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 alabamd 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 gruffered a grea 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. 1 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 d 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 more have been hurt. Mark strassmann is in rosalie, alabama, where residents are learning the extent of the destruction. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. See why this community is in storm shock after the ef2 tornado came barreling through here with winds 135 miles an hour. 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 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 world. That familys house had been destroyed and they made it to the hospital and gave birth this morning. So we had 20 injured and one brandnew life. Reporter a tornado watch remains in effect across much of the southeast. Communities that want no part of 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 three more bodies in the ruins. 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 what is 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 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 s cant tell them anything 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 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 job T Corporation planned to move to mexico. Dean reynolds is there at the carrier plant in indianapolis with new information on the deal. Dean, good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, even with this agreement, carrier is still going to be shipping hundreds of jobs from this plant in indianapolis to mexico. And there are concerns about what kind of precedent this generous deal sets for other American Companies with plans to move jobs overseas. Manufacturing jobs, but also 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 empl and trump voter, he and his wife 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 will meet the record of manufacturing jobs that were created in the United States while president obama was in office. Reporter now carrier did not say whether the many government United Technology played a role. 7 of their revenue comes from federal contracts with the government and the government has not said yet whether those contracts will be nixed or changed in any way by 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. Partner Steve Mnuchin to be treasury secretary and 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 conventional. Carrier gives the president elect an economic victory in the heartland one that aides say is likely to eclipse all future spellings 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 re trade deals. We are going to have the most significant middle income tax cut since reagan. 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 on wall street corruption. When you cast that ballot, just picture a wall street board 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 campaign. Reporter senator dan coats, a former u. S. Ambassador to 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 consideration is more theoretical than serious. 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 waved signs as they marched through the streets. Scotts wife captured his final 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 in front of the Police Station behind me. At tiles, they threatened no 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 he doesnt have a gun reporter in cell phone video 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 surveillance footing of shot before the shooting pointing outline the bulge at his ankle was consistent with the shape of the ankle holster and gun 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 undercovut apartment executing a warrant for someone elses arrest. He said he noticed scott smoking 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 attorney eduardo curry represents the scott family. 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 in colombia. 71 People Killed when the plane went down in rugged terrain and six people survived the crash 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 fuel . And how might Something Like recordings said to be from on board the chapecoense soccer team charter plane reveal the planes frightening moments. Flight 2933 is in total failure, total electrical failure and out of fuel, the pilot pleads. Where is the runway . Moments later, the air Traffic Controller says the plane is still over runway. As investigators now comb the planes wreckage on the outskirts of many colombia officials are presenting one possible cause of the crash. After not finding fuel at the impact zone or in the supply lines, our hypothesis is that there was a blackout in the motors, Freddie Benito said but the brazilian foreign minister who arrived in colombia on wednesday says they do not want hypothesis forward, jose serra said. Six people, including three members of the team, were pulled alive from the wreckage. Colombian supporters held an emotional ceremony chanting and singing songs at the field where the chapeco would have played the biggest match in their history. And back in the southern brazilian city, t inside the team stadium revealed the community suffering and its pain. Now of those six survivors, one of them, a bolivian flight attendant, reportedly told a colombian roo station believes he survived by putting his bag between his legs and going into the fetal position. Unbelievable story. Thank you. T samantha good morning to you, and happy thursday. 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