ptioning sponsored by cbs >> pelley: a big o man tops the trump cabinet. exxon-mobil's c.e.o. with stro secretary of state.he choice for and rick perry could head a department he'd just as soon forget. >> i can't. sorry. oops. >> pelley: also tonight, the final words from a doomed freighter, and angry words from a widow. >> i would have thrown the captain overboard and tried the save myself and the ship. >> pelley: a fmer pro football player faces criminal charges in an alleged health insurance fraud exposed by cbs news. >> how much are they making? >> oh, millis. >> pelley: and a woman who

chocolate chip and money. exactly. mone honey. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pely: today president-elect donald trump named the c.e.o. of exxon-mobil, rex tillerson, to be secretary of state. e senior meerf the tillerson was csen because he's made successl des with heads of state all aroundhe world, but thoou that bind. tillerson, for example, has a close business relationship with vladimir putin of russia.the ifelong oi man has no government experience, but he kneowledg climate chae. also today, mr. trump picked another texan, former governor rick perry, to head the energy department, a department that onceperry owed to scr major garrett begins our covera.

grateful that seone of rex tillerso?n's pron will adership and accomplisent has beenillingo step forward to serve our nation as our next secretary of state. move from exxonobil c.e.o. to secretarof state nominee began with meeti lt month between -elect mike pencend former seetar of state cdoleezza ric rice, g wh fello former secretarof stateames baker and forr defense sectary robertates stroly post. after his seconda meeting withr. trump on saturday, tierson emerg as the president-elect's choice, beating out candidates such as mitt romney, ry giuliani, and balk corker. >> and to me, a great advantage, and kno them well. the players he ds massive deals withssia. >> reporter: those deals wh russia may be tillers's biggest rdleo confirmatn. he'srowno close to psint

2013 >> certainly it shoulde matter of ncern. >>eporter: republican senators like arizona's jn mcine hav eressed concern about the tillerson pick.>> mayy commercial and g to do with reporter: but mccain's fellow senator fromrizona jeff e tet support of g.o.p. establishment figures "rries coiderab presenelect trump has also select forr tex governorick prye th agency heamousldot name during 2012 presidential >> the thirdgency of government i would do away wh, >> reporter: perry joins an emerging trump cabinet at odds with some of the core missions of their agencies. the nomineeor the department of health and human serces s to repeal obamacare. the nominee fhe environmenta prectiongency

agnst the agencyver regulation, and the nom for labor secretary wan to repeal regulations guanteei overti pay and worker safety. here in wisconsin, spoers arted li for tonight's rally this morningn i mperaturesell below freezing. sct's, the state's recently concluded added 131 vot to mr. ump'margin oictory. >>elley: major garrett, thanks. correspondenmargaret brennan the exxon tigernd ties betwe bear. >> we have a verylose relationship. i don't agree with everythg he's doing. >> reporter: rex tillerson has woedith russian president vladimir putin since 1999,negoal deals thatenef both exxon andtate-owned russian energy giant rosneft. tillerson id earer ts year that their relationship was strictly business.ot here to ret the united state government's

iere to criticize it. that's not what i do. i'm a busessman. >> reporter: he strongly opposed u.s.inancial sanctions on rusa, put in place after they iadedarts of ukraine and carried out war crimes in syri if the sanctions were lifted, exxon coumed resume certain energy productin russi >> he's much more than a business executive. he's a world- placlassr. >> reporter: tlerson also has deep relatnships in many ofhe nearl 60 foreign countries where exxon-mobil ates. those include strained allies humanights records like chadand and angola. unlike present-elect trp, tillerson sject to federal conflict of interest laws and will have to shield himself from his significant business inrests. tierson currently owns well er $0on milli company stock, and exxon's board is meetg soon to decid how to unwind his financial stake. rmer aassador and white

>>ou have such huge portfoli your decision affect industry a single smentr tweet can move a entire m soarket, to be very, very >> rr: since tillerson name furfaced as a potentiasecretary oftatemobil ad abou 6%.scotheuestion here at t sstate depant whether llerso will opp high-stakes foigpolicy chlenges as a deal maker or diplomat. >> pelley: margaret brnan, thanks. here in new york at trumpower, ere is a steady flow of t richnd fus ving the president-elec vogueto ein-chief anna wintour washere today. so wereorme f football stars jim brown a ray lewis. and rap mogul kanye west who says he talked to mr. trump abt multicultural issues

west once saide too wantso run for president. now to a grim reality that the new present will faceight away. his f forei policy challenge is likely to be syria. and its russian allies say ty have broken the rebellion in the country's largest city, aleppo. rebels are evacuating now afterd devastating a strikes. last night thousands protested the russian consulate in istanbul, aleppo once hd two million civizationbut there iss ofly nothinlike civilization there today. deboraat reports. >>eporter: the situation today was dcribed by the united nations as a complete meltdown of humanity. [gfire] u.n. said i hadviden that pro-governnt militias massacd 82 civilians,ome in

11en and 1 children were among them. ewitnesses descri streets lined with bodies, people too ared to collect the loved ones for fear of being shot. activists abduafi alhamdo isin o >> w are facing one of the most difficulor the most serus or theost isn history. >> reporter: for the injured, this man desperately tries to put out the fmes that enguld and drenched in misery, civilians ke a last attempt to t out.?x these children are utterly defeeless. all ey have ishor oer protecon.e

taken back ao and cldless civilians have pd for ts th their lives.in a conflic tt already has a commitnstd ai cilian, scott, the past 48 h has ben woe.en eve wever,he russiansnd the syans have denied any ongdoing, saying that aleppo i fully under theircontrs have stopped. >>ell: idera pat beirut tonight.derah, you.ur court-martial fotheir role in the allegbuse ofecruits at the parris island boot camp in soholina. they're t first to b charged, but as david martin reports, alst cerinly not t last. >> reporter: it's 6:30 a.m., d these recruit have been up since 4:00. e training apaisand is vestigatns have foundt to be dightruel.

humiating and hazing recruits, none o pmi according to commaing gener austin nforth. >> when youutour hands on a young or won, you have going to tolere it. we're not rawft but the investigationsshot spring when the abuses came to light. nt e-mail he white house entitled "concerd loved es of iocent rruits" scribed incidents of drill drinki on th job, calling homophobic slurs and warng themhat snihes get stitche the mos notoriousas involving muslim recruit who allegedly mpedo hiseath d after being slapped by drill sergea is still under investigation. that samerillnstructo allegedly ordered another muslim cr a clothes dryer. when he assumed command.all

>> can't slap them? >> no. >> reporter: can they call them names? >> they cant. any allegation of recruit abuse comes directly to me. >> reporter: but since then, one recruit has died aft beingm3 found unresponsive in his bunk and a second is in ccal second-floor landing. from a both casesre sll under investigation, although neier pears to involve abuse. the earlier incidents of abuse document in tse investigations are expected to relt in more charges rangi duty. but renforth says the training parriislandill remains tough, though not as cruel, as ever. david martin, cbs news, parris land, south carolina. >> pelley: in the weather, it will be bitter cold tonight in the upper midwest, and jamie yuccass covering the arctic blast. >> reporter: minnesota knows how to deal wit frigid temperatures. as a matter of fact, this is a beat-the-cold party happening in one family's backyard.

to an ice rink. lakes regions will both dea with 15 to 20-degree below normal temperatures for t res ofhe week. that arctic air wil then head ea a new england could see record-breaking low temperatures by thursday. there's another storm system brewing in the pacific northwest, and that means that teeraturesill be below normal for hf of the country as tha cold airheads south a east, scott. >> pelley: jam yuccas, tonit after a cbs news investigation into an alleged frd that cost u.s. taxpayers $2ilon las year. axelrod and producer emi rand broke the story. >> pked off. >> reporte former college andfl linebacker monte groh

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