a cockpit recorder has captured the voice of the pilot of that doomed plane carrying a brazilian soccer team. he tells the tower he is out of fuel. the pilot also said the plane had an electrical failure. the british-made jet went down monday night in the mountains near medellin, colombia, eight miles from the airport. the pilot was among 71 killed. six others survived. the soccer team was flying to the finals of a south american tournament. a u.n. envoy said today there are no red lines left to cross in syria. every rule of war has been systematically disregarded. in aleppo, a bombing campaign by syrian government forces backed by russia has left neighborhoods in ruins. the regime has retaken much of

the east from rebels. civilians are caught in the middle. debora patta reports from syria. >> reporter: this is what the aftermath of an artillery strike sounds like as the syrian military continues the assault on the rebel-held parts of aleppo. dozens of people were killed in this attack. grief hangs in the air. this teenaged boy just lost his mother in the strike. "one of my sisters was pulled out alive," he said. "but i don't know about the other." he is one of tens of thousands of civilians caught in the cross-fire as the syrian army continues to advance. they face an impossible choice-- to stay means facing a daily barrage of bombs. but to run can be just as deadly. this woman died in the street with a backpack on her shoulders. those who managed to escape are being housed in makeshift shelters, many already filled to capacity.

this old factory houses over 8,000 people, but still, they keep arriving and new beds have to be found. remarkably, children play, what they have seen. old men cry, perhaps because they can't forget. in an impassioned plea to the united nations today, anthony, emergency relief coordinator stephen o'brien begged the security council to find ways to protect civilians fleeing the conflict in eastern aleppo before it became what he called one giant graveyard. >> mason: debora patta in damascus, thanks. it's all but certain president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises-- to shut the u.s. military prison for terror suspects at guantanamo bay, cuba. dozens remain locked up there. margaret brennan got a rare inside look at the prison.

>> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamo's notorious camp x-ray, where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panicked aftermath of 9/11. the picture today is far different. the 60 remaining detainees, whose faces we were not permitted to film, lounge in modern, open cell blocks, eating and praying regularly. over the past eight years, 180 detainees have been released from guantanamo, leaving most of the prison empty. donald trump has vowed to reverse course. >> and we're going to load it up with some bad dudes, believe me. we're going to load it up. >> reporter: admiral peter clarke, who commands the detention facility, says there is room for hundreds more prisoners. but he vowed never to use harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding which trump has considered reviving. >> that's the debate in washington. that's not the debate here. there is no debate here because we are grounded on safe and

humane care and custody and will continue to be so. >> reporter: there will not be torture at guantanamo? >> i am confident there will not be torture at guantanamo. >> reporter: 21 of the remaining detainees have been cleared for release to other countries, but that leaves some of the most dangerous people still at guantanamo. the obama administration's plan for those risky prisoners, like 9/11 mastermind khaled sheikh mohammed, was to transfer them to high-security prisons in the u.s., but the republican-led congress blocked it. texas congressman mac thornberry: >> the fear is they will be a magnet for other terrorists to come and either try to break them out or just to punish the communities. >> reporter: lee wolosky, the administration's envoy for closing guantanamo, disagrees. >> we have consistently housed dangerous terrorists in our federal prison system without incident. >> reporter: the administration estimates it will soon cost $10 million per year per guantanamo detainee. and they say that exorbitant

cost should be reason enough for the next president to shut it down. anthony? >> mason: margaret brennan, thanks, margaret. coming up next on the cbs evening news: the hunt for malibu's most-wanted-- a mountain lion. and later a new study says we're not getting enough "z"s. i really did save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. i should take a closer look at geico... geico has a long history of great savings and great service. over seventy-five years. wait. seventy-five years? that is great. speaking of great, check out these hot riffs. you like smash mouth? uh, yeah i have an early day tomorrow so... wait. almost there. goodnight, bruce. gotta tune the "a." (humming) take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more.

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california, it's open season on a beast that may have finally bitten off more than it can chew. carter evans joined the hunt. >> reporter: in the mountains above the beaches of malibu, a neighborly dispute is under way between man and mountain lion. >> last night, he went over to the petting zoo just over the hill and killed a sheep and a pygmy goat and ate the goat. >> reporter: like many here in the santa monica mountains, wendell phillips keeps exotic animals on his ranch. five of his alpacas were recently killed by a predator known as p-45. he struck again next door killing 10 alpacas, a goat and a sheep. now he has a state permit to shoot the mountain lion. >> nobody wants to kill him. he's an animal. i wish they could preserve his life, but i don't want to keep adding my animals to the food chain. >> reporter: roughly 6,000 mountain lions live in the state and one of the largest groups roams just 40 miles from los angeles. many are tracked by the national park service. p-45, as he's known, has a g.p.s. that logs every move.

>> we know he was there at the time, so it's pretty darn likely that it was him. >> reporter: seth riley is a wildlife ecologist studying the mountain lions in the area, where more than 50 ranch animals have been killed in the last year. in your eyes here it sounds like the solution is pretty simple. >> it is, yeah, which is to protect livestock. what that means is bringing them in to full enclosures at night. they won't be vulnerable. >> reporter: phillips says hunting the lion is another option. >> with this mountain lion, the only-- i think the only solution is adios, mr. mountain lion. >> reporter: do you think that will solve the problem? >> well, definitely not in the long run because there are other mountain lions out there. so even if they do kill him, there are other mountain lions out there. >> reporter: phillips has just one week left to track down p-45 before his permit runs out. so for now, anthony, the hunter remains the hunted. >> mason: carter evans. thanks, carter. still ahead, a thief finds a pot

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was hit by a piece of equipment last night during setup. thousands packed the streets of miami's "little havana" tonight to mark the death of fidel castro. many are cuban exiles demanding democracy in their homeland. today in havana, castro's ashes were placed in a military jeep for a 500-mile procession that will end in santiago for his funeral on sunday. new york city police released surveillance video of a suspect last seen carrying a bucket of gold. the video shows him stealing it off an armored truck on a crowded street while guards weren't looking. he made a slow getaway, lugging the 86-pound bucket of flakes worth $1.6 million. investigators believe he may have hauled it to florida. there's a retirement plan. we'll be right back.

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>> mason: and now a bedtime story.

a new study says we're not sleeping enough. here's dr. jon lapook. >> reporter: kristin lemkau, is a marketing executive at j.p. morgan chase who averages about 6.5 hours of sleep a night. but now her company is now promoting a healthier lifestyle and encouraging her to sleep eight hours. >> there has to be time when the brain slows down and you can get more sleep. the biggest mistakes i have made in my life recently have been when i'm tired. >> reporter: the new report by the rand corporation finds, like lemkau, 45% of american workers get less than seven hours of sleep a night, and that is costly to their employers. dr. charles czeisler directing the sleep health institute at brigham and women's hospital in boston. >> people are exhausted, they don't have the energy. sometimes they can't even get to work, and that's why-- that's why there are six lost work days per year, additional lost work days, in individuals who sleep less than six hours a night. >> reporter: and lack of sleep makes workers less productive. >> if the people who slept less

than six hours a night simply upped the game a little bit, that would save $200 billion a year in lost productivity. >> reporter: lack of sleep causes accidents and is linked to heart disease, diabetes, and depression. risk of death increases 13% for people who average less than six hours a night, compared to those getting seven to nine. do you have to change the culture so that if you get an e- mail at 11 p.m. and you don't answer it, it's okay? >> yes. and even more, i have to not send them. >> reporter: powering up by powering down. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> and that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back with us a little later for the morning news. i'm anthony mason.

this is the cbs overnight news. >> alabama governor has issued a state of emergency after a string of deadly tornadoes cut a path and caused destruction from alabama to tennessee. schools are closed and tens of thousands are left without power. mark strassman reports. >> reporter: rosalie, alabama, population 700, took the storm's first knockout punch at five minutes after midnight. this trailer home flipped and killed three people inside. part of a swath of destruction that runs along state highway 71. one resident told us the lights went out, and then he heard a loud growling sound, and in 10 seconds, all these buildings were destroyed and these semitrucks were flipped like tonka toys.

in neighboring ider, we found 14-year-old aubrey williams. former daycare center where her family rode out the storm. only the bathroom still stands. >> when we took off running, the wind picked us up and threw us, and we went through walls and the roof fell down and collapsed on us. >> reporter: four adults and three children hunkered down here. four of them are in the hospital, including her mother. 100 miles north, 135-mile-per- hour winds raked athens, tennessee. mcminn county sheriff joe guy: >> we have not had a fatality at this point. i think that's something that we're very blessed to be able to say. >> reporter: on the hill above this save-a-lot store, james and sherry long took shelter in this 19th century home they've been renovating. it needs a lot more work now. >> i think the only thing we can do to this place is a bulldozer. >> reporter: this is where we met 14-year-old aubrey williams.

she told us her mother, uncle, and aunt all had surgery today and are recovering in the i.c.u. anthony, this severe weather system and threat will move into the carolinas overnight. president-elect donald trump has apparently good on his promise to keep jobs from moving to mexico. not all the jobs were saved, but many of them. >> well during the campaign donald trump repeatedly expressed a promise to keep american jobs in america. and for now it looks like he meant what he said. >> we have all of these lost jobs all of our lost manufacturing. we're going to get it back. >> throughout the campaign donald trump made it clear. >> companies like carrier simply fire their workers and move their operations to mexico.

guess what? not going to be so easy to do any more. >> it was only nine months ago that carrier, the 101-year-old manufacturer told shopped indianapolis workers their factory would close. >> is to move production from our facility in indianapolis to monterey, mexico. >> trump who benefitted from the working class vote on election day will be here in indianapolis on thursday alongside the state's governor and vice president-elect mike pence. they will announce a deal with the carrier, keeping a thousand manufacturing jobs in the state. >> and they think they're going to make air conditioners in their beautiful new plant in mexico and sell them across the border and make lots of money and we have all the unemployment. not going to happen. >> the details surrounding the agreement have not been made public. but united technologies which grossed $50 billion in sales

just last year holds a lot of government contracts, including a billion dollar deal over the summer to produce engines for the troubled f-35 fighter jets. now there will be some layoffs at this plant behind here in indianapolis but it's not clear how many. nor is it clear what made the company change its mind. what is clear is that other u.s. manufacturers will be paying close attention to this deal. >> barack obama has been trying to close the prison at guantanamo bay, cuba since the day he was inaugauret. he plans to send more to the prison. more with the latest. >> reporter: president-elect trump campaigned on a promise to expand this controversial military prison even considering putting americans here. that leaves president obama with just weeks to shut it down.

>> entire cell blocks sit empty. over the past eight weeks, over 180 detainees have been released. but unless president obama defies congress guantanamo will not be shuttered before he leaves. >> we're going to load it up believe me we're going to lead it up. >> he said there was plenty of room for more detainees but would not be using waterboarding at guantanamo. >> i am confident there will not be torture. >> most of the 60 remaining detainees whose faces we could not show lounge in the open cell

blocks where they eat and pray regularly. 20 others will be released. despite congressional concern. >> lee wolosky is the administrator for closing guantanamo citing the exorbitant cost soon to be $10 million per year for detainee and the security cost for keeping it open. >> we've all seen their march in uniforms. >> but the detainees still are too dangerous to release. republican mac thornberry argued bringing the detainees to u.s. prisons is a bad idea. >> the fear is they will be a magnet for other terrorists to come or just to punish the

communities. >> lee wolosky disputes that. >> today there is absolutely no evidence of that. we have consistently housed dangerous terrorists in our federal prison system without incident. >> and with the war on terror entering its 16th year congressman thornberry said the u.s. should once again start to capture and interrogating terrorists. >> the cbs overnight news will be right back.

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the mountain gorillas are some of the mostendangered animals on the planet. there is a team of veterinarians known as the gorillas who are working to keep them healthy. >> the doctors prep their medical gear on thef the forest. finding her had not been easy and they did not want to lose this chance to treat her. >> and then you're going to use that volume of medicine. >> dr. mike cranfield has been running gorilla doctors for 18 years. dr. martin one of his newest

field veterinarians. >> so right now, eddy is getting the anesthetic ready. >> are you a good shot? >> he is an excellent shot. >> eddy grabbed his gun loaded with medicine and went to track the wounded female who hurt herself when she picked up a snare poachers had set for a smaller animal. they had to cut a path through the forest as they went. she was with her group and they were moving fast. thick vegetation gave way to a clearing where they spotted her. then eddy stepped forward and prepared to take his shot. as soon as it hit, she took off.

and the team followed. they knew she had to be close. it was an unforgettable sight, now they had less than 40 minutes to treat her wound before the medicine wore off. they call this an intervention. >> eddy and martin and i have probably done 40 interventions together, it's a team we have some of the most important patients in the world, right? if something doesn't go right, basically you can almost count on it being known almost worldwide. >> how would you rate the quality of your work as an

organization? >> i think it's very good. >> when they're not doing emergency interventions, mike said his doctors are out making house calls. and in the ten days we spent with them we went on a few, this one in the drc, where eddy and martin are based. >> all the signs. so that means she is still healthy. >> moving. using all limbs. >> i can just see like how she is breathing. i can try to count the breathing rate like now you see? you can see how she is breathing, two, three. >> these gorillas live in the oldest national park in africa. and from the air, some of the most forbidding landscape you will ever see. when the gorilla doctors began

to work here the mountain gorillas were almost extinct. today, they're the population that is growing the most. >> they increased at the amount they could, if that was the amount the human population could grow the veterinarians are credited with that 50% growth, or 2% a year. >> you're talking about the gorilla doctors, and you? >> we're the only veterinarians that are working on the gorillas in the past few years. >> he had a run-in with one of his patients. >> he just punched me in the face. >> did it hurt? >> this is umoju, michael's miracle baby. part of her intestines were

hanging out of her body, and now they rescued her. mike wanted me to meet her in the forest. layers of vegetation and up to more than 9,000 feet. there on the steep volcanic slopes in northern rawanda, we found her, and here she is her new baby boy, only a month old. >> emoja is probably the most spectacular case we ever had. and that brought a lot of pride for gorilla doctors. >> so it's not just the animal you save. it's the future generations? >> correct, you're actually influencing not one life but multiple lives. >> reporter: in rwanda when we met the doctor they became a national symbol. he was 14 when his country was

torn apart by genocide in more than 8,000 people were slaughtered in 100 days. so what do you remember of the genocide? >> darkness in the whole country, you don't have much thinking, but you can see the whole country is over. >> reporter: in 22 years rwanda has risen from the ashes, and the he center of the transformation. close to 30,000 tourists come to see them and this is the major source of income for the tiny nation. >> it makes everybody feel okay these guys are very important to us. >> reporter: these gorillas are? >> they are very important to us. everybody feels that. >> reporter: mike who works at the headquarters was in rwanda when we got the call about the wounded gorilla.

before long we were rushing for the border. from the moment you get that phone call is there pressure to move as fast as you can? >> yeah speed is everything. 24 hours can make a difference to having function full function in the hand. >> that is kind of tough here sometimes because speed matters. but to get there you have to take the slow boat. >> right. >> reporter: dr. eddy kombale was waiting for us at the slow boat on the other side on the shore. and amid the crowd and chaos and struggling to hold onto our gear we boarded with minutes to spare and settled in for the long journey. a 12-hour trip across one of africa's great lakes. we woke as the sun rose and pulled into the harbor with the hustle and bustle of the early morning. and then we still had to get to the animal? >> that is still one of the most

difficult parts. >> reporter: a bumpy ride and broken bridge took us to the edge of the national park. from here we went on foot hiking deep into one of the largest forests of the drc. every time we went down we had to come back up. and the hills were steep. we walked and walked. with no sign of the gorillas stumbling and falling into the night. >> you can see the because i'm a woman... do you think i'm gonna crack under pressure or conquer the field? defy expectations any day with always infinity. made with flexfoam. absorbs 10x its weight. rewrite the rules. always.

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anesthetic. donald trump is not only feel -- filling cabinet posts, he will soon be leaving his mark w( on the cabinet door. mark philips has story. >> reporter: in the last months of ruford gifford's time he had to answer tough questions. >> it is a frightening thing that donald trump could be elected and thus have his fingers near the nuclear buttons. >> on this one, i'm not certain that i can give you anything reassuring. >> reporter: gifford, a former

obama fundraiser and political ambassador to copenhagen well soon be leaving. because he has been more than a diplomat. he has been a tv star. this is the catch he was titled with. i am the ambassador from america. >> the only way you can explain it is by living. >> reporter: it was supposed to be behind the scenes looks at the life. >> we thought if we were lucky we may have 50,000 danes tune in. >> reporter: but the audience of danes, hundreds of thousands of them rolled in at copenhagen at rush hour. the numbers shocked them. >> to danish eyes he

a hollywood star perfect, smart, good looking. >> and an american cast in it. >> reporter: and with appealing central character, all the show needed was a plot twist. enter his partner, steven. >> evening is free. >> yeah. >> getting nervous? >> you know, i feel good. i really do. i think it's just a matter of getting started more than anything. >> reporter: what they wanted and maybe what the show needed drama. how about a good old fashioned wedding. theirs, complete with banter. >> i'm so not sure i'm going to go through with it. >> that makes two of us. >> reporter: it did go ahead. a happy day. a show biz hit, and a political statement. >> and i therefore proclaim that you are legally married.

congratulations. congratulations. >> and there was an element of diplomacy there or politics whatever you want to call it. >> what were you trying to prove? >> we were in the same place, in copenhagen city hall where same-sex marriages started. steven and i got married. >> reporter: it all works in liberal denmark. but could it work elsewhere? >> where couldn't it work? >> it couldn't work in eastern europe or russia. >> reporter: because of attitudes to gayness? >> mostly yeah. >> reporter: but it's worked so well in denmark the show has been picked up by netflix. >> you never know what sells on tv. >> that is true. >> yes, indeed. >> reporter: the ambassador turned accidental tv

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the holiday travel season is right around the corner and if you're one of the millions of americans who plan to fly, the faa has warnings get to the airport early and don't have items with liquids. but you can't prepare for some things like this woman who was on the tarmac. >> things were going pretty well from this flight in new orleans and it arrived in houston early and went to the gate when one of the passengers bolted. >> the lady on the flight just opened the door and jumped out of the plane. >> reporter: passengers on united flight 1892 were left stunned monday after the woman took the expressway out through a window. surveillance video appeared to capture her running from the plane and making a beeline to the terminal. according to one witness, the woman exited the emergency entrance after going to the

rest room. she made the 15 foot jump without an emergency slide. hampton freedman shot this video. >> i looked out at the sunlight and i just see a figure just stepping out of it. >> reporter: the woman was quickly caught by police who were surprised she didn't have a scratch on her. >> the ramp area where the plane sits at the gate is a very dangerous place if you're not trained and don't have the proper equipment. there were a lot of people put in danger because of her. >> reporter: according to the faa, incidents of unruly passengers have actually been on the decline since 2012. but one official said we hardly go a day without one report. >> you can hear me donald trump, baby. >> reporter: monday delta banned this donald trump supporter for life after his ramp on a flight to allentown, pennsylvania last week. the airline apologized saying

the customer should not be allowed to continue on the flight. although disruptive passengers can face possible criminal charges and fines, some aviation experts say the punishment should be even tougher. >> if you punished somebody severely for disrupting a flight there would be a lot less of it. >> now in this case, the woman was taken to a hospital for evaluation. they did not elaborate on charges or why she used the exit like she does. as for other passengers they had to use a k-9 to clear the plane before they were allowed to get off at the gate. >> that is the overnight news for this thursday, for some the news continues for others check back with us later for the morning news and cbs news this captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs

it's thursday, december 1st, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." just happened to fast. probably two or three seconds, it was gone. >> deadly tornadoes rip through the south, unleashing destruction across four states, while communities in tennessee are still reeling from devastating wildfires. the election is over, but the president-elect is hitting the road again. mr. trump launches a thank you tour. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you.