the wire on the payroll tax cut. the senate approves an extension, but for only two months and with awe big condition. nancy cordes reports on the congressional maneuvering. the egyptian army launches a violent crackdown on cairo protesters. alan pizzey watches the military turn against its former allies it is super saturday for hole i can shoppers. manuel gallegus tracks their spending on what could be a make-or-break day. and phoning it in-- ben tracy goes behind the scenesave full-size movie shot with a smartphone. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. it's a deal but don't get too

happy about it yet. that's the word from some republicans on a possible agreement to extend the payroll tax cut. while the senate today did give a final thumbs-up on a $1 trillion bill to keep the government running through next summer, the payroll tax deal faces another fight and soon. congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the latest. >> reporter: with the holidays fast approaching, senate leaders set aside their differences, to a point. >> we'll get it done. >> reporter: and crafted a deal that will extend the payroll tax cut but just for the next two months. >> the ayes are 89, the nays are 10. >> reporter: in a rare saturday session, the senate voted overwhelmingly today to keep payroll taxes at 4.2%, down from the traditional 6.2%. >> we stayed in session to present issues to the american public that were extremely important. >> reporter: they voted to give long-term jobless americans 99 weeks of unemployment benefits. but because negotiators could not agree on how to pay the $90

$190 million price tag they decided only to extend the tax cut and expanded unemployment benefits for two months, meaning they'll be fighting about this all over again when they return in january. this afternoon, the president said he's confident a longer extension will pass. >> it should be a formality and hopefully it's done with as little drama as possible. >> reporter: republicans extracted a big concession from democrats. in exchange for their support on unemployment benefits. the bill requires the administration to speed up a decision on the keystone xl oil pipeline, a decision the president wanted to delay until 2013. >> here's an opportunity for the president to say he's not going to let a few radical environmentalists stand in the way of a project that will create thousands of jobs and make america more than secure at the same time. >> reporter: the bill now goes to the house, and we're hearing tonight that a large number of house republicans are very upset about the deal.

they don't like the fact that the payroll tax cut was only extended for two months. they feel it creates too much uncertainty for the middle class taxpayer and, russ, we're told they're trying to figure out their next move. >> mitchell: nancy cordes on capitol hill. thanks a lot. with 17 days to go before the iowa caucuses it is another day of punches and counter-punches for the republicans who want to be president. while the front-runner enjoys a commanding lead in the polls, his biggest rival hit another key state today and went on the attack. whit johnson begins our coverage. >> reporter: on a two-day campaign tour in south carolina, mitt romney looked to steal some momentum from rival newt gingrich. >> i recognize the speaker has a big lead here but i think as people take a closer and closer look, they'll recognize that i reflect more effectively the positions which they hold on key issues. >> reporter: he also picked up a key endorsement from governor and tea party darling nikki haley, perhaps earning romney a second look from reluctant

southern conservatives. >> the next president of the united states. >> reporter: south carolina will be the third state to judge the republican field. romney finished fourth there in a 2008 primary and earlier this week, gingrich was leading romney by 19 points in a state poll. today, romney continued to hammer the former house speaker for his ties to freddie mac. >> i'm going to let the lawyers decide what is and is not lobbying but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, typically it is a duck. >> reporter: gingrich earned a report $1.6 million while consulting for freddie mac. this morning in a conference call with iowa voters he defended himself saying the money went to his company, not to him and his work was beneficial to underprivileged families. despite the attacks, gingrich took a short break from the campaign trail. he attended a book signing with his wife this afternoon in virginia.

not in iowa, where he's also the front-runner, but where much of the republican pack is trying to chip away at his lead. newt gingrich will join his g.o.p. rivals in iowa monday, roughly two weeks ahead of the state's caucus on january 3. russ. >> mitchell: whit johnson in washington, thanks. for more on the republican race we are joined by chief washington correspondent and host of "face the nation" bob schieffer. >> >> reporter: i think it goes back to this business that there's a certain segment within the republican party that simply does not like mitt romney. first you saw michele bachmann rise up as a sort of "anybody but romney" candidate. then along comes rick perry from texas. then along comes herman cain. now that happens to be newt gingrich. but newt has-- he's for real right now, and i think the romney people have recognized that and have recognized this is something they're going to have to deal with. he's got a pretty good lead out

there right now in iowa. >> mitchell: i heard you say years ago, bob, that a swagger will take you only so far in politics. having said that, does gingrich have the infrastructure to go the distance? >> reporter: well, he really doesn't right now. he has got to raise some money so he can hire more staff. an example, what he's doing out there right now while the others are pounding him in television ads, he's arranging conference calls with his supporters to explain himself and to defend himself because right now, he can't afford to buy the ads that his competitors are buying out there. >> mitchell: bob schieffer, as always, thanks a lot. >> reporter: you bet. >> mitchell: and newt gingrich will be bob's guest tomorrow on "face the nation. turning overseas, thousands of tunisians turned out to remember mohammed bouazizi, street vendor on who set himself on fire after refusing to pay bribes to police. though he died of his burns his protest triggered the arab

spring. in egypt, the army today turned on civilian demonstrators who once saw the military as their allies. alan pizzey has the latest. >> reporter: any hope egypt's military would hand over power ahead of its own schedule were dashed in the second day of violence that has left at least nine dead and hundreds wounded. soldiers smashed a camp in tahrir square and reportedly fired live ammunition on demonstrators demanding that the military step down immediately. the violence kicked off yesterday when a small mob tried to break into the cabinet building. and it was the army, the institution that had been seen as a savior of the revolution to bring democracy to egypt, which came out to crush the protests. footage from the streets, including amateur video and even some taken by an egyptian television station, show them acting the way the police had done when the revolt began back in january. the brutal response prompted a

civilian advisory panel created to work with the security forces to suspend its work in protest. the army even took a page from their opponents' play book. these pictures show what protesters said were soldiers hurling stones and piece of concrete from rooftops on to the crowds in the street below but the youthful militants seemed to have an endless capacity to improvise and adapt and show no sign of relenting in their demand that the military hand over to full civilian rule immediately. alan pizzey, cbs news, london. >> mitchell: the last u.s. combat troops are leaving iraq an end to the nearly nine-yearlong u.s. mission. the end of the war makes 23-year-old david hickland the final american fatality, this according to the pentagon. he died november 14 in an i.e.d. attack outside buying. he was the 4,484th american to die in iraq.

and joining us from baghdad is correspondent elizabeth palmer. liz, i know you have been in and out of baghdad now for almost a decade. how would describe the city today? >> reporter: in a word, russ, it's broken. we were out driving around today #-r. there's garbage everywhere, smashed concrete, blast walls. the services are not functioning very well at all. people are getting five to six hours of electricity a day. hospitals are terribly overcrowded, and in some areas there is even problems with water. the iraqis are really fed up. they keep being told that theirs is an oil-rich country so they're asking, "oh, yeah, well, where's the money being spent because it's not being spent on services for us." >> mitchell: iraqis are fed up. how do they feel about americans now that they're leaving? >> reporter: many iraqis do respect and admire americans, but there is still a boiling resentment. they feel americans started the cycle of violence here, that they were guilty of violence

through their own military, and nowadays, iraqis blame americans for putting a corrupt and incompetent government in place. they point out that this government can't even keep iraqis safe. one of the most vulnerable groups of people to random attacks are the iraqi interpreters who used to work for the more than military. and we met one of them over the past few days. too nervous to leave the house much these days, this 26-year-old we'll call terry looks at his u.s. military souvenirs and recalls happier times when he worked for the american army as a translator. what did you do for the united states? >> i helped them distinguish who is the good guys and who is the bad guys? >> reporter: you're their eyes and ears, really? >> exactly. >> reporter: in fact, he helped his unit catch iraqis trying to cheat on u.s. reconstruction contracts. it made him a lot of enemies. what will happen to you if you stay here?

>> we'll get killed. >> reporter: terry believed he'd qualify for resettlement in the u.s. under a program designed for iraqis whose service to america left them in danger. over a year on, he's still waiting. since 2007, almost 4,000 of these iraqis under threat have received their visas, but suddenly, this year, that stream of approvals slowed to a trickle. in 2009, 1,448 were granted. in 2010, 951. this year, just 322. the state department's explanation-- due to unspecified threats, its had "enhanced the screening process to keep our country safe." this week, the white house said it's now taken steps to streamline the process and is working to clear the backlog. >> people in the white house have lost their sense of urgency on this. >> reporter: in 2005, kirk

johnson was a u.s.a. i.d. worker in iraq. now back home, he heads the list project, an organization that supports threatened iraqis. >> death threats that have been forwarded to me over the years usually they're delivered in an envelope with a blood-soaked bullet, sometimes it's sent with a knife. for the first time ever in five years, i've been feeling the need to tell these iraqis that they probably should start making plans somewhere else. >> reporter: terry isn't ready to do that yet. what do you hope to achieve in the united states? >> if you work hard you can be something. >> reporter: so it represents opportunity for you. >> yeah. >> reporter: and also safety. >> exactly. >> reporter: indoors and out of sight, he still is hoping to get a visa and to be alive when it finally comes through. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, baghdad. >> mitchell: and coming up next on the cbs evening news, will super saturday ring up

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jumpsuit instead of bears blue. his attorney denies the charges. >> he's eager to fight this case. he's eager to get in court, and he's eager for the truth to come out. >> reporter: but if the charges prove true, what does it mean for the nfl? >> this is a league that until recent years, had a real problem with cocaine and players. the league doesn't want to go back to an era where players were associated with this very dangerous drug. >> reporter: the bottom line for the nfl is, if this is just about sam hurd, it's embarrassing. but there is a report, unconfirmed, that the feds have a list of at least 10 other nfl players involved in the drug trade. if that is true, this case could be a disaster for the nfl. russ. >> mitchell: tony guida, thank you very much. tragedy struck in the middle of the night in the philippines where flash flooding claimed at least 436 lives mainly in two cities in the southern mindanao islands. the flooding and mudslides from rains as a typhoon struck while. hundreds are reported missing.

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film was shot on a nokia n8 smartphone. the crew even managed this aerial shot by strapping the phone to a remote-control helicopter and hoping for the best. it took 17 takes to get it right. >> it was difficult, but ultimately, it was so much cheaper than getting a crane because that helicopter pilot cost 600 bucks. >> reporter: one of the biggest challenges is that smartphones think they're smarter than we are. the crew had to hack into their phone and permanently disable the auto zoom and auto focus features to get the shots they wanted. they then attached a 35 millimeter lens to the front of the phone in very low-tech, and low-budget fashion. they used double-sided tape. yet, the film had all the hollywood trappings-- hair and makeup, location scouts, and even two-time academy award- nominated actress gena rowlands. >> is this a game? >> reporter: it cost half a million dollars to make. chris kelly, a former facebook executive, put up some of the money.

>> you can put the power in the palm of someone's hand to shoot a beautiful movie like this, there's a lot that you can do about storytelling in the world. somebody's got to do it first and that's what we wanted to do. >> reporter: "olive" is now playing at this movie theater near los angeles. it will be run for a week so it can be considered for an academy award in february. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: and finally this evening, winter does not officially start until thursday. but try telling that to giant pandas a and ching-feng who are enjoying an early snowfall at a national park in china. caretakers decided not to clear the snow away tristate pandas' home because, as you can see, the two are having so much fun. yes, that is very cute. and that is the cbs evening news. later on cbs "48 hours profit." thanks for joining us this evening. i'm russ mitchell in new york. good night. captionin

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