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WNCN CBS Overnight News October 17, 2016

Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. With 22 days to go until election. Cbs news checked in with voters in 13 key states that will likely decide the race. Our new Battleground Tracker poll Shows Hillary clinton has widened her lead among women in those states. While donald trump has lost the vote of some republican women. Overall, republican vot trump despite his recent problems. Errol barnett takes us through the numbers with our elections director Anthony Salvanto in washington. Anthony whats changed in the 13 battleground states in the last few weeks . Across the states which will decide the election Hillary Clinton jumped out to a sixpoint lead. Tied last month. Whats driving this errol, is a big shift among women voters. She was up 5 points among women lead. Thats a significant change. And, we could be headed for what might be the largest gender gap we have ever seen. Why . This is following what was said by donald trump in the tapes that were released . Trdonald trump lost support among republican women as well. Ge goes beyond a bit. 70 of voters feel now that donald trump does not respect women. What could be trouble for him Going Forward ar are precisely the kind of voters that he needs now to start winning. Because of this some Republican Leaders have distanced themselves from trump. How do the voters see that . Republican rankandfile would like the party to get behind donald trump. 7 in ten say they should get behind him. Very few want them to push back against donald trump. This is a narrative we have seen actually throughout the year. Where Republican Voters are, secretary clinton still faces challenges of her own with the lingering email controversy. How is that resonating . Voters say the contents of those emails have made them feel like Hillary Clinton says, Different Things in private than she says in public. And part of that is wrapped up in her low numbers on telling the truth that those continue to be very low numbers for her. The final president ial debate is wednesday. How likely is anyones minds . Most people watch the debate rooting for favorite candidate. Like a sporting event. Where people have a favorite team. A quarter voters Say Something in the debate may change their mind. But it has to be big. 73 say the will not change mare minds. Our cbs News Elections director. Thank you for break it down. Thank you. Elaine. Thank you to our Elections Team in washington. Of course there will be more than Hillary Clinton and donald trump on the ballots. California, nevada, and maine will decide on stricter gun measures including widened background checks for gun purchases. Julianna goldman has more on this. Reporter after Mass Shootings in newtown. The amendment is not agreed to. Reporter san bernardino. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter and orlando. The motion is not agreed to. Reporter University Background checks have failed in congress. But it could be a whole different story in maine. Where voters will see a very ballots in november. David trayhan runs maine Gun Rights Organization and opposes the measure. I could be charged with a felony and lose my right to own firearms from letting a friend borrow a firearm. Already admitting defeat in part because he cant compete ainlio control group founded by mike bloomberg. Bloombergs group raised 3. 7 million this year. While bloomberg declined an interview. He said this to face the nation in 2014. The vast prepond rans of the public does not want criminals, minors or people with psychiatric problems to be able to buy guns. Polls show overwhelming majorities of americans support expanding background checks. So in some states a Ballot Initiative allows voters to decide instead of lawmakers who fear the nra. David farmer, a gun runs the bloomberg supported group of in maine. Haw ought power still really does remain with the voters. If they want change you can make it happen. Tin 2014 thats what happened in washington state. Where the background check is Ne Initiative won. Bloombergs group spent 10 million compared to the nra 489,000. Sources from gun rights groups, the reason the nra didnt spend more they knew they were going we are going to be a truly david vs. Goliath fight here. The suburbs of northern new jersey just miles from new york city, are black bear country. This past week there was a controversial bow and arrow bear hunt which appears to have taken the life of a well known bear, nicknamed peddles for its upright pedestrian walk. Jamie yuckas reports. Pedals, the black bear an internet sensation. Seen here, wandering almost human like through northern new jersey neighborhoods. He had injuries to his paws. Wildlife experts believe he spent very little time on all fours. That is a bipedal bear. Reporter pedals often captured on camera. Animal rights activists say a more violent shot ended his life. One with a beaow and arrow. During last weeks black bear hunt. Its horrible. Reporter chris fox often saw searching for food. Never got into trouble. Or never harmed anybody. You have this idiot who tracked him. To hunt him. Kill him. Reporter people expressed their outrage on a face book page dedicated to pedals. Debbie mitchell writes this is cruel. Hunting a handicapped bear people enjoyed seeing. What is wrong with people . Some are making Death Threats against who ever may have killed the bear. A hunter has not been Officials Say they may never be able to make a positive identification on the bear, believed to be pedals. Because the he had never been tagged by the agency. A petition to stop the new jersey black bear hunt had more than 25,000 signatures. The first legal bow and arrow bear hunt in new jersey in four decade. By the end of the hunt saturday. More than 430 bears were killed. Elaine, there will be another the cbs overnight news will be right back. Embarrassed by a prostate exam . Imagine how your doctor feels. As a urologist, i have performed 9,421 and a half prostate exams. So why do i do it . Because i get paid. Und. On this side of the glove i know prostate exams can save lives. So, if you are a man over 50, talk to you doctor to see if a prostate exam is right for you. Over the weekend the death toll from Hurricane Matthew climbed to at least 50 people in the southeast. More than North Carolina where most drowned in cars that were submerged by floods. Remnants of a typhoon hit the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Tornados touched down in oregon friday. And as another round of storms blew in saturday night, four casters were expecting Hurricane Force winds topping 80 miles an hour. Turns out the storms didnt have that much punch. But they still did plenty of Strong Enough to topple trees and power lines. Leaving tens of thousand without power. And a big mess to clean up. When the fast moving storm hit seattle it turned the pugen sound wind gusts, 40 and 50 miles an hour. But this is the Pacific Northwest. Even this storm did not stop people from coming out to take a look. Heidi van was riding out the storm in singular style. What are you doing out here, why are you not at home . We wanted to come out and do some storm watching. You are definitely watching the storm. It is hitting you in the face. Yes, it is. Very salty. Reporter this massive storm system, fueled by the remnants of a powerful pacific typhoon. Could have been much worse. It weakened unexpectedly and tracked west, sparing seattle local meteorologists are taking some heat on social media for overif heing the storm. But if it is your house and the tree ends up on you probably think this storm was powerful enough. Elaine. Been trac ben tracy. Thank you. Coming up next. The hurricane in haiti. A reporters notebook from the disaster area. . . Is he gone . . 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Secretarygeneral ban ki moon visited haiti. There were clashes ahead of his arrival. Haitians are frustrated aid has been slow to arrive since the storm hit more than a week ago. Vladamir duthier shows us the misery the hurricane left behind. Reporter we spent the last week in haiti covering the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. Almost seven years ago, i was here. Less than 24 hours after this nation was rocked by an earthquake in 2010. I have been back several times since. Always because of a tragedy. This time was no different. The capital portauprince was spared. Towns on the islands Southern Coast like jeremy were leveled. Wasnt hard to see why so many homes were wiped out. And so many were killed. All the roofs of the folks in the countryside are made of tin. And there is no way that tin is going to sustain in the face of 145 mile an hour wind. They have been sleeping outdoors. She told me they have nothing left. They didnt have anything. They didnt have water. They dont have food. She has three children. They live through the storm, now she wonders if they will survive the aftermath. Thats bread fruit all they have to eat right now. Everybody is giving their names. And i think that they feel by giving me their names, we wont forget them. The next day, we took a helicopter to portaupima from the air looked like it was hit by a bomb. The people here are absoly they dont have a house. They dont have clothes. They cant find food to eat. They have problems with everything. Reporter a lot of people were killed in this community when the tin roofs sliced open peoples necks. Now the big fear is cholera. The last outbreak killed 10,000. Jeff Daniel Aguire doctors without borders. Over seven years ago i was here. This is where tens of thousand of quake victim were unceremoniously buried in mass grades. On this sacred, Hallowed Ground there is an overrned port portaport portportapotties. It break is my heart. Everybody should be ashamed. As we were leaving. We met some kids sitting on the sun baked rocky soil. He wants to be a doctor. Theyre full of hope. I would lookike to share in the hope. But i have been back here too many times. Vladamir duthier, cbs news. Tremendous reporting there by vladamir. Still ahead. Archaeological remains of can a toothpaste do everything well . This clean was like pow it added this other level of clean to it. My teeth are glowing. They are so white. 6x whitening i actually really like the 2 steps. Step 1, cleans. Step 2, whitens. Every time i used this together, it felt like leaving the dentist office. Crest hd. 6x cleaning , 6x whitening i would switch to crest hd over what i was using before. war drums beating fight heartburn fast. With tums chewy delights. The mouthwatering soft chew that goes to work in seconds to conquer heartburn fast. Tum tum tum tum. Chewy delights. Only from tums. . Music . Extraordinary starts here. New ky intense. A stimulating gel that takes her pleasure to new heights. Explosions, thundered across aleppo this morning as the sun rose in syrias largest city. Today, u. S. Secretary of state john kerry met with european allies in london for a new diplomatic push tosomehow stop the war at least Coalition Troops backed by the u. S. Military, are gathering outside of the city of moul preparing for an all out assault. Isis held the city for two years. The battle to retake mosul could be a turning point in the fight against isis. In italy ancient monuments and artifacts destroyed by isis in iraq and syria were rising from reporter a humanheaded bull destroyeden iraq along with this temple ceiling lost in syria among the monuments reimagined reconstructed and put on display in rome. This is exactly as we would have seen it before isis destroyed it. Absolutely. It doesnt exist anymore. Reporter romes former mayor was the driving force behind an effort to research and rebuild monuments destroyed three italian firms took on the project. To make lifesized replicas in plastic stone and plaster, using pictures and documents collected from iraq and syria. We want to demonstrate the reconstruction and the scientific terms of reference is necessary and possible. You can reconstruct but you but, we can accept the last word is the word of terrorists. Displayed in the rome coliseum. A fitting place, he says. Because it its also a place of triumph and traj deetz. Reporter what did you think when they came to you with the idea . Translator it is a wonderful thing, ivano told us. He owns a company that caters to movie sets not museums. He showed us the high tech three d printer to build the base of the recreation of the archives of ebla destroyed in syria. And, how they recreated tablets in plaster. Working from copies. Is there greater responsibility to make sure you get this right . People are looking at this as a piece of history . Thats true. This is not cinema. Acknowledged this is a huge responsibility. There are art historians purists say you shouldnt be doing this. We dont want to repeat what happened in afghanistan. In afghanistan, in 2001, the taliban destroyed buddhist statues from the 6th century. And 15 years later, it is still a big hole in a mountain. Is fighting back against those who tried to destroy it. Seth doane, cbs news, rome. Up next, the Amazing Technology that allowed a paralyzed man to feel the finally, president obama had an unforgettable handshake in pittsburgh when he met with a pioneer on the frontiers of medicine and technology. Dr. Jon lapook has reporter when president obama shook this robotic hand, 30yearold nathan e co pechlt eland could feel the firm grip as if it was his own hand. Copeland is paralyzed from the chest down after a car accident in 2004 injured his spinal cord. Lots of things are hard. Regaining ability to do things can really change someone any last year, four electrodes were implanted in copelands brain two in motor cortex, two where feeling in the hand is processed. This is the first time shes devices have been implanted in the brain to try to generate these sensations. Biomedical engineer robert gaunt part of the research team. When we delivered the tiny pulses of electricity we can stimulate these neurons. And from the perspective of the neurons they dont whether theyre being active because your hand is being touched or if we make them become active using these little devices. Here we go again. Reporter in this experiment, reported in science translational medicine gaunt presses on a finger sending signals to electrodes in the brain. As neurons fire, copeland feels pressure and can distinguish between individual fingers. Index. Pressure. One that is kind of tingly. The first couple times, you know its, really cool. He is also working with researchers to hone ability to move the robotic arm just by thinking. He says thats kind of cool too. Everybody fully grasp what is going on here. Reporter president obama was clearly impressed. And in exchanging a fus bump. Both men could feel a sense of history. York. Thats the overnight news for this monday. For some of you the news continues. Check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new with 22 days to go until the election. Cbs news checked in with voters in 13 key states that will likely decide the race. Donald trump has lost the vote of some republican women. Overall, Republican Voters want Party Leaders to stand be trump despite his recent problems. Errol barnett takes us through the numbers with our elections director Anthony Salvanto in washington. Decide the election Hillary Clinton jumped out to a g shift among women voters. A she was up 5 points among women last month. Now she is out to a 15 point lead. Thats a significant change. And, we could be headed for what might be the largest gender gap we have ever seen. Why . This is following what was said by donald trump in the tapes that were released . Donald trump lost support among republican women as well. Goes beyond a bit. 70 of voters feel now that donald trump does not respect women. What could be trouble for him Going Forward are, these moderate and republican women nning. Needs now to start voters because of this some Republican Leaders have distanced themselves from trump. How do the voters see that . Republican rankandfile would like the party to get behind donald trump. 7 in ten say they should get this is a narrative we have seen actually throughout the year. Where Republican Voters are, dont care very much what their Party Leadership has to say. Secretary clinton still faces challenges of her own with the lingering email controversy. How is that resonating . Voters say the contents of those emails have made them feel like Hillary Clinton says,

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