A thousand families going into christmas with a new sense of hope and optimism is a pretty good present from president elect trump. Trump set for a victory lap after saving over a thousand american jobs. When you start doing this, other people are going to say, im not sure i want a call from the president of the United States. I think they do want a call from the president of the United States. 13 tornadoes tore across alabama and mississippi. We picked this up. Went through a wall. Death toll rising in tennessee. Seven people have been killed in the wildfires. Scorching parts of the great smoky mountains. Just blew here like a torch, you know . Protesters marching in North Carolina after prosecutors said a Police Officer would not face charges for the shooting death of a black man. In tacoma, washington, police shot and killed a barricaded we sauvered greuffered a gre doing our best to not have anyone else injured. A pilot that crashed the plane in colombia told air Traffic Controllers he ran out of fuel during the final minutes of the flight. In connecticut, Police Officers coming to the rescue of a man trapped inside a burning car. Get out lets go all that. . Baby its cold outside . One of the most iconic holiday traditions in the big apple and thousands watching the Rockefeller Christmas tree come to light. 321 yesterday, president elect donald trump had his third top secret intelligence briefing. Yeah. If youd like to know the details, just check out trumps twitter feed. On cbs this morning. Donald trump is Still Deciding who to put in his cabinet so, yesterday, he sat down to dinner with mitch romney. The billionaire of the people ordered soup with sauteed frog legs i thought he said he was going to drain the swamp, not eat its announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places . Welcome to cbs this morning. Charlie rose is on assignment. Anthony mason is with us. Good morning. Good to have you here. We begin with the Severe Weather that slammed the carolinas overnight. It is the latest in a series of violent storms ripping through the south. Heavy wind brought down trees andpp this dramatic time lapse video shows the storm moving through the atlanta area and video captured several water spouts that touched down off northwest florida. Tornadoes hit mississippi and tennessee and alabama and louisiana. Five people are dead and dozen more have been hurt. 20 buildings, including a B Baptist Church and Shopping Plaza in rubble like this. So much to be done, i dont know where to start. Reporter Connor Hughes like many in Jackson County has returned to what is left of he is struggling to scrape up the essentials of life. Im just trying to get bowls and stuff to get something to drink. Reporter hundreds of structures were leveled and thousands of people are without power. Jim smith lost his business when the twister hit. My business is gone. No big deal. Ill get it all together and restart. Its coming right at us. Look at this. Reporter you can see the path of destruction and ruin. The Severe Weather system began here in northeast alabama, blew into tennessee and georgia, and 100 miles north in tennessee, the town of athens is recovering from extensive property damage. We are extremely fortunate that we have not had a fatality at this point. I think that is something that we are very blessed to be able to say, considering the massive amount of damage. Reporter the countys mayor became emotional, sharing the story of a family who escaped the worst. And one of our hardest hit areas, a new child came into the worl destroyed and they made it to the hospital and gave birth this morning. Rosalies misery. Mark strassmann, thanks. Search and rescue crews are looking for more possible victims of the devastating tennessee wildfires. The death toll rose to seven yesterday after the discovery of three more bodies in the ruins. Businesses burned jumped dramatically. Official say the fire was likely human caused. Demarco morgan is in pigeon forge, tennessee, with the difficult wait for thousands of displaced residents. Reporter good morning. Local Officials Say more than 700 structures and homes and businesses like the ones we are standing in right now, have been destroyed. Look at this fireplace still standing. If you look down here youll see remnants of the home of what is left. Nothing but ashes. A complete loss. Here in the and also in places like pigeon forge and severe county. They hope to announce when people are able to return to see if they have a home left. We know families are frustrated because they cant get back in and visit their properties. Reporter the severe county mayor says crews are desperately working to make sure the gatl gatlinburg region is safe before they allow people back into their neighborhoods. Recent rains helped tame the possible mudslides. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing, but as of wednesday afternoon, the Gatlinburg Police chief said only a fraction of the homes in the city had been checked. Id say we have been to 30 or less so far. Reporter 85yearold reverend ed taylor is moving the missing. His neighbor says she found his dog abandoned when she went to check on him and doesnt know what to tell his family. I feel so helpless because i cant tell them anything telling them to keep the faith and the hope. Reporter the local officials are working with the state to process unemployment and insurance claims of people who lost their homes and businesses and jobs because of the fire. Ive always believed that Charity Begins at home. Reporter severe county native bdoll by parton announce the launch of my people fund to parton pledged a thousand dollars a month to help the victims until they get back on their feet and fema funds are rolling in and they have approved a grant to mobilize resources. Thank you, demarco. President elect donald trump is turning to the midwest to hold a victory tour and visit indianapolis, a factory that was saved by a deal he helped negotiate. The agreement saves more than a thousand jobs that Carrier Corporation planned to move to mexico. Dean reynolds is the panies with plans to move jobs overseas. The deal covers not only engineering and headquartered staff and make new investment in the facility here making sure is remains a world class furnace factory. In return the company will receive incentives in the millions of dollars. Such a huge relief. I was worried if i had to take a lower paying job i may have to sell my house to get a more affordable home in a different area. Reporter paul is a 17year carrier employee, a union member and trump voter, he and his wife stepe the worse. Are you going to go see mr. Trump . Yes. I hope to have maybe enough time to maybe talk to him so i can thank him personally for saving my job. Reporter according to Fortune Magazine donald trump called carriers Ceo Greg Hayes and promised reduction in indiana reportedly sweetened the deal with about 700,000 dollars in yearly tax incentives. Economy rolling again and america standing tall in the world of prosperity. Reporter carrier told employees in february it was shuddering the plant. I want to be clear. This is strictly a business decision. Reporter in a statement, the company said this agreement in no way diminishes our belief in the benefits of free trade and that the forces of globalization will continue to require solutions for the longterm competitiveness of the u. S. The white house welcomed the news but saving jobs one factory at a time is effective. If he is successful in doing that 804 more times, then he this agreement. Thank you very much, dean. All of the people care about there is they get to keep their jobs. Whatever it takes to do that. Thank you, dean. As a candidate, mr. Trump was quick to criticize wall street but that is where he found two key figures for his economic team. He chose former Goldman Sachs partner Steve Mnuchin to be treasury secretary and billionaire investor w for commerce secretary. The appointment raises questions about mr. Trumps economic agenda above and beyond helping manufacturers. Major garrett is covering the transition for us and joins bus the latest. Reporter good morning. Lets talk about carrier, for a second. The economic grease behind that deal is pretty conventional. Promises of tax cuts and possibly contracts. But the timing and the political benefits are hardly conventional. Carrier gives the president elect an economic victory in the heartland one that aides say is likely to about his cabinet picks and the commerce secretary nominated so far. Vice president elect mike pence and Reince Priebus met with Republican Leaders on capitol hill on wednesday vowing to cut business taxes and reduce federal regulations and rewrite trade deals. We are going to have the most significant middle income tax cut since reagan. Reporter at trumpr yesterday, Steve Mnuchin, a financier previewed their economic plans. The tax plan has both the Corporate Access efforts to it and loring u. S. Tax to make the u. S. Companies the most competitive in the world. Reporter wilbur ross for commerce signals a turning away from candidate trumps attacks on wall street corruption. When you cast that ballot, interests who have been bleeding your country and your city and every place else. Im not going to let wall street get away with murder. Wall street has caused tremendous problems for us. Reporter mr. Trump is signaling he will keep his problems to main street with the agreement with carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in the United States. Someone who is not even yet president of the United States is able to negotiate something that was a major issue in the campaign. Reporter senator dan coats, a former u. S. Ambassador to director of national intelligence. And james mattis the frontrunner for secretary of defense. Mattis retired only three years ago and congress would need to waive a law forbidding any retire general from leading the pentagon within seven years of retirement. Sarah palin has been mentioned as a possible secretary of Veterans Affairs or interior. Sources tell us that consideration is more washington congresswoman kathy mcmorrisrogers is a likely candidate for interior secretary. Major garrett, thanks. Protests broke out overnight in charlotte, North Carolina, after the decision not to charge the Police Officer who shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott. At least four people were arrested. Dozens of protesters chanted and waved signs as they marched through the streets. Scotts wife captured his final moments on the District Attorney says scott had a gun and officer brently vincent acted in selfdefense in the september shooting. Jericka duncan is in charlotte, outside of police headquarters, where the protest ended with reaction from scotts family. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The scott family said that they were profoundly disappointed by the decision. Now they did call for peace yesterday. Last night, protesters gathered in front of the Police Station behind me. At tiles, they threatened no its my opinion that officer vincent acted lawfully when he shot mr. Scott. Reporter charlotte District AttorneyAndrew Murray said he and 15 top prosecutors unanimously agreed that officer brently vincents use of deadly force against Keith Lamont Scott was justified. He doesnt have a gun reporter in cell phone video of the september confrontation, was unarmed. No gun. Reporter you didnt see any gun . No gun. Reporter in october, scott told gayle king she stood by her observation. Reporter they say there was an ankle holster on your husband. Never seen it a day in my life. Reporter on wednesday, murray said he wanted to correct misinformation and showed surveillance footing of shot before the shooting pointing outline the bulge at his ankle was consistent with the shape of mr. Scotts dna was found on the slide and grip of the gun. Reporter murray said videos released by police do not show a gun in scotts hand when he got out of his car. But he says the videos do show scotts pant leg pulled up above where police said they recovered the ankle holster. Officer vincent was working undercover outside of scotts apartment executing a warrant for someone elses arrest. He said he noticed scott smoking marijuana in a parked s risking a blown cover, he ignored it. That all changed when officer vincent saw mr. Scott holding up a semiautomatic handgun as he sat in his vehicle. Drop the gun reporter investigators say scott disregarded at least ten commands by officers to drop the gun. Vincent spoke to investigators the next day. Attorney eduardo curry represents the scott family. Eminent danger and, therefore, force should be used . Reporter attorneys for the scott family say they will continue to investigate the case and look into a civil suit. Gayle . Thank you very much, jericka duncan. New cockpit audio raises troubling questions about a jet carrying a Brazilian Soccer Team in colombia. 71 People Killed when the plane went down in rugged terrain and six people survived the crash including three members of the with how the recordings show the plane was running out of fuel and suffering from electrical problems. Reporter good morning. As aviation officials do continue their investigation into this crash, they are now trying to answer questions, such as why was the plane so low on says they do not want to speculate. Were not going to put any one hypothesis forward. Members of the team were pulled alive from the wreckage. They chanted and sang on the field where they would have played their biggest match in history. The faces of those inside the team stadium reveal the community suffering and its pain. 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So today officers will stop drivers along the south corridor of i25 and who violate the move over law that says drivers must pass in the furtherest lane to the left if emergency vehicles are on the side of the road. The campaign is in response to the death of csp trooper cody i25 investigating a crash last friday. Funeral services are taking place tomorrow. Lets get out to the roads and check on the other road issues out there. Good morning. I dont want to jinx anything, so i want to say we dont have any accidents onhighway. Heres the drive, in the northbound direction its loading up. Weve seen quite a few brake lights and youll see the accordion action where the brake lights move stacks up. Couple of side street trouble spots. Earlier stall out of the way, westbound i70 at washington, excuse me, wadsworth. Along i70 this is an accident to the north of i70, so not ,, good morning, its cold outside. Teens and 20s in the denver area. Single digit and teens in the showers in the . 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