Ukraine. A group of armed men have now taken over the key government building in the regional capital of crimea and have raised the russian flag. This is raising fears that russia may step in and into ukraine. Lets go to our correspondent Barbara Starr. Right now forces are active along the border with ukraine. Is there real serious fear russia could potentially cross the line into ukraine . Well, wolf, lets get right to defense secretary chuck hagel because there is an extraordinary optic out there. Earlier today at nato headquarters in brussels secretary hagel issued a warning to moscow. And how many years has it been since a u. S. Defense secretary had to do that . I want you to listen to what he had to say. Im closely watching russias military exercises along the ukrainian border, which they announced as you know yesterday. I expect russia to be transparent about these activities. And i urge them not to take any steps that could be misinterpreted or lead to m miscalculation during
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im margaret brennan. Happy thanksgiving. Its an especially late thanksgiving this year, the latest in fact the holiday ever falls. That means, the Holiday Shopping season, starting tomorrow, is the shortest it ever is, just 26 days. So many retailers are trying to make up for lost time by opening for business today. They expect to ring up more than 600 billion in sales this season, as much as 15 of it this weekend. But will Opening Stores on thanksgiving pay off . Heres don dahler. Reporter 33 million americans are expected to shop today alone. That sounds like a lot, but its actually two million fewer than last thanksgiving day, even though more stores are open. We caught up with che davis at a best buy shopping for a game console. How does it feel for you this year . Do you think youre going to spend a little more this year or last year, about the same, or less . About the
O Christmas Tree how lovely are your branches o Christmas Tree o Christmas Tree how lovely are your Branch Branches o Christmas Tree o Christmas Tree above the tree your we faithfully o Christmas Tree o Christmas Tree we faithfully unchanging good morning and welcome to a special Holiday Edition of new day. It is thursday december 25th, Christmas Morning. 6 00 in the east, im chris cuomo, along with Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira and were joined by the young peoples chorus of new york city. What a beautiful version of o Christmas Tree they just gave us, by the way, they have a new album called cool side of yule tide its available in both itunes and cd baby. We have a big show for you, were going to look back at 2014. All the big news stories. The disappearance of flight 370, up and until ferguson. So Merry Christmas, you guys, so great to be with you. Were also going to bring you a religious round table. Have a conversation about the role that faith has played in the headlines th
His emails are being read by the chinese and russian governments and he writes his e mails with that in mind. His comments suggest that confidence in security has been shaken at the highest levels after relentless hacking of federal computers. Do you think the chinese and or the russians are reading your e mails . Well, we know that the t fortunately, were living in a world where a number of countries, the chinese and russians included, consistently have been engaged in Cyber Attacks against american interests, against the american government, and its an issue that we recently raised very, very strongly in our dialogue with the chinese. The answer is, it is very likely. It is not without outside the realm of possibility and we know they have attacked a number of american interests over the course of the last days. Pelley its very likely that your emails are being read . Its very possible. Theres no way for me and i certainly write things with that awareness. Pelley with all of the atta
Up thousands rally on the streets of spain calling on spanish in council and leaders to end months of silence and talk to each other over catalonia paid for independence well have the latest on spains worst political crisis in decades. And polls alone all md police evacuated part of Central London off to a call its protests trains outside a major tourist spot but the incident turns out not to be terribly lated. Im having a home free thanks for joining me Russian Police have arrested more than one hundred opposition activists on a day of wide spread protests across the country thousands of supporters of the jailed anti corruption. The titian election of alnico gathered in towns and cities demanding he be allowed to run in next years president ial election there were violent scenes in St Petersburg is why police broke up a rally and detained more than sixty people also or he say the protests which coincide with president levy midleton first day on friday. And we can speak now to all russ