The only cold and flu liquid gel thats maxstrength and fights mucus. Well, the wait is nearly over for star wars fans. Its the first new star wars fill nm a decade and s got a w director, j. J. Abrams. As Bill Whitaker reports, abrams is under enormous pressure to make sure the movie hits all the right notes. Reporter six weeks before the premiere, we dropped in on a hollywood scoring session for the force awakens. The composer, who won an Academy Award for the first film, was back. Along with the iconic refrain he wrote 38 years ago. Take a look behind williams. Thats not some awestruck groupie. Thats the director, j. J. Abrams. Video camera. This is momentous. John williams conducting his star wars music. As a fan, i cant believe i get to be here. Reporter abrams saw star wars when 4e6she was 11. On this day, he was racing around the sound stage. Its incredible. We may need to make the repeat those bars just because it might be a little longer before we get into the interior of the transport. Reporter i see you running around. Really . I felt so confident. Reporter this is you calm . Yeah. Reporter is it intimidating in any way . Oh, yeah. [ laughter ] its moments of just abject terror as to what were all taking on. Reporter what hes taking on is this, the force awakens. Disney is counting on him to expand the star wars fans while staying true to the original vision. And the die hard fans, their expectations are out of this world. The force, its calling to you. Reporter when the official trailer was posted online, it was viewed 112 million times in just 24 hours. Nothing can stand in our way. Talk about the force. The fans are a force to be reckoned with. Its intense. It is. Reporter its not just the fans here, it global. Its bigger than all of us. Its almost a religion for people. Reporter what grabbed you about star wars . The experience of it was so profound and so moving, and so funny and so sweet, that for me, as a kid, it blew my mind, and it was just it said anything is possible. Reporter abrams has been working on the force awakens nonstop for three years. Hes managed to keep a tight lid on it. This is one of the few clips disney has released. He told us his m mie is set about 30 years after run of the jedi, the final fill nm the first trilogy. At the end of that movie, the good guys had vanquished the empire, or so it seemed. The walkoff to the sunset is always misleading, because then what . So one of the things you see in this movie is things didnt just end happily. And that the idea of the force, the dark and the light side, are at a classic star wars plple, which is in a desperate moment. Eporter a moment which forces a new generation to step up. We cant outrun them. Reporter stepping into a new role, 23yearold newcomer daisy. Her character is rave, a desert scavenger. And john plays a disillusioned storm trooper. Your universe seems to be a more diverse place, by gender, by race. What do you think the impact of that is going to be . When we started casting the momoe, it felt incrcribly important to me that the movie look like the world in which this movie is being released. Direct the movie, he wrote it with lawrence casden, who wrote two of the original star wars with lucas. He knew from the start he would blend the new with the old, shooting in familiar far flung locales like this desert in abu dhabi. The explosions were real. Were there times when you stepped back from being the director and you were just the fan on the sese it was very hard to be in the 125 degree heat in abu dhabi with actual storm troopers running through this village we had built, and not have moments constantly of holy, what the i cant believe im here. It wasonstantly happening. I h h to suppress that and say away, because the job was not to be a wideeyed fan boy. The job was to be director of the movie. And action. Reporter as the director, he managed to cast a crew of almost a thousand. He set limits on computer generatete imagery. Most of abrams creatures, like the new droid, bb 8, were crafted by hand, including his own. We knew we had to have a hero droid that was not a familiar one. You came up with the concept by sketching it out . I drew the bummestst estmest estmest dumbest little thing. Reporter the Sketch Department made a puppet. The puppeteer came out and i was like, oh, my god, it lives. Maybe we could connect them so theyre not so different. Reporter only a handful of people have seen the finished film. One of them is abrams wife of 19 years, katie. They have three children, a Charitable Foundation she oversees, and a harry met sally rapport. I love the movie, i really love the movie. And im sort of picky and im a little, you know honest. Im honest. At the end of the day, this is a movie. This is not curing cancer or eradicating poverty. This is making a movie, right . Right . Thats what you believe, right . Im sorry, she lost me after this is just a movie. Reporter Jeffrey Jacob abrams grew up not far from the big studios. But when he took a tour of a movie back lot at age 8, he knew he had found his calling. What in particular drew you to it . I think the thing that was so cool is it felt like a magic trip. It was every aspect of illusion, of creating something that seemed like it was actually happening and real. Reporter he picked up the familys home movie camera and tried his own slight of hand. He admits his earliest works werent that good, but he got better. He won a teen Film Festival and got written up in the los angeles times. Thats him in the middle. The article caught the eye of steven spielberg. He reached out to the Young Filmmaker who reminded him of himself. You can see Bill Whitakers full report on cbsnews. Com. Right back. 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Reporter lifting off in formation, my life was in the hands of the pilot. Its okay. I had my two cofofes in the morning. Pepeect. R rorter flyingt speeds up to 565 miles an hour. At times, just ten feet apart, the seven powerful l39 albatros jets. Marshond has flown with the team for years. Air shows helped inspire you to fly . Yeah. I began to attend air show when fs a kid. Reporter with their brand, the company is spreading the word. But the president of the company says theresnother mission here. You also want them to discover aviation . Thats actually probably our number one goal. And when you see these pilots flying those planes at air shows all over the country, you inspire people. Reporter and that inspiration could prove critical. Some in the Aviation Industry are predicting a Pilot Shortage in america. So recruiting young people to the profession has been paramount. We would like aviation to flourish and be a little more popular. Reporter its estimated some 21,000 pilot also be turning 65 and face mandatory retirement from the four Major Airlines. Those jobs are often filledy military flyers or younger pilots moving up. Pursuing careers in the cockpit. In part, because of the increasing cost of education and flight time. An investment of up to 200,000 to qualify to become a commercial pilot. Cbs news aviation and safety expert captain sully sullenberg says whats really needed is raising pilot wages at regional airlines. It really doesnt make sense for entry level jobs in aviation to pay sometimes less than 20,000 a year or just over 20,000 a year when it requires a lot of training. The Major Airlines must bear some responsibility for this current situation. Reporter whats on display here is the joy of flight. Thomas, 17, and his 14yearold sister have their hearts set on becoming pilots. Is this any part of what made you want to fly . Yes. Sooz seeing them, maybe that can be me one day up there. 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Support i have a dream foundation. Help a child achieve the dream of a higher education. The dream of visiting mars could soon become a reality. Nasa is planning a manned mission to the red planet sometime in the 2030s, and the space agency has started recruiting youngsters who might want to take the trip. Jan crawford reports from the national air and space museum in washington. Reporter were inside a mod model of the discovery shuttle. If students like it, may they be able to apply. Start thing week, nasa is opening up the application process for the next generation of space travel. Going to mars, the human journey to mars is a renaissanae. I think weve captivated not just the u. S. , but the world. Eporter david newman hopop a record breaking number of qualified americans apply to nasas astronaut class of 2017. What does it take to be an astronaut . The back ground is really important. How are they as leaders . We have a rigorous applicantnt board. Theyy must t a u. S. Citizen with a bachelors degree and three years of experience or 1,000 hours piloting a jet and the physical is another hurdle. Is it a combination of highly intellectual but intensely physical . And also operational, and how you make decisions andnd work in teams. Youre making critical decisions and youre making life and death decisions in space flight. Reporter there have been 338 nasa astronauts ranging in 26 to 46. Of the 6300 who applied for the last class, only eight, f fr men, four women were chosen. Thats about a 0. 01 chance. Pilot and nasa applicant Melissa Pemberton isnt discouraged. Has a passion for travel in aviation, i cant imagine a better job than being an asasonaut. Reporter candidate also end one year training for space walks, undergoing Mission Simulations, all with a possibility of one day going to mars. It will take us about eight months to get there. Its round trip, so just under a couple years round trip and well be on the surface of mars for about 500 days searching for evidence of f life, o o past life. Reporter newman says a lot of the applicants grew up dreaming about being an astronaut. They got advanced degrees, they flew jets in the military. If you think youve got the right stuff, nasa is taking applications till february 18th. Thats the overnight t ws for this thursday. Fofosome of you the news continues. For others, check back with us later for the morning news and cbs this morning. Hung jury. The first trial of a cop in the death of freddie gray ends with no verdict. The family wants everyone to remain calm. Also tonighthtthe sale on momoy is ending as the fed raises Interest Rates. Vicious in vegas. Hes a chaos candidate. And hed be a chaos president. He has failed in this campaign. Its been a total disaster. And meet bei bei, the little giant. Reporter how often do people say to you, i w wt your job . I think everyone does all the time. This is the cbs overnight news. The family of freddie gray called for calm in baltimore after the trial of officer William Porter ended with a hung jury. Porter is the first of six cops to be tried in the death of gray, who was severely injured while in police custody. Grays death in april led to riots in the streets. Prosecutors today have not yet said whether they will try porter again. Kris van cleave is in baltimore. Reporter baltimore sheriffs deputies took k wn a demonstrator outside the courthouse. It was a tense, but largely peaceful atmosphere after seven africanamerican and five white jurors were unable to agree on any of the four charges against officer William Porter,including Second Degree assault and involuntary manslaughter. Demonstrator Archie Williams was outraged. What do you think this says about justice . I say it looks like ronald mcdonald. Its a real bad joke. Reportet freddie gray died from injuries suffered while riding in a police van. Officer porter was present at five of the six stops the van made. Porter did not buckle gray in, despite Police Department guidelines, and prosecutors alleged porter did not call for medical help. Lawyer billy murphy represents the gray family. If the familys not angry, no one else should be angry, and i think the family has a bigger stake in this than almost Reporter City officials have vowed to avoid a repeat of last springs violent protests. Today, Baltimore Mayor stephanie rawlingsblake pleaded for calm. If we believe in justice, must have respect for the outcome of the judicial process. This is our american system of justice. When do we want it . Now reporter demonstrators have gathered peacefully since this verdict came in. Scott, the other five officers charged have their hearings set for the new years. Kris van cleave on the streets of baltimore tonight. Kris, thank you. In another important story, we have reached a milestone in the recovery from the great recession. The Federal Reserve raised a key Interest Rate for the first time in years. Wall street took that as a vote of confidence in the economy and the dow rose 224 points. Heres anthony mason. Reporter the aftershocks from the financial crisis and the housing meltdown forced the fed to keep Interest Rates near zero for more than seven years, but today, janet yellen declared an end to the extraordinary era of easy money. The economic recovery has clearly come a long way, although it is not yet complete. Reporter it was back in december of 2008 that the fed slashed rates as low as they could go, the same month the economy was officially declared in recession and Bernie Madoff was arrested in a billiondollar ponzi scheme. By april of 2009, foreclosures had soared to their peak, more than 200,000 that month. And by october, unemployment was at 10 . But now monthly foreclosures are down 80 from that high, and seven years later, unemployment has been cut in half. So the fed is raising rates a quarter ofof point. And it reflects the committees confidence that the economy will continue to strengthen. Reporter future increases will be gradual, and the central bank made certain the markets saw this coming. This is the most telegraphed punch in the history of the world. Reporter max wolf is chief economist at manhattan venture partners. That being said, ththgh, its still symbolic. Its still closed, the bookend of a period. This is the most stimulation Monetary Policy has ever given to our economy, and hopefully well never need this much again. Reporter several major banks raised their prime rates immediately after the feds move, and the cost of mortgages, car loans and credit cards could begin to rise. But its good news for savers who will finallylytart to get higher returnsnsn the money theyve socked away. Scott. A long hangover from the great recession. Anthony, thanks very much. Public schools iN Los Angeles reopened today. They closed yesterday, abruptly, because of an email Terror Threat that turned out to be a hoax. 640,000 studenen were shut out. New york city received a similar threat, but dismissed it. Today, the federal government revised its system for warning americans of terrorist threats. The department of Homeland Security issued its first bulletin today. It was a statement of what is already painfully clear. Jeff pegues has more on this. Reportete todays bulletin says t country is in a new phase in the global threat environment. Law enforcement is concerned about selfradicalized individuals who could strike with little or no notice. It also warned of threats against communities based on perceived religion, ethnicity, or natatnality. The new bulletet alert was added because the other two cagories, elevated and imminent, required detailed information and were never activated. Bulletins like todays can be sent without a specific threat. Homeland security secretary jeh johnson. What we are concerned about, here in the hoholand, are copycatlike attacks, and those who are selfricalized who may be inspired to commit terrorist attacks. And regrettably, we have seen that in recent months and recent recent weeks. Reporter the massacre in San Bernardino, california, two weeks ago was one such attack. So were the julyly6 shootings that killed five people at two military locations in chatnooga, tennessee. Today, for the first time, fbi director james comey, said the shooter,