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all: cbs cares! now french police today identified another of the isis terrorists who attacked in paris last month. seven have now been named, but three are still unidentified. elizabeth palmer is in the french capital. >> reporter: 23-year-old foued aggad, a french citizen, joined isis in syria in 2013. [ gunfire ] but then somehow he slipped back into france and helped to gun down 90 music fans at the bataclan concert hall before being killed at the scene. the police had no idea who aggad was until his mother got a text from syria saying her son had been killed on the 13th of november, the day of the attack. that led forensic teams to match

dna samples of the body found in the bataclan to samples provided by the aggad family. only one of the core group of paris attackers is still alive. salah abdeslam escaped and is presumed to be on the way, or even already in syria. also still alive and on the wanted list are all those who provided support, says the anti- terrorism consultant jean charles brisard. >> probably more than 20 individuals have been involved in one way or another in terms of providing logistics, support, transportation, financing for this network. >> reporter: oneuch suspect is mohamed abrini, seen on surveillance video in a car two days before the attack. with more than 2,000 property searches in less than a month and more than 250 arrests, the pressure is on anybody in france who has been to syria or who has

links to extremists, but there are more than 10,000 of them. so the french intelligence services would have to grow by what, double, triple, to handle the problem? >> at least. to be sufficient we need around 20 to 30 agents to follow 24 hours a day, for one single individual. >> reporter: scott, to add to the stress, french intelligence think isis will try more attacks in france to make themselves look strong, but above all to distract from the fact that in iraq and syria, at the moment they are steadily losing ground. >> liz palmer reporting for us tonight in paris, liz, thanks. it was paris and san bernardino that led republican presidential front-runner donald trump to call for a ban on muslims entering the united states. major garrett tells us tonight that has thrown the party into turmoil. >> thank you. >> reporter: donald trump says his proposal is about keeping the country safe and not about religion. >> are you a bigot?

>> not at all, probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> because? >> because i'm not. i'm a person that has common sense. i'm a smart person. i know how to run things. >> reporter: but republicans fear a trump nomination could alienate minority and women voters the party has been trying to reach since its 2012 presidential election loss. >> i think trump should quit. >> reporter: illinois republican adam kinzinger, who backs jeb, fears trump would hurt other gop candidates. >> it could easily cost republicans at least the majority in the senate and some seats in the house. >> reporter: but republicans disagree on how to defeat trump. wisconsin governor scott walker, who dropped out of the presidential race in september, said other candidates need to follow his lead to consolidate the anti-trump vote. >> i have signed the pledge. >> reporter: in september trump signed a loyalty pledge to the gop, but today threatened to rip it up, renewing republican fears that he could take support away from the eventual nominee by

running as a third party candidate. >> if i don't get treated fairly, i would certainly consider that. >> reporter: there are no signs republicans still in the race will quit, and most have said they will back trump if he is the nominee. scott, top republicans tell us they are waiting for the so- called trump problem to solve itself, but they have no idea how or when that solution will come. >> major garrett, thanks. trump was trumped today by german chancellor angela merkel. "time" chose her over him as person of the year. "time" praised merkel's moral leadership, but trump responded saying she's "ruining germany." protesters filled the streets of chicago today, rejecting mayor rahm emanuel's apology for the fatal police shooting of 17- year-old laquan mcdonald. an officer was charged with that murder more than a year after the shooting. dean reynolds is in chicago.

>> reporter: with protesters clogging downtown chicago and calling for his resignation, the embattled, emotional and contrite mayor stood before the city council and offered a remedy to the turmoil that is gripping his city. >> we need a painful but honest reckoning of what went wrong. >> calm down, sir! >> reporter: outrage has grown since the release of police dash cam video showing a white policemen shooting a black teenager 16 times. releases of other police killings have reawakened historic complaints of police brutality. demonstrator rosemary vega. >> getting rahm to resign doesn't mean our work is over. getting rahm to resign means our work is just getting started. >> reporter: emanuel's administration fought the release of these videos. now he says, that was wrong. >> every day we held on to the video, contributed to the public's distrust.

and that needs to change. >> reporter: but the problems go deeper here, and emanuel touched on a root cause when he recalled being asked a question recently by a young black man. >> he said, "do you think the police would ever treat you the way they treat me?" and the answer is "no." and that is wrong. and that has to change in this city. that has to come to an end, and end now! >> reporter: now the mayor says he won't resign, and the protesters out on the street tonight say they won't quit until he does. scott, it's a test of wills with no middle ground. >> dean reynolds, thanks. a new study finds that america's middle class is not only struggling but it is shrinking. and storms in the northwest turn deadly. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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today, a new study grabbed our attention. the middle class is no longer the majority in america. in 1971, 61% were considered

middle class. now that's down to 50%. anthony mason tells us why. >> reporter: meredith reilly, a 37-year-old social worker in new jersey, used to think of herself as middle class. >> it was the good life. it really was. it was wonderful. and now if i don't go to work, i don't get paid. >> reporter: her county job, which paid about $50,000 a year, was eliminated in the recession. a single mother of two, reilly now works three part-time jobs and makes less money. >> i think the toughest part is not preparing a future for my children that my parents prepared for me. >> reporter: barely half of adults are middle income earners, defined as a household making between $42,000 and $126,000 annually. the percentage has been falling steadily since 1971. richard fry, who co-authored a new study says that as the middle class has hollowed

out, the upper income bracket has grown from 14% to 21% of americans. that upper class takes home of nearly after of all annual income in the u.s., 49%, up from 29% in 1970. >> it's not that middle americans are worse off, it's they're falling behind relative to upper income adults. >> reporter: the lower-income tier has also grown from 16% to 20% since 1970. meredith reilly's been among them since she was laid off. she has a college degree and a master's, but little hope. >> i just don't feel like the jobs are out there, that are going to put me back to where i was. >> reporter: the pew study found the great recession hit the middle class especially hard, scott. their median wealth fell by 28% between 2001 and 2013. >> anthony mason, thank yo, anthony. some of the best seats in baseball are the most dangerous.

a new plan to keep fans safe, next.

parts of the pacific northwest are already over their typical rainfall totals for december. more than a foot of rain has set off mudslides in portland. a woman was killed when a tree fell on her home. in western washington, seven homeless people were rescued after they were swept into a river. major league baseball called today for more protective netting. fans have been hurt by line drive fouls, one in boston in june, another in detroit in september. the recommendation is for nets

to extend 70 feet on each side of home plate to protect fans in the field level seats. this one is for the boomers: 50 years ago tonight in the days of black and white, the announcer told kids that "the munsters" was being preempted by something special. >> cbs presents this program in color. ♪ christmas time is here "a charlie brown christmas" was an instant hit. 30 million saw it and it became a classic. >> that's what christmas is all about, charlie brown. >> well, snoopy would be interested in our final story. a whole new answer to where beagles come from. next.

as promised, we end with a medical breakthrough. a new way to make puppies. jim axelrod now, with a man-breeds-dog story. >> reporter: in upstate new york, alex travis is walking his two colorfully named beagles, red and green. >> you guys are so cute. >> reporter: but these are no ordinary dogs, and he's no ordinary dog-walker. travis is a researcher at cornell university's vet school, and red and green are two of the first-ever test tube puppies.

>> the litter came from three separate moms who gave the eggs and two separate dads. >> reporter: in vitro fertilization, fertilizing an egg with a sperm in a lab, then implanting the embryo in a surrogate, has been around for humans since the late 1970s. but researchers like travis only recently figured out how to make it work with canines. dog reproduction is different than almost every other mammal. >> so this we think will have a lot of applications in veterinary medicine for animals that are valuable working dogs or show dogs or just animals that people love and want to breed. >> reporter: it's not just genetic lines like best in show that could benefit, but entire breeds like collies known for eye problems, dalmatians prone to urinary stones and golden retrievers susceptible to certain cancers could be helped. >> we can use new technologies in gene editing, and we can use that to try to fix those defects and prevent the disease before it even starts. >> reporter: red and green were

among seven ivf puppies born this past july. travis loves what his research has brought into his life. >> i love them very much. they just need a little more house breaking, though. >> reporter: though some traits, even science might find a challenge to correct. jim axelrod, 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 and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the "overnight news." i'm don dahler. donald trump's proposal to ban all muslims from entering the united states has sparked outrage, both at home and abroad. but perhaps the hottest firestorm of controversy is raging in israel. the gop presidential front-runner plans to visit israel after christmas as a guest of prime minister benjamin netanyahu. many israeli politicians are up in arms, demanding trump be barred from the country, nearly a third signed a letter to netanyahu demanding that he refuse to visit with trump. netanyahu insists he doesn't agree with trump's proposal but as an american presidential candidate, he's welcome in israel. major garrett has more. >> reporter: for once, the republican party thought its worst nightmare was a donald

trump third party run for the white house, one that would carve up the change vote and guaranty a democratic victory in 2016. well, after watching him ignore the constitution and draw withering criticism from the right, the left, and around the world for suggesting that america ban muslims, the gop is discovering having trump in the party can be a nightmare, too. donald trump defended what many in his party consider indefensible. >> do you regret your ban on muslims, which some people think is un-american. >> not at all. we have to do the right thing. somebody has to say what's right. >> are you a bigot? >> not at all. probably the least of anybody you've ever met. >> reporter: the top republicans who avoid commenting on the presidential campaign, came down hard on trump. >> this is not conservatism. what was proposed yesterday is not what this party stands for and more importantly, it's not what this country stands for.

>> this suggestion is completely and totally inconsistent with american values. >> reporter: ben carson and marco rubio joined the chorus. >> we do not discriminate on people based on religion. that's constitutional, that's in the first amendment. >> i would say that to have a religious test would violate the constitution. >> reporter: ted cruz, who is now surging in iowa, refused to say if trump's plan violated the constitution. >> i disagree with that proposal. i like donald trump. a lot of our friends here have encouraged me to criticize and attack donald trump. i'm not interested in doing so. >> reporter: jeb bush was asked to promise not to back trump if he became the gop nominee. >> i can guaranty donald trump is not going to be the nominee. >> reporter: josh earnest said trump and the gop are tied together, unless trump's rivals refuse to support him as the nominee. >> the question now is about the rest of the republican party.

and whether or not they're going to be dragged into the dust bin of history with him. >> reporter: despite the criticism, republicans in congress say they will vote for trump if he becomes the gop nominee. in an interview with bloomberg, joe biden called trump's ideas "a dangerous brew" and if he is the nominee, hillary clinton wins in a walk. investigators say the husband and wife killers behind the san bernardino massacre had been talking about staging an attack for two years. fbi director james comey says the pair war radicalized before they met and before the wife was allowed into the country. carter evans has the latest. >> reporter: authorities say both shooters pledged their allegiance to isis, and cbs news has learned that farook took out a large loan and that the couple may have planned to use that to support the daughter they would leave behind. before killing 14 people at a holiday party last week, syed farook received a $28,500 loan,

from online lender prosper. and investigators are trying to follow the money. they're also questioning enrique marquez, a long-time friend of farook who purchased the assault rifles used in the attack. he could face charges for his involvement. his family had no comment tuesday. it's unclear if farook's mother knew about the pending attack. last week fbi agents seized several items after searching their black lexus, including targets from the gun range their son visiting. for the first time we're getting a look inside the room where the two shooters opened fire. this photo shows julie swan paez, a county employee, receiving an award just before the attack. she was shot twice in the pelvis, but survived. and now more than a dozen first responders are sharing their stories. >> i don't feel like a hero whatsoever. >> reporter: detective george la stanno was captured on video

leading the survivors to safety. >> there was a female with an 8-year-old boy that was terrified and i said what i said. >> i'll take the bullet before you, that's for damn sure. just be cool, okay? >> reporter: did you feel exposed? did you feel like when you opened that door, that shooter could be on the other end? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: nicholas koahou was one of the two officers injured, shot in the thigh with the final confrontation with the killers. he left his vehicle to pull another officer to safety. >> when i was hit, the man was already down on the street. so i did not know who was in the back of that car shooting at us, but i could hear rifle fire coming out of that car. >> reporter: you know that was tashfeen firing at you? >> i do now. >> reporter: as for the inland regional center behind me, two of the buildings are going to remain closed at least through the end of the year. the building where the attack took place is going to remain closed indefinitely. another chipolte restaurant

has been linked to an outbreak of food born illness. this one year boston college. anna warner reports. >> reporter: we are roughly a mile from campus in a local shopping area, and this restaurant is very popular with students. but boston college officials say in recent days, some 80 students have come to the school's health services department complaining of illness, and all of them said they ate here over the weekend. boston college says students showed up by the dozens at a campus health center this week to say they're sick, including several members of the men's basketball team who said they too had eat b at the popular chipolte near campus. >> you never think about it. you just go and want to get food on the weekend. >> reporter: this 18-year-old freshman ate there on saturday and began to feel ill a day later. she'll be tested today. >> i've been having stomach problems. but like it's not that bad, i just want to be safe. >> reporter: health officials say students suffered symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhea. the boston public health commission says lab results

indicate norovirus. the highly contagious virus is contracted by up to 21 million americans each year. city health inspectors visited that restaurant monday and closed it temporarily, citing it for three violations, including an employee who came to work sick, which is against policy. the news comes just six weeks after an e. coli outbreak at the restaurant chain. chipolte closed 43 restaurants in the pacific northwest. as of december 2, the cdc reported 52 cases of e. coli in nit states. the chain says the incident in boston is unrelated. the company said there are no confirmed cases of e. coli connected to chipolte in massachusetts. they told us all employees returning will be tested for the norovirus and point out this restaurant passed previous

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not everyone was shocked when former singer scott weiland was found dead in minnesota. weiland had a long history of drug abuse, and his family does not want fans to glorify his passing. anthony mason reports. >> reporter: the medical examiner has yet to release a cause of death, but cocaine was found in the bedroom where his body was found. his addiction problems were well known, and now an essay written by his second wife, mary forceburg weiland, with help from their two children, reveals the devastating toll it took on his family. ♪ addiction and loss were common themes in scott weiland's music.

the video for "fall to pieces" actually depicts him overdosing on heroin. drugs helped break up his turbulent 7-year marriage to former model mary forceburg-weiland, with whom he had two children. noah, now 15, and lucy, 13. writing in rolling stone, she said weiland often forgot his own lyrics. even after scott and i split up, i spent countless hours trying to calm his paranoid fits, pushing him into the shower and filling him with coffee. she added, the truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. ♪ weiland rose to fame as the lead singer for '90s grunge band stone temple pilots. forceburg says he became es

stringed from kids when he remarried in 2013. they were not invited to his wedding. child support checks often never arrived, forceburg wrote. they have never set foot into his house and they can't remember the last time they saw him on a father's day. >> this is a sad and awful thing to hear that's how his ex-wife and children saw him, because no one had a sense of how bad that was. ♪ >> reporter: forceburg hopes his death will spur parents to pay more attention to their kids. she wrote, we are angry and sad about this loss. but we are most devastated that he chose to give up. >> the world climate talks continue in paris. one major focus is finding alternative sources of energy. mark phillips has more. >> reporter: a lot of the talk of the paris conference is of the need to develop new, clean energy technologies. wind and solar power we know

about, but they're not enough. now there's a new kind of power about to come on stream and it may be part of the answer. the power of the oceans. until now, the pounding waves along this part of the north coast of scotland have been largely left to the local population of seals. but lately the seals have had company. engineers. the conditions are finally right to start tapping the immense energy potential of the oceans and the world's most ambitious tidal project is well under way here. already a network of cables have been laid on the sea floor. soon, the first underwater turbines will be lowered into position, where the massive tidal forces will turn their rotors and make electricity. david tap is the site project manager. >> the atlantic is that way, and the north sea is that way. >> correct. >> and the tide runs back and forth here four times a day, twice in each direction.

>> yes. >> reporter: the tidal currents on this bit of coast are ferocious. the atlantic tide rushes through the channel, as it forces its way to the north sea. and then when the tide turns, it rushes back again. the plan is for a full field of turbines to be installed on the seabed where they will produce as much power as a conventional shore side coal, gas, or nuclear fired plant. the tidal plant will not suffer from the pitfalls of other renewable sources. solar power only works when the sun shines. so not at night. and wind farms only work when the wind blows, which it isn't here. >> tidal has one distinct benefit. it's virtually 100% predictable. >> reporter: and says tim cornelius, ceo of the company building the tidal plant, there's another advantage, unlike wind farms, which are criticized for spoiling the view on land or for being hazardous to shipping at sea, with tidal --

>> you don't see it or hear it. it's very environmentally benign. >> reporter: that there's been power in the oceans has always been known. the tidal currents move back and forth like clockwork. the trick has been to develop technology as reliable as the tides. and that, the developers say, is where we are now. the technology, however, is expensive right now. about twice the cost of wind generating power. but cost, the backers say, will come down quickly because tidal is adapting technology already used in the wind and offshore oil industries. >> the best thoughts around the world are yet to be developed. and so we'll have a real boom over the next 10, 15 years of sites around the world being developed. >> reporter: among the north american sites being looked at, the bay of funde off nova scotia, where the world's strongest tides run. and on the west coast, san francisco bay and the famous tidal race under the golden gate bridge. the paris conference is moving

into the critical deal or no deal stage. with three days to go, it's still dealing with carbon emissions. on the menu this overnight, boiled peanuts. they apparently taste better than they sound. susan spencer found the key in a south carolina parking lot. ♪ we love the peanut dude, we think you're going to love him, too ♪ >> reporter: meet chris, aka the peanut dude. >> all natural fruits, veggies, nuts. >> reporter: definitely a little nutty. >> we have traditional boiled peanuts. >> reporter: boil what? if you're asking why would anyone boil a peanut, you're probably not from the deep south. >> thank you, darling. >> boiled peanuts take me back to my childhood in charleston. >> reporter: that's charleston, south carolina, home of the so-called caviar of the south.

he boils his nuts in his backyard. he's been pedaling them in his parking lot nut stand for almost nine years. what sort of a staff do you have here? >> me and my dog. >> reporter: what does your dog do? >> loves me through it all. want a treat, pumpkin? >> reporter: and has right from the start, when he was making peanuts selling peanuts. >> these are just about done. >> reporter: these days he says he can boil up a few hundred pounds on a good weekend. there is no official way to make boiled peanuts. >> everyone puts the salt in at a different time. the heat high at a different time. >> reporter: possibilities are endless. >> i believe so. let's begin. >> reporter: it just comes right open? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: perfect. this can grow on you. >> take the word peanut, throw it away, and have an expectation

more of like a potato-like texture. >> reporter: other people look at this and say, ewww. >> they aren't from the south. >> reporter: so maybe it does take a true southerner to appreciate the lowly peanut's finer points. phil! oh no... (under his breath) hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic) oh... ha ha ha! joanne? is that you? it's me... you don't look a day over 70. am i right? jingle jingle. if you're peter pan, you stay young forever. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. ♪ you make me feel so young... it's what you do. ♪ you make me feel ♪ so spring has sprung.

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known for his role as a cia station chief in "homeland." but he went on a real-life mission in greece last month and shared his views on the topic of muslim immigrants. >> i'm not a politician, i'm an actor. i refer to myself as a humanatician. and all i want for myself and my children and for all people all over the world is to be less afraid. i've been in berlin since june 1st, shooting the fifth season of "homeland" where, our job, if we're doing it well in my humble opinion, is to create a poetic version of the real world that's spinning, burning, falling apart around us. so it was early on in the summer when everything exploded out of proportion and greece and the refugee crisis, which was no surprise to anyone. and i was wanting to go there to see if i could do anything.

i went to greece, because i needed to reconnect with reality. i needed to meet a family that was struggling in this real crisis. i wanted to hold a baby in my arms. so we went to lesbos. 500,000 people had come through there since the crisis began. the first two days i was there, there wasn't a single boat that arrived. the final day we were going to the airport and people said, the boats are coming. so we ran. we had four or five blocks to run down the beach, and we got there just as the boat was arriving. and it was packed with all these people, and they came right on the beach and the people started flying out of the boat. i get to the boat and i walk up and i held the boat and a ther puts his child into my arms and she had a facemask on. and i lowered the facemask and she wasn't moving, and her eyes were closed. and i thought, oh, my god, she's

not alive. and my mouth said, she's sleeping, but i remember thinking she was not alive. and then the father started to lose it. he came back and choked back for a minute. i was trying to find a pulse but couldn't. then i put my baby finger in her hand, and i swear it moved. and i thought, oh, god, she's alive. then he just took the family away with the crowd and they were gone. i got this information as i landed in athens, the protection team followed up with dad and daughter and they were taken by ambulance to the hospital. she was born with a breathing disorder and suffers from epileptic episodes. at the center, they gave her medications and the teams helped coordinate an expedited registration for the whole family. the family was reunited. i was relieved.

yes, america. >> i saw your movie. >> where are you from? >> afghanistan. >> what's at risk if we don't help these people is a moral crisis. that's what is at risk. >> welcome to the rest of the world. >> fear is the poison of our lives. we're all afraid of so many things. anybody who doesn't understand that and have some empathy toward fear that people have all over the world isn't being kind. fear is very real. but there's nothing to be afraid of here. nothing at all. >> you're welcome. >> our humanity is at risk if we don't take care of these people. our right to exist is at risk. if you don't help these people, when you are in need, there will

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if you've never been to the symphony, you're not alone. the audience has been dwindling for years. but now a new breed of concertgoer is filling the seats. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: it may seem impossible to get gamers off the sofa, but a recent performance drew hordes of them to a dallas symphony orchestra they came to hear music from their favorite video game, "the legend of zelda." organized in a four-movement symphony. >> how are you doing tonight? >> reporter: the show's producer spent years producing concert tours for opera legend pavarotti. in his personal travels to japan, he discovered how popular gaming concerts were there and thought maybe they could catch on in the u.s. when did you know, okay, this is going to click? >> i kind of knew it after the first time i did it in 2004.

it was an instant success, a virtual riot at the box office. now we're at an all-time high. >> reporter: he says most of the shows on his international zelda tour have been sold out. including this one. fans here in dallas bought 3,000 tickets and spent $10 each on souvenirs. because orchestras in the u.s. could really use the business. the percentage of americans attending classical music events dropped 29% from 1982 to 2008. a small increase in ticket sales over the past five years hasn't been enough to undo the damage. >> orchestras have to take a look at what the audience demands. >> reporter: catherine cahill is the ceo of the mann center in philadelphia. she says zelda and pokemon concerts have brought in 6,000 fans, double that of orchestras. >> you want to hear great

symphony orchestras, your interest may not be beethoven, it may be video games. >> reporter: andy anderson is the music director and conductor of the zelda show. >> how is it different? stylistically it's different, but humanly it's the same thing. >> reporter: opening up the symphony orchestra to a new generation of fans, like 19-year-old caleb pryor. did you ever think you would be at a symphony to hear video game music? >> no, i didn't. and when i got the opportunity to do this, i was super excited and i'm absolutely loving the fact that i'm here right now. >> reporter: that night's performance was so good. even caleb looked up. omar villafranca, cbs news, dallas. and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday.

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