precision induction cotop. immediate threats to the assad regime, groups like the u.s.-backed free syrian army and al nusra, the syrian arm of al qaeda. the general uldn't tell us how many planes are flying missions, but american military sources say the russians have 36 fighter planes and 17 helicopters. the russian military says they have flown more than 5,000 sorties, mostly from here, since president putin ordered the bombing campaign in september. what is the primary goal of ruia in this intervention? >> translator: the main task is to restore statehood in this region, syrian statehood. >> reporter: this is the chairman of the russian

he was involved in the planning of the syrian mission. the united states is focused primarily on defeating isis, and russia seems to have other priorities supporting the assad regime and helping the assad regime fight its enemies. and that seems to take priority over fighting isis. >> translator: if you cut off the head, you get chaos. there's chaos in libya, chaos essentially in iraq. half the country is under isil. and the head was chopped off there, you see? so if you want to so stubbornly remove the leaders of syria, >> i'm just wondering you believe that assad has a role in the future of syria? >> translator: the problem is that he's lost some of his authority. the people themselves must

follow and how to build their lives, which has been essentially ruined in syria. >> reporter: ruined in l lge part by president assad's own military. we got the sense the admiral is not crazy about the syrian president, who has dropped bombs on his own people. the admiral used a derogatory term to describe assad, then asked that we not repeat it on tv. >> translator: we know why the opposition was formed. it was formed due to the mistakes of the president of syria himself. >> reporter: when they launched russians said it would be temporary. after months of almost daily bombing, isis and the other insurgent groups have barely been budged from the territory ey hold. and russia has added more planes and expanded to other bases here in syria. the mission doesn't look so temporary anymore. did russia overestimate the

>> translator: we have been fulfilling our obligations to syria and we will go on fulfilling them. president assad shouldn't rest on his laurels. he needs to work on his army and raise its morale, d if necessary, lead the army himself. he needs to unite his forces, which are scattered like fingers. thth must be clinched into a fist. if you can't beat them, at least you can give them a black eye. >> reporter: it was the russians who got a black eye when one of their warplanes was shot down turkish air force in late november. that incident may have been why we were taken to tartus, two hours south of latakia. this is the russian navy's only foothold in the mediterranean. holding onto this base seems to be one reason president putin maintained and is escorting his

this day, our destination was "the moscow," a guided cruiser that lay a mile offshore. they brought us aboard and did everything short of firing off a missile to demonstrate russia's naval might. "the moscow" is normally the flagship of the black sea fleet. it now has a new mission. when i see all of this, i just & wonder who are you fighting? isis doesn't have any capability like this. >> translator: the general told us the ship's main mission is not to fight terrorists. >> reporter: after turkey shot down the russian fighr, "the moss wow" was reassigned to provide anti-aircraft defense. it was supposed to be a war against isis and islamic terrorism, is a sign just how

mission has become. >> russia has to be reckoned with, which has been putin's goal all along throughout the 15 years of his leadership. >> reporter: maria lipman is a political analyst in moscow, one of the few independent voices willing to publicly criticize president putin. >> seeing russia, wage thing state of the art military operation in very important region, made the russians feel proud of this, beginning with the annexation of crimea. when russia reinstated historical justice, the way it was seen in russia. >> so this is primarily not about syria but about russia's place in the world? >> of course it is also about syrib, but i don't think the goal -- the primary goal was to stop the war. i think the primary goal was

>> reporter: we wanted to know what they thought of russia's war here in latakia, a home to about 2 million people. this is assad territory. the shops looked full and life seemed normal as we rode through town. we weren't allowed off the bus for security reasons, our russian minder said. instead, they took us to a refugee camp at the city's sports complex. while hundreds of thousands of syrians have fled to europe from the bombs and brutality of president assad and his opponents, the russians wanted to show us people that have fled to the safety of the syrian government. these are about 5,000 of the millions of refugees from this civil war. amid the tents, we found this woman. she's been here three years after fleeing aleppo with her daughter and grandchildren.

that made you come here to this camp? "they destroyed our homes," she told us. she said her son was killed. you lost everything? she told us she didn't know who was responsible for the barrel bombs dropped from a plane that destroyed her house. but rrel bombs are a signature weapon of the assad regime. do you hope to go home again? "god willing," she said. she told us she felt safe here in the government-run camp and she was grateful to the ssians for helping out. >> you can see bill whittaker's full report on our website, cbs.com.

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the federal government wants carmakers to design and install new technology to help stop accidents. kris van cleave reports from the north american international auto show in detroit. >> reporter: vehicle-to-vehicle communication or v2v, is designed so this car can talk to this car and every other car on the road multiple times a second. alerting a driver to a danger he or she may not even be able to see yet. now the department of transportation is taking a key step to making v2v a requirement for all new cars. equipping the country's cars and trucksksith so-called v2v

vehicles to see each other and warn of potential danger well before driver sees it. transportation secretary anthony fox. >> our goal is to see this technology put in place as soon as possible. we know that it has the capability to help us avoid accidents up to 80% of crashes today avoided because of this technology. >> reporter: in j014, more than 32,600 people died on roads. the newew proposed rule will call for standard v2v technology to be phased in over a period of years but still must clear a public comment period. do you see there's enough vehicles on the road that v2v is a reality? >> i think you'll see immediate impacts in the sense that cars with this capability will be able to have some of the safety enhancing features right away.

milar to wi-fi. it allows cars in close proximity to share information. it allows the car to warn a driver before changing lanes or about a hazard ahead. already some cars co with blind spot detection and automatic braking to prevent some collisions. it may also be able to communicate withthnfrastructure, like stop signs. letting drivers know how long until an upcoming light changes. jamie kitman is the new york bureau chief for automobile magazine. he agrees it's life-saving techlogy but believes it will be a number of years before issues like harking and privacy are addressed. >> you are going to be tracked like never before. that has good uses. charting traffic flows, and then there's the issue that really most of the data being collected by private corporations, and they will seek to use that to their benefit. >> reporter: the auto industry is expected to support this regulation. early cost estimates have it at

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leonardo dicaprio was a big winner at the golden globes kevin frasier has the story from hollywood. >> the revenant. >> reporter: the saga made months of punishing location shooting all worthwhile for the director and star. >> i was excited about going on this journey with this man right here, and this is a type of film that you won't see coming out of the hollywood studio system very often. it's a major -- it's an epic art film. >> you need a great partner to do a journey like this. it's almost, you know, to climb a mountain this high, if you don't have the right partner, you will die. >> matt damon, "martian." >> reporter: another big winner, "the martian" and matt damon. when he arrived, he hato tell security that he lost his

your ticket. >> they said, where's your ticketet i said i must have left it in the car. oh, we'll have to print you another one. so i'm holding on to it for dear life. >> lady gaga "american horror story hotel." >> reporter: lady gaga proved herself as social media superstar of the estimated 4.4 million tweets about the globe. the most tweets overall went to gaga and her breakthrough as an actress. >> i want to show you something you'll enjoy. >> reporter: what does this moment feel like? >> it's moments like that that i'm catapulted back to my apartment in new york when i had just a keyboard and mattress on the floor and i remember working three jobs to pay for demos and go to auditions. this is just a total dream. >> reporter: lots of eyes on jennifer lawrence and amy schumer. when j-law beat amy, she whispererein her ear. >> she said, shut up, just go. but i also blacked out. >> reporter: jennifer, you would be wise to take a cue from kate

>> i've been acting for 23 years. i'm an old lady. i need glasses to drive my car, and these moments mean a great deal. >> everything i got is moved on. >> reporter: the biggest cheer of the night erupted when sylvester stallone won for "creed." once again, bringing back rocky balboa, sly told us that when he's writing he actually talks to his most famous character. >> adrian! >> before you know it, you're having this -- and even though the majority of it is silly, just that much comes out of it and you go, thank you, thank you so much. >> that's the "overnight news" for this tuesday. 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 don dahler. there's starman waiting in the sky the master of reinvention. there is a worldwide outpouring of affection for music legend david bowie. also tonight, the raid that recaptured a drug kingpin, and the sean penn connection. the actor says, "i've got nothing to hide." when should women be screened for breast cancer? new recommendations tonight. and the first billion dollar lottery jackpot. some people are already cashing in. this is the "cbs overnight news." >> david bowie spanned gegerations. more than 140 million records

broadway plays. always changing, he set trends and then moved on. he died sunday of cancer, and as word spread today, fans gathered in his native london and his adopted home, , w york, to remember a man who once called himself a collector of personalities. anthony mason looks back. >> reporter: like the lost astronaut major tom in his 1969 hit "space oddity" -- ground control to major top >> reporter: david bowie@was always traveling between worlds. take your protein pills andnd put your helmet on >> reporter: his music and image perpetually morphing. ch-ch-ch-changes >> reporter: from ziggy stardust to the thin white duke, bowie would restlessly reinvent

>> i glip from one thing to another a lot. >> glip? >> reporter: he made a rare effort to explain himself on the dick cavett show in 1974. >> i'm a storyteller and a story writer. i decided i prefefred to enact a lot of the story and perform it myself. >> reporter: even his stage name was an invention. born david jones in britain, he chanand his last name to avoid confusion with the monkees' davy jones. fame >> reporter: in 1975, "fame," him his first number-one single in the u.s. in the 1980s he topped the charts again. let's dance, put on your red shoes and dance the blues

about more than just music, as he told charlie rose in 1998. >> i find that the idea of having to say that i'm a musician in any way is an embarrassmenento me because i don't really believe that. i've always felt that what i do is i use music for my way of expression. i don't believe i'm very accomplished at it. >> reporter: but his fearlessness made him one of the most influential performers of the rock era. bowie, who kept his cancer a secret, released his latest album, "blackstar," just this past friday on his 69th birthday. look up here, i'm in heaven >> reporter: a farewell from an artist who showed us he could be many things. there's a starman waiting in the sky reporter: and always be himself. sales of bowie's mus have soared in the hours after his death. his new album looks destined to become his tenth number one, and twitter reports that some 20,000

across the internet in the hours after his death. scott? >> and it would be sir david, but he turned down a knighthood in 2003. anthony mason, thanks so much, anthonon mexico may send the drug kingpin known as el chapo to the united states. he was captured friday around the same time we learned of an interview he granted to actor sean penn. penn said today he has nothing to hide about his relationship with joaquin guzman, whose nickname is spanish for "shorty." manuel bojorquez has new video of the capture which came six months after guzman escaped from a mexican prison. >> reporter: these dramatic images capture the moment mexican mamanes stormed a home in sinoaloa where notorious drug kingpin joaquin "el chapo" guzman was hiding. five of his men were killed during the shoot-out, but el chapo managed to escape through a set of intricate tunnels.

off he was in a stolen car and arrested him. mexican officials say it was this "rolling stone" interview that helped lead them to the elusive kingpin. actor sean penn met secretly with el chapo last october in a remote mountain location, a meeting set up by mexican actress kate del castillo, who had apparently been in touch with the drug lord while he was on the run. these images show penn and del castillo arriving at a mexican airport and greeting the men who would ferry the two to guzman. in the interview guzman brags to penn about being the world's leading drug supplier. he tells penn that it's a reality that drugs destroy. "where i grew up there was no other way and there still isn't a way to survive." el chapo had been on the run for six months after escaping from this maximum-security prison through an elaborate set of underground tunnels found just

he's now being held in the same prison, this time surrounded by military tanks. mexican officials are working to extradite him to the u.s., where guzman faces murder and drug trafficking charges in at least six states. juan miguel edmonson is a former special prosecutor for interpol in latin america. is there a chance we'll see el chapo escape again? >> there's more than all the eyes of the world put on him, therefore i don't think so. >> reporter: a mexican official said today the extradition process could take a year or more. here at the prison, authorities have not revealed where they are holding guzman, but they are moving him from cell to cell frequently to prevent another one of his infamous underground escapes. >> manuel bojorquez reporting for us tonight.

will be right back. well, it's three weeks now until iowa, and as the days grow shorter, the polls grow tighter. republican donald trump has a two-point lead over ted cruz. that is within the poll's margin of error. today, trump continued to raise questions ababt whether cruz, born in canada to an american moer, is eligible to be president. here's major garrett. >> it's wrong to say it is a settled matter because it's absolutely not. it's not a settled matter. that means that, you know, a lot of people think you have to be born here. >> reporter: before a lethargic and relatively small mid-day crowd in new hampshire, donald trump continued planting doubts about ted cruz's citizenship,

the final verdict. >> it's one of those little decisions. i'm sure ted is thrilled that i'm helping him out, but i am. i mean, i am. i mean, he's got to go and he's got to fix it. >> reporter: cruz has dismissed trump's suggestions. >> i have never breathed a breath of air on this planet when i was not a u.s. citizen. i've never been naturalized. it was the process of being born that made me a u.s. citizen. >> reporter: a new poll shows trump with a commanding lead in new hampshire with john kasich, marco rubio and cruz in a virtual tie for second. but trump's camp fears a cruz victory in iowa would catapult him ahead in new hampshire. rubio is also looking over his shoulder at chris christie, who is trailing him by just four points in new hampshire. today rubio attacked christie on key conservative issues. >> our next president cannot be someone who supports common core, who supports gun control, who has personally contributed to planned parenthood. these are things we need to reverse. >> reporter: on "face the nation" christie defended his record.

a conservative reformer in new jersey. so here's the thing, i'm not going to spend my time talking about marco rubio. >> reporter: christie once said he donated to planned parenthood, something his campaign now denies. scott, rubio today canceled a fundraiser and returned to d.c. after critics attacked his orinal plan, raise money and skip a senate classified briefing on north korea. >> major garrett in the newsroom. major, thank you. on the democratic side, the polls show hillary clinton and bernie sanders neck and neck in both iowa and new hampshire. nancy cordes has the latest on that. >> now i just have a difference with senator sanders. >> reporter: hillary clinton normally takes aim at her republican rivals, but in waterloo, iowa, today, she focused d bernie sanders and his proposals for new spending. >> there's no way if you do the arithmetic how to pay for what he has proposed without raising taxes. >> reporter: the change in course was no coincidence.

help. >> reporter: the nbc/marist poll shows sanders coming on fast in iowa and even outperforming clinton in the general election. in a theoretical matchup with donald trump, sanders leads in iowa by 13 points. clinton leads by 8. in a matchup with ted cruz, sanders leads by 5 points while clinton trails by 4. >> we have an excellent chance to win here in iowa. >> reporter: sanders told the state's largest newspaper that clinton's new attacks on him show she's "nervous and panicky," but he's doing the exact same thing. >> will she change her mind and join m min making sure that we can significantly raise the benefits for low-income people on social security? you know, these polls go up, they go down. >> reporter: on "face the nation" sunday, the former first lady downplayed both the numbers and trump's recent comments

in the '90s. >> they can say whatever they want. more power to them. i think it's a dead end, blind alley for them, but let them go. >> reporter: clinton leads in later states like south carolina by up to 40 points, though she enjoyed a similar lead in iowa not that long ago, scott. >> nancy cordes on the campaign. nancy, thank you. today in london, a muslim preacher known for his fiery anti-western sermons went on trial. anjem choudary is charged with recruiting for isis. elizabeth palmer has this. >> reporter: on his way into court, britain's best-known radical islamist claimed it was all a setup. >> the only reason i'm standing here today is because i'm a muslimn >> reporter: choudary once praised the 9/11 hijackers and for years has denounced western rights and freedoms. >> down with democracy!

isis in 2014, choudary sounded like a salesman for life under isis rule. >> everybody has free food, clothing and shelter. close your eyes and imagine a society. you haven't got a house? here's your house. you don't have electricity, here's free electricity. >> reporter: eventually, choudary's lecturerein person and online got him arrested. on the eve of his trial, he sat down with us to insist he never directly recruited for isis. >> there's no record of memever saying to go abroad and to live in the islamic state. >> reporter: did you have to? just by saying this is a muslim state and it is a place run under sharia law, is it an implicit endorsement? >> no, it isn't, in fact. >> reporter: but the british government disagrees. it believes choudary's campaigning contributed to the stream of hundreds of britons who went to syria to fight. one of them was siddhartha dahr, formerly choudary's close

he went to syria i2014 and is now widely believed to be the man behind the mask in isis' latest execution video. >> people of britain, know t tt today your citizenship is under our feet. >> reporter: anjem choudary faces ten years in jail if convicted, but the broader question is whether this british crackdown on recruiting will slow the flow of foreign fighters that isis depends on. >> liz palmer in t(e london newsroom tonight. liz, thanks. now in technology, the next generation of cars may be able to avoid most accidents automatically. the federal gornment is proposing a new technology regulation for carmakers, and kris van cleave has more from the detroit auto show. >> reporter: the newly proposed regulation will require technology to be standard in all new vehicles sold in the u.s. experts say it could be as revolutionary as seat belts and

once finalized, the rule will call for vehicle-to-vecle communication, or v2v, to be phased in over a few years. >> our goal is to see this technology put in place as soon as possible. >> reporter: secretary of transportation anthony fox. >> over the years we've had about 33,000 fatalities a year on our highways. if the technology then can substitute for human judgment and help us avoid those crashes. we think we can get as much as an 80% reduction. that's a huge change. >> reporter: as this department of transportation animation shows, v2v uses technology similar to wifi to link cars near each other on the road, allowing them to share information like speed and direction several times a seco. so if the vehicle several cars ahead stops abruptly, your car would know almost instantly and warn you to slow down. it may also be able to talk to infrastructure like stoplights, telling the driver how long until a light changes. v2v builds on technology like

in some vehicles. ford ceo mark fields. do you think this is the type of technology customers will pay for? >> to a certain extent i think they will, but we'll see what the future brings. we're working very hard toward bringing and continuing to have more and more of those features in the vehicle. we'll see what the consumer decides. >> reporter: the auto industry supports the move to v2v technology, but there are some unanswered questions, how do you protect cars against hacking and what about all that data now being collected by our ever- smarter cars. >> kris van cleave in motor city. kris, thank you. new recommendations for when women should get mammograms, here in the city, parkrkg is hard to find. seems like everyone drives. and those who do should switch to geico because you could save hundreds on car insurance. ah, perfect. valet parking. hello! here's the keys. and, uh, go easy on my ride, mate. hm, wouldn't mind some of that beef wellington...

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a government medical panel ised new guidelines for when women and how often women should be screened for breast cancer. we asked dr. jon lapook to fill us in. >> look straight in here. >> reporter: today 44-year-old paula peirera had a mammogram. she's done that every year since turning 40. >> between me and my doctor, we've decided that i need to stay with having my yearly screening mammography. that's for my peace of mind. >> reporter: the u.s. preventative services task force says women of average risk should make an individual choice about whether to screen between the ages of 40 and 4 and be screened every other year

studies suggest screening mammography is about twice as effective at saving lives in women 50 to 59 as in women 40 to 49. still, in that younger age group, about four deaths are prevented for every 10,000 women screened over ten years. some doctors worry about the message these new guidelines may be sending to younger women. dr. freya schnabel is the director of breast surgery at nyu langone. >> we have to remember that women in their 40s and below still get breast cancer. >> reporter: in your view, are we overemphasizing now the potential harm, including worry on the part of the patients? >> i think the wry issue is something that particularly, in my opinion, is very troublesome as a reason to avoid mammography. >> reporter: why? >> i think it's patronizing. adult women are capable of understanding that sometimes we all have to do things that we're not crazy about, but there's a long-term benefit.

evidence to make a recommendation, so, scott, the dedesion will rest on factors like a woman's risk and general health. >> dr. jon lapook, thank you, jon. just heard from on our facebook

right back. today wall street snapped a losing streak as stocks rallied in the last minutes of trading. the dow was up 52 and change. but oil slipped below $32, the lowest since 2003. there's an oversupply and the second largest consumer, china, is slowing down. our research department tells us that 114,000 americans have lost their jobs in the oil patch in 2015. a woman suspected of robbing jewelry stores in five southern states was in court in atlanta today. the feds say 24-year-old abigail kemp is the woman on surveillance video accused of tying up employees at gunpoint and taking more than $4 million in jewels. kemp was arrested friday.

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with. >> reporter: gambling may be legal in nevada, but powerball isn't. so thousands have traveled over the california border to buy tickets, even canadians are heading south to get in on the game. the powerball has also provided a business boom to convenience stores. mukesh sahi says his sales have tripled. >> people buying sodaproducts, cigarettes. >> the big mistake lottery winners make is they rush. >> reporter: attorney michael kosnitzky has been hired by a dozen lottery winners over the past decade. he says it's not only hard to win it but it's hard to keep it. >> how many of them are still millionaires? >> all of them. >> reporter: but a 2012 study showed 70% of lottery winners end up bankrupt. kosnitzky recommends taking the projected lump payment of more than $860 million, hiring an accountant, a tax attorney and a financial adviser.

mattresses big enough to hide this fortune under. jericka duncan, cbs news, new york. and that's the "overnight ne" for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and of course, "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.