administration approves new weapons sales. reporter: i m on the israel gaza border where fighting expands as israel expands fighting in the south of the territory. also tonight, ukraine strikes back taking aim at russia with ammunition running low and western aid stalled. happy new year! countdown to the new year. today in new york a final test that the ball will drop in times square. security on high alert. west coast warning. a new storm stirs up the surf and trouble. some unable to resist the big waves. reporter: i m elise preston in southern california with a look at precautions being taken to keep onlookers safe. thin ice. more than 100 fishermen rescued after stuck on a break away ice floe. cbs money watch year in review. no recession and the stock market s on a run. later, an old trade arriving in this digital age. the business of book binding giving life to books old and new. we ll walk in saying something like i can t believe people are still do
new year s celebration across america are well underway pretty good evening i am bryan llenas and for jon scott and this is a box report. annette new york city nypd is hard at worst beefing up for the ball drop celebration. hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are expected to gather in times square tomorrow night. that may include pro- palestinian demonstrators who could try to spoil the celebration for everyone else. cb cotton is live in times square with more on security preparations or tomorrow night. good evening brian. nypd certainly wants to reassure partygoers there are no credible threats to the celebrations here in times square. the crowd continues to grow by the hour the party is not even begun. security includes k-9 units, drones, surveillance robots thousands of uniformed officers. but also a big number of undercover ones you see the rehearsal happening around me. nypd says it is prepared as you mention for pro- palestinian rallies to pop up.
people arriving every day. it is where the idf has suggested people go for safety. there are people pouring into that region. in fact, everyone in the u.n. says rafah is, quote, bursting at the seams. this pause was to allow humanitarian aid in. primarily food and water. just what came in today clearly will not be enough. i wouldn t be surprised if the idf allows fighting there to ponce in the future, as well. there are so many people moving into that area. so little food and water right now. such a different situation. this violence has affected children and the west bank and in jerusalem, as well. and he spoke with organizations trying to do work to help. what they have to say? we spent some time in the west bank. the u.n. says the war in gaza is now spilling into the neighboring west bank and east jerusalem. what a lot of those who are working with these community say is that it has never been as violent, never been as deadly as it is right now. that is saying somethin
ecosystems on the planet, is being strangled. the mekong is under an onslaught of dam building, intensifying climate change and sand mining. but there is some hope. join us, as we head downstream in cambodia and meet the communities having to adapt to the changing nature of this river. translation: there will be no fish for the next generation. . ..and those trying desperately to save it. translation: when i see this, it makes me worry i about mekong s fate. mi lives in a world of water that was once predictable, reliable, renowned for an abundance of fish. but in recent years, he and thousands like him have been asking, where are they? this is the tonle sap, south east asia s largest freshwater lake. fish caught by communities here feed millions across cambodia. translation: these past few years, there is less and less i water and fewer and fewer fish. i didn t expect to get a lot of fish because when i felt the weight of the net, it was very light. i felt right around it
going to die that way. jesse s body is it was obvious that it was a homicide and wreaked of guilt and lied and lied and lied. about six, sex, sex. there s a lot of people that sheet and it doesn t make them a murderer. all of a sudden it no one else had a motive. steve is on the phone, he s got a gun. he was crying. i said, fight this. this is crazy. college student is murdered and detectives discover a trail leading uncomfortably close to home. oh my god, it s going to look bad. it was afternoon by the time someone noticed him, though he d been lying here still, was beautiful. and though he had been lying here still since before daylight. and where university students were winding down their school year. june 5th 2004. and 9-1-1 behind it and i was ordered to come and investigate and headstrong up their yellow tape and we re taking a and it was obvious to them that it was the medical examiner sitting on the left and waited for her