Trillion tax plan and final passage. A pair of gop holdouts declared their support today. And the first major independent an am s analysis showed the bill would drive up taxes for 5 of taxpayers an improvement. The Tax Policy Center determined taxpayers making between 50,000 and 90,000 a year would save on average 900. Or 1. 6 of thereafter tax income. The very top earners, would see a larger savings of 3. 4 . On average of 00 still the case that, over time, the tax cuts will generally get smaller and smaller. Tax expert, Joseph Rosenberg says one area where republicans fell short. Was their promise to make the tax code simpler. Introducing a lot of additional complexity ttz. Not going to do our taxes on a postcard . I think the postcard is out. Controversy simmered over deduction added to the bill at the last minute. Analysts say it would primarily benefit wealthy commercial real estate investors. Like, President Trump. Or tennessee republican, bob corker. Of the benefits are larger, the more income you have. If i own an apartment that i rent out, i dont benefit from this. You might benefit. But not very much. Corker insisted to day that he had no knowledge of this provision when he announced his support on friday. And gop leaders backed him up. But democrats say, jeff, this is a needless give away no matter what to an industry that is already thriving. Nancy cordes, thank you. The director of the centers for Disease Control its defending the agency after a report that its compiled a list of seven dirty word that should not be used when asking congress for money. Dr. Jon lapook has more on this. The seven words that sparked outrage are, vulnerable, entitlement, diverse team. Transgender, feet us, evidence based and science base bd. Cbs news learned that budget analysts at cdc were told to kid avoiding those words to get the broadest congressional support for funding. That advice came from the department of health and Human Services or hhs. While the cdc issued a statement saying there was no explicit order to ban word, some kriltices wekriltic kriltic critics worry this censors research. An official told cbs news this was guidance provided to people who write budget proposals and was not out of the ordinary. I have to say from my experience this is very much out of the ordinary. Kathleen sebelias was head of hhs from 2009 to 2014. I dent know how you talk about Maternal Health without the word fetus. When people at cdc, hear these are word that could be trouble when you want to get funded. This could lead to self censorship, i will not do research there . Of course. I never heard of of a budget document being edited or preedited if youve will. But it is, it certainly is a form of the censorship. What message does this send to the cdc . Hope it doesnt send some of the comb pa tent, talented people out the door. 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Two sensations that work together, so you can play together. National security address today, President Trump said america is coming back and coming back strong. It turns out the u. S. Has fallen behind in a modern dcold war. Here is carter evans. When the coast guard cutter plows through the ice, cold star, it can feel like an earthquake on board. Its missions are vital to keeping shipping lanes open in the north and south poles. America is an arctic nation. Thats part of our country. Part of our land. Coast guard vice admiral fred miget warns the u. S. Is being outspent on the ice by vladamir putin. Russia has six new heavy ice breakers. If you look at what russia is doing, there is almost a miniarms buildup going on. Meanwhile the 40yearold polar star, americas only heavy ice breaker, is near the end of its life. This ship was commissioned in 1976. 1976. How many heavy ice breakers has the coast guard built since then . Zero. Keeping polar star afloat is job one. Weave caug we caught up with the ship undergoing vital repairs. Everything from the boiler room to propulsion system. Some of the critical maintenance involves replacing the ships 16foottall propellers. These are not new. They came from the polar stars sister ship. It was damaged beyond repair in 2010. If you didnt do this maintenance before you headed out. What could have happened . Probably would have lost a rudder, there was a lot of cracks and corrosion. The captain showed us around the ship. Where the computer its so antiquated the coast guard had to find old parts on line. This helps the ship run. Yes. You found it on ebay. Yes. Earlier this summer, President Trump, told cadets help is on the way. With the new ship seven years away at best. Polar star always sails with a years worth of food in case it breaks down and gets stuck in the ice. Carter evans, cbs news, vallejo, california. When we come back here , 8drw as christmas presents go it will be hard to top this one. Texas rangers pitcher cole hamils and wife heidi said theyre donating a 32,000 square foot mansion to camp barnabus, a charity that helps kids with special need and chronic illness. On 104 acres worth nearly 10 million. In Providence Rhode island, the state house Christmas Tree didnt make it to christmas. The tree was drying up and shedding needles so today it was cut down and turned into wood chips. With just a week until the holiday, a local tree farm donated a new tree stand did save christmas in the capitol. Lot of folks use family photo for their christmas card. Here is one from a family in england. You might have heard of them. Prince william and wife cate, children, george and charlotte. And, george has the the, Christmas Holiday shorts, very nice. Cbs news poll this year found most americans believe there is intelligent life on other planets. But has the that life visited earth. Tony dokoupil reports the military has been looking. A whole fleet of them. My gosh. You are watching just one of the many ufo encounters investigated by the department of defense. Look at that thing. The unidentified flying object about the size of a school bus, attracted the attention of former intelligence officer, luis alazando. Not a drone. Not something that, we can ease say oh that is an airplane. For years, elizando ran a 22 million pentagon effort aimed at the physics of sightings like this one. Russian, chinese, little green men from mars, or neighbors dog. I really dont care. My focus is, what is it, and how di does it work. He refused to discuss the number of cases he investigated. He did work with robert bigalow, a tycoon who told 60 minutes that alien life is real. I am absolutely convinced thats all there its to it. Do you believe that ufos have come to earth . There has been and is an existing presence. Et presence. From 1947 to 1969, an air force program investigated more than 12,000 ufo sightings. 700 of which are still, unidentified. I would say remain skeptical, absolutely. But there comes a point where, where the evidence becomes overwhelming. He says, were not at that point yet. But he believes something its out there and ignoring it. Just wont fly. Tony dokoupil, cbs news, new york. That is theov overnight ne for tuesday. For others the news continue thousands. For others check back for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im jeff glor. Welcome to the overnight news. Im jericka duncan. Investigators dont know what caused the deadly wreck of an amtrak train outside seattle. The train was making its first run along a new, faster route. When it tumbled off a highway overpass. John black stone is there. It is a jumble of derailed train cars. People were screaming. An amtrak commuter train on a higher speed line between seattle and portland derailed. Amtrak 501. Reporter this radio call captured that train hurdled off the bridge. Is everybody okay . One car flipped upside down on to the interstate. Another dangling precariously off the overpass. Still others piled up, wreckage strewn over a wide area. Of the 14 cars, only one lead engine remained on the tracks. No motorists were killed from the crash. I was scared. A treeian thompson en route to see his mother for the holidays. Grabbed on to the chair. My laptop went flying. Phone went flying. Within minutes of the derailment, dozens of emergency crews rushed in as did drivers who witnessed the crash like trevor colvey who helped pull survivors to safety. I saw smoke. Myself and few others are trying to get people medical care when we can. This was the first trip for the new seattle to portland line. Some local officials expressed concern these tracks werent safe enough for a commuter train traveling 80 miles an hour. Those passengers who were able to walk away, feel enormously fortunate. Got to say a prayer multiple times after this. I feel blessed to be alive and okay right now. Investigators from the National Transportation safety board are now on the scene of this accident, looking for an answer to that all important question, what caused this on a newly rebuilt set of tracks meant for higherspeed operation . Was it a problem with the train . The tracks . Or perhaps operator error . It could take weeks to get an answer. The lights are back on and planes are back in the sky after sundays massive blackout. It caused Flight Cancellations from paris to oregon and thousand of air travelers are still trying to got to their destinations. Chris van clea kris van cleave is there. [ applause ] even with the light back on monday, more than 400 flights were canceled and the lines stretched as far as you could see. Again, apologize for inconvenience. Yesterday passengers roamed the Busiest Airport in the dark. Others stuck on the tram some slept on baggage belts. More than 1,000 flights canceled. This is absurd. People are sleeping on the floor like homeless people. It is just like i have never seen anything like this at all. This morning, delta was handing out donuts which came as little comfort to barbara who was supposed to fly home to new jersey yesterday. You have no contingency plans . All these people are here. There is no food. There is no water. They told us, absolutely nothing. For seven hours. For seven hours. A fire deep below the airport that caused the power outage that stranded estimated 30,000 passengers sunday. Georgia power believes a piece of equipment known as switch gear failed, sparking the fire. It burned through the cable supplying power to the airport including all backups. Leading to questions as to why the backup power was located so close to the main line. It impacted flights around the world. Kalgs it cass kated around the world. Doesnt make you look very good when you say there are redundancies, but they failed too . You look at the question about redundancy. And single point of failure like that its absolutely something you kid. But the failure rate of any type of switch gear its so min out in our network that, we didnt design for that. Now we have to look at that, to try to isolate it. President trump unveiled a plan for National Security. The president wants to push back against china, russia, iran and north korea. But his speech was overshadowed by the latest on the special counsels russian investigation. Major garrett reports. Reporter after President Trump returned from camp david reporters asked if he was considering firing robert mueller. My people were very upset about it. I cant imagine there is anything on them frankly, because as we said there is no collusion. There is no collusion whatsoever. In a letter to congress, a transition attorney called the seizure of emails unlawful and accused the Government Agency to the trump transition of illegally handing over privileged or private communications to muellers team. A spokesperson from mueller said all emails collected from investigators came through the account owners consent or appropriate criminal proces. The acquisition of transition emails illegal . The no. Unethical . No. John wood, former u. S. Attorney. The individuals dont have any right to privacy in the emails they were on a government server. Should have known they have no right to privacy. The e mail squabble and skepticism of the investigation. Many seized on Text Messages from former mueller investigator as evidence of bias against mr. Trump. Republican john cornan of texas. I have confidence in director mueller, he would be concerned about appearance of conflicts of interest. Muellers team has the had emails since august and has used them in interviews with white house and transition officials. The white house could vote today. The vote expected to come down on party lines. A few Senate Republicans may be having second thoughts. Noon see co nancy cordes has the the story from capitol hill. Most main households will see their taxes go down. There are now few obstacles standing between the 1. 46 trillion tax plan and final passage. A pair of gop holdouts declared their support today. And the first major independent analysis showed the bill would drive up taxes for 5 of taxpayers an improvement. The Tax Policy Center determined taxpayers making between 50,000 and 90,000 a year would save on average 900. Or 1. 6 of thereafter tax income. The very top earners, would see a larger savings of 3. 4 . On average of 51,000. Still the case that, over time, the tax cuts will generally get smaller and smaller. Tax expert, Joseph Rosenberg says one area where republicans fell short. Was their promise to make the tax code simpler. Introducing a lot of additional complexity ttz. Not going to do our taxes on a postcard . I think the postcard is out. Controversy simmered over deduction added to the bill at the last minute. 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The rock band called the fu fighters takes its name from the military pilots taxed to chase down unidentified flying object. It was a real mission called advanced aviation threat identification pre grogram. Defunded in 2012, some of the video just released. Here is tony dokoupil. The little known Pentagon Program had a budget of 22 million according to the officer who used to run it. Most sightings looked at by u. S. Military personnel reporting ufo sitings for sight gings for decade. This is one of the incidents. The secret ufo hunters investigated. There is a whole fleet of them. This object appeared off the california coast in 2004 and baffled two navy pilots. It is not a drone. Its not something that we can e