fema seeking bids to provide meals to puerto rican victims of hurricane maria. last october brown scored a $156 million contract to provide 30 million meals at a cost of $5.10 each. she subcontracted the job to two companies, including a corporate caterer in atlanta with 11 employees. did you really think that 11 people were going to do millions of meals? >> she told me she was experienced with this work and as time got on -- as time went on that she would be able to hire additional people to scale up. >> reporter: only 50,000 of the 30 million meals were delivered. fema terminated her contract due to late delivery. >> fema should have understood -- >> reporter: fema picked brown after vetting her, even though she had no experience working large-scale disasters. brown has had five previous government contracts terminated for not delivering required food and her inability to ship products. >> i've had challenges in that

area, particularly because i'm so young and being a woman in this world, in the food industry worrell. >> you pour water in it and it heats up. >> reporter: one government agency put out a notice saying brown's company could not work for them again, but that did not apply to fema. democrats like representative stacey plaskett have criticized fema's decision. >> the other agencies go so far as not just to stop the contract but to issue a systemwide warning saying that this is not a company to do business with. then how could they have been prepared to do a $156 million contract with a one-person operation? >> my biggest mistake was not asking for more help. >> reporter: so miss brown's been paid about $255,000, but she's appealing to fema for $70 million more. now, fema insists there was no disruption in the food distribution chain in puerto rico because of this debacle. and if you're wondering where the unused meals went? we found them in this storage locker here in atlanta. 60,000 meals. and jeff, this is what they look

like. they've been sitting here since november. >> wow. david begnaud, thank you very much. now to some other stories we're following in the evening news feed. driving was next to impossible today in sioux city, iowa. a fierce snowstorm is blowing through the upper midwest. chicago could get as much as 20 inches by saturday. schools in the city will be closed tomorrow. the death of u.s. border patrol agent rogelio martinez last november remains a mystery. he was found unconscious with blunt force trauma near el paso, texas. president trump has said martinez and his partner were attacked. the fbi says it has found no evidence of that. the partner has told investigators he can't remember what happened. when researchers analyzed more than 700 crashes caught on tape, they found signs of drowsy driving in roughly 10%. eagles! >> fans lined the streets and climbed trees to celebrate the

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millions aren't sleeping enough and they are causing far more highway accidents than previously thought. aaa said today nearly 10% of crashes involve drowsy drivers. here's transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> reporter: asleep behind the wheel. researchers now believe what you're watching here is happening on the roads far more frequently than previously thought. here this teen rearends another vehicle. fortunately, no one was hurt. >> just because you're tired? how much did you sleep? >> reporter: when addison, illinois police pulled over this driver, he said he'd just finished a 14-hour shift and was exhausted. >> you've got to be careful. being drowsy is not -- it's just as bad as being drinking or

beibe being distracted. you know whap i'm saying? >> reporter: the aaa foundation reviewed video like this of 3,500 drivers and more than 700 accidents, looking for telltale signs of fatigue, something federal regulators estimate factors into 1% to 2% of crashes. but these researchers saw drowsy driving in nearly 10% of the accidents reviewed. 1 in 10. >> 1 in 10. >> that's a lot of crashes. >> definitely. so i think that really underscores the significance of this safety concern on the road. >> reporter: it's a concern that haunts jennifer pearce. >> she'll never get to be an aunt to my children. she'll never get to meet her youngest niece faith. >> reporter: her younger sister nicole was an 18-year-old freshman at virginia tech when riding back from a ski trip with friends the driver fell asleep and slammed into a tree, killing nicole. >> it just doesn't really go away. you just mourn differently each year. my biggest message is to make sure that people understand that sleep is a very important part of a healthy lifestyle and it's

necessary every day all the time. >> reporter: now, experts say some drowsy drivers can be as dangerous as drunk drivers. jeff? >> take a break, pull over, take a rest if you need. kris van cleave, thank you. up next here, eagles fans have wai oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signature move, the flying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.

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celebrate the eagles' first super bowl win. and demarco morgan was in the middle of it all. >> eagles! >> reporter: the celebration started on the way to the celebration. ♪ fly eagles fly and the line at wawa wound out the door and around the block. fans lined the streets and climbed trees to celebrate the city's first super bowl win with a massive parade. cops danced in the streets and directed chants instead of traffic. >> eagles! >> reporter: and eagles center jason kelce had some fun on live tv. ♪ no one likes us ♪ no one likes us we don't care ♪ ♪ we're the eagles ♪ [ bleep ] eagles >> reporter: there was even a coffin on the street. >> congratulations philadelphia eagles, we buried the nungsd patriots. >> whether you rode in by train or came in by foot, it was all worth it to get this close to the champs. >> victory!

victory! victory! >> my father's looking down, a big eagles fan. >> we won! we beat them! they didn't think we could but we did. >> aeagles! >> reporter: the parade ended at the steps rocky balboa made famous with eagles players trying to set another record. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> reporter: now, organizers had hoped for 2 million people to attend today's parade, and when you add in the more than 1,000 pounds of confetti, the thousands of cans of beer, and dozens of food trucks, it will take the rest of the night to clean up the city. jeff? >> at least. demarco, thank you. up next, at 81 years old he is setting an example for folks half his age.

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we end tonight with a man who started running when he reached social security age and hasn't stopped yet. chip reid now with our special series, "living stronger." >> reporter: nat shaffir runs six miles a day six days a week. he started running after meeting a college student who had just run a marathon. >> so i looked at her and said she did a marathon? if she can do it i can do it. >> and you were how old at the time? >> 65. >> reporter: he's now 81 and later this year hopes to run his 12th marathon. when he runs, he doesn't listen to music or plan his day. he says his mind is usually in a much darker place. when you're running, do you

sometimes relive and think about this horror? >> absolutely. all the time. >> reporter: that horror is the holocaust. he gives tours at the holocaust museum in washington, d.c., where he shares his own story. >> we know for a fact that hitler hated all minorities, in particular jews. >> reporter: shaffir was born in romania in 1936 and had a happy childhood until he was almost 6 years old, when everything suddenly changed. >> one of our neighbors was a priest. he showed up with a police officer and two armed guards and he's pointing at us and he's saying [ speaking foreign language ] "these are jews." so we were actually turned into n. to the authorities because we were jews by a priest. >> reporter: his family spent years in a jewish ghetto with barely enough food to survive. 32 of his relatives perished in nazi concentration camps. shaffir, though, eventually made it to israel and at age 24 to

america. running, he says, gives him strength. as a young paratrooper in the israeli army he was shot in the knee. you stoil have any bullet fragments or anything in your leg? >> no, they took it out when they replaced my knee. >> so you've had a knee replacement, you were shot in the knee, and you're running marathons. >> right. >> reporter: running while thinking about the holocaust, he says, gives him the mental strength to keep telling his story. >> running gives you so much more incentive to speak out and make sure things like this don't happen again. >> reporter: 81 years old and living stronger than ever before. chip reid, cbs news, washington. that is the "overnight news" for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm jeff glor.

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." i'm vladimir duthier. the eyes of the world turned to south korea for the 2018 winter olympic games. nearly 3,000 athletes from 92 nations will be competing for 102 gold medals in 52 different sports. but overshadowing the games is the nuclear tension between north korea and the united states. ben tracy is in the host city. >> reporter: so north korea really has dominated the run-up to these games, first by just deciding to come, then by sending a 550-person delegation, and now by staging this massive military parade on the eve of the opening ceremony.

>> reporter: north korea put on a major show of force for the 70th anniversary of the founding of its army. tens of thousands of soldiers marched in kim il sung square. it also proudly paraded many of its weapons of war, including two different versions of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, believed to be capable of striking the united states. kim jong un and his generals looked on from above. >> that's probably north korea's way of trying to show that it is relevant, that it can control the narrative in the region. >> reporter: shay cotton is an expert on north korea's weapons program. he says if kim jong un was trying to look more rational by engaging with south korea over the olympics this was an odd way to show it. >> i think if north korea wanted to be reasonable with something like this they wouldn't be holding a parade the day before the olympics anyways. >> reporter: during vice president mike pence's visit to japan he told hundreds of u.s. military personnel at yokota air

base that military action against north korea is possible. >> those who dare threaten us would do well not to underestimate the capabilities of the armed forces of the united states. >> reporter: north korea was officially welcomed at the olympic athletes' village today, and south korean president moon jae-in plans to host members of the north's delegation, including the sister of kim jong un, for lunch this weekend. meanwhile, american luge athlete erin hamlin, who was named team usa's flag bearer, is excited about the north korean athletes who are participating in the games. >> that's what it's all about, is bringing people together in a peaceful environment to celebrate sport and something we all love to do. >> reporter: for the most part the athletes don't seem to be focused on all the politics that are surrounding these olympic games. olympic competition has now officially begun. today the american curling duo of matt and becca hamilton, they are brother and sister, they trounced the russians 9-3 in

their opening match. so while the politics may continue here in pyeongchang, let the games begin. closer to home, the flu bug continues to claim victims from coast to coast. health officials in arkansas report at least 125 deaths related to the influenza voors. schools have been shut down and the state is giving out free flu shots. omar villafranca frorts litt ff little rock. >> reporter: 3-year-old gibson heath has spent the last 12 days at little rock children's hospital fighting the flu. because of his chronic lung disease the his parents rushed him to the e.r. >> he spiked a fever of 102 and that's when i knew i needed to bring him in and get tested for the flu. >> reporter: sick kids like gibson have kept dr. shane mckinney and his staff in the e.r. busy. in december they regularly see 180 patients a day. but those numbers have jumped this flu season. >> our volume has been increasing steadily. we saw 306 patients this past

monday, which is a huge increase for us. >> reporter: with the flu hitting the country hard this year, arkansas has 35paid out me than 8,000 medicaid claims this week alone. during the same week last year only about 1,000 flu-related claims were paid. at this clinic in little rock dr. jay douglas holland is taking a different approach in dealing with the spike in flu cases. even though his waiting room is empty -- >> what are his symptoms? >> reporter: -- he still treats five to ten patients over the phone. >> body ache. >> i go through a pretty thorough history about fever, chills, headache, body ache, and sore throat. >> cough? >> if someone has awful of those, i feel comfortable in treating them over the phone. and we are not charging for that. >> i love you. >> reporter: the heaths all got a flu shot to avoid spreading the virus and to protect their son they're asking the community to get their flu shot. last year in arkansas no children died from the flu, but

so far this year three children have been killed by the virus, which is why doctors are still urging people to get the flu shot. one of the president's top aides has resigned after two of his ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse. rob porter's background was well known to both the white house and the fbi, which refused to grant him a security clearance. so how did he work in such a sensitive position for more than a year? major garrett reports. >> rob porter has repeatedly denied these allegations and done so publicly. that doesn't change how serious and disturbing these allegations are. >> reporter: white house press secretary raj shah reporters that white house chief of staff john kelly only became "fully aware" yesterday of staff secretary rob porter's alleged history of abusing two ex-wives. >> i did talk to the president earlier today. he told me he was very saddened by these reports and by the information that he saw. >> reporter: but sources tell cbs news the fbi informed white house officials in november

about the domestic abuse allegations. porter's first wife accused him of kicking her. his second wife said porter grabbed her from a shower. both alleged verbal abuse. louisiana republican senator john kennedy. >> you cannot beat the hell out of your spouse. it is illegal. and it is immoral. >> reporter: those allegations did not affect porter's standing in the white house. in fact, his portfolio expanded. porter helped draft the president's state of the union address last month and had recently begun work on trade policy. kelly initially praised porter as "a man of true integrity and honor." he amended that statement late yesterday, saying he was shocked by the new allegations but standing by his original comment. >> we all could have done better over the last few hours, or last few days, in dealing with the situation. >> reporter: porter has been dating white house communications director hope hicks, who helped draft kelly's initial statement and others like it defending porter.

porter was responsible for vetting all written material, much of it classified, given to the president. he was working without a permanent security clearance, stalled because the fbi flagged the abuse allegations. south carolina republican senator lindsey graham. >> fact this man operated a year without a security clearance, i didn't understand that and still don't. >> reporter: the white house will not define what fully aware means regarding chief of staff kelly. sources familiar with the clearance process tell us that the fbi report on porter would have been far more detailed than the news report that broke this week setting the scandal in motion, which means kelly could have known more and he could have known more much sooner. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. looking for balance in your digestive system?

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." there's a lawsuit brewing in california over whether cups of coffee should be required by law to carry a cancer warning. john blackstone gives us a taste of the controversy. >> reporter: coffee sellers are steamed. a lawsuit that's been grinding on for years alleges no matter how you make it your daily jolt of java comes with a potential carcinogen. acrylamide. >> that's the major reason coffee turns brown. >> reporter: a chemical engineer teaches the science of coffee at uc davis. as an expert witness he testified that acrylamide forms naturally as foods cooked at high temperatures turn brown. >> it's a major reason you get this yummy brown stuff on the

outside of your steak when you char it. >> reporter: but in high doses acrylamide has been found to cause cancer in mice. that puts it on a list of cancer-causing chemicals that businesses in california are required to alert consumers about. thanks to a law passed in 1986. so now under california's proposition 65 coffee shops are being forced to post signs like this. trouble is in california right now cancer seems to be brewing everywhere. at least it appears that way if you pay any attention to these prop 65 warning signs. park your car in an indoor garage and you're likely to find one. at any place that sells alcohol the writing's on the wall. it's posted at the happiest place on earth and even outside cbs news los angeles. hastings law professor marcia cohen. >> they create in some people concerns that there's something lurking in places and they don't know what it is. >> reporter: but the potential

coffee warning may be stretching the intention of the law. cbs contributor dr. david agus. >> i believe in transparency, but at the same time when you put a bold declaration, x may cause cancer when there isn't data to that effect in humans, to me it causes panic rather than informed knowledge. >> reporter: in a statement the national coffee association told cbs news this lawsuit "simply confuses consumers and has the potential to make a mockery of prop 65 cancer warnings at a time when the public needs clear and accurate information about health." while 13 defendants including gloria jeans and 7-eleven have settled and agreed to put up the signs, starbucks is still waging a legal battle, arguing that coffee has benefits. >> coffee in moderation has been shown to potentially decrease the risk of certain cancers and potentially has some heart benefit. >> reporter: so these warning signs may be one coffee order that californians will have some

trouble swallowing. john blackstone, san francisco. well, there's a group of veterans in utah who went be putting warning labels on their coffee anytime soon. black rifle coffee has an ad campaign that features flame throwers and machine guns. michelle miller has the story. >> reporter: the founder of black rifle coffee started out in his basement with just $1,800. he says fueling freedom-loving americans helped the company sell more than 1 million pounds of coffee last year. thanks in part to irreverent marketing designed to turn heads. >> this should be -- it's a lighter roast, and you should actually taste a little bit of almost a lemon at the top. >> that's what i taste. >> reporter: evan hafer isn't your typical coffee connoisseur. he's been roasting his own special blends for over a decade in the most unusual places. >> i was deploying back and forth from places like iraq and afghanistan at the time. i couldn't find a good cup of

coffee. most of the time you're restricted to just what's called chow hall or dining facility coffee, which -- >> terrible coffee. >> horrible. it is horrible. so as a guy that truly loves coffee i was just looking to find a great solution to what i felt was kind of a problem. >> reporter: that solution? black rifle coffee. matt best helped him create the company. >> he came to the idea with my other business partner saying hey, do you guys want to do coffee? i don't really know coffee but it sounds like a great idea. >> reporter: a former army ranger, best had already proved himself with a military clothing line, article 15. >> we have no competitors. >> that's a pretty big statement. >> name me another ceo that's carried a saw through an alley at 3:00 in the morning in baghdad in iraq. there isn't one. >> reporter: to them selling a great cup of joe meant selling people on the culture of the

company itself. >> family, community, constitutional rights, and civil liberties. and community for us is the veteran community and everybody that does really the grind that makes america what it is and sacrifices their own personal life for the benefit of their communities. >> people ask us why we have so many guns. i just tell them how about over 200 years of freedom? >> reporter: these videos have been their primary marketing tool. controversial. >> oh. >> reporter: unconventional. >> whoo! >> fresh roasted freedom. >> reporter: and tongue in cheek. >> if we have a coffee club which means you spend less time ordering and more time doing what you love. no look. >> potentially we're taking a satirical approach to our values, right? i'm a pro-gun guy but -- very pro gun, but obviously it's way over the top in the videos. [ playing jingle bells on targets ] >> reporter: but it was two other moves that put black rifle on the map last year. a plug tweeted out by donald

trump jr. after coffee maker keurig pulled ads from sean hannity's fox news show during the alabama senate race. >> you'll take it? >> absolutely we'll take it. and this is the problem i think that people divide too much on the left and right. so someone on the political spectrum that you necessarily don't agree with wants to support a cause that i'm devoting my whole entire life to, you're absolutely right i'm going to be very happy that he's spreading the message. >> reporter: and after former starbucks ceo howard schultz promised to hire 10,000 refugees on the heels of the president's travel ban, black rifle pledged to hire 10,000 veterans. >> how do you go from 100 plus to 10,000? >> we're the fastest-growing coffee company in america. franchise opportunity is where it's going to happen. >> would you call yourselves political? >> just because of who we are. we're somewhat political. there's a war on freedom right now, which is this politically correct culture where you know, you're so worried about stepping

on an offensive mine even in your office. >> whoo! >> you can't take the men and women that have been doing the most unpolitically correct act in the history of mankind and then -- war. and then swing them in a matter of weeks back into a corporate infrastructure and allow them to fit in perfectly. >> and if they don't you skacal them a failure. with and where does that leave them? >> homeless, jobless. depressed. >> suicidal. >> we see the statistics that are coming in. >> we have over a 50% veteran hiring rate. we have no less than probably five conversations a week about ptsd. every day we have great conversations about how we can be a more proactive and responsible steward of our subculture. >> those conversations, they say, started with the very founding of the nation itself. odes to service hang everywhere in the company's salt lake city headquarters. dating back to the rebels behind the boston tea party. >> post-1773 it was seen as

unpatriotic to drink tea in america. >> wow. >> so we shifted to coffee because of the american revolution. >> honoring those patriots, taper says, means honoring immigrants like mohammed ali taslim. the afghani commander served alongside some black rifle employees on their tours. >> we were fighting taliban, isis and al qaeda for 13 year. we support each other. >> reporter: its team of 102 employees includes 47 veterans and 30 women, several of whom are senior-level executives. taper says don't let the black hats fool you, they're waging guerrilla warfare on the coffee establishment. >> typical coffee culture is funny. it's a funny mix of pseudo-intellectualism and conformity in a way that's very weird for us. if you go into like any of the big name coffee companies, they look like they should be

chopping wood but they don't have the calluses to prove it. and that's kind of the difference, which is we'll make a great cup of coffee and we can also beat you up. that's the difference. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back. new olay whips powerful skincare, now light-as-air a breakthrough moisturizer whipped for instant absorption feel a light-as-air finish in a flash new olay whips ageless

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alzheimer's disease can rob its victims of their memories. and in most cases there's no way to get them back. in most cases. here's steve hartman. >> reporter: to welcome us to portland, oregon 68-year-old steve goodwin would like to play one of his songs for you. >> ah! >> reporter: you have no idea how much he would like to play one of his songs for you. ♪ >> what key is it in? >> it made me almost hate the piano. but then i realized it's not the piano's fault. i know how to do this. it's this thing that's going on in my brain. >> how about i play something else? >> reporter: three years ago steve was diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. he had to give up his job as a software designer. but as we first reported a few months ago, his wife joanie says the cruellest part is the toll it has taken on the music he composed. >> losing the songs would be

like losing him. >> reporter: steve and joanie have been married 47 years. and along the way steve composed more than two dozen songs, mostly for her. he played them daily. and they became the soundtrack of their lives. >> um. >> reporter: unfortunately, he never wrote down most of them. >> no, let's see. >> reporter: so when his memory started failing and the songs started fading, there was no way to get them back. pl a family friend, a professional pianist, offered to launch a rescue mission. >> he said if he can at least play through, it even in pieces, i can learn it. ♪ >> reporter: and o'so for the past two years naomi laviolette has been reconstructing his compositions note by note. >> no, just on the one -- >> the down beat? >> the one down beat, yes. >> we are rolling. >> reporter: and of course

they're recording songs. never to be lost again. >> i realized there was a part of him that wasn't going to fade away. >> reporter: but this may be the best part. with naomi's help steve was able to write a new song. ♪ although he now forgets entire conversations and can no longer add even single-digit numbers, somehow his mind dreamed up this. ♪ after this story first aired the cd they made was discovered by billboard. screenwriters want to make a movie. and probably the biggest thrill for steve -- the oregon repertory singers recently performed his new song "melancholy flower." ♪ alzheimer's steals a lot. but this christmas we score one

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but during this particularly cold winter it's not just food they're giving away. jackets and hygiene kits are also handed out. but it's more than the food and clothing that the needy of syracuse get every saturday. they get human connection. bonds that are difficult to form on the street. >> in a week where they don't have too much money, come down here and get a meal? hot cocoa, and all the people come together and we talk and we network so everybody can help each other out. >> reporter: and the volunteers have found a deeper connection too. >> it means everything to me. it's so positive. i get a chance to help people. i get a chance to meet new people. >> reporter: sandwich saturdays is part of the non-profit we rise above the street. the name describes alamin muhammad's life. >> when i was in the streets homeless, really hopeless, it was a lot of people walking past and i was invisible. >> reporter: his path to homelessness began early when he joined a gang as a teenager in

his hometown of chicago. >> started selling drugs, started getting into violence. i got shot several times, like twice on different occasions. >> reporter: after multiple arrests, muhammad ended up in prison. they says he found god and converted to islam. muhammad knew when he got out he couldn't go back to his former life. just like the homeless muhammad now helps, he found someone to turn to. a case worker in a detox center. >> he told me al amin, i believe new and i believe you're going to get out of this condition and you're going to help a lot of people i this world. >> reporter: that belief was enough. muhammad got back on his feet and became a drug counselor. he got married and lives in syracuse with his wife, nasira. >> we use trail mix bars -- >> reporter: and together they're working to help the people in syracuse. every saturday you'll find them under the bridge giving clothing, hope, and a sandwich. >> i'm going to continue to do this work and i'm going to continue to fight and i'm going

to continue to save a couple people out here because somebody trusts me and somebody believes in me. captioning funded by cbs it's friday, february 9th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." lawmakers on capitol hill worked through the night to try and reopen the government. a winter storm is hitting parts of the upper midwest hard, forcing hundreds of flights to be canceled, and schools close as the region prepares for more than a foot of snow. and the stage is set and ready to go. the