george washington builds his first colonial camp on the west point of the hudson river.ington chose this location to stop the british advancement during the revolutionary war. 24 years later, legislation signed by thomas jefferson in 1802, the college was established, devoted to training professional leaders in warfare. now more than 200 years later, today's cadets are well aware of the impressive legacy placed on their shoulders. >> tradition is everything here. it permeates through everything that we do. i mean, the uniform is the same as 1802 when the school opened. it gives us a background and something to draw from in the lives and experiences as cadets. >> since day one, everyone has their heart set on serving the country. it's not something you ever regret. it's something you get hyped about. you get reinspired and remotivated to serve your country. >> it starts with a mission. our mission to educate, train and inspire the corps of cadets so each graduate is a commissioned leader of character. committed to the values of duty, honor and country. and prepared for a

and the captain who safely landed his plane on the hudson river says more needs to be done. >> they have accepted all the cargo carriers from having to comply with these rules. there was provision that the cargo planes must apply for waivers. >> the faa asked an passenger airlines to use to implement those rules. the big vote of confidence in the silicon valley economy and it boosted civic pride. japan's airlines will start nonstop service from san jose to tokyo in april. this could mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in the local economy. >> we can't afford to have executives and their employees sitting in traffic on highway 10122 other regional airports were sitting in airport terminals known for delays due to fog and weather. >> american airlines used to play between san jose and tokyo to stop the flight in 2006. santa fe hasn't had any international overseas service yet. they enable use the new boeing 787 dream liner for the 10 hour flight. >> who do you think is the most disliked player in the nba? the answer might surprise you. at how badly did seth currie the injured his ankle?

down to southern maryland and we have 40 down in ocean city and 43 at the hudson river and near kent island and we are in the mid 30s over most of the state from columbia to rock hall and adding in bellaire. the winds are calm around central maryland and then the southeast side, contributing to the cloud cover, bringing in the moisture, that is bringing in the warmer air because the temperatures are stuck in the 30s for much of the day. we got the sun there, then from the south, they are bringing the temperatures up a bit. it is chilly and into today and tonight, the cold air, bringing in the snow and that moisture in the higher elevations. partly cloudy skies and then moving through on friday and saturday and they will get out of here on sunday. new year's eve and day, partly cloudy skies with no chance of rain for the fireworkses. the south winds on the bay at five to ten and then more at 10 to 16. the clouds will break over the normal, 25 and 52 tomorrow. >> thank you. >>> coming up on eye witness newt as 6:00, a rising star on you tube with a personal battle with cancer and that

benedict arnold said farewell to a young british officer and headed back home along the banks of the hudson river. major general arnold commander of the american fortress of west point had just handed over information vital to the enemy's planned attack of the port. a west point. >> i was going to say west point. >> i used to use those excuses. i really knew it. >> take that from the urchins. >> the movie top gun featuring tom cruise as a navy pilot was a huge hit. >> i feel the need for speed. >> ouch. >> what aircraft did the character fly in top gun. f what did tom cruise fly? >> started with an f. >> just guess. >> a is correct. >> tom cruise tom cat. twol to go. geddesburg one of the bloodyest battles of the entire civil war. >> gettysburg address was delivered the battle site to xhem yat the battle's one year anniversary the battle's one month anniversary the end of the civil war a cemetery dedication. >> most famous speech in u.s. history. the answer is b. i was lukey enough to get to see lincoln's handwritten copy which is in the lincoln bedroom. >> you know who showed me? >> president ob

the first time a definable place in the interior of north america that the map doesn't show the hudson river or long island or cape cod but it shows the south toward reaching border stretching from the st. lawrence river down to the place where the waterway forked. there is an important piece of information and the place where the waterway forecast to the south is the place of the mohawk. this is america's warpath. in the distance is the place where we will meet our enemies. friends is not able for a variety of wars of religion taking place to follow-up on the exploration of that time. it is almost 75 years to come back and penetrate into the lake which he modestly named after himself, lake champlain. the great explore we learned growing up in new york state, he was an explorer by force, not by choice. he was being taken as a willing prisoner by a party of you're on, elgon indians, the iroquois lake down to that place where the mohawks live. the reason they were taking champlain and his french companions was because they had fire power. they could use their fire power. for the first time eve

paving the way for the space shuttle to go to its new home on the hudson river in new york city.he days of blasting off to perform test flights are over for the enterprise. this after nasa retired the shuttle program earlier this year, giving the space shape to different areas of the country. and ownership from nasa to intrepid air and sea space museum and right now it resides at the smithsonian in washington and it will now take a trip to its new home next april and by the way, if you haven't been to the intrepid you've got to get there, phenomenal exhibit to see. former penn state football coach joe paterno hospitalized after he fell. what happened? and the latest on his condition. and forget all those negative stereotypes about pawn shops, they are becoming very popular. more than ever. and it really doesn't have all that much to do with the tougher economy. we'll tell you about it. ♪ ♪ down at the pawn shop for 5 days only, get great holiday deals. like $100 off the 4g lte samsung galaxy tab. or buy one 4g lte samsung stratosphere for $99.99 and get another one free. hurry in

. >> rifkin dumps jacobs' body in the hudson river, but he's careless about the spot he chooses. >> barbara's of hours after he dumped it by firefighters who were training, but for joel, that wasn't even a concern anymore because he was getting emboldened by the fact that nobody was linking him to any of these homicides. >> he was getting good at this. and getting relaxed about it. >> somewhere around the third, fourth or fifth, i'm beginning to, on one level like, okay, there's something going on. i've done this more than once. i keep thinking about it. so, i started going into the bookstores and the libraries, trying to find answers. and one of the books i got at the time was the search for the green river killer. what the book turned out to be was not just reporting on that case, but it became also a how-to. >> i think that joel recognized what he was, and he was trying to relate to it in terms of, you know, like i'm not the only person that's doing this. are you saying you kept things because you read this in the book? >> right. the book said keep things, so i started keeping things. >> i

>> a man has just fallen into the hudson river, which sits next to the trapeze school. thout blinking, jonah and co-instructor paul cannon grabbed rope and other rescue equipment and take off toward the river. >> when we get there, we saw a body floating down the river about 25 or 30 feet out. >> somehow a man, later identified as james cue, has fallen into the river and now appears unconscious and needs saving. a small crowd is building, but nobody seems to be doing anything. with no time to waste, paul jumps in. jonah ties a rope to the edge of the rail and jumps off the eight-foot ledge after him. >> i was scared of jumping in the water. i didn't know what was under there, i didn't know if i was going to impale myself on something. >> i was like, oh, my god, what are they doing? are they crazy? i didn't know what was going to happen. >> by the time jonah and paul get into the water, the victim is nowhere to be found. both trained lifeguards, jonah and paul frantically searched the murky water, knowing they did have much time. >> we both had our heads above water and l

continental 3407, it was a very experienced crew that brought 150 passengers to safety on the hudson river>> sully was exactly what we all want to see in the airline pilot. he's a teacher. he's a... a proficient pilot. he, you know, is a master manager, and he also happened to have a very skilled person sitting in the right seat with him. that mentoring process is... is where a lot of younger pilots gain experience. that's how they learn. in the regional industry, you don't see that today. >> o'brien: it wasn't like you were seeing continental check airmen, or... >> no, not... >> o'brien: ...senior pilots... >> ...at all. >> o'brien: ...coming around, saying, "hey, let me sit down with you and talk to you about how to..." >> no. >> o'brien: "...fly in these conditions." >> no, because that's, you know, that's continental... that's their pilots. that's their pilot group, and then we have colgan. there's a clear distinction. it's split there. >> o'brien: so, as long as you show up when you're supposed to show up for continental, they didn't get in your business. >> continental, as far as my

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resting place for grant granted and selected riverside park in manhattan for cliffs high above the hudson riverin a circular brick mausoleum had been built. on the day that grants coffin now closed was brought up their already at wayne state downtown in manhattan city hall. the largest crowd ever to assemble on the north american continent. estimates ranged from half-million to one and a half million people around the five-mile loop of his funeral procession. what they witnessed was the united states showing the world how to honor a national hero. thousands of carriages followed the massive catafalque on which his coffin rested. the crowd saw president grover cleveland, reference or b. hayes and chester are done and the justices of the supreme court. the governor said every state in the union went by in the order in which the state had originally come at the union. on the military side, there is a galaxy of general spirit of 40,000 pass, including the west .2 deaths were armbands. music was provided by 250 fans in german courts. proof of how grant had brought the nation together with the fact t

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a soft-spoken vial inist jumped to his violent death from the george washington bridge to the hudson river after tyler's roommate and other students allegedly spied on the quiet teenager as he an another man. secretly embraced and kissed. tyler may have thought no one could see what was going on behind the closed door of his dorm room, but investigators say his roommate's webcam was streaming everything live to the internet. >> i'm not angry. i'm heartbroken. i love my son. our family loved our son very much. >> reporter: tyler's parents had learned just days before he left for college he was gay. how were you when he came out to you? >> i was very shock. i felt like he had kick me in the stomach. i was very surprised. and -- >> surprised in a -- >> i had no clue. >> when tyler came out to you and you were so shocked, did he pick up on that in any way or not really? >> yes, i think he did pick up on it. >> reporter: tyler later tweeted to a friend "mom has basically completely rejected me." has that tweet haunted you in any way? >> yes. yeah, it has. >> but haunted you because -- >> becaus

. >> christie and cuomo, the two best governors in america across from the hudson river together.vernance out of washington, these two guys have shown that you can govern difficult states effectively, close multibillion dollar budget gaps without raising taxes. in the case andrew cuomo, achieve marital quality. and christie, educational qualities. and six bipartisan senators had the courage to come up with a bipartisan deficit and debt plan. let's hope to there's more in the new year. probably huntsman because he's tried to run a simple campaign in an unsimp time. a little christmas cheer as it were. >> listen, he could maybe surprise people in new hampshire. right? you never know. >> that's the christmas spirit. >> you never know. okay. staying positive for jon huntsman, in the single digits. you never know maybe he'll pull it off. the naughty list. the fun part. robert, a great list hiere including donald trump, eric cantor. i'll let you have at it. >> first of all, it's donald trump. a real big star. a big player when taking on star jones or meatloaf or gary bus any a reality s

top of the rock, out over central park to the northwest, the george washington bridge over the hudson rivere distance there and let's move it down to street level now and see that we've got a nice crowd of people gathered hopefully in rockefeller plaza. there they are right there, with the christmas tree in the background. savannah guthrie joining me, the grinch here asking when they're going to mulch that thing, which is january 7th by the day. >> i was asking to emotionally prepare myself for the loss. >> yeah. on january 7th that's when they'll take down the tree. >>> just ahead our hidden investigation into a scheme pulled by some locksmiths that could cost you hundreds of dollars and what we discovered had one man running from our cameras. we'll have more on that story coming up. >>> also ahead what does it take to lose 100, 150, even 225 pounds? three people who dropped half their sizes without gimmicks will be here to tell us how they did it and will show off their new looks. >> as savannah mentioned in the last half hour in the wake of the deadly house fire in connecticut, would you

hudson. >> the airplane is in an amazingly good shape considering we landed in a river. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. ev's the strongest evidence yet that the economy is headed in the right direction. today came word that the country added 120,000 jobs in november, more than expected. the unemployment rate dipped to 8.6%, that's down from 9%. it's not all quite as good as it tems. it turns out that half of the unemployment rate drop is from people who gave up looking for oork. but the increase in hiring puts an exclamation point on a week of strong economic news. the dow closed today down less than one point, at 12,019.42. .4r the week, it gained more than 787 points, that's up 7%, the biggest weekly increase in two years. we asked senior business terrespondent anthony mason to tell us what this is all likely to mean. >> reporter: only a few months ago, scott, the economy looked to be on the brink of another recession, but just as the nutlook in the rest of the world is looking bleaker, in the u.s.

. >> clayton: you see that in the river in hudson, rick, different types of bombs. >> the hudson, youe, clayton. big flooding out of the lower mississippi river valley today, tonight, through much of the day tomorrow. snow that's targeting the four corner states, as well as parts of texas, panhandle of texas. santa ana winds again through tuesday in southern california and east coast, another sunny day, it's our fifth weekend in a row across the eastern part of the country. how much rain we're getting across parts of the south for the next two days and across parts of arkansas, we've had a lot of rain, especially the last week and so we'll be dealing with the flooding threat and texas this is beneficial as well as louisiana we'll take it and it's going to be a couple rainy days. back to you. >> all right, he took ambulances for a joyride and they he were treating patience in the back of it. wait until you hear the crazy story. >> cain 2012 no more. which candidate benefits? our next guest says it's not mitt romney. he'll join us to explain. ♪ i feel the sky tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my

hudson. >> the airplane is in an amazingly good shape considering we landed in a river.oning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's the strongest evidence yet that the economy is headed in the right direction. today came word that the

hudson revealed something surprising. many passengers who read the safety card could not remember what to do at the plane headed for a river landing. >> when they said brace for impact, they did not know what that meant. >> reporter: while the flight attendants demonstration doesn't show the brace position, it's shown on the briefing card. >> read the briefing card. pay attention to it. >> reporter: in oklahoma city, we asked a safety researcher to demonstrate the brace position to us. >> when the flight attendant says brace, cross your hands on the seat and push your head against your wrist. >> reporter: in an exit row, hundreds could depend on you. >> stay seated, reach up, grab it, throw it out. >> if there's a crash, getting out of the plane could involve getting through a dark, smoke-filled cabin. if you have to make an emergency exit, move fast. experts say you have to jump, slide on your rear and don't lean back and keep moving, get out of the way. from the exit door of a jumbo jet, it can seem like a big drop. the slides are wide enough to carry you to safety. don't waste precious time grabbing a carry on bag or la

hudson revealed something amazing. many of the passengers that read the safety card minutes earlier admitted they could not remember what to dook do as the plane headed for a riverand. >> when the captain said brace for impact, they did not know what that meant. >> we recommend you review all of the safety information. >> reporter: white the demonstration does not include showing the brace position, it is shown on the briefing card. >> read the briefing card. people need to really pay attention to it. >> reporter: in oklahoma city we asked veteran faa safety research herb mcthree demonstrate the brace position to us. >> when the flight attendant says brace, cross your arms on the eat back in front of and you push your head tightly against your wrists. >> reporter: if you are in an exit row hundreds could depend on you. research shows don't bring the door into the plane, throw it out right. stay seated, reach out, grab it. >> reporter: if there is a crash getting out of the plane could involve moving through a dark, smoke-filled cabin. using the seat backs to find your way, follow the floor lighting to the nearest exit. if you have to make an emergency exit, the

hudson landing revealed something surprising. many of the passengers who read the passenger safety card just minutes earlier admitted they could not remember what to do as the plane headed for a rivern the captain said brace for impact, they did not know what that meant. >> we recommend you review all of the safety information. >> reporter: while the flight attendant's demonstration doesn't include showing the brace position, it is on the briefing card. >> read the briefing card. >> reporter: in oklahoma city we asked veteran faa safety researcher matt mcclain to demonstrate the brace position to us. >> when the flight attendant says brace, cross your arms on the seat back in front of you and push your head tightly against your wrist. >> reporter: and if you're in an exit row, hundreds of passengers could depend on you. don't bring the door into the plane, throw it out. >> right. reach up, grab it, throw it out. >> reporter: if there's a crash, getting out of the plane could include moving through a dark, smoke-filled cabin. follow the floor lighting to the nearest exit. if you have to make an emergency exit, the key is to move fast. you have to jump, slide on your rear and lean ba