront of any n.f.l. player s mind. right. i stand by that. you don t have any regrets? no, no. ( ticking ) i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m scott pelley. i m anderson cooper. i m bill whitaker.
tracey lind: i was washing my hands, and i looked in the mirror, and i did not recognize my own face. whitaker: didn t recognize yourself. lind: no. i looked in the mirror, and i kept looking, and i remember i kept looking at this woman, wondering, who was she? ( ticking ) wertheim: and now for something completely different. tanya tagaq is a pop star who happens to be an inuit throat singer. modernizing an ancient art form born high above the arctic circle. do you like it? carson tagaq: um, yeah, it s. it s okay. wertheim: ( laughs ) you waited too long there. carson tagaq: yeah, well, it s not van morrison, that s for sure. ( ticking ) i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m scott pelley. i m anderson cooper. i m jon wertheim. i m bill whitaker. those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ( ticking ) corey is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she s also taking prescripti
calm winds. a little bit variable, however, so right now we are seeing issues as far as fog is concerned. less than a mile and a half. 4-mile visibility in babylon and belmar less than a mile. there is a fog advisory that has been issued by the national weather service in effect until 9:00 a.m. so, let s take a look at our vortex radar. the clouds are thick and soupy. we are seeing light returns in green. so we may see a couple sprinkles. certainly not much to worry about. we re going to see a break in those clouds and sunshine soon enough. coming up in my full forecast, i have what to expect for this upcoming weekend. back to you guys. christians are rejoicing on one of the holiest days on the christian calendar. many catholics waited for midnight mass to begin at the historic st. patrick s cathedral. it was well worth the wait for those lucky enough to have a ticket. janelle joins us live outside st. patrick s cathedral with more. janelle. merry christmas to you, steve
interest rates. will the fed listen. what does it mean for your money. muscle cars are back. the detroit ought show auto show kicks off. about high gas mileage and horse power. those that know about sports cars are salivating about this vehicle. gerri: we re previewing the rival that is trying to win back american hearts. we have that on the willis report where consumers are our business. we begin tonight with new questions about america s political leadership and a rare admission from the white house that it made a mistake. the mistake they say, not sending a higher-profile figure to the weekend anti-terror march in paris. that rally drew political leaders from all other world. conspicuously absent was anyone from the obama administration. with us now, democratic strategist and fox news contributor doug schoen and national review editor rich lowery. doug i will start with you. sure. gerri: you say the president has abdicated global leadership this move? we ha
fir officials and those close to her. she was awaken from her relative. she sent a text to him. she initiated this saying where are you and he sent back saying do you see what s happening on the news. she says no. and he said, i love you babe. whether those are the actual word of the text, i don t think they are. that s what we were told of the substance of this brief exchange of text messages. it is consistent with other things he was doing during the pause that around 2:30 or so after the initial shooting while he s holding up in the bathroom, he makes three 911 calls, he called the television producer saying he s doing this in the name of isis and a posting on facebook saying this all about isis and the exchange of text messages that was apparently initiated by her after a relative called to say where is omar. we were talking a lot about she maybe charged. what can you tell us about that? we are told that there is no rush to bring any charges against anybody at this po