>> glor: tonight, dead or alive-- a judge in yemen orders the arrest of an american-born radical linked to al qaeda as new details about those mail bombs are released. i'm jeff glower. also tonight, the president pushes american products in india as a way to create jobs back home. designing for disaster-- how to build a house to make sure is withstands a hurricane. and zeniata, she could be the greatest female horse ever and today she ran her 20th and final race. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. >> glor: good evening. we begin with a seeshz of developments tonight in terror plots against the united states planned in yemen.

interpol released photo and details of those mail bombs intended to ploa up cargo planes bound bound for the u.s. also, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is now claiming responsibility for a ups cargo plane that crashe crashed in dun september. and a yemeni judge ordered the arrest of a u.s.-born radical cleric, saying he should be taken by force, dead or alive. we begin with elizabeth palmer in london. >> this religion is about your willingness to sacrifice your lives. >> reporter: anwar al-awlaki's radical islamist teachings put him on the cia's hit list almost a year ago but only now is he officially a wanted man in yemen, where he's thought to be hiding. a judge ordered al-awlaki to be brought in dead or alive after he failed to show up in court to face charges of inciting this security guard hisham assim to kill foreigners. at the airport in yemen's capital, another sign the

government is finally getting serious about tackling terrorism-- new, intensive security. "we took a decision to subject all cargo to hand searches," says the transport minister. "in addition to regular bomb detection and x-rays." yemen's government, long reluctant to mount a full-scale attack on the local al qaeda cell, is running out of wiggle room. >> al qaeda's affiliate in yemen is the most dangerous of al qaeda's branches or allies. they have hardened al qaeda operatives and leaders from the old days of the afghanistan mujahideen. >> reporter: on friday, al qaeda in yemen posted a message on line taking responsibility for the two bombs planted on cargo planes bound for the u.s. the same branch of al qaeda trained and equipped the christmas bomber of last december. but what may have finally prodded the yemeni government into action is al qaeda's growing campaigned in the

country, assassinating officials and blowing up vital oil pipelines. the u.s. has pledged its support to yemen, and backed it up with a $300 million increase in its aid budget, much of it earmarked for counter-terrorism. jeff. >> glor: liz palmener london tonight. liz, thank you very much. president obama is in india tonight, the first stop on his four-nation, 10-day tour of asia. while the destinations are foreign, his message is domestic. he's talking about american products and american jobs. our chief white house correspondent chip reid is traveling with the president. >> reporter: president obama is spending three full days in india, his longest stop yet in any foreign country, a sign of india's growing importance to the united states, especially on the economy. >> i'm here because i believe that in our interconnected world, increased commerce between the united states and india can be and will be a win-win proposition for both nations. >> reporter: in saturday's "new york times," the president

explained how a trip overseas can help create jobs in the u.s. the more we export abroad, he wrote, the more jobs we create in america. in fact, every $1 billion we export supports more than 5,000 jobs at home. but it's a hard argument to make in india where a vast network of call centers has made this country a symbol of outsourcing, u.s. companies sending american jobs overseas. the president hopes to counter that image by showing that india, with the second-largest population in the world and explosive economic growth, can become a major market for goods made in america. more than 200 u.s. business leaders are here this weekend to help make the case for increasing trade and investment with india. today, after the president met with some executives, more than 20 deals were announced between india and american corporations. >> today's deals will lead to more than 50,000 jobs in the united states. >> reporter: for example, india plans to buy 10 c-17

military cargo planes from boeing for $4.1 billion, a deal that will support more than 22,000 american jobs. india is also a key u.s. partner in the fight against terrorism. two years ago, more than 160 people, including six americans, were killed in mumbai during a four-day terrorist siege. today, the president visited a memorial at the taj mahal palace hotel honoring 31 people who died there. >> those who attacked mumbai wanted to demoralize this city and this country, but they failed. >> reporter: after india, the president will make stops in indonesiaia, south korea, and japan. the agenda include everything from nuclear nonproliferation to the war in afghanistan. but after those disastrous midterm elections, the white house says the focus throughout this trip will be the economy and jobs. jeff. >> glor: all right, chip reid from mumbai tonight. chip, thank you. the president was working on trade deals, first lady michelle

obama was trying to bond with india children. she kicked off her shoes to dance with dozens of kids at a mumbai charity for orphans and runaways. the elections are over for most of the united states but there are still a few house races undecided, and in alaska the final answer on who will be the new u.s. senator may be a long way off. tonight, john blackstone has the story on a complex-three-way race. >> reporter: on election night in anchorage, the lisa murkowski campaign took a victory lap through the chilly streets, confident that murkowski had made history by winning a senate seat as a write-in candidate. >> yes, we can! >> we embarked on what the people on the outside said was absolutely impossible-- you cannot win a write-in campaign. and yet, here in alaska, we are making it happen. >> everyone wanted to see lisa win, and here we are tonight doing the impossible. >> reporter: but did she win? that battle is heating up as joe miller, the republican candidate

who beat mur cowsk net party primary, refuses to concede. the count so far shows that miller got 34% of the vote compared to 41% who marked their ballot for a write-in candidate. the question now, did most of those voters write in lisa murkowski's name clearly enough to be counted? >> lisa m., or handwriting that's hard to read, or a really mangled spelling of murkowski. there could be those. but if somebody writes murkowski it's going to be very difficult for miller to argue there's a problem with counting that vote. >> reporter: election officials will begin reading and counting those ballot next week. with just 13,000 votes separating first and second place, miller's web site proclaims it's not over yet. the campaign remains optimistic that joe miller will be the next u.s. senator from the state of alaska. >> miller, our next yiewt senator. >> reporter: the tea party and sarah palin started backing miller months ago in his effort to take the ?aept seat away from murkowski. he's not ready to quit yet.

>> it's been 200 days. they've been long days but they've been good days. >> reporter: the days are going to get even longer as miller and mruczkowski higher lawyers from the lower 48 to battle over the ballots. a couple of weeks before we know for sure. >> but we sure like the trend right now. >> reporter: she would be the first write-in candidate to written since 1954 but history can be a long time in the maki making. >> glor: so many house democrats lost their bids for reelection, when they return to washington later this month, they'll be lame duction but still working on critical legislation. what might the upcoming session accomplish then? joel brown has an advanced look. >> reporter: democrats are still stinging from tuesday night's republican tidal wave. >> we've come to take our government back. >> reporter: no less than 60 house democrats were ousted by voerts-- voters. november 15 they'll limp back to washington for a lame duck

session, still the majority, but not for long. >> they will come back to washington, gather their things, but for many, there's not going to be any energy to get behind a big legislative fight with the republicans. >> reporter: capitol hill's list of unfinished business is a long one. congress hasn't passed a single spending bill. without a measure to cover short-term costs by december 3, the government would shut down, though both sides say they'll get something done by then. there's the automatickive minimum tax. if congress fails to adjust it for inflation, 26 million families face a 2600 dollar tax hike. another urgent matter-- whether to extend the bush tax cuts. their december 31 expiration date is it coming fast. >> president obama, nor the new republican condition think wants a tax increase on every single working american to be a new year's day gift. >> reporter: the president had called for the cuts to expire for families making more than $250,000. since his party's bruising election night, he's signaled he's willing to make a deal with

the g.o.p., which wants to extend the cuts for everyone. >> and i believe there's room for us to compromise and get it done together. >> reporter: for democrats, the lame duck session may also be a fight over the face of the party. nancy pelosi wants to keep leading house democrats as minority leaders but a backlash is brewing among conservative democrats who think she's do liberal. >> if she runs she's going to have to get the vote somewhere else besides me. >> reporter: republicans see nancy pelosi as their ticket to even bigger gangs in 2012. there's a new sign outside g.o.p. headquarters. they're endorsing pelosi's leadership run. pelosi is expected to win the job as minority leader. from health care to wall street reform, she won the votes to get them passed, and she may be in the best position to keep the incoming congress from trying to repeal them. jeff. >> glor: all right, joel brown in washington tonight. joel, thank you. coming up on tonight's cbs evening news, a new drug that may make life a lot easier for millions of people.

>> glor: more than two million americans suffer from an irregular heartbeat, what's called atrial fibrillation, which increases the risk of sphroak. doctors have long had only one drug to help these patients but the f.d.a. has approved what could be a revolutionary replacement as we hear from dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: 68-year-old hernan guarderas is hoping a new blood thinner upon give him back his old life. it's called dabigatran. >> with the new medicine i will be free. >> reporter: he has a condition called fibrillation. he has been taking warfarin to prevent a stroke but it forces him to restrict his diet, increases risk of bleeding and

requires close monitoring. >> i was for almost two years every week in the doctor's office taking my blood. >> reporter: this new drug does not require monitoring. it's also easy to stop if the patient needs surgery. >> the cardiology community has been waiting for years to have a replacement for warfarin. >> reporter: a study of more than 18,000 patients found dabigatran, prevents more stroke strobes than coumadin at the highest dose. >> it seems like this could really be a revolution in how we treat patients with atrial fibrillation. >> reporter: the drug will be more expensive than warfarin. another concern-- there were more heart attacks in patients taking dabigtran. >> although there was a higher risk of heart attacks in the study, i think our worry clinically is more about stroke, and so that will probably not be a big factor in deciding which of these two blood thinners to use. >> reporter: dabigatran will

be sold under the brand name predaxa. analysts are predicting it will be a blockbuster drug with a sale of $2.5 billion by 2015. >> glor: police in oakland, california, say more than 150 people have been arrested after violent protests after a white former transit police officer received the minimum sentence for fatally shooting an unarmed black man. the protesters broke windows and damaged property. film and stage actress jill cl clayburgh has died of leukemia at her home in connecticut. she was nominated twice for an oscar in "an unmarried woman" and opposite burt reynolds in "starting over." she was 66 years old. up next on tonight's cbs evening news-- how to build a house that can withstand a hurricane's roar.

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>> glor: tropical storm tomas moved into the atlantic today after brushing haiti as a category 1 hurricane. though haiti was spared the winds, officials say at least six people die add rains flooded villages and refugee camps. there is less than a month to go in hurricane season and so far this year the u.s. mainland has dodged a major storm. since that won't always be the case some have interesting things are being done now to protect homes in the future. that is the focus of tonight's weekend journal, simulating disaster. it's an attempt to beat mother nature by being mother nature. a $40 million, one-of-a-kind lab in richburg, south carolina, that replicates real-life natural disasters. here, 105 fans power 140-mile-per-hour winds and a tank holding 750,000 gallons of

water. this is what it's like during a category 2 hurricane. the results-- just watch. the house on the left was built to typical midwest building code. the one on the right, what the institute for business and home safety considers safe, a more fortified code. >> it's important that people understand building codes are a minimum standard. there are 13 states in this country that have no codes at all. and in several other states the codes are not very well enforced. >> glor: the goal is to encourage people to build better structures and reduce losses, both for homeowners and the insurance industry. not surprise will they funded this lab. >> crashing houses, there's a lot more to learn. >> reporter: julie rochman first began by crashing cars at the institute for highway safe safety. now she's here. >> our ultimate hope for this facility is for many years to come will be identifying different ways that houses and commercial structures fail. if we can figure out why they come apart, then we'll know better how to keep them

together. >> we have metal straps. >> reporter: in a structure that's fortified, there are small adjustments, like a door that opens outward instead of in so the house doesn't pressurize. nails instead staples and metal straps that connect the roof and floors to the foundation. >> we've got to create that desire for it and the value within society because when you lose a house, or you lose a whole community, the costs to society are huge. >> reporter: costs like $7.9 billion in commercial and residential losses in the first half of this year alone. hurricanes are the most destructive, accounting for 45% of losses in 2009. jim mozingo bought this fortified home in myrtle beach and says now he'd never go back. >> am i going to stay here if the weather station says we have a cat 5 storm coming in off the ocean? no, but i expect to come back and my home still be standing.

>> glor: early next year, the center will be testing for wildfires and hail storms.

>> glor: at fort hood, texas, today at least 300 military personnel and civilians took part nay run to remember, remembering 13 people killed in a shooting rampage one year ago. as they ran, participants in the half marathon passed portraits of the victims who were killed when major nadal husan, an american-born muslim, opened fire at a clinic on base. for more campaign news, campaign 1860. today marks the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln's election as our 16th president. events included reenactments of lincoln's debates two years earlier with stephen douglas.

macy's today tested kung if you panda and kool-aid man, newcomers to the thanksgiving day parade.

>> glor: she's been called by some the greatest race horse ever. her name is zenyatta. she is undefeated and today she was in her last race ever. and once again, she was up against the boys. sint yoo bowers tells us what happened. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a perfect finish to a perfect career. zenyatta won every race she'd ever run until today when she lost her 20th and final race. >> zenyatta, second. >> reporter: at 1200 pounds, 17 hands, and six years old, zenyatta was the biggest, oldest, and only female horse in this year's breeder's cup. she's arguably the best female athlete in the world now, even

making oprah's list of 20 women rocking the world, a success story credited with re-energizing the sport of horse racing. her talent has been carefully cultivated over time. she has constant attention 24 hours a day. timing is the key to her wins. she often holds back at the beginning of a race before going full throttle to win. >> zenyatta is now coming in. >> it's pretty amazing because within a matter of two to three jumps she can make up close to 10 lengths. >> gerry and anne ross, who named her after a police album, bought zenyatta five years ago for $60,000. she's now earned $6 million. as her trainer explained to "60 minutes," she's no stranger to rock star treatment. >> she's been really good, i could pop open a guinness and she could have a beer in the afternoon. >> reporter: in a thrill race that came down to the final

moment, zenyatta placed second, the first race where she didn't enter the winner's circle was also her last. but she will still be remembered as a champion. cynthia bowers, cbs news. >> glor: as we leave you here tonight, this reminder-- daylight saving time is ending so remember to turn your clocks back one hour tonight. that is the cbs evening news. later on cbs, "48 hours mystery." i'm jeff gror, cbs news in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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