>> glor: tonight drenching rains. a series of storms on the west coast will bring relief from extreme droughts but potentiality flooding too. eric fisher has the forecast. and ex officer darren wilson will not get a severance package. speak with his attorney. >> what should be done? >> julianna goldman on a controversial case before the supreme court. black friday shopping is down big. jill schlesinger will break down the numbers. carter evans on the man behind the hug. >> as a photographer you will get that scene, it's powerful especially what's going on now. >> this is

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: hi everyone i'm jeff glor. the wait has been too long, the rain may be too much. in the midst of a three year drought, the rains have come. in federal way washington. glendora, some places in northern california could get a half a foot or more. it is the biggest storm to hit the coast in nine months. eric fisher is chief meteorologist at wbz. what is happening out there? >> a storm system showing itself on satellite, but swinging monday night into tuesday, heavy rainfall all across california nor cal to southern california. it will be ongoing as we head

into wednesday. the rain is a good thing for a place that has seen a lot of drought, however keeping an eye on flooding, mudslides, burning areas, widespread one to three inches and half foot of rain in the foothills. >> glor: bitter cold in the plains. what's happening there? >> an arctic outbreak, feels like temperatures tonight into monday morning down to 40 below zero. this air is plummeting its way south ward, so on its way, single digit wind chills into the panhandle of texas. thank you very much. >> one day after darren wilson resigned from the police force of ferguson, missouri, protesters say his departure

changes nothing. vladimir duthier has the story. >> phone call from ferguson's police chief according to neil brvment brufntrager. >> suggesting there will be some targets at the time ferguson police department. and the moment he heard that, he also indicated he thought his resignation would help alleviate some of those threats. >> when you say targets what do you mean? >> we don't know much more than that. they had some intel that said there was some of violent nature. >> wilson referred the that unknown threat. it is my hope to continue in police work but the safety of police officers and the community is of paramount importance to me. overnight, news of the resignation did little to quiet the smaller but still vocal group of protesters outside the ferguson police department. >> when you take somebody's life

they take your job. you can go find another job you can't get the life back. >> protesters even made it to the football field when st. louis rams entered the stadium with hands raised, it's a symbol of hands up don't shoot. >> does he want to be a police officer somewhere else? >> i don't think he's ruled that out but it's unlikely, i think he realizes that, he would be a lightning rod for other activity that's not what he wants to do. >> today the city of ferguson said they are starting an initiative to hire more minorities. chief jackson never used the word resignation, the word was officer wilson's alone. >> california couple are being blocked from the middle east. being held in qatar despite

being cleared of child abuse charges. charlie d'agata has the story. >> today, a qatari judge believed them and set them free. >> this has been a long and emotional trial. for me and my family. and grace and i want to go home with our son. >> but she were stopped from going home. when they got to the airport, their passports were confiscated. in a statement the huongs said they were bard from leaving the country but didn't know why. moved his wife and their two african born children to the middle eastern country qatar. the girl died. qatari investigators and police

accused he them of starver her o death. prosecutors presented a case that as an asian couple the huongs could have only wanted to adopt an african quirl to traffic her or sell her organs. but today the judge said it was clear that they were good parents who cared for their children. meanwhile their two other sons are in l.a. where all they can do is wait for their parents to come home. charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >> pope francis is just back from a trip to turkey where he used his journey to condemn terrorism or actions leading to terrorism. >> pope francis rounded off his three day visit by holding a service for orthodox

bartholomew, the pope said i.s.i.s. was committing a profoundly grave sin against god. against military action against i.s.i.s. but said it must be accompanied by humanitarian aid. poverty he said can give rise to criminal activity and even the recruitment of terrorists. between them francis and bartholomew lead more than 1.5 billion christians. using their combined moral weight to deepen their commitment to what francis said suffering communities in the middle east including christians. their call for christians to work together for peace and the dignity of every person. in a press conference on his plane, francis said he told the turkish president that it would be good if all leaders condemned violence as being against the

koran. his final event was a meeting with about 100 young refugees. the message from one of them was an echo of the popes. >> we the christians of iraq are connected to all our christian faith. >> for francis it may well have been the perfect note to close his trip. allen pizzi, cbs news, istanbul. >> public or private forms of expression. here is julianna goldman. >> after his wife left him and took their with to chirp, anthony elonis. prompted a visit from the fbi he lashed out at law enforcement too, little agent lady pull so close, pull my 95, slit her

throat. elonis said he wasn't being truthful. now the supreme court which tail its first look at the limits of free speech on social media and decide whether such posts are constitutionally protected, or rise to a true threat which is illegal. the court has never given a clear answer as to what constitutes a true threat. in 1969 it was in favor of a war protestor, and in 2003, the court ruled that cross-burning is not in itself a true threat saying malicious intent has to be proven in order to make it a crime. john elwood is the attorney representing elonis. >> if you know the person you're going to be talking about is placed if fear at that point it becomes criminal. the key is whether he knew they

were frightening and said them anyway. >> no matter what the intent behind the postings the impact are the same. >> sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me, words like that are terrorizing. >> the intensely private supreme court justice et cetera examining a platform for which they are not that familiar. an explanation of the definition of facebook friends. >> julianna goldman, thank you very much. in georgia a boy missing since 2010 has been found and reunited with his mother. as his father and stepmother sit under arrest many questions about this unusual case remain a mystery. vicente arenas reports. a clayton county courtroom in georgia dam gregory jean, samantha joy davis and seven other people are being charged

with cruelty to children and false imprisonment. gene also faces a charge of obstructing an officer. julie pisar rvetiono, lives across the street from the family. >> there was no evidence of the stress. he didn't seem like he was reaching out to help me. >> but that 13-year-old boy had been reported missing by his mother in florida in 2010. on saturday his mother saw him again for the first time in four years. she had told child welfare officials the boy hadn't returned after visiting his father but she didn't tell police and it's not clear why. on friday, officers were called to the father's home in jones bro, south of atlanta, to look for the boy. gene denied he was there but police came back a second time. the child sent a text message to his mother who guided police to a false wall, hiding a

passageway leading to the attic where the boy was found. sergeant kevin hughes. >> the real investigation begins in that we need to know all of the questions, the who, the what, the when, the where and the why. so find out exactly what happened, is going to be the job of our detectives now. >>reporter: why the boy didn't attempt to call his mother before this weekend is not known. his father and stepmother are now being held without bond. have isen tahavevicente arenas,. >> me for information, at saturday's osu football game. kerrikerr are karageorge was fod inside a dumpster it appears he

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>> black friday weekend may be losing its edge. new numbers are out from the national retail federation, and the number dropped 5% from last year when total expected spending fell even more, 11%. our analyst jill slefng. >schlesinger. >> walmart started introducing holiday sales one week before black friday. they were luring a lot of people online as well as brick and mortar. that total sales number is weak. >> the total number but individual days, both thanksgiving and black friday are changing. >> thanksgiving is changing into a real shopping day. i guess people have cab up

sphere of. they are down on black friday. i think the nature of the retail season is also changing. maybe suddenly they're going to say instead of black friday weekend they're just going to call it november. whatever it is we are doing it differently now. >> what does this mean for season had ad? retailers hope for apickup? >> we have cyber monday tomorrow. but that last weekend before christmas it's a huge weekend. retailers are really hoping for the best then and of course after the holidays are actually over we see a lot of traffic at that point. >> jill thanks very much. >> great to be with you. >> up next the deep divisions inside iran on whether to negotiate with the u.s.

>> iran's supreme leader today called for a continued military buildup, apparently with little regard to the ongoing vienna talks over the nuclear program. not everyone in iran shares

those hard line view. elizabeth palmer has more from tehran. >> friday prayer at tehran's central mosque is more than ritual. this is where the leadership speaks its mind and sets out the hard line position on national issues. hard line religious conservatives do wield a lot of power in iran but huge chunks of the society simply disagree with both their politics and their policies. teen loyal foot soldiers of the islamic revolution appear at times to have lost their passion. at a ceremony this week it was clear that members of the bajy islamic militia were just going through the motion. side stepping the hard liners and their censorship. nadr w.h.o. holds a talk show on uniquely controlled television admits it does lead to weird

contradictions. >> the president has a twitter account and he tweets his position on things and yet twitter is blocked. >> yes. >> come on! >> but it's kind of crazy, it makes a mockery of the rule. >> it's not as crazy as some other things. >> other things like the constructive diplomatic relationship between iran's foreign minister and u.s. secretary of state john kerry. while back in iran hard line supporters are still marshaled to spout antiamerican slogans. >> why should they be sent into the street to say death to america? >> if america showed some good faith not just now, things would be different. >> you call a year of talks good faith? >> yes, i think that's what's happening on the street. is one thing. what's happening at the table in vienna or geneva is another thing. >> exactly.

two irans and two visions. lost in an epic struggle to determine the country's future. elizabeth palmer, cbs news tehran. >> still ahead here what it looks like when 2,000 couples are all married at the same time.

>> a narrow escape in china. a sinkhole opened up in the middle of an intersection in fujon province. most avoided it but one car got stuck as you see here. the people made it out but the car fell right out. it's believed that shifting sands beneath the roadway opened up the hole. floating christmas tree, not a tree designed to look like a tree. 280 feet tall and uses 3.1 million lights we're told not counting the fireworks. also in brazil today the largest

wedding ever held in rio. over 2,000 couples took part in the day of i do. it's l carried out for those who can't afford a ceremony of their own. chaos in california. the annualed the 80 bear toss, where fans fling their bears onto the ice and they are dplaited to kids in need for the holidays. coming up the hug that's envel opened the are world. enveloped the world.

>> timely tonight it's been six days since the grand jury declined to indict darren wilson for the shooting of michael brown. many of the images have been ugly, this one is not. here is carter evans. >> the clash after clash between

protesters and police. >> you are now subject to arrest. >> and then during a rally in downtown portland there was this encounter. 12-year-old davonte hart and policeman brett barnham. >> i said, is that guy crying? he said yes. >> free hugs, soon came this indelible image. johnny nguyen. >> a white american cop speaking to a young black american boy. >> when the tears started going away and drying up i realized we had made a connection. >> they weren't the only ones who felt a connection. since the photo first showed up in the organizia oregonian newss appeared in social media.

>> davonte's mother wrote on her facebook page, he struggles when living fearlessly and people who don't understand the complexity of racism that's prevalent in society. >> we're humans and that's exactly what's on that day, i'm human and reach out to a child and say are you okay? >> the other aftermath of ferguson. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> that is the cbs evening news tonight. later on cbs 60 minutes and first thing tomorrow, cbs this morning. and don't forget our digital network, cbsn. i'm jeff glor, scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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