elaine? >> randall pinkston in washington, thank you. >>> on capitol hill today, senate democrats are expected to offer republicans a compromise plan to extend the payroll tax cut. if no deal is reached, the popular tax cut will expire on december 31st. >>> the u.s. postal service to announce major service cuts today with fewer americans using the mail and revenues declining, the postal service could default this month on a $5.5 billion for retiree health benefits. to trim costs, the agency plans to close half of its 500 mail processing centers next spring that will slow first class service and essentially cancel next day delivery. postal officials say the cuts will save more than $3 billion but it's far from enough. the service is expected to lose $14 billion next year. >>> overseas. an international conference on the future of afghanistan begins today in germany. leaders from more than 100 countries, including the u.s., have gathered in bond. they will pledge to continue supporting afghanis

we rushed elaine quijano to blacksburg, virginia, and she is there tonight. elaine? >> reporter: scott, officials here are in mourning tonight. this is the first time a virginia tech campus police officer has been killed in the line of duty. virginia tech's campus was on lockdown and high alert for more than four hours. swat teams and heavily armed police swept into campus buildings and ordered students to stay indoors. >> do not leave this room until you're told. do you understand? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: it started when a gunman approached a campus police officer conducting a traffic stop. witnesses say the gunman immediately fled. freshman juliette fielding saw what happened next. >> then the police pulled up and they opened his car door and when they opened it he just fell out towards the ground-- i'm sorry-- and i could see his face and it was covered in blood-- i don't know if the blood was coming from his head or his face exactly-- and then they immediately started reviving him. >> reporter: police found another wounded person nearby. that person, who later

elaine quijano is on the scene. for the first time, the e.p.a. links the oil and gas drilling method calling fracking to the pollution of groundwater. >> right now i don't know if i'm poisoning my family or if i'm not. >> pelley: and jim axelrod on a legacy of the war in iraq. the simple tool that saved thousands of american lives. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight, a u.s. official tells cbs news there is "high confidence" that a captured american aircraft shown on iranian television is, in fact, one of this country's most sophisticated spy planes. the pentagon declined to comment but the american official says analysis of the video now confirms the r. areq.-170 unmanned drone was captured. we asked bob orr to bring us up to date. >> reporter: the aircraft presented as the unmanned u.s. surveillance drone appeared to be nearly intact, though the undercarriage was obscured by propropaganda banners draped bew the wings. the message on the left proclaimed "america cannot do

and detailed records elaborate been following marcos every move for money thanks elaine thanks elaine. the spies what's a six story building a few blocks from her feet and full of surveillance equipment and disguises the end. i thank you thank you i i i . the spies had given marco and his friends code names. they knew where marco lived. what he ate. when he slept. they knew everything about him. who would spend so much time and money to follow a priest and a handful of young activists. america decides to go to the press. he contacted mundo crew i know ward winning journalist out loud repubblica one of proof major newspapers and i think this. is the espionage against father. equal. is typical of a military intelligence operation. daddy's million miles they call it was observation vigilance and pursuit stimulus this term refers to a very strict spy operations if you know him we study we said well then it can cover twenty four hours or an entire day made us all set up in a sauna the subject is followed drink all their waking hours. just has been. going through we came across a man named

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elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: ahead, quarterback tim tebow's winning record on the line. that story is next. >> mitchell: in texas they never saw it coming. take a look, an unmanned, runaway electric cart that sped across the field at cowboy stadium after a high school football game last night. the cart bowled over several people standing at mid-field, actually tumbling the winning coach into the passenger's seat. a worker was finally able to jump in and stop the cart. several people were injured. in denver, the hometown broncos battling to make the nfl playoffs for the first time in five years took on the formidable new england patriots today. but the broncos have their own big weapon, the arm, legs and face of remarkable young quarterback tim tebow. tony guida has more. >> reporter: tim tebow took the field this afternoon on the wings of an improbable winning streak and a prayer for it to continue. >> the biggest thing for us and our team is we continue to believe. >> tebow. >> faith or fate or opposition foulups have produced a mind-bending string of last-second

. >> if you're a man ever fan of musical theatre, you've probably heard of elaine paige. >> the first lady of the london stage is back on broadway playing a baudy character that is not such a stretch from her own life. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: broadway's beautiful girls are back in a star-studded revival about heartbreak and hard knocks. elaine bank plays carlotta, an aging movie star who has weathered tough times. >> she knows, she's a survivor. she survived it all. she can genuinely stand there and say i'm still here. >> reporter: the veteran actress says she identifies with carlotta. all you have great highs and great lows. >> it means a lot to me because in my own way, i've been through some of that. >> it is a small part use for performer used to carrying the whole show but she doesn't pass up a chance to do what she loves. >> it changes the sense of priorities. you are never, ever going to be quite the same again. >> at first paige admits she had reservations about sharing the broad light with big names like bernadette peters. >> i thought all of those divas togethe

russ. >> mitchell: elaine quijano, thank you. turning overseas now, u.s. forces are scheduled to be out of iraqi by the end of the month, but a violent attack earlier this week in the heart of baghdad is raising questions about whether iraqi forces will be up to the job of maintaining security. our jim axelrod is in baghdad tonight. jim, good evening. let me ask you, first of all, obviously, this car bomb earlier this week a cause of great concern. even more so now that iraq's prime minister maliki believes it was an attempt to his life. what can you tell bus that? >> reporter: russ, this is actually the third version of an explanation for the car bomb. frankly, we don't know which, if any to believe. but whatever the reason, the car bomb is especially alarming because of where it happened. the green zone, that four-square-mile area where the u.s. embassy is located. for years it's been thought of as the safest part of the city. the fact that somebody could actually get a car bomb inside the green zone and detonate it cast doubt on the ability of the iraqi

elaine, cbs news, new york. >>> pot prices getting higher in california. there's some debate oz to why. the nonprofit california watch says the federal crackdown on dispensaries is driving prices up. as growers lay low. a local activist we spoke to said prices aren't so much rising as stabilizing. and he says there's a bit more behind this year's smaller crop sizes. namely the weather. >> between the wet weather that is harvest season that caused a lot of mold and mildew and the federal crackdown that the prices stopped going down. >> california watch says prices in some areas are up by as much as 40%. >> when american astronauts fly into outer space again, they will do so in vehicles developed by private companies, not nasa. and one of them doesn't even need a launch pad. paul allen, the billionaire cofounder of microsoft has a plan to build the world's largest airplane and use it to launch rocket ships into earth ice orbit. the craft will be powered by six boeing 747 engines and have a wingspan of 385 feet, which is nearly double that of a 747. >> the wi

elaine tejano reports, as they want to get especially tough on texting. >> reporter: the ntsb has been investigating distracted driving for 10 years, but it was this deadly crash last year in missouri that finally pushed the board to make today's recommendation. investigators say a 19-year-old driving a pickup truck exchanged 11 text messages in the 11 minutes before hitting another vehicle. he and a 16-year-old were killed. 38 others were hurt in the chain reaction collision that followed. the ntsb chairman-- >> it's about changing attitudes and changing the level of acceptance. >> reporter: rules and enforcement to stop distracted driving vary widely. 35 states currently ban all drivers from text messaging. just nine states ban the use of handheld cell phones. >> no text, no tweet, and no post is worth a human life. >> reporter: some places like some set county, new jersey have made distracted driving a top priority. >> there's a warning program in somerset county for distracted driving. >> reporter: distracted drivers are required to watch an online video and take a test or pay a $1

elaine quijano, cbs news, tampa, florida. >> according to cnn the average foreclosure from beginning to end now takes about 674 days to complete on average. four years ago, before the housing market collapsed, it took 253 days. >>> okay, time for a break and olga is up next with your holiday forecast. one you'd like to hear. >>> that's right. if you have some plans for new year's eve, and new year's day, it looks like the weather is going to cooperate with you but i'm tracking a cold blast that is definitely headed our way. i'll let you know how cold it's going to get and how soon we could see that change when 9news now continues. >>> the major fire on board a dry docked russian nuclear submarine that burned for nearly a day was finally extinguished this morning. the fire broke out yesterday at a shipyard near major russian port city. mark phillips has more. >> reporter: officials have said the fire which began yesterday around the dry dock russian submarine has been brought under control. but not before injuring nine people and stranding several others inside. earlier fears that the

elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: like millions of beer drinkers in america, john troegner and hisnger brother chris discovered in college they really enjoyed beer. >> not just drinking the beer, but what is behind the beer, the history in the beer and where these flavors came from and where we thought we could take them. >> reporter: so they started their own brewery in harrisburg, pennsylvania. they played it safe, making beers based on business plans. but safe didn't sell. >> we were about five years into it. we was almost like if we're going to go down, let's have fun doing it, so we started doing beers that we really loved. we weren't thinking about what would sell well and we started having fun. >> reporter: that saved them. their customers loved the new beers and, by 2008, they had reached a tipping point. >> we couldn't make more beer but we had the orders coming in. >> reporter: so at the height of the recession, troegs decided to expand. they hired sales reps and have watched their market grow since. now they are moving their award-winning brewery into a plant three times

huge development on the new free agent landscape the league vetoing a trade which would have sent elaine's player chris paul to this star studded los angeles lakers the hornets are currently owned by the league itself and the n.b.a. took up twenty to intervene in a developing three team trade citing quote basketball reasons to move what if seen the twenty six year old head to california in exchange for big man lamar dorm power which saw houston were also in on the deal and would have snagged a sore from the hornets in return for three players and their twenty twelve first round draft pick pulse contract expires next summer and could legally move them. russia have claimed first podium or the season that they want silver in the manse ten kilometer sprint race at the second stage of the world cup in hof it's an australia that russian was flawless and both shooting ranges but the last nine seconds took your one back man who took gold this swede was also perfect when shooting. switzerland finished nine hundred seconds behind the winner and completely support him his rifle also hit all the targe

elaine quijano, cbs news, tampa, florida. >> glor: as we count down to 2012, the south pacific nationf samoa will get there much earlier. at midnight, samoa which l switch which side of the international dateline it falls on. that puts it into a closer time zone to key trading partners like australia but it means it will skip friday and go right to saturday. its neighbor, american samoa, will not make that change. if you think the time to get in shape has passed you by, meet if you think the time to get in shape has passed you by, meet the tigerettes, staying fit in their 70s. that story is next. epic proportion.king onf i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, and i won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. i'm forty eight years-old, i love to swim, and i love to walk outside. osteo bi-flex has really helped my knees. osteo bi-flex has been incredible for me, and i swear by it. [

elaine, thank you very much. all of this had us thinking today about other transportation mishaps linked to distractions from high-tech devices. listen to these. in 2008, a head-on collision of two trains in california killed 25 people. an engineer was texting and mess add stop signal. in 2009, a northwest airlines flight from dallas overshot minneapolis by 100 miles because the pilots were on their laptops. and in 2010, two tourists were killed when a tug boat hit a tour boat on the delaware river. the tug boat's mate was on his cell phone and his computer. jerry sandusky vowed today that he will fight charges that he sexually abused ten young boys while he was an assistant coach at penn state. there was supposed to be a pretrial hearing today with sandusky facing his accusers, but it ended before it began, leaving the lawyers to make their arguments on the courthouse steps. armen keteyian is in bellefonte, pennsylvania tonight. armen? >> reporter: good evening, scott. today was the first time we expected to hea

elaine coleman was just 47 years old.any years, she lived in this house in the kingman park section of northeast. she worked hard as a cashier so her daughter could graduate from penn state with a communications degree. >> my mom, she was happy in life, you know. she just deserved the happiness she worked so hard for. it's painful. we were joined at the hip. when i lost my mom, i lost a part of me. i don't know how to function. we talk every single morning. i wake up and wait for that phone call or text message and it doesn't come. it's painful. >> reporter: making a plea tonight, she says she wants the killer to come forward. she says she wants justice for her mom. i'm pat collins, news 4 washington. >>> $25,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest in this case. >>> jewelers in the so-called robo call trial started deliberating the case. they have to decide if bob ehrlich is guilty. suppressing african-american voter turnout with a robo call to help his chances. the charges carry five year prison sentences. del

cu ---segun la auditra estatal de california, elaine howle...pervision en proyectos de edificacion de escuelas publicas, en cuanto a seguridad estructural y ssmica, ha sido ineficaz y en muchos casos, ni siquiera fue terminada. ---la funcionaria acusa al departamento de arquitectura estatal, de no proporcionar un nivel aceptable de supervision, y agrega que en algunos casos se contrataron a inspectores de construccin, que no habian recibido la capacitacion adecuada y algunos no habian aprobado los examenes estatales necesarios para fungir sus puestos. ---hasta diciembre de 2011, habia 16 mil 400 proyectos sin certificacion. stop for open roll open cu ---en noviembre, dos activistas a favor de la acta de los sueÑos de california viajaron a alabama para manifestarse contra la ley anti- inmigrante de ese estado y terminaron presos.. ---carlos botifoll nos tiene la historia.. take pkg cu ---en una mesa redonda reciente con medios hispanos, el presidente barack obama, reconoci fallas en el sistema migratorio actual ... take vo ....y aseguro que exami

a florida couple tried to do the right thing as they were falling on hard times but as elaine quijano explains the bank got in their way. >> reporter: if you're wondering why the real estate market has been slow to heal, listen to what the rileys went through to try to keep their house in tampa. what is the process been like for you? >> stressful. chaotic. i mean it's a lot of those kinds of words come to mind. >> reporter: tim riley was laid off from his i. t. job in 2009. robin riley's salary was not enough to cover their $3,000 monthly payment. so they asked their lendor, bank of america to lower their interest rates. >> i really thought you know interest rates has come down so much. people having so much difficulty. they should welcome someone that is willing to make the payments. >> reporter: he was told he couldn't get help unless he fell behind on his payments. so in 2009, tim riley stopped paying his mortgage. what's followed has been a two year battle with bank bureaucracy that the rileys chronicled in this thick binder. >> october, barbara signed steve, nancy passed it off t

elaine is passionate about preventing cancer. she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had had surgery. she had no idea of being overweight could have put her at risk. >> it was something that was a real shock to me. i managed to do that through diet and lifestyle changes. i did more exercise, i changed the ideas and the practices. got weight is one of the four most significant lifestyle risks when it comes to cancer. the biggest danger of all is smoking that causes 19% of all cancers. it can also lead to other cancers like liver and kidney cancer. having a poor diet causes 9% of cancers including stomach cancer, lung cancer, and oral cancer. being overweight is responsible for 5% of cancer cases. among them, breast cancer, cancer of the uterus and bowels. weight is a more significant risk for women because that plays a significant part in breast cancer, more so than alcohol. furman, missing out on fruits and vegetables is the biggest risk after smoking. a lot of cancer is caused by age and family history, so however healthy you

. >> reporter: a special moment for chris and her daughter elaine. >> good girl. >> reporter: it wasn't always happy times in fredericksburg, virginia. their dog ran away eight years ago. >> it's an awful feeling when you let your dog out and they don't show up for breakfast ten minutes later. it's a sickening feeling. >> reporter: they put up flyers and checked shelters. >> after awhile, the acceptance kicks in. the dog is not going to come back. >> reporter: a woman found the dog 2700 miles away from home. animal control found a microchip inside her and called the family with the good news. >> i thought somebody was playing a joke on me that knew me from years past. two or three hours later, we found out it wasn't a joke. she was flown from sacramento to jfk. we picked her up in new york. >> it's the best christmas present, ever. >> reporter: this family learned a lesson, walk your dogs on a leash and put my kicrochips in r pets. >> that's the key. we would not be here with her if we did not put in the microchip. >> reporter: she's friendly and loves the doggie biscuits. i tell you on

marshall man against far as elaine marshall was the army's first real he story he was the head of the history department for world war two one thing he noticed is that in most units only one in four people tried to kill the enemy. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became consciences objectors and there was a lot of once he reported that there was a lot of people coming out saying yeah you know that was my experience i just couldn't kill. so the army decided well that's not good so the army said ok how do we help them overcome this. and they said let's condition people so the idea is reflexive fire training. or some other torn apart. and just conditioning conditioning conditioning charge to come out of the. cave shooting sure to. do. what they want people to do because they're so trained they just. dead all right where is the next target and that's good it becomes muscle memory you don't think about it you just do it. and you raise an issue as fast as you can. so. firing rates went up to like fifty to sixty percent during the korean war as they intro

elaine brown i heard say a little while ago that she lived in atlanta, and we always talk about how great atlantic is doing, but we do not own nothing in atlanta. they look like they are doing good, they have the cosmetic liberation, right? cosmetic change, cosmetic liberation, but when you look at who owns most of the city, right? who is in control of the power in the city? it may be marginally better for black votes in some other places, but there are still fundamental issues with the school system. look at the endowment of emory compared to some of the black universities and colleges in atlanta. entrepreneurship is a big part of it. i did not understand and nobody told me what is involved with buying your own home until i was in my second law school, where is the my counterparts, the white students i was in class with, they had had that information coming up. it was just second nature. i asked the guy across the hall from me what his folks did. but told him my mom was a nurse and my dad was a teacher, a soldier before. he said his father was the deputy prime minister of jordan. i was l

he'd taken a yemeni police delegation on a tour of elaine's and other hotspots. was working them, trying to get unfettered access to al quso and what he knew. but then he was told he wouldn't be allowed to return to yemen. ambassador bodine denied his visa. >> i mean, john was not rational on the topic of ambassador barbara bodine. i mean, "livid" would be putting it mildly. i mean, one can't forget that... that john was... he was very american, but he was also very irish. >> interviewer: and that means? >> that means when he got hot, he got hot. and he was hot; there's no question about it. i think he felt that... that she was on the wrong side. >> narrator: ambassador bodine would not grant frontline's request for an interview. she was quoted in the "new yorker" magazine: "the idea that john or his people or the fbi were somehow barred from doing their job is insulting to the us government, which was working on al qaeda before john ever showed up. this is all my embassy did for ten months." for weeks, the ambassador had been making the case against o'neill, eve

. >> reporter: a special moment for chris and her daughter elaine. >> good girl. >> reporter: it wasn't always happy times in virginia. their four-legged friend ran away from home eight years ago. >> is it an awful feeling when you let your dog out and they don't show up for breakfast ten minutes later. >> iter the family searched the neighborhood and checked animal shelters and put up fliers. >> after a while the acceptance kicks in that the dog is not going to come back. >> reporter: last week a woman found petunia in yuba city, california. look at the map. 2700 miles away from home. animal control found a microchip inside her and they called the pruitts with the good news. >> i thought somebody was playing a joke on me that knew me from years past. and two or three ours later, we found out it wasn't a joke. >> reporter: she returned home a couple days ago in perfect health. >> she was flown from sacramento to jfk and then we picked her up in new york. >> it's best christmas present ever. >> reporter: a family learned a lesson, walk your dogs on a leash and put microchips in your pets

an agreement with officials to put an end to the simulate a never ending lockout for the likes of elaine's point guard chris paul dribbling skills college first and just can't wait to get back to action. you know i would be the happiest person in a were i know just to be back in the gym going to have to work with. cold my teammates so i'm just happy to be back in the back of the court. so it's great to be back in the gym it's great for these doors to be a back open to discover come back and here. we spend so many hours in here once you separate right on the court it just kind of brings you back home so. today was a really good day just to kind of get that feeling back. here working hard in the gym and seeing scene because i'm seen in a while it was it was a good day. and let's enjoy the beauty of winter sport the camera reagents famous arrow so the three male free right competition won the snowboarding event while a competitor on the cabbage dominates it and skating it when it and plans of five other great ladies and i think it's a spectacle to watch. that's ok that's for today. with more

elaine shrake all saw it first hand.was the script supervisor on the movie who helped marilyn with her lines. >> is the memorabilia still here? >> yes. i still remember. >> reporter: now after all that time, elaine returns to the very studios where both movies were made. they would say that marilyn was often late, very insecure and would forget her lines. >> yes. >> all true? >> all true. >> how did sir lawrence olivea react? >> well, i think he was patient isht, certainly at the start. and he really did try to jolly her along. but, i mean, after all, she was the coproducer as well as himself. you know, he was thinking, well, it's her money going as well as anybody else's. she said to me one day, she said, oh, well, you're on his side. i said, we're not on anybody's side, marilyn. we're all here to make a picture. >> from the beginning, she felt as though he was patronizing her. then he said to her, don't worry about acting, just be sexy. and she was incredibly offended. >> but the real movie says the source of tension w

of course, elaine forbes and the finance division who are printing money for this project. lastly, i wanted to thank the port's executive director for her vision, her understanding and appreciation of the port's role in the fabric of the city. she get a firm hand on the wheel even in stormy weather and with your vote today, we will bring this project in safely. with that, i'm going to introduce diane, who is going to talk about ceqa. after diane, kim will talk about how the construction is going to take place and when. >> good morning. i am with the waterfront planning unit within the planning and development division. i do not have any slides, unfortunately, but i do have to provide for you just a brief presentation on the environmental impacts report that was certified last night by the planning commission. on that basis, we have prepared in your pack it findings about the information in the ceqa documents. the purpose for you, as the decision makers for this project, is to summarize the information in the eir that is relevant to the project before you for approval. to id

. >> 8 month old elaine would never have survived without her keeper, rosa. she lost her mother when workers chase them away from a plantation. she was brought to this country, and for the first few months was very ill. it is not clear whether her mother is still alive. the baby orangutan it depends on rosa for care. >> she easily cries when i leave. i need to always be close to her. >> 20 years ago, most of the orangutans that were brought to this country were saved from people's homes. stop when there was rescued from the circus. but recently, a disturbing trend. more and more of them brought here have come from palm oil plantation. environmentalists say they aren't urgent need of being rescued because they face being injured -- they are in urgent need of being rescued because they face been injured or killed near the plantations. >> 4 miles on end, all you can see are all -- oil trees. >> we ask some palm oil plantation workers whether they had heard about the are renting killings. all of them denied any knowledge of the horrific acts. but finally, one of

elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, jeff and erica. virginia state police are heading up the investigation still trying to determine if there was a link between the shooter and the officer who was killed. they haven't yet identified the gunman but we do know more about what happened. >> keep hands up. >> it was just after 12:30 when students got word of a gunman on campus. heavily armed police including s.w.a.t. teams flooded buildings as the campus went into lockdown. >> do not leave this room until you're told. do you understand? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: about 20 minutes earlier campus police officer deriek crouse has in the middle of a traffic stop in a school parking lot. officials say that's when the gunman walked up and shot officer crouse, killing him. >> i was walking to the sidewalk to go home to my dorm. >> reporter: freshman juliet fielding was living a nearby building and saw what happened when police opened officer crouse's patrol car door. >> the officer in the driver's seat fell out on to the ground and from what i saw

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this is elaine another homeowner thanks for being here. >> you are welcome. >> reporter: your house is over there says the peace house. >> correct. >> reporter: so what is your inspiration to do it peace and actually do you do this every year or change up the theme? >> i do it every year. this is my 5th year here. and i moved on the block to decorate and to be a part of this miracle because it made me so happy when i would come home. if i needed cheer i would come down the street. when i bought a house i said there's no way there's going to be a house open on the street and when it was my friend and i when we were here we are like what will we decorate and she said peace because i'm teacher and talk about that with my students. next part is how to decorate for peace with lights. that's the fun thing and every year i try to find something new to do with that. so. >> reporter: and thank you and you know what, your display i love it. peace on earth because i saw santa this year and you might think i am too sold but i told santa i want peace on earth and we have lots of santas so your disp

elaine. hello and welcome to technology update as you can see from the decorations at this department store in central moscow it's that time of year again now this artificial tree there's hardly any resemblance to the aromatic conifers of my childhood new materials are replacing natural and traditional ones left and right and that's especially true with carbon fibers which are increasingly finding their way into our latest gadgets and playthings. from carbon fiber have actually been around for decades recreation like golf and boating or everyday things like cell phones watches in cars carbon fiber products are all around us. and here at must have each a refurbished old car plant russia is certainly not one to be left out of the push to develop the latest generation of carbon fiber materials just this past month a european aerospace delegation came to moscow to check out the opening of compazine new production complex the plant is expected to become the country's largest carbon fiber based tex