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now to ethan couch, the so-called affluenza kid. couch was wanted for possibly violating probation in texas after beating prison time in a fatal drunk driving crash with a defense that left many people shaking their heads. villafranca reports couch has >> ethan couch's newly dyed black hair didn't fool mexican authorities who caught the texas teenager on monday despite looking very different than he did two years ago when

deadly drunkiving accident. >> we worked a tremendous amount of leads and learned through some interviews that they had planned to disappear, that they even had something that was almost akin to a going away party. >> reporter: investigators say couch and his mother tonya drove a pickup truck into mexico and ended up more than 1200 miles from north texas in the coastal resort town of puerto vallarta. they fled shortly after this video surfaced which appeared to show couch at a party with alcohol. which might have violated his juvenile probation. even though he's 18, tarrant county district attorney sharen wilson says couch is only facing juvenile justice. >> i'm not satisfied with four months in a juvenile facility. we're asking for him to be moved to adult court. >> reporter: couch was only 16 when he avoided jail time and was sentenced to ten years probation for killing four people in a drunk driving accident. his defense team argued that the teen suffered from something they termed affluenza, arguing that his rich parents never taught him right from wrong.

custody, what do you want to happen to ethan couch this time around? >> well, i'd like for him to be held accountable. i don't think ten years probation was appropriate for killing four innocent people. >> reporter: even if couch's case is transferred to adult court, he only faces four months in jail because he was convicted as a minor. jim, mexican officials tell cbs news couch and his mother will be flown back to texas tomorrow. >> omar, thank you. chicago police officer jason van dyke pled not guilty today in the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. van dyke faces first degree murder charges after shooting the teenager 16 times. dashcam video of the confrontation sparked days of protests when it was released last month. van dyke's lawyer says he may ask for a change of venue. the last day of the year is always among the most challenging days of the year for the new york city police department. and two days away, paris and san bernardino have only raised the

here's don dahler. >> reporter: with over a million people expected in midtown manhattan and a billion more watching on tv, new york officials are determined to make times square the safest place on earth. mayor bill deblasio. >> we're the best prepared city in the country. we know how to do big events. we've shown it time and time again. >> reporter: 5,000 uniformed and undercover officers will be in times square. snipers will be on rooftops garbage cans removed, manhole covers sealed shut, radiation detectors deployed. this year the nypd established a 500-person special response unit that holds regular drills. at a new operation center in downtown manhattan, officers monitor thousands of camera feeds. on new year's eve the room will be staffed with members of governmental and private agencies. last month, chief james o'neill gave us a tour. >> do you think people should

>> you know what, i'm not going to tell people not to be concerned but i'm not going to tell them to feel safe. i don't think anyone does this work better than the nypd, along with our federal partners. >> reporter: but memories of the paris and california terror attacks are fresh. commissioner bill bratton. >> the pattern this year has been terror attacks on relatively small soft targets with all the focus on times square, what about the thousands of businesses outside this area? >> both through capabilities on the threat analysis beforehand, the prevention side of it as well as the capability to respond very quickly, we believe we are as prepared as anybody can be. >> reporter: spectators coming into this area will all be searched and required to get to their places early and stay there. jim, they will also not be allowed to bring in large bags, backpacks or alcohol. >> don dahler in times square where it will be even busier in two nights. thanks you. now to new information about the federal government's

maker blue bell, the subject of a cbs news investigation this fall. cbs news has learned the department of justice has started an investigation into blue bell after their ice cream was linked to a deadly listeria outbreak earlier this year. three people died. an fda investigation found listeria in three of blue bell's production plants in alabama, oklahoma, and texas, as well as records indicating the company knew one plant was contaminated at least as early as 2013. the fda investigation uncovered other troubling problems. including condensation dripping directly into ice cream and unsanitary equipment. in april, blue bell shut down all three production facilities and recalled all its ice cream. sources tell cbs news, the justice department is trying to determine what blue bell management knew about potentially deadly hazards in their plants and when they knew it. in october, gerald bland who

in brenham, texas, described to cbs news unsanitary condiions on the factory floor. on the factory floor. >> on the wall by the three gallon machine, if it would rain real hard and water sat on the roof, it would just trickle down that wall. >> reporter: rain water from the roof. >> from the roof. >> reporter: would get into the factory? >> yeah. >> reporter: another worker terry schultz told us his complaints to management about unclean conditions went nowhere. >> the response i got at one point was, is that all you're going to do is come in here and bitch every afternoon? >> what do you think his message to you was? >> production was probably more important than cleanliness. >> all three of blue bell's plants are now back up and running and by the end of next month, its ice cream will be back on the shelves in 15 states. blue bell did not respond to our requests for comment today. this investigation into blue bell is being led by the same justice department lawyer who prosecuted the peanut

the company's owner stewart parnell got 28 years for shipping salmonella contaminated peanut products. that is the longest sentence ever for a food safety-related crime. coming up next, walking while distracted is sending hundreds to hospitals. a former star of "glee" is arrested for child pornography. and mike tyson loses to a hoverboard.

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distraction turned deadly for a man who fell off a cliff in san diego on christmas day. he had been staring at his phone or camera completely unaware of the looming danger. as kris van cleave reports, this type of thing happens all the time. >> reporter: investigators believe joshua burwell may have been trying to take a picture of the sunset when he made the deadly 40-foot fall. san diego lifeguard sergeant bill bender. >> wasn't watching where he was walking looking more down at the

>> reporter: research shows so-called distracted walking like cell phones is a growing the number of er visits for related injuries most often due to falling doubled between 2005 and 2010 to more than 1500 with millennials ages 21 to 25 the most likely to get hurt. >> it's important to recognize this as a problem. >> reporter: surgeon dr. claudette lajam believes the true number of injuries is even higher. >> when they come into my office, for instance, they'll have an injury and they'll say they tripped over the curb but they'll never admit na they were looking down at their phone instead of looking in front of them. >> mall security cameras captured this woman who was so focused on her phone, she walked into a fountain. this man fell right off the train platform. we spotted jordan videochatting while crossing a busy new york street. >> i know i shouldn't.

lunch. >> have you ever had a moment where you've walked into something or fallen or -- >> absolutely, i walked into one of the very short like light posts. >> reporter: she may not be surprised by the findings of a 2014 study that estimated nearly 10% of all pedestrian injuries are due to distraction. jim, i know it sounds obvious, but if you're looking down at your phone, you may not see an obstacle right in front of you in time. >> chris, thank you. an unlikely pedestrian was

that is just ahead. one of the stars of the fox tv show "glee" was arrested today for possession of child pornography. mark salling played puck on the program. police say they served a warrant at salling's home and took the 33-year-old actor into custody. "glee" aired its final episode earlier this year. mike tyson was once one of the most feared men on the planet, but the heavyweight became a heavy weight on a hoverboard. >> oh, my. >> that could be the hardest he's ever hit the floor. tyson's daughter got him the hoverboard for christmas and in northern california, this question. why did the elephant seal want to cross the road? she tried several times to cross highway 37. wildlife teams shoot her back but she kept coming back. they believe she may be

late today, they tranquilized her and planned to take her to a national seashore. some of this country's top concert musicians have a

that's next. we close tonight with a mission to change the composition of classical music. not the sound, but the color. fewer than 4% of symphony musicians in this country are black. lee cowan found it's not for lack of talent. >> reporter: rachmaninoff was seamless on this night in charleston, south carolina. remarkable because this was the very first time many of these musicians had ever played together.

not only the orchestra but this festival called the color of music now in its third year. >> you know a lot of musicians of color get pigeon holed into jazz and hip-hop and all these things. >> reporter: it's a stereotype. >> a big stereotype. a lot of people find there are not any musicians of color out there doing classical music when there are actually in reality tons of us. >> reporter: clarinettist robert davis says in most symphonies he sticks out as a black classical artist but not here. >> you usually see the same ones. but then i came down here, and there's a whole other group. where are they coming from? so i was very, very shocked about that. >> reporter: the festival highlights black classical composers. on this night, it was adolphus hail stark and his serenade performed one block from the historic black church where in june a gunman opened fire,

>> we're very lucky. >> reporter: businessman lee pringle who founded the event hopes sites like this will help diversify other orchestras. >> i think that most orchestras want to change. they just don't know how to change. >> reporter: and how do they change? >> by having people at the table who look like me. >> reporter: music should be color blind and to make it that way, you have to infuse in it all of the colors. >> reporter: a unique unity that for a few days at least makes for an especially powerful sound. [ applause ] >> lee cowan, cbs news, charleston, south carolina. and 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."

york city, i'm jim axelrod. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> this is the "cbs overnight news." >> welcome to the overnight news". i'm michele miller. police in mexico have captured the so-called affluenza teen, ethan couch and his mother tonya. the pair had been on the run for weeks after a video surfaced that could send the teen to prison for years. at 16 years old, couch killed four people in a drunk driving accident but he avoided jail time by claiming he was so rich and pampered that he didn't know right from wrong. his next lesson will come in fort worth, texas. omar villafranca is at at tarrant county courthouse. >> a bizarre international search for the so-called affluenza teen and his mother is now over.

getting started. ethan and tonya couch, mother and son, are now in the hands of mexican authorities after the pair was apprehended in puerto vallarta on the pacific coast of mexico. this new image released by mexican officials shows the 18-year-old couch with an altered appearance, his blonde hair now a dark brown. >> ethan couch who is being saw the now by the u.s. marshal service. >> reporter: earlier this month, the two disappeared after couch missed a meeting with his probation officer. ethan couch made headlines two years ago when he eluded jail time after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. during the trial, a psychologist testified on behalf of couch saying the teen suffered from affluenza, suggesting his parents' wealth left him without a sense of responsibility. officials believe the pair may have fled because of this video. it surfaced earlier this month and appears to show couch at a

being played. this could have violated his probation. even though he's 18, couch's case hasn't been moved over to adult court and that means at worst he will face sentencing in front of a juvenile judge and it could only go to juvenile detention. the pentagon says coalition air strikes in iraq and syria over the past month have killed ten top leaders of the islamic state. one of the dead has been linked to last month's terror attacks in paris. inside the war zone, the iraqi military is fighting to drives the last remaining pockets of isis gunmen out of the city of ramadi. elizabeth palmer reports from london. >> reporter: finally, the symbol of victory. for the first time since may, iraq's flag was hoisted over government buildings. all week, iraq special forces had led the fight to retake ramadi. they won, thanks to better equipment and more than 600 air

isis targets. but the iraqis also won because they've been learning on the job. in ferocious battles in tikrit earlier this year, they managed to push isis out. in ramadi, they did it without major help from irregular shiite militias. for these soldiers, that was a big morale boost. cbs news national security analyst juan xeroti. >> they're better trained and enabled in part through the u.s. and coalition partnership but also they have greater will and capacity. they are clearly fighting with more strategic intent and capability. >> reporter: the battle to retake ramadi important though it was, is just preamble for what's coming in 2016. on national television, iraq's prime minister warned we are coming to liberate mosul next and deal isis a fatal blow.

will have to repair the damage and restore services in ramadi to lure residents back and keep them loyal so isis stays on the run. and the iraqi army is warning that operations in ramadi aren't entirely over yet. there are still pockets of isis fighters in at least one suburb, and the city is heavily booby trapped. >> officials at the southern california gas company say they finally located the source of a gas leak that forced thousands of people from their homes. maria villareal has the story from los angeles. >> reporter: an underground well at the natural gas facility in the hills of porter ranch is leaking. this is infrared camera shows air. it was shot by the environmental defense fund. a law firm representing several homeowners filing suits against southern california's gas utility company shared these images. >> you could smell the gas

windows closed. and when you walked outside, it just smacked you in the face. >> reporter: robin shapiro moved her family into her parents' home after she claims the gas made them sick. >> i was getting headaches that were lasting days and days, migraine-like headaches. then my son started getting bloody noses and respiratory issues for both of my children. >> reporter: the leak started in october. so far, more than 6500 families have filed for help. but the gas company admits there's a backlog and only 2200 have been relocated. students at two schools will move to other schools when classes are back in session next week. >> once the leak is stopped, we'll be able to evaluate what caused the leak and we will be able to evaluate how much natural gas escaped as a result of the incident.

that monitors air quality estimates nearly 70,000 pounds of gas is released every hour, but health officials say methane doesn't pose long-term health risks. to fix the leak, the gas company drilled a relief well nearby using magnetic technology workers have located the leaking well some 4,000 feet below ground. they have to drill another 4,000 feet where they'll intersect the faulty well, then fill it with cement to seal it. a solution that can't come soon enough for homeowners like robin shapiro. >> we feel like this is never going to end and we have nobody to thank but the gas company. >> reporter: fans of heavy metal are mourning the death of lemmy kilmister, the lead singer and bassist of motorhead. lemmy as he was known to just about everyone turned 70 christmas eve and had recently been diagnosed with cancer. anthony mason has his story. >> bring on motorhead.

>> reporter: with his gravelly vocals and signature style, the british rocker embodied the soul of heavy metal influencing generations of performers. >> reporter: lemmy formed motorhead in the mid-70s and the band produced music with a hard gutteral sound. in 1980, the ace of spades cracked the charts in britain and the u.s. and became a heavy metal anthem. >> have a drink. >> reporter: with his heavy drinking and wild antics, lemmy's lifestyle appeared to live up to the lyrics in the songs he wrote. mama, i'm coming home >> he penned hits for other performers such as mama i'm coming home for ozzy osbourne. last night osbourne tweeted lost one of my best friends lemmy today. he was a warrior and a legend. fans say lemmy will be

himself and his music. >> i did it right, you know. that's about as much as i can say.

can say, that you did it right. >> "star wars: the force awakens" continues to break box office records. it sold $1 billion worth of tickets faster than any other movie and is doing it without crater george lucas. he has had no role in this film. lucas sat down with charlie rose to discuss life, love and what it means to be a director. >> well, a director is just somebody who's got a fetish with making the world to be what he wants it to be, sort of narcissistic. >> that's you? >> all directors. they're no different. >> and you're a director.

like emperors which is i want to build the society to reflect me and what i want. but a director can do it with a lot less money and just say i'm going to create a world where people can fly. >> george lucas didn't create a new society. he constructed an entire galaxy. >> on its surface, the "star wars" series is a sci-fi space odyssey with odd creatures and epic space battles. but its genius lies in the simple story beneath all of that. >> he told me you killed him. >> timeless elements like family. >> i am your father. >> is the darkside stronger? >> no, no. >> reporter: and the fight between good and evil. >> i felt a great disturbance in the force.

has been called one of the most innovative filmmakers in history, but in his heart he considers himself a story teller. >> didn't you intend to create three movies when you started? and then you decided only to take one part of that life story? >> yeah, i took the first act but then the first act didn't really work so i said okay, what i'm going to have to do is take the ending of the third film and put it on the first film. what you do, you've got a bunch of stuff sitting on your desk as you're creating. let me take that and stick that in here and make it. so i wasn't worried that much about the sequels when i was actually making it because i have to make this the best film. then when i moved onto the other ones, i say kenobi is now dead. i killed him. how am i going to fix that. and what am i going to do about the fact that i blew the death star up and that's what the ending is? but part of it was simply when i got down to some of the other

environment and a world that wasn't possible when i started the first one. so to me, getting yoda to do a sword fight which i'd always wanted to do but could never do it because he was a muppet. >> lucas became a pioneer in the world of special effects. >> the general's command ship is dead ahead. >> reporter: his work forever changed the way films are made. and he changed how they sound, too. >> one, two, 3:004:00 rock. >> in his 1973 hit "american graffiti," lucas opted out of a >> he narrated the entire story with popular songs. make a lovely night >> that's the clearest end point half of what a teenager is is music.

trouble or raging hormones. but at the same time, it's -- that's what the movie's about. >> reporter: cars and music and raging hormones. >> yeah, i should have called it that. we were looking for a title and you finally figured it out. >> yes. >> the studio wanted to call it another slow night in modesto, but cars, music and raging hormones would have been -- it could have been a hit let's go surfing now the low budget film was one of the most commercially successful films of its time. before he was 40, lucas went on to make the first three "star wars" and indiana jones "raiders of the lost ark." and then he walked away. >> i mean i gave up directing in order to become a dad. you know for 15 years, i just ran a company and was and i know straighter, but it was not doing

is actually make movies. >> reporter: because you wanted to be a dad? >> because yeah, i -- and i never was one of those things where you don't expect it to happen but once i was a dad, it was like a bolt of lightning struck me. >> reporter: lucas adopted his first daughter with his wife marsha in 1981. after they divorced, he adopted two more children and raised them as a single dad. >> everybody says the following things -- they're so very different. then in 2013, he married melody hobson an investment executive and cbs news contributor. >> the thing we discovered which we call a miracle is the fact we're exactly the same. >> together they have a 2-year-old daughter. >> it's a miracle. that's how i see it. it shouldn't have happened and somehow it did. >> reporter: here at skywalker ranch north of san francisco, george is once again able to concentrate on being a father. three years ago, he sold his company lucas films to disney

>> who are you? >> reporter: let me just talk about the "force awakens." >> probably needs this. >> reporter: how do you feel about it? >> well, it's -- you know, i made the decision to sell the company with "star wars." i made that decision because i looked at the future, i thought that i was going to have a baby, i looked at the fact that i was married and i looked at the fact that i wanted to build a museum and i looked at the fact that i wanted to make experimental films. so my life was going on a so that started that ball rolling. and so in the end, when i sold it, they hired j.j. to come in. >> are you at peace with this? >> yeah. >> as much as you can be? fine. fortunately i'm old enough to have been through all this stuff before. and i'm sure it will do magnificent business.

you know, it will be different from what i would have done. >> everything he's done has earned him a prestigious kennedy center honor. >> george lucas. he's a pathfinder and a pioneer. >> at the awards his good friend steven spielberg explained the george lucas legacy best. >> george lucas changed movies forever. >> i was successful because i made one movie every three years. he makes three movies every year. i said when are you going to retire? he said i'm not going to retire. i said, my ultimate dream is to die on a set. and just keel over in the middle of shooting. i said gee, my ambition is to die in bed watching one of your movies on television. >> reporter: but that doesn't mean he's slowing down anytime soon. >> because you have worn all of these hats though, filmmaker, director, story teller, writer, technological innovator, what do

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yo-yo, 11, apple and there are normal ones that just didn't fit like edison, edi for short. these names? confused. why is this your english name? >> reporter: in all of this, the 26-year-old jernigan saw an opportunity and launched a website to help chinese find an english name. >> here we have the name. we have the origin, meaning. our target audience is really 18 to about 30. it's people that are kind of getting a little bit more serious about their job or studying abroad or going abroad or even working in china in a multinational company. >> reporter: users can take a quiz or for $45 get a 30-minute one-on-one consultation. jernigan explains the meaning of names and says chinese often want one that's uncommon and similar to their chinese name. >> i always kind of like when chinese people say i don't have an english name. i'm going to stick with my chinese name. we're in china.

on our website, we never say chinese people have to have an english name. it's very much a resource for people actively already looking for an english name. almost all of my friends have their english name. >> reporter: meet this 28-year-old, formerly known as 11. the number of her favorite soccer player. >> when you told people my name is 11 -- >> uh-huh. >> -- what did they say? >> that's my trouble. they always say where is seven. 711 eleven is the famous convenience store in china. seven. >> i don't know. >> you'd say gosh, another 7-eleven joke. >> after working with jern garngs 11 became keera. >> kiera is not that common. it sounds smart and keira knightley. >> sure.

to explain why some names just don't work. >> you run into people here named green or yellow but you have the name scarlet and violet. so why? i totally understand why it's confusing. there's a learning curve for all involved. this juice store manager was formerly known as ding. his new name courtesy of jernigan took some practice for his father. >> evan. >> evan. >> evan? evan? >> that's what your dad said? >> yeah. >> he couldn't pronounce it when you told him? >> yeah. >> reporter: now, this goes both ways. in japan, they have a hard time pronouncing the th in my name seth so they call me sess sue. here in china, the ministry of foreign affairs has given me a chinese name. that's do an. it means much kindness. for "cbs this morning," i'm seth

be right back. 2015 is coming to a close and charles osgood looks back on the year that was. >> reporter: january brought the terrorist attack on the french magazine "charlie hebdo." it had lampooned islam. 13 people were killed. millions would soon rally in paris saying charlie. in february, isis shocked the world again. posting online videos of a captured jordanian pilot being burned alive and later the mass beheading of 21 coptic christians. we remember march for the crash of the germanwings jetliner. 150 lives were lost.

alps. in april, a boston jury convicted marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. a month later he was sentenced to death. may saw the duke and duchess of cambridge present their new daughter, princess charlotte elizabeth die and fla to the world. >> i'm always going to be your dad. >> in june caitlyn jenner formerly known as bruce jenner made her debut. and the supreme court made same-sex marriage a right nationwide. a mile long tunnel provided mexico's powerful drug lord el chapo an escape from prison in july. that same month, pluto was revealed in spectacular photos snapped by a nasa spacecraft. in august, news that minnesota dentist walter palmer had killed zimbabwe's beloved cecil the

outrage. the photo of 3-year-old alan kurdish beach in september quickly became a symbol of the world's indifference to the plight of syrian refugees. to china's controversial one-child policy. allowing families now to have two children. islamic terrorists targeted paris again in november. 130 people would die in multiple attacks. leaving the heart of the french nation badly wounded. and this month, radicalized husband and wife killers would take 14 lives in san bernardino, california. and two weeks ago, 200 nations met in paris to adopt the first global pact to combat climate change.