aleve pm for a better am. >> axelrod: a h >> axelrod: a high school football player was shot and killedhis week in knoxville, tennessee, in a spasm of violence. as david begnaud reports, the teenager died a hero. >> reporter: zah nobodyia dobson is preparing to bury her 15-year-old son, zaevion. he was her baby. he was shot dead by gang members in knoxville, tennessee, while trying to shield three young girls from gunfire. >> it was an honor for my son to save another individual. >> reporter: zaevion's brother, zach, was there when it happened. >> i picked him up and i set him in my arms. i was shaking. i was like, "i love you, wake up. i need you, wake up." >> reporter: two of the teenaged girls who zaevion dobson shielded from bullets have called the high school football standout a hero. >> if not for zaevion, we would probably have been shot. >> i have a military background. that's the action of heroes. >> reporter: david roush is knockville's police chief. he said zaevion was caught in the cross-fire of rival gangs. roush says one of the gang members who shot at zaevion was brandon

i'm jim axelrod. dozens of women have accused bill cosby of sexually assaulting them but today for actor, and longtime moral crusader was charged criminally, a felony count of aggravated indecent assault, just days before the statute of limitations was due to run out. if convicted, cosby, who is 78 years old, could face five to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. tonight, he's free on $1 million bail. jericka duncan reports from suburban philadelphia. >> mr. cosby, do you want to say anything? >> reporter: this afternoon, attorneys for comedian bill cosby walked him into this small courthouse in elkins park, pennsylvania, to hear the criminal sexual assault charges against him. his accuser is andrea constand, a former temple university employee who first told police about the alleged incident over a decade ago. constand says in the winter of 2004, she went to cosby's house for career advice. cosby offered, and she took, three blue pills and wine to relax. in the criminal complaint within a half hou

: rainwater. >> yeah. >> axelrod: from the roof. >> from the roof. >> axelrod: would get into the factory? >> yeah. >> axelrod: another worker, terry schultz, told us his complaints to management about >> the response i got at one point was, "is that all you're going to do is come in here and complain every afternoon." is. >> production is more important than cleanliness. >> axelrod: all three of blue bell's plant are back up and running and by the end of next month its ice creams will be states? blue bell did not respond to our requests for comment today. this investigation into blue bell is being led by the same justice deparment lawyer who prosecuted the peanut corporation of america. the owner, stuart parnell, got 28 years for shipping contaminated peanut products. that longest sentence ever for a food safety-related crime. coming up next, walking while distracted is sending hundreds to hospitals. a former star of "glee" is arrested for child pornolraphy, and mike tyson loses to a hover continues. and sometimes, i just don't eat the way i should. so i drink boost to get the nutrition

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with scott pelley. >> axelrod: good evening. scott's off tonight. i'm jim axelrod. the deadly storm system that claimed 56 lives as it swept through the south and midwest is now dumping snow on northern new england. half a foot has fallen in maine. it's also producing historic flooding in missouri, where they're filling and stacking sandbags to hold back the surging mississippi river. bad weather is blamed for more than tin,000 flight delays in the past few days, and more than 4,000 cancellations. we have a team of correspondents deployed, beginning with adriana diaz at chicago's o'hare airport. adriana. appropriate jim, all day long, we've seen lines stretch across the length of the terminal as passengers try to get through security and to their gates, but many flights were canceled or delayed. crowded chaos took over the terminals here. check-in lines, six rows deep. security checkpoints, packed with passengers, running out of patience. >> i don't even know what to think. i'm really nervous. >> reporter: 800 flights were afternoon on top of the nearly 1400 cancele

live 24/7 with 24/7 digestive support. >> axelrod: some undeniabl >> axelrod: some undeniable good news from the recent storms in the western u.s. the snow pack in the sierra nevada mountains is significantly above the average for this time of year. as ben tracy reports, a staggering number of california's trees are dying. >> reporter: this high-tech flying laboratory has been soaring over california, measuring the impact of four years of drought. >> there's a lot of red on this screen. which is a sign that we're over an area that's in trouble. asner says his team has made a startling discovery-- 888 million trees in california's forests have seen measurable water loss since the drought began. you're basically saying the drought has impacted nearly one billion trees in california. >> that's correct. >> reporter: they can be this precise because their plane is equipped with state-of-the-art lasers that scanned 15 acres of forest every second. it's like having x-ray vision that produces these first-of- their-kind 3d images of the health of every single tree in the forest. the red areas on

tha' next.. weather talent appears at wx center with generic >> axelrod: we end tonight with >> axelrodwe end tonight with a salute to a pair of determined young ladies. chip reid tells us they've been saluting american heroes and their families for years. >> reporter: 10 years ago, rachel okun, then 10, and her sister, kelsi, who was eight, told their parents they had a big idea. they wanted to say thank you to the troops in iraq and afghanistan by offering scholarships to their spouses and children. with some parental assistance, the precocious girls created their own charity called t.h.a.n.k.s. usa, and soon they were online asking for money. in 2009, when cbs news paid a visit, t.h.a.n.k.s. usa had raised a stunning $5 million. >> and i began seeing that really any person can make a difference, and what you give out to the world you get back 10 times, you know, fold. >> reporter: now, rachelle is in college, kelsi is a high school senior, and t.h.a.n.k.s. usa is still going strong. how much money have you raised so far? >> we just cleared the $10 million mark. >> reporter: $10 milli

i'm jim axelrod. with the first votes now set to be cast in a little more than six weeks, the democratic candidates for president are getting ready for their third debate. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will take the stage tonight in manchester, new hampshire, but the campaigns have been battling each other all day. clinton aides accused sanders' staff irs of stealing information about their strategy during a data breach. the democratic national committee punished sanders by cutting off access to its database for two days. julianna goldman is in manchester to sort it all out. >> reporter: with one side charging theft and the other alleging favoritism, both campaigns set the stage for what could be a fiery debate. >> obviously, it was totally unethical to steal our data. >> reporter: clinton campaign manager rooby mook said they still don't know if the sanders campaign kept the voter data they accessed earlier this week. >> they've now agreed to have an independent odd toit make sure they no longer

. >> axelrod: good evening. scott's off tonight. i'm jim axelrod. survivors of the deadly storms in the south spent this christmas day cleaning up wreckage and giving thanks just to be alive. unusually warm weather spawned an outbreak of tornadoes wednesday that killed at least 14 people, seven in mississippi, six in tennessee, and one in arkansas. a view from above arbland, mississippi, shows some of the homes that were blown to pieces, these with their roofs torn clean off, others completely flattened. mark strassmann is in disaster zone. >> reporter: this hilltop neighborhood was hit hard by the twister that skipped across hole some homes here were badly damaged. others are completely gone. >> this is bad. this is really bad. >> reporter: this woman came home to no sign of christmas joy. >> this is where i used to live and it's gone. >> reporter: the house she shared with her husband, son, and daughter for the past nine years is scattered among a grove of shattered trees. her 35-year-old son was the only one home when the tornado hit. he's hospit

>> axelrod: the california terror suspects. why did they do it? isis now says the couple who killed 14 peems were members of their caliphate. the gap between what chicago police documents say and what the video shows in the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. sex trafficking, a growing problem, and in one american city it's been a family business. >> i don't think people really realized how big it was until just recently. >> axelrod: get ready, a series of storms is taking aim at the northwest, bringing flooding rains, powerful wind, and host mountain snow. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the broadcast. early this morning, the f.b.i. raided a home in riverside, california, right next door to where the family of syed farook used to live. while federal agents won't say yet what they found, isis now claims farook and his 29-year-old pakistani-born wife tashfeen malik were "soldiers of the caliphate." the couple died in a shoot-out with police after t

>> axelrod: marlie, thank you very much. it has now been more than six months since there has been any word from the leader of isis, abu bakr al-baghdadi. while his location remains a mystery, tonight it appears he has broken his silence. in london, here's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: reclusive isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi, seen here in july of 2014, released a 24-minute audio message today, where he vowed that russia and u.s.-led air-strikes would only make the islamic state tougher. in the recording he said, and he taunted the united states for not putting boots on the ground. but for as bold as baghdadi's message was, for the first time, he admitted isis had suffered serious setbacks on the battlefield. those losses were documented in a report this week by a leading conflict-monitoring group. they say islamic state lost as much as 14% of their territory in 2015. just last month, u.s.-backed iraqi forces pushed isis out of the town of sinjar. this week, iraqi troops advanced on the isis-held city of ramadi. the gro

i'm jim axelrod. the bodies of three more storm victims were found today in mississippi and alabama, the 16th, 17th, and 18th people killed this week by tornadoes that swept across the south. in alabama, where another twister touched down christmas night, nearly 200 roads are closed due to flooding, and the threat of extreme weather is not over yet. the south central u.s. faces everything from more tornadoes to blizzard conditions while part of the midwest and northeast could finally get their first real taste of winter early next week. we begin tonight with mark strassmann in mississippi. >> yeah, you can't live like that, sweetheart. >> reporter: kenya williams is both heartbroken and thankful. her brick home since childhood has lost its roof and half its walls but she has perspective. 10 mississippi residents were killed by the christmas week tornadoes. six of them were her neighbors. >> my 72-year-old blind, disabled dad was in this house when the tornado hit. so for him to come out with just a bu

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for scott pelley i'm jim axelrod in new york.at cbs news, merry christmas, and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:00, as a shootout at a bart station, a man opens fire, hitting a police officer. >> plus, a coming man getting involved after families in the east bay say they are getting their mail late or not at all. >> but we begin with the weather, a freeze warning for parts of the bay area. good evening, and merry christmas! i'm brian hackney. >> thanks for joining us. i'm betty yu. ken and veronica are off tonight. >>> let's get over to chief meteorologist paul deanno. >> tell you what, it's going to be cold tonight. it was chilly throughout the day. did you know it was a white christmas about 10 miles east of downtown san jose. take a peek. mount hamilton folks up there got an inch of snow at 4,000 feet of elevation. the snow stuck overnight and look at that! it was a white christmas in parts of santa

jim. >> axelrod: marlie, thank you. now to the story of a bmw on a california highway-- or perhaps more accurately, a "beamer." the metal beam apparently fell off the back of the truck directly in front of this bmw and crashed right through the windshield. the driver escaped with only a scratch apparently from the beam grazing his elbow. while we're on the subject of hard-to-believe pictures, check out 11-year-old sen show-lin from china. he skip-roped 110 times in 30 seconds and that officially makes him the fastest rope skipper in the world. so fast, in fact, the judges had to rewatch his performance in slow motion, just to be able to get an accurate count. still ahead-- snow drought. a city famous for brutal winters and mountains of snow has neither.. making it really hard to book the flight you want. luckily, there's a better way... with the capital one venture card. with venture, you'll earn unlimited double miles on every purchase, every day. and when you're ready to travel, just book the flight you want, on any a

>> axelrod: the death toll keeps rising following those south. millions are in the path of the next round of storms. a family's desperate escape from a raging wildfire. it's the day after christmas, and fedex is still scrambling to deliver delayed presents. fight and flight-- the self-defense class training people what to do when a gunman opens fire. >> if you have absolutely no choice, then we get into fighting and what we train six days a week. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." i'm jim axelrod. victims were found today in mississippi and alabama, the 16th, 17th, and 18th people killed this week by tornadoes that swept across the south. in alabama, where another twister touched down christmas night, nearly 200 roads are closed due to flooding, and the threat of extreme weather is not over yet. the south central u.s. faces everything from more tornadoes to blizzard conditions while part of the midwest and northeast could finally get their first real taste of winter early next week. we begin tonight with mark strassmann i

i'm jim axelrod. and this is our western edition. weeks of intense international diplomacy have produced an historic agreement that targets climate change. in paris today, nearly 200 countries reached this agreement today in paris to cut greenhouse gas emissions. weeks of what will likely be the warmest year on record in a city still on edge from last month's terror attacks. at the eiffel tower today, police allowed a protest from environmentalists who say the deal doesn't go far enough. at the white house this evening, president obama said the agreement could be a turning point for the world. here's mark phillips. >> reporter: it took a day longer than planned and the intent of the deal still has to be turned into action, but when french foreign minister laurent fabius brought down his gavel, ( cheers and applause ) it confirmed there was a long- elusive deal to limit how much the earth will be allowed to heat up. delegates can be up the past two nights pulling the deal together, and it had taken some arm twisting, not least by u.s.