mandy clark is in afghanistan. fghad martin at the pentagon. another woman comes forward to claim a relationship with g.o.p. .andidate herman cain. jan crawford looks at his campaign and children falling into poverty-- some living in their cars. pe county fights to get families back on their feet. >> to still put this glow on the outside, that's the hard part. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" ningh scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mark the calendar: tonight we maybe experiencing the biggest heles day in the history of the in the his and that comes after the biggest an black friday ever. they call this cyber monday and the people who tally up online lly upng say americans are on track to spend a projecting $1.2 billion today alone. that's up 17% from last year. the stock market, like the sound ef all those mouse clicks, the dow closed up 291 points. big sales matter because consumer spending accounts for 70% of the u.s. economy. .ill it last? t? asked senior business correspondent anthony mason to look into it. >>

mandy clark, cbs news, kabul. >> mitchell: with just four days to go before wednesday's deadline, members of the congressional super committee talked by phone today but held no formal sections on how to cut the budget by something $1.2 trillion. republican member jon kyl was pessimistic an agreement would be reached. >> it's pretty doubtful at this point, but, obviously, nobody wants to quit until the stroke of midnight, as you can see here by my presence. >> mitchell: major league players have agreed to blood tests for human growth hormone. the associated press reports the deal, part of a new collective bargaining agreement, could be announced as early as next week. the holiday shopping season begins in just a few days when millions of shoppers descend on stores and malls for day after thanksgiving black friday sales. shoppers say they're worried about over-extending themselves in these tough times but retailers are ready for them with an old favorite. tony guida explains. >> reporter: everything old is new again. >> layaway lets us plan ahead and budget our christmas spending. >> report

mandy clark shows us a m >>> americans celebrating thanksgiving abroad started a new tradition today. manty clark shows us a multicultural spin to an american holiday. >> it's an army tradition. officers like captain thomas serve up thanksgiving dinner to the enlisted men. but this year, captain thomas decided to try something different. >> this is the first time that afghans and americans are having thanksgiving dinner together? >> as far as i know, it is. so what we did, we wanted to make a big impact. we have half afghan entrees. we have half u.s. entrees. >> american soldiers have been fighting insurgents alongside their afghan counterparts for months now. their main mission is to block the routes the militants used to smuggle arms and launch attacks. captain thomas wanted them to share a holiday meal to sprengten the bonds between them and form a closer relationship. since the u.s. will be handing over security to the afghan forces in two years. >> i think we need to get more police presence in those places. >> these soldiers just came back from a five-day mission where they were

mandy clark, cbs news, torkham, afghanistan. >> pelley: besides closing the border, the pakistanis are giving the c.i.a. just 15 days to shut down drone operations from a pakistani air base in the south. so how did this attack happen? david martin has been talking to his sources at the pentagon. >> reporter: the closing of supply routes through pakistan will have no immediate impact on the war effort in afghanistan, athat according to u.s. officials who say supplies already stockpiled in afghanistan plus routes coming in from the north and by air can make up the difference. the facts of the cross-border fire fight remain in dispute, but there's no doubting the fresh wave of anti-americanism it has triggered. the state department had to warn americans in pakistan they could be targets of retaliation. general james mattis, commander of central command which overseas in afghanistan ordered an investigation into what everyone agrees is a major setback in an already rocky relationship. according to u.s. officials it began when a patrol of american special forces and afghan troops took fire

mandy clark, cbs news, afghanistan. >>> nato has said it is investigating. but it has not questioned pakistan's claim that soldiers were killed. >>> police in orlando raid a home as part of the search for a missing mother. 33-year-old michelle parker disappeared. her episode of the people's court aired. they say it belongs to dale smith. her ex-fiance is not named as a suspect in her disappearance. police won't say what, if anything, was found in the home. >>> the case of a missing baby, lisa irwin. jessica kartalija has the latest. >> reporter: a psychic in texas claims she had a vision, showing her where to search for lisa irwin. the psychic started posting everything she saw on her blog, the day baby lisa went missing. she claims to have seen the baby in a hole by the water. rescuered discovered a well similar to what was described but there was no baby. >> kansas police say they plan to investigate the well that the searchers found. >>> a new study on kindergarten students was shocking. their wastelines are bigger than ever. researchers found that nearly

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cbs news mandy clark is in kabul, afghanistan, this morning. mandy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, russ. general john allen, the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, extended his sincere condolences and said we will thoroughly investigate the incident. at the same time, he didn't give any details of the attack. now, that closed border crossing provides around 30% of supplies to coalition forces. the concern now is the trucks are going to bottleneck at the crossing and become a prime target for think of incidents like this will affect those tense relations between the u.s. and pakistan? >> reporter: well, we have just come back from paktika province and we spoke to military sources there, and they said there had been increased number of attacks on us bases coming from pakistan. now relations between the u.s. and pakistan have been strained since the raid in pakistan by u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s killed osama bin laden without pakistan's knowledge. >> mandy clark, thank you. >>> in egypt several new developments this morning. the protests a

mandy clark, cbs news, kabul. >>> holiday shopping, basically almost upon us at this point.ut which finds nearly a third of all americans expect they'll have less money to spend this year on holiday shopping. >> so here to help you get the biggest bang for your buck is carmen wong ulrich. she joins us this morning. >> good morning. >> how are people cutting babb right now? >> the data you just mentioned, a new survey from visa says only 7% of americans are planning to spend more this holiday season. that's a tiny amount. 31% say they're spending less because they less to spend. and over 80%, almost 90% of americans are saying, i'm spending the same as last year or less. what retailers are hearing is we are bargain shopperes and bargain hunters from now on. this has happened the past couple of years. >> so whether or not you're cutting back, it's still smart to get the most fof your money. >> always. >> what are some of the best way toes stretch those dollars this year? >> here is a great one. this is one of my favorites. discounted gift cards. so on top of all the sales pric

mandy clark, cbs news, afghanistan. >>> joining is former secretary of state jamie rubin. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> before we talk about the larger and fractured u.s./pakistan relationship, the closing of the border a danger to u.s. troops? >> not yet. the military stockpiles support and supplies for many, many weeks. there are other route in because of the difficulty of the relationship between the u.s. and pakistani. the u.s. military have established difficult routes through the north and as this time goes on, it could become a problem of getting critical supplies, but not right now. >> this is the last thing that the u.s. needs right now, is any further friction in terms of its relationship with pakistan. where does it go from here? because this remains as tumultuous as it is, an i credibly important relationship for the u.s. >> i think it's fair to say pakistan is the epi center of the conflict resulted from those attacks. both because terrorists come from pakistan and crucially because its policy on afghanistan will determine whether we can succeed the

mandy clark is in afghanistan. david martin at the pentagon. another woman comes forward to claim a relationship with g.o.p. candidate herman cain. jan crawford looks at his campaign and children falling into poverty-- some living in their cars. one county fights to get families back on their feet. >> to still put this glow on the outside, that's the hard part. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mark the calendar: tonight we may bex pernsing the biggest sales day in the history of the internet. and that comes after the biggest black

mandy clark, cbs news, in afghanistan. >>> time for your weather.de you . >>> good morning. exception al, upper 30s, some areas are 41 and 42. the forecast today, high, sunny, 48. kick off is clear and overnight, tomorrow with more sunshine and the high of 63. announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by folgers. the best part of waking up is folgers in your cup. >>> plenty ever of traditions on thanksgiving and for many americans, football ranks up there with mom and pumpkin pie. >> the tradition continues this afternoon on cbs as the dallas cowboys host the miami dolphins. joining is pro football hall of famer and cbs news nfl analyst, shannon sharpe. never gets old. to listen to yourself being noufed introduced as a hall of famer, does it? >> it doesn't but i saved the copy when they put my name up there and i was inducted into the hall of fame, just to make sure. >> excellent. shann shannon, you got good stuff coming up this afternoon. you sat down with tim teebelow who has been all of the talk recently. how did it go? >> it went rea

mandy clark has that story for. >> reporter: thanksgiving is a taste of home for u.s. one is special. with the drawdown in afghanistan and the wind down in iraq, for many, this may be the last thanksgiving before actually going home. it's never been like sitting around the family table, but the military takes thanksgiving seriously. if the soldiers can't be with their families, they can at least have the same sort of ingredients and share the experience. >> i would like to tell my family that i miss them very much and i'm thinking of them every day and i wish i could spend this holiday with them. >> reporter: this year's celebs was the new york yankees nick swisher and his actress wife joanne swisher. military brass in kandahar were taking part in a thanksgiving rolling feast. >> come on over and eat about 14 turkey dinners all over afghanistan, spending time with our marines just to wish them a happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: because of the upcoming troop reduction, there may be more to give thanks for this year. both for the troops who are leaving and those at home