captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: america on the move. >> this is crazy. i've never seen it like this. >> quijano: the busiest holiday rush in nearly a decade. millions jam highways, airports, and trains. plus a security lockdown for the thanksgiving parade. also tonight, two women join trump team, haley for u.n. ambassador, devoss for education secretary. buying groceries just got a whole lot easier. >> it's a great time to be a shopper. it's a tough time to be a supermarket. >> quijano: and. >> we're under the lincoln memorial. we're about 75 feet underground. >> quijano: a national treasure is being restored by the monuments man.

with scott pelley. >> quijano: good evening, scott is off tonight. i'm elaine quijano. americans are on a mission to see family or friends and get there in time for thanksgiving dinner. it won't be easy. the 405 in los angeles was packed in both directions well before dawn. airport security lines snaked around terminals. nearly 49 million plan to travel 50 miles or more, most since 2007. the vast majority are driving and pagan average of gallon for gas, among the lowest prices in years. we have a team of correspondents covering this. first, can kris van cleave at reagan national airport outside d.c. >> reporter: elaine, the airlines are pretty happy with the way the day is going. so far, only about 40 flights delayed as of early evening on the east coast, some 3.7 million people expected to fly this holiday weekend. many of them are still in

from denver to chicago o'hare and in boston, long lines greeted holiday fliers. >> this is crazy. i've never seen it like this before, and i've traveled here for the past three years. >> reporter: thanksgiving is the airline's super bowl. the world is watching. and dave holz is watching weather and delays from delta's operation center in atlanta. >> we're looking far enough out in advance so when we do run into some of those impactful items we are prepared for it and get the airlines back on their feet. >> reporter: t.s.a. administrator peter neffenger. do you have any concerns about the thanksgiving holiday? >> there are no particular credible threat streams we're following right now, just the standard concerns you have about aviation security, and we're going to be on top of that. >> reporter: i'm david begnaud. motorists on the washington, d.c. beltway this afternoon were

bottle neck that backed up for 12 miles. a.a.a. said 33 million people are expected to drive to their thanksgiving day destination. traffic fatalities are up 10% in the first half of this year, and that's a big concern on a travel day like this. the automobile club expects to help out 370,000 people who will have some kind of car trouble. the only trouble the homan family had today was space. brad homan and christina hope decided to use for the family trip to the florida keys. how long is the trip? >> it's about five hours. >> reporter: you are troops are. >> we have to take a break. >> there's a little bit of explaining going ojust a little bit. we had to get out of the car for that reason. >> yeah. >> reporter: right now, we are in bumper-to-bumper traffic in florida, florida. we're on i-95 and it's moving at about 13 miles per hour. a little tip for you-- try not to travel home on sunday if you can avoid it. according to the mope app waze,

sunday. from the roads to the rails it's also pretty busy right now at the nation's train stations. >> reporter: i'm michelle miller at penn station in new york city, where holiday travelers rushed to get seated on mostly sold-out trains. penn station is the busiest hub along the northeast corridor, servicing trains every two to three minutes. nationwide this year, 750,000 people will be riding the rails. long lines drove some travelers a bit stir craz trains running on schedule, passengers like eugene deloatch tried to enjoy the ride. >> smooth and quiet. >> reporter: the day before thanksgiving. >> early. >> reporter: early. >> it was early, yes. >> reporter: that's the key? >> that is the key. >> reporter: with new york on high alert with threats of terror this evening, amtrak's c.e.o. wick moorman said they added police and canine units to their patrols. >> it's a big, big presence here and a lot of planning to keep it

look at 30-minute delays, possibly even longer, elaine. that's because someone was struck and killed by an amtrak train late this afternoon in delaware, causing the temporary suspension of traffic along the northeast corridor. >> quijano: reporter, thank you, michelle miller, david begnaud, and kris van cleave. a wintry mix of snow, sleet, and rain made for tough sledding today in minnesota and across the upper midwest. more ice and snow are expected pennsylvania to central new england. rain is expected elsewhere in the northeast. the pacific northwest is bracing for heavy rain and snow in the mountains. among the new additions to the thanksgiving parade in new york city are trucks filled with sand. jericka duncan says they're reeling in to protect any expected crowd of three million. >> reporter: as the parade balloons began to take shape, so is the city's security plan.

nearly three-mile-long route. canines will smif for explosives as more than 3,000 uniformed officers watch the crowds. you actually prefer the extra security. >> i doings. i think that it's appropriate. >> reporter: this afternoon, 81 sand-filled sanitation trucks started blocking intersection to prevent a terrorist attack like the one in nice, france, last july. the radical islamic terror group isis recently named the parade an excellent target in its li security cameras, police have established limited pedestrian entrance points and created a web of street closures around the parade's final blocks. new york city mayor bill de blasio: >> n.y.p.d. is more than ready to handle anything that is going on around us and to work with everyone to make sure it's a safe and fun day for everyone who attends. >> reporter: police vans like the one behind me that are throughout this city are command

way. that is where police officers can monitor and watch some of that surveillance coming in live. now, authorities tell us an additional security challenge this year, elaine, president-elect donald trump's residence is just one block away from the parade route. >> quijano: jericka duncan, thank you. president-elect trump was busy with his transition today, naming two women for top posts. "endeavour," a republican party don't for education secretary, and in a twist, nikki u.n. ambassador. here's julianna goldman. >> governor nikki haley. >> reporter: south carolina governor nikki haley was one of the republican party's loudest critics of its vbl nominee. >> diewrs anxious times it can be tempting to follow the siren call of theang riest voices. we must resist that temptation. >> reporter: and mr. trump didn't spare her, either, tweeting in march, "the people of south carolina are embarrassed by nikki haley."

your heart." but haley is now calling the president-elect a friend. >> we are currently living through what may be the most interesting time in american political history. >> reporter: haley, an indian american, diversifies the president-elect's personnel picks and helps him extend an olive branch to the party establishment but she lacking the foreign policy experience of previous u.n. ambassadors. there trump's other pick today, g.o.p. donor betsy devos, was for a cabinet might not have. >> i might cut the department of education. >> she is a strong advocate for school voucher programs and charter schools and is is against common core, which mr. trump wants to abolish >> we will provide school choice and put an end to common core. we're bringing our education local. >> reporter: jeb bush, one of mr. trump's former opponents and a common core supporter called devos "an outstanding pick."

today that the president-elect has settled on former rifle dr. ben carson to head the department of housing and urban development. >> the inner cities, you can't walk to the store for a loaf of bread pup get shot. >> reporter: while no formal announcement was made, carson, who would be the first african american in mr. trump's cabinet, hinted in a facebook post that he's accepted the position writing that he can help make "our inner cities great for everyone." for secretary of state, rudy giuliani is still in the running, and so is mr. trump'snu romney, but some of the president-elect's advisers are lobbying against him. so, elaine, nikki haley may have checked the box for assembling that so-called team of rivals. >> quijano: julianna goldman, thank you. in tennessee tonight, five children are still fighting for their lives after the monday bus crash that killed five school mates. manuel bojorquez is in chattanooga with new information about the driver. >> reporter: this afternoon, police announced they've

24-year-old johnthony walker lost control of the school bus monday. chattanooga police sergeant austin garrett: >> we received toxicology reports back today from the tennessee bureau of investigation that shows no trace of alcohol or drugs in the driver's system. >> reporter: today, the n.t.s.b. said it was looking into why walker was not driving on a designated bus route. he is being held on vehicular manslaughter charges while investigators review video and black box recordings from the bus and look factors other like excessive speed. investigators are also looking into claims some parents had complained about walker's driving in the past. while he has no previous criminal history, records show he was in a minor accident while driving a school bus two months ago. walker was hired by a private contractor, durham school services. c.e.o. david a. duke released this video statement today. >> my responsibility now is to look for answers, answers about

answers for how we can make sure that this never, ever happens again. >> reporter: the crash has left this community deep in mourning. lafrederick thirkill's nine-year-old cousin died in the crash. what has this community lost? >> oh, this community has lost some beautiful spirits, some beautiful angels, some students that made many people's lives brighter. and i know as my family, many famili g >> reporter: doctors at this hospital say some students arrived here so scared and dazed they were not able to spell their names or remember their own birthdays. elaine, most have now been released, including six today. >> quijano: manuel bojorquez. manuel, thank you. in the south of england this week, an unusual item went up for auction, the skeleton of a bird taller and heavier than a turkey, hunted into extinction centuries ago. mark phillips has the story.

bidding at 250,000 pounds. >> reporter: more than a collection of old bones was on the block at this auction. those bones once assembled formed the world's most famous dead bird, the dodo. >> that is a dodo, just rolls off the tongue beautifully doesn't it. >> reporter: the phrase stuck, says dodo expert errol fuller, not just because it was catchy, but because the dodo's extinction is so well documented. hu e the bird on the indian ocean island of marishias in the late 1500s. within about 80 years, the happenless and significantly flightless bird was gone, dead as. the dodo has been and i think for more than 300 years, yet it is still the most important symbol of what mankind can do to nature if it isn't careful or if it doesn't care. yet, the dodo, and its lessons, live again.

260,000 pounds now. >> reporter: it's hard to put a price on a lesson, but auction house owner rufus van der werff says he was selling an idea. is this an example of man's folly? >> it really brings it home it that we can have a big impact on the environment. >> reporter: make no bones about it. >> animal and bird species are being made and i think at a faster rate than ever, and that is, one way or another, our fault, or mankind's fault. so whether we're actually ni think i'd like to say. >> reporter: or whether we'll become the next dodo. >> well, that's a possibility, too. >> all done. >> reporter: the bird went for. >> 280,000 pounds. and sold. >> reporter: about $416,000 with commissions, a big price for a big lesson. mark phillips, cbs news, billingshurst, england. >> quijano: next on the cbs evening news, new technology is threatening to make supermarkets

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lincoln memorial, and the tour guide is a billionaire. where does he rank in your panton of american presidents? >> we've had a lot of great presidents but there's no doubt lincoln held the country pentagon and probably our greatest president. >> reporter: financier david rubenstein spent tens of millions of his own fortunes to restore everything from the iwo jima memorial to the washington monument. >> if lincoln were to stand up he would be 28 feet tall. >> reporter: now another $18.5 million to the parks service to repair this memorial's stained walls and some of the most moving and important words ever uttered by an american president. but the biggest change will be underground. where are we right now? >> right now, we're under the lincoln memorial. >> reporter: for the first time, tourists will be able to see the subterranean cavern that

construction workers almost 100 years ago. the visitor center will be in this area? >> the visitor center will be up here. >> reporter: that's right, a massive 15,000-square-foot underground educational center will dramatically change the lincoln memorial experience. >> so there will be much more opportunity to learn about lincoln and to really come away from this lincoln memorial with a real sense of who lincoln was and what he did. >> reporter: why do you do this? >> i do it because i think i'm giving back to my country in a small, modest way, perhaps, and to do the same. >> reporter: you would like to see other people see what you do. >> absolutely. i don't have the resources-- i don't have enough resource to do it myself mize. i want other people to do it myself. >> reporter: a mission born of rubenstein's love of his country and the great americans who gave it life. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> quijano: a truly noble endeavor. that's the cbs evening news. for scott pelley, i'm elaine quijano. happy thanksgiving, and good night.

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