Limitations was due to run out. If convicted, cosby, who is 78 years old, could face five to 10 years in pririn and a 25,000 fine. Tonight, hes free on 1 million bail. Jericka duncan reports from suburban philadelphia. Mr. Cosby, do you want to say anything . Reporter this afternoon, attorneys for Comedian Bill Cosby walked him into this small courthouse in elkins park, pennsylvania, to hear the criminal Sexual Assault charges against him. His accuser is andrea constand, a former Temple University employee who first told police about the alleged incident over decade ago. Constand says in the winter of 2004, she went to cosbys house for careerdvice. Cosby offered, and she took, three blue pills and wine to relax. In the criminal complaint released today, she told police within a half hour, she difficulty speaking. Her legs felt ruery, like jelly, andndhe had no sense of time. She says though she was unable to move or speak, she felt cosby fondle her breasts and vagina, and woke up about 4 00 the next rning, still in his s me. Prosecutor kevin steele the victim came to consider mr. Cosby her mentor and her friend. Today, after examination of all the evidence, we are able to seek justice on behalf of the victim. Reporter when cosby was questioned by police back in 05, he admitted the two had sexual contact but said he had given constand the allergy pill benadryl and that the contact was consensual. Athe time, the District Attorney annnnnced no criminal charges, citing lack of evidence. But investigators reopened her casehis past summer after a judge unsealed portions of constand filed in 2005, in which cosby admitted giving drugs to women. Constands attorney asked cosby, when you got the quaaludes, was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young women you wanted to have sex with . Cosby replied, yes. He later said he misunderstood the question. The civivisuit was settled in 2006 for an undisclosed amount of money. In the past year, more than 50 men have accused cos of Sexual Assault, many of whom posed for this cover story in new york magazines july edition. Victoria valentiono is one of the accusers. Well, we were absolutely elated, vindicated, validated, and juju elated. I cant i cant find a better word for it. Mr. Cosby, did you drug that woman . Reporter 78yearold cosby was able to leave jail after bail and giving up his pasort. Cosbsbdidnt have anythingngo say when he left this courthouse, but later this evening, his attorneys released a statement that reads in part jim, cosby is expected to appear back in court for preliminary hearing on january 14. 4. Jericka, thank you. Cosbys arraignment comes at the beginning of the criminal judicial process, not the end. But the idea of cosby charged with a sex crime would h he been unfathomable a generation ago when he outpolled ronald reagan, billy graham, and pope johnaul ii as americas most trusted and admired man. More than 30 Million People tuned in each week to watch the cosby show in 1986. Why, sir . The first africanamerican y, in 1965. How much . Hey, hey, hey the creator of the beloved kid show fat albert. Im going to sing a song for you if youre in there, you sur e terrific. The pitch man who was madison avenue magic. You mean it was. And a man who at one time held more than 50 honorary degrees. Bibi cosby is now centerertage as the subject of a Great American fall from grace. Bill cosby never seemed like he was playing a character. He was this, you know, great husband. He was this wonderful l mily man. Renee graham is a contributing opinion writer for the boston globe. He was a fingerwagging moralist criticizing comedians who used profanity or young black men whose pants were too low. And you have thihiman who seems to represent this way to live and how to be a good citizen of the world, and meanwhile, you now have all these allegations, and on top of the allegations, you now have a charge of Sexual Assault. And you think that makes this this historic . I think it does. Everyone knew bill cosby. And i think generally, everyone had a really positive opinion of bill cosos. So when yoyohave someone who is that high, the fall is going to be, you know, that much more devastating. Now, of those 50 or so schools that gave cosby honorary degrees,s,t least a dozen haveve since e scinded them. There is breaking news tonight in calgary, canada. An air canada jet made an Emergency Landing afr severe turbulence caused at least 20 juries on board. Fire Officials Say some passengers were taken off the plane by stretcher and taken to hospitals. The jet was bound from china to toronto when the problem occurred. Will be righghback. Almost sixty million americans are affected by mentml illness. With three simple wowos. My name is chris noth and i will listen. 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 tetes 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 its 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. Its the dawning of the age of aquarius. Yeah, and Something Else thats cool. What . Osteoporosis is preventable. All osteos preventable . Right on if you dig your bones, protect them. Another major story developing tonight, the historic flooding in the midwest. Rivers are still rising in missouri and illinois. At least 21 peopleleave been killed there. Homes have been evacuated. The National Guard called out. And the rivers are expected to crest near st. Louis tomorrow or friday. Anna werner is in fenton, missouri, tonight. Anna . Reporter good evening, jim. And this is what many neighborhoods in the st. Louis metro area look like tonight. Some are even getting out the boats to use for transportation. Floodwaters here are rising more than one inch per hour, and residents are desperately trying to save their homes or simply escape. The e erling estates subdivision in arnold, south of st. Louis, sits in the spot where the overflowing meramec and Mississippi Rivers meet. As of this afternoon, halflf joining hundreds of others submerged in the st. Louis area. And volunteers filled and stacked sandbags trying to save the rest. Thanks. Reporter resident carla bryant helped organize the effort. There are homes, these are my neighbors. Weve done everything we can, and we still cant beat it. Reporter december rainin swelled rivers around st. Louis and pushed water into nearby communities. The water was so higin this neighborhood, rescuers had to pluck a man and his dog off a rooftoto dozens of others were also rescued from stranded vehicles. Officials issued evacuation orders for several communities, including valley park and west alton, on the banks of the mississippi, north of st. Louis. In branson, the army corps of engineers opened the spillways at Table Rock Dam in an effortrt to ease flooding along the white river. Waste Water Treatment plants with little success. There was simply too much water. Is plant in fenton, ssouri, had to be closed, and that meant untreated sewage was flowing into local streams and into the meramec. Thats the same river overflowing into carla bryants neighborhood. Tomorrows another day. New years is at the end of the week, so 2016s got to be better. Reporter right now, the Meramec River is expected to rise another foot and a half to a record 47 feet. That crest is expected to occur some time tomorrow afternoon, jim. Anna, thank you very much. There were long lines again today at the nations airpts. Bad weather delayed more than 5,500 flights. More than 370 were canceled all together. Today, a mexican judge granted ethan coach, the affluenza kid, a threeday delay in his deportation. His mother was sent back to texas. Couch and his mother were arrested in mexico on monday after he skipped a probation weeks on the run. Couch killed four people in 2013 while drunk driving, avoiding jail with the defense that his wealthy parents hadnt taught him right from wrong. After a series of Deadly Police shootings, today, chicago mayor rahm emanuel said officers should only use guns as a last option. Adriana diaz reports the m mor is revamping police training. Reporter rahm emanuel stepped before the cameras as a mayor under a spotlight, with a Police Department in crisis. Ultimately, what we are doing is injecting some humanity into the work of our Police Department and the Police Officers. Reporter the mayor called the new policies a dramatic shift in police practices. Hehes doubling the number of tasers for officers to 1,400. Increasing desk duty for Police Involved in shootings from three days to 30. And focusing on deescalation training to reduce the numbebeof policeinvolved shootings. Tensions boiled over last month video showing officer Jason Van Dyke killing 17yearold Laquan Mcdonald in october 2014. Protesters have taken to the streets, demanding the mayor resign. Andy shaw, who heads the better government association, says thats not likely to happen. Hes trying to save his reputation and his legacy, and hes also trying to save a city in crisis. Reporter one made worse by this weekends Fatal Shooting of 55yearold bettie jones. She was accidentally shot as officers opened fire on 19year old Quintonio Legrier during a domestic disturbance call. What about the taser . Taser him down. Dont start shooting people, innocent people reporter thats a problem the mayor hopes todays announcement will solve. Theres a difference between whether someone can use a gun and when they should use a gun. Ananwe as a city must trtrn for that difference. Reporter on average, one person per week is shot by jim, this month, the Justice Department steppededn to ininstigate patterns in n e Police Departments use of force. Their initial report should be out in a yeyr. Adriana diaz covering for us tonight in chicago. Thank you. Four secret Service Agents were seriously h ht in a headon collision in New Hampshire last night. The driver of the other car was killed. The agents had been assigned to a Hillary Clinton campaign event. In the president ial campaign today, the republican front runner kept on firing at the top democrat and her husband. Heres major garrett. Reporter at a rally in south rolina, donald trump said hes ready for a woman president , just n n Hillary Clinton. I love, love, love having a woman president. Cant be her. Shes horrible. Reporter accused by clinton of using sexist rhetoric, trump agaiaibrought up former president bill clintons marital infidelities. And she wants to accuse me of things, and the husbands one of the great abusers of the world . Give me a break. Give me a break. [ applause ] reporters aboard his elegant private jet tuesday. Try not to crash the woodwork if possible. Reporter to announce he would start spending 2 million a week on tv ads. Were going to o talking about a lot of things, including the border, including trade, including isis and security for the country. Reporter with a little over a month before the first voting begins, reblicans hoping to be the mainstream alternative to trumumhave turned on each other. The superpac supporting jeb bush attacked marco rubio for missing senate votes to campaign and fundraise. Politics first. Thats the rubio way. R rorter chris christiti joined in, saying rubio should have flown to washington to vote against the recently passed budget bill. The vote happened and thats my observation, and its its hardly an attack. If marcoco that thinskinned, he doesnt belong in this business. Reporter rubio said his fellow candidates are getting increasingly desperate. Chris christie is a funny guy but hes never in new jersey. Hes gone half the time. Reportete a recent cspan votes than any senator running for president. And jim, bush pulled all tv ads in iowa and south carolina, and sent most of his National Staff to those early vototg states to help save his flagging campaign. Major garrett, thank you very much. In new york city today, a final salute for a fallen hero. Thousands of Police Officers and u. S. Service members lined the streets near st. Patricks cathedral for air force National Guardsman and nypd detective joseph lemm. He and five others were killed last week in a bombing near Bagram Airbase in afghanistan. Lemms fouryearold son wore his fathers hat and saluted his dad. Californias drought has killed millions of trees. Weve got the hightech pictures to prove it. And why so many seals and sea lions are in distress. Right back. Some undeniable good news from the recent storms in the western u. U. The snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is significantly above the average for this time of year. But thats not enough to reverse the damagefrom californias historic drought. Asasen tracy reports, a a staggering n nber of californias trees are dying. Reporter this hightech flying laboratory has been soaring over california, measuring the impact of four theres a lot of red on this screen. Which is a sign that were over an area thats in trouble. Reporter scientist greg asner says his team has made a startling discovery 888 Million Trees in californias forests have seen measurable water loss since the drought began. Yoyore basically saying g e drought has impacted nearly one billion trees in california. Thats correct. Reporter they can be this precise because their plane is equipped with stateoftheart lasers that scanned 15 acres of forest everyryecond. Its like having xray vision that produces these firstof theirkind 3d images of the health of every single tree in thforest. The red areas on this map show severely droughtstressed trees. Blue areas are healthier. Your equipment reads how much moisture is in each individual tree . Yeah. The measurement is focused on how much water is s the foliage itself. Its like getting a blood test. Its really one of the key indicators of the health of a reporter the u. S. Forest service says more than 29 Million Trees have already died. Asners team has determined that 58 million more are on the brink. These severely stressed trees, are they passed the point of n return or are they recoverable . We dont know wheheer a stressed tree is going to absolutely succumb and be gone or if its going to bounce back over time. Reporter the hope that el ninofueled storms will bring chneeded rain. In the meantime, these new maps will help the Forest Service know which areas are most vulnerable and wildfire officials know where the greatest risks are. Ben acy, cbs news, sacramento. The white house is sharing thats coming up. The north pole is famous for extreme temperatures, but not these nd of extremes. 34 degrees today in north pole new york, and 41 in north pole, even at the real north pole it was 33 degrees. That is 50egrees above normal and the first time its been above freezing in december in 13 years. Of el nino have chased away the fish that seals and sea lions rely on for food. At least 4,200 starving sea lions have washed ashore this year and the situation is expected to get worse this winter as Ocean Temperatures rise. Today, the whi house released the gallery of president obamas yeye in pictures. Among the chief photographers favorite shots, this snuggle with the first lady. The fatherdaughter chat where malia tells dad hes got something on hisisace. E selfie two brothers will never forget. A bride and groom greeting an unexpected guest at their wedding. And the one where jerrseinfeld came knocking. Two kids may have figured d t the best way to honor Americas Service members. Thats next. Woman what does it feel like when a woman is having a heart attack . Severe shortness of breath. Unexplained nausea. Cold sweats. Theres an unusual tiredness and fatigue. Theres unfamiliar dizziness or lightheadedness. Unusual pain in your back, neck, jaw, one or both arms, even your upper stomach, ararsigns youre having a heart atatck. Dont make excuses. Make the call to 911 immediately. Learn more at womenshealth. Gov heartattack. While i was on a combat patrol in baqubah, iraq, a rockckpropelled grenade took my arm off at the shoulder. I was discharged from the army, and ive been working with the Wounded Warrior project since 2007. Warriors, you dont have to be severely wounded be with the Wounded Warrior prprect. We do have a lot of guys that have posttraumatic stress disorder. Being able to share your story, i guess it kind of helps you wrap your nd around what did happen over there. My name is norbie, and yes, i do suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, we end tonight with a salute to a pair of determined young ladies. Chip reid tells us theyve been saluting american heroes and theieifamilies for years. Reporter 10 years ago, rachel okun, then 10, and her sister, kelsi, who was eight, told their parents they had a big idea. They wanted to say thank you to the troops i iiraq and afghanistan by offering scholarships to their spouses and children. With some parental assistance, the precocious girls created their own charity called t. H. A. N. K. S. Usa, and soonhey were online asking for money. In 2009, when cbs news paid a raised a stunning 5 million. Ive been able to see