i'm carissa lawson in new york.ere, and as we bid farewell to 2024, our cbs news colleagues both here and abroad look ahead to what we can expect in 2025. >> reporter: this is holly williams. after more than a thousand days of war, there are signs ukraine is running short of manpower. russia is capitalizing, seizing territory faster this year than it's done since 2022. and terrorizing ukrainians with cheaply produced glide bombs, old soviet-era ammunition retrofitted with wings and gps. we spoke withcolonel maxim balagura this past fall, a special forces commander in ukraine's state guard. have the glide bombs changed the trajectory of this war? "at the moment, they're the biggest threat," he told us. "they're sapping the motivation of our soldiers to win." ukrainians fought back in august with the biggest foreign incursion into russian territory since world war ii. but in october, we found the mood in kyiv gloomy and anxious. ukrainians told us they fear that if donald trump won the u.s. election, he'd stop the sup

i'm carissa lawson in new york. "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. a wildfire whipped by extreme winds is sweeping through a los angeles neighborhood. offduty firefighters are being called back to help fight the blaze. >>> president-elect donald trump won't rule out using the u.s. military to take control of the panama canal and greenland. >>> and jimmy carter's state funeral moves to washington after observances in his native georgia. >>> dangerous and unprecedented. that's how officials in southern california are describing powerful santa ana winds fueling a ferocious fire that's burning out of control. roaring wind gusts as high as 100 miles per hour are creating blowtorch-like conditions. tens of thousands of people throughout the region are being told to evacuate. some have abandoned their cars in heavy traffic and left on foot. the wildfire broke out tuesday and quickly exploded into an inferno in pacific palisades. that's a neighborhood of multimillion-dollar homes in west los angeles. cbs' jonatha

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carissa lawson has our money watch report. >> wall street's 2024 blockbuster gains closed out the yearnote, hitting tech the hardest. the dow lost 29 points. the tech heavy nasdaq dropped 175. and the s&p 500 lost 25. despite stocks closing low on new year's eve in a disappointing december, 2024 and 2023 were the best two years of stock caps in a quarter century. the s&p gained more than 23% in 2024 after rising 24% in 2023. >>> fugitive crypto king do kwon is now in the hands of the fbi to answer to charges of duping investors out of $40 billion. montenegro expedited the crypto currency mogul to the united states on tuesday. kwon cofounded terra-form labs. and u.s. prosecutors claim he misled investors about the stability of his digital tokens. he was arrested in montenegro last march while attempting to board a flight using a fake passport. >>> dartmouth men's basketball players have withdrawn their petition to unionize, which would have made history. in withdrawing the petition the service employees international union, local 560, which represents the players, decided not to gamble