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WUSA CBS Overnight News December 1, 2015

Landscape. Well, it looks a little like the Arctic Circle in the midwest, which is now blanketed in storm warnings. Heres david begnaud. Reporter over the last 24 hours this has been the scene across ckrocross much of kansas of oklahoma. Every time it crackles it means Something Else is coming down. Oh, its coming down. Reporter an inch of ice covers power lines that knocked out electricity to thousands of homes and businesses. Oklahomas governor declared a state of emergency in all 77 counties. You know, all night we could hear the limbs cracking and the ice falling and we just didnt know what to expect. Reporter at least four people died after major flooding in texas. Authorities received nearly 37 calls for water rescues since thanksgiving. You are freaking lucky. I know. No way you should have survived that. Reporter in utah a 32yearold woman fell into this icy reservoir while trying to save her dog, who fell through the ice. Mantua Police Officer brad nelson led the rescue. Walking out onto the ice you could hear it cracking beneath my feet. Theres not a whole lot she could have done to help herself at that point. Reporter here in minneapolis 8 to 12 inches of snow is expected over the next 12 to 24 hours. Scott, across the midwest tonight some 8 Million People are under a Winter Weather advisory. David begnaud reporting tonight. David, thank you. Today the suspect in that shooting at a planned parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs made his first Court Appearance. He will face firstdegree murder charges and perhaps the death penalty. Three people were killed, including a Police Officer. Nine were punded. Barry petersen is in Colorado Springs. The initial charge against you is murder in the first degree. Reporter Robert Lewis Dear appeared by video link from the county jail, standing next to a public defender. He was asked if he had any questions. He answered in a monotone. No questions. Reporter sources say he went to the clinic on friday with a duffel bag full of weapons and brought propane tanks in his car he could shoot and cause an explosion. When he surrendered, he reportedly said, no more baby parts. That may have been a reference to videos filmed and edited by antiabortion activists where they say planned parenthood officials talked of selling body parts from aborted fetuses. An official from the group that includes the Colorado Springs clinic was among those in the videos. So anywhere from three up to seven. Reporter dear lived in hartsel, about 65 miles west of Colorado Springs in a mobile home. He was described as reclusive, a man who never interacted with others and would rarely make eye contact. For the people of Colorado Springs this is a time of mourning for the dead. University of colorado Police Officer garrett swasey, mother of two jennifer markovsky, iraq war veteran kearre stewart, who was there with his gifriend. Angelica llanca and her daughter alexis were in the clinic but separated when the shooting started. Angelica hid in a bathroom. Were you afraid you would be killed . I dont know. To tell you the truth, all i wanted was my daughter. Reporter alexis was among those evacuated hours into the siege. She is still traumatized. I can still hear the gunshots. Now you can hear them in your mind . Mmhmm. Reporter it is likely that more charges will be filed in the next several weeks. As for the death penalty, scott, the local d. A. Says that decision is several months away. Barry, thank you. Late today chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke was released on 1. 5 million bail. Van dyke is charged with murdering 17yearold laquan mcdonald, who was armed with a small knife. Video released last week showed the officer shooting mcdonald 16 times as mcdonald was walking away. A baltimore Police Officer went on trial today in the death of freddie gray, who suffered a spinal injury in april while being driven in a police van. William porter is charged with manslaughter. Five other officers will be tried later. The city has been gearing up for this case, and heres jeff pegues. The city and the Police Department need to do better. Reporter kevin davis, baltimores new police commissioner, says his department has been training for the trials and the unrest they could bring. We wont stop. Reporter are you ready for what may come during and after the trials . We are. Reporter davis acknowledges that wasnt the case in april. After freddie grays death the city erupted. Businesses were looted and torched. Police officers were injured. In the aftermath murders and Violent Crime spiked and officers were accused of not being aggressive enough. There were concerns that they were pulling back. Did that happen . I think a more thoughtful way to recognize what happened for a couple months here is this Police Department had ptsd. You said ptsd. Is that a politically correct way of saying that they were taking a knee . I think its a correct way of saying that cops had anxiety. Reporter daviss predecessor anthonybats w Anthony Batts was fired in july. But the kilgsz continued. 311 homicides this year, a 59 increase over 2014. Davis, who was Deputy Commissioner at the time of the rioting, says one reason the murder rate is up is this the looting of 30 pharmacies. Suddenly 288,000 doses of prescription drugs were on the streets with gangs fighting for control. When they get their hands on their stashes, then theres a competition for the geography that they need to occupy to sell their drugs. And then from that violence has erupted. Reporter with the trials of those six Police Officers scheduled to extend straight into next year, davis says that he will treat a protest like a protest and a riot like a riot. Scott, that is something he says the department did not do seven months ago. Jeff pegues in baltimore. Jeff, thanks. In the president ial Campaign Hillary clinton made news today when charlie rose asked her whether u. S. Combat troops should join the fight against isis in syria and iraq. I agree with the president s point that were not putting american combat troops back into syria or iraq. We are not going to do that. This fight under no circumstances would you not do that . Well, at this point i cannot conceive of any circumstances where i would agree to do that because i think the best way to defeat isis is, as ive said, from the air, which we lead, on the ground which we enable, empower, train, equip, and in cyber space where dont forget they are a formidable adversary online. So what i want to say is look, we dont know yet how many special forces might be needed, how many trainers and surveillance and enablers might be needed but in terms of thousands of combat troops like some on the republican side are recommending, i think that should be a nonstarter. It was a wideranging discussion. Dont miss it tomorrow on cbs this morning. Do more americans shop online or in stores . We were surprised. The cbs overnight news will be right back. The final countdown if youre the band europe, you love a final countdown. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Karl, dont you have fryeah, so . Ng over . It stinks in here. Youve got to wash this whole room are you kidding . Wash it . Lets wash it with febreze. For all the things you cant wash, use. Febreze fabric refresher whoa hey mrs. Webber inhales hey, it smells nice in here and try pluggable febreze. To continuously eliminate odors for. 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Our cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger is with us. Jill, how big a day was it . Reporter its going to be pretty big. Were looking at probably 3 billion in sales, according to adobe digital. Now, if we get there, it would be the Largest Online day of shopping ever. We have some early results from midnight to 10 00 a. M. It was pretty amazing. 50 million visits to 4,500 websites in the u. S. Those Online Shoppers spent about half a billion dollars. Thats up about 14 from a year ago in that same time horizon. These numbers are going to get bigger. Are we getting to a point where more people are going to shop online than actually go into a store . I think eventually. But today absolutely not. If you look at the recent data from the commerce department, we know that online sales account for somewhere in the vicinity of 15 , 16 of total sales. Maybe well drift up to closer to 20 . But you know, for now people still want to be in a physical location and spend their dollars there. I understand some of the retailers couldnt handle the traffic today. Yeah. This was pretty wild because over the last few days outages at very big retailers like nordstrom or victorias secret, this morning a big outage at target. Paypal down for a while. So technology not always perfect. I think the good news here is with the advent of apps and information were smarter, were better consumers. And the reality is we can now combat those algorithms that are targeting us so beautifully by being informed. Business analyst Jill Schlesinger, thank you very much, jill. An olympic champion has beaten the odds again. Her story, just ahead. Royal watchers are enjoying a new look at britains youngest princess. Charlotte, the daughter of william and kate, the duke and duchess of cambridge, is nearly seven months old. Mom took the pictures. Today olympic champion Amy Van Dyken rouen celebrated a big breakthrough. The sixtime gold medal swimmer posted this video, calling these strides without upper body braces a huge step. Van dykens ruined spine was severed nearly two years ago in an offroad vehicle crash. And well be right back. After cyber monday comes giving tuesday. Michelle miller tells us that a lot of folks are getting into the spirit. Thats the number of complete applications we have. Reporter at the giving tuesday command central in new york city volunteers are gearing up for tomorrow. So giving tuesday started right here at the 92nd street y . Yeah, thats right. Reporter henry timms is the ys executive director. Three years ago he came with the campaign. We never needed more than six words. It was always black friday, cyber monday, giving tuesday, and people would really say yeah, i think thats a good idea. On giving tuesday everyone can be generous. Reporter his idea was simple. After several days of shopping he wanted people to refocus on giving. To any charity or purpose they wanted to. He asked others to help. They jumped right on the bandwagon. It was an amazing thing to see that actually all over the country people started to bring their own ideas to giving tuesday and started to grow it. Reporter the movement now has 40,000 partners worldwide and raised more than 86 million. Youll see these letters that the kids have written to their donor. Reporter charles best runs donorschoose. Org, a charity which matches teachers wish lists to donors. Whats great about giving tuesday is people can be supportive, can be generous in any way they see fit. They can give of their time. They can give of their money. Ready. Reporter Genein Letford teaches music in the los angeles area. She received dozens of instruments from the giving tuesday campaign. The cool thing is its not just about bringing the materials into the classroom and making sure the kids have this opportunity, but its connecting the community to our schools. At a time when we feel like the most public conversations are about things which threaten us or things that divide us, how valuable is it to have a conversation about something that unites us . Reporter a day expected to bring many thanks after much giving. Michelle miller, cbs news, new york. 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 of course cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im jericka duncan. President obama and other World Leaders at the International Climate summit in paris got some words of warning from pope francis. On his way home from a weeklong pilgrimage to Africa Pope Francis warned that the world is in his words at the limit of suicide and that it is now or never to reach an agreement to limit Global Warming. President obama echoed those sentiments monday in paris. Were here because we recognize the urgency of Climate Change and we believe that theres something that we can all do about it. As long as we work together. While the agreement that we seek in paris will be forged by governments, the ambitious targets that we set for ourselves are going to be reached in large part by the efforts of our scientists, our businesses, our workers, our investors. Reporter Margaret Brennan is at the paris conference. Reporter the worlds two biggest polluters, china and the u. S. , kicked off the Climate Change summit. Its our responsibility to take action. Reporter a pledge made as smog climbed to dangerously high levels in china. The goal in paris is to limit Global Warming to 6. 3 degrees fahrenheit from preindustrial levels. But the Terror Threat is diverting attention. The president s first stop on french soil was to pay his respects last night at the b bataclan theater, site of the worst of the terror attacks. France remains on high alert. A 120,000strong Security Force is stationed across the country. Riot police have been deployed in unprecedented number. On sunday 174 protesters were arrested for defying the government ban on demonstrations. Former Diplomatic Security agent bruce tully has spent 40 years protect dignitaries around the world. I think this is one of the highestrisk environments ive seen professionally in my career. Theres so much threat analysis out there, not just from isis, copycats, but also because of the protesters for the conference itself. Reporter environmentalists silently protested the ban on their march, leaving their shoes in the square they had hoped to walk through. A cbs News New York times poll shows that 53 of americans believe Global Warming is caused by human activity. 31 think natural weather patterns are the biggest factor. American experts are working in some of the worlds most forbidding places to study the impact of Global Warming. Mark phillips has the first installment of our series the climate diaries. Reporter while World Leaders may be negotiating about what to do about climate in paris, but some of the most Important Research on the subject is being done about as far away from civilization as you can get. This is svalbard, a collection of norwegian islands just 800 miles from the north pole. And its where a Young American climate scientist has come to try to unlock some of the secrets of Climate Change that have been frozen into this landscape for tens of thousands of years. Sarah strand, a 22yearold californian, wont see the sun again until mid february. The polar night has set in, and darkness isnt the only thing to worry about up here. So i will take the flare gun if you want to take the rifle. Okay. Reporter this is polar bear country, where sarah and her german colleague norbert pirk are required by law to pack protection. The bears are more of a threat in summer when the meltback of their sea ice Hunting Ground has made them more desperate for food, even to the point of attacking a Research Boat. But theres still a threat in winter, and its in winter that this research must be done. This is basically your baby up here, is that right . Yeah. It definitely has to be running if were going to get all the data. Otherwise all this suffering is for nothing. Reporter every day sarah comes out here to check instruments that are measuring a worrying trend. The release of Greenhouse Gases, which scientists used to think were safely lock

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