>> good evening, everyone. libya's interim leaders are moving to put the war-torn country back together. a declaration of liberation is expected tomorrow. today, acting prime minister resigned clearing the way for an interim government and elections. elizabeth palmer is in tripoli with the latest. >> reporter: in announcing his resignation, he set an ambitious deadline for elections. >> the first election should be within a period of eight months, maximum. >> reporter: before jabril left office he went to a shopping center in the city of misrat aalong with thousands of other libyans, to see colonel qaddafi'qaddafi's corpse, on puc display for the second day in a row. most of the spectators had no sympathy. >> he killed my brother, my cousin. he raped my friends. he burned my family's house. >> reporter: cell phone video shows once captured, there was no mercy for qaddafi. he tried to talk to his captors saying, "this is forbidden in islam." one of them replied, "shut up, you dog." qaddafi, dazed, then wipes the blood from his face. more than 48 hours after his death, libyans are still celebrating. they are enjoying unpress departmented freedoms like gathering in public without fear and speaking their minds openly for the very first time. >> democracy. constitution. liberty. freedom. >> reporter: but there's hard work ahead for them and the interim government. if it wants orderly elections by next summer, thousands of well-armed rebel fighters on the streets must be persuaded to either go back to their day jobs or sign up in a new national army. and libya's damaged pipelines and terminals need major repairs to get the oil flowing out and billions of dollars of much-needed revenue flowing in. the transitional national council has just announced that qaddafi's body will be given back to his family. they've also made it clear that the grave will be discreet, maybe even secret, because they really don't want it to become a rallying point for any kind of violent insurgency. betty. >> liz palmener tripoli. liz, thank you. if the new libya is going to be a country of rights and the rule of law, it may already have some questions to answer, among them the fate of black africans who called libya home for generations. as alan pizzey reports from the city of tawarga, there is evidence that ethnic violence is on the rise. >> reporter: where have all the people gone? the answer reveals some ugly truths with the end of the qaddafi regime. 10,000 people were driven from the town of tawarga in a single day. the cleansing was done by rebel forces from the nearby city of misrata, after they broke a siege that had lasted for months. the people who lived here fled with what they could carry. what they left behind was looted and trashed, their animals abandon to forage as best they can among the ruins. the justification for all of this is that men from here not only backed qaddafi. they actually took part in the siege of missy rota and even raped women from there. actual proof is hard to find, but in the heat of wars and revolutions, perception often matters a lot more than fact. it's certainly enough for gunmen occupying an empty building. >> i watched some videos on mobiles. >> reporter: several hundred tawarga refugees squatting on a building project in tripoli believe they're victims of racism. "they don't like us because we are black," she says. much of the graffiti sprayed on the abandoned buildings in tawarga is racist. this one reads, "don't buy a slave unless you have a whip." tawargans are descende descendem african slaves. the refugees admit some of the townspeople were qaddafi loyalists. his green flag still flaps above a few abandoned houses, tainting everyone. "we didn't do anything wrong," bahia barka insists. "the rebels are being really unfair with us." the misrata brigade is make sure they won't be able to go home, either. alan pizzey, cbs news, tawarga. >> contribution say iran will be cheering the loudest when u.s. troops leave iraq. on friday, president obama announced plans to have them out of the country and back home by year's end. wyatt andrews has the latest. >> reporter: the war in iraq may be over but the politics of happening have begun. after the president called the withdrawal of all u.s. forces a success, his republican opponents reacted with scorn, with texas governor rick perry suggesting the announcement itself could endanger the troops. >> the last thing that you want to do is put those men and women's lives in peril, and i think that's what the president's done by making a political statement to his base that he's going to be out of iraq on a date certain. >> reporter: the date certain for leaving iraq, however, was not set by president obama. the commitment to withdraw this december was signed by former president george w. bush three years ago, and was formalized on the day an iraqi journalist-- threw his shoes at mr. bush. still, the obama administration did not want a can complete withdrawal. it wanted 5,000 troops to stay to help train the iraqi army. the deal fell through when the al-maliki government and parliament would not grant u.s. forces immunity in iraqi courts. former massachusetts governor mitt romney blamed the failure of those negotiations on the president. >> we were going to have a presence in iraq going forward. that was part of our objective, and this president has failed to deliver. >> reporter: the importance of a u.s. presence in iraq goes beyond 2012 politics. the concern is the regime in iran. experts say the more the united states moves out of iraq, the more iran moves in. >> they fund the shiite militias. they've also worked with sunni extremists and they've used it as a way to extend their influence in the region but also to try to push back on american influence in the region. >> reporter: that's why secretary of state clinton began sending signals today. she didn't mention iran by name. she didn't have to. >> america will stand with our allies and friends, including iraq, in defense our common security and interests. >> reporter: officials here and in iraq say they're still working on smaller deals to train some iraqi forces. but most of the remaining 39,000 american troops will be home by new year's. betty. >> wyatt andrews at the white house. wyatt, thank you. major developments today concerning the royal family and line of secession in saudi arab, the world's top oil exporter. 87-year-old king abdullah left a hospital. but the heir died in a hospital. the cause was believed to be colon cancer. expected to become the new crowned prince and prine nayev, the ultraconservative interior minister who controls the police. a circle of friends is helping some people in poverty move beyond despair. mixed messages from occupy wall street where protesters debate a list of demands, and mitt romney is missing in iowa tonight. still, the republican presidential contender says he'll win over conservatives in the hawkeye state. those stories when the cbs evening news continues. >> nevada republicans gave way today and shifted their presidential caucuses from january 14 back to the original february 4 date. the move had scrambled the election calendar and some of the republican candidates had threatened to boycott the earlier date. iowa is where six of the republican presidential contenders will be tonight for a gathering of the state's christian conservatives, but the leader of the field won't be there, and it's no accident. tony guida has more. >> thank you, guys. good to see you. >> reporter: mitt romney hasn't spent much time in iowa. >> i'm running for president again. >> reporter: his visit to council bluffs thursday was his first campaign appearance in the state in more than two months but he promised to be back. >> i want to get the supports of ions. this is not my first trip to arks what, as you know and i will be here again and again campaigning here. >> reporter: but not tonight. romney is skipping a forum with one now evangelical activists in des moines. >> no one has coesed behind a social conservative candidate, and it doesn't seem like they will for a while, so mitt romney can keep playing to his base and ignore the people who aren't going to vote for him anyway. >> good to see you. >> reporter: romney's credentials with social conservatives don't pass muster, not because he's a mormon. >> that doesn't play any part in it. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: but because as governor of massachusetts he enacted universal health care and favored legal abortion and gay rights before he was against them. >> mitt romney turns 180 degrees a lot of times and i don't like that. a lot of times he's for something and then he's against it. >> reporter: nonetheless, romney leads want republican pack in iowa. the most recent poll puts him three points ahead of herman cain, too narrow to call romney a clear front-runner, but enviable for the infrequent campaigner. >> mitt romney has never had a clearer path to the nomination than he does right now. partly it's because his opponents haven't organized. the less mitt romney does in iowa, the better his standing. >> there's a good shot i might become the next president of the united states. it's not a sure thing but it's a good shot. >> reporter: the iowa caucuses are 11 weeks away, right behind them, new hampshire, where romney is the runaway favorite. romney hopes 1-2 punch in the first states to vote will knock his opponents out of the race early next year. >> michele bauchmann may have hit another bump on the campaign trial. while campaigning in iowa today where she was born, she spent time dispiewght a report that all five of her paid campaign staff in new hampshire have quit. ahead, the protests have gone global, but will a uniifying message from the occupy wall street crowd emerge? that story is next >> it's been more than a month now since the occupy wall street movement took root in lower manhattan, then spread throughout the country and even abroad, but what exactly is the message? elaine quijano went to lower manhattan to ask the occupiers. >> reporter: five weeks after it began, there's still no single list of demands by the occupy movement, but protesters say right now, that's not the point. >> really, what's going on, this is a place where people can get together and the conversation can be had where we can start to work towards what this is about. >> reporter: kendrick is 27 years old. he didn't want to give his last name but says after he lost his teaching job he was forced to move back in with his father. >> i mean, look around you. there are a million lists all over on every sign that you see. >> reporter: the movement continues to attract new people, like charlene spaulding, and her husband, bob. >> well, we came down from maine. we're here because we feel the middle class is pinched. >> reporter: the protests have spread across the country and appear to be striking a chord. according to a new associated press poll, mor more than a thid support the wall street protests and 58% say they're angry about the nation's politics. marsha spencer has never taken part in a protest before. she's put her issues a handwritten sign. >> i've heard some very lively political discussions here in the last few days, and i think it's-- it just gets people thinking about things more. >> reporter: you don't have a clear set of tangible, concrete steps that you'd like to see taken. it's hard for people to figure it out. >> yawp, well, then that's their problem. and i don't have an answer for that. the movement is awareness and out rage, but that's what the movement is to me. >> reporter: for now, protesters say the lack of a single focus gives them a kind of freedom to attract more of their fellow citizens, whatever the grievance. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> seattle commuters have entered what some call via-doom, nine days of difficult driving as the aging alaskan way viaduct closes for repairs. i viaduct on one of seattle's two main north-south highways was damaged in an earthquake 10 years ago. next, fighting breast cancer. how homeless women are getting help from a survivor determined to save lives. >> october is breast cancer awareness month, focusing attention on a disease expected to claim almost 40,000 lives this year. but as mark strassmann shows us, a homeless woman with stage four cancer found a way to beat the odds with help from an unlikely friend. >> reporter: cynthia ryan thought she knew all about breast cancer. the english interest p/e university of alabama-birmingham has survived it twice, the first time when she was 29, the second when she was 40. she wrote extensively about the disease from its pain to prognosis. >> i've gone on and on about we're not all the same. we have to look at people in context. clueless. i was clueless! i didn't have any idea. >> reporter: edwina sanders taught ryan how much more she had to learn. sanders was in trouble when she met ryan. >> here's the house. >> reporter: homeless for 16 years and with stage four breast cancer. you had no place to go. >> i was scared to trust anybody. >> reporter: because it had been so long since you trusted anybody? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: this is the church for the homeless in downtown birmingham whered is rye and edwina sanders first met. it sits just eight blocks from the college professor's office but the two worlds they came from are a million miles apart. >> two years ago, i would have stepped over edwina on the street. i could have been that person without the resources, and it-- it hit me in a way they couldn't-- i couldn't turn away from her. >> reporter: ryan convinced sanders to get a mastectomy and guided her through a complex medical system. >> we sat and we talked, and she told me not to be scared. you know, "you'll be all right." and i was all right. >> reporter: sanders now lives in a donate apartment. her cancer is in remission. >> when you see somebody like edwina, that is what cancer really looks like. it's the raw cancer. it's-- it's the cancer without the morphine to cover up the pain. edwina is as much a triumphant breast cancer survivor as anybody else. and we don't-- we don't see that. >> reporter: ryan's new mission-- educate more homeless women about breast cancer, get them tested, get them treated, like edwina sanders, who now calls cynthia ryan her best friend. mark strassmann, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> california-base fresh and easy is recalling its bagged washed spinach because of possible listeria contaminations. no illnesses have been reported. the recalled spin itch was sold in stores in california, nevada, and arizona. the southwest coast of australia has had its 30 fatal attack pie a great white shark in less than two months. the later was a 32-year-old american man bitten while diving today near the city of perth. two other men have been killed in the area since early september. coming up, getting help to get out of poverty. one woman's success story. >> we end tonight with the story of a new strategy to help the poor. the latest census report says 46.2 million americans lived in poverty in 2010, up from 43.6 million in 2009. cynthia bowers shows us how an ohio group is fighting poverty one family at a time. >> reporter: stacy carroll was barely surviving, supporting four children in springfield, ohio, on food stamps and a $400 monthly welfare check. >> i was with my mom, of course. i didn't have a job. i wasn't doing anything. >> reporter: the single mom wanted a way out of poverty. she just needed direction. >> where do you think they're going to find scooby do? >> reporter: help came in the form of a total stranger, marsha roth. >> we started out building relationships. we had the kids together at a park. >> reporter: the two were brought together by a nonprofit called the circles campaign that matches low-income families with middle-income volunteers. >> we also look at what barriers exist. >> reporter: it was created by scott miller. >> if you're in poverty in this country, it is just a day-to-day grind to get things done, and so very intelligent, everywhere emotionally capable people are stuck in this cycle of just none stop problem solving. so people coming along and just lifting some of that burden is huge. >> you have microsoft word or anything like that? >> reporter: stacy had an outdated resume, rarely paid a bill on time, had a low credit store and constantly bounced checks. with marsha's help, she redid her resume, was able to work out a payment plan to erase old debt if her credit report and learned how to stay on top of her bill. she just needed somebody to get her going. >> yes. sometimes it's just a matter of knowing what resources and options are out there. >> reporter: since 2009, the circles campaign has helped 1,000 families in 23 states. the dropout rate is high-- 58%-- but for the 42% who stay, there are positive results. >> if people stay with circles for 18 months, our research now shows that their income, on average, is going up 48%. their assets are going up 115%, and their welfare is going down by 36%. >> reporter: stacy now has a full-time job just two miles from her home at the department of motor vehicles, making $11,050 a month. she opened a savings account with $100 for eep of her four kid and has a personal emergency fund which stands at $500. you think that it can work for almost anyone who wants to change their situation? >> yeah, i think making sure that you have a good support network and good people behind you, it really does something for your self-confidence, and, you know, in the end, you look back and you can see that you did do that. >> reporter: stacy carroll has cut her food stamp benefit in half and receives no more cash assistance. cynthia bowers, cbs news, springfield, ohio. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm betty nguyen, at the cbs broadcast center in new york. russ mitchell will be here to connected to the murder of a hells angel... the latest-- as police wait out a standoff in stockton, possibly connected to the murder of a hell's angel. the latest, as police wait out their suspect. the occupiers are on the move, but they are not leaving their oakland encampment. the latest on their defiance of the city's order to clear out. >> it's just flat out cruel, flat out cruel. a stray puppy found horribly abused. why bay area animal control suspect he's not the first victim. cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. ,,

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