sony pictures tele 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 headquarters here in new york. thanks for joining us.

there are new calls for calm in chicago this morning after protests over the release of a video that shows a black teen shot to death by a white police officer. we have a warning for you. the police dash cam video is graphic and it's disturbing. the video shows 17-year-old laquan mcdonald in the street. police are on the left, including the officer charged tuesday with murder. he fires 16 shots at mcdonald andin about 14 seconds. officer jason van dyke is the first police officer charged with murder for an on-duty murder in decades. hundreds clashed with police overnight and gathering near a police station and briefing blocking inging traffic. >> reporter: the video from the october 24th incident shows laquan mcdonald jogging down into a street and slows down into a walk. two officers approach. prosecutors say officer jason van dyke started shooting six

the silent video shows van dyke continued to shoot mcdonald while the teen was on the ground. a few hundred protesters took to the streets shortly after the video was released. some brief scuffled with police and led away in handcuffs. >> people have a right to be angry. people have a right to protest. people have a right to free speech. but they do not have a right to commit criminal acts. >> reporter: prosecutors say van dyke fired 16 shots in 15 seconds, despite accounts that mcdonald never threatened him. the 14-year veteran was charged with first-degree murder on tuesday. >> people will judge this split-second actions of my client. however, the standard in this case is what was my client experiencing at the time in which he made the split-second decision to fire? >> reporter: prosecutors say mcdonald was carrying a knife at

that the drug tcp was in his system. marlie hall, cbs news. coming up krumt, we"cbs this morning," we will be live with the latest on the police protests' reaction to the shooting video. one of the pilots shot down by turkey is in the army and returned to its base. turkey said it fired on the war plane along the syrian border after it invaded turkish air space. video shows the fire jot on fire before it crashes. russian president have had miles an hour putin warns there will be significant consequences for turkey downing its jet. and signs of normal life this morning in brussels. schools in a subway are reopening in the belgian capital after four days of security lockdown. but the government is maintaining the highest level of safety alert over fears of an

imminent paris-style terror attack. hundreds of police and soldiers are on patrol. prosecutors in paris have charged the man who housed the apparent ring leader of the terror attacks. jawad says he doesn't know who they were. prosecutors revealed the ring leader abdelhamid abaaoud returned to the theater after the attacks. seven people are dead. the attackers penetrated heavy security. video shows a sophisticated network of isis tunnels under the iraqi town of sinjar. they were used to store ammunition and a coalition of ammunition. the white house tuesday,

shoulder-to-shoulder with french president fran saw hollande. >> it must be destroyed and we must do it together. >> pledged escalate terror strikes. the president called to -- the heightened of concerns comes as millions get ready to hit the road for the holiday. according to aa nearly 47 million people will travel 50 miles or more this thanksgiving. that is the most since 2007. don champion is at new york's penn station with more on what is being done to keep holiday travelers safe. good morning, don. >> reporter: good morning, annemarie. it is get-away day. the day before thanksgiving and one of the busiest travel days behind me penn station will be busy today. the mad dash out of town comes days after the state department

issued that worldwide terror alert for americans in new york you can see a stepped-up security presence. heavily armed soldiers on patrol at laguardia airport. it's part of an increased effort to prevent a terror attack like the one in paris. >> i was surprised at, like, the amount of soldier types. i was like, wow, it's getting serious. >> reporter: "the new york times" police putting up barricades and standing on guard. the nypd rolling out its anti-terrorism group including cops and specially trained officers. more than a million people are expected to line the streets for the thanksgiving day parade. >> some of those officers would be equipped with the long guns, as wrevere refer to them, the rifles. we will have additional hercules teams, the heavily armed entities that are around the area of the parade but, i think the police presence will heighten the sense of security. >> reporter: despite the government's travel warning,

officials say it's not necessary to change your plans. >> what this is not saying is don't travel. we want americans to travel domestically, overseas. >> reporter: but some travelers are still a little jittery. >> we were very, very nervous and anxious about it all. we were, like, i don't know if we want to to go but we didn't want to cancel this because we wanted to see family. >> reporter: it is important to note there are no credible or specific threats against the homeland. there is a bit of good news for the millions of americans who will be driving this week. gas prices are at their lowest level since 2008. the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded stands at just over $2 a gallon. gobble, gonel. >> gobble. >> that is good news. an intense warm over the

wintry weather to the northeast. heavy snow is in the forecast for the mountain west today and could move into the plains by thanksgiving. snow blanked roads in the roads in oregon making travel dangerous. some drivers put on chains for traction. crews are still working to restore power to families in poe can, washington after a wind knocked down power lines nearly a week ago. >> reporter: of course you know it's a busy day for travel across the country. good news anywhere east of the mississippi, not much going on at all this wednesday. quiet and cool in the northeast. quiet and seasonal weather across the southeast and a few showers moving through the upper midwest as we move into the afternoon. most of the action we are watching is across the intermountain west with rain and snowfall and sierra picked up more than a foot and more snowfall coming down today and spreading across idaho across the wasatch mountain range and much-needed snowfall.

great for the ski areas but watch out for treacherous travel in the passes. quiet on the west coast and the mess in the middle. rain breaking out on thanksgiving day. snow coming down across parts of the rockies and watch the ice driving across the plains, especially into parts of kansas and western oklahoma on thanksgiving. then the story for the end of this week and this weekend is heavy rainfall developing. the dallas area stretching up through oklahoma and moving into missouri and arkansas. in dallas, we are likely going to see our wettest year ever recorded set with this storm and keeping an eye out for some flooding. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. travel safe coming up on the "morning news." a shooting investigation into the nfl. rams wide receiver stedman bailey is injured in a shooting incident. we will tell you about that. donald trump meets his match. this is the "cbs morning news." i am your father. no, no, no! i am your father. campbell's star wars soups.

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morning and is due to arrive in africa for a three-nation visit to the continent. he'll arrive in nairobi, kenya, before traveling to uganda and the central african republic. an nfl player is injured? a shooting. a new findingings in a deadly hospital. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstands. "the new york times" says the pentagon will release details today on the u.s. air strike of an afghanistan hospital run by doctors without borders. the attack last month killed 30 people. the times reports the investigation found a series of human errors, failures in procedure, and technical problems. "usa today" reports st. louis rams wide receiver stedman bailey is in the hospital after being shot in the head. bailey is reportedly in critical, but stable, condition, right now in miami after a gunman shot him twice while he

the injuries were not considered life-threatening. he is expected to undergo surgery later this morning. the minneapolis star tribune reports police arrested three white men in connection with a shooting at a protest by black lives matter. police say the men turned themselves in following monday's shooting that wounded five protesters. prosecutors may treat the shooting as a hate crime. the myrtle beach sun news reports that donald trump's family joined him on stage. the gop front-runner says he has never done that before and he also brought up a supporter of a crowd from thousands and someone who looked remarkably familiar. >> do you believe this guy? look at that. what the hell? come here a minute. >> trump describedship described the supporter as having a big, beautiful head of hair. "the washington post" honors the 100th anniversary of albert einstein's theory of gravity.

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that's just how we roll. blinds to go. blinds for life. hundreds of protesters faced off with police overnight in the streets of chicago. they are upset about a video that shows the shooting of a black teen by a white police officer. we have a warning for you now. the police cruiser dash cam video is pretty disturbing. it shows 17-year-old laquan mcdonald moving away from police as he is shot. officer jason van dyke fires 16 times. he was charged with murder tuesday. cbs news digital journalist alex pena is covering this and joins us on the phone. we know the officer has been charged, so give us an idea of why protesters felt the need to protest overnight. >> reporter: right. the protesters here, despite the

still a lot of unanswered questions regarding the tape that they wanted answers which is one of the reasons that they took to the streets. a lot of protests are telling me one of the reasons they wanted to know why the video hadn't been released until now. this happened in october of 2014. why did that video take so long is one of their questions. second question was why was the officer charged so late? why was he charged today? why was he indicted yesterday when this had happened so long ago? in fact, according to the city attorney, she says that the video was one of the most graphic and one of the most violate she had seen her in her time serving as state attorney. protesters are asking if this was the case, why did it take so long? of course, her response was these sort of things, these take time and particularly police shooting,s shootings shootings, they take time. the protesters took to the streets. >> alex, you have actually spent the past few months covering a number of protests. how would you characterize what you saw here in chicago,

compared to some of the other places you've been? >> reporter: sure. well, the situation here is certainly very different. for one, the group is much smaller. the photo we saw last night, we saw about a hundred protesters, more or less. it was much less. violate the protests was pretty much not volatile. in baltimore, it was an indictment of the police officer that actually ended the massive protests whereas, here in chicago, it was an indictment that essentially brought them out into on the streets. so we are looking at a different scenario in terms of how the police shootings were being handled. we talked about a much, much smaller number of people and much more peaceful than what we saw in baltimore and ferguson. >> alex pena in chicago, thank you so much, alex. >> reporter: thank you. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," as we travel for thanksgiving,

give airline passengers more seat room. plus, new pressure on the boy scouts of america to allow girls as members. and we will meet a chef who is part of the game to table movement, which encourages the use of wild animals in our meals. that is the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green.

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