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 13 tornadoes tore across alabama and louisiana 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. Suspect surrounded. 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 to light. 321 and all that matters. 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 contents 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 heavy wind brought down trees and snapped power lines and closed roads in south carolina. 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 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 home. 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 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 world. That familys house had been 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 the number of homes and 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 i left. Nothing but ashes. A complete loss. Here in the city of gatlinburg 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 flames but brought concerns of 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 b positive, but i just keep 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 mexico. Dean reynolds is there at the pao move jobs overseas. 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 memr stephanie have been bracing for 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 we are going to get this 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 questioned whether 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 billionaire investor wilbur ross 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 eclipse all future 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 t reporter at trump talker 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 filled with the special 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. Germany under president george w. Bush is considered for 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 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 moments on video. 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 peace without justice. 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 p of the september confrontation, scotts wife claimed her husband 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 recovered at the scene. 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. Marijuana in a parked suv and 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. How do you jump from an open carry state to now there is 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 including three members of the team. Josh elliott of cbsn is here 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. Hypothesis forward. Six people including three members of the team were pulled alive from the wreckage. 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Should a California Mountain good morning its 7 26, im yetta gibson. Lets get right to your traffic. 3 Salt River Police have taken two people into custody. After they tried to run from police. And rammed patrol cars. At talking stick resort. This happened it just after several people as they tried to leave the garage. An officer fired a shot at the car. The driver made it to loop 101 but the vehicle became disabled as it tried to exit at mckellips road. The man and the woman tried to run away on foot. But Police Caught up with them and took them into custody. Police investigating a report of drug activity at a west phoenix home. Say they may have uncovered a human smuggling operation. This happened at 67th avenue and mcdowell last night. Police responded to a drug found that one of the men involved was illegally in possession of a gun. They checked out the house. And found 22people inside. 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