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the airwaves again next month. it s not known how much he will be paid for this or what it will mean to have a sitting president on the payroll of a tv show. scott? dean reynolds, thanks. in syria the battle for aleppo has become a rout. government forces backed by russia have retaken 3/4 of the territory held by rebels. today one local politician warned that 150,000 civilians face extermination if they aren t given safe passage out. debora patta is in aleppo. reporter: 7-year-old abdul ghani tarab was eating lunch when a shell hit his home two weeks ago. shrapnel tore through his body as syrian and russian bombs continued to rain down. his parents told us there was only one very basic makeshift clinic still working. it wasn t equipped to help their son. i felt dead inside. i m his father, he said, and i was helpless. he would moan and call for help, his mother told us. it took two weeks to get tarab out of eastern aleppo to a proper hospital. after being syst ....
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today donald trump made another cabinet appointment that shows he s turning america in a new direction. he s nominating a labor secretary who believes that wages are often too high. this comes a day after naming one of the epa s biggest critics the also today, dean reynolds reports that the president-elect got into a twitter battle with a labor boss. reporter: the president-elect made his second visit to ohio since his election, and while his stop in columbus involved soothing the survivors of last week s attack at ohio state, getting back at any and all critics was still on his mind. the latest to draw mr. trump s wrath was chuck jones, an indianapolis union president who jobs he saved last week at the carrier company. if in fact it was an oversight, you know, it s a big mistake. not knowing how many people s livelihoods you re negotiating to keep here in this country. reporter: the president-elect claimed he d saved 1,100 jobs at carrier. by the way, that nu ....
with scott pelley. pelley: john glenn, the last of the mercury 7 astronauts, the first american to orbit the earth, died late today. he was 95. back in 1962, america was losing the space race. the soviets had already sent a man into orbit, and just six months after that, they detonated the world s largest atom bomb. so the pressure and excitement were sky high that february day shining spacesuit, compressed himself into friendship 7. school children held their breath watching black and white tvs, grand central terminal stopped in its tracks, eyes glued to a big screen, and president kennedy waited to exhale at the white house. 3, 2, 1, 0, ignition. pelley: minutes later, feel fine. it would be his signature catch phrase for the rest of his life, a life of many orbits, remembered now by nancy cordes. reporter: from the cosmos to capitol hill and then back again godspeed, john glenn. reporter: john glenn was an astronaut, a politician, and a patriot i ha ....