are slowing down the traffic here at the terminals. scott, about 100,000 cars are expected to pass through here today alone. >> carter evans, thanks very much. so will the weather outside be frightful? eric fisher is delightful as the chief meteorologist of our boston station wbz. eric, what are we in for? >> very poetic there, scott. we have that one storm today on the west coast. the next one also moving into the west coast, and that's where most of the trouble is going to be tomorrow. rain and mountain snow swinging down from washington state, again down through los angeles and even some mountain snow around the grapevine along i-5. the mountains outside l.a. and san diego will both be picking up snow by late tomorrow. that's the storm system we're watching as we head into christmas day. blizzard conditions across the dakotas reaching back into eastern parts of montana and wyoming. meanwhile, on the eastern side of the storm, we'll have warmer air, even a chance for some severe thunderstorms on christmas day. so we'll have to be weather alert. also a lot of

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there's no question that hillary clinton won the popular vote. it is official now, that all 50 states and d.c. have certified their totals. nearly 66 million americans voted for clinton. just under 63 million voted for trump. and that's a difference of about 2.9 million, the widest margin in history for a candidate who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college. in berlin investigators found their prime suspect's fingerprints in that truck that barrels into a christmas market. newly released video shows how fast that truck was going. a dozen were killed on monday and dozens more were wounded, including two americans. the suspect is at large. we've learned that the

24-year-old tunisian was on the "no fly terror watch list" here in the u.s. today syria's assad dictatorship took full control of aleppo, once the country's largest city, and the center of the rebellion. this is what victory looks like. block after block of wasteland. assad vanquished the rebel forces here after four years. about 400,000 people have been killed in the civil war. for many months the eyes of a 7-year-old have been the window on aleppo. she's now in turkey, where holly williams found her. >> reporter: bana alabed has just lost a front tooth and loves harry potter. so far so normal for a 7-year-old. except just three days ago bana and her family escaped the nightmarish violence of aleppo. and before that, as they lived under

mother, fatima, ran a twitter account that turned her into a social media sensation. >> we are still alive. >> reporter: with more than 300,000 followers, it showed the devastation of war through a child's eyes. what was it like living in aleppo when the bombs were falling? "it was really frightening," bana told us. "they're killing children, and we don't want to die." >> you live under siege. you live under bombs. there is no words that describe this situation. >> reporter: now in the safety of turkey bana seems to be enjoying her celebrity. she's already friends with harry potter author j.k. rowling after the british writer managed to send some of her books to bana in the war zone. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: "i love harry potter," shesa

"he's strong and brave and he kills bad people." what do you want to do when you grow up? >> teacher. >> reporter: you want to be a teacher? >> yes. >> reporter: qulierk mlike your? >> yes. >> reporter: as bana and fatima begged for help on twitter -- >> how are you? i am sick. >> reporter: -- syria's president bashar al assad called their internet posts a game and propaganda. others then claimed the account was somehow a fake. >> they want to blind the truth and not show the world what happened. >> reporter: bana and her mother did show the world what happened in aleppo and made it out alive. though to the world's shame even a little girl's pleas for help didn't stop the carnage. holly williams, cbs news, ankara, turkey. we've been reporting extensively on russian hacking in the presidential campaign and last night we showed you how russian hackers shut down part of ukraine's power grid. well, no

the hacking has led to death on the battlefield. >> reporter: locked in a bitter battle with russian-backed separatists, a ukrainian artillery officer devised a cell phone app that allowed his men to aim and shoot their howitzers in seconds rather than minutes. but after they showed it off on youtube, says adam meyers of the computer security firm crowdstrike, russian military intelligence hacked into it. >> the back door provided them full access to the device. every number that was in there, even the geographic location. >> reporter: so that malware basically turned the phone type a beacon. >> that's right. >> reporter: and that beacon was used to target ukrainian military units. as a result of this hack attack people were actually getting killed. >> the data seems to point to it for sure. >> reporter: this is what the malware looks like, and it's got digital fingerprints all over it, including this i.p. address. and what does that internet address tell you? >> that's actually a server that we've previously associated with

>> reporter: fancy bear is the name given to the group which also hacked into the e-mail of the democratic national committee. fancy bear is known to work for russian military intelligence. sounds like russian military intelligence is just having a field day. >> they're really good at what they do, and they're doing it pretty much all day every day. >> reporter: only in this case, scott, the cyberattack was not just disruptive, it was deadly. >> david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. coming up next -- she called for help and wound up under arrest.

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>> why don't you teach your son not to litter? >> he can't prove to me that my son littered. itbut doesn't matter if he did or didn't. it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him. >> reporter: this is a copy of the cell phone video a family member recorded as the situation escalated. it's unclear whether it's been edited. >> why are you yelling at me? >> because you you just pissed me off telling me what i tell my kids -- >> reporter: craig's 15-year-old daughter then stepped ietn bween her and the officer and a struggle broke out. >> don't grab her! >> reporter: the officer pulled his taser. it's unclear whether he used it. he then arrested craig, her daughter, and the woman recording. they were charged with resisting arrest and have been released. >> i was hurt about the whole matter. i don't feel like justice was served. >> reporter: the family's attorney, lee merritt, called for the officer's arrest. >> unfortunately, we have seen over and over again for african-americans that they're

under the law as other citizens. >> reporter: fort worth police have placed the unidentified officer on restricted duty pending an internal investigation, adding, "we acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions. we ask that our investigators are given the time and opportunity to thoroughly examine this incident and submit their findings." it's unclear whether the man craig accused of touching her son will face any charges. scott, this afternoon fort worth police issued a safety alert to officers after someone who viewed the video posted a threat online. >> manuel bojorquez, thanks. coming up next listen to dr. jon lapook's advice about the risk posed by headphones. (coughs) that cough doesn't sound so good. well i think you sound great. move over. easy booger man.

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>> we are seeing pockets of young people who have worse hearing than you would expect, much worse hearing than you'd expect. >> reporter: when it comes to loud sound, the general rule of thumb is the greater the volume the shorter the acceptable duration. ♪ turn up the music the top volume on an apple music player is 102 decibels, as loud as a leaf blower. ♪ turn up the music keeping the volume at 70%, or 82 decibels, is safe for eight hours a day. ♪ put your hands up in the air 80% volume, or 89 decibels, is safe for 90 minutes. but crank it all the way up and only 10 minutes is safe. >> how many people listen to personal music players? >> reporter: these fifth-graders in cleveland heights, ohio are learning what it takes to be a goode3 listener. >> do you think you're listening at a safe level? >> reporter: the dangerous decibels program teaches the physics of sound and how excessive noise damages hearing. >> we like to say that noise ages our ears.

>> reporter: audiologist sharon sandridge runs the program for the cleveland clinic. >> it only takes one exposure to excessive sound to cause damage in your ear. >> reporter: fligor's company, lantos technologies, makes a 3-d printed headphone custom designed for the individual ear to better block out background noise. >> worldwide, roughly 1 billion people are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss from using portable listening devices. >> reporter: apps that measure decibel levels can show parents the total amount of noise exposure their child is getting. scott, it's important and possible for parents to help protect their kids' hearing. >> we hear you, jon, thanks very much. coming up next, a lens on humanity.

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great photography opens a window to the soul, and the man you're about to meet was just named "time" magazine's instagram photographer of the year. michelle miller introduces us. >> reporter: they are faces of joy and contemplation. fathers with sons. children at play. people living.

the subjects are almost always black and resonate the truth of the man who shoots them. >> an alcoholic father, a person who feels disenfranchised, a person who feels like on some level this country doesn't really acknowledge the spirit of black communities. >> reporter: jamaican-born ruddy roye, a 47-year-old father of two, began photographing his neighbors in brooklyn in 2002. he now shares his images on instagram. >> so the picture is in my head. my task is to get it out. >> reporter: but this year was different. moved by the deaths of young black men on the streets, he considers himself a journalist on a mission. >> the message is what's more important. the emotion that is in the image is most important. >> reporter: and it seems to be resonating. after zig-zagging across the country, roye has acquired 265,000 instagram followers. >> i

that other people would recognize that strip me of my color and i am your uncle, i am your brother, i am your neighbor. >> reporter: the irony, roye says, only by looking beyond his lens did he see that himself. >> i didn't once go to coal country and tell the stories of people who are also losing their jobs, people who were also disenfranchised, people who were also hungry, people who didn't look like me but are also going through the same struggles i'm going through. >> reporter: struggles he intends to capture in the new year. ruddy roye calls twx "the year of protest." 2017, he hopes, will be the year of healing. michelle miller, cbs news, brooklyn. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

♪ welcome to the overnight news. i'm don dahler. the holiday travel rush has begun. 94 million americans are expected to get to their christmas destination by trains, planes, and automobiles. and for the 45 million people heading to the airport today will be the busiest day of the year. smooth sailing is reported at many travel hubs. well, but california is a different story. carter evans reports. >> reporter: los angeles has one of the nation's busiest airports. and this week it may be the most dysfunctional. >> i'm just mad as hell because who knows when we're going to be able to get back to new york. >> reporter: if misery loves company, john schott has plenty of new friends, like jane zang,

wondering when she'll reach vancouver. >> we are homeless right now for christmas. >> reporter: on a relatively tranquil day across the country with most airports showing few problems, l.a. has suffered through 716 flight delays and 143 cancellations over 36 hours. l.a.'s problem started wednesday with a security scare. then it rained in a city not used to rain, creating gridlock on the roads and on the tarmac. steve bauman's luck ran out after his flight from seattle landed on time. >> we arrived at 4:07 and got off the plane at 6:37. we were on the tarmac for 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: even a moment of holiday cheer at the southwest terminal checked into cold reality. ♪ oh what fun it is today in a one horse open sleigh ♪ ♪ hey >> sorry all flights are delayed. >> reporter: with most holiday flights already full those suddenly without a flight like katie doving felt the

>> we've been in this line for four hours and it doesn't look like they've resolved anything. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump and russian president vladimir putin see eye to eye on a number of issues. one of them apparently involves nuclear weapons. are we looking at a new nuclear arms race? julianna goldman sorts it out. in just 140 characters president-elect donald trump signaled a major shift in u.s. foreign policy, tweeting, "the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such times as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes." transition officials didn't say what prompted the tweet, but it came the same day that russian president vladimir putin said moscow needs to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces. >> i think the tweet was ambiguous and it was hard to figure out what exactly he meant. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to nato nicholas burns. >> i nuclear diplomacy and in diplomacy in general, you

especially with your adversaries, about what you're willing to do and not willing to do. >> reporter: a trump aide later tried to clarify, saying the president-elect was referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it. during the campaign mr. trump also sent conflicting messages on nuclear policy. >> look, nuclear should be off the table. but would there be a time when it could be used? possibly. >> the trouble is -- >> reporter: the confusion today overshadowed mr. trump's long awaited staff announcements including naming former campaign manager kellyanne conway as counselor to the president making her the top-ranking woman in the west wing. former republican national committee spokesperson sean spicer will be the next white house press secretary. and long-time aide hope hicks will be director of strategic communications. a makeshift memorial is grohl in berlin.at the site of the truck attack.

killer. charlie d'agata is in berlin. >> reporter: they've reopened parts of the christmas market but i can't say there's been a resumption of christmas festivities. the mood here is somber. let's bring you up to date on the well-being of the americans. richard ramirez, 62 years old, still in the hospital being treated in the intensive care unit. it's thought his partner, a german national, did not survive the attack. the second, russell schultz, from austin, treated and released for what he said were minor injuries but he said he lost two friends. meanwhile, the manhunt is under way for the person thought to be responsible for all this heartache and damage. armed forces in berlin and far beyond went on the hunt for their new target and anyone who may have been providing him with help or support. as it turns out the face of germany's prime suspect was also a familiar one to german authorities. the europe-wide alert names him as anis amri, a tunisian national, but then liszt six

nationalities. and it says "and he should be considered armed and dangerous." video posted on a facebook page attributed to amri is one of the few moving images of the suspect. here's what we do know. he crossed into germany july 2015. he applied for asylum but was rejected in the summer of 2016. he was already known to authorities as a possible terror threat, and he'd been under surveillance until three months before the attack. that's because of his alleged ties to this man, abu walla, an iraqi who was arrested in germany only last month, accused of recruiting fighters for isis. amri should have been deported after his asylum request was denied. but he wasn't, and authorities are asking why. he'd even been in custody after being caught with fake papers. back home in tunisia amri's brother says he was shocked by his brother's alleged involvement in the attack.

i would tell him you should not have done this." amri presents a worst case scenario for this government, a failed asylum seeker with connections to isis, an alleged mass murderer and still on the run. uber has pulled its fleet of self-driving cars off the streets of san francisco. the california dmv said the driverless cars weren't registered correctly carter evans has that. >> reporter: the california dmv revoked the registration of 16 of uber's self-driving cars, saying in a statement "it was determined that the registrations were improperly issued for these vehicles because they were not properly marked as test vehicles." >> they should not be operating his driverless vehicle technology on our streets without that permit. >> reporter: san francisco mayor ed lee was referring to uber ceo travis kalinek, whose company publicly ignored the state's week-long request to pull their self-driving cars from the roa

proper permits. uber persistently argued that its self-driving cars are not fully autonomous because of the presence of a front seat driver and therefore did not need a permit. but on wednesday uber caved to state regulators, saying in part, "we're now looking at where we could redeploy these cars and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide rules." >> they really didn't have a choice. >> reporter: tamara warren is a senior transportation editor for technology network the verge. >> uber made a play that didn't work out in their favor. this technology is very new and we don't know how it's going to play out in a regulatory sense yet. >> reporter: this video may have complicated uber's argument. it appears to show one of its self-driving vehicles running a red light on the day of the program's rollout. uber maintains the car in the video was not part of the program and wasn't carrying passengers. >> i'm a big supporter of driverless technology. but we're going

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syria's largest city aleppo is now in government hands. the last convoy of rebel fighters and their families rolled out yesterday. for four years the people of eastern aleppo endured punishing air strikes that brought buildings down upon innocent families. one group of volunteers worked to free the victims trapped in the rubble. they are the white helmets. scott pelley has their story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: the air strikes day and night obliterate apartments and shatter the nerves. often the bombs are not aimed at military targets. they're not aimed at all. just a barrel of shrapnel and tnt heaved from a helicopter

onto any neighborhood the assad dictatorship does not control. >> allahu akbar. >> it's to terrorize people in this area. it's to tell these people that you're not welcome here and we want you out. >> reporter: rami jahra is a syrian reporter whose followed the white helmets from their makeshift beginnings. >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: to today's trained force of 3,000 rescue workers. >> they provide some sort of security and safety, some sort of hope to civilians that live in this area, that even if you are attacked, even if your building comes down there is someone that's going to come and save you. >> reporter: you are not alone. >> you're not alone, yes. >> reporter: this little boy was alone and nearly invisible when the white helmets happened to spot just his hair in the pulverized concrete of his home. bare hands were in a race with suffocation.

>> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> i think for them it's luck. they dig any rubble that they see to get those people out. they frantically dig through every part of any apartment building or anything that's been destroyed to check. they're usually there for hours after the attack. >> reporter: how many hours? >> how many hours? six, seven hours. i've seen them operate continuously. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: this is that same boy. his face freed. they excavated the ruin hour by hour. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: the white helmets say they have saved 70,000, and with each they shout their gratitude to god. >> allahu akbar! >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: majid khalaf and radi saad have been white

khalaf said, "we feel as if we brought that person back to life. the joy at that moment is indescribable." tell me about the hardest rescue you've ever done. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: "there was a woman and her husband," he told us. "only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. we could see her moving her fingers like this. so my colleagues dug her out. and the first thing she asked about was her husband. they'd been married for ten days. unfortunately, her husband had been killed." >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: fingers or here the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. the leg led to hips and a torso. body parts are expected. >> all

>> reporter: but then they uncovered a face. [ screaming ] more often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. when you uncover one of these faces covered with dust and the eyes open, what is that moment like for you? radi saad told us, "i don't have any feelings. i have a goal. the goal is to save the most people in the least amount of time. but when i go home, i've spent nights crying, really crying." >> allahu akbar. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: day after day,

after hour, victim after victim, how do you keep going? "there are a lot of people who need our help," he said. "there's a 50% chance in every operation that i'll live and a 50% chance that i'll die. but in the end i've left my mark. i've left children who are going to live and complete our future. radi saad calculates his odds at 50-50 because the white helmets themselves are targets of the assad regime. >> the plane doesn't attack once. it usually attacks twice or three times. so the civil defense are able to continue doing their work even understanding that that plane is waiting for people to gather up because it wants to come back and attack when there's a large crowd

>> reporter: the white helmets call that second bomb run, the one aimed at them, a double tap. and it happened during this rescue in aleppo. [ explosion ] raed saleh wears the loss of his men and his country. he once owned an electronics business. the white helmets in more than 100 towns elected him their leader. how many of your people have you lost? he told us a white helmet had been killed that morning. and as of last week saleh has lost 154 volunteers. how did the white helmets begin? "after several bombings," he said. "there were individual initiatives by regular people. tailor

carpenters, university students, doctors, people from different backgrounds who formed teams to respond to emergencies in a more organized fashion. after that there was communication with outside organizations who began to train these teams." this is the training in a country we agreed not to name. elite disaster teams from other nations teach the use of microphones to sense vibrations and cameras to peer into crevices. the united states chipped in $29 million for this. about a quarter of the white helmets' budget. this home was blasted into a family's tomb. the only thing escaping was one faint voice. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: a white helmet searching calls out, "brother, can you see

on my back." he's right. it's the roof. but for an inch the 16-year-old boy would be dead. you're looking at him, right there, face down. this is his shoulder, and his right arm already in a cast. no architect's calculation of blast loading or lateral resistance can explain the simple miracles of survival. after seven hours it appears the boy emerged an orphan and only child. everyone else in the house was dead. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. hrpt hani al abdullah is a syrian journalist who posts stories of the white helmets on youtube. "if there is meaning to the word courage," he said, "it is

defense." abdullah's stories caught the disapproving notice of the assad dictatorship, and last june the door of his apartment building was connected to a bomb. "without me hearing any explosion," he said, "there was stone and steel on top of me and i couldn't move any of my limbs." rescue workers he'd covered came to uncover him. "when i heard the sound of the civil defense bulldozer, i started to feel some hope that i might live. slowly the stones started to be removed rock by rock. all of the weight started to lessen." >> reporter: just hearing their voices gave you hope that you would live? "exactly," he said. "i was able to breathe, to hear their voices. it was difficult to open my eyes but i openedhe

saw them wearing their white helmets. i was so happy that i was out of the rubble." >> and you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the overnight news will be right back.

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edge. mark phillips reports. >> you can't tell by looking today, but it's been a pretty damp and miserable start to the winter here. and there's a cold bug about one that even the gates of buckingham palace can't stop. of course royals don't get common colds. they get heavy ones. the royal standard, the queen's official flag, which indicates where she is, was still flying over buckingham palace this morning. it shouldn't have been. the royals should be at their country estate in sand, m up in the northeast of england where they go every christmas. this is them last year. the family parade at sandringham is as much a part of the holidays here as christmas trees and carols, although the queen now drives to church. for the trip to be even delayed this year and for health reasons is a cause for worry. >> she famously carries on regardless. and this time apparently she couldn't carry on. >> i think that's significant. the fact that the queen felt unwell enougho

sandringham when that's all she would have wanted to have done yesterday, was stick to her plan. >> reporter: the queen is 90 now. prince philip is 95 and has had a number of health issues over the past years. the famous royal stoicism has come up against the hard place of advancing years lately. philip was hospitalized for what was called a bladder infection after the couple stood in the rain for hours during this river pageant a few years ago. he's been rushed to hospital several times for a series of heart problems and investigative surgery. the couple have announced they'll be doing fewer public events. but they're still determined to do what they can. and when they can't the world notices. the queen and prince philip are famously robust for their age. in fact prince philip bragged to a doctor here a couple weeks ago wondering why he hadn't had the flu in 40 years. the doctor responded saying maybe it's because he doesn't take the subway like everybody else.

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if you're still doing holiday shopping online and expect to have your items delivered by christmas, you may be out of luck. online shopping is expected to account for $117 billion worth of holiday sales this season. and getting all those packages delivered is a monumental task. i paid a visit to an amazon prime now hub, one of the last resort places trying to get your packages by december 25th. ♪ sleigh bells ring ♪ are you listening if you've avoided the crowded malls this holiday season by ordering online, you haven't really prevented a headache. you've just transferred it to the folks whose job it is to get your packages delivered by christmas day. >> it's stressful, but it's very energetic. we've been preparing all year for this ever since last peak. >> reporter: fedex is e

season. a 10% increase over last year. and to ensure the blizzard of packages arrives on time, fedex has its eyes on the skies. >> we've got 15 meteorologists 24/7 around the clock watching the weather worldwide. and we're really geared up here. we have contingency plans for everything. >> ups. >> reporter: ups is also expecting record shipments. up 14% to more than 700 million packages. and to make sure santa gets the job done, experts say it takes a lot of extra elves. >> ups has hired about 95,000 people for the holidays. fedex has hired about 50,000. >> reporter: at the soma apartment complex in miami -- >> when a carrier comes nail enter their code -- >> reporter: residents usually use this digital bin system to pick up their packages. but the delivery deluge is cathy a package pileup. they've seen a 70% increase this week alone. >> we actually counted how many

time during the day and we had 198 packages back here. >> reporter: many retailers are promising last-minute delivery options. if you order online today, amazon prime, target, best buy, and walmart all say they can get your package under the tree by the 25th. with some even promising next-day delivery on the 24th. but if weather conditions get bad, not even rudolph can save the day. >> they shouldn't wait till the day before to order. even if the retailer promises guaranteed delivery next day because they don't have control over it. don't wait till the day before. >> amazon operates 30 of those hubs around the country. they're actually offering two-hour delivery for some items that they promise they can get to you by midnight christmas eve. the one bit of advice for next year if you don't want this stress, order a little earlier. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a

news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm don dahler. ♪ echoes of the cold war. fears of a new arms race today as donald trump and vladimir putin call for expanding their nuclear arsenals. also tonight, what is excessive force? [ screaming ] [ bleep ] a mother calls police, but she and her daughters are arrested. the world's most vicious war is revealed through the eyes of a 7-year-old from aleppo. >> there is always bombing, even at night. >> and what was that like? >> bad. >> so the picture is in my head. my task is to get it. out >> and the photographer who

i am your brother. i'm your neighbor. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the latest tweet from the president-elect could signal a reversal of nearly five decades of nuclear policy. since 1963 presidents, both republican and democrat, have agreed with russia to limit nuclear weapon development. as recently as 2010 president obama signed a deal to cut the number of missile launchers in half and limit deployed warheads on both sides. but now donald trump is suggesting that policy may not be his policy. and here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: in just 140 characters president-elect donald trump signaled a major shift in u.s. foreign policy, tweeting "the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such times as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes."

transition officials didn't say what prompted the tweet. but it came the same day that russian president vladimir putin said moscow needs to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces. >> i think the tweet was ambiguous and it was hard to figure out what exactly he meant. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to nato nicholas burns. >> in nuclear diplomacy and diplomacy in general you want to be clear most of the time, especially with your adversaries, about what you're willing to do and not willing to do. >> reporter: a trump aide later tried to clarify, saying the president-elect was "referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it." during the campaign mr. trump also sent conflicting messages on nuclear policy. >> look, nuclear should be off the table. but would there be a time when it could be used? possibly. >> okay, the trouble is when you said t

overshadowed mr. trump's long-awaited white house staff announcements including naming former campaign manager kellyanne conway as counselor to the president, making her the top-ranking woman in the west wing. former republican national committee spokesperson sean spicer will be the next white house press secretary. and long-time aide hope hicks will serve as the director of strategic communications. a day after mr. trump said he still favors a muslim registry, president obama made that more difficult. scott, while it hadn't been used in five years, he ended a program enacted after 9/11 that registered visitors from countries with active terrorist groups. >> julianna goldman covering the transition. julianna, thank you. today the president-elect's daughter ivanka was berated by two strangers on a flight that was scheduled to depart new york. this picture turned up on social media. one of the men reportedly told ms. trump that her father was "ruining the country." the men were kicked off the plane before it departed. the trump transition team has been sending questionnaires

to cabinet departments, not at all unusual, but some of the questions sent to the state department are raising concerns. and margaret brennan is following this. >> reporter: the memo shared with cbs news requested details on existing programs and activities to promote gender equality such as ending gender-based violence. as well as a list of jobs that handle those issues. it did not state why the information was needed but raised concern that the trump administration might want to cancel state department initiatives championed by former secretary hillary clinton. spokesman john kirby. >> look, i can't discount the notion that in all aspects of a change in leadership here that there's going to be anxiety. >> reporter: the memo did not ask for the names of officials who work on these programs. unlike a controversial questionnaire sent by the trump team to the energy department earlier this month. it requested a list of programs and staffers "essential to meeting the goals of president obama's climate action plan."

the questionnaire prompted house foreign affairs committee democrats to urge secretary kerry in a letter last week not to single out his employees. "in our view, gathering names in this manner bears striking resemblance to dark chapters in our history marked by enemies lists and political witch hunts." and kirby also said that the request for organizations and names and details were normal. scott? >> margaret brennan at the state department. thank you, margaret. more than 100 million americans are on the move for the holidays, and carter evans has found that many are already running into trouble. >> reporter: los angeles has one of the nation's busiest airports. and this week it may be the most dysfunctional. >> i'm just mad as hell because who knows when we're going to be able to get back to new york. >> reporter: if misery loves company john schott has plenty of new friends like jane zang wondering when she'll reach vancouver. >> we are homeless right now for christmas. r

tranquil day across the country with most airports showing few problems l.a. has suffered through 716 flight delays and 143 cancellations over 36 hours. l.a.'s problems started wednesday with a security scare. then it rained in a city not used to rain, creating gridlock on the roads and on the tarmac. steve bauman's luck ran out after his flight from seattle landed, on time. >> we arrived at 4:07 and got off the plane at 6:37. we were on the tarmac for 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: even a moment of holiday cheer at the southwest terminal turned into cold reality. ♪ oh, what fun it is to ride in a something stay ♪ ♪ sorry all flights are delayed ♪ >> reporter: with most holiday flights already full those suddenly without a flight like katie doving, felt the squeeze. >> we've been in this line for four hours and it doesn't look like they've resolved anything. >> reporter: and on top of it

all major airport renovations are slowing down the traffic here at the terminals. scott, about 100,000 cars are expected to pass through here today alone. >> carter evans, thanks very much. so will the weather outside be frightful? eric fisher is delightful as the chief meteorologist of our boston station wbz. eric, what are we in for? >> very poetic there, scott. we have that one storm today on the west coast. the next one also moving into the west coast, and that's where most of the trouble is going to be tomorrow. rain and mountain snow swinging down from washington state, again down through los angeles and even some mountain snow around the grapevine along i-5. the mountains outside l.a. and san diego will both be picking up snow by late tomorrow. that's the storm system we're watching as we head into christmas day. blizzard conditions across the dakotas reaching back into eastern parts of montana and wyoming. meanwhile, on the eastern side of the storm, this is where we'll have warmer air, even a chance for some severe thunderstorms on christmas day. so we'll have towe

alert. also a lot of warmth across the south on christmas. few record highs are possible

there's no question that hillary clinton won the popular vote. it is official now that all 50 states and d.c. have certified their totals. nearly 66 million americans voted for clinton. just under 63 million voted for trump. and that's a difference of about 2.9 million, the widest margin in history for a candidate who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college. in berlin investigators found their prime suspect's fingerprints in that truck that barrels into a christmas market. newly released video shows how fast that truck was going. a dozen were killed on monday and dozens more were wounded,

including two americans. the suspect is at large. we've learned that the 24-year-old tunisian was on the "no fly terror watch list" here in the u.s. today syria's assad dictatorship took full control of aleppo, once the country's largest city, and the center of the rebellion. this is what victory looks like. block after block of wasteland. assad vanquished the rebel forces here after four years. about 400,000 people have been killed in the civil war. for many months the eyes of a 7-year-old have been the window on aleppo. she's now in turkey, where holly williams found her. >> reporter: bana alabed has just lost a front tooth and loves harry potter. so far so normal for a 7-year-old. except just three days ago bana and her family escaped the nightmarish violence of aleppo. and before that, as they lived

under siege, bana and her mother, fatima, ran a twitter account that turned her into a social media sensation. >> we are still alive. >> reporter: with more than 300,000 followers, it showed the devastation of war through a child's eyes. what was it like living in aleppo when the bombs were falling? "it was really frightening," bana told us. "they're killing children, and we don't want to die." >> you live under siege. you live under bombs. there is no words that describe this situation. >> reporter: now in the safety of turkey bana seems to be enjoying her celebrity. she's already friends with harry potter author j.k. rowling after the british writer managed to send some of her books to bana in the war zone. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: "i love harry potter," she said. "he's strong and brave and he

kills bad people." what do you want to do when you grow up? >> teacher. >> reporter: you want to be a teacher? >> yes. >> reporter: like your mom? >> yes. >> reporter: as bana and fatima begged for help on twitter -- >> how are you? i am sick. >> reporter: -- syria's president bashar al assad called their internet posts a game and propaganda. others then claimed the account was somehow a fake. >> they want to blind the truth and not show the world what happened. >> reporter: bana and her mother did show the world what happened in aleppo and made it out alive. though to the world's shame even a little girl's pleas for help didn't stop the carnage. holly williams, cbs news, ankara, turkey. we've been reporting extensively on russian hacking in the presidential campaign and last night we showed you how russian hackers shut down part of ukraine's power grid. well, now david martin reports the hacking has led to death on

>> reporter: locked in a bitter battle with russian-backed separatists, a ukrainian artillery officer devised a cell phone app that allowed his men to aim and shoot their howitzers in seconds rather than minutes. but after they showed it off on youtube, says adam meyers of the computer security firm crowdstrike, russian military intelligence hacked into it. >> the back door provided them full access to the device. every number that was in there, even the geographic location. >> reporter: so that malware basically turned the phone into a beacon. >> that's right. >> reporter: and that beacon was used to target ukrainian military units. as a result of this hack attack people were actually getting killed. >> the data seems to point to it for sure. >> reporter: this is what the malware looks like, and it's got digital fingerprints all over it, including this i.p. address. and what does that internet address tell?

we've previously associated with the fancy bear actor. >> reporter: fancy bear is the name given to the group which also hacked into the e-mail of the democratic national committee. fancy bear is known to work for russian military intelligence. sounds like russian military intelligence is just having a field day. >> they're really good at what they do, and they're doing it pretty much all day every day. >> reporter: only in this case, scott, the cyberattack was not just disruptive, it was deadly. >> david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. coming up next -- she called for help and wound up under arrest. when you've got an uncontrollable cough, take delsym, the #1 12-hour cough medicine.

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about a man grabbing her son after he allegedly littered. >> why don't you teach your son not to litter? >> he can't prove to me that my son littered. but it doesn't matifter di he d or didn't. it doesn't give him the right to put his hands on him. >> reporter: this is a copy of the cell phone video a family member recorded as the situation escalated. it's unclear whether it's been edited. >> why are you yelling at me? >> because you you just pissed me off telling me what i teach my kids and what i don't. >> if you keep yelling at me you're going to miss me off -- >> reporter: craig's 15-year-old daughter then stepped in between her and the officer and a struggle broke out. >> don't grab her! >> reporter: the officer pulled his taser. it's unclear whether he used it. he then arrested craig, her daughter, and the woman recording. they were charged with resisting arrest and have been released. >> i was hurt about the whole matter. i don't feel like justice was served. >> reporter: the family's attorney, lee merritt, called for the officer's arrest. >> unfortunately, we have seen

african-americans that they're not afforded the same protection under the law as other citizens. >> reporter: fort worth police have placed the unidentified officer on restricted duty pending an internal investigation, adding, "we acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions. we ask that our investigators are given the time and opportunity to thoroughly examine this incident and submit their findings." it's unclear whether the man craig accused of touching her son will face any charges. scott, this afternoon fort worth police issued a safety alert to officers after someone who viewed the video posted a threat online. >> manuel bojorquez, thanks. coming up next, listen to dr. jon lapook's advice about the risk posed by headphones. ugh, it's only lunchtime and my cold medicines' wearing off. i'm dragging. yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours.

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>> reporter: pediatric audiologist brian fligor has studied the impact of headphones on hearing. >> we are seeing pockets of young people who have worse hearing than you would expect, much worse hearing than you'd expect. >> reporter: when it comes to loud sound, the general rule of thumb is the greater the volume the shorter the acceptable duration. ♪ turn up the music the top volume on an apple music player is 102 decibels, as loud as a leaf blower. ♪ turn up the music keeping the volume at 70%, or 82 decibels, is safe for eight hours a day. ♪ put your hands up in the air 80% volume, or 89 decibels, is safe for 90 minutes. but crank it all the way up and only 10 minutes is safe. >> how many people listen to personal music players? >> reporter: these fifth-graders in cleveland heights, ohio are learning what it takes to be a good listener. >> do you think you're listening at a safe level? >> reporter: the dangerous decibels program teaches the physics of sound and how excessive noise damages heg.

ages our ears. >> reporter: audiologist sharon sandridge runs the program for the cleveland clinic. >> it only takes one exposure to excessive sound to cause damage in your ear. >> reporter: fligor's company, lantos technologies, makes a 3-d printed headphone custom designed for the individual ear to better block out background noise. >> worldwide, roughly 1 billion people are at risk for noise-induced hearing loss from using portable listening devices. >> reporter: apps that measure decibel levels can show parents the total amount of noise exposure their child is getting. scott, it's important and possible for parents to help protect their kids' hearing. >> we hear you, jon, thanks very much. coming up next, a lens on humanity.

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great photography opens a window to the soul, and the man you're about to meet was just named "time" magazine's instagram photographer of the year. michelle miller introduces us. >> reporter: they are faces of joy and contemplation. fathers with sons.

children at play. people living. the subjects are almost always black and resonate the truth of the man who shoots them. >> an alcoholic father, a person who feels disenfranchised, a person who feels like on some level this country doesn't really acknowledge the spirit of black communities. >> reporter: jamaican-born ruddy roye, a 47-year-old father of two, began photographing his neighbors in brooklyn in 2002. he now shares his images on instagram. >> so the picture is in my head. my task is to get it out. >> reporter: but this year was different. moved by the deaths of young black men on the streets, he considers himself a journalist on a mission. >> the message is what's more important. the emotion that is in the image is most important. >> reporter: and it seems to be resonating. after zig-zagging across the country, roye has acquired

>> i wanted to broadcast them so that other people would recognize that strip me of my color and i am your uncle, i am your brother, i am your neighbor. >> reporter: the irony, roye says, only by looking beyond his lens did he see that himself. >> i didn't once go to coal country and tell the stories f people who are also losing their jobs, people who were also disenfranchised, people who were also hungry, people who don't look like me but are also going through the same struggles i'm going through. >> reporter: struggles he intends to capture in the new year. ruddy roye calls 2016 "the year of protest." 2017, he hopes, will be the year of healing. michelle miller, cbs news, brooklyn. that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and of course "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center in new york city, i'm scott pelley.

♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." welcome to the overnight news. i'm don dahler. the holiday travel rush has begun. 94 million americans are expected to get to their christmas destination by trains, planes, and automobiles. and for the 45 million people heading to the airport today will be the busiest day of the year. smooth sailing is reported at many travel hubs. well, but california is a different story. carter evans reports. >> reporter: los angeles has one of the nation's busiest airports. and this week it may be the most dysfunctional. >> i'm just mad as hell because who knows when we're going to be able to get back to new york. >> reporter: if misery loves company, john schott has plenty of new friends, like jane zang, wondering when s

vancouver. >> we are homeless right now for christmas. >> reporter: on a relatively tranquil day across the country with most airports showing few problems, l.a. has suffered through 716 flight delays and 143 cancellations over 36 hours. l.a.'s problems started wednesday with a security scare. then it rained in a city not used to rain, creating gridlock on the roads and on the tarmac. steve bauman's luck ran out after his flight from seattle landed on time. >> we arrived at 4:07 and got off the plane at 6:37. we were on the tarmac for 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: even a moment of holiday cheer at the southwest terminal turned into cold reality. ♪ oh what fun it is today in a one horse open sleigh ♪ ♪ hey >> sorry all flights are delayed. >> reporter: with most holiday flights already full those suddenly without a flight like katie doving felt the squeeze. >> we've been in this f

like they've resolved anything. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump and russian president vladimir putin see eye to eye on a number of issues. one of them apparently involves nuclear weapons. are we looking at a new nuclear arms race? julianna goldman sorts it out. in just 140 characters president-elect donald trump signaled a major shift in u.s. foreign policy, tweeting, "the united states must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such times as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes." transition officials didn't say what prompted the tweet, but it came the same day that russian president vladimir putin said moscow needs to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces. >> i think the tweet was ambiguous and it was hard to figure out what exactly he meant. >> reporter: former u.s. ambassador to nato nicholas burns. >> in nuclear diplomacy and in diplomacy in general, you want

to be clear most of the time, especially with your adversaries, about what you're willing to do and not willing to do. >> reporter: a trump aide later tried to clarify, saying the president-elect was referring to the threat of nuclear proliferation and the critical need to prevent it. during the campaign mr. trump also sent conflicting messages on nuclear policy. >> look, nuclear should be off the table. but would there be a time when it could be used? possibly. >> the trouble is when you said that -- >> reporter: the confusion today overshadowed mr. trump's long awaited staff announcements including naming former campaign manager kellyanne conway as counselor to the president making her the top-ranking woman in the west wing. former republican national committee spokesperson sean spicer will be the next white house press secretary. and long-time aide hope hicks will serve as the director of strategic communications. a makeshift memorial is growing in berlin at the site of the christmas market truck attack. a dozen people were killed and many more injured when a terrorist drove a hijacked truck through a crowd of shoppers. a manhunt continues for the

charlie d'agata is in berlin. >> reporter: they've reopened parts of the christmas market as you can see but i can't really say there's been a resumption of christmas festivities. the mood here is somber. let's bring you up to date on the well-being of the americans. richard ramirez, 62 years old, still in the hospital being treated in the intensive care unit. it's thought his partner, a german national, did not survive the attack. the second, russell schultz from austin, treated and released for what he said were minor injuries but he said he lost two friends. meanwhile, the manhunt is under way for the person thought to be responsible for all this heartache and damage. armed forces in berlin and far beyond went on the hunt for their new target and anyone who may have been providing him with help or support. as it turns out, the face of germany's prime suspect was also a familiar one to german authorities. the erope-wide alert names him as anis amri, a tunisian national, but then lists six false names and multiple nationalities.

and it says "and he should be considered armed and dangerous." video posted on a facebook page attributed to amri is one of the few moving images of the suspect. here's what we do know. he crossed into germany july 2015. he applied for asylum but was rejected in the summer of 2016. he was already known to authorities as a possible terror threat, and he'd been under surveillance until three months before the attack. that's because of his alleged ties to this man, abu walla, an iraqi who was arrested in germany only last month, accused of recruiting fighters for isis. amri should have been deported after his asylum request was denied. but he wasn't, and authorities are asking why. he'd even been in custody after being caught with fake papers. back home in tunisia amri's brother walid says he was shocked by his brother's alleged involvement in the attack.

he said, "if he can see me now i would tell him, you should not have done this." amri presents a worst case scenario for this government, a failed asylum seeker with connections to isis, an alleged mass murderer and still on the run. uber has pulled its fleet of self-driving cars off the streets of san francisco. the california dmv said the driverless cars weren't registered correctly. carter evans has that. >> reporter: the california dmv revoked the registration of 16 of uber's self-driving cars, saying in a statement "it was determined that the registrations were improperly issued for these vehicles because they were not properly marked as test vehicles." >> they should not be operating his driverless vehicle technology on our streets without that permit. >> reporter: san francisco mayor ed lee was referring to uber ceo travis kalinek, whose company publicly ignored the state's week-long request to pull their self-driving cars from the road over their failure to obtain

proper permits. uber persistently argued that its self-driving cars are not fully autonomous because of the presence of a front seat driver and therefore did not need a permit. but on wednesday uber caved to state regulators, saying in part, "we're now looking at where we could redeploy these cars and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide rules." >> they really didn't have a choice. >> reporter: tamara warren is a senior transportation editor for technology network the verge. >> uber made a play that didn't work out in their favor. this technology is very new and we don't know how it's going to play out in a regulatory sense yet. >> reporter: this video may have complicated uber's argument. it appears to show one of its self-driving vehicles running a red light on the day of the program's rollout. uber maintains the car in the video was not part of the program and wasn't carrying passengers. >> i'm a big supporter of driverless technology.

but we're going to have a setback if people aren't putting safety as their number one concern. >> reporter: carter evans, los angeles.

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syria's largest city, aleppo, is now in government hands. the last convoy of rebel fighters and their families rolled out yesterday. for four years the people of eastern aleppo endured punishing air strikes that brought buildings down upon innocent families. one group of volunteers worked to free the victims trapped in the rubble. they are the white helmets. scott pelley has their story for "60 minutes." >> reporter: the air strikes day and night obliterate apartments and shatter the nerves. often the bombs are not aimed at military targets. they're not aimed at all. just a barrel of shrapnel and tnt heaved from a helicopter

onto any neighborhood the assad dictatorship does not control. >> allahu akbar. >> it's to terrorize people in this area. it's to tell these people that you're not welcome here and we want you out. >> reporter: rami jahra is a syrian reporter who's followed the white helmets from their makeshift beginnings -- >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: -- to today's trained force of 3,000 rescue workers. >> they provide some sort of security and safety, some sort of hope to civilians that live in this area, that even if you are attacked, even if your building comes down there is someone that's going to come and save you. >> reporter: you are not alone. >> you're not alone, yes. >> reporter: this little boy was alone and nearly invisible when the white helmets happened to spot just his hair in the pulverized concrete of his home. bare hands were in a race with suffocation.

>> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> i think for them it's luck. they dig any rubble that they see to get those people out. they frantically dig through every part of any apartment building or anything that's been destroyed to check. they're usually there for hours after the attack. >> reporter: how many hours? >> how many hours? six, seven hours i've seen them operate continuously. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: this is that same boy. his face freed. they excavated the ruin hour by hour. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: the white helmets say they have saved 70,000, and with each they shout their gratitude to god. >> allahu akbar! >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: majid khalaf and radi saad have been white helmets three years.

life. the joy at that moment is indescribable." tell me about the hardest rescue you've ever done. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: "there was a woman and her husband," he told us. "only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. we could see her moving her fingers like this. so my colleagues dug her out. and the first thing she asked about was her husband. they'd been married for ten days. unfortunately, her husband had been killed." >> allahu akbar. >> reporter: fingers or here the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. the leg led to hips and a torso. body parts are expected. >> allahu akbar! >> reporter: but then they ve

[ screaming ] more often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. when you uncover one of these faces covered with dust and the eyes open, what is that moment like for you? radi saad told us, "i don't have any feelings. i have a goal. the goal is to save the most people in the least amount of time. but when i go home, i've spent nights crying, really crying." >> allahu akbar. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: day after day, building after building, hour

how do you keep going? "there are a lot of people who need our help," he said. "there's a 50% chance in every operation that i'll live and a 50% chance that i'll die. but in the end i've left my mark. i've left children who are going to live and complete our future. radi saad calculates his odds at 50-50 because the white helmets themselves are targets of the assad regime. >> the plane doesn't attack once. it usually attacks twice or three times. so the civil defense are able to actually continue doing their work even understanding that that plane is waiting for people to gather up because it wants to come back and attack when

there's a large crowd of people. >> reporter: the white helmets call that second bomb run, the one aimed at them, a double tap. and it happened during this rescue in aleppo. [ explosion ] raed saleh wears the loss of his men and his country. he once owned an electronics business. the white helmets in more than 100 towns elected him their leader. how many of your people have you lost? he told us a white helmet had been killed that morning. and as of last week saleh has lost 154 volunteers. how did the white helmets begin? "after several bombings," he said, "there were individual initiatives by regular people. tailors, blacksmiths,

doctors, people from different backgrounds who formed teams to respond to emergencies in a more organized fashion. after that there was communication with outside organizations who began to train these teams." this is the training in a country we agreed not to name. elite disaster teams from other nations teach the use of microphones to sense vibrations and cameras to peer into crevices. the united states chipped in $29 million for this. about a quarter of the white helmets' budget. this home was blasted into a family's tomb. the only thing escaping was one faint voice. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: a white helmet searching calls out, "brother, can you see our light?" the voice replies, "me

it's the roof. but for an inch, the 16-year-old boy would be dead. you're looking at him, right there, face down. this is his shoulder, and his right arm already in a cast. no architect's calculation of blast loading or lateral resistance can explain the simple miracles of survival. after seven hours it appears the boy emerged an orphan and only child. everyone else in the house was dead. >> [ speaking foreign language ]. >> reporter: hani al abdullah is a syrian journalist who posts stories of the white helmets on youtube. "if there is meaning to the word courage," he said, "it is

defense." abdullah's stories caught the disapproving notice of the assad dictatorship, and last june the door of his apartment building was connected to a bomb. "without me hearing any explosion," he said, "there was stone and steel on top of me and i couldn't move any of my limbs." rescue workers he'd covered came to uncover him. "when i heard the sound of the civil defense bulldozer, i started to feel some hope that i might live. slowly the stones started to be removed rock by rock. all of the weight started to lessen." >> reporter: just hearing their voices gave you hope that you would live? "exactly," he said. "i was able to breathe, to hear their voices. it was difficult to open my eyes but i opened them a little and saw them wearing their white helmets. i was so happy that i was out of

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edge. mark phillips reports. >> you can't tell by looking today, but it's been a pretty damp and miserable start to the winter here. and there's a cold bug about one that even the gates of buckingham palace can't stop. of course royals don't get common colds. they get heavy ones. the royal standard, the queen's official flag, which indicates where she is, was still flying over buckingham palace this morning. it shouldn't have been. the royals should be at their country estate in sandringham up in the northeast of england, where they go every christmas. this is them last year. the family parade at sandringham is as much a part of the holidays here as christmas trees and carols, although the queen now drives to church. for the trip to be even delayed this year and for health reasons is a cause for worry. >> she famously carries on regardless. and this time apparently she couldn't carry on. >> ink

unwell enough to travel to sandringham when that's all she would have wanted to have done yesterday, was stick to her plan. >> reporter: the queen is 90 now. prince philip is 95 and has had a number of health issues over the past years. the famous royal stoicism has come up against the hard place of advancing years lately. philip was hospitalized for what was called a bladder infection after the couple stood in the rain for hours during this river pageant a few years ago. he's been rushed to hospital several times for a series of heart problems and investigative surgery. the couple have announced they'll be doing fewer public events. but they're still determined to do what they can. and when they can't the world notices. the queen and prince philip are famously robust for their age. in fact prince philip bragged to a doctor here a couple weeks ago wondering why he hadn't had the flu in 40 years. the doctor responded saying maybe it's because he doesn't take the subway like ebo

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