>> reporter: you can't. >> i never held life and death in my hand. i tell you i held his life in my hands. >> reporter: the nightmares. >> yes. >> reporter: every decision. did i make the right decision? >> right. again you asked about publicity. >> reporter: yeah. >> some said, shout it from the rooftops. some people said, shh don't tell any body. then this is not just my team, this is also, people weighing in. friend. family. calling me. why didn't you dupe this? why didn't you do that? you know, give me a break. >> reporter: elaine decide to follow the fbi's recommendation and pay the ransom in installments. the plan was that after the last of three payments was delivered, in front of this mosque in pashewar, warren would be as devout muslim woman wearing a black burka. after the money was given. warren was not returned. now they wanted more. >> reporter: they got almost all, all of the money. >> almost all of the money. i got no warren. >> my name is warren winestein. >> over time she watched her husband deteriorate in publicly released videos on al qaeda web sites. he became more haggard. elaine would notice he had lost a tooth. >> we may never see each other again. >> reporter: she came to realize warren had been transferred to a different group who didn't want money, they wanted prisoners re re-released from pakistani prisons. the u.s. government has a policy of not negotiating with terrorists which left many hostage families feeling abandoned. still she went to see top u.s. officials including secretary of state john kerry and deputy national security adviser lisa >> do something. you're the strongest country in the entire world. do something. and they did nothing. elaine began worrying abut a tliet war threat to warren. u.s. drone strikes. kidnappers were calling from public phones. the fbi believed that warren was being held in the north, a prime target area for the strikes. she says she told lisa monaco of her fears in january 2014. >> reporter: she had the foresight to worry that the bombing could affect your husband? 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what would you tell them? >> probably tell them to follow their passions. that's how we all got here. that's the best way to got to what you love to do. >> reporter: although at the end of each slope is a paycheck, these guys believe. the real reward is up in the air. >> we have the best seat in the house. we are in the air with the athletes. >> the brothers told me when they first started taking the videos, athletes gave them a cold shoulder tinl until t,, ,, ,, ,, ,, a small village in scanning the license plate of every vehicle that pass throughs town. the ring of steel its designed criminals. for the most part the cameras find vehicles with expired registration stickers. anna werner reports. >> suspended or revoked registration. >> reporter: you bet noert have anything to hide if you drive into free port, new york. >> okay. >> stolen license plate. >> reporter: chief bermudez, track every vehicle, with 26 cameras that read license plates at entry points. if your plate shows up on a list of offenders an alarm goats out to the entire police force. why did you want to be able to track people? >> we want to try to reduce crime? >> reporter: the police have made 28 arrests including a murder suspect from norfolk, virginia. but the hits keep on coming. and coming. >> revoked registration. >> reporter: mostly for suspended registrations. its that what you thought the system would do when you got it? >> no. no. we were looking at -- at stolen vehicles. or vehicles wanted in crimes. >> after three months the free port cameras tracked 17 million plates in a village of 50,000. in exchange for the security, the police are drowning in data. overtime is way up. now the chief is asking state and federal governments for help. >> have a force of 95 officers. we cuffed use many more. >> the readers do make mistakes. this one misread the 800 number of the stolen car. there is the question of where all this information winds up. jason star of the american civil liberties union. >> all of that data its being stored some where. it can be shared. it scan be pulled. center to other law enforcement agencies. it can be breached by third parties. >> licen plate readers are used in all most every state. the aclu filed three lawsuits. two involving the scope of information collected. there have been complaints about abuse. chief bermudez its add mantd plate information is never linked to a person unless a crime is indicated and dumped after 180 days. >> do you understand why some would be offended being tracked when they're completely innocent? tau awe we are not looking at the data though. >> you could be. >> there is so much coming in. impossible to look at that kind of n formation. >> suspended or revoked registration. >> so much information he need up with it. anna werner, cbs news. that's the "cbs overnight news" for thises when day. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm vinita nair. a pretty sure bet donald trump would come up aces in the nevada caucuses and the gop front-runner didn't disappoint. winning his third victory in four nominating contests. the bigger battle for runner-up between marco ruby and ted cruz. numbers were still trickling in when the candidates addressed their supporters. >> nevada, we love nevada. thank you. this is a great place. thaek very much. great evening. we will be celebrating for a long time tonight. have a good time. have a good time. we weren't expected. a couple of month as go we weren't expected to win this one you, know that, right. we weren't. we weren't. of course if you listen to the pundits we weren't expected to win too much. now we are wing, winning, winning. the country. soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. i want to thank the volunteers. these people they worked endlessly. endlessly. we are not going to forget it. we have had great numbers coming out of texas. [ cheers and applause ] of tennessee and georgia and arkansas. a couple weeks later flat. fla. we love florida. so. we are going to do very well in ohio. we are beating the governor. that's good. always nice to be beating the governor. the whole thing. it is going to be an amazing two months. we might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest. >> they keep forgetting that when people drop out, we are getting a lot of votes. you know, they keep forgetting. >> hillary clinton is hoping for her third victory party. on saturday in south carolina. she and bernie sanders are appealing to african-american voters, with promises of justice reform. here's nancy cordes. >> hillary clinton put me and these moms together to move on a nation, to protect all of us. >> reporter: these five women are not household names. but their children are. eric garner, suffocated while being pinned down by police in new york. sandra bland found hanging in her jail cell after scuffing with the texas officer during a traffic stop. here in south carolina, mothers are drawing crowds nearly as large as clinton herself. >> of all the candidates nobody reached out and listened to us. but she did. >> how many events are you doing? >> fur a day. >> we're doing about four a day. killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator in sanford, florida. >> is it hard for you to share your personal story over and over again with all these voters? >> the more i talk about trayvon, the more it helps me heal. sanders reached out to victims of gun violence and police brutality including eric garner's daughter who broke with her grandmother in a 4:00 web video. >> in norfolk, virginia, sanders promised he would tackle a broken justice system too. >> segregation and racism and bigotry is not what this country is supposed to be about. >> clinton is appearing with the five mothers for the first time tonight here at a church in columbia. she met with them privately, to gain their support. nancy cordes, thanks. in a break with history, the senate will not consider any nominee to the supreme court. no matter who it is. president obama is preparing to name his choice to replace the late antonin scalia. but the republicans say that seat should remain empty. president. the senate has always given a 1 1 1875. >> there should not be a hearing in the judiciary committee. >> the senator and the ten other republicans on the judiciary committee explained in a letter to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, the decision was based on principle and born of necessity to protect the will of the american people. chuck schumer called the move unprecedented. >> but to not even give the nominee a hearing, and fair consideration. stand. >> reporter: republicans say, democrats laid the ground work. after years of delaying hearings and blocking gop nominees. and they point to the word of then-senator joe biden. discussing a vacancy in 1992. >> the senate judiciary committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until, until after the political campaign season is over. >> reporter: now, leader mcconnell today, he saw no point of meeting with the president's eventual nominee. scott, the white house pointing to 1875 as the last time a nominee failed to get a hearing or a vote. >> jan crawford on capitol hill. jan, thank you. president obama held a video conference today to brief european head of state on the cease-fire plan for syria that but that agreement does not include isis, which holds about a third of syria, or the al qaeda affiliate there known as al-nusra. it is rare for a western reporter to get into syria. but elizabeth palmer is there in damascus tonight. liz, what are you learning about the prospects of the cease-fire? >> i had the unusual opportunity of talking to two syrian army officers today. and both of them said, personally, they had no appetite for a cease-fire. they were gaining ground on several fronts. at the moment they didn't want to lose momentum. one had returned from officer training in moscow. he had his russian certificate proudly displayed on his bookshelf. he said that quite frankly the russians are calling the shots. if they tell us that well have to observe a limit the truce here or there. we will do it. as the for the opposition, both of them were deeply scornful. they said -- most of the opposition groups don't have enough discipline to actually adhere to a cease-fire. they're constantly morphing. changing their tactics. even changing their leaders. >> secretary kerry in the united states said today he wasn't sure the cease-fire was going to work either. elizabeth palmer in damascus for us to us night. liz, thank you. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> a tough day turning into a rough night in much of the deep south. multiple tornados have been spotted as well as a water spout near new orleans. we have been told of fatalities at an rv park in st. james parish in louisiana. about 100 rvs overturned there. as many as 10 million people in five states will be under tornado watches over the next 24 hours. david begnaud begins our coverage. >> reporter: it started during the lunch hour in louisiana. triple tornadic water spouts developed over lake ponchatrain an hour west in white castle, louisiana, a motorist cap whurd -- captured a wall cloud with a tornado wrapped in it. another in prairieville, east of the baton rouge. a gold's gym took a powerful punch. a wall ripped off the building. this its what it looked like in assumption parish. a tornado plowed a path of destruction. >> look up. look up. >> southeast of baton rouge. >> right in front of us. >> reporter: a tornado crossed interstate 10. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: downed trees strewn across livingston parish. within hours, this afternoon, reports of 11 tornados across louisiana, mississippi, alabama. dozens of schools closed early ahead of the severe weather. which knocked down power lines and damaged cars and homes. along the gulf coast, more rain is expected to cause flash flooding. scott, that rv park you mentioned a short time ago in convent, louisiana, got off the phone with the manager. he has done a walk-through. he said there are injuries, and search-and-rescue operation under way. >> david begnaud, thank you. eric fisher chief meteorologist at wbz in boston. eric, what is next? >> scott, watching the powerful storm system in the gulf states. tornado watches out including, pds, particularly dangerous situation tornado watch from new orleans into the western florida panhandle tonight. we'll be tracking storms eastward. tornado risk goes up during the overnight. storms moving across alabama, florida panhandle, georgia in the overnight hours. urging everyone to stay weather aware tonight. the severe threat moves to the east coast tomorrow. in fact, all the way up to the dc area in particular. focus on a chance for severe weather in the carolinas during the day tomorrow. also a cold side to the storm. watching heavy snow across eastern illinois, north western totals could top a foot in some towns. mostly rain. some severe storms. scott, wintry element to the storm also. >> the president proposed closing guantanamo bay prison for terrorist suspects by end of the year. guantanamo opened in 2002 on the u.s. naval base in cuba which allowed prisoners from afghanistan and elsewhere to be held without charges or trials. 779 prisoners had been held there. today, 91 remain. margaret brennan is at the white house. >> the politics of this are tough. >> reporter: tough politics because the president's proposal involves bringing nearly 60 guantanamo prisoners to the united states. >> we are already holding a bunch of really dangerous terrorists here in the united states. them. and there have been no incidents. >> reporter: of the 91 prisoners at guantanamo, 35 transferred to other countries. 46 held in the u.s. under military guard. 10 would face trial in criminal or military courts. includes, 9/11 khalid sheikh mow haemd never convicted in 13 years. pentagon officials looked at 13 locations for housing prisoners including naval brig in south carolina, super max prison in colorado, military prison in leavenworth, kansas. in 2011, congress made it illegal to transfer guantanamo inmates to the u.s. and republicans in congress almost universally opposed to changing the law. kansas senator pat roberts made his opinion clear today. >> this its what i think of the president's plan to send terrorists to the united states. >> reporter: so did colorado republican congressman, mike coffman. >> he knows in fact the will of congress is not going to change. existing law. that would in fact allow the detainees to come to u.s. soil. >> reporter: president obama said that closing guantanamo will save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. scott, the white house today would not rule out taking executive 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remains in the blood for one week but can say in semen for much longer. 262 days in one case. there is no evidence of sexual transmission from women to men. angelica is due in april. so far so good. scott, you may be wondering why every day there is new information about zika. ten years ago this infection was almost unheard of. now exploding and being gang tackled by the scientific community. jon, thank you very much. the families of two people killed in the san bernardino terrorist attack plan to file court papers urging apple to help investigators. apple is fighting a court order to unlock the iphone of one of the killers. there are many families anxious for a decision. >> reporter: last april in baton rouge, louisiana, britney mills, 8 months pregnant was shot when she answered her door. she and her unborn child were kid. police suspect she knew the killer and her locked iphone could contain clues. police lieutenant johnny dunham. are unable to obtain her password. >> reporter: since the california magistrate ruling that apple had to help the fbi break into the iphone used by the san bernardino shooter, syed farook, there has been focus on locked smart phones. >> this is a very, very slippery slope. >> apple's attorney used to represent the u.s. government before the supreme court. >> reporter: you think part of the slippery slope here is that ultimately the government could develop a back door with apple's help to listen in to eavesdrop on phone calls that are happening now? >> yes. >> reporter: olsen knows about terrorism. his wife barbara was a passenger on the plane that crashed into the pentagon on 9/11. he believes terror cases can lead to government overreach. >> terrorists want to take away our civil liberties. they want to barack down our system. they want us to overreact. they want us to say, well, >> reporter: the district attorney in baton rouge, hiller moore says, britney mills' case its about catching a killer. >> the question is are you wanting to live in civilized fro -- civilized free society, and you want justice, you have to give up some of your liberties. and this is one that, i think is reasonable for you to give up. >> the fbi reject the argument that the san bernardino case would set a precedent. scott, apple expects the case to ultimately end up at the supreme court. >> jeff, thank you. well, phones had cord back when sonny james recorded his first number one single in 1956. young love first love >> reporter: in the '60s and '70s, james had 16 straight number one country singles. sonny james, the southern gentleman died yesterday, he was 87. the "cbs overnight news" will be ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, in the house of windsor there is trouble about. so we sent mark phillips to sniff it out. >> reporter: normally as far as they can manage it, what happens in the palace stays in the palace. but the special 90th queen's birthday issue of the high society "town & country" magazine contains the spectacular revelation of a spectacular revelation of a family rift of such vicious infighting that a psychologist had to be called in. corgis. the dog breed she is famously fond of. >> there were fights. fights between the dogs. let alone between the family, but between the dogs. pet psychologist, roger mugford, calmed the corgis down sorting out the hierarchy, a lot like how the royals work. he discovered a possible reason for the dischord. the corgis were at each other's throats at the same time the royal family were at each other's throats over the breakdown of princess diana and prince charles' marriage. >> when you are distracted by at fairs of state and other things going on within the family as they were at that time with princess diana situation. >> reporter: the royal dogs life seem like the royal family's life. pampered. eat off good crockery. >> bells are leftovers. silver dish here. and a cracked piece of porcelain there. >> mother. daughter. royal corgis are like the royal family. the royal line of people are direct descendants of a single person, queen victoria. the royal line of corgis are direct descendants of a top dog as well. at the palace as in dogs and in people it seems breeding counts. mark phillips, cbs news, london. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. i'm scott pelley. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "cbs overnight news." president obama's latest effort to close the terrorist prison camp at guantanamo bay, cuba is already running into republican road block in congress. the president unveiled his plan to shutter the facility once and for all, sending detainees to prisons in the united states. house speaker paul ryan wasted against the law. margaret brennan has more. >> the politics of this are tough. tough politics because the president's proposal involves bringing nearly 60 guantanamo prisoners to the united states. bunch of dangerous terrorists here in the united states. because -- we threw the book at them. and there have been no incidents. >> reporter: of the 91 prisoners at guantanamo, 35 transferred to other countries. 46 held in the united states under military guard. and at least 10 would face trial in criminal or military courts. that includes so-called 9/11, mastermind khalid sheikh mohamed never convicted in 13 years in u.s. custody. pentagon looked at places to houtz the prisoners including, south carolina, super max prison in colorado and military prison in leavenworth, kansas. in 2011, congress made it illegal to transfer guantanamo inmates to the u.s. republicans in congress are almost universally opposed. kansas senator, pat roberts made his opinion clear today. president's plan to send terrorists to the united states. >> reporter: so did colorado republican congressman mike coffman. >> he knows in fact the will of congress is not going to change. that well are not going to amend existing law. that would in fact allow the detainees to come to u.s. soil. >> reporter: president obama said that shutting guantanamo would save taxpayers tens of the white house would not rule out taking executive action to does not act. margaret brennan, cbs news, the also on capitol hill, senate said the senate will refuse to consider any one president obama nominates to the supreme court. he would not be inclined to meet a nominee let alone hold confirmation hearings. next president. >> action on supreme court nomination must be put off until the election campaign is over. >> then senate judiciary committee chairman, joe biden, in 1992 suggested he was fine with blocking any election year nominees when president george h.w. bush was in the white house. president bush should kid following the practice of a majority of his predecessors. and not -- and not -- name a nominee. until after the november election is completed. >> reporter: current judiciary committee chair, chuck grassley immediately agreed to what he called the biden rules. >> in his heart of hearts, he understands why this senate must do what he said it must do in 1992. obama poised to move the court to liberal majority. republicans are vowing to block any nominee. democrats like senate minority leader harry reid are questioning motives. >> a full blown effort to -- >> democrats like reid and then senator obama, have blocked or tried to block republican nominees when they controlled the senate. and republican whose were in the senate minority cried foul. >> any president, judicial nominees after full debate deserve a simple up or down vote. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday. >> it is, today, the american people who are best positions to help make this important decision. now, when biden made that so-called biden rule. and he really left the door open for a compromise in a statement he said he was talking about 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life. 14-year-old abigail kauf, the youngest shot. >> she was a beautiful, vibrant young lady. she did not deserve this. victims. >> reporter: when the rampage unfolded tammy george was at home and thought she heard fireworks. >> so this is your closet. >> yes. >> i see the bullet holes in the bottom way down there. >> she walked outside to find her neighbor, tiana carruthers covered in blood. >> she was asking about her kids. asking why did he shoot me? >> she said why did he shoot me? >> yes. >> carruthers survived. possibly saving the lives of several children with her, telling them to run. >> i think she went mama bear. she protected them. >> reporter: authorities recovered the handgun used in the shootings and found a large number of firearms here at dalton's home. dalton is expected back in court next week. in a statement, his family expressed their condolences for the victims saying there are no word which can express our shock and disbelief. virgin galactic one step closer to 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reporter: you can't. >> i never held life and death in my hand. hands. >> reporter: the nightmares. >> yes. >> reporter: every decision. did i make the right decision? >> right. again you asked about publicity. >> reporter: yeah. >> some said, shout it from the rooftops. some people said, shh don't tell any body. then this is not just my team, this is also, people weighing in. friend. family. calling me. why didn't you do this? why didn't you do that? you know, give me a break. >> reporter: elaine decide to follow the fbi's recommendation and pay the ransom in installments. the plan was that after the last of three payments was delivered, in front of this mosque in pashewar, warren would be delivered to a hotel disguised as devout muslim woman wearing a black burka. warren was not returned. now they wanted more. >> reporter: they got almost all, all of the money. >> almost all of the money. i got no warren. >> my name is warren winestein. >> over time she watched her husband 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literally six inches to two feet away from them in the air going, 30 miles an hour off a 90 foot jump. >> meet abe kislovitz, a usc engineering student with a hobby. >> i was making videos. pros. and i was putting videos up online on my youtube channel. the ceo ended up e-mailing me saying we love what you are doing and would love for you to come work for us. >> reporter: that ceo was go profounder nick woodman who hired kislovitz as one of the earliest employees. i'm caleb and christopher. >> he tapped, usc grads and identical twins, chris and caleb farlow. >> we graduated, nick hired us one after another. our entire ski team from sophomores in college. works at go pro now. >> this is a classic story. you guys are doing something you love for the fun of it. now it is your career. >> yeah, pretty awesome. i don't think, don't feel like i am going to work in the morning. the idea is to stay close and on him. >> reporter: on the day we caught up with them. going to work meant their office was the winter x games in aspen, the course is juicy fruit. >> and their job was to shoot point of view action footage of competitors like 23-year-old champion skier, emma dahlstrom. >> jumps are pretty big. to hit the course you need to know what you are doing on your skis or board. so they should have a lot of props for doing what they're doing. >> ready when you are. >> to be honest, you are doing a follow cam, following them. so focused on getting the camera, the shot is framed. not moving. staying steady in the air. speed. you don't really process exactly what they're doing. i can hardly ever tell you what tricks they did on their run. >> reporter: in fact they rarely know what they have got until the end of each run. >> oh! >> yeah! >> while they're working they try to stay out of the spotlight. >> good job for us if they don't know we are there. >> it's what we have been waiting for. >> every once in ail while they accidentally get some attention. >> got his entire run, via live go pro angles. >> at last year's x games. caleb was following an olympic >> live broadcast. i knew i was on. like they were using my feed. >> just a dirty grab on that. >> a little embarrassing. you know, we are getting cool shots. go back to the trail. everyone goes, live tv. saw you go down. >> these are the big jumps. the big dog playing field. you get butterflies in your stomach. >> reporter: but those butterflies usually disappear with the rushing wind of a downhill run. if a kid was going to ask you how do i do what you do? what would you tell them? >> probably tell them to follow their passions. that's how we all got here. that's the best way to got to what you love to do. >> reporter: although at the end of each slope is a paycheck, these guys believe. the real reward is up in the air. >> we have the best seat in the house. we are in the air with the >> the brothers told me when they first started taking the videos, athletes gave them a cold shoulder until they saw how great they are as photographers and athletes.,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, a small village in scanning the license plate of every vehicle that passes through town. officials say -- the ring of steel is designed to keep residents safe from criminals. for the most part the cameras find vehicles with expired registration stickers. anna werner reports. >> suspended or revoked registration. >> reporter: you better not have anything to hide if you drive into free port, new york. >> okay. >> stolen license plate. >> reporter: chief bermudez, and his 95 officers, track every vehicle with 27 fixed cameras that read license plates at all 11 entry points. >> whether a stolen vehicle, of offenders an alarm goats out why did you want to be able to track people? >> we want to try to reduce crime? >> reporter: the police have made 28 arrests including a murder suspect from norfolk, virginia. but the hits keep on coming. and coming. >> revoked registration. >> reporter: mostly for suspended registrations. system would do when you got it? >> no. no. we were looking at -- at stolen vehicles. or vehicles wanted in crimes. >> after three months the free port cameras tracked 17 million plates in a village of 50,000. in exchange for the security, the police are drowning in data. overtime is way up. now the chief is asking state and federal governments for help. >> have a force of 95 officers. we could use many more. >> the readers do make mistakes. this one misread the 800 number on the rider truck for the plate there is the question of where all this information winds up. jason star of the american civil liberties union. >> all of that data its being stored some where. it can be shared. it can be pulled. it can be breached by third parties. in all most every state. the aclu filed three lawsuits. information collected. there have been complaints about abuse. chief bermudez is adamant the plate information is never linked to a person unless a crime is indicated and dumped after 180 days. >> do you understand why some would be offended being tracked when they're completely innocent? >> we are not looking at that data though. >> you could be. >> there is so much coming in. impossible to look at that kind of n formation. of information. >> suspended or revoked registration. >> so much information he need captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, february 24th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." a big night in nevada for donald trump. he walked away with another win, while the candidates in his wake fight for second place. killer storms. at least three people are dead after tornadoes tear through the south, while people in the storm's path wait for its next move. and celine dion proves her

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