seth doane, cbs news, new york. >> glor: that is the cbs evening news tonight. for scott pelley, i'm jeff glor. i'll seal you tomorrow on the "early show." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9news now. >>> we begin tonight with breaking news out of bethesda. that is where one person is dead and at least a dozen others are injured in a crash involving a metro bus and several cars. this is sky 9 video from the scene of rescue crews pulling people from the wreckage. the accident happened late this afternoon on rockville pike near the intersection of alta vista road and it closed in both directions. matt joins us live on the scene. matt. >> reporter: i'm told rockville pike will remain closed for several hours as the

seth doane.reporter: this remarkable video taken by cameras hidden deep in the jungles of thailand shows indo chinese tigers as they're rarely seen. the footage was made available only to cbs news by the wildlife conservation society-- the w.c.s. >> the first time technology has gotten videos on these cameras so we're watching the behavior of the animals as well. >> reporter: elizabeth bennett is with the w.c.s. which runs new york city's bronx zoo. there she spoke with us about the laser-triggered camera traps that captured these images. >> these are pictures of tigers behaving naturally completely away from humans. there's no humans anywhere near them. >> reporter: except for poachers who have contributed to a 97% decline in the worldwide tiger population. >> illegal wildlife trade is like water running downhill. you stop in the one place, it will go somewhere else. >> reporter: in the protected zone, the tiger population appears to be holding steady. while it continues its steep decline elsewh

seth doane on what he did to defeat it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their unemployment. the house today said the clock ticking toward that new year's day punch in the pocketbook when it turned down a bill that has been passed by the senate. that bill would have extended the 2% cut in the social security payroll tax and kept job benefits flowing. what happens now? congressional correspondent nancy cordes is on capitol hill, nancy? >> reporter: scott, we are now official in a total stalemate and tonight most lawmakers are heading home for the holidays. >> reporter: the motion is adopted. >> reporter: house republicans doubled down on their risky strategy today voting to reject a two-month tax cut and to establish negotiations with a resistant senate. >> come back to washington! do your work! g

seth doane, cbs news. >> wikileaks founder julian assange will be back in london this morning and wanted for questioning about alleged sex crimes. two lower courts have ruled against him. today, he'll ask britain's supreme court to hear his says. assange says the allegations against him are politically motivated. >>> washington, d.c. police are making sure dozens of occupy protesters stay out of mcpherson state park this morning. more than 30 were arrested overnight after refusing to leave. police had to use a cherry picker to grab some protesters from the top of a wooden structure they built. the structure was later torn down. >>> some unusual early snow in the southwest today. a winter storm that started sunday is continuing into this morning in new mexico with forecasts of up to 11 inches in some places. travel is hazardous on many highways and interstates with some of them now closed. snow could reach as far south as the mexican border.

seth doane, cbs news, new york. >> glor: that is the cbs evening news tonight. for scott pelley, i'm jeff glor. i'll seal you tomorrow on the "early show." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most-watched entertainment news magazine in the world. arnold and maria, the timeline. are they getting back together? plus is beyonce about to give birth? why her baby could be here before the new year. then hollywood's older women with younger men. >> i am cher, after all. >> cher's boys club, val kilmer, rob, tom cruise. >> i loved him. he was amazing. >> halle berry and the ugly custody fight. >> mariah carey and nick

seth doane is there with more. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ. yes, with hours to go until midnight, excitement here in times square has already reached fever pitch. for instance, this is lady gaga performing just feet behind me, and with relatively warm temperatures tonight, organizers say around one million people are expected to turn out. time zone by time zone, the world welcomes a new year. from the spectacular in dubai, to the almost-spiritual in tokyo. where they bid farewell to a 2011 that brought an earthquake and tsunami. new year's celebrations provided a break for u.s. troops in afghanistan, while at home, times square was prepped for the 1 billion who will tune in to watch the ball drop on tv. that dwelve-foot-wide, nearly 20,000-pound ball is about the weight of two pickup trucks. workers put finishing touches on the more than 2500 waterford crystal triangles. >> this is a celebration the whole world watches. >> reporter: organizer jeffrey strauss tells us the ball builds on an old custom for setting clocks. >> it's a maritime tradi

seth doane, cbs news, louisville. >> pelley: the u.s.mes more refugees than any country on earth. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment newsmagazine in the world. >>> new photos of jennifer lopez with her much-younger man. hugging, kissing. playing with her kids. why is she taking her romance public now? >>> why kim kardashian's soon to be exor is reportly claiming their entire marriage was a fraud. >>> then -- selena gomez. demi lovato, miley

and seth doane on the men who opened our eyes to the unique beauty of snowflakes. >> every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one design was ever repeated. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. d> glor: good evening, everyone. i'm jeff glor. scott is off tonight. six days now before iowa's epublican caucuses. here are the headlines. romney and paul move to the top, santorum surges, gingrich appears to be sliding badly. a cnn/"time"/o.r.c. poll of republican voters out tonight has mitt romney leading with 25%; ron paul right behind at 22; rick santorum now at 16%; n ft gingrich at 14%, down from 33% a month ago; and rick perry in fifth at 11. s, dave two reports. dean reynolds is with the paul campaign. janegin with jan crawford, who is following mitt romney. jan? >> reporter: jeff, mitt romney had been taking a low profile here in iowa, but today he was all in, and everywhere he went he got an enthusiastic reception from voters who are focused on one thing: taking the white ouse back from barack obama. >> i think to beat president omeoa,

. >> reporter: this is seth doane. in the season for shopping, the shopping bag plays a supporting role. where do you find all of these bags? >> we found a lot of them on e- bay. these we bought through our dealers. >> reporter: art dealers sell shopping bags? >> well, they sell it as art. >> reporter: unwrapping the story of this practical and pretty invention. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: albert brooks is known far and wide as a very funny actor and director. so what's behind his latest movie role as a very menacing bad guy? this morning mo rocca grills him on that subject and more. >> kid, i want you to meet mr. bernie rose. >> reporter: albert brooks is drawing raves as cold-blooded killer in "drive." >> my hands are a little dirty. >> so are mine. >> reporter: not what you expect from the man who usually makes comedies about the human condition. you said, "i like movies about failing." >> well, i like characters that fail because people fail. >> reporter: albert brooks on his characters and his success late

seth doane has the story of the man who was the first to show the world just how beautiful and elegantce crystal can be. >> reporter: in places like vermont this time of the year, the treetops really can glisten but even here when wintry nostalgia is part of the landscape, remember the for snow. wilson bentley was known the world over as the snowflake man. the first person ever to photograph microscopic images of snowflakes. they were delicate, stunning, and complex. >> people still find them lacy and afemoral and they speak to people in a beautiful way. >> reporter: wayne howe preserves the legacy of the on snowflake man in the old red mill. here is bentley's first microscope. a childhood gift from his mother and the camera that he engineer jury-rigged. >> when the snows came, he had a blackboard. it was actually a tray and the snowflakes would fall on that tray and with a feather, he would kind of rifle through and then he would pick that up with the edge of the feather because if he picked it up with his finger, it would melt. put it on the slide, a glass slide, put that under the m

seth doane, cbs news, burke county, georgia. >>> coming up later on "the early show," congress headse for the holidays, leaving taxpayers to face a tax jump at new year's. then pet therapy. new evidence that the best medicine might just be a dog. the singing and dancing amazing rita moreno live for her 80th birthday. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm drew levinson. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

seth doane, cbs news, louisville. >> pelley: the u.s.mes more refugees than any country on earth. that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> five female students are suing howard university because of what they say happened behind closed doors. those women accuse the university of ignoring their complaints that a staff member was sexually assaulting them. >> reporter: one of the hardest things she had to do was break the news to her patients. >> it was hard. it makes it real that they have to worry about it. >> reporter: that news, her nightmare, that her work study supervisor sexually harassed and assaulted her. >> he reached over and was hugging and was rubbing against me, he had an election. mercedes saw me crying, she asked me what happened. i told her, and she confided. >> when i saw it happened to her, i was like, okay, that's it. >> reporter: that's when the girls realized they weren't alone, three others have similar horror stories. all five

seth doane has details. >> reporter: an unmanned spy plane, allegedly belonging to the united states, was downed in eastern iran. that, according to iranian official news sources which reported that the american-made rq-170 was shot down and recovered with minimal damage. the aircraft is so secretive, even pictures are hard to come by. the pentagon is not commenting but the u.s.-led coalition in afghanistan said the drone may be a u.s. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over afghanistan late last week, which it added the operators had lost control of. neil livingston, a terrorism expert, says the iranians already had a drone program and, if true, this recovery could help them further their technology. >> they could potentially reverse engineer this and learn a great deal about our technologies. >> reporter: specifics about the spy plane are hard to come by. we do know it's made by lockheed martin and is said to be equipped with stealth technology. spencer ackerman writes about high tech security for a magazine. >> this is a super secret stealth drone. it ex

>> reporter: seth doane, thanks. exit polls in today's parliamentary elections in russia show prime minister putin's party in first place. but with just 48.5% of the vote, that's down from 64% four years ago. opposition party leaders this evening are accusing putin's ruling party of ballot box stuffing and other irregularities. >> mitchell: iraqi officials say a pair of bomb explosions killed six people today, with u.s. troops due to be withdrawn from iraq by the end of the month, many questions remain about iraqi security. elizabeth palm certificate in baghdad this evening and joins us now. liz, you just arrived back in baghdad yesterday. your last visit was a year and a half ago. how have things changed since then? >> reporter: well, the city feels pretty good. it's a bustling. there are traffic jams. people are out and about in the streets. and the shops are well stocked. that means that there is between five and six hours of selection a day here. they were drawn back out of the cities in the summer of 2010. but t

those weren't problems for the high school team seth doane found in georgia.t lacked something most teams take for granted. >> reporter: it seemed that half of tiny burke county turned out to cheer on the bears. against the odds, their high school football team had finally made it to the georgia state championships. 17-year-old defensive lineman jesse bush remembers how different things were four years ago. >> a lot of people that was hungry, tired, sleepy. >> reporter: signs that his coach eric parker recognized as the dangerous symptoms of dehydration and malnutrition. >> we kids that literally by tuesday had to be removed from from practice because of the intensity and the amount of energy that they was having to expend. >> reporter: they just weren't getting enough food, weren't getting the right food. >> correct. >> reporter: in burke county, family income is so low that 85% of students already qualified for free breakfast and lunch in school. but many were going without any other meals at home. >> we're probably like most small towns in america right now

seth doane on what he did to defeat it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, in just 12 days 160 million work could see a tax increase in their paychecks and nearly two million others are struggling to get by without a paycheck could lose their

and we asked seth doane to introduce us. >> reporter: a lot of folks think it's the best thai restaurantuisville. simply thai gets terrific press, but the real story here is not the food. you were a physician in burma, yet you run a restaurant here in the u.s. is that difficult? >> it takes a little bit of adjustment, but, no, it's not difficult. >> reporter: in 1988, dr. manhoman singh found his clinic in the cross-fire of a brutal government crackdown in burma, persecuted, he says, because he is part of the wrong ethnic group. >> they shoot at the building. glass shattered. >> reporter: your clinic was destroyed. >> yes, completely destroyed. >> reporter: singh took up arms against the government, but was eventually forced to flee with his family. >> no human rights. >> reporter: in myanmar at all. >> in myanmar at all. >> reporter: in the conflict, thousands fled into neighboring thailand. for 23 years, 150,000 have been trapped, unable to go home, yet not permitted to leave the camps by the thai government. their best hope is an offer from the u.s. government to immigrate. that's wha

. >> reporter: this is seth doane. in the season for shopping, the shopping bag plays a supporting role. where do you find all of these bags? >> we found a lot of them on e- bay. these we bought through our dealers. >> reporter: art dealers sell shopping bags? >> well, they sell it as art. >> reporter: unwrapping the story of this practical and pretty invention. later on sunday morning. >> osgood: albert brooks is known far and wide as a very funny actor and director. so what's behind his latest movie role as a very menacing bad guy? this morning mo rocca grills him on that subject and more. >> kid, i want you to meet mr. bernie rose. >> reporter: albert brooks is drawing raves as cold-blooded killer in "drive." >> my hands are a little dirty. >> so are mine. >> reporter: not what you expect from the man who usually makes comedies about the human condition. you said, "i like movies about failing." >> well, i like characters that fail because people fail. >> reporter: albert brooks on his characters and his success late

and to welcome in the new year, let's go back to the crossroads of the world and correspondent seth doane you, seth. how tight is security expected to be there in times square? >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. you can see people are starting to come in here and security is already tight even though we certainly haven't seen the crowds that we are expecting tonight. there are barricades erected all around times square and actually blocks around times square as well. people, revelers will be stopped about a block away and have to go through a metal detector and police will make sure they not carrying alcohol and not wear backpacks. once allowed in here, thousands of police officers, some in plain clothes, patrolling through the crowds and aided by cameras. take a look. three cameras by our live shot pegs here on the top of the tower here and police across the street. you can see one of these mobile command towers which will give police more of an aerial perspective of the crowd. with the relatively warm weather here, they are expecting record turnout. around a million people here. >> lot

and seth doane on the men who opened our eyes to the unique beauty of snowflakes. >> every crystal was a masterpiece of design and no one design was ever repeated. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: good evening, everyone. i'm jeff glor. scott is off tonight. six days now before iowa's republican caucuses. here are the headlines-- romney and paul move to the

seth doane on a plan to save endangered tigers in the world that appears to be working. and "on the road" with steve hartman. how a secret santa changed a man's life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. scott's on assignment i'm bob schieffer. new information in the penn state sex abuse scandal. we got the first detailed account of what an eyewitness says he saw when he walked in on a naked penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky and a young boy in a football