chris livesay, cbs news, italy. >>> the iran-backed houthi rebels show no signs of letting up its attacks on israel despite israel's latest retaliation. those are air-raid sirens sounding for the fifth night of the last eight across central israel including in tel aviv. the idf says the missile was intercepted. now, that comes hours after israel carried out air strikes on multiple houthi targets across yemen including ports, power stations, and the sunau international airport. the head of the world health organization says he was about to board a plane when the airport came under attack. by the way, he's in yemen to negotiate the release of u.n. staffers who are being held hostage by the houthis. israel says it was unaware he was at the airport at the time. >>> well, back home there's some troubling news about bird flu. the cdc says samples from the first person in the u.s. to become severely ill from infected poultry in louisiana shows the virus mutated in a way that may help it bind to cells in the upper airways of humans. a similar case was seen in a teenager in canada who became criti

cbs's chris livesay is monitoring developments from italy. s, any other factors that may have been at play here? >> reporter: well, good evening, jericka. azerbaijan airlines is reportedly saying that they have recovered the plane's flight data recorder, and that the plane had to be rerouted after take off due to bad weather. cell phone video recorded the final moments of the commercial flight. in seconds, smoke turned to flames, about 2 miles outside the kazakh city of aktau. rescuers dragged survivors from what's left of the passenger jet, now split in two and flipped upside down. in this remote central asian city off the caspian sea, the ground strewn with wreckage and the dead. this cell phone footage posted online shows passengers on board the plane before the crash. it appears there is damage to the wing and oxygen masks in use. azerbaijan airlines said the embraer 190 jet on route from baku to grozny, russia, was attempting to make an emergency landing. en route to make an emergency landing. watchdog said it was after the jet collided w

chris livesay, cbs news, rome. >> norah: big news tonight about tiktok.appeals court today upheld a new federal law that threatens to shut down tiktok next month. the d.c. panel said congress acted properly when it passed legislation requiring tiktok to separate itself from its china-based owner bytedance or face a ban in the united states. cbs's scott macfarlane has been covering this from the very beginning. all right, scott, let's explain this. what is tiktok saying? >> scott: another legal challenge is coming. they say they are going to go dark in the u.s. january 19th unless the supreme court intervenes and changes things. the company is a behemoth, an estimated 170 million american users, but congress passed a law requiring tiktok's sale, worried the app's owner has ties to the chinese communist party and concerns it could put americans' data at risk. tiktok challenged, arguing the ban violates the first amendment for its american users and businesses that need the platform, but the appeals court ruled today the national security concerns justify th

it dates back centuries, and as cbs's chris livesay reports, the vatican and rome have been preparings moment. >> reporter: with a few knocks, the doors of st. peter's basilica swung open for pope francis this evening, ushering the world's roman catholics into christmas and the start of a jubilee year. a once-every-25-year tradition, when the faithful make pilgrimages to this church. soaring 450 feet into the sky, it is the tallest in the world. and with roots dating back more than 1600 years, it's also one of the oldest. what better time to dust it off? with renovations on the outside meant to reflect spiritual renewal on the inside, says father enzo fortunato. but it is sort of a metaphor. >> yes, metaphor. is exactly the word -- >> reporter: for the kind of internal restoration? >> yes. metaphor. yes. >> reporter: one of the biggest restorations was of bernini's masterpiece, the baldachin. for the first 250 yars, it has been restored. >> before, you have to imagine, i think, it was very black. and now we can admire the gold. >> reporter: the canopy sits atop the tomb of none other

>> jericka: chris livesay in italy for us tonight, thank you.orters covering the war in gaza became part of the story when an israeli air strike near a hospital in gaza city killed five palestinian journalists overnight. that's according to hamas officials on the ground. israel says they were militants posing as reporters. according to the committee to protect journalists, at least 11 media workers have been killed in gaza, the west bank, israel, and lebanon since the war began. president-elect donald trump promises repeatedly to begin the latest deportation operation in american history on his first day returning to office. and now his incoming border czar is detailing how that will play out, including what may happen to some of children of undocumented immigrants. we are talking about kids who were born here and are american citizens. cbs's lilia luciano reports. >> reporter: in the new jersey city of englewood, mayor michael j wildes, who is also an immigration attorney, says members of his community are on edge. >> people are very concerned,

chris livesay, cbs news, italy. >>> panama's president says he will not negotiate with president-electns to tackle once in office, including his threat to take control of the crucial central american waterway. cbs' katrina kaufman reports from washington. >> reporter: on a social media site thursday, president-elect donald trump called attention to a news article saying russian president vladimir putin said he is ready for potential talks with trump. as he prepares to return to the oval office, the president-elect has been talking about trade and foreign policy, with his recent focus turning to the panama canal. trump says u.s. ships are being unfairly charged for access to the canal which the u.s. built and ran for decades before turning it over to panama in 1999. >> they haven't treated us fairly. if the principles both moral and legal of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america. >> reporter: on christas day, trump posted a message on social media saying "to the wonderful soldiers of chi

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