i said my deal with the devil hadn t changed anything. well, i was wrong. all those people. they would still be alive if it wasn t for me. just. just put me out of my misery. just just take me. stuart, listen to me. we ve still got 24 hours. ah. there s still hope. hope? you know what? i wish i d never listened to you. it hard enough dying. without knowing all the misery you caused to others. thanks for nothing. [ car door closes ] [ engine starts ] [ dance music playing ] excuse me? i feel totally directionally challenged. could you, like, tell me how to get to the corner of straight and narrow? go away. ooh, touchy much? get over it, morgan. it s just a game, even if you are stretching the rules. what are you talking about? like, duh. you just refused your client s request to jump-start his eternal reward. i didn t turn him down. i talked him out of it. you know, that is so like you, just giving in to your fluffy-bunny feelings for your client, except that is so not the deal. i gave you permission to offer them redemption, not force it on them. look on the bright side. this way, you get to see him squirm for another 24 hours. oh, my god, that is, like, so true. hey, are you trying to trick me? get real, morgan. you lost. i know it. your soon-to-be-ex-client knows it. everybody pretty much knows it but you, so, like, chill. go swap some bodily fluids with maya and enjoy life. bye. the photos of wei lee s killer were worthless. no one recognizes his face. we re starting to wonder if there s a reason for that. i don t know what you re talking about. maybe someone paid you to doctor the photo a little darkroom magic to protect the killer? look, i ll show you the negatives if you want to see them. i didn t do anything to those photographs. i want that guy caught as much as you do. you know, the one thing i like about the western culture is the philosophy of an eye for an eye. if i had a choice, i d kill wei lee s killer, and everything would be back in balance, but now.some other member of the born to kill will have to do. no, no, no, no, look, if you do that, you know they ll come back at you. this no longer concerns you, mr. sanderson. if you want to live a long and happy life, forget we ever spoke. look. oh, god. oh, god. excuse me, what do you think you re doing? i know you. i saw you with that supermodel. you re morgan pym. stuart had one of your cards. you know where stuart is? i have to find him. that s his private stuff. it s all right. i ve been talking to him about private matters. yeah, like what? if i told you, it wouldn t be private anymore, would it? wait a minute. is this some kind of anonymity thing? are you one of those a.a. guys? is that what this is all about? are all those people that you hang around with drunks? i used to be a priest. i still talk to people about their souls. if you care about stuart sanderson, you ll tell me where he is. just tell me this. where does he go when he s upset? this is.this is where i proposed to my wife. i was just sitting here, thinking how it was the one thing i ve done in my life that was good. and i realized that if i d never met her, she d have been someplace else that day. one thing leads to another, you know? she d still be alive. it s done. all the death, all the destruction, it s over. the only question now is what are you going to do about it? you re wrong. it s not over. it s just starting. what are you talking about? that asian kid that got killed two days ago, he was a member of a chinese gang, and his buddies, they can t find the killer, but they re using my picture as proof that a vietnamese gang was behind it. don t you see? if i d never taken the picture, they d have no idea. now they re going to start a gang war. they ll kill each other, and they ll kill bystanders, and it ll go on for years. show me the photos you re talking about. why? we still have a few hours left. if nothing else, we can try and prevent more deaths. what s the point? i ve already been over the photos. that chinese gang has been over them. nobody recognizes the killer s face. the face isn t what i m interested in. what is it exactly we re looking for? i ll tell you when i see it. blow that up. see? nothing. try the next one. there. [ sighs ] try the third one. enlarge it there. what s that? a reflection in the mirror. i think it s the killer s arm. what are those markings? could be a tattoo. most.most gang members have them. can you move in closer? i can sharpen it. flip it. what? what is it? what does it mean? it means no one s ever going to find this killer, no matter how long they look. how do you know that? because i can read chinese.
. sanderson, i didn t expect to see you again. what do you want? this tattoo was on the killer s arm. that s impossible. this is chinese. it isn t the mark of the born to kill. that s why no one recognizes him. the killer s from out of town, and his intention was to start exactly the kind of trouble you re contemplating. a gang war would only serve his interests. you know, we could kill the both of you right now, and no one would ever know. why did you come here? it was a matter of honor. well, i will speak with the born to kill, and if what you say is true, we won t avenge wei lee s death. you thought that was my redemption. it made sense. we were preventing more violence. i feel like i m missing something. maybe you re missing the truth. which is? that i deserve to go to hell. no. when you made your deal, you had good intentions. yeah, i hear the road to hell is paved with those. you didn t cause all this death and unhappiness. you didn t pull the trigger. you didn t hire the arsonist. the devil did. what s the difference? all those people still died so i could get the shot. there s no way i can bring them back to life. we accomplished something in there. that means something. we just have to figure out what. if you quit now, your wife s death was for nothing. don t you get it yet? my wife s death was always for nothing. [ grunts ] what s wrong? nothing you can fix. let me try. where [ drawer banging ] uh, she s beautiful. i m guessing she s not your sister? i m sorry. i should have known a guy like you would have somebody, and it wouldn t be somebody like me. maya. it s okay. it s okay. i mean, at least now i know why you keep pushing me away. i don t want to hurt you. too late. [ door closes ] [ dialing ] [ telephone ringing ] hello. stuart, it s morgan. i ve got it. i know what we missed. i don t want to hear this anymore. just leave me alone. no, wait. don t hang up. just hear me out. the devil chose a vietnamese form to shoot wei lee instead of a chinese one, because he knew shen au would be able to tell the difference. why would he do that? to give them a new target, okay, to start more killing. yes, but your photograph did more than give them a target. it proved to them that the vietnamese gang wanted them dead. it proved that they could never get along without killing each other. it confirmed their worst fears, and when we convinced them that they were wrong, that the photo was a lie, we undid the damage. we stopped the war. all right, you know, but i still caused all that violence, all that death. when we talked to those people yesterday, all you heard them saying was how the violence came out of nowhere. now we know why they didn t see it coming, but what you didn t hear was their hopelessness. that s the way life is. your photos show people how rough it is out here in the real world. why do things like this always happen to people like us? that s what your photos did. they preserved those moments of pain and death so expertly that they overwhelmed people, confirmed their worst fears about the world. the devil killed their families. that s the damage he did, but you killed their hope. now you ve got to give it back. morgan, look, those pictures were published in the paper, right? thousands, hundreds of thousands of people saw them. how am i supposed to make up for that? i m not sure, but we still have a little time left to figure it out. maybe the star could publish your old photos from before your deal, show people that there s happiness and beauty in the world, too. whatever the answer is, i m betting your redemption is in those pictures. call jeri slate. talk to her about it. i ll be there in five minutes, and this time, we ll get it right. all right. [ gunshot ] mr. leclaire? it was you, wasn t it? i just happened to be driving by. isn t that what you said? well, i got to thinking after you came to see me. i did a little research. well, it seems like you re always just driving by or walking by or standing right there when something s going to happen. it s not what you think. oh, isn t it? well, what exactly do i think, anyway? do i think you get tipped off before something bad happens so you can get there and just get your shot? or do i think you re some kind of sick scumbag who sets these things up yourself? which is it? put the gun down, mr. leclaire. killing me s not going to make anything better. they ll just they ll just put you away. why do i care about that? i ve got nothing to live for. everybody i loved died because you had to get your damn pictures. i m sorry. you ve got to believe me, i am so sorry, and i would make it up to you if i could. try. please, please. mr. leclaire, we have to go. i ve got nowhere to go. i should have died like this a long time ago. all right, man, we ll talk about it. outside, okay? if all we have left is the past, there s no hope for either one of us. no, no! [ thud ] [ coughing ] why didn t you just let me die? i ve already got enough to answer for. you and me, we both lost what mattered most, but there s more to this world than pain, roy. there s beauty. there s goodness, hope. we can make a future out of that if we try, roy. or anyway, you can. roy, promise me you ll try, roy, please. promise me you ll try. the photographs are all gone. negatives, too. so i guess that s it. what does that mean? it means i was wrong about the photos. you found your own redemption. it s hope. and you have to come back. the place is dull without you, and all the pictures are out of focus. maybe i will.someday. there are a few things, though, i have to do first. errands? no. no more errands. wow. i haven t seen you do work like this in a long time. yeah. all the people i ve photographed, i need to see them again, you know, talk to them, take some new pictures. it might take a while, but.i ll be back. gabe, whatcha doing, tiger? come on, hon, we re going to take a picture. 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world s attention today was focused on a horrific tragedy in brazil, the death toll tonight at least 230 after a fast-moving fire broke out in a crowded nightclub. officials say too many people and too few exits turned the club into a death trap after a rock band s pyrotechnics apparently ignited the ceiling. many patrons were left unable to get out, overwhelmed by the smoke, and in some cases, the flames themselves much the circumstances are eerily similar to some other deadly nightclub fires the past several years, including one in this country. today s tragedy happened in the southern brazilen university town of santa maria. nbc s mike taibbi reports. reporter: the kiss nightclub was packed with the usual saturday night crowd when at 2:00 in the morning, a disaster. the ground floor was filled with smoke. club security initially blocked several emergency exits, thinking patrons were leaving without paying and that left only a few ways out. in the ensuing panic, many victims were trampled, others died of smoke inhalation. witnesses told police the fire was sparked by a pyrotechnics show on stage, according to nick ravenskroft of itv news. the stunt on stage with the flare made the ceiling catch fire. reporter: whatever the precise cause, the fire spread incredibly quickly as the crowd struggled to find ways to safety. some clubgoers who did make it out, joined firemen and onlookers in their attempts to open new escape routes using sledge hammers and axes, but it was too late for many inside. does of victims were carried to arising ambulances, if they survived. santa maria s major trauma hospital was quickly overwhelmed. translator: the injured are scattered around the hospital. those waiting for news outside are desperate. reporter: they were desperate, too, outside the club, as more and more bodies of those who hadn t survived were laid on the ground. the numbers of the dead rose so quickly that the city morgue ran out of room. the bodies of scores of victims were brought, instead, to a local gymnasium. eat merging details of this disaster, a packed club, too few escape route and a fire triggered by on-stage pyrotechnics brought to mind several other similar nightclub tragedies. there was a 2003 inferno in west warwick, rhode island s, station nightclub that claimed 100 victims much the 2004 blaze in ba when knows aires with 200 victims. but as brazil s president consoled relatives of the victims here, her country, soon to host the world cup and the olympics, remains in shock at one of its worst modern tragedies. mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. now to the middle east, an angry egyptian president took to the air waves tonight to announce tough new measures aimed at ending the violence that has claimed at least 50 lifts the last three days. the violent protests in cairo and several other industries been the biggest challenge yet toz mohamed morsi s government. let s go to cairo for the latest. reporter: it is mohamed morsi s biggest test as president of this country. on one hand, an increasing security vacuum across the country, on the other, a political crisis with the country s political parties. tonight, in an address to the nation, he delivered a strong warping. even burying the dead in egypt is now deadly. today in port sayyid, a day after 37 people were killed in protests, thousands walked to mourn them. the grief and prayer turned into fear and chaos. this amateur video, which we couldn t independently ver, if i reportsedly shows the moment the clashes with police turned deadly. meantime, as thousands mourned in port said, others fought in cairo, alexandria and suez. tonight, the country s embattled president, mohamed morsi, addressed the nation, declaring a state of emergency and imposing a curfew in the cities with the worst fighting. the country s powerful military is back on the street guarding government buildings recently attacked by protesters. and the military wants more power. today, the military requested the right to arrest civilians who break the law, this general said. two years ago, egypt s street full of optimism and hope as united people toppled a dictator. today, stifling tear gas and plumes of smoke filled the air of a divided country. egypt s police are struggling to cope with the protesters. they, too, have suffered losses and are angry. when the country s interior minister came today to pay his respects to fallen policemen, he was hackled by grieving colleagues and their families. and as it has for the past three days, night fall brought more violence. tonight, outside a luxury five-star cairo hotel. with a predictable-like precision, police charged the crowd, firing tear gas but minutes later, protesters returned, lobbing stones and setting fires to block roads. there are few words president morsi can say to calm these protesters. this man tells me that the president must resign and a new constitution must be written. another says only protests work with a regime that kills its people. president mohamed morsi has invited members of the leading opposition political forces tomorrow for emergency talks on the way out. many people are hoping there will be a breakthrough that could end the four days of deadly violence that have engulfed the country. thank you. in this country, the weather remains a big concern for many people in the midwest, where a deep freeze is bringing snow, sleet and freezing rain. the weather channel s mike seidel is in davenport, iowa, tonight with the latest. mike, good evening to you. reporter: good evening, lester. it was an icy day across many part its of the midwest. the hardest hit areas were the roads and the airports. at chicago s o hare, just over 200 flights have been canceled so far, but despite the ice, there wasn t a lot of it there wasn t many power outables. tonight, the temperatures on the way up that will change the freezing rain to rain in chicago in chicago and many areas, like it has here. monday, the snow, sleet and ice will head to the northeast during the day you reaching boston by late afternoon. any snow totals will be on the light side. but for millions that have been in the ice box, the jetstream is our friend. southwest winds from texas to the great lakes will produce a huge warmup. we could see our first 90-degree day in the lower 48 this year in deep south texas. temperatures elsewhere more than 20 to 25 degrees above average. subzero windchills will be replaced by highs in the 40s and 50s on monday. and by tuesday, d.c. cracks 60 and atlanta pushes 70. but many of us will get another shot of frigid air following this fall and that cold front will have lots of wind energy that will help to fire up some big thunderstorms, possibly severe, from houston and dallas to little rock and st. louis on tuesday. there could be some tornadoes but more than likely, quite a bit of straight line wind damage. and then after that, the bottom falls out on temperatures. for example, lester, chicago will drop 45 degrees between tuesday and thursday. so enjoy the thaw while you can. back to you. all right, we will take what we can. mike seidel, thanks. national transportation safety board tonight says further examination of batteries on boeing s new 787 has yet to point to the cause of the january 7th fire on board a japan air lines jet at boston s logan airport. that fire followed days later by a smoking battery aboard another 787 in japan led to a worldwide grounding of the revolutionary new planes. lack of progress in both investigations has raised concerns the planes will remain grounded indefinitely. in washington, the battles over guns and immigration reform are taking center stage this week, as president obama pushes his second term agenda. nbc s peter alexander is at the white house and has more on that. hi, peter. reporter: lester, good evening to you. the president isn t wasting in i time in his second term, tackling two of his top priorities. specifically on immigration, one democratic senator said measures formerly off the table are now back up for discussion. barely a week into his second term, president obama is preparing to dive into the contentious issue of immigration, with a major speech set for las vegas tuesday. the president is expected to push for improving border security you expanding the system for employers to verify their workers a legal status and perhaps most controversially, creating a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. we can t go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. we are committed to a comprehensive approach to finally in this country have an immigration law that we can live with. reporter: a bipartisan group of six seine stores planning to unveil its immigration reform proposals this week. last november, president obama won more than 70% of the latino vote, a new political reality forcing some republicans to reconsider their past opposition. first of all, americans support it in poll after poll. secondly, latino voters expect t third, the democrats want it and fourth, republicans need it. reporter: senator marco rubio in a nevada newspaper today insisted illegal immigrants must earn their new citizenship. we can t round up millions of people and deport them but we also can t fix our broken immigration system if we provide incentives for people to come here illegally. also front and center, the battle over guns. president obama telling the new republic magazine that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes. asked if he has ever fired a gun, mr. obama said, up at camp david we do skeet shooting all the time, like jfk used to years ago. on meet the press, former vice presidential candidate paul ryan referred to last month s newtown tragedy as a watershed moment. it s our worst nightmare, something like this happening. let s go beyond just this debate and make sure we get deeper. what s our policy on mental illness? what s going on in our culture that produces this kind of thing? reporter: and for its part, congress will hold its first hearing on gun violence, lester, this wednesday. one other note, by the way, about the president s interview with the new republic, one one week before the super bowl, the president weighing in on football, if he had a son, we have to think long and hard before letting him play to the game, referring to the violence in the sport. peter, thank you. still in washington, the education department is taking action to make sure disabled school children are not shut out from school sports programs. nbc s chief education correspondent rehema ellis has that story. reporter: it was a big week for 13-year-old owen grosser. get in there. reporter: sinking not one but two three-pointers the first time he stepped out onto the court this season. owen, an eighth grader, has down syndrome. disabled students like him already have the right to participate in school sports but this week, the department of education released new guidelines on how to incorporate those students onto teams, something some cash-strapped schools have struggled with. we have needed more cooperation, more guidelines from the top. and we believe this is going to lead to some standardization and certainly more opportunity for these families and kids. reporter: some of the doe s suggestions are simple, a visual cue for hearing-impaired student who wants to run track, the elimination of the two-hand touch rule in swimming so a student with one arm can compete. but the recommendations also state when existing school programs cannot accommodate those with disabilities, the school district should create additional opportunities for those students, meaning, a new team. although some liken it to title ix, the department of education cautions against that comparison, saying these are guidelines, not a mandate. schools will not be required to dismantel an existing team because they don t have enough disabled students to field a comparable team. we have been age to create one or two teams per school district, you re not going to find enough students in one school to necessarily start a team. push. push for the basket. reporter: adam mcwork, an eighth grader, has cerebral palsy, he lives outside atlanta, an area that has been successfully mainstreaming disabled students in sports for years. yes, sir. he used a walker to get around with and we didn t think that sports was something that he could do at all. reporter: now, he stands like every proud dad on the sidelines. my son scored his first goal in the final game, so excited about that the gym was so loud. we d good time. shoot it, baby. reporter: something more families across the country may soon experience. oh, yeah. reporter: rehema ellis you nbc news, new york. when nightly news continues on this sunday, your money and the fees that merchants can now charge when you pay by credit card. later, the 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(blowing sound) ask your doctor about spiriva. finally tonight, the senate is expected to vote tomorrow on the $51 billion sandy aid package. and almost three months after that devastating storm, the stories of loss and hardship are still being told. but there is also this story, the reunion of a group of women whose lives were up-ended by sandy and how they were brought back together. here s nbc s michelle franzen. reporter: annie hezlin makes tea in her temporary apartment in brooklyn and sorts through some of her photos, some some of the only possessions she has left after losing her breezy point home in superstorm sandy. with he an imagined to survive and we are very grateful for that and that is the thing we have to remember, that lives are more important than things. reporter: the storm devastated the close-knit community and forced residents to relocate. including members of annie s social group, the golden age club. the women used to meet every tuesday at st. thomas more church, still under repair from flood damage. this weekend, annie and dozens of golden age members boarded a bus. hi, rose. reporter: first time they were able to see each other in three months. wonderful reunion. it s greet see every ebb and everybody looks good. reporter: their destination, manhattan s nightingale been aford, an all-girls school, where the women prin is righted to share their stories, an exchange between generations. and this one house slipped with the wind right over the walk and into the other house. reporter: that included emotional stories of survival. but the water was coming down from the walls. it was coming into the windows. reporter: lorraine larson says talking with students and reuniting with her friends helped her realize she s not alone. all in the same boat, we re all hurting. we all are longing to be back home. reporter: students say the gathering is a reminder of the challenges sandy victims still face. talking to them, we found out that they still are suffering a lot of the loss. reporter: despite their loss, these golden girls are still singing. i m gonna let it shine reporter: and certainly, their best days are still ahead. michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. that s nbc nightly news for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i m lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. . you re watching nbc sports. in for the touchdown! championship over. a stanley cup for los angeles. shaun white, boy does he deliver! the mercedes-benz superdome in new orleans, a week from tonight, the 2012 nfl season will conclude with the unique matchup in super bowl xlvii. the afc champion baltimore ravens led by head coach john harbaugh will meet the nfc champion san francisco 49ers led by head coach jim harbaugh. in a brother versus brother championship game. it s time to celebrate! the ravens are going back to the super bowl! the san francisco 49ers, super bowl bound! now we kick off super bowl week from honolulu, hawaii where many of the league best players have been gathering more than
had to be rescued. the federal government is looking into a series of fatal shootings by philadelphia police. elaine quijano tells us the investigation was requested by the police commissioner. i take this very, very seriously. good girl! reporter: and chip reid with s with dogs learning to be an even better friend to man. it would be accurate to say that these dogs save sflooifs absolutely. i believe they do. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. o donnell: good evening, scott is on assignment, i m norah o donnell. hundreds of people in southern california have been chased out of their homes by a wild fire is growing larger by the minute. the fire 90 miles east of los angeles covers more than 15 square miles. fire officials estimate 15 structures have been destroyed, 600 homes are in the fire s path 1,500 people have been forced to evacuate. at least five people have been injured, including four firefighters. ben tracy is on the scene. ben? reporter: norah, firefighters told us the most active part of this fire right now is right here. here s what s fueling it: vegetation all up and down these hillsides that s dried out from drought. 1,000 firefighters are now battling this blaze both on the ground and in the air. it s what they call a dirty burn meaning the fire burns sporadically because of the winds. so today crews were cutting out what the fire did not burn and doubting what it did to prevent flare-ups. before dawn we saw these backfires set by firefighters to burn out brush on the hillsides and create larger containment lines. firefighter gordon o neil. it turns to black, which won t burn anymore, it widens that line out. and it removes the fuel that s available to burn. reporter: you re fighting the fire with fire. the fire started wednesday afternoon fueled by steady winds and bone-dry brush that hadn t burned in seven years. it exploded from 300 acres to 5,000 acres in about three hours. it then doubled in size overnight, scorching 10,000 acres and more than a dozen struck qhurs. oh, there it goes. we didn t think it was coming this way then instantedly whole mountain caught on fire. i couldn t get my briefcase. reporter: andy and melinda schraeder said they had no time to escape. the fire burned upmost of their yard and burned their rr. they hosed down the roof and managed to save their house and horses. you were basically surrounded by fire. we were, we couldn t get out. reporter: what did it feel like? i thought i was going to die. i got a handkerchief to put around my face. i kept inhaling smoke. it was really hot. i thought we were going to die out here. reporter: those four fighters injured have been released from the hospital but we re told there s another unidentified person who is badly burned. firefighters in the next couple of hours are going to contain as much of this fire as they can because, as you can tell, the winds are starting to pick up. o donnell: ben, thank you. and flames in the west and flooding in the nation s mid-section. a storm front has stalled, dumping rain on five states. in tennessee, some folks climbed on to their roofs to escape the rising water. at least two people have drown in missouri, their cars swept away by floodwaters. one was a four-year-old boy and they re still looking for his mother. lindsey graham gramson of our cbs affiliate is in jerome, missouri. how significant is the damage? floods have ripped through the southwestern region of the state. the four-year-old boy was trapped in his mother s car as waters rushed in. authorities continue to search for the boy s mother. this area has seen as much as 15 inches of rain in the last two days alone. the t river here in jerome crested at 32 feet, its highest level ever recorded. up to 40 homes have been completely flooded. we spoke with residents who had to evacuate their homes. not knowing, i think, is probably the hardest part because you know how to react or which way to start when you know what you re dealing with and when you don t know what you re dealing with. just depressed. there ain t nothing you can do, so you just sit there and watch it getting wet. that s all you can do. reporter: a flash flood warning is still in effect as heavy rains are expected through friday night. o donnell: lindsay, thank you. that worldwide alert for a possible al qaeda terror attack remains in effect for the rest of the month and 19 u.s. embassy and consulates are closed as a precaution, at least until the weekend. the focus of the threat is yemen. the u.s. carried out three more drone strikes today, taking out 12 suspected terrorists. there have been eight drone attacks in the past two weeks, killing more than 30. bob orr is in washington, he s our homeland security correspondent and, bob, what s behind this uptick in these drone strikes just today? reporter: well, norah, i think we can say the surge we re seeing in drone strikes is clearly aimed at trying to disrupt any potential attack plans about dplaep yemen. the u.s. here is sending a pretty clear psychological message that the drones are on constant patrol, scouting for targets. it s interesting to note there have only been 12 drone strikes in yemen all year up until july 27, but that was about the time that u.s. intelligence overheard al qaeda leaders plotting imminent attacks and then everything changed. we ve now seen five drone strikes in just the last three days. by the way, it s also interesting, all the militants who have been killed have been hit while riding in small groups inside vehicles. o donnell: so what do we know about who is being targeted by the drone strikes? sources tell us most of those who who have been killed so far were terrorist foot soldiers, four were described as mid-level group leaders. but the drones haven t found two of the targets that they re looking for, the leader of a.q.a.p. and the master bomb mayber, ibrahim al asiri. sources say it does reduce the group s manpower and forces the other terrorists to keep an eye on the skies. if they re focused on trying to survive intelligence analysts say the terrorists can not effectively plot. norah? o donnell: at the fort hood massacre trial the judge refused to allow the attorneys advising major hasan to take over his defense so hasan continued to act as his own attorney in the case in which he s charged with murdering 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 32 others. anna werner is at fort hood, texas. anna? reporter: norah, for many of the witnesses here this is the first time they re confronting the man accused of trying to kill them. witnesses described chaos as the gunman walked through the building leaving blood and bodies in his wake. specialist meagan martinez described watching a soldier sitting near her get shot as the gunman showed no emotion. it was just a cold, calculated heart stare at us and he was just shooting everything that moved, she testified. when a captain got up and charged him she said he was shot at close range. major hasan took note bus mostly looked forward impassively. he is in a wheelchair, paralyzed by bullets fired at him by fort hood security. staff sergeant michael davis testified at first he thought the shooting was a drill, then, he said i heard a young lady screaming my baby, my baby, my baby. it was the pregnant private francesca valez, she died that day. davis himself was shot in the back trying to escape the only time hasan objected today was when another witness described hearing that pregnant woman beg for her life and then herring hasan allegedly shoot her. o donnell: an, that thank you. turning now to the economy, the labor department says 333,000 americans joined the line for unemployment benefits last week. that s 5,000 more than the week before. and rising home prices are helping folks who have been drowning in debt in the second quarter of this year. 26% of american homeowners owed more than their mortgages than their homes were worth. that s down from 29% a year earlier. danielle nottingham is with the a chicago couple struggling to keep their home. reporter: connie and vance brown planned to spend the rest of their lives in this chicago condo they bought 14 years ago. do you think you will have to leave this place? i don t want to leave and he doesn t want to leave. reporter: but they may not have a choice. they stopped making mortgage payments two years ago soon after they lost their full-time jobs. connie found part-time work counseling troubled teens and vance, who s a computer tech, has only been able to find a job as a dishwasher. what do you do now? hoping and praying that i get some work and hoping and praying that my husband will get a better job and hoping and praying we get back up on our feet. reporter: a six-month grace period they arranged with their lender is over. foreclosure is likely. they say they can t leave chicago to find better jobs because they owe $50,000 more than their condo is worth. it s called being underwater. there are more than 7 31,000 homeowners in chicago in the same situation. that s more than any other u.s. city. rising home prices have helped reduce the number of underwater homeowners nationwide by 1.5 million, but the percentage of those underwater in the hardest-hit markets remains high. 55% in las vegas, 49% in orlando. full recovery depends on people like the browns landing new jobs. we were middle-class, you know? and we were proud of it because we worked our way up for that. reporter: do you have somewhere to go? we have nowhere to go at all. nowhere to go. only thing i know the places that we would be going is out on the street. reporter: a new york federal reserve study found homeowners underwater are a third less likely to move and, norah, the more debt they owe, the greater the chances they won t leave. o donnell: danielle, thank you. there were three winning tickets in last night s powerball drawing for a jackpot that topped out at $448 million. two were sold in new jersey. those winners have not come forward. the third was hold in minnesota to paul white. he s 45 and works for an electrical contractor. white called the experience surreal. i feel this pressure off my shoulders that you carry everyday with you. i have two kids. am i going to be able to pay for them to go to college? am i going to be able to take care of them if they have health issues? all these things, gone. o donnell: that check he s holding reads $149 million but after taxes he will take a lump sum of just about $58 million. and a teenager dies after being tasered by the police in miami beach. bill clinton and oprah winfrey are about to get a very prestigious award. and the national zoo welcomes tiger twins when the cbs evening news continues. i stepped on the machine, and it showed me the pressure points on my feet and exactly where i needed more support. i had tired, achy feet. until i got my number. my dr. scholl s custom fit orthotics number. now i m a believer. you ll be a believer, too. learn where to find your number at drscholls.com. 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[ male announcer ] centrum. the most studied. the most recommended. and the most preferred multivitamin brand. the choice is clear. o donnell: the state of florida and the city of miami breach investigating the death of an 18-year-old graffiti artist who collapsed and died after the police shocked him with a taser. they had caught him spray painting a restaurant early i tuesday morning. the police say he ran and ignored orders to stop. the miami beach police chief says officers were forced to taser him to avoid a physical incident. in philadelphia, the federal government is looking into a series of fatal shootings by the police. what s surprising is who requested the review. here s elaine quijano. reporter: the confrontation that led to michael berry s death on a philadelphia sidewalk last summer was captured on surveillance video. berry, seen here leaning through a car window, had just stabbed a man he d gotten into a fistfight with moments earlier. when plain-clothed officers from the philadelphia police department arrived, one officer fired seven shots, killing berry. the philadelphia district attorney s office said the shooting was justified. police commissioner charles ramsey. i take this very, very seriously. there s nothing more serious that an officer can do than take another life, shoot another individual. reporter: the case is one of 125 police-involved shootings in philadelphia that have taken police since 2011. 37 people have died and, in some neighborhoods, anger has boiled over, as it did in may when officers shot seven people in one week. four died. after may s deadly police shootings, commissioner ramsey took the extraordinary step of asking the justice department to examine his department s use of force. what is your sense of the public s perception of the philadelphia police department when it comes to the use of force? there are parts of our city that think that i m taking a step that s not necessary. there are members of other communities primarily minority communities that think that perhaps there s too much police presence and that perhaps we are a little too heavy-handed. reporter: concerns are limited to philadelphia. the justice department has examined police shootings in a number of cities including las vegas and spokane, washington. and last month in miami the civil rights division of the justice department found three of 33 police-involved shootings were unjustified. commissioner ramsey is confident that all his officer shootings were justified. some people would argue, though, that by asking for this review it s undermining the authority of the officers who are out there and second guessing what it is that they ve done? i think our job is to second guess. i think our job is to review. our job is to evaluate. and that s what we have to do. reporter: since he became commissioner 2008, seven officers have died four were shot to death. their pictures hang on his wall. i look at this as much as an officer s safety effort as i do anything else. making sure the officers tactics are such that they can keep themselves safe when they encounter these very dangerous people. reporter: the justice department review is expected to take a year and a half. commissioner ramsey says he plans to implement whatever recommendations are made. elaine quijano, cbs news, philadelphia. o donnell: in a moment, we ll remember one of the biggest movie stars of the 70s, karen black. hearing that phrase. i used to love but not since i learned i have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture. i want to keep acting but a broken bone could change that. so my doctor and i chose prolia® to reduce my risk of fractures. prolia® is proven to help make bones stronger. i take prolia®. it s different- it s two shots a year. do not take prolia® if you are pregnant, are allergic to it or if you take xgeva® ..prolia® can cause serious side effects, including low blood calcium levels, serious infections, some of which may require hospitalization. .and skin inflammation, rash and eczema. tell your doctor if you develop dental problems ..as severe jaw bone problems may happen, or if you develop new or unusual pain in your hip, groin or thigh, as unusual thigh bone fractures have occurred. what s out there matters to me.. .so does what s in here. break a leg! they re about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains so dentures are cleaner, fresher, and brighter. 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well this particular piece of luggage has some explosives in it. reporter: zane roberts is the lead trainer at m.s.a. security, a private company that trains bomb-sniffing dogs. the the demand for these dogs is tremendous. reporter: since boston in sflar since boston in particular. reporter: since the boston marathon bombings business has increased about 30% at m.s.a.. they have nearly 200 dog teams at locations across the nation and expect to have 25 more by the end of the year. the trainers are all former members of the military or law enforcement. they protect everything from financial institutions to professional baseball games. the presence of an explosive detection canine does make people feel safe. it s a great deterrent effect for people who want to bomb a location. they see dog, they ll want to go someplace else. reporter: the pentagon spent six years and $19 billion researching high-tech bomb detection systems but concluded that the best bomb detector is still a dog. if you took a machine and tried to search that luggage as fast as i could search it with one dog i d beat you ever time. reporter: roberts has taught mary, a three-year-old lab, to detect a wide variety of bomb-making materials. good girl! reporter: most of the doogs here failed at becoming guide dogs because they were too energetic or too easily distracted by smells. that s what makes them ideal for detecting explosives. labs in particular have a strong food drive, which is why food reward training works so well. basic training takes about 12 weeks. what a good girl! reporter: rockets says when the dogs graduate from this one-room schoolhouse he s always sad to see them go. what is the bond like between the handler and his dog? makes you smile right off the bat. absolutely. i often can t remember the handler s name but i never forget the dog s name. reporter: he ll soon have to learn new names because important jobs are waiting for all of these good dogs. chip reid, cbs news, windsor, connecticut. o donnell: good dogs, indeed. that s the cbs evening news for tonight. for scott pelley, i m norah o donnell. thanks for watching. see you tomorrow bright and early on cbs this morning. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org cook. your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good evening, i m allen martin. i m elizabeth cook. tonight, the search for sandra coke is growing more desperate. the federal investigator from oakland has been missing since sunday. mike sugerman says her family and friends are reaching out to the public for help and offering a big reward. mike. reporter: liz, you re right. this tells you a lot about sandra coke and the case. $100,000 reward. where s that money coming from? from her friends s pockets. they just got together and gave what they could and the search continues. for anyone reporter: tanya coke is desperate to get her sister back. my sister is an incredibly devoted mother, sister, friend and coworker, which is why there are so many people here today. reporter: two dozen people in fact from around the country to help search for sandra coke, now armed with a reward for information, $100,000. we are remaining optimistic that she is being held someplace against her will but is safe and that she will be returned to us. reporter: 50-year-old sandra coke who investigates death penalty cases and helps defend them left her home sunday night about 7 p.m. she went to the drugstore to get something for her 15-year- old daughter. but that s the last time anyone saw or has heard from her. the only reason she would have not come home right away with something from the drugstore that i can think of is that someone called about ginny, her lost dog. reporter: her dog s been missing for months and she has had some people calling her about it. sometimes demanding money before they gave information. she once spent $1,000 without getting the dog back. $100,000 we regard? that was privately raised mostly by the many friends of sandra coke for the $100,000 reward. they are head coaching the money and the plea by her sister tanya will motivate someone who knows something. we all are just desperate to see her returned home safely. and so we are again asking anybody with information about my
schieffer: tonight, planning for a u.s. military strike against syria. as the death toll rises, the pentagon makes preparations for action, but will the president give the go-ahead? david martin that has story. the fastest-growing wildfire in the country now covers 165 square miles and it is just entered yosemite national park. theresa garcia is on the scene. something is killing dolphins along the east coast. terrell brown has the latest on the search for clues. and on the road, steve hartman catches motorists smiling in a no-smiling zone. never so happy to get a ticket in my life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. schieffer: good evening, scott s off tonight, i m bob schieffer. cbs news has learned that the pentagon is making the initial preparations for a cruise missile attack on syrian government forces. we say initial preparations because such an attack won t happen unless and until the president gives the green light, and it was clear during an interview on cnn today he is not there yet. if the u.s. goes in and attacks another country without a u.n. mandate and without clear evidence that can be presented then there are questions in terms of whether international law supports it, do we have the coalition to make it work, and those are considerations that we had to take into account. schieffer: the attack on the damascus suburbs which left hundreds dead this week is looking more and more like a poison gas was used. the united states warned syria months ago that using chemical weapons could provoke a u.s. response. two reports tonight, first david martin is at the pentagon. david? reporter: bob, president obama s national security advisor has just sent out a tweet calling what happened in syria an apparent chemical weapons attack. and the commander of u.s. forces in the mediterranean has ordered navy warships to move closer to syria to be ready for a possible cruise missile strike. launching cruise missiles from the sea would not risk any american lives. it would be a punitive strike designed not to topple syrian dictator bashar al-assad but to convince him he cannot get away the w using chemical weapons. joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey is expected to present options for a strike at a white house meeting on saturday. potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to fire chemical weapons. however, officials stress president obama, who until now has steadfastly resisted calls for military interventions, has not made a decision. u.s. intelligence detected activity at known syrian chemical weapons sites in the days before the attack. at the time, that did not appear out of the ordinary. but now it is part of the circumstantial evidence pointing toward an attack. the clearest evidence would come from a team of u.n. exports already in damascus to investigate earlier smaller-scale incidents involving suspected chemical weapons. so far, they have not been allowed into the field, but with pictures providing graphic evidence of mass casualties, even russia, long one of the assad regime s staunchest backers, is calling for a u.n. investigation. whatever an investigation finds, president obama will also have to consider what he would doll next if he ordered a strike and syria continued to use chemical weapons. schieffer: thanks, dave. new photos out of syria today make it even harder to conclude that the attacks were anything but a poison gas attack. holly williams talked to her sources there today and we warn you, the pictures in her report are difficult to watch. reporter: two days after the attack, more disturbing video has emerged of the aftermath. they are horrific scenes that show the dead and the dying. many of them children. this young boy describes struggling to breathe and then losing consciousness. when he woke up in hospital, he said, he could no longer see. it s impossible to verify how many people died, but in this crowded makeshift morgue, so many of the bodies were unidentified they were numbered. doctor ghazwan bwidany is caring for survivors of the attack at a clinic damascus. today we spoke with him over the internet. he told us his mobile medical unit treated 900 people, 70 of whom died. reporter: dr. bwidany told us some of the survivors have neurological problems such as memory loss and confusion that he believes could only be caused by a nerve agent. if this wasn t a chemical attack what could it have been? reporter: we talked with a spokesman for the syrian opposition today who told us he is angry and frustrated with the international community. he believes that if the u.s. had delivered the arms it promised the opposition two months ago this deadly attack might not have happened. schieffer: holly williams. thanks, holly. at fort hood, texas, today, a military injury convicted major nidal hasan of the massacre that left 13 soldiers dead and more than 30 others wounded. the murder verdict was unanimous which means hasan could get the death penalty. anna werner is at fort hood. reporter: major nidal hasan looked up at the jury foreman as she read out the decision. the jury voted unanimously that he was guilty on 13 counts of pre-meditated murder and also guilty of 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. over 13 days, prosecutors laid out a detailed case to convince the jury that hasan came to believe he had a jihad duty to kill soldiers and then carried out a plan to do just that. they showed evidence hasan trained for months at a shooting then hid two guns and 420 rounds of ammunition in his army fatigues then went to a medical building where members of his own unit were prepareing to deploy. witnesses told of a scene of terror and chaos as hasan opened fire on a group of 45 unarmed soldiers. they listened as a pregnant soldier private francesca velez begged for mercy saying my baby, my baby before she was shot and killed. hasan, who is representing himself, admitted i am the shooter in his opening statements. he did not testify or call any witnesses and made no chrarg. howard ray rescued soldiers at the scene that day. he wants hasan to get the death penalty. what we re talking about is assessing a punishment on someone that had total disregard for the lives of 13 men and women that day. total disregard. reporter: the judge admonished those seated in the courtroom including about a dozen victims relatives not to display emotion when the verdict was read but, bob, as we were leaving the courtroom i saw tears in the eyes of a couple of those relatives. they ve been waiting four years for this verdict. schieffer: all right, well, thank you, anna. to egypt now. a week ago today tens of thousands of supporters of the muslim brotherhood who opposed military rule filled the streets. a thousand died in the crackdown that followed. today, the muslim brotherhood called for a return to the streets but it didn t happen. our charlie d agata is in cairo. what did happen, charlie? reporter: well, today, bob, we saw just how dramatically the military has weakened the muslim brotherhood here. just after friday prayers, we saw a group gathering outside a mosque, maybe a hundred or so people and almost immediately they were outnumber bid local residents who support the military and forced them to move on. this is typical of the kind of demonstration wes saw here and elsewhere, the small protests that never really got going. there s a huge military presence here, tanks and barbed wire have choked off most of the main squares. it is clear the military has the upper hand at least for now. schieffer: all right. thank you so much, charlie. 40-year-old army sergeant robert bales will spend the rest of his life in prison. a military jury in washington state sentenced him today to life without parole for shooting 16 afghan civilians to death last year, most of them women and children. he pleaded guilty in june to avoid the death penalty. bales apologized for his actions but never tried to explain them. in san diego, the fate of mayor bob filner, accused of sexually harassing more than a dozen women, is still up in the air. ben tracy covering this one. ben? reporter: bob, the san diego city council is still in closed session right now. they re debating whether or not to approve this deal they made with mayor filner that includes his resignation. they re hoping to quickly end what has become san diego s civic nightmare. i bob filner reporter: when bob filner took office nearly nine months ago he was the first democrat elected mayor in san diego in 20 years. the 70-year-old promised to help the homeless and bring jobs to the city. it s going to be a time of change for san diego. reporter: now even some of his strongest supporters admit filner ended up giving their stay black eye. 18 different women accused him of sexual harassment, including at least one city employee. at the council meeting this afternoon people from san diego announced support and anger. we re not fooled. we know this is a circus to get a good man out of office. reporter: julie adams. i came down here to let you know how determined our voters are debt-to-get this predator out of this building. reporter: many urged the city council not to pay off filner in exchange for his resignation. we re looking for a way out to get back to the business of the city and the public. reporter: city council president todd gloria will become the acting mayor. he says negotiating filner and covering his legal costs is a necessary evil. what do you say to the citizens of san diego who say he shouldn t get anything? what i know that each day that passes that this man is mayor more bad thing happening to our city, fewer businesses are coming to san diego and our national reputation continues to be drug through the mud. reporter: we re told if this deal does go through, filner s resignation won t be immediate. apparently it was important to him during the negotiations, bob we re told he ll likely leave office next week. sheaf seif all right, thank you, ben. that huge wildfire in northern california spread into yosemite national park today. here s how it looks from space. the fire grew overnight from 99 square miles to more than 165, making it the fastest-growing of the dozens of western wildfires. the smoke has spread more than 100 miles from what s called the rim fire. teresa garcia is on the scene. reporter: the fire is threatening more than 4,500 structures. about half are in pine mountain lake. that s where we found ken cannobio. he was pumping water out of his swimming pool to spray around his house. just trying to wet it down, get it as moist as possible. that s the main thing as far as if the flames get up here to put them out. reporter: cannobio has already packed a car for a quick getaway. more than a thousand people who live around him are already gone. there s a comfort zone i have that and it s pretty much down a few hundred yards. so it s looking like we re not going to have to leave right now but things can change. reporter: so your comfort zone changes when you see what? (laughs) red! reporter: more than 2,000 firefighters are battling the fire. bruce and his team work to clear brush and put out hot spots. it s holding right now so it s looking pretty good. the wind s in our favor. it s unreal. reporter: but air drops of water and flame retardant are the only ways to outflank a fire that now ranks among the 20 worst california has ever seen. it is an incredible sight to behold as the smoke from the fire has claimed eight miles into the sky and, bob, evacuation orders have also just been issued for two more towns. schieffer: all right, thanks, teresa. steve ballmer, the c.e.o. of microsoft, announced today he ll retire some time in the next year. ballmer, who is 57, succeeded bill gates in 2000. they met 40 years ago at harvard. under ballmer microsoft has struggled to compete with apple and google. colorado gets a hailstorm in the dog days of summer. and why are dolphins dying along the east coast? when the cbs evening news continues. 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no idea. reporter: until the captain told him, elton didn t know he had such a record let alone how he got it. it s how i do it everyday. reporter: so we trailed him to figure out how he does it. first thing i noticed that he has this pitch perfect mix of authority i need you to take care of that. and diplomacy. i don t want to keep pulling you over. reporter: with none of the attitude that sometimes comes with a cop. sorry! that s okay. just be careful. i m here, i m not up here. i hate to be looked down on it. can t stand it. i won t look down on you. reporter: that s why in luf a lecture he gives most people the benefit of the doubt. it happens. reporter: they still get the ticket, just not the guilt trip. the drivers seem to appreciate that. so much so that by the end some are down right smitten. that s a smile he s got a great smile. reporter: you re giggling now you just got a ticket. he s a nice guy! i mean how can you be mad at that guy? reporter: apparently you can t. disarming. reporter: time after time, ticket after ticket. never so happy to get a ticket in my life. reporter: we saw elton simmons melt away a polar icecap of preconception. and his boss says there s a lesson in there for hard-nosed traffic cops everywhere. their excuse is i give tickets all day long, i m going to get complaints. well, that s not true. there s a way. there is a way to do it and elton simmons is the way. reporter: certainly no complaints here. steve hartman, on the road in los angeles. schieffer: and that is the news. sunday on face the nation, we ll talk about the 50th anniversary of the march on washington with former secretary of state colin powell, georgia congressman john lewis and newark mayor cory booker. scott will be back here on monday. i m bob schieffer in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
t it? [chris] ever try to. [tom] quit?of course! my best time was six days. the worst was .uh.23.4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you. [chris & tom] why are you still smoking? [tom] [sarcastic] it s so much fun. [chris]why not call the smokers helpline? the program s free,and. [tom]and they ll tell me. you oughta quit. [chris] not so. just tell them you re ready to quit. then,they ll tell you how. [tom] really? you wouldn t have that number on you,would you? now we head north to intchester for the manor larchmont. the waterfront estate is surrounded by the open waters of the long island sound. as he will see, the home s interior is definitely beautiful. hi. we are here on this beautiful day in larchmont, new york, overlooking the harbor. i am the architect that designed the reconstruction of this 1950 s home. there s a lot to show you, so let s get started. at we deliberately.ouse the simplicity of the portico belies the magnificence of the rest of the home. once inside the front door, the first thing you see is this amazing beer. this this amazing view. this writer waterfront estate is surrounded with 270 great views of larchmont harbor and long island sound. leads us toairwell a calm and comfortable sanctuary. fireplaceis the big surrounded by really cozy chairs. it s a great place to get some work done or have a friendly conversation. is complemented by this grand living room. it is surrounded by water on three sides and it s really about bringing the outside in. to that extent we designed the room to resemble the bridge of the ship. a lot of this is 20th century modern and the wall paneling details are found throughout the first floor. in the dining room, it seats up to 16 people and is great for formal dinner parties or holiday gatherings. this leads right into the kitchen. this is truly the heart of the home. we deliberately placed the island in the middle so the cook could participate in everything going on in the rest of the room. the counter tops that look like black leather are actually black granite. into theen flows family room. we designed the space knowing this is where our clients are truly going to live, whether it is cooking, doing homework, reading, hanging out on the couch, watching a movie. watching the sunrise, watching the sunset. there is nothing nicer than falling asleep in a room like this to the sound of waves. was to capture these terrific views and calm surroundings. crown moldinge and the use of the ceiling. the best thing about this bedroom suite is the balcony. it overlooks the grounds, but look at this harbor. speaking of which, let s take a look out back. where everything happens. whether you are walking along the water s edge or throwing a frisbee on this great big lawn or having a cup of tea on the dock, this backyard truly has everything. menk you so much for letting show you this beautiful state in larchmont. but now, if you will excuse me, i am going to go enjoy the rest of this beautiful day. coming up, a designer creates a mom s sanctuary in just one day.
welcome back to open house. an artare headed to collector s dream home in pasadena. this is state features one of the asked restaurant style kitchens i have ever seen. this house will fit any buyer s needs. hi. . am gary gold i am the executive vice president of built-in is states. welcome to this example of contemporary craftsman in pasadena, california. this is ideal for art collectors with unbelievable art walls. the house is also ideal for entertaining. we have this beautiful living room. . dedicated area then we have this gorgeous formal dining room. it also opens up to this inner courtyard. when i say this home is an entertainer s dream, i was not kidding. check out the kitchen. you have a grill for burgers and dogs. .ou have a hard-core wok green how you make beans and 30 seconds. there is the deep fryer. this is the more refined side of the kitchen. you got stainless steel subzeros. you have all stainless steel cabinets and it is blended with the wood cabinets on the uppers which pull it all together and beautiful cedar countertops. adjacent to the kitchen, you have this informal family room with more note one of three informal kitchen stops in the house. this is a nice place to grab a nosh, watch some tv, hang out. bedroom just feels right. first a ball you have these windows that open up to the gorgeous backyard. you have vaulted ceilings. you have this bright, cheery, really cool bedroom. the master bath has dual vanities. extra makeup area. walk-in closet. just beautifully elegant, just right. not over the top. this backyard whether you are hanging out during the day or entertaining at night is awesome. you have this expansive seating area. you have a beautiful spot. huge pool. basketball court. placesre just different to lie out here, sit, hang out. as a really cool entertaining area. thanks for joining me on this tour of this incredible pasadena contemporary sound out and i will see you soon. sabo coming up after the break, a designer s mission to find a mom a sanctuary in just one day. welcome back. she is on a mission to give a busy mom in long island her own peaceful space. but can she create a mom s sanctuary in just one day? well, let s find out. hi, i m courtney. we are in new jersey at my client s home. is going to be designed to be a mom s sanctuary. she has a busy husband and 4 yes, for children. she needs a space all her own. my name is sonia. my husband and i are parents of four children. house, moved into this he got his office and the children to go over every room with their games, their toys. i just need somewhere of my own where i can read a book or relax and have quiet time to myself. we are about to get started transforming this room. but first, let s look at what we are working with. over here we have what was probably a really nice television about 15 years ago. we have a sofa that was also probably part of another home or era. we have a beautiful piano that i know a lot of family members use. over here, a football a with very little people. and over here at pinball machine. first of all, we need to clear out everything. let s get started. bye-bye. daughter s legos. there is pain and then there is stepping on a lego pain. changing an old lamp can make a huge difference for little money. and this will catch all the light in the room. this is amazing. i am going to take some pictures now. i am going to put them in different frames. is allthis, because this four of your children together. sonia has this amazing patio and it would be crazy not to utilize it in some way. you can t treat it like an extension of the room. my favorite feature about this room is it has tons of light. you would be crazy to book and their treatments on these. if you are lucky to have floor to ceiling windows, let them lock. no window treatments. right, we are done. i think it looks amazing. i love it. i hope that some you does. we will break it down show you how we did it. i started with one really good piece some of which is what i recommend for any room. in this case, it was the couch. which added an old rug gave it a big pop of color and a touch of modern aesthetic. i wanted to add a little bit of light and a lot of drama. so i went for these egg, bold, and hanging mirrors. of theflect all beautiful trees outside each window. something really easy and affordable these overlays. i love them. they come in a bunch of different shapes and sizes. they look really cute. least certainly not we have the outdoor area. not only does she have a cute seating area, but there is a fire element. it looks amazing. i think it better get her now and show her what i did. wait for it. and open your eyes. oh, my goodness. [laughter] i can t believe this is the same room. the couch! it looks different. it looks like a grown-up room. and it continues. ,ou can enjoy your backyard spend time with your family see the kids. we all fit on your new catch. do you kids love it? all: yes. it is perfect. thank you so much. you are very welcome. i think i could use a space like that. what room in your house would you want to revamp? join our facebook family and let us know. if you missed something on today s show or want to see these fabulous homes again, head toopenhousetv.com. thanks for stopping in. i am sara go [chris]still smoking up a storm? [tom]yeah.pathetic,isn t it? [chris] ever try to. [tom] quit?of course! my best time was six days. the worst was .uh.23.4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you. [chris & tom] why are you still smoking? [tom] [sarcastic] it s so much fun. [chris]why not call the smokers helpline? the program s free,and. [tom]and they ll tell me. you oughta quit. [chris] not so. just tell them you re ready to quit. then,they ll tell you how. [tom] really? you wouldn t have that number on you,would you? good evening from south africa. president obama will begin making his way here to south africa tomorrow. to attend tuesday s public memorial service for nelson mandela. for three days now, south africans have been honoring and celebrating the man who helped unlock racist suppression and led his nation into democracy. it was a day of prayer and reflection. richard engel is also in johannesburg tonight and has this report. reporter: south africans let the holy spirit overwhelm them. they came to pray here because nelson mandela prayed here. fire master tom was growing up. mandela was in prison. they met only after he walk free. he was a friend. is he blood and flesh like us? because he was so good. reporter: for many here, mandela was more than just a prisoner turned president. he taught a lesson. we must always be humble, kind, and we huft love each other. the love that is everybody. reporter: even the u.s. ambassador got into the spirit singing kumbaya. it was incredibly powerful. if that singing did not stir your spirit reporter: this is a very special church. there were race riots here. black residents ran and took shelter in the building. they were chased down by police. it has now become a symbol of defiance against apartheid. and the symbols of joy we saw here were around the country. there were services of many faiths but one unifying message. we are greatful for his courage and dignity in adversity. and for his mighty power of forgiveness. forgiveness. reporter: at churches nationwide, they prayed for two men who forgave the sins of others. as he closes his eyes, we begin to believe that now we have someone who cares so much for us, who will open our eyes going forward together with the saints. reporter: in africa today, they remember mandela and it seems, began to elevate a sanlt. now to developing news back home. much of the eastern half of the country getting hit by dangerous snow and ice. we get latest from weather channel meteorologist psych seidel. reporter: the win storm barreled into the northeast on sunday with heavy snow and sleet. temperatures were as much as 20 degrees below average. in wisconsin today, a series of crashes on the state s snow-covered highways. at least one person dead and a dozen more injured. some critically. on this stretch of i-94, first responders arrive to the scene of a major pileup that shut down the interstate. there is probably in excess of seven semis and 30 plus vehicles. reporter: in texas, the brutal cold has left up to an inch of dangerous ice on the road. made it about 10 miles and three hours. and by that time, they shut down 35 and we got, we pulled off here and we ve been stuck here ever since. reporter: also stuck on the side of the highway. a report he from our dallas affiliate kxas. take a look at this. you re looking at about a dozen semis stuck in the road, all over the road. it is absolutely impassable. reporter: travel by air wasn t any easier. more than 2,000 flights canceled today. a quarter flying through the dallas airport where more than 3,000 passengers spent the night. they canceled me again today. i m like, wow, i m trying to see what i can do to get back home. reporter: utility company are scrambling to restore power to more than 100,000 customers still sitting in the dark and warning that tree limbs and lines weighted down by the ice could continue to cause new outages for several days. in baltimore, icy conditions as the vikings/ravens game. they have to clear the vikings. reporter: take a look at lincoln financial field in philadelphia where the eagles/lions game was played in heavy snow. this is wild. reporter: creating a whiteout conditions that hid the gridiron from view. while football fans choose to tough it out today, officials are asking people to stay off the roads for the next few days during one of virginia officials say could be an historic ice event. freezing rain will continue to be an issue. at least until sunrise tomorrow morning west of washington. meanwhile around new york city, an inch or two of wet snow. by monday morning s rush hour, temperature climb to about 40. lester? thanks. we re back in a moment with nelson mandela s impact on young people in america. michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it s a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn t get into business to spend time managing receipts, that s why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase. so you can. 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