From afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. There have also been two american civilian casualties, including 35yearold aid worker lisa akbari. The former u. S. Army researcher was shot in the back of the head while leaving her gym in kabul on sunday. Her family told us she had moved there three years ago to help afghan women and children. Maurice, this violence is why president obama recently decided to reverse course and keep 9,800 u. S. Troops in afghanistan through next year. Thats to keep the taliban at bay and to ward off this new threat posed by isis. Margaret brennan at the pentagon, thank you. Winter officially begins tonight, but you wouldnt know it in much of the east where temperatures soared into the 50s adriana diaz is in chicago, which tonight is the balmy city. Reporter maurice, we have onl
Three americans and three afghans were wounded. Margaret brennan reports tonight from the pentagon. Reporter the American Service members were stopped at a local Meeting Point while on patrol with Afghan Forces when a suicide bomber drove a motorcycle packed with explosives into the group. The taliban took credit for the attack, which happened nearby bagram air field, the largest remaining u. S. Military base in afghanistan. The pentagon has warned that the insurgents have been gaining strength since the end of the u. S. Combat mission. The taliban has seized control of the strategic Helmand Province in the south as well as getting closer to important cities. National security analyst Michael Ohanlon just returned from afghanistan. The threat remains roughly constant. The insurgency is resilient, and we have 100,000 fewer combined forces on patrol across the country. Reporter so far this year 20 American Service members have been killed. There have also been two including 35yearold aid
An lt is apple is the biggest and Richest Company in the world. Theres a battle over the encryption used in apple products. The debate over companies hiding profits overseas and the challenges of doing business in china. Apple is also notoriously seseetive. But charlie rose was invited into apple headquarters for 60 minutes. Go. Tha you. Thank you. Its been an incredible year for apple. Tim cook has been running apple for the past four years. Before that we had some real revolutionary products. Reporter the stage belonged to apples late cofounder steve jobs. Were going to make history together today. Reporter he transformed the computererrom a a cumbersome machine into the most sleek Consumer Product of alltime. The iphone is 12,000 times more powerful than the original mcintosh and next year it will have sold 1 billion units. Following steve jobs was one of the most challenging successions imaginable. A daunting responsible for the man he hand picked, tim cook. I have never met anyone
Ordeal is far from over. Reporter aisha musa has been living in a crowded refugee camp for seven months. She survives by selling corn meal at the local market. Musa was kidnapped by boko haram militants. They killed her family and forced her at gunpoint to become a jihadi bride. They show you a gun, she said, and then whatever they say, you have to follow their commands. She told us her captor would lock her in during the day. At night he would rape her. He would go on operations and kill people, she said, and then come home and force me to be with him. Musa was rescued by the cameroon military, but the worst of her ordeal was finding out she was pregnant by her rapist. She told us, i am not enjoying that i have a baby from a boko haram man. But she is resigned and there are moments of tenderness. Her story is not unusual. Boko haram has captured hundreds of girls, the most infamous the over 200 chibok schoolgirls kidnapped more than 18 months ago. Musa never saw the chibok girls but o
s it looking on th december downpours. Tonight this winter storm bears down on the bay area. Paul, how is it looking on the radar . Another round of rainfall moving in. One just left the south bay, another one is just entering the north bay. The next round, lake county, sonoma county, mendocino county, napa county. Windsor, cloverdale, the city of napa, vallejo, youre in it. Hayward, steady rainfall. Steady rainfall for San Francisco. Now its encroaching on los altos. Fremont, los gatos not too far behind. Last up will be morgan hill and gilroy. Over the past 24 hours, more than four inches of rainfall in the santa cruz mountains. Inch and a half for danville. Inch and a half for oakland. More than an inch of rainfall for novato. Half an inch of rain in san jose. When its not wet tomorrow its going to be windy. Sustained winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour and the north bay hills and east bay hills with isolated wind gusts to 50 Miles Per Hour. There is plenty of snow to talk about in the si