from maine to maui, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their communities. chris young: action teams of high school students are joining volunteers of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. carlos pea: it s easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action. if you were a hippie in the 60s, you need to know. it s the dawning of the age of aquarius. yeah, and something else that s cool. what? osteoporosis is preventable. all: osteo s preventable? right on! if you dig your bones, protect them. all: cbs cares! killed at least 22 people this week in the midwest. nearly a foot of rain caused the mississippi river to rise towards record levels, along with the meramec river, and nearly a half dozen others in the region. david begnaud is in valley park, missouri. david. reporter: elaine, good evening. where we are standing,
a federal judge is ordering bill cosby s wife to testify in a lawsuit filed by seven women who claimed the comedian sexual attacked them. bill cosby is facing a defamation suit separate from the criminal charges filed against cosby wednesday in pennsylvania. camille cosby says the law does not force her to testify against her husband. her lawyers say they will appeal. wayne rogers has died. wayne rogers played trapper john mcintyre and alan alda s side-kick in the early years of m.a.s.h. you re not getting in the ring with that guy until i hear him speech. i just called in a chicken. we are not throwing in the towel. i m ready to throw in the pwhole laundry! rogers left m.a.s.h. after 15 in 1975 after three seasons. he continued to be a money manager. spokeswoman said wayne rogers died thursday from complications of pneumonia. he was 82. coming up on the morning news. a year-end campaign shake-up. battle within the staff of republican presidential candidate
like we could see our first snow of 2016 wednesday night. 3 3 3 one of the world s biggest new year s eve parties went down without a hitch in new york city overnight. weijia jiang reports from times square. 3 pkgnats 3-2-1 happy new year!..(ball drops)about a million people from all over the world came new york s times square to welcome 2016 and to say goodbye to 2015. (sot: janessa williams / arizona): it was a great experience. everybody should go at least once! (sot: abe arrillaga / reveler) i ve e en dreaeang since i was a litite kid totoome out here.a blizzard of confetti showered down on visitors to the so called crossroads of the world as the nearly 12-thousand pound waterford crystal ball made its minute- long descent. many greeted the new year with kisses, while some shed tears.natsyou may kiss the brideothers got marriedwhile the mayor and his wife kicked up their heels. revelers enjoyed unseasonably warm weather.and encountered tight security. more than 6- thths
2015 saw americans triumph on the soccer field, and pope francis make his first visit to the states. there was the start of the 2016 presidential campaign, and a pair of deadly terror attacks in paris. [ explosion ] multiple attacks in the city of paris. many are dead. many are wounded. the bataclan is where the greatest massacre happened. a whole night of violence. france is today a country at war. u.s. offifials are calling the attacks a game changer. this is an attack on all of humanity. they hit six sites, and in the span of just 32 minutes, darkness fell on the city of light. [ gunfire ] this was an attack on our very way of life. thisisas an attack on the way the west lives. they re going to publish as normal. could an attack like paris happen here in the u.s.? on a couple of levels. this was supposed to be a happy occasion, but it turned into an active shooter scene. the two gunmen were killed in a shootout with police just hours after the rampage
the cbs overnight news will be right back. [ buzzing ] [ tree crashes ] [ wind howling ] visit worldwildlife.org. historic winter floods have killed at least 22 people this week in the midwest. nearly a foot of rain caused the mississippi river to rise towards record levels, along with the meramec river, and nearly a half dozen others in the region. david begnaud is in valley park, missouri. david. reporter: elaine, good evening. where we are standing, this is usually one of the busiest intersections in st. louis county where there would usually be semis passing through, tonight it is water from the meramec river, which crested earlier today. but tonight, not far behind where i am standing, it is nearly 20 feet deep, where it should be dry. over the next 12 hours, the mississippi river is expected to crest in st. louis at 42.5 feet, nearly 12 feet above flood stage. john houser lives just south of st. louis in the city of arnold. we re just fighting the water, and it