? ? ? captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: police under fire. officers are ambushed during routine traffic stops in several states. >> this incident shows that that can happen right in our backyard. >> quijano: also tonight, the long shot of long shots-- who's leading the battle for a recount help for the homeless. a simple program is making life on the streets more bearable. >> it kind of adds a little dignity back into the equation. >> quijano: and a family reunion-- the women and their guardian angel. >> reporter: do you have any daughters of your own? >> no. those are my kids. this is the "cbs evening news"

scott is off tonight. i'm elaine quijano, and this is our western edition. it can happen in a split second-- a police stop turns into an ambush. officers have been targeted several times this week. in detroit, wayne state university officer collin rose was shot tuesday and died the next day. in idaho, an officer was forced to react quickly when a suspect appeared suddenly. here's don dahler. >> reporter: officer tom woods was making a routine traffic stop when a man popped out of a woods wrestled him to the ground. lewiston's police chief chris ankeny says it could have ended badly. >> there have been a lot of events in the past few months that have been quite horrific, and have shown a propensity of violence towards police. >> reporter: over the past week, six officers were attacked in michigan, texas, missouri, florida, and idaho. this year alone, 60 officers

ambushes, a 67% increase over last year. 18 took place in texas, where last sunday, san antonio detective benjamin marconi was shot in the head. the reasons are unclear. while some were retribution for shootings of blacks by white officers, most suspects in these police shootings were white men. last july, texas lawmakers proposed a law making it a hate crime to target police after officer ray hunt: >> it definitely tells people that we're not going to tolerate an individual killing somebody simply because of the uniform that they're wearing. >> reporter: last night, hundreds marched through the streets of san antonio in support of their slain men in blue. ? ? ? and on monday, people gathered in chilly st. louis to honor an officer shot in the head during an ambush. >> thank you for being here. >> reporter: chief sam dotson:

dangerous job. go out and do it. do it safely. do it in pairs. but know that the community has your back." >> reporter: that officer is expected to survive. elaine, according to the national law enforcement officers memorial fund, this year has seen the most targeted attacks on police in over 20 years. >> pelley: don dahler, thank you. just when you thought the bitter presidential election was finally behind us, there is this-- the green p c recounts in three battleground states. two thoam helped give donald trump the victory over hillary clinton. anna werner is following this. >> reporter: jill stein has raised more than $4 million in just over 24 hours, all through donations to her web site. >> our goal is to create a voting system that we can believe in. >> reporter: stein is questioning results in pennsylvania, where trump won by

a little over 27,000 votes; and michigan, which is still too close to call. what evidence of fraud do you have in this election? >> let me be very clear-- we do not have evidence of fraud. we do not have smoking guns. what we do have is an election that was surrounded by hacking. >> reporter: she points to the hacking of the democratic national committee and the hacks into the voter registration lists in arizona and illinois, hacks linked by u.s. investigators to russia. she says it all raises questions of fraud with electronic voting machines and demonstrates the need for a count of the actual paper ballots. voting rights attorney john bonifaz is helping to drive the recount effort. >> the american people deserve public confidence in the integrity of our process, and if we don't ever look at the ballots and we don't ever verify the vote, why should we expect that public trust? >> reporter: what do you say to people who say, "donald trump

over it"? >> first of all, i'm engaged in this process as a small "d" democrat. i believe in the democratic process, and i believe we ought to verify the vote, regardless of who the winner was declared on election night. it may turn out that it doesn't change the outcome of the election, but it's a healthy process for us to engage in as a democracy. >> reporter: so what about hillary clinton? no comment from her camp. bonifaz says he approached clinton first about recounts but with no decision made, he approached stein instead. president-elect donald trump's team, elaine, was a tweet from adviser kellyanne conway saying, "look who can't accept the election results," referring to clinton supporters. >> quijano: anna werner. anna, thank you. as the holiday rush got under way, highway safety regulators announced new guidelines to make smartphones less distracting, that includes locking drivers out of most apps while they're behind the wheel.

shows this car accelerated. first to 83 miles per hour. the speed recorded by a smartphone messaging app known as snapchat. the car eventually hit more than 115. both people inside died when the driver lost control and struck a minivan, killing a mother, two of her children, and injuring three other people. it happened just nine minutes after the snapchat video was posted. the accident comes amid an alarming surge in deaths, due in part to distracted driving. one of the worst culprits is using cell phones behind the l. deborah hersman is the former head of the n.t.s.b. >> we put up with, in a permissive way, people talking on the phone, people texting, even though 46 states have laws banning texting. >> reporter: in the first half of 2016, well more than 17,000 people died in accidents. that's up 10.4% over last year. a.a.a. expects 43.5 million americans to drive 50 miles or more this thanksgiving weekend and the national safety council grimly predicts 437 will die in

that's a 12% increase. >> we're raising speed limits. we're repealing helmet laws. we make decisions here in this country that actually allow more fatalities to occur, and then we question why the number is rising. >> we have an immediate crisis on our hands. >> reporter: national highway traffic safety administrator mark rosekind. >> we've known distraction is a problem all the time. people are just sneaky you know where they're just putting things below visual and still on their phone. so these are problems we know about that are clearly playing a big part in those increases. we just can't measure how much. >> reporter: drunk driving and not wearing a seat belt still remain major issues. elaine, n.h.t.s.a. and the national safety council have formed a coalition aimed to getting to zero traffic deaths in our lifetime. to start that-- $3 million in seed money aimed at developing technologies and strategies to make the roads safer. >> quijano: kris van cleave, kris, thank you. cities across the country are seeing a backlash against new

local governments are trying to make up for lost revenue when people cut the cord from their cable companies and switch to services like netflix and hulu. carter evans has more on this. >> this tax doesn't make sense. this was just a money grab. that's all i've got to say. >> reporter: the pasadena city council has been taking heat for weeks after announcing a 9.4% tax on streaming video, calling it a utility, so it can be taxed like water and electricity. >> my constituents do not want this tax. >> reporter: even if it's just a couple of bucks to help up on the city? >> even it's just a couple of dollars that they're already-- it's being taxed twice. >> reporter: councilman tyron hampton says the surprise tax was designed to make up for lost tax revenue from people getting rid of cable tv and home phones. >> i read it multiple times and i was like, "when did this happen?" >> reporter: it happened when pasadena voters modernized a law in 2008 to tax cell phones like landlines, never anticipating it could be applied to video

similar laws. >> folks are going to wake up and see tax line items on their netflix and hulu bills and they're not going to be happy. >> reporter: internet association director robert callahan believes cities could be violating federal law because the government doesn't allow tax on the internet. >> utilities are electricity and water and sewer and all sorts of other types of actual utilities. web sites and apps don't fit that mold whatsoever. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped cash-strapped cities chicago is currently being sued for charging a 9% tax on video streaming. and pennsylvania is charging a 6% tax on everything from apps to downloads to help close a $1.3 billion budget gap. and now, in the face of stiff opposition, pasadena has put its new tax plan on hold. >> and where do we stop? you know, is it hulu? is it netflix? is it pandora? every time you stream music in your car?

>> reporter: cities in california still haven't started collecting the controversial and unpopular tax. and, elaine, when they do, they'll likely end up in court. >> quijano: carter evans. carter, thanks. a wave of wildfires is sweeping across israel. some may have been set. smoke has sickened dozens this week. tens of thousands have been forced from their homes. france, russia, and turkey are sending firefighters and equipment. an american service member was killed today by a roadside bomb in northern syria. no details were available, and the service member was not identified. several hundred americans are training syrian rebels who are fighting isis. in iraq, a car bomb destroyed a gas station south of baghdad today. at least 80 people were killed, dozens wounded. isis claimed responsibility. the white house says the attack was intended to inflame the divide between the two major factions of islam.

serving in iraq, assisting in the effort to defeat isis there. for many, it's their first thanksgiving away from home. holly williams spent time with some of them. >> reporter: just east of mosul, we traveled with colonel brett sylvia today as he rallied troops from the 101st airborne division dug in here for the battle against isis. >> we still have a mission here and it's a dangerous mission that we're here inside a combat zone. the mission at hand." >> reporter: today, they took time out from the fight-- >> happy thanksgiving! >> reporter: --as colonel sylvia honored a long-standing military tradition-- >> i don't know if i'm cuttingr fast enough for you guys. >> reporter: --senior officers serving the rank-and-file soldiers their thanksgiving lunch. >> you want some stuffing? >> reporter: the troops based at this logistics hub in shaquili are only 12 miles from mosul. >> any civilian activity in any of the buildings or anything

we just have, like, weird lights. >> reporter: three days ago they witnessed a massive blast when the iraqi army detonated an isis suicide truck packed with explosives about a mile and a half from here. >> it was like a mushroom cloud, the size of that thing. >> we felt it through the floor, sir. >> reporter: they're deadly weapons, used by isis to slow down the progress of iraqi and u.s. coalition forces in the battle to retake mosul. tour of duty in iraq, but for many of his soldiers, it's their first. >> specialist kang, he's our medic, our one and only medic. >> reporter: they were children when the u.s. invaded iraq in 2003. >> fantastic. >> reporter: a new generation of young americans serving in iraq five years after the u.s. government said it was leaving the country for good. >> they didn't sign up because they wanted to come fight in iraq. they signed up because they

>> reporter: american service members could be here in iraq for many months to come. the u.s. military says over 1,500 isis militants have been killed in the battle for mosul. but, elaine, the extremists are determined, and their tactics have slowed the offensive. >> quijano: holly williams with american troops in iraq. holly, thanks. next on the cbs evening news, a small gesture makes a huge difference for the homeless this thanksgiving. and later, this man made a difference in the lives of hundreds of women. they call him their guardian

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angeles, makeshift dwellings spread for block after block. few outsiders regularly walk these forbidding streets but raquel beard has. >> people are dying every day here. the drug trade and drug usage is just out of control. property thefts are through the roof. >> reporter: she worked with the association of business owners in the skid row area who are being overwhelmed by the homeless. >> and there's no community outcry about that. >> reporter: because other people don't see it. >> out of sight, out of mind, let's just keep it there. >> reporter: but skid row also has those struggling to make better lives. they are helped at a warehouse called the bin. with nowhere to live, debra parra got a bin here to keep clean clothes, helping her hold down a job as a security guard. >> i leave a lot of stuff here, so depending what job i'm doing. >> reporter: this makes it a little easier. >> oh, it sure does, a whole lot easier.

c.e.o. of chrysalis. the organization that runs the bins. what does this represent? >> this represents the personal belongings and life history of about 1500 residents of the skid row area. >> reporter: users must check in at least once a week. a glass in there. >> yeah, it's a drinking glass. >> reporter: a toothbrush. levell liggins, living on the street for 15 years, got a measure of safety when he got a bin. >> the rule of the streets is, whatever they find is there. keep it, take it, move on. >> reporter: the bins provide orde o >> when i come out and i roll out their bins, i'm treating it as a service to them. i got it! >> reporter: demetrios reed knows the bins from both sides. he was homeless until the job here helped him get a place to live. >> it kind of adds a little dignity back into the equation. >> reporter: as part of l.a.'s latest plan to help the homeless, the city is looking to add thousands more bins, which can provide a modest step toward life off the street. john blackstone, cbs news, los

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>> quijano: thanksgiving is a family holiday, and we end the family holiday, and we end the broadcast with a visit to one of the closest families we know. they share a link, not by blood but perhaps something stronger. here's michelle miller. >> don't cry. it's okay. they're happy tears. >> reporter: when the august >> yeah, yeah, joel ascher. >> reporter: joel ascher is the guest of honor. >> i didn't know you were coming. >> reporter: to these women and hundreds of others who played high school hoops during his 30-year tenure, he was coach, mentor, but most of all, guardian angel. >> you can see the floor is not even. >> reporter: when ascher arrived in the late 70s, the girls' team had no uniforms, no form of transportation. they didn't even have a basketball. >> the situation for girls' athletics in new york city was

>> if they didn't have me, they had nobody. >> and this will do it! >> reporter: but in three years, they went from a losing season to the city play-offs. >> joel ascher's 12th title. >> reporter: by the late 1990s, they'd earned 12 city trophies and four state championships. >> winning games is nice but it's not the ultimate goal. the bottom line was college and success. i would really get on them for school work. i would check their report cards. there was no mercy with me. >> reporter: most of coach college, playing for such schools as stanford, wisconsin, u.c.l.a., and northeastern. some even won scholarships. yolanda wilson and allison jenkins were on his 1988 championship team. >> we built a family while we were here. ash did so much for us. >> reporter: these days, those roles have reversed. >> how are you? >> i'm here! >> reporter: a team of angels now watches over him.

drive him to doctors' appointments. >> you started eating already, huh? >> reporter: take him out to dinner. do you have any daughters of your own? >> no, those are my kids. >> reporter: coach ascher may have never been a father. >> we love you, ash! >> reporter: but it didn't stop him from acting like one. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> quijano: proof that love makes a family. that's the cbs evening news. for scott pelley, i'm elaine quijano. for all of us at cbs news, happy thanksgiving. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh

is on. we are live at the first stores to open with black friday deals on one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. ((mauricio marin)) what are the perfect stocking stuffers this year? 8 on your side takes you through the most popular ones in our holiday gift guide... ((christianne klein)) and being able to celebrate with family: "it's just amazing to be here at all." a valley woman left paralyzed by a motorcycle crash... how she was able to get home for the holidays... (((>>thanksgiving brought breezes and seasonal temps. but changes are in the forecast for this weekend. we'll have an update coming up on the valley's new leader

((christianne klein)) the first stores offering black friday deals have already opened their doors tonight. thanks for joining us... i'm christianne klein. ((mauricio marin)) >> and i'm mauricio marin. black friday has crept into thanksgiving.. and some stores have already let customers inside. it's today's top story... and shakala alvaranga is live in henderson at one of the hot spots tonight.. best buy at the galleria mall ((shakala alvaranga)) christianne and mauricio, the best buy here on sunset a hour ago, with many shoppers eager to get the best bargains tonight. most of the customers waiting in line are looking to buy a t-v or a laptop. whether it's a t-v or a laptop, many big box stores like best buy, walmart and target are boasting major sales, both in store and online. though the black friday hype has diminished over the years, there are still a lot of stores that live