harvard s first black female president out after just six months on the job. a suspected israeli air strike kills three hamas leaders in lebanon, including one of the founders of the group s military wing. what it could mean as the conflict widens. a deadly collision in japan involving a passenger plane and a coast guard on its way to victims of the massive earthquakes there. we ve got a gunshot wound. major: our new series, guns in america. we spend a night at one of the nation s top medical trauma centers with a firsthand look at the impact of gun violence. you see people on their worst day, and they are on death s door. shift a few seconds from here to there, and that shift can have a big impact. google maps and ai may mean less red lights in your future. when i look at a red light, i see opportunity. opportunity to help drivers and opportunity to help the planet. major: good evening, to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garre
academic past. harvard s first black female president out after just six months on the job. an israeli air strike kills three hamas leaders in lebanon, including one of the founders of the group s military wing. what it could mean as the conflict widens purely deadly collision in japan involving a passenger plane and a coast guard on its way to victims of the massive earthquakes there. our new series, guns in america. we spend a night in one of the nation s top medical trauma centers with a firsthand look at the impact of gun violence. you see people on their worst day and they are on death s door. takes a few seconds from here to there, and that shift can have a big impact. google maps and ai may mean less red lights in your future. when i see a red light, i hear opportunity, an opportunity to help drivers. major: good evening everyone. thank you for joining us. i am major garrett in for norah. we begin with a shake up at the top of one of the nation s mo
problem. cbs s ben tracy takes a look in our continuing series, protecting the planet. reporter: so we are at an intersection. we are stopped. most of us hate getting stuck at red lights. when i see a red light, i am annoyed. [laughter] but julian rothenberg is not like most of us. when i look at a red light, i see opportunities. reporter: her job with google s to make traffic lights, like those at three intersections in seattle, more efficient and less annoying. a few seconds from here to there, and that shift can have a big impact. reporter: google s new project green light system uses its vast maps database and artificial intelligence to optimize traffic lights around the world. are these court made it already? so they are actually not. reporter: the system suggest changes in city engineers then decide if they want to implement them. we had one case where we moved four seconds from a north-south street to an east-west street, for a