Teach them acceptance for everybody. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. President trump got what he wanted most for christmas. Congress today approved a 1. 5 trillion package of tax cuts, part of the biggest overhaul of the tack code in 31 years. It also cuts out major part of obamacare, ending the requirement that most americans buy Health Insurance or pay a fine. This is the president s biggest legislative victory, achieved without a democratic vote, an he called republicans to the white house to celebrate. Major garrett was there. This will indeed be a very big day when people look back at our country. Reporter President Trump and fellow republicans celebrated on the south lawn an promised the tax cuts will unleash economic growth. It means jobs. Jobs, jobs, jobs. Reporter the president showered praise on g. O. P. Leaders Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan. Its always a lot of fun when you win. If you work hard and lose, thats not acceptable. Reporter the president will sign the bill in the coming days. It reduces the concern rat tax rate from 35 to 21 , doubles the current standard deduction for individuals and families, and doubles the child tax credit. Taxpayers will see the effects in februarys paycheck. Congressional republicans who met the president s christmas deadline for passage served up fawning praise for mr. Trump. But for your leadership, we would not be here today. Youre living up to everything i thought you would. Reporter something this profound could not have been done without exquisite president ial leadership. Reporter no democrat voted for the bill. Party leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi said republican promises went unfulfilled. They were going to reduce the brackets. They did not. Reporter for the president , todays ceremony capped a year of accomplishment. Neil gorsuch on the supreme court. The qualifications of judge gorsuch are beyond dispute. Reporter fewer illegal crossings on the southern border, regaining territory from isis in iraq and syria, and eliminating regulation. But the president fell short on replacing the Affordable Care act. We all learned a lot. Reporter increasing infrastructure spend, and changing immigration laws. With his trademark zest for sue sue superlative, the president said hes just getting started. Its really going to be a very special period of time. Reporter republicans say these tax cuts are having an imimmediate impact. Late today two large banks, wells fargo, and third fifth announced theyre raising their minimum wage to 15 an hour. At t and come cast said they will be giving most of their employees a 1,000 bonus. Jeff . Glor major garrett, thank you very much. We turn now to John Dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of face the nation and nancy cordes, our chief congressional correspondent. John, let me start with you. Mr. Trump begins the 12th month of his presidency today. Put this year in context, if you would . Well, its a bit of a paradox. If you look on the one side, you have all of those achievements that major talked about that the president got, and here he got a big legislative achieve. At the end, which is really what he wanted, but for somebody who came into the office with his signature skill being marketing, all of those achieve. S have not paid off in popularity. His Approval Rating, the average is about 39 . This tax bill that hes been selling, the Approval Rating for that is below 30 . About ten points away from where the Affordable Care act was when president obama signed it. The Republican Party is less popular. And so he has gotten the achievement, but what has eluded him so far is the approval. Glor nancy, republicans wanted to hoe they can get Something Big done. What might come next . Reporter well, the president has talked a lot about infrastructure, but Congressional Republicans really want to take another run at healthcare, either shoring up individual Insurance Markets or chipping away at more of obamacare. Welfare reform is another big g. O. P. Priority, reinstating work requirements for medicaid and food stamp recipient, and House Speaker paul ryan and a number of republicans want to go even further and reform medicare and social security, as well, but some of their colleagues think that could be radio active in a Midterm Election year, especially, jeff, since President Trump has promised not to touch entitlements. Glor john, talk about that image projected at the white house, that of a unified party. Is that the case right now . Well, it sure looks like it. Remember, a few weeks ago we were talking about, well, the race in alabama, which split the Republican Party, and then also youve had some senators, even those who are standing behind him today, smiling and applauding like senator corker, who have been openly critical of the president , suggested he may not be fit for the job. They are now all behind him. When you asked paul ryan about some of these controversies over the last several months, he would say, well, im not focused on that. Im focused on our agenda, and thats what you saw today. They were in the promiseland, all of them together. That locks the party in behind the president. It is not just a Republican Party thats President Trumps party, but its now a unified Republican Party by todays action. Glor John Dickerson and nancy cordes, thank you both very much. In mexico, prosecutors want the question the driver of a tour bus that crashed in the yucatan peninsula yesterday. Eight americans were among the 12 people killed. Seven other americans were hurt. Manuel bojorquez is there. Reporter mexican prosecutors say skid marks on the narrow highway may indicate the tour bus was speeding, causing a crash so violent it flipped the bus on its side. Passengers were tossed across the road and into a grassy shoulder. Red cross responder Marcelino Perez says its the worst hes ever seen. They were in shock. You couldnt speak their language. You saw they were clearly in shock . Si. Reporter they were in a desperate state. Some were screaming because of the pain and their injuries and seeing their relatives who died. The passengers were from two Royal Caribbean cruise ships on a day trip the mayan ruins. The bus was operated bay mexican company. The driver was treated for injuries but was not arrested. Five of israel francos from florida were aboard the bus. His 78yearold sister fanya shamis was killed along with his never yous wife, unanimous behar along with her son, 11yearold daniel. Daniel was my sisters shining boy. She loved him, and he used to be by her side all the time. The cruise lines make many hundreds of millions in selling shore excursions. Reporter jim locker is a former defense attorney for cruise lines. He now represents passengers and has several cases pending against Royal Caribbean. Once they take them enter a port, they take no responsibility legally. Once you walk off the gangplank, youre basically entering the country at you own risk, according to the cruise lines. Reporter in a statement, Royal Caribbean said it is doing what it can to assist its guest, including helping with medical care and transportation. The two ships have now left to continue on their journeys, and theyll eventually return to florida. Jeff . Glor manny, thank you very much. Crews worked today to clear the amtrak crash site in washington state. The lead locomotive was hauled away on a giant trailer. Three people were killed, about 100 hurt monday when the train ran off the tracks on the interstate 5 after taking a 30mph curve at 80. Federal investigators are looking into whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in the cab. Olympic medalist Mckayla Maroney is suing u. S. A. Gymnastics. She says the organization tried to cover up her allegations of sexual abuse against former team doctor larry nassar. Maroney received 1. 25 million in a settlement a year ago and signed a nondisclosure agreement. Dr. Jon lapook has more on this. Reporter in the lawsuit, Mckayla Maroney accuses u. S. A. Gymnastics of covering up sexual abuse by coercing her into signing the agreement. Maroney first revealed the abuse in a twitter post two months ago writing that nassars abuse started when i was 13 years old and didnt end until i left the sport. Jon manly represents more than 100 girls and young women, including maroney, alleging sexual abuse by larry nassar. Of course its a coverup. If youre not trying to cover it up, why are you asking her to be quiet . Reporter manly says u. S. A. Gymnastics took advantage of maroneys fragile psychological state. They wanted to keep their dirty laundry quiet. They were willing the sacrifice mckaylas health and wellbeing and voice to do that, and thats just wrong. Reporter at the 2012 olympics, maroney was part of the Powerhouse Gymnastics Team known as the fierce five. Just last month alley raiseman, her teammate, told 60 minutes about her abuse at the hands of nassar. What did u. S. A. Gymnastics coand larry nassar do to manipulate these girls so much that they are so afraid to speak up . We. Reporter we reached out the u. S. A. Gymnastics for a comment but have not heard back. Jeff . Glor dr. Lapook continues his reporting on this. Thank you. A mother in tennessee recently gave birth to a girl who is almost as old as she is. The baby developed from an embryo that was frozen 24 years ago. More than two decades later, along came tina gibson, who was struggling with infertility. She adopted the embryo, had it implanted, and gave birth last month to a healthy girl. Gibson and her husband named her emma. It is believed to be the longest gap between conception and birth since in vitro fertility treatments began. At the time i was only 25. Im like, im 25 years old. I was like, if this embryo would have been born when it was supposed to have been, you know, we could have been best friends. Its just a miracle. Were just so excited. Shes such a gift from god and, man, were just so blessed to have her. Glor remarkable. We are joined now by cbs news medical contributor tara naroula. What struck you about this case . Its a miracle and its validation of the science of i. V. F. The fact we were able to take an embryo frozen 4 years a 24 years ago and successfully implanted. Before we used to slowly freeze the embryo. We used to freeze them at earlier stages in development. Now we flash freeze them. We freeze them at older stages and we also use better protecttants, so this means the chances of the embryo vieferg are improved. 20 years ago the success may have been 80 . Now we can successfully thaw and implant about 99 of these embryos. Amazing where the technology has gone. The other issue is what about the hundreds of thousands of embryos that are unused by couples who undergo i. V. F. . It can be an agonizing decision for many families when the doctor says to them, what do you want to do . Do you want to thaw them and discard them, donate them to science, donate them to another family, or keep them frozen indefinitely . These snow babies, or babies in suspended animation can end up being a winwin for some families who have been struggling with infertility. Glor doctor, thanks very much. Now to some of our other stories were following in tonights evening news feed. Cardinal bernard law, the disgraced archbishop of boston, died today in rome. He was 86. Law resigned in 2002 after it was revealed he and his predecessors shifted Child Molesting priests from parish to parish without notifying parents or police. Law will be buried in rome. Pope francis will preside at the funeral mass. A race for a critical seat in a Virginia House of delegates was declared a tie. It will now come down to picking name out of a bowl. Republicans currently have a 5049 majority in virginias house. The thomas fire northwest of los angeles is now the second largest wildfire in california history. It has burned more than 272,000 acres and destroyed more than 700 homes. Last week it killed a firefighter. The fire will likely not be fully contained until next month. There is much more ahead on tonights cbs evening news. [explosion] some homeowners are using new technology to catch porch pirates pilfering your packages. What are you trying to steal . I dont want a lot for christmas it took 23 years, but a popular holiday tune has finally become a hit. 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Reporter Online Shopping and thus Home Deliveries are up 17 over last year. Ups and fedex expect to deliver more than one billion packages combined. 11 million packages were stolen last year, 74 while the homeowner was away, making porches a prime target for pillagers. Detectives in washington, county, oregon, using a baited package, traced a porch pirate two blocks from where he snatched a box. This detective showed us how it works. Our g. P. S. Tracker is in our package, so we can essentially watch from a distance as our package takes a route around the city or back to the persons home who stole it or wherever it goes. We can watch it. Reporter homeowners have taken advantage of new security technology, like this ring doorbell, to nab wouldbe thieves. Hey, what are you doing . Reporter video of this nanny who spotted a porch pirate on a ring door belle and chased her down went viral. Tacoma entrepreneur Jaireme Barrow took it one step further. 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