The war came closer with the constant shelling this past week. Aleppos historic old city has now been reclaimed by the syrian army, among the rubble, some insights into how this war was fought. A tunnel dug by opposition groups to reach the government controlled western side and launch surprise attacks. The rebels were outgunned and outnumbered. The syrian soldier showed us how they fought back. The sandbags. The propaganda on the walls. And the improvised weapons. Before they started using cannons, he told us, they used these catapults. His word drowned out by his armys fighter jets overhead. This increasingly onesided battle may be coming to an end. A bicycle. A sewing machine. A kitchen stool is whats left behind. The battle for aleppo has stretched Syrian Forces thin. So thin the regime lost track of palmyra, the ancient city the government vowed they would never lose again is now back under isis control. With much fanfare earlier this year, the syrian and Russian Forces had tdeclared isis would never come back. That lasted just nine months. The Syrian Government might be on the verge of taking back aleppo, but the recapture of palmyra by isis is a major set back, scott. Proof that reclaiming territory is hard, holding it harder still. Debora patta for us tonight. Thank you. Coming up the latest on the frigid weather. Later, an innocent man spent three decade in prison. Why wont the state pay restitution . Ugh, its only lunchtime and my cold medicines wearing off. Im dragging. Yeah, that stuff only lasts a few hours. Or, take mucinex. One pill fights congestion for 12 hours. No thank you very much, shes gonna stick with the shortterm stuff. 12 hours . Guess i wont be seeing you for a while. Is that a bisque . I just lost my appetite. Why take medicines that only last 4 hours, when just one mucinex lasts 12 hours . Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. We have your fingerprints soon the safe. , a photo of you opening the safe. A post using the hashtag justrobbedthesafe so, what are we supposed to think . Switching to geico could save you a bunch of money on Car Insurance. Excellent point. Case dismissed. Geico. Because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance woo because saving fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance is always a great answer. Grab an extra blanket in the northern half of the country tonight. Could hit minus 4 in minneapolis. 17 below average. Jamie yuccas is following a nasty storm. Reporter treacherous driving conditions from the great lakes to the northeast. Over the weekend icy conditions contributed to this 30car pileup in michigan. In minnesota, dash cam video shows a pickup truck, just missed a state troopers patrol car, as it skids out of control. Airport run ways were also icy. Send a plane carrying 70 passengers and crew into the grass at detroit Metropolitan Airport on sunday. In western new york, 30 inches of snow kept the towing company busy. Theyre tired. Theyre wore out. The snowstorm just didnt quit. Following the snowy weather, a massive arctic air moving in from canada. The frigid air will bring subzero temperatures to a large part of the country for the first time this winter. The Salvation Army in anyone an his says because of extreme cold theyre having trouble recruiting bell ringers for than annual drive. Deborah walker bundle up to help out. I do it every year. Every christmas. I am out here. Reporter it only reached 12 degrees in minneapolis today. Overnight temperatures will dip below 0. Meaning, winter its starting to take shape and its about you here at the falls where half of the water is now frozen. But, scott, it will be dangerous for anyone outside tonight. Beautiful out. Jamie yuccas, thank you. Trouble on delta flight 2083 today before it left detroit for st san diego. Police dragged a woman by her arms down the island off the plane. 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Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. Delsym. The 1 12hour cough medicine. Dna evidence is freeing innocent people from prison, but often only after they have lost decade of their lives. 30 states offer compensation, less than half of these former prisoners are ever paid. Omar villafranca has been looking into a case in tennessee. Reporter these days Lawrence Mckinney cant seem to stay still. The 60yearold spent enough time sitting in one place. How long were you in prison . 31 years, 9 months, 1 days, 12 hours. Reporter you have it down to the hours . Yes, sir. Reporter a jury convicted mckinny of rape and burglary in 19 8. The victim identified him as one of two men what attacked her in her bedroom. He was sentenced to 115 years. Whats going through your mind when you are hearing that now you are going to prison . I still could not believe it because i thought that it was a dream or something. Reporter in 2008, dna testing of evidence scientifically excluded mckinney as a suspect. Prosecutors said if this evidence had been available, there would have been no prosecution. I didnt have no life, all my life took away. In 2009 he was released and given 75. Since then, mckinney depended on odd jobs at his church off to pay the bills. Under tennessee law, he could be eligible for up to 1 million compensation. But the parole board which hears such cases has rejected his request twice. In the exoneration hearing we have to have a lot of evidence, clear and convincing. Patsy bruce served on tennessees parole board for 12 years, she heard mckinneys first exoneration case. Wasnt the judgment by a court and district attorneyvinc. They didnt test everything ordered by the original judge to be tested. Prosecutors say the two samples not tested had no dna or were so degraded tests could not be performed. Do you fool theeel there is y man walking . I have not been convinced he is innocent. It is not justice for him to not receive compensation. His lawyer has appealed the case to governor bill haslam who has the final say. There has been one mistake made where he was isnt to prison. I trust another one is not made that does not allow him exoneration. The governor could make a decision at any moment. After waiting 31 years for his freedom, mckinney says, he can wait a little longer. Omar villafranca, cbs news, lebanon, tennessee. Up next, love lost. And found. ,, we end tonight with a story of undying love. Here is ben tracy. Reporter Griffin Madden and his girlfriend, love to dance on rooftops. And in nightclubs. But just before midnight on december 2nd, the dancing stopped. That guy right there. Reporter griffin was trapped inside the massive warehouse fire in oakland, california. 36 people died including griffin. Tsai was not there. In her grief she remembered a moment the two shared in new york last year. They had just seen the book of mormon on broadway. On face . Become she wrote the city was so beautiful and amidst all the lights i got to look at the brightest light of all, my sweetie. I cried and we kissed. A photographer nearby captured the moment, tsais red lipstick still on griffins cheek. They looked look nobody else existed. Arkin avan took the photo one of 200,000 he has taken on the streets of new york. But for her this became everythingch after the fi everything. After the fire she tried to track down the photographer. Maybe some face book miracle could happen. Please share. Thousand did. Avan saw the post and sent the picture. I could give her this picture as a memory of her loss, of griffin, and i hope shell we keep that forever. Reporter she is not ready to talk about her loss. But she did write a tribute to griffin. Ive have been hoping for a miracle, a glimpse of your light back into my life. With the infinite help from our families, friend and strangers, i finally found you. And in this moment, where time will always stand still, she never has to let go. Ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, check back with us a little bit later for the morning news. And, dont forget, cbs this morning. With thanks to the Jones Day Law Firm for this window on the capitol, i am scott pelley in washington. Welcome to the overnight news. Im michelle miller. A political fire form continues to rage over russias alleged involvement in the president ial election. U. S. Intelligence agencies say there is no doubt, moscow hacked into democratic emails and released them to the press. Whether or not designed to to benefit the campaign of donald trump, remains in doubt. Jeff pegues. Begins our coverage. Reporter the evidence that the russians were trying to affect the u. S. Election dates back to mid june, when private emails Opposition Research and Campaign Information stolen from Democratic National committee appeared on line. U. S. Investigators said the russians were to blame. Did their actions impact one candidate over another . I would say that the actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. Adam myers works for crowdstrike, the Cybersecurity Firm that investigated the hack and that works closely with u. S. Intelligence. What did you see . Imagine someone breaks into a bank. They use special saw to cut through the safe. We found that saw as they were using it. You caught them in action . We did. Myers says the cyberattacks began with russian backed hackers. Fancy bear and cozy bear. The information they obtained was passed on to wic likes and others to make public. The hackers also gained access to some republican files, but that information never be cam public. Even after being exposed, the hacks against democrats continued. This is pretty bold. Pretty brazen, in a lot of ways. Very russian. What do you moon by that . Dont think the russians are shy or would pull back after Something Like that happens. Theyre doing their thing. Reporter one reason the cia believes russia was frying to tip the scales to trump, they have used similar tactics to favor candidates before recently in elections in ukraine. Scott, no within is saying the actual vote count in the u. S. Was hacked. Our Homeland Security correspondent, jeff pegues, thank you. Mcconnell supports an investigation into the russian hacking charges. He said the russians are not our friend. President elect trump insists there is no way to know who did the hacking and there is no evidence it was designed to help him. Major garrett has even more. Reporter i think it is ridiculous just another excuse. I dont believe it. They have no idea of it is russia or china or somebody. To awe president elect donald trump bashed intelligence officials in an interview on fox news two days after releasing a statement that argued theyre the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. But on saturday we asked the president elect if he trusted the nations spy agencies. I do. Today on twitter, mr. Trump lashed out at democrats. Can you imagine if the election result were opposite and we tried to play the russia cia card . Intelligence community concluded in october that russia directed the recent compromises of emails almost universally damaging to democrats and Hillary Clinton. Throughout the campaign, mr. Trump resisted. She has no idea whether it is russia, china or anybody else. I am not quoting myself. If it is russia, nobody knows, its probably china. Could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pound. Okay. In july, candidate trump. Egged on Russian Hackers to find deleted clinton emails. Russia, if you are listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Mr. Trump also explained yesterday why he only takes Intelligence Briefings from time to time. He discussed the hacking charges on cbs this morning. Whats the difference between the conclusions of the fbi and the cia . Even before the election, charlie, the entire u. S. Intelligence community believed that the russians were interfering in the election. Include the fbi . That includes the fbi it wasnt clear at that type, the motive. Whats changed now and this is not official, right, all based on leaks, whats changed now is it seems like the cia believes that the intent here was to advantage donald trump and disadvantage Hillary Clinton in the election. Whats different . How did the cia reach that conclusion . One of the things that caught me. Caught my what caught my attention, charlie, was that the cia believes there is a high confidence judgment, the cia doesnt come to high confidence judgment based on circumstantial evidence. I think they have more here, they have telling them what the intent was. How significant is it, mike, especially with you using the word high confidence judgment, the president elect is publicly disputing the cia . What, what, what what i think is going on here is that he believes that this is a political judgment. He believes that the cia is a Political Institution and he is going to have to learn that it is not. It apolitical, there to tell him, call him like you see them. It is, it its the most Important Institution to him in that regard. It is going to tell him how to think about the worlden a way that is divorced of politics. And divorced of, of policy. And he is going to have to start understanding that. The Syrian Military backed by russia is making a final push into the rebel Held Neighborhoods of aleppo. The latest fighting left more than five dozen dead and trapped the remaining rebels in a small corner of the city. Debora patta reports. Reporter even with near total control of aleppo, the Syrian Military sent bombs thundering down on the rebels Still Holding out. Thousand of civilians have ben caught in intense fighting as the war came closer with the constant shelling this past week. Aleppos historic old city has now been reclaimed by the syrian army, among the rubble, some insights into how this war was fought. A tunnel dug by opposition groups to reach the government controlled western side and launch surprise attacks. The rebels were outgunned and outnumbered. The syrian soldier showed us how they fought back. The sandbags. The propaganda on the walls. And the improvised weapons. Before they started using cannons, he told us, they used these catapults. His word drowned out by his armys fighter jets overhead. This increasingly onesided battle may be coming to an end. A bicycle. A sewing machine. A kitchen stool is whats left behind. The battle for aleppo has stretched Syrian Forces thin. So thin the regime lost track of palmyra, the ancient city the government vowed they would never lose again is now back under isis control. With much fanfare earlier this year, the syrian and Russian Forces had declared isis would never come back. Silent night holy night sleep in heavenly peace sleep in heavenly peace delsym helpswhich means, impulse to cough for 12 hours. Youre controlling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. Delsym. The 1 12hour cough medicine. Jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. Luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. Because all his belongings went up in flames. Jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. Visit geico. Com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. Over the weekend. Colombias president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for successful efforts to end the countrys half century long civil war. The battle against the revolutionary armed forces of colombia, became the longest running war in the western hemisphere. When miliary operations and negotiations were at a stand still, colombia turned to an unlikely tactic, an advertising campaign. The story for 60 minutes. Advertising is a very, very powerful force. In the good you can do. Changing mind of people in certain ways. Thats why it is powerable. Thats why it is powerful. He wanted peace forever. Reporter the power to change mind that brought clm be yeahs deputy member of defense off to the ad agency in 2006. The military brought them to their knees and were looking for a new wep apon to end the war. They asked sokalov one of the worlds top ad men to create a series of campaigns and tv commercials to convuns the guerrillas to surrender and the colombian people to accept them back. This gives us the chance to apply our skills to something that is fundamentally important. To us, to our kids, to our country. And in december 2010 they launched Operation Christmas which they filmed for commercials which played on local tv at great risk, blackhawk helicopters carried two colleagues, led by Colombian Special forces, into rebel territory. They found nine 75 foot trees near ger ruerrilla strong holds decorated them with christmas light each tree rigged with a motion detector lit up a tree and banner when the guerrillas walked by at night. If christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home. Demobilize at christmas everything is possible. What we did was tried to make coming back home for christmas an important thing. And we knew that if weave put out these christmas trees, it was that sign up there, we would touch the hearts of them. Because my heart was touched. And they went and they did it. It worked. It worked. He said, 331 guerrillas, roughly 5 of the rebel force at the time, demobile ied. They came out of the jungle and gave up. Like most colombians, he was born into war and grew up here in bogota without knowing a day of peace. Reporter in the beginning what was the purpose of the campaign . It was always exactly the same. Demobilize as many as possible. As with any ad campaign they began with research. Their focus group former guerrillas. The team tracked them down and interviewed them. We found the common denominator. As much a prisoner of the organization as the people he hold hostage. There was no way out. It certainly softened me up when i heard the stories. I said these poor people. You never expected that you would feel that way . I didnt expect then to be so human. But how do you reach your target audience when theyre hiding in 150,000 square miles of jungle . The rivers theyve discovered are the highways of the jungle. So they launched their second christmas campaign, operation rivers of light. They asked people in nearby villages to send messages and gifts off to the guerrillas which were placed inside capsules that glowed in the dark and then floated down the river. Put them there. These lit up at night. And when you see that beautiful thing coming down the river, you cant help but be touched by it. How much lights like that did you send . Almost 7,000. Reporter one of the messages from dlcolombias president , ju awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war. You did this with the Colombian Military . Absolutely couldnt have done it without them. Reporter it humanizes them as much as you have tried to humanize the guerrillas. Exactly. Reporter sokalov and military partners never let up. Rolled out dozens of campaigns. Designed to show the guerrillas the way out. With beams of light, stickers on trees. And voices of exguerrilla leaders good morning across the jungle. But no voice was more powerful than their mothers. She is waiting for you. Been waiting for you at least, 20 years in some cases. In 2013, sokalov found 27 mothers of guerrillas. They gave his Agency Photos of their sons and daughters, as young children. That only they could recognize. During christmas, fliers were placed all over the jungle. And the message was before, you were my child. And i will always be waiting for you at christmas time. We call that going for the jugular. Because wow. 21 people with this campaign gave up their weapons and came home and start shooting. So whatever number you got out, people that you dont have to fight. What was your most Successful Campaign . Football. Football . Football, football, rules this country. Football is our passion. Reporter it was a passion shared by the guerrillas. And often stopped during matches. When colombia hosted the world cup in 2011. And he kicked off a new campaign. Soldiers armed with thousands of soccer balls entered stadiums and players, celebrities and fans all signed them. They loaded them on to helicopters and threw them out over the jungle. Each with a sticker that said demobilize. Lets play again. Over eight years. 18,000 guerrillas put down their weapons and came home. In large part because of sokalovs campaigns. The ads help bring them to the negotiating table in 2012. During the peace talks. They soon after agreed to a ceasefire. Colombians, started feeling confident. Feeling that we could do whatever we wanted. We started feeling secure and the fear started going away. As we went outside and the world cam here it was in neck shus. Awe oftener gee. Energy was incredible. Thats what the world sees now of colombia. Reporter colombias spirit once buried by war, has risen again. In the last ten years, International Investment is up over 100 . Tourism, 240 . Not long ago it was too dangerous to go out at night. Now, clubs in bogota are bursting with locals and foreigners. You can see the full report on many sleepaids have Pain Medicine but zzzquil is different because why would you take a Pain Medicine when all you want is good sleep . Zzzquil a nonhabit forming sleepaid thats not for pain, just for sleep. Important message for residents age 50 to 85. Write down this number now. Right now, people are receiving this free information kit for guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance with a rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. If you are on a fixed income, learn about affordable whole Life Insurance that guarantees your rate can never increase for any reason. If you did not receive your information, call this number now. Your acceptance is guaranteed, with no health questions. 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Ditch the misery. Lets end this. Nearly 19 million americans have served in the u. S. Armed forces. Almost a quarter of them suffer with some sort of disability. Some of the vets with physical or mental challenges rely on therapy dogs. They may look cute, but theyre highly trained and highly sought after. Chip reid paid a visit to a Nonprofit Group called hero dogs. Working to unite vets with four legged companions. All of these dogs are at various stages of training to be hero dogs. These are theyre trainers. Theyre getting these dogs ready to change the lives of veterans with disabilities. At 11 weeks old, maggie and honor are hard at work. These puppies only have a one in three chance of becoming official heroes dogs. Turn around and come back. Jennifer lund started the Organization Six years ago. Do you have a sense of whether theyll make it through the program . Looking for a puppy, outgoing, eager, interax tiff, not bothered by much. I can usually rule out puppies who wouldnt be good candidates. I unfortunately dont have a crystal ball. I cant guarantee which ones are going to make it. Reporter on average training takes about three years. Step. Step. Wait. Mitch is 3. And is now in advanced training. Initially we say step. We have to stay wait. They dont continue forward. Is mitch a pretty good student. Pretty good student. Helps that he likes his treats. He is a lab after all. Mitch wont meet his veteran until training is almost complete. He need to learn to help with mow buii mobility and if his future partner suffers from post draw matting stress disorder, how to react. How do you teach them to respond to anxiety . Tap, tap, tap my leg. Tell the degree to touch or paw my leg. I would reward him. Over time, as the team forms a bond. The dog will on his own start to recognize signs. Trinity nelson and york, named for world war i hero, Sergeant Alvin york are inseparable. If i shake my leg. He will poke at it. Reporter she was a marine Gunnery Sergeant for 14 years before being medically retired with constant arm and back pain and ptsd. He has been trained to get you to focus on him if you are having anxiety, use . Correct. Reporter he knows right away if you are . He knows right away. He knows to focus on me. Reporter two months before she met york, trinity any husband also a marine veteran lost his battle with cancer. Sending her into a tailspin. Awe getting really close to, probably, you know, becoming, one of the 22 veterans that you know every day that, would take their life. What was it about york that pulled you out . I think it was just that we had the same personality we have, you know, that kind of weird sense of humor. On certain day thats what i need the he knows it. He will do something just to make me laugh. Reorter your laugh is a reward for him. Yeah. Reporter that kind of tomb work that hero dogs fosters at training sessions look this one at national are bar in maryland. Hi, sweetheart. Do you want to come home . Reporter after two months of working with heroes dogs, retired colonel lisa latondris found her partner, ruby. She served 26 years as an army nurse before being diagnosised with multiple sclerosis. Being in charge of 100 beds. At walter reid. Going to say i need help is an emotional process. Early. Reporter they still have a lot to learn. But thats okay. Because theyre doing it together. Ruby just wants to make me happy. Work together with me. Train me. And keep me mobile and independent. You ready to go home . This is so exciting. Ruby. And those dogs are provided and those dogs are provided to the vets for free. ,,, a School Teacher looking for ways to connect with her students came up with a simple one sentence assignment and proved to be a lesson for us all. Mark strassmann reports. This book one of my favorites. Reporter every third grade teacher struggles to connect with students. Especially at the beginning of the year. Everybody, your bootie is glued to the carpet. Not getting up. Reporter denver teacher Kyle Schwartz has come up with a unique, she thinks Ground Breaking way to do that. I just wrote on the board. I wish my teacher knew. Had students write an answer for me. Reporter the responses range from heart warming. I wish my teacher knew that i love her with all my heart. Reporter to heartbreaking. I wish my teacher knew my grandpa died when i was in california. I started to cry because i want him to be still alive. Students all over the country are dealing with challenging issues it really helps me know which actions i ned to take as a teacher to support them. Was the simplicity of the open ended sentence part of its success. I think that there is a real power in the simplicity of the sentence. Read it again. Make sense. Schwartz multiplied the power a few yerz ago when she tweeted some students notes. They talked about everyday hardships like poverty, lonliness, and the breakups of families. It kind of snowballed and through the power of social media, teachers all over the country and really all over the world, started doing the same lesson. Reporter schwartz turned the notes and the ideas she deviled upped to deal with them into a new book that looks to the explan how one question can change everything for our kids. I wish my teacher knew that i dont have as many friend as i thought. Reporter why did you write that . Because there are a lot of people in other classes that are sometimes mean or rude. Reporter what did she say to you . About that . She told the class to raise their hand if you wanted to be of my friend. And nearly all of the class put their hand up. Reporter you didnt think you had many friends. And what did you learn . A lot of people wanted to be friend. I have seen their peers rally around them. I have seen this exercise really grow and change and help students. Reporter did it make you also realize you are not the only one who worries or has problems . What did that tell you . It told me that some times you need a hug. And a pat on the back. Reporter a pat on the back. You guys did awesome. Mark strassmann, denver, colorado. Thats the overnight news for this tuesday. Be sure to check back later for the morning newswsws, its tuesday, december 13th, 2016. This is the cbs morning news. President elect trump announces his selection for secretary of state today. Exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. But the pick is causing concern over the next administrations relationship with russia. He does massive deals in russia. He does massive deals for the company. Not for himself. For the company. Meanwhile, president obama weighs on the suggestion russia worked to get mr. Trump elected. This was not a secret running up to the election. And an arctic blast is