through his lawyer tonight, the father of abdelhamid abaaoud, the alleged mastermind, said he was relieved his son is dead. scott? >> allen pizzey in brussels. allen, thanks. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

for some, the step from feeling marginalized to taking up arms can be a short one, and holly williams has been exploring that part of the story. >> reporter: at least five of the terrorists were french citizens, some of them born and raised here. the french president says his country is now at war, but the uncomfortable truth is that the enemy comes from within. they're a tiny fraction of france's more than five million muslims. but around 1,000 french citizens are thought to have joined extremist groups in iraq and syria, and over 200 are believed to have returned home. christian prouteau used to lead the anti-terror squad in france's paramilitary police.

and he has studied how young men are radicalized. >> reporter: dying? >> dying. >> reporter: in the name of god. >> in the name of god. right. >> reporter: after the bloodshed, the french have shown unity in their grief. muslim leaders have condemned the attacks. and yet, many muslims in france say they feel excluded, ghettoized in poor suburbs, and discriminated against because of their religion. kamal masaudi told us he immigrated to france four years ago from algeria. only in a small minority of cases do those feelings turn to violent extremism, but christian prouteau told us fixing social problems is the only solution.

>> reporter: there was a sharp spike in anti-muslim incidents in france following the "charlie hebdo" shooting in january. the fear now, scott, is that in the aftermath of these attacks, french muslims will become even more isolated. >> holly williams in paris for us tonight. holly, thanks. president obama's plan to admit 10,000 syrian and iraqi refugees in the next year was dealt a serious blow today. the house voted 289 to 137 for tougher screening procedures, requiring the fbi director to sign off on each and every refugee from those two nations. every republican and nearly 50 democrats voted yes. the senate will consider this after thanksgiving. the president threatened to veto, but today's vote would be enough to override it. a new report by congress says

more than 250 americans have attempted to join isis. one in four is from minnesota, many of them former refugees. jamie yuccas examines why this state has become a fertile ground for terror groups. >> reporter: 18-year-old dahir ali is exactly who groups like isis are looking to recruit. he's young, muslim, and often feels like an outsider. >> people come up to me and say you're this, you're that, you're a terrorist. >> reporter: he grew up in the cedar riverside community in minneapolis which has the largest somali population in the country. many came as refugees in the 1990s. the unemployment rate here is 21%, three times the state average. and an alarming number of young somali men from this neighborhood have left to join extremist groups. since 2007, two dozen have joined al shabaab in somalia. imam adbisalam adam is part of a community task force created

this summer to stop the radicalization. >> it's really time for muslims to really, you know, stand up and really fight these groups and defeat them through both faith and militarily, too. >> reporter: what is so appealing to young people? >> they are appealing to the sense of accomplishment, of being the other, more, you know, bigger than yourself kind of sentiment. there's no contradiction between being a muslim, being an american, and being a somali. all three are good. >> reporter: this city has also deployed somali police officers, like mukhtar abdulkadir and abdiwahab ali to develop trust in a neighborhood suspicious of authorities. they walk the beat, meeting elders, interacting with the young, and men in the neighborhood now know them. >> you give them a number, they call you before they call 911. >> reporter: but they feel the frustration when one of those calls comes too late. >> they say, "mom, i called-- i

join the terrorist group. i will see you in heaven." >> reporter: currently five somali men from minnesota are awaiting trial accused of trying to join the terror group isis. scott, there are at least 15 other cases being investigated. >> jamie yuccas reporting for us tonight. jamie, thank you. some american veterans of iraq can't bear watching the country they fought to secure, lost to the forces of isis, and incredibly, some of them are returning to iraq as volunteer soldiers. we have an extraordinary report tonight from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the explosion caught the americans off guard. for these former u.s. soldiers, it's a return to a deadly war zone, but this time they're fighting alongside kurdish peshmerga forces.

>> it's just one wound to his tush. we have another guy down there, too. he's kind of bloody. he was back that way. >> reporter: they're volunteers in the battle against isis, also known as daesh, who have dug in around the oil-rich region of kirkuk. >> we've got daesh to the left in the village when you get all the way up here. kidd, you all still good back there? >> this is an isis flag i captured on my very first offensive. >> reporter: your first offensive? ohio native chris kidd was a marine sergeant in 2004 and fought in some of the fiercest battles in the iraq war. >> to watch isis try to take over all of iraq, i felt like it was destroying everything that we worked so hard to get because we didn't fight and die for nothing. >> reporter: so kidd sold his house and quit his job to join the new war against isis. he's teamed up with about 10 u.s. vets, including this former army lieutenant from arkansas. we wears a body camera on each

raid to protect his family, we agreed not to use his name. >> they thought i was crazy at first for coming out here. but they're supportive now. >> reporter: the peshmerga are often outgunned, and isis has proven to be resilient. the u.s. vets go house by house, but on this day, the enemy has vanished. back on base, kidd repairs the u.s. army vehicles they've recaptured from the extremist group. but the biggest difference has been the increased u.s. airstrikes. >> after the air support and when we push into towns, daesh run. >> reporter: how much of a difference does that make? >> a big difference. >> reporter: with the fighting growing more intense, these u.s. vets are counting on that support from their former brothers in arms. charlie d'agata, cbs news, kirkuk, iraq. >> there's a good deal more news tonight.

from tv pitchman to convicted pedophile, jared fogel was sentenced today. and record hauls in the pacific, but it's not fish. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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the u.s. coast guard is fighting a record tide of cocaine off the pacific coast. carter evans went on a mission, and discovered what a billion dollars in drugs looks like. >> reporter: when surveillance aircraft spotted this makeshift submarine off central america, a boarding team from the coast guard cutter "bertholf" found more than $200 million of cocaine. scott perigo on was part of the team. >> getting it was pretty exciting. seeing the sheer amount of drugs they packed into it, almost 18,000 pounds. >> reporter: 18,000 pounds? >> almost. >> reporter: this year the coast guard working with the military and u.s. customs has seized more cocaine in the pacific than the last three years combined. on board the "bertholf," we found 50,000 pounds of cocaine worth almost $800 million. to give you an idea of how much cocaine we're talking about here, each one of these bricks is a kilo worth about $25,000. that means this is a quarter million dollars.

this entire palette here, about $12 million worth of cocaine. the coast guard estimates it's only catching a third of what's out there. commandant paul zunkuft says the reason there's more cocaine is economics. >> when you look at the business case of what it takes to produce one kilo of cocaine, about $2,000 in colombia, that same kilo sells for $25,000 here in the united states. >> reporter: this is a lot of drugs. for coast guardsman brent leytezll, who has two kids, these 100-day missions hit home. >> this makes a difference, and i can tell after all this stuff right here, my kids are safer now. >> reporter: nearly 700 smugglers have been arrested so far this year. as for the cocaine, some will be kept for evidence. the rest will be incinerated. carter evans, cbs news, aboard the coast guard cutter "bertholf." >> another earthquake overnight in fracking country.

that's coming next.

today, jared fogel, who got rich and famous making tv ads for subway, was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison. fogel pleaded guilty to trading in child pornography and having sex with underage girls. he is headed to a prison in colorado that offers treatment for sex offenders. today, the food and drug administration approved the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption-- salmon, modified to grow twice as fast as normal. critics call it frankenfish, but the fda says it's safe to eat and safe for the fish and the environment. but it won't be available for it for several more years. a magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattled northern oklahoma overnight. it was centered near cherokee, about 140 miles north of oklahoma city. there was no serious damage, but

it was felt for hundreds of miles. geologists say an outbreak of quakes is likely caused by underground injection of wastewater from oil well fracking. state officials now want to close a couple of wells in the area. in a moment, images of a city as we've never seen it before. we end tonight with images that caught our eye. these are some of the youngest refugees from the wars in the middle east. swedish photographer magnus

wennman captures them as they sleep, or try to, far from the homes that they fled. dreams of a better future battling nightmares of the past. and bertrand kulik photographed the most famous landmarks of paris this week as they were reflected in droplets of water, each one a sign ofhope, for just beyond the tear drops lies the city's eternal beauty. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. 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. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

this is the "cbs overnight news." news." justice ministers of the european union will hold an emergency meeting this morning in brussels, trying to avoid a repeat of last week's terror attacks in paris. france wants the eu to tighten its gun laws, toughen border security, and choke off funds to extremist groups. meanwhile in paris, there was loud applause in the french parliament on confirmation that the alleged ringleader of the terror attacks was killed in wednesday's commando raid. elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind was killed here in a suburban apartment.

[ gunfire ] as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police respect sure if the 28-year-old was shot or he blew himself up. but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest is his cousin, hasna ait boulacen. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tipoff three days ago that he was back.

"we received no information," said the interior minister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundreds of young european men like abaaoud traveling back from isis battlefields in syria, that points to serious holes in border controls and the failure of some countries to share their data. france's government is pushing to extend the state of emergency for three more months here, which, among other things, gives police the right to search properties without a warrant and order house arrests. today, france's prime minister said that since friday, 600 searches have been carried out and 157 people with links to islamist extremism have been put under house arrest. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, paris. a new online video suggests that isis is preparing an attack

on new york city. it shows images of manhattan and a man building a suicide bomb. mayor bill de blasio insists new yorkers will not live in fear. >> reporter: isis has used this footage before, which security says does present a problem, but at this time, they say there is no credible or specific threat. >> the people of new york city will not be intimidated. >> reporter: the video appears to show a man constructing an explosive device, strapping it around his waist and zipping his leather jacket. it thenut cs to a shot of new york's times square. >> that video looks like it's been hastily produced. it is a mismash of previously released video. >> reporter: on wednesday night, the police commissioner spoke

from times square during a rare late-night press conference. >> in new york, we understand that we are a terrorist target. it reflects the importance of this city. >> reporter: a large portion of the 5 1/2 minute slip shows isis supporters praising last week's deadly massacres in paris. the terror group has long used videos to spread their message and john miller says the release of this latest video is no different. >> this is isis doing what isis and al qaeda and terrorist groups do, which is propaganda. when we see the video, we make note of it, but it's like a lot of the videos we've seen. >> reporter: earlier this week, the nypd enlisted an additional 500 officers. we even saw a canine unit sweep some of our equipment. the battle against isis is also being fought online by the

international hackers collective called anonymous. the tackers say they've launched a devastating attack on the terror group's online presence, and anonymous insist there is's more to come. >> reporter: more than 20,000 twitter accounts belonging to isis were just taken down by anonymous. >> reporter: wednesday, anonymous says it made good on its threat, launching a cyber attack against isis in retaliation for the violence in paris. >> isis, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, e-mails and expose you. >> it offered a link to thousands of twitter accounts it says belonged to isis, claiming to have taken them offline. whi experts are down playing the actions. >> they're not going to be able

to disrupt coordination between the isis network. it's much more of an annoyance than anything else. >> reporter: yesterday, u.s. intelligence officials stressed the need for greater cooperation between the government and tech companies. >> they find somebody they think might kill on their behalf or might come and kill in the caliphate. they move them to a mobile messaging app that's end-to-end encrypted. at that moment, the needle we've been searching the nation to find goes invisible to us. >> they've been able to use these advances in technology to further their aims. >> reporter: amid these concerns, telegram announced a significant shift wednesday. it says it's blocked 78 isis related channels, which the group has been using to

disseminate propaganda. >> privacy ultimately, and our rightful privacy, is more important than our fear of bad things happening, like terrorists. >> reporter: even though telegram took those 78 channels offline, users are still free to communicate under the radar on teledpram and other apps. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. we've been changing things up with k-y love.

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many of the most important monuments in the united states have something in common. they were inscribed by the same family of stone carvers. michelle miller reports for sunday morning. >> reporter: with a mallet and chisel, the slowest writer in newport, rhode island averages just two letters an hour. even when nick vincent breaks out his power tools, he's not much faster. but for stone carvers, it's not about speed. it's about standing the test of time. >> you get into a runner's high with it, where it becomes this out of body experience. while at the same time it's really cerebral. >> reporter: you can see his rock across our country, from headstones to war monuments to

presidential memorials. >> it's so totally and utterly who i am, that it runs the gamete. i love it, i hate it, i am driven by it. so it's all. it's everything. >> reporter: his craft is among the most ancient known to man. so perhaps it's fitting that the john stevens shop where he works dates back to 1705. tucked away on this quiet street for the last 310 years, it's changed ownership only once, in the 1920s when nick's grandfather bought it from the stevens family. who is that guy? >> this is my grandfather. all the time i'm working in here, he's looking down on me to make sure i get it right. >> reporter: do you always get it right? >> no, not always, not always. >> reporter: to ensure nick gets it right, he begins each job with calligraphy, designing the letters free hand on brown butcher paper. >> this is really the way the romans used to lay out all of

their lettering. >> reporter: can i try? >> absolutely. >> reporter: this is without any experience -- >> whatsoever. and twist a little bit. that's good. i like that. and then let it out. i love it. >> reporter: a third generation carver, nick began his apprenticeship under his father at the age of 15. what was it like to have your dad as your teacher, your mentor. >> it was like work, work, work, work. when i got further into it, i realized i'm capable of doing this well. >> reporter: so well, that in 2010, he received a prestigious mccar thur foundation fellowship, a so-called genius grant. the first and only stone carver to earn that recognition. john benson is nick's father and mentor. at 75, he's now retired. >> they're all crazy, these

romans. >> reporter: but in his day, he was a superstar. his work can be found everywhere, from rockefeller plaza in new york city, to the national gallery of art in washington, d.c. >> there's a tremendous, emotional appeal about a carved letter. it partakes of the substance of the building. >> reporter: famed architect commissioned benson to work on the museum of fine arts, boston. >> i can remember arguing about where lettering would go. he wanted it in one place, i moved it. then he wanted to move it again and i dug my heels in. >> reporter: who won? >> i turned to him and i said at the end of it when i knew he wasn't going to budge, i said well, it's your building. he said, yes, it is. >> reporter: perhaps his best known work is the john f. kennedy grave site at arlington national cemetery. he recalled the importance of it

in the 1979 documentary "final marks." >> this was the biggest job. more people were going to see this and look at this as a piece of lettering. >> reporter: it earned him unique stature in american arts. >> and for a tiny little period there, i was unquestionably the best in the world at it. but there were only about ten of us. [ laughter ] >> let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a newer generation of americans. >> reporter: and as if echoing john kennedy's words, for the benson family, you might say stone etching is engrained in its dna. when did your grandfather design these encryptions? >> he designed them back in the late '40s, early '50s. >> reporter: he designed the

letters on the marine corps war memorial, which honors americans who captured the island of iwo jima from the japanese. like grandfather, like father, like son. it was nick who carved the letters on the martin luther king, jr. memorial. with its bold proclamation. >> his work is also found on the world war ii memorial. it took nick and his team 10 1/2 months to complete these inscriptions. 2885 characters. so is this the quote? and for those wondering what happens when you make a mistake -- >> we misspelled the word presence, and it was early on and we hadn't gotten very deep, but i had to grind out a big section of this and respell it

correctly. so if you run your hand across, you can feel a very subtle dish here in the word presence. but no one can tell. i've just outed myself, though. >> reporter: but no matter the magnitude of the job, whether a monument on the washington mall or a simple headstone, in the end, a memorial is an honor and a dedication. >> a legacy of 300 years of responsible and well-made work is enough for anybody. very few people can have that. and i can claim that. i can claim to be connected to something, which has survived in diverse societies, through war and peace, in the same ridiculously limited little town for 310 years. and that's amazing. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. but don't get just any one. get one inspired by dentists. with a round brush head.

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mcdaniels is one of two full-time engravers in the veteran metals unit, with diamond tip precision, he chisels names synonymous with grit and daring, on medals that adorn the chests of the courageous. >> you get a glimpse into the life of a soldier. >> reporter: with each name. >> with each name. >> reporter: ever give you pause? >> sometimes. because i put myself in their position, would i have been brave enough to do what they did? >> reporter: today, he's etching names on purple hearts, a medal that honors those wounded in battle. more than two centuries later, the names keep coming. a line of purple, seemingly without end. >> unfortunately, there's never been a shortage of names. >> reporter: never a shortage. >> never a shortage of names. >> reporter: if bravery on the

battlefield, those are the patriots that all who may bear witness. the unit of eight people engaves and ships medals for all branches. mcdaniels has been here 28 years. >> i've engraved the medal of jeffrey zaun, when he was shot down. president clinton presented medals to soldiers that were entitled in world war ii and i did all of those medals. >> reporter: a decade and a half later -- >> on his very worst day, he managed to summon his very best. >> reporter: another president honored a legend from another war, america's longest. on thursday, former u.s. army captain became just the 13th recipient of the medal of honor for service in afghanistan. the five-pointed star weighs

only 2 1/4 ounces, but its true weight is often immeasurable for those who earned it. >> i'm honored. i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: two american companies mold the medals of honor. one in rhode island, one in texas. captain's groberg's medal was shipped to philadelphia to be engraved and kept locked in this safe. only two people know the combination. one of whom is rob henry, jr., who supervisors the medals unit. >> everlasting. >> reporter: you'll be gone. >> and they'll still have their medals. >> for service to our country. [ applause ] >> reporter: earlier this month, fulton county, ohio presented 152 engraved bronze stars to world war ii veterans and their families. only seven of those veterans are still alive. they won the war all right, but

that's like these they were never told they won the medal are still on the battle with time and a backlog. venstera are waiting four months now for their medals. at the same time, the number of cases processed has fallen steadily, coinciding with the stabbing shortage and a drawdown of u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. dennis bae is the general in charge of the medals program. it is a priority to reduce that backlog if >> absolutely. i've had the privilege of attending a medal of honor ceremony at the white house and seeing the descendants and the expression and the care that they have when they hold that medal, and so it means a lot. it means more than we can express. so we want to ensure we're doing

everything we can to get it to them as quickly as they can. >> reporter: this was the general's first visit to the unit whose work will long outlast his own. that's the finished product? >> they represent lives. they represent individuals. and they represent families. >> reporter: it seems few people in the army would have more of a lasting impact than the eight folks here at this team. >> i would agree with you whole heartedly. this is very, very fundamental to the legacy of the united states army. >> reporter: for chris mcdani mcdaniels, who did not serve in uniform, it's that legacy he thinks about as he carves the name of the brave into the bronze. would your father be proud of what you do today? >> definitely. definitely. >> reporter: he served in one way, you're serving in another. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: mark albert, philadelphia. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

carly simon has a new memoir coming out called "boys in the trees." she's revealing the secrets to her hit song "you're so vain." >> reporter: it quickly rose to number one after being released 43 years ago. while it's endured all the way to 2015, one of the greatest questions in music history. ♪ for more than 40 years, carly simon has left her listeners wonder what inspired her 1972 hit song -- ♪ you're so vain

>> reporter: in an interview with "people" magazine about her upcoming memoir, "boys in the trees," simon confirms the second verse is about warren beatty. ♪ when you sit there and that you will never leave ♪ ♪ but you gave away the things you love and one of them was me ♪ >> reporter: beatty was just one of simon's well-known lovers suspected to be the song's protagonist. others included mick jagger, jack nicholson and james taylor. but the pop star dismissed them all. ♪ including in a 2001 interview with cbs sunday morning. >> everybody thinks it's about mick jagger. >> oh, they don't really.>> yes. is it? >> oh, no, no.>> and i heard it

warren beatty. >> don't listen to what other people tell you. >> do you want to solve that mystery for us? >> i could never solve it, because if i solved it, no one would have anything to talk to me about. >> reporter: what she will not talk about is the men in the song's other verses, saying she's keeping quiet, at least until they know it's about them. >> in terms of marketing, it's great because she's about to release a book and she only gave us one of the three names. so i think she's going to take this to the grave with her. >> that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back with us a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

the fbi says it's following dozens of people capable of carrying out a paris- style assault in the u.s. also tonight, the suspected mastermind of the paris attacks is a threat no more. he's dead. americans who helped liberate iraq are returning to fight isis. >> we didn't fight and die for nothing. >> and some reflections on the beauty of a city. >> this is the "cbs overnight news." the terror attacks in paris and the isis threat of an attack in new york city have a lot of americans worrying could we be next? well, now the nation's top law enforcement officers gave us their answer, and here's homeland security correspondent jeff pegues.

>> we are not aware of any credible threat here of a paris- type attack. and we have seen no connection at all between the paris attackers and the united states. >> reporter: fbi director james comey tried to tamp down fear today. he said terrorism task forces across the country have been ordered to step up their surveillance of potential suspects. comey says the fbi is investigating dozens of people deemed high risks for carrying out a copycat paris attack. he vowed to cover them like a blanket. u.s. attorney general loretta lynch: >> we take all threats seriously. we're acting aggressively to defuse threats as they emerge, and we are vigorously investigating and prosecuting those who seek to harm the american people. >> reporter: u.s. officials remain concerned about lone wolf attacks inspired by those isis videos. comey says the propaganda influences what he calls "troubled souls." when two isis-inspired extremists tried to attack a mohammed cartoon contest in

garland, texas back in may, it led to a flurry of terrorism arrests. just weeks later, police confronted a terrorism suspect in boston. he charged the officers with a knife and was shot and killed. according to the department of justice, since 2013, more than 70 people have been charged with attempting to join isis or other terrorism-related offenses. but comey says, to stay on top of the threat, he needs the public's help. >> counterterrorism is what you pay us to do. tell us what you saw and then go on living your lives, living your life while we do our work. that is channeling fear into something healthy which is awareness of your surroundings and not something disabling. that's what we hope you will do. >> reporter: law enforcement is more concerned about those troubles souls comey mentioned than americans who have gone to fight with isis in syria. scott, around 250 people have tried to travel to join isis or other groups, and comey says the number of new cases is going down.

>> jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. jeff, thank you. in paris today, the memorials to the 129 who died continue to grow. and officials confirm that the man they believe planned the attacks was killed yesterday. abdelhamid abaaoud. elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind, was killed here in a suburban apartment. [ gunfire ] as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police aren't sure if the 28-year-old was shot or if he blew himself up, but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest in the shootout is abaaoud's cousin, hasna

aitboulahcen. authorities believe abaaoud not only directed the paris attacks last friday, but is connected to four out of sihex otr failed attacks in france this year, including one on a train in august when a gunman was overpowered by three american passengers. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tip-off three days ago that he was back. "we received no information" said the interior miister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundreds of young european men like abaaoud traveling back from isis battlefields in syria, that points to serious holes in european border controls, and a dangerous failure of some countries to share their data. france's government is pushing to extend the state of emergency

for three more months here, which, among other things, gives police the right to search properties without a warrant and order house arrests. and, scott, today, france's prime minister manuel valls, announced that since friday 600 searches have been carried out and more than 150 people with links to islamist extremists have been put under house arrest. >> elizabeth palmer, at the arc de triomphe tonight. elizabeth, thanks. now abaaoud is from belgium, and today police there carried out six raids in search of suspects. allen pizzey is in brussels. >> reporter: reporters and camera crews rushed to scene of one of the raids but the suspect from this house had already been whisked away. the sullen atmosphere left behind show why the jihadi recruiting grounds are so hard to penetrate. several men said they knew some of the paris attackers. one told us he smoked marijuana with terror suspect salah abdeslam, still on the run, four days before the attacks but no

one would talk on camera. "we've got families," he said "and we don't want trouble from the police." residents here say being treated as second-class citizens because they come from immigrant backgrounds, makes young men susceptible to the call of the jihadis. recruiters allegedly troll the central train station. deputy mayor ahmed el khannouss says he is fighting a losing battle. no one, he says, knew isis had developed what i call the "frankenstein of terror," the power of convincing, of conditioning youth. no one was ready, nobody except the potential recruits. this woman from molenbeek who does not want to be identified said her son left for syria without warning. he was killed fighting for isis. "there is somebody manipulating and brainwashing them" she said. "my son didn't just leave like that on his own." belgian police have put out an appeal on their web site for leads in the hunt for salah abdeslam who rented a car used

in the paris attacks. he is extremely dangerous, it warned, and likely armed. and in a statement released roer tonight, the father of abdelhamid abaaoud, the alleged mastermind, said he was relieved his son is dead. scott? >> allen pizzey in brussels. allen, thanks. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

for some, the step from feeling marginalized to taking up arms can be a short one, and holly williams has been exploring that part of the story. >> reporter: at least five of the terrorists were french citizens, some of them born and raised here. the french president says his country is now at war, but the uncomfortable truth is that the enemy comes from within. they're a tiny fraction of france's more than five million muslims. but around 1,000 french citizens are thought to have joined extremist groups in iraq and syria, and over 200 are believed to have returned home. christian prouteau used to lead the anti-terror squad in france's paramilitary police.

and he has studied how young men are radicalized. >> reporter: dying? >> dying. >> reporter: in the name of god. >> in the name of god. right. >> reporter: after the bloodshed, the french have shown unity in their grief. muslim leaders have condemned the attacks. and yet, many muslims in france say they fee:l excluded, ghettoized in poor suburbs, and discriminated against because of their religion. kamal masaudi told us he immigrated to france four years ago from algeria. only in a small minority of cases do those feelings turn to violent extremism, but christian prouteau told us fixing social problems is the only solution.

>> reporter: there was a sharp spike in anti-muslim incidents in france following the "charlie hebdo" shooting in january. the fear now, scott, is that in the aftermath of these attacks, french muslims will become even more isolated. >> holly williams in paris for us tonight. holly, thanks. president obama's plan to admit 10,000 syrian and iraqi refugees in the next year was dealt a serious blow today. the house voted 289 to 137 for tougher screening procedures, requiring the fbi director to sign off on each and every refugee from those two nations. every republican and nearly 50 democrats voted yes. the senate will consider this after thanksgiving. the president threatened to veto, but today's vote would be enough to override it. a new report by congress says

more than 250 americans have attempted to join isis. one in four is from minnesota, many of them former refugees. jamie yuccas examines why this state has become a fertile ground for terror groups. >> reporter: 18-year-old dahir ali is exactly who groups like isis are looking to recruit. he's young, muslim, and often feels like an outsider. >> people come up to me and say you're this, you're that, you're a terrorist. >> reporter: he grew up in the cedar riverside community in minneapolis which has the largest somali population in the country. many came as refugees in the 1990s. the unemployment rate here is 21%, three times the state average. and an alarming number of young somali men from this neighborhood have left to join extremist groups. since 2007, two dozen have joined al shabaab in somalia. imam adbisalam adam is part of a community task force created

this summer to stop the radicalization. >> it's really time for muslims to really, you know, stand up and really fight these groups and defeat them through both faith and militarily, too. >> reporter: what is so appealing to young people? >> they are appealing to the sense of accomplishment, of being the other, more, you know, bigger than yourself kind of sentiment. there's no contradiction between being a muslim, being an american, and being a somali. all three are good. >> reporter: this city has also deployed somali police officers, like mukhtar abdulkadir and abdiwahab ali to develop trust in a neighborhood suspicious of authorities. they walk the beat, meeting elders, interacting with the young, and men in the neighborhood now know them. >> you give them a number, they call you before they call 911. >> reporter: but they feel the frustration when one of those calls comes too late.

>> they say, "mom, i called-- i join the terrorist group. i will see you in heaven." >> reporter: currently five somali men from minnesota are awaiting trial accused of trying to join the terror group isis. scott, there are at least 15 other cases being investigated. >> jamie yuccas reporting for us tonight. jamie, thank you. some american veterans of iraq can't bear watching the country they fought to secure, lost to the forces of isis, and incredibly, some of them are returning to iraq as volunteer soldiers. we have an extraordinary report tonight from charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the explosion caught the americans off guard. for these former u.s. soldiers, it's a return to a deadly war zone, but this time they're fighting alongside kurdish peshmerga forces. >> it's just one wound to his

tush. we have another guy down there, too. he's kind of bloody. he was back that way. >> reporter: they're volunteers in the battle against isis, also known as daesh, who have dug in around the oil-rich region of kirkuk. >> we've got daesh to the left in the village when you get all the way up here. kidd, you all still good back there? captured on my very first offensive. >> reporter: your first offensive? ohio native chris kidd was a marine sergeant in 2004 and fought in some of the fiercest battles in the iraq war. >> to watch isis try to take over all of iraq, i felt like it was destroying everything that we worked so hard to get because we didn't fight and die for nothing. >> reporter: so kidd sold his house and quit his job to join the new war against isis. he's teamed up with about 10 u.s. vets, including this former army lieutenant from arkansas. we wears a body camera on each

raid. to protect his family, we agreed not to use his name. >> they thought i was crazy at first for coming out here. but they're supportive now. >> reporter: the peshmerga are often outgunned, and isis has proven to be resilient. the u.s. vets go house by house, but on this day, the enemy has vanished. back on base, kidd repairs the u.s. army vehicles they've recaptured from the extremist group. but the biggest difference has been the increased u.s. airstrikes. >> after the air support and when we push into towns, daesh run. >> reporter: how much of a difference does that make? >> a big difference. >> reporter: with the fighting growing more intense, these u.s. vets are counting on that support from their former brothers in arms. charlie d'agata, cbs news, kirkuk, iraq. >> there's a good deal more news

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the u.s. coast guard is fighting a record tide of cocaine off the pacific coast. carter evans went on a mission, and discovered what a billion dollars in drugs looks like. >> reporter: when surveillance aircraft spotted this makeshift submarine off central america, a boarding team from the coast guard cutter "bertholf" found more than $200 million of cocaine. scott perigo on was part of the team. >> getting it was pretty exciting. seeing the sheer amount of drugs they packed into it, almost 18,000 pounds. >> reporter: 18,000 pounds? >> almost. >> reporter: this year the coast guard working with the military and u.s. customs has seized more cocaine in the pacific than the last three years combined. on board the "bertholf," we found 50,000 pounds of cocaine worth almost $800 million. to give you an idea of how much cocaine we're talking about here, each one of these bricks is a kilo worth about $25,000. that means this is a quarter

million dollars. this entire palette here, about $12 million worth of cocaine. the coast guard estimates it's only catching a third of what's out there. commandant paul zunkuft says the reason there's more cocaine is economics. >> when you look at the business case of what it takes to produce one kilo of cocaine, about $2,000 in colombia, that same kilo sells for $25,000 here in the united states. >> reporter: this is a lot of drugs. for coast guardsman brent leytezll, who has two kids, these 100-day missions hit home. >> this makes a difference, and i can tell after all this stuff right here, my kids are safer now. >> reporter: nearly 700 smugglers have been arrested so far this year. as for the cocaine, some will be kept for evidence. the rest will be incinerated. carter evans, cbs news, aboard the coast guard cutter "bertholf." >> another earthquake overnight

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today, jared fogel, who got rich and famous making tv ads for subway, was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison. fogel pleaded guilty to trading in child pornography and having sex with underage girls. he is headed to a prison in colorado that offers treatment for sex offenders. today, the food and drug administration approved the first genetically engineered animal for human consumption-- salmon, modified to grow twice as fast as normal. critics call it frankenfish, but the fda says it's safe to eat and safe for the fish and the environment. but it won't be available for for several more years. a magnitude 4.7 earthquake rattled northern oklahoma overnight. it was centered near cherokee, about 140 miles north of oklahoma city. there was no serious damage, but it was felt for hundreds of

miles. geologists say an outbreak of quakes is likely caused by underground injection of wastewater from oil well fracking. state officials now want to close a couple of wells in the area. in a moment, images of a city as we've never seen it before. we end tonight with images that caught our eye. these are some of the youngest refugees from the wars in the middle east. swedish photographer magnus wennman captures them as they

sleep, or try to, far from the homes that they fled. dreams of a better future battling nightmares of the past. and bertrand kulik photographed the most famous landmarks of paris this week as they were reflected in droplets of water, each one a sign of hope, for just beyond the tear drops lies the city's eternal beauty. that's the "cbs overnight news" for this friday. 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. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the "overnight news." justice ministers of the european union will hold an emergency meeting this morning in brussels, trying to avoid a repeat of last week's terror attacks in paris. france wants the eu to tighten its gun laws, toughen border security, and choke off funds to extremist groups. meanwhile in paris, there was loud applause in the french parliament on confirmation that the alleged ringleader of the terror attacks was killed in wednesday's commando raid. elizabeth palmer is in paris. >> reporter: abaaoud, a convicted isis recruiter and presumed terrorist mastermind was killed here in a suburban apartment. [ gunfire ]

as he and his accomplices made their last stand in a ferocious gun battle with police wednesday morning. the police aren't sure if the 28-year-old was shot or if he blew himself up, but forensic officers had to rely on skin samples and fingerprints to identify his dismembered body. french media say the woman who is thought to have detonated a suicide vest in the shootout is abaaoud's cousin, hasna aitboulahcen. authorities believe abaaoud not only directed the paris attacks last friday, but is connected to four out of six other failed attacks in france this year, including one on a train in august when a gunman was overpowered by three american passengers. french intelligence thought abaaoud was in syria and had no idea he was in france until a tip-off three days ago that he was back.

"we received no information" said the interior minister, "from any of the european countries he must have traveled through." with hundreds of young european men like abaaoud traveling back from isis battlefields in syria, that points to serious holes in european border controls, and a dangerous failure of some countries to share their data. france's government is pushing to extend the state of emergency for three more months here, which, among other things, gives police the right to search properties without a warrant and order house arrests. today, france's prime minister said that since friday, 600 searches have been carried out and 157 people with links to islamist extremism have been put under house arrest. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, paris. a new online video suggests that isis is preparing an attack on new york city. it shows images of manhattan and

a man building a suicide bomb. mayor bill de blasio insists new yorkers will not live in fear. here's our report now from the crossroads of the world, times square. >> reporter: footage that includes times square appears on this video. isis has used this footage before, which security says does present a problem, but at this time, they say there is no credible or specific threat. >> the people of new york city will not be intimidated. >> reporter: the video appears to show a man constructing an explosive device, strapping it around his waist and zipping his leather jacket. it then cuts to a shot of new york's times square. and other crowded street scenes that were flashing to the detonation device. >> that video looks like it's been hastily produced. it is a mismash of previously released video. >> reporter: on wednesday night, the police commissioner spoke from times square during a rare late-night press conference.

>> in new york, we understand that we are a terrorist target. it reflects the importance of this city. >> reporter: a large portion of the 5 1/2 minute clip shows isis supporters praising last week's deadly massacres in paris. the terror group has long used videos to spread their message and john miller, new york city deputy police commissioner nor intelligence and counterterrorism, says the release of this latest video is no different. >>his is isis doing what isis and al qaeda and terrorist groups do, which is propaganda. when we see the video, we make note of it, but it's like a lot of the videos we've seen. >> reporter: earlier this week, the nypd enlisted an additional 500 officers, trained to handle terrorist threats. we have seen some of them this morning. we even saw a canine unit sweep some of our equipment. feshls continue to stress the importance of see something, say something. the battle against isis is also being fought online by the international hackers collective

called anonymous. the hackers say they've launched a devastating attack on the terror group's online presence, and anonymous insist there is's more to come. isis is also having to cope with a change of policy at a major tech company. >> reporter: more than 20,000 twitter accounts belonging to isis were just taken down by anonymous. >> wednesday, anonymous says it made good on its threat, launching a cyber attack against isis in retaliation for the violence in paris. >> isis, we will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, e-mails and expose you. >> it offered a link to a list of thousands of twitter accounts it says belonged to isis, claiming to have taken them offline. while twitter has proven to be a valuable recruiting tool for the terrorist group, experts are down playing the impact of anonymous' actions. >> they're not going to be able to disrupt coordination between the isis network.

it's much more of an annoyance than anything else. >> yesterday, u.s. intelligence officials stressed the need for greater cooperation between the government and tech companies that develop highly encrypted messenger apps, which allow undetected communication between users, including potential terrorists. >> they find somebody they think might kill on their behalf or might come and kill in the caliphate. they move them to a mobile messaging app that's end-to-end encrypted. at that moment, the needle we've been searching the entire nation to find and have found goes invisible to us. >> they've been able to use these advances in technology to further their aims. >> amid these concerns, telegram one of those highly encrypted online messaging apps, announced a significant shift wednesday. it says it's blocked 78 isis related channels, which the group has been using to disseminate propaganda. that's a different tone than the

company took in september, when telegram's co-founder was confronted about the fact that isis uses his app. >> privacy ultimately, and our rightful privacy, is more important than our fear of bad things happening, like terrorists. >> even though telegram took those 78 channels offline, users are still free to communicate under the radar on telegram and other similar messaging apps. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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who i am, that it runs the gamete. i love it, i hate it, i am driven by it. it drooifs -- drives me crazy. it's everything. >> reporter: his craft is among the most ancient known to man. so perhaps it's fitting that the john stevens shop where he works dates back to 1705. tucked away on this quiet street for the last 310 years, it's changed ownership only once, in the 1920s when nick's grandfather bought it from the stevens family. who is that guy? >> so this is my grandfather. all the time i'm working in here, he's looking down on me to make sure i get it right. >> reporter: do you always get it right? >> no, not always, not always. >> reporter: to ensure nick gets it right, he begins each job with calligraphy, designing the letters free hand on brown butcher paper. >> this is really the way the romans used to lay out all of their lettering.

>> reporter: can i try? >> absolutely. >> reporter: this is without any experience -- >> whatsoever. and twist a little bit. there you go. that's good. i like that. and then let it out. that's it. i love it. >> reporter: a third generation carver, nick began his apprenticeship under his father at the age of 15. what was it like to have your dad as your teacher, your mentor? >> it was like work, work, work, work. when i got further into it, i realized i'm capable of doing this well. >> reporter: so well, that in 2010, he received a prestigious macarthur foundation fellowship, a so-called genius grant. the first and only stone carver to earn that recognition. >> you're getting pretty tight there, nicky. >> reporter: john benson is nick's father and mentor. at 75, he's now retired. >> they're all crazy, these romans. >> reporter: but in his day, he was a superstar.

his work can be found everywhere, from rockefeller plaza in new york city, to the national gallery of art in washington, d.c. >> there's a tremendous, emotional appeal about a carved letter. it partakes of the substance of the building. >> reporter: famed architect ian pae commissioned benson to work on the museum of fine arts, boston. they didn't always see eye to eye. >> i can remember arguing about where lettering would go. he wanted it in one place, i moved it. then he wanted to move it again and i dug my heels in. >> reporter: who won? >> i turned to him and i said at the end of it when i knew he wasn't going to budge, i said well, it's your building. he said, yes, it is. >> reporter: perhaps his best known work is the john f. kennedy grave site at arlington national cemetery. he recalled the importance of it

in the 1979 documentary "final marks." >> this was the biggest job. of lettering our time had seen. more people were going to see this and look at this as a piece of lettering. whether they were conscious of it or not. >> reporter: it earned him unique stature in american arts. >> and for a tiny little period there, i was unquestionably the best in the world at it. but there were only about ten of us. [ laughter ] >> let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a newer generation of americans. >> reporter: and as if echoing john kennedy's words, for the benson family, you might say stone etching is engrained in its dna. when did your grandfather design these encryptions? >> he designed them back in the late '40s, early '50s. >> reporter: nick's grandfather, john benson, sr., designed the

letters on the marine corps war memorial, which honors americans who captured the island of iwo jima from the japanese. like grandfather, like father, like son. it was nick who carved the letters on the martin luther king, jr. memorial. with its bold proclamation. >> we will be able to hue out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. >> reporter: his work is also found on the world war ii memorial. it took nick and his team 10 1/2 months to complete these inscriptions. 2,885 characters. so is this the quote? and for those wondering what happens when you make a mistake -- >> we misspelled the word "presence," and it was early on and we hadn't gotten very deep, but i had to grind out a big section of this and respell it correctly.

so if you run your hand across, you can feel a very subtle dish here in the word presence. but no one can tell. i've just outed myself, though. >> reporter: but no matter the magnitude of the job, whether a monument on the washington mall or a simple headstone, in the end, a memorial is an honor and a dedication. >> a legacy of 300 years of responsible and well-made work is enough for anybody. very few people can have that. and i can claim that. i can claim to be connected to something, which has survived in diverse societies, through war and peace, in the same ridiculously limited little town for 310 years. and that's amazing. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. it's a pleasure gel that magnifies both our sensations. it gives us chills in places we've never gotten chills before. yeah, it makes us feel like...

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last week, president obama marked veterans day by bestowing the medal of honor to an army captain severely wounded in afghanistan who saved the lives of fellow soldiers. it's the nation's highest military honor, but did you ever wonder who makes the medals of honor? mark albert went to find out. >> reporter: just 13 miles from where america declared its independence, chris mcdaniels works to recognize those who

fight and bleed to guaranty it will endure. mcdaniels is one of two full-time engravers in the veteran metals unit, with diamond tip precision, he chisels names synonymous with grit and daring, on medals that adorn the chests of the courageous. >> you get a glimpse into the life of a soldier. >> reporter: with each name. >> with each name. >> reporter: ever give you pause? >> sometimes. because i put myself in their position, would i have been brave enough to do what they did? >> reporter: on this day, he's etching names onto purple hearts, an award created by george washington and now bears the first president's likeness and honors those woulded in battle. more than two centuries later, the names keep coming. a line of purple, seemingly without end. >> unfortunately, there's never been a shortage of names. >> reporter: never a shortage. >> never a shortage of names. >> reporter: is bravery is hung on the battlefield, these are

the patriots that all may bear witness. the unit of eight people engraves and ships medals for all branches. along with 130 medals for the army, 20 of which they engrave. mcdaniels has been here 28 years. >> i've engraved the medal of jeffrey zaun, when he was shot down. president clinton presented medals to soldiers that were entitled in world war ii and i did all of those medals. and he presented them on tv. >> reporter: a decade and a half later -- >> on his very worst day, he managed to summon his very best. >> reporter: another president honored a legend from another war, america's longest. on thursday, former u.s. army captain groberg became just the 13th recipient of the medal of honor, the nation's highest, for service in afghanistan.

he tackled a suicide bomber, saving many lives. the five-pointed star weighs only 2 1/4 ounces, but its true weight is often immeasurable for those who earned it. >> i'm honored. i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: two american companies mold the medals of honor. one in rhode island, one in texas. captain's groberg's medal was shipped to the navy base in philadelphia to be engraved and kept locked in this safe. only two people know the combination. one of whom is rob henry, jr., who supervisors the medals unit. >> everlasting. >> reporter: you'll be gone. >> and they'll still have their medals. >> for service to our country. [ applause ] >> reporter: earlier this month, fulton county, ohio presented 152 engraved bronze stars to world war ii veterans and their families. only seven of those veterans are still alive. they won the war all right, but

vets like these who were never told they earned the medals or they who lost them are still in a battle, with time and a backlog. veterans are waiting four months now for their medals. delays u arep sharply from last year after two assemblers left the team. they have not yet been replaced. at the same time, the number of cases processed has fallen steadily, coinciding with the stabbing shortage and a drawdown of u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. dennis bae is the general in charge of the medals program. it is a priority to reduce that backlog? >> absolutely. i've had the privilege of attending a medal of honor ceremony at the white house and seeing the descendants and the expression and the care that they have when they hold that medal, and so it means a lot. it means more than we can express. so we want to ensure we're doing everything we can to get it to them as quickly as they can.

>> reporter: this was the general's first visit to the unit whose work will long outlast his own. that's the finished product? >> reporter: these aren't just pieces of medal. >> they represent lives. they represent individuals. and they represent families. >> reporter: it seems few people in the army would have more of a lasting impact than the eight folks here at this team. >> i would agree with you whole heartedly. this is very, very fundamental to the legacy of the united states army. >> reporter: for chris mcdaniels, who did not serve in uniform, it's that legacy he thinks about as he carves the name of the brave into the bronze. would your father be proud of what you do today? >> definitely. definitely. >> reporter: he served in one way, you're serving in another. >> yes, yes. this is sort of a family thing. >> reporter: mark albert, philadelphia. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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