Hotel workers dive for safety when a pickup truck smashes into the front desk and police say it was no accident. And a galaxy of stars lights up hollywood. The red carpet is rolled out in the biggest movie premier ever for a star wars, the force awakens. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with tonights republican president ial debate. This is the fifth gop debate t. Dynamics has changed. Ted cruz is coming on strong and has overtaken trump in iowa. Now cruz, who refers to trump as a friend, finds himself a target. Don champion is here in new york. Don, good morning. Good morning, annemarie. Tonights events is the first since the terrorist attacks in paris and california. And the discussion is expected the top campaign issue. National security. On the everybody of the gop debate, donald trump blasted his rivals before an excited crowd. The other candidates should be thankful because im giving them a chance to make total fools of themselves in front of millions of people. Honestly, im doinging a good job for the republican parity. People are able to get their votes out. Reporter trump has a commanding lead in the National Race for the nomination, according to latest Monmouth University poll. But its a different story in the key state of iowa. Seven weeks away from the caucuses there, ted cruz is gaining ground against the billionaire businessman. On the campaign trail, cruz has been focused on National Security. The enemy is radical islamic terrorism. It is trying to destroy our country and our way of life. Reporter in recent weeks, marco rubio, his biggest challenger at becoming a trump alternative in the race. They dont score the debates. Reporter at the debate, trump will be center stage with cruz and ben carson next tooling bolstered by growing support in new hampshire, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie will also return to the main stage. At trumps rally last night, there were some tense moments within several protesters tried to interrupt the billionaires speech. Cell phone video shows at least one scuffle between a black protester and security. During that scuffle someone in the crowd could be heard urging accounts. He was just trying to scam isis out of the operations. The announcement provided little detail, though, on how the alliance will proceed. President obama says the u. S. Fight against isis has intensified. Mr. Obama met with National Security advisers at the pentagon yesterday. The president says u. S. Forces are hitting isis targets harder were going after isil from their strong hold right in yawn town rajka to libya. The point is isil leaders cannot hide. Our next message to them is simple, you are next. U. S. Special forces have begun their mission in syria, where he says isis have lost thousands of control. The Homeland Security is expected to announce an update to the terror system tomorrow. It will lower the threshold for a threat and allow officials to more effectively notify the public about potential problems. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl will face a General Court marshall charged with misbehavior. He faces life in prison. He walked off his post in afghanistan back in 2009. Taliban for five years bef camera. We want to warn you, the video is graphic. You may find it disturbing to watch. Reporter the incident happened just before midnight the day before thanksgiving. Paradise, california, Police Officer, pursues a suspected drunk driver Andrew Thomas. Video from dash cam shows thomas car crash and roll over. Thams bike, he is thrown from the vehicle and killed. Seconds later the officer approaches the car. As thomas tries to pull himself from the wreckage, he draws his gun and fires once, hitting thomas in the neck. But friends say he has been left paralyzed. County District Attorney mike ram see did not charge the officer. He says he was justified drawing his gun and a single round was fired accidentally. Over the weekend, demonstrators gathered outside the Police Department demanding the officer be fired. On monday. Fire feaster. This time demonstrators demanding to know why the fiveyear veteran of the police force would not be charged . Ram see invited them in and explained the decision while showing them the dash cam video. Its not a matter were not choosing not to charge the officer but because hes an officer, its the circumstances of an accidental or negligent does not result in death. Reporter despite the explanation, many are calling ramsey to lose his job as with el. He is trying to transparent, to work with us. We feel its a show, honestly. Reporter ramsey says he was troubled by the fact that feaster waited 11 minutes to notify his superior officer that he fired his gun, despite not facing criminal charges, the officer is on leave and could still be fired t. Driver Andrew Thomas will face dui and manslaughter charges. A blast of Winter Weather is spreading into the middle of the country. The massive system will deliver heavy snow and winds to the upper midwest. The storm in utah with 18 inches of snow coming down the some place, clouds cleared roads in salt like i lake city, it property down trees and power line, leaving thousands without electricity. Is gay following an alleged slur by a player. An angry customer takes revenge on a hotel worker. This is the cbs morning news. You could stay. In bed all day. You need the power of. New theraflu expressmax. Emerge restored. Fortified. Replenished. Emerge everyday with emergenc packed with b vitamins, antioxidants, electrolytes plus more vitamin c than 10 oranges. 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An nba referee comes out as gay and the fred city gray case goes to the jury. The Baltimore Sun reports the city is on edge as jury deliberations begin in the trial of a Police Officer accused in the death of freddie gray. Officer William Porter faces manslaughter. Gray died of a broken neck while in police custody. Baltimore is bracing for unrest following the verdict. Bill cosby is countersuing some of his accusers. He claims several women lied when they claimed he drugged or assaulted them. Cosby suffered loss of jobs and mortification in all about 50 women accuse him of rape or unwanted sexual contact. Yahoo sports reports the veteran referry reported hes gay after a referee had a slur pointed to him. He says he is proud tore to be a referee and a gay man. One game for the defamation, rather, derocktory remarks. And Sports Illustrated named Serena Williams as the 24th sports person in a year. Its the first time it was the 34yearold finished 2015 with 53 wins, three losses. 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It has been close to zero since 2008. Some worry an Interest Rate hike, no matter how small, will slow down economic growth. A recovery in oil prices sent stocks higher here on wall street. The dow gained 103 points. The s p finished nine points heighth higher. Seattle is the first state to allow contract drivers who work for uber the right to unionize the Company Strongly oppose the move, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously, it requires Companies Like uber to bargain with their drivers, so they want to be represented. American airlines is adding a new seat category on international flights. Premium economy. The new roomier seat will be introduced next year. American hopes it will bridge the gap between economy and business. Free drinks, an demand entertain entertainment and the use of noise reducing head phones. If you have a drone, will you have to register it with the government. They can register on an faa website t. Faa says it gets 100 reports a month of drones flying near manned airplanes. It is estimated a millionandahalf small Unmanned Aircraft will be sold this year. Annemarie. Jill wagner at the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks a lot, jill. The new york giants needing a win on monday night football. The giants trailing miami in the second half when star receiver odell beckham, jr. Takes over. First he somehow manages to keep both feet inbound hauling in a pass in the ends zone. After a review, its ruled as a touchdown. Later, he leaves no doubt. Beckham is left wide opened to give new york the lead t. Giants up next, the 1st awakens on the world carpet. Carpet. Well take you to the world premier from the newest star wars movie from stars past and present. May not know they have it. Its called whooping cough. And the cdc recommends everyone, including those around babies, make sure their whooping cough vaccination is up to date. Understand the danger your new grandchild faces. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about you and your heres a look at todays forecast in some cities around the country. This is a very special night in our neighborhood here. You can see all the storm troopers flooding the streets tonight. The world premier of star wars the force awakens. The stars in the movie are starting to arrive. I saw chewbacca at dry bar this afternoon getting a proceedout. His hair was perfect. Anticipation is high for star wars the force awakens. It premiered for Hollywood Suzanne marquez was on the red carpet. Reporter hollywood boulevard shut down for what might be the biggest movie premier ever. The length of two full city blocks with a covered carpet longer than the oscars. The inside resembling a galaxy far, far away. What do you think when everybody says this is the biggest carpet ever, are you really impressed . Not yet. Because i cant see the end of it. Reporter thats whats kind of scary, right . Yeah, it is, it is. [ music playing ] reporter it was a whos who of hollywood, from character actors in the original cast, including r 2 gld 2 c3po and carrie fisher. To a new generation of star wars fans. I fael sexy. It feels fantastic. Oh, intergalactic sexy. Universal sexy. Reporter its a franchise that spans three decades and the anticipation over seeing this film is greater than its ever excited as the fans who camped out for days to see it. I saw it. I couldnt speak for a day afterwards. Im feeling incred blue excited. Grateful that everyone is here, friends, family, fans of the movie and a lot of people who work on the film. So im looking forward to everyone to see it. Have you seen it . Yes, im excited to sea it again. It was really a blur the first time. Reporter now, a big premier, a chimmylily night. I wanted to see the blowout. After the movie let out, suzanne got reaction to the longawaited new movie. Reporter your idea of how everything went. We dont want to see a spoiler. Fabulous. 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I had to feel comfortable that he had changed in a way that would remove the risk that there would be a threat to the integrity of the game if he was allowed to work in the game again. The ban prevents rose from appearing on the hall of fame ballot. Tradition with a visit to the Childrens Hospital this holiday season. The first lady spent time with the youngsters at Childrens NationalHealth System in d. C. She brought along the family dog, bo and sonny and red twas the night before christmas to children. A new concern about links between auto imand antidepressants, and khari rose speaks with george lucas. But didnt you intend to in the beginning create really three movies when you started . And then you decide only to take one part of that life story . Yeah, i took the first act. Then the first act didnt really work. So i said, okay, what im going to have to do is take the ending of the third tone and put it on the first tone. Its what you do. You got a bunch of stuff sitting on your desk as you are creating. Let me take that, stick that in here. Make it. So i wasnt really that worried about the sequels when i was i have to make this the best. So when i moved onto the other one, gee, i killed him. Well talk with advertising age about the impact on record temperatures on retail sales. Thats all ahead on cbs this morning. That is the cbs morning news for this tuesday. Thanks for watching. Have a great day. You are watching kcci 8 news. Eric right now at 4 30, fleur flooding. A day and a half of heavy rain forcing the Raccoon River over its banks. The closures you can expect this morning. Elizabeth plus a popular holiday tradition takes a devastating blow. How many wishes they were hoping to grant. Well tell you how you can still help out. Eric and deadly hit and run in ames. The 18yearold isu student that lost her life. Good morning thanks for waking up bright and early with us. I am eric hanson. 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