>> axelrod: tonight, creeping closer to a deal. secretary of state kerry flies to geneva, fueling hopes that iran might agree to stop refining uranium, at least for now. margaret brennan is with the secretary. thanksgiving travelers may have some nasty weather to worry about this week. we'll tell you who's in the crosshairs of storm systems moving across the country. th bang-up feature on new cars designed to avoid bang-ups. carter evans will show us the statesstate-of-the-art in collin avoidance. you can't keep them down. less than a week after a tornado flattened illinois, it's undefeated football team took the field still focuse focused a state championship opinio

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jix axle exprod this is a western edition of the broadcast. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and leaders of five other nations are as close as they've been so far to finalizing a deal with iran to had is shut down part of its nuclear program. iran's deputy foreign minister reports they are 98% of the way there, but as margaret brennan tells us, it's the last 2% proving elusive. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry arrived in geneva this morning joining top diplomats from around the world as they pushed to overcome the remaining obstacles to a nuclear deal with iran. with the parties closer than ever, the british foreign minister warned that some of the final sticking points would be the hardest to settle. >> we're not here because things are necessarily finished. we're here because they're difficult, and they remain difficult. there are-- there are narrow gaps but they are important

gaps. >> reporter: among them-- what to do with iran's 16,000 centrifuges and whether iran will halt the development of ara, a key reactor. iran's nuclear negotiator described today's talks as hard and breath taking. foreign minister javad zarif said its country will not yield on what it says is its right to produce nuclear fuel known as enriched uranium. the u.s. said it does not recognize any country's right to enrich, and american diplomats are trying to negotiate that sticking point in this proposed six-month trial deal. so far the u.s. has agreed to a framework that allows for iran in $7to $10 billion in sanctions relief. iran must slow its program and offer proof to inspectors it is not trying to develop nuclear weapons. another challenge for both sides will be selling any deal to domestic audiences. this is a highly politicized issue in the u.s. and in iran.

here, talks are continuing to into the evening, but time may be running out. secretary kerry plans to travel to london in the morning, meaning if they don't come to a decision tonight both sides will likely have to come back and start all over again. >> axelrod: margaret bran an, thank you. we've been hearing about an 85-year-old man merrill newman from california who is being held in north korea. a month ago, newman, a tourist, was pulled from a plane on the runway just before headeg home from north korea. as terrell brown reports, his family still has no idea wheny he's been detained or when he might be released. >> reporter: merrill newman is 85 years old with a heart condition. his son, jeff, says it's been more than three weeks since anyone has heard from him. >> we've been in regular contact with the state department since the beginning of the detention, but we don't have any new information. >> reporter: newman, a korean war veteran, went to the country on a cite seeing tour with a

friend last month. he was arrested after boarding his flight home to pal bradshaw, california. robert carlin is a cbs news analyst. >> why they would hold an american citizen at exactly the time they're trying to get more tourists into the country seems to me a little odd. >> reporter: korean war veterans and tourists have been traveling to north korea in recent years without incident, but newman reportedly had a difficult discussion with government mind bers his military service there. six americans have been detained in north korea since 2 nine, including journallively una lee and lauren ling, accuse of trespassing, and kenneth bai still in custody for spreading christianity. >> it's very difficult to move ahead on other issues, as long as this is in the way. >> reporter: newman's friend marlin coughlin can't imagine

how he's a threat to anyone. >> i just feel he's the easiest man to talk to and the nicest and i just can't believe this will happen. >> reporter: swede sen holding talks to gain access to newman because the united states has no formal relationship with north korea. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. ?raim powerful storm system is dumping heavy rain and snow across the southwest this evening kill at least eight people. snow began falling last night in the mountains near los angeles forcing drivers to chain up or get off the road. snow is also slowing traffic in and around flagstaff, arizona, where up to eight more inches of snow is predicted this weekend. the snow is being blamed for hundreds of accidents across the region as it moves northeast across the country. for a look at where the storms are headed let's go to meteorologist eric fisher at our boston station wbz. err. >> as we move towards the holiday, travelers in what part of the country should be most worried? >> on the short term this weekend, jim, it's across texas,

new mexico, winter storm warning not just for snow but freezing rain that will be coming down. pretty hefty accumulations in the mountains, but it's northwest texas that will really have to watch for the ice on top of that. as we head towards next week, exphnd tuesday, it's the gulf coast, locally heavy rain, especially in the i-10 corridor, airports like atlanta, charlotte, jax sonville, new orleans, expecting those to see delays. then wednesday, the big day, and rain is look likely along the east coast. this could be heavy rain, the 95 corridor, interior snow not out of the question, the exact track still a bit uncertain. it's looking likely we will see big slowdowns on the east coast. >> axelrod: eric fisher with our weather picture, thank you. there was news from london that had a lot of people seeing cleveland. like we saw earlier in the u.s., three women were presk nude great britain from a home where they were held for three decades. charlie d'agata updates us on what police are learning. >> reporter: british police went house to house, asking

neighbors what they knew, how three women could allegedly be held as slaves undetected for so long. scotland yard reveals, the two suspects, a man and a woman, both aged 67, are from india and tanzania but have been living in britain since 1960s. two of the victims told police they met the male suspect in south london and began living together in what investigators described as a collective rve a sort of commune. what happened next is at the core of the investigation. detectives say the victims, including the younger, 30-year-old woman, were forced to stairks beaten, and brainwashed. >> well if it involved handcuffs, there's a very good explanation of this, because people feel they're controlled. people feel they have to do as they're told. >> reporter: authorities have surveillance on the apartment for weeks before making the arrest earlier this week. there's been a police presence outside this residence dr most of the day. investigators say they spent 12

hours searching the house yesterday, gathering 55 bags of evidence and 2500 exhibits. residents we spoke to said they had no clue what was going on. do either one of you recall seeing the peek pooem in there? >> i have never seen anybody that comes out. >> reporter: never? >> never, ever. >> reporter: and now nobody's going back in, not least the three women for whom it was a prison for so long. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >> axelrod: later, cell phone calls on crowded planes. convenience or the last straw? and cars that avoid collisions. the stars of the l.a. auto show next.

>> axelrod: you may be thrilled with the recentarily rule change that lets you keep using electronic devices during an entire flight, but how would you feel if the person sitting next to you could stop playing candy crush and call his mom for an hour? the federal communications commission will vote next month on allowing in-flight cell phone calls. jeff pegues reports the objections are already piling up. >> reporter: in the air, the new frontier is what passengers are carrying in their hands, and now that the f.a.a. cleared the way for the use of tablets and e-readers for takeoff through landing, cell phone voice calls may soon be the next in-flight ban to do. but regan national traveler john richard says he would not use his phone in the air. >> wouldn't want to have other people listening to my conversation. >> reporter: the backlash is growing. more than 2,000 people have signed a. on the white house web site asking that phone calls stay out of the cabin, but the potential rule change has less to do with voice calls and more

to do with broadband access. an f.c.c. official tells cbs news a cell signal will give passengerrers a broadband option offering faster ways to surf the web. unlike current wifi services on commercial airplanes, cell signals will allow passenger pao send text messages. any new service in the air will mean more new fees, roaming charges that will likely benefit the cell phone companies and airlts. the added charges have bye-bye a major revenue stream. last year, a study found airlines raked in an additional $27 billion in add-ons such as checked bags and extra legroom. if there is a rule change, concerns about voice calls and noise may drowp out the professional travel manager steven mandelbaum sees as a game changer for passengers. >> i think this could bring down costs for computers. if there are competing technologies on the plane or offer to a carrier, right, they

can negotiate get better prices for the service and theoretically pass that on to consumers. >> reporter: just about everyone agrees on one thing it's current rules are outdated. the f.c.c. will vote on the proposal in mid-december. jim, if they approve, it will be up to the airlines to decide whether to follow the recommendations. >> axelrod: jeff pegues in washington, thank you. let's breng in our cbs news travel editor peter greenberg. peter, i can't imagine a phone conversation at 35,000 feet being conducted in anything other than a loud voice, and that could create a little bit of tension in the cabin. >> could, probably will, because, remember, this is not a technical issue because there is no technical problem. the technology has been available for many, many years it's not an aviation safety issue. it's a social issue. it's about invasion of privacy and good manners at 35,000 feet and when you introduce a phone conversation into that, who knows what's going to happen. >> axelrod: which is why i suppose the airlines are really pushing back against this idea. >> many airlines have already said they don't want to do it.

delta airline said no matter what the f.c.c. decides they're not going to change their own rules and allow it to happen because of overwhelmingly negative customer response. other airlines said they might want to to do it. the bottom line is, any time you introduce a phone conversation into ambient noise that requires you to scream to make the conversation happy, i don't have to complete that sentence. >> axelrod: the flight attendants just got out of having to play the role of cabin police-- not asking people to close up their devices upon landing or takeoff. this put them right back into that position. >> well, there's the likelihood that the f.c.c. may relax the rules to allow just texting, but you can't do texting because people are going to cheat and use their phones. and if they use their phones, the flight attendants may have to call 911. >> axelrod: that will be the next call, peter greenberg. thanks so much. up next, prince harry in argentina, gearing up for his hike to the south pole.

prince harry is about to set off on a long walk, a long, cold walk. the prince is in argentina, along with a team of wound service members and their supporters. on monday, they'll leave on a 200-mile trek to the south pole. this is all to raise money for the walking with the wounded charity. good luck finding microsoft's newest version of its x-box video game system. more than a million of the new x-box 1 game consoles were sold in the u.s. and canada within the first 24 hours yesterday. that is a first-day x-box sales record. a big opening day at movie theaters as well. for the sequel to request the hunger games." "the hunger games: catching fire" took in $70.5 million at box offices in the u.s. and another $64 million overseas. how much would you pay for a

horse's head? what if it was a prop from one of the most famous scenes in movie history. >> aarrgghh! aarrgghhh! jim glim that is what happened to a hollywood producer's prize race horse in the god father after he refused don corleone's request to cast his godson in one of the producer's movies. today, this fake horse's head sold for $8600 and it was only used in rehearsals pain real horse's head was used in the actual shooting of the scene. still ahead, high-tech cars designed to drastically lower your risk of collision.

auto show is now under way, and

an annual showcase for all the newest ways technology is influencing car design. what not too long ago seemed like extravagant luxury options may soon be showing up on dash boards as standard features. carter evans shows us how the car of the future could be just a few short years away. >> the next level of autonomous technol. >> reporter: it's a major theme at this year's l.a. auto show-- cars with brains. bart herring is with mercedes benz. what can this car do that some of your others may not? >> now with the e and s class we have a car that can steer itself. >> reporter: mercedes uses radar, sonar, and infrared sensors, along with two video cameras, to help the vehicle see the road ahead, enabling the car to react much quicker than the driver. >> it can stop itself if it has to. >> reporter: but collision-avoidance technology, once confined to luxury cars is going mainstream.

>> these are the two cameras mounted up here. >> reporter: subaru's dominick infante said its new system may soon be standard equipment in the u.s. he says the technology has been common in japan for almost a decade. if you don't hit the brakes in time, it's going to do it for you? >> exactly. it's an unusual feeling when it takes over but as long as you have faict in it, it will stop the car. >> reporter: this year the insurance institute of highway safety added something new to its crash test, a category called crash avoidance. this test was at 25 miles per hour. subaru got top marks. doug newcomb says with so many distractions on the road-- >> drivers become complacent and that's the whole idea behind the technology is look out for them when they're not paying attention. >> reporter: in traffic, this car can actually start itself, stop itself, and basically be in stop-and-go traffic. >> that's right. that's one more step to have the ability to have autonomous driving. >> reporter: a space age dream

that may soon be a reality. >> fully autonomous from the moment you enter the highway until you exist. >> we're a lot closers to cars driving themselves than people imagine. >> axelrod: a tornado took a toll on this football team's home town but not on its spirit.

once or twice before football is a game of inches. there's a high school player in iowa that will show you that's more than a cliche. watch adam schliesman line up for a field goal, class 2a championship game. he kicks up, off the crossbar, and good. kemper catholic beats waukon. it's also a game of inches. it's also a game with an extraordinary capacity to rally communities that have little to cheer about. in fact a powerful example of

that was on display in illinois this afternoon. last week this time, the only thing on the mind of kim jong un was that their son's high school football team had just won the play-off game, one more win and the washington panters would play for the state championship. >> boys had a fantastic game, and we had no idea what was going to happen 16 hours later. >> axelrod: this is what happened. a tornado roared through washington, a town of 16,000, near peoria. the brownfields huddled with their son, brogan, a team captain, and their daughter hannah in the basement. >> it seemed like an eternity to me but to mike, brogan, and hannah, they said it seemed like seconds. and i was thinking it was the light coming in from our backdoor coming down the stairwell. it didn't take me long to figure on the that's not why it was so bright. it was that there was no house above us. >> axelrod: 1,000 homes were gone, including those of nine of

nine other players. amid all the def stairksz people like kim browne field found little treasures that survived, like a pendant with brogan's number 65. >> i'm so glad it's not damaged. it's the little things. >.>> axelrod: in times of trauma, little things become big things, like her son's team flag, still flying. >> there's always an american flag on the 20-foot pole in the back and it's gone but the panther flag prevailed, and i don't know, i'm pretty proud of that. >> axelrod: which brings us to spistled, kill notice, where sacred heart-griffin kicked off this afternoon. it's not often that an opposing team picks up the other team's fans and pringz them back to the game. dressed in panthers colors, kim browne field took her seat in the stands today. hollywood might have had her team winning big but this was illinois the washington panters

was crushed 44-14. >> it's a great season. i love you, too. >> axelrod: which really didn't matter much to kim or the 1500 other people from washington who made the trip, all with some new perspective about winning and losing. >> it was nothing but about football today, and-- and i think it's going to be a little bit hard to drive back into town. i think it's going to-- it's going to hit home. but it's good. it's going to be good. >> axelrod: in addition to the buses and the hair ribbons, the sacred heart fans mades hundredsed of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the visitors. pb & j is a tradition for washington fans to eat during the game. sometimes who won isn't the headline. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york. for all of here on cbs news, thanks for joining us and good

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