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His widow expected the medal today. an exciting new development in treating some types of cancer. the polio virus now being used to battle the disease. also the tense moments on a spirit airlines flight as a passenger has a profanity laced meltdown.

Sealing the inning. >> they tested it to 50 below zero, 400 degrees above. >> reporter: it worked just fine in this nevada heat, 109 today. >> absolutely. >> reporter: you can see right here, boulder city, nevada, usa. >> reporter: 30 miles outside ue l hlas vegas, 6 a wor5 workers. >> family and friends love space pens. >> its shocking to everyone now that little old boulder city has a great american-made company here. >> reporter: first, the stainless steel cut into these pen tips. each batch ...

By forcing the power industry to buy from them for the next two years. instead of from newer, cleaner and cheaper options. like natural gas or renewables. keeping coal and nuclear plants could prove expensive. one study compiled by two clean energy companies found it could saddle customers up to $12 billion in extra costs every single year. in a statement, the white house cites national security saying shutdowns of coal and nuclear plants would make the power grid less resilient when it comes to...

>> reporter: f.e. warren air force base in wyoming is home to land-based nuclear-tipped missiles like these filmed by "60 minutes" in 2014, each 20 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed hiroshima. the airmen responsible for guarding these weapons are supposed to be on high alert. but in court-martial documents obtained by cbs news, details about a drug ring on base shows some were just high, mostly on a psychedelic drug, l.s.d. "i absolutely just loved altering my mind," one airman te...

Kelly pursues teenaged or underaged girls and lures them into engaging in sex acts. last month, rogers filed a criminal complaint in dallas, where she lives. she said under the advisement of police she recorded a phone call with kelly hoping he would admit to knowingly giving her an s.t.d. >> reporter: why file the lawsuit? >> i want it for girls like me who are going to run into him in the future. >> reporter: cbs news reached out to representatives for kelly, who told us they have no comment o...

Country. >> these folks are fighting over real money and real territory while theyre incarcerated. >> reporter: despite tough rules to keep them out, the phones keep coming in. and the federal communications commission wont allow prisons to jam the signals the phones need to communicate. captain robert johnson nearly died in 2010 when he was shot outside of his home. >> a cell phone is given an inmate a weapons of mass destruction. >> reporter: the hit was organized from behind bars by a south c...

>> reporter: this year during the coldest part of the year, the arctic experienced its warmest levels ever recorded in the second lowest sea ice levels. collecting this data is central to nasas operation ice bridge and we join them on their flight. >> this glacier is one of the few glaciers left in greenland that has an ice shell at the end of it. in other words, floating ice that is attached to the original glacier. hang tight. hold on. >> reporter: after a successful eight-hour mission we land...

Fifth avenue and lord & taylor getting hit. it might have you wondering what the new credit cards with the chips installed were supposed to help prevent this. nbc news business correspondent jo ling kent takes a look at why it keeps happening. >> reporter: tonight 5 million credit and debit card numbers stolen from three popular retailers. the cyber research firm which discovered the breach says 125,000 accounts are already for sale on the dark web. the card numbers stolen when shoppers bought i...

Attorney michelle jordan represents that hospital, campbellton graceville, which was days away from closing when perez and his partners swooped in. were you thinking to yourself whats in it for them? >> yes, and how and the hell did you find us. >> reporter: perez and associates agreed to pay off the hospitals debt and manage it for a fee of $30,000 a month. jordan begged the board not to sign. but the board was desperate. >> they wanted their hospital open. these records were how the hospital s...