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The u.s. blames syrias assad dictatorship and its allies, russia and iran, for prolonging the fight. we have more now from holly williams. >> reporter: the buses waiting in aleppo this morning were supposed to evacuate fighters and civilians from the last remaining rebel-held section of the city. [explosion] instead the ceasefire collapsed. there was shelling, and more air strikes, and the buses went away empty. several thousand civilians-- men, women and children-- are holed up in around two sq...

Latest from that war torn country. >> reporter: tonight, as the battle against isis intensifies, the increase in u.s. forces designed with one purpose. >> bringing down the full weight of u.s. forces around the theatre of operation like the funnel of a giant tornado. >> reporter: the 200 additional special operations troops join 300 already in syria, tasked with training and advising forces as they prepare to advance to raqqah, isiss de facto capital city. weve seen the fierce fighting in aleppo...

Sergio, whats the status? >> reporter: last time we talked, that tree was laying across both lanes of southbound highway 13. i want to show what crews are doing. theyve managed to clear it out of both southbound lanes. the massive tractor, theyre going to attach a couple of chambers chains to it and physically pull whats left of whats laying on the northbound lanes across the barrier. then theyre going to cut it apart and sweep the rest of it off of the freeway. now, when chp officers came throu...

Its all but certain president obama will leave office without fulfilling one of his original campaign promises-- to shut the u.s. military prison for terror suspects at guantanamo bay, cuba. dozens remain locked up there. margaret brennan got a rare inside look at the prison. >> reporter: these are the remnants of guantanamos notorious camp x-ray, where hundreds of suspected terrorists were caged in the panicked aftermath of 9/11. the picture today is far different. the 60 remaining detainees, w...

Pygmy goat and ate the goat. >> reporter: like many here in the santa monica mountains, wendell phillips keeps exotic animals on his ranch. five of his alpacas were recently killed by a predator known as p-45. he struck again next door killing 10 alpacas, a goat and a sheep. now he has a state permit to shoot the mountain lion. >> nobody wants to kill him. hes an animal. i wish they could preserve his life, but i dont want to keep adding my animals to the food chain. >> reporter: roughly 6,000 m...

What that means is bringing them in to full enclosures at night. they wont be vulnerable. >> reporter: phillips says hunting the lion is another option. >> with this mountain lion, the only-- i think the only solution is adios, mr. mountain lion. >> reporter: do you think that will solve the problem? >> well, definitely not in the long run because there are other mountain lions out there. so even if they do kill him, there are other mountain lions out there. >> reporter: phillips has just one we...

But he vowed never to use harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding which trump has considered reviving. >> thats the debate in washington. thats not the debate here. there is no debate be here because we are grounded on safe and humane care and custody and will continue to be so. >> reporter: there will not be torture at guantanamo? >> i am confident there will not be torture at guantanamo. >> reporter: 21 of the remaining detainees have been cleared for release to other countries, but tha...

The girlfriend of the victim, philando castile, live streamed the aftermath on facebook. jamie yuccas is in st. paul. >> the use of deadly force by officer yanez was not justified. >> reporter: prosecutor john choi today said that philando castile was shot seven times by officer jeronimo yanez less than a minute after being pulled over. castiles girlfriend was in the car with her four-year-old daughter. >> oh, my god. please dont tell me hes dead. >> castile then calmly and in a non-threatening ...

Fight isis. which the trump administration will now inherit. across the border in syria, aleppo is again being bombarded by air strikes on rebel-held areas, killing civilians and damaging hospitals. russia says its now launching strikes from its aircraft carrier in the mediterranean sea, but despite international condemnation of russias actions, the president-elect has suggested hell work together with moscow and would end american support for syrian rebels. in syrias multi-sided conflict, scott...

Transition, but not the one youre thinking of. >> bill plante? no? bills not here? thats shocking. >> pelley: it certainly is, but after 52 years at cbs news, senior white house correspondent bill plante is calling it a career, and what a career, covering every major story of the past half century, from the civil rights movement -- >> of all the activities of the past weeks in selma come to fruition now? >> pelley: to the election of americas first black president -- >> tomorrow theyll go into t...