police commissioner bill bratton. >> i think it quite clear what we're advocating through you, certainly is this idea of don't be afraid. be aware. >> reporter: a new intelligence bulletin sent to law enforcement around the country warns that there could be copycats in the u.s. looking to replicate the paris attacks. ron hosko is a former assistant director of the f.b.i. how much of isis' strategy is about fear? >> i think a large proportion is about fear. could something happen? yes. but is there a greater likelihood of being struck by lightning or struck by a car on the way to d.c.? yes. >> reporter: today, president obama tried to reassure the public. >> what happened in paris is truly horrific. i understand that people worry that something similar could happen here. i want you to know that we will

continue to do everything in our power to defend our nation. >> reporter: and that strategy involves studying tactics used in paris. intelligence officials believe the attackers conducted pre-operation surveillance. police in the u.s. are being advised to be on the lookout for suspicious people conducting surveillance on soft targets. >> pelley: jeff pegues, thanks. in another big story tonight, a white chicago police officer was charged today with murder more than a year after shooting a black teenager in the back. a video of the shooting was released tonight and chicago is bracing for a reaction. here's dean reynolds. on october 20th of last year, >> scared to death. anita alvarez is cook county state's attorney. >> this officer went over board.

>> van dyk's trouble began in october of last year along this street when he and seven other officers pursued a robbery suspect. 17-year-old laquan mcdonald who was acting erratically and waiving a three inch knife. no other officer felt the need to open fire except for van dyk who prosecutors say 6 seconds after arriving on the scene shot mcdonald 16 times it took 14 seconds 13 of which the teenager was on the ground. van dyk was preparing to reload when ordered to hold fire. dan dike said mcdonald lunged at him and that he feared for his life. police videotape tells a far different story and so did an eyewitness. >> the motorist stated that mcdonald never moved toward, launched at or did agnythin threatening towards the officers before he was shot and to the ground. >> chicago officials had resisted releasing the video

arguing it would jeopardize local and federal investigations of the shooting. when a county judge last week over rode that argument and ordered the tapes release. prosecutors said the video is graphic, violent and chilling and there is concern once it's available for all to see, it could revoke a violent reaction and painful questions about why it took so long to arrest the shooter seen on the tape. >> now, here at the police headquarters the mayor and the superintendent of police sl just held a -- have just held a press conference where they insisted that officer dan van dyk is no represented of the police department. if he's convicted he faces 20 years to life behind bars. >> and the video is in process of being released tonight. dean, thank you. we now know where the paris attackers were planning to strike next until the police took them out. cbs overnight news will be right back. friends coming over?

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>> french prosecutor said today that the men who planned the paris attacks planned a bombing days later in the city's financial district. those planners were killed in a raid last week. tonight, debora patta has learned of another surprising revelation in the assault on paris. (gunfire) >> reporter: while police were still rescuing hostages from the attack on the packed concert hall, french investigators revealed today that the presumed mastermind of the paris attacks had actually returned to the scene of the crime. abdelhamid abaaoud used his cell phone near the bataclan that night according to prosecutor francois molins. he also revealed that abaaoud, along with an accomplice, was planning another suicide bomb attack, this time at la defense, a busy parisian business district. abaaoud was killed in a fierce police gun battle last wednesday, and now there is a new addition to europe's most

wanted list, 30-year-old mohammed abrini. police believe he may have been traveling in the same car with salah abdeslam, the terrorist who escaped last week and is still on the run. abrini's d.n.a. was found in a car used in the attacks. in brussels, belgian police are still trying to root out a terror cell and most of the city is on lockdown, but tomorrow things will start returning to normal. most of the subways will reopen, and, scott, children will be going back to school. >> pelley: debora patta reporting for us tonight. debora, thank you. a new perspective on the syrian refugee crisis next.

>> pelley: today, presidents obama and hollande defended their plans to accept syrian refugees. mr. obama said america is strengthened by people of every faith. but opponents say that terrorists could hide among the migrants. well as america prepares to observe the holiday that celebrates the first refugees on our shores, we asked adriana diaz to look into the controversy in kentucky. >> reporter: it's a first thanksgiving for america's newest pilgrims, refugees, some who arrived from syria less than two months ago, all breaking bread in their new home in kentucky. newcomers like 15-year-old koussay ghalyoun, and 18-year- old nour alkunuss.

>> when i remember my country, i feel like i'm dying. >> reporter: why? >> because people in my country die every day. every day. >> reporter: they met here at a school for refugees in kentucky, far from the front lines of syria, but now, they're facing another brewing problem. since the paris attacks, protesters have taken to the streets across the united states voicing their opposition to syrian refugees coming in. more than 30 governors across the country agree, including matt bevin, who takes office here in kentucky in two weeks. people have to go through years of background checks, interviews that last hours at a time. why change things now. >> let's be thoughtful. let's pause. let's use a measured approach. that's all anybody is saying. if we are delusional to think there are not evil people trying to do bad things to ourselves we

are going to do so, be delusional to our own detriment. >> reporter: shadi, who asked us not to use his last name, is a new arrival. "if there is an explosion in a country and syrians are stopped from coming in, of course, that creates some fear," he says. "it's the same kind of fear we felt when we were in syria." he says getting to the u.s. was grueling. nur is eager to start a new life here. these new arrivals say they're thankful for the warm welcome they've received here but are worried with what lies ahead. adriana diaz, cbs news, louisville, kentucky. >> pelley: an extraordinary group of americans was honored at the white house today, and that story is next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

>> pelley: today, president obama awarded the medal of freedom to an incredible array of great americans. ♪ people who need people ♪ >> pelley: people like streisand and sondheim, berra and mays, and shirley chisholm, the first black woman in congress. >> i want to be remembered as a catalyst for change. >> pelley: 17 people who changed america for the better. here's bill plante.

>> reporter: they've enriched our lives with music. don't bring around a cloud to rain on my parade >> a long drive way back. >> reporter: thrilled us on the field. >> willy mays... >> reporter: made movies leap off the screen. james taylor was honored for his 50 years of exploring life through music. >> that's the thing about james- - you always feel like he's singing only to you. ♪ in my mind i'm goin' to carolina ♪ >> the issues that i kwom pell me are still the same ones. you know, it's what i love to do. i think that over time, you get incrementally better at it. >> reporter: how long can you keep doing this? >> it's hard to believe i'm not closer to the end than i am to the beginning, but i'll carry on as long as-- as long as there seems to be support for it. >> reporter: because, in the words of another one of today's honorees-- >> it ain't over till it's over. yogi berra, amazing.

>> reporter: and as the great yankee catcher also said, "you can observe a lot by just watching." ♪ i've seen fire and i've seen rain. >> reporter: watching a play, an impassioned speech, a concert. ♪ thought they'd never end >> reporter: 17 americans who all made a mark on our national life. when you could not find a friend >> reporter: bill plante, cbs news, washington. but i always thought i'd see you again. ( applause ). that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues for others check back with us a little bit later for other news of course, cbs this morning. for the broadcast in new york city.

>> nato held an emergency session trying to contain the political and military fall out after turkey shot down a russian plane. >> the plane was bombing militants the group insist they informed russian pilots several times and only opened fire when it was over turkish territory. holly williams begins our coverage. >> reporter: turkey says the russian warplane strayed over a mile into the airspace. after 10 warnings without a response, a turkish fighter jet shot it down. this video is thought to show its fiery descent, crashing down

in northwest syria. turkey says this radar map shows where the aircraft briefly crossed over, but russia denies the plane ever left syrian airspace, and the visibly angry russian president vladimir putin called turkey's actions a stab in the back, describing the turkish as terrorists' accomplices. turkey had already warned moscow about violating its airspace and says russian planes did so twice in october. a syrian rebel group posted this video, which seems to show the bloody body of one of the russian pilots. the fate of the other pilot is unknown. russia and turkey are on opposite sides of the syrian civil war. turkey, like its ally the u.s.,

supports the syrian rebels. while russia backs the syrian regime and in september began launching airstrikes. moscow claims to be targeting isis, but the u.s. says it's also hit so-called moderate rebels because russia's real goal is to prop up syria's dictator, bashar al-assad. there were hopes that russia could be coaxed into cooperating with the u.s. and its allies in the fight against isis, but, scott, after this incident, that now looks even more uncertain. >> when the moment russian war planes began operating after that air space in syria it was an international incident waiting to happen. russian planes violated turkish airspace on at least two previous occasions, flew within 500 feet of american aircraft striking isis targets in syria, and bombed opposition groups supported by the u.s. and its allies. to avoid incidents, a hot line was set up between the russian

defense ministry and the u.s.- run command center for coalition airstrikes against isis. but to no avail. after vladimir putin's angry reaction to the shootdown, the russian military said a cruiser armed with surface-to-air missiles would be stationed off the syrian coast ready to shoot down any planes that threatened its aircraft. president obama urged both sides to remain calm and described the incident as a consequence of russia's policy of flying airstrikes in support of the syrian regime of bashar al- assad. >> i do think that this points to an ongoing problem with the russian operations in the sense that they are operating very close to a turkish border, and they are going after moderate opposition. >> reporter: turkey is a member of nato, which has spent the past year and a half scrambling jets and deploying troops to counter what is seen as increasingly aggressive russian behavior.

the sudden appearance of russian warplanes in syria represented another threat to nato, this time on its southern flank, when the u.s. sent planes to turkey in an effort to increase the number of strikes against isis, it also sent air-to-air fighters to defend turkish airspace against russian warplanes. russia may be causing problems, but in this particular incident, scott, u.s. officials blame turkey for over-reacting to a minor violation of its airspace. >> news came as president obama in the wait of the paris terror attacks. they're trying to rally international support for a military campaign against islamic state. president obama agreed that isis must be destroyed. >> we're here today that the united states of france stand united in total solidarity to deliver justice to these terrorists and those who sent them to defend our nations.

>> and that spirit with heavy and strong hearts i welcome you here today. this barbaric terrorist group pose a serious threat to all of us. it cannot be tolerated and it must be destroyed and we must do it together. this is the unity and purpose that brings us here today. it's been noted that the terrorist did not direct their attacks against the french government or military, rather they focused their violence on the very spirit of france. my extension on all liberal democracies. this was an attack on our free and open societies where people come together to celebrate, compete, and targeting venues where people come together from

around the world citizens of nearly 20 countries, including america. this is an attack on the very idea that people of different races, religions and backgrounds can live together in peace. in short, this was not only a strike against one of the world's great cities, it was an attack against the world itself. it's the same madness that has slaughtered the innocent from nigeria to sinai and lebanon to iraq. it is a scourge that turns all of us. and that's why for more than a year the united states, france, and our coalition of some 65 nations have been united in one mission to destroy these isil terrorist and defeat their vile i'dology. >> what is your reaction to turkey shooting down russian plane today? >> well, first of all, we're still getting the details of what happened and i expect to be

in communications, potentially, directly with president and everyone some time over the next several days. >> turkey like every country has r has a right to defend its territory and its air space. i think it's very important for us right now to make sure both the russians and the turks are talking to each other to find out exactly what happened and take measures to discourage any kind of escalation. i do think that this points to an on-going problem with the russian operations in the tense that they're operating very close to a turkish border, and they are going after moderate opposition that are supported by not only turkey but a wide range of countries. >> the "cbs overnight news" will

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this is your eye opener to this day. >> in the wake of paris terror attacks france has stepped up its bombing campaigns in syria and iraq. on the ground the fight has been left the kurdish fighters iraqi security forces. there are also a handful of american officers helping to direct the fighting. >> general thurston where iraqis and americans have been sitting side by side. thousands for calls for u.s. and coalition air strikes have come through here. >> who is bringing intelligence that feeds these coals? >> we have national

intelligence, everything is fusing in different parts of this building and coming to this strike zone, that's where it's checked and coordinated and approved. >> on their screens live feeds from drones that record every minute of the war. and seens from inside islamic state health territoriy that they were watching on september 11 this year. these are photographs that were confirmed ton the same scene in the town square, 12 islamic state fighters were preparing to execute this man. >> there are small children brought into the very front of the crowd and we sat there helplessly, calls are coming for strike, they're going to assassinate this person in front of these children. we can't because they're children and we had to watch that. >> moments later, the execution took place and the victim lay

dead. shot by this man, once in the head and once more in the body. the american drone stayed with the 12 terrorists. >> we followed them as they got into three vehicles and drove out of town. then they made a mistake because they always made mistakes and all 12 went into the building on the side of the river and none of those 12 came out. >> gurston told us tht the air strike that destroyed that building. it's more than 5,000 strikes to support the iraqi army and kurdish forces on the ground over the past year. yet the islamic state remains intrenched in its strong hold. 5 months later, the country's second largest city fell and the iraqi army collapsed. islamic state terrorist quickly advanced toward the iraqi capitol attempting to encircle

baghdad infiltrating towns and villages on the out skirts. we the army largely absent it was the shiite militants, iraq's neighbor to the east that helped push back the militants of the islamic state. one of the shiite ma that's known here as the popular mobilitization forces. after months of negotiation they agreed to take us up to the front. treacherous journey we could not have made without them. for more than a year, the islamic state held this ground, but our fighters told us they fought hard to win it back. now, through desolate landscape, scarred by recent battles they were taking us toward their front line just outside boluga.

a islamic state base for almost two years. >> we're going up to part of the front line that's closest, we're told that this point is only a mile away and the biggest threat here is from snipers. >> it was in 2004 that 82 americans died fighting the bloodiest battle of the iraq war. the local commander here showed us a tunnel islamic state terrorist moved to undefected from american planes. >> ied right here. >> and he showed us unexploded bombs they left behind. this river, he said, is the distance between his fighters and the enemy. >> this is a lot of spent rounds, huh? >> that's about two months. >> this is about two months of shooting? so they used the buildings for cover and they come and attack in small groups? >> sometimes they fight from the hazards, but sometimes they use

the trees and the bushes for cover. >> the tasks that lies ahead of trying to liberate the major cities still occupied by the enemy is daunting. but it remains the eventual goal of their leader who was among the first to battle against the united states. >> translator: i consider myself a fighter defending my country against all that i can. >> reporter: one of the most powerful and feared men in iraq. known for his brutal tactics against iraq population in the civil war that followed the u.s. invasion. this is him as a young man in footage from iranian tv he spent much of his life in exile in a commander in resistance against

hussein. >> everyone who fights alongside us is afraid, everyone who fights alongside diche is an enemy. >> that means america in this fight is your friend? >> no only if they're serious fight? >> are you saying they're not fighting now? >> frankly, well below expectations. >> we have struck thousands and thousands of positions. we are giving a considerable amount of equipment, effort, money and training to a obscuring the government of iraq. >> the perception among iraqis you're in the fight but you're not really in the fight, no 100%. >> if thousands of coalition members here i've spent 25 years in this region i would find that hard to believe that we're not interested in the safety and security in the government of iraq. >> it's part of the general's

job to know where the men are on the battlefield. command the largest shiite force in the country. >> they captured this as they helped secure a major history winning back saw daum hussein's hometown from the islamic state. but they're fighting without weapons or support from the u.s. fielgters like these many men at a training camp that we visited deep in the south of the country are among more than 100,000 volunteers that -- volunteers that make up the mobilization forces, men who rushed into the fight in the days after the iraqi army fell apart. >> now they come to camps like this to continue their training

in between deployments to the front line. >> these young people took their weapons and defended baghdad from being over run, then they carried on and returned vast areas of iraq to government control. everyone accepts now that if it wasn't for them, not only baghdad but the entirety of iraq would have been over run by die diesh. >> how many men have been lost so far. significant number, more than 2,000 mortars in this war. >> more than 2,000 militia fighters and thousands more iraqi police and soldiers, the faces of the deadline the streets of the capitol stretching for blocks. it's one of the first things we noticed as we drove around the city. many of these men killed by isis fighters using a weapon so

lethal, general told us the americans have given it a name, frank an truck. >> they're something you see in a science fiction movie. these are vehicles that they've welded, metal plates too loaded them, put a suicide bomber inside of them and set themselves off. that is their precision weapon. >> you can see more of lara's report on our web site, cb it seems that every year,

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>> if you plan on traveling to your thanksgiving feast, you're not alone, about 47 million americans will travel 50 miles for the holiday. most of them will go by car. 40% of road delays are caused by bottlenecks and have nothing to do with accidents, weather or construction. kris van cleave reports from one trouble spot, the entrance to the lincoln tunnel in new jersey. >> the lincoln tunnel that connects new jersey to new york city, the worst traffic bottleneck on the east coast and anyone sitting in it can tell you that. researchers looked at the bottle necks and found the amount of money for sitting in the traffic, more than $2.4 billion a year and when we say bottlenecks we don't mean rush hour, we mean spots like this that always seem to be bad.

drivers it doesn't get any worse than this, a 12 mile stretch of red lights crawling cars and pure commuter agony, interstate 90 in chicago around o'hare airport is considered the worst traffic bottleneck in the country resulting in 16.9 milli 16.9 million hours of wasted time. that's an estimated $418 million of lost productivity a year according to a new report out this morning. the reason, pure volume. >> they've destroyed so many neighborhoods to build it and yet people can't get anywhere. >> i give myself about an hour and a half to get to work. >> reporter: the report identifies the 50 worst bottlenecks in the country. six of the top ten are in los angeles. the south land scores 12 of the stop points over all. the new york city area has nine brutal bottlenecks the 2.6 miles around the lincoln tunnel results in 3.4 million hours of

driver delay every year. >> compared 2005 to 2015, are the bottlenecks getting worse? >> it is getting worse over time, certainly between 1982 and today there's a lot of studies that show that traffic that once was just in l.a. is now worse than what l.a. was like back then in dozens of cities around the country. >> greg cowant runs the alliance who runs the study. one study that dropped off the wood row wilson bridge outside washington, d.c. it was rebuilt and traffic improved. >> there's an opportunity there to do something that, you know, is good for people, saves lives, saves the environment. >> reporter: now, all 50 of these suffer from too much volume, too many cars. but one stretch of the hollywood freeway bottleneck, other freeway has design issue.

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>>. >> reporter: interactive games are no longer just for kids and they're not just fun and games either, businesses all around the country will taking their employees to escape rooms you have one hour to work together to find your way out. omar via fran ka shows us how it works. >> janet smith gets paid to lock people in a small room and monitor them as they plot their escape by finding riddles and solving hidden clues. >> you can see he's getting a really frustrated. >> what may seem like a cruel prank is becoming big business in dallas for andrew and his wife tracy. the couple opened escape expert in late january, the 6,000 square foot building has

five-rooms where contestants must work together to try and escape. >> my name could refer to fake money. >> today they average 700 customers a week. >> wait. wait. black. round and fuzzy. >> and at about $30 a person, that's about $80,000 in sales a month. >> it's taken from off of computer game and made for real life so you can actually play like a real live computer game. >> reporter: unlike many other escape room businesses their business customers aren't screaming teenagers or adrenaline junkies, they're employees from companies like fedex, free toe lay, and 7-eleven. [ cheering and applause ] >> we won fair and square and we worked together and we have stories to go back and tell other teams. >> reporter: tracy says the

smartest person in the office sn't always the best teammate in the room. >> who over thinks? >> financial people, acontinue ta -- accountants over think. >> that can be a problem. >> it can be. if you're looking too deeply you can miss the clue completely. >> each room has a theme. >> this is our advanced room, currently has 20% escape rate. >> reporter: teens need a particular set of skills. >> you have to know where things are on maps. >> reporter: escape expert is one of three hundred escape room businesses in the u.s. for andrew and tracy the only thing harder than escaping from their rooms might be coming up with ideas for new rooms and clues. omar, dallas, texas. >> that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us a little later for the morning news and cbs this

morning. from the broadcast center in new york city. captioning funded by cbs it's wednesday, november 25th, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." anger in chicago. protests aimed at police after a video is released of a black teenager being shot more than a dozen times by a white police officer. as millions of americans head out for the holiday, they are seeing stepped-up security, after the government issues a worldwide travel alert. and nativity newborn. an infant is found abandoned in a new york city nativity scene. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news