This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. The holiday getaway is officially at its peak. A. A. A. Says we are now inside the busiest 48hour travel window of the season. A record 107 million americans are expected to be traveling between december 23 and january 1. More than 97 million are driving to their destinations. Nearly 6. 5 million are flying. Over 3. 5 million others are taking buses, trains, and ships. The christmas crush comes as the t. S. A. Is testing a new security screening technology. It is designed to spot hidden explosives and suicide vests. Heres transportation correspondent kris van cleave. Hi reporter over the hills, through the traffic and crowded airports, by the millions we go. The endoftheyear Holiday Travel season is hitting its peak. In new york, that means t ticeably increased security. Itams of bombsniffing dogs, heavily armed officers, and enhanced surveillance have been deployed to train stations and airports, while radiation detectors are scanning vehicles coming over bridges. This is the right thing to do. Our experience that weve had in the last week or two and what weve seen all throughout the world, this is the right time to ou this. Reporter in the wake of this months subway bombing, senator Chuck Schumer is calling for this scanner to be deployed in new york city. Rt scans people as they enter the subway, looking for hidden explosives like suicide vests. Tsst week, the los angeles Transit System started testing it. Es as that bar turns from green to red, we know weve identified an individual that may need a little closer scrutiny. Reporter alex wiggins is the l. A. M. T. A. s head of security. If it detects something that is very dense, like what would be in a suicide vest or explosive vest, it will alarm and then it will give our officers an indication that here is something we need to take a akry close look at. Reporter the 6. 4 million expected to fly in the next two weeks will also see security changes. New automated screening lanes aimed at speeding up the process were just deployed in boston. Theyre already in place at a hew other airports. Passengers will be asked to e move any devices larger than a cell phone from their carryons. T. S. A. Administrator David Pekoske that declutters the image that xray operators look at. Our own testing shows that the new procedure increases security significantly. Reporter federal Law Enforcement officers tell cbs news theres no specific eltelligence pointing to pending threats over the holiday period, but they remain concerned about the potential for lone wolf style attacks. Just today, the f. B. I. And d. H. S. Put out a video urging y ople, if they see something, to say something. Jeff. Glor all right, kris, and can you also talk to us about this theres a ban on a certain kind of suitcases there . Reporter yeah, they call them smart bags. This is one of them. Its got a g. P. S. Sensor in here. Its got a battery, so it can teen charge my phone. And the battery is the concern. See how in this bag, you cant take the lithium ion battery out . Airlines are worried about fire danger, so theyre saying if seis bag were to be checked, that battery has to be able to come out. Since this one cant be removed, starting in january, its on the nofly list. Glor those lithium batteries remain a big concern. Kris van cleave, thanks very much. Glor there will be no Government Shutdown on saturday. Today the house, followed by the senate, approved a stopgap funding bill that will keep Government Agencies running through january 19. The United Nations the United NationsGeneral Assembly voted 1289, with 35 abstentions, to condemn the white houses decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital and move the u. S. Embassy there. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley threatened to withhold u. S. Aid to countries that supported that resolution, and Major Garrett has more on this. The United States will remember this day, in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. Ru reporter President Trumps ambassador to the United Nations slammed member nations voting against the u. S. We will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit. Reporter among the 128 countries voting to condemn the embassy move were u. S. Allies britain, france, and japan. Joining the u. S. And israel in the vote, just guatemala, honduras, marshall islands, micronesia, nauru, palau, and togo, combined population 33 million, and recipients of more than 680 million in u. S. Aid. At a Cabinet Meeting yesterday, President Trump tried to put the General Assembly on notice. They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then otey vote against us. Well, were watching those votes. Let them vote against us. Well save a lot. We dont care. We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the reme failed strategies of the past. Reporter previous american president s have refused to recognize jerusalem as israels capital, to preserve negotiating space for palestinians who want to claim East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent palestinian state. The u. S. Move earlier this month provoked days of palestinian street protests. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called it a deliberate constraint on middle east peace. The state Department Said after the lopsided vote against the United States, the threat to cut off future funding is real and that nations that cross the Trump Administration will now receive extra scrutiny. Judging by this vote, however, it appears many of those countries came to the conclusion mr. Trumps threat is more bluff than bite. Jeff. Glor Major Garrett, thank you very much. In melbourne, australia, 19 people were hurt today when a man driving an s. U. V. Plowed down a busy street. Police say it was a deliberate attack, but there are no links to established terror groups. The suspect is an Australian Citizen of afghan descent. He is said to have a history of drug use and mental illness. Police are also questioning a second man who was recording the crash on his cell phone, and had a bag containing three knives. Vice president mike pence made an unannounced trip to afghanistan today. He told u. S. Troops at Bagram Airbase that President Trump is committed to staying in the fight against the taliban and other terror groups. Americas been at war in afghanistan for 16 years. Margaret brennan traveled with the Vice President , and spoke about the importance of the mission. Its so important to remember that 9 11 was launched from here in afghanistan. Today, afghanistan is actually nsme to dozens of terrorist organizations, including isis, including al qaeda and the haqqani network. And so being here on the front lines, in the fight, supporting the Afghan People as they defeat these terrorists and we stand woulder to shoulder with them. Reporter the way you describe staying until the last terrorist, it makes it still sound like a forever war to all the American Parents who are still sending their kids here to fight. How do you respond to that . First and foremost, its e portant for the American People to know that President Trumps view of this is that the Afghan People are leading this fight. Our armed forces here, with new freedom, new flexibility, and new resources, are supporting their efforts to take the fight to the enemies of both of our countries. And the objective here, though, is just as much about standing up government institutions as it is about defeating the enemy in the field. Reporter how do you explain to the American People how they should understand what just happened this month, with mike flynn pleading guilty to lying to the f. B. I. About his contacts with the russian ambassador, which the president said he lied not only to you about but to the f. B. I. , and thats why the president fired him . My view of all these matters is that the special counsel has a job to do. Were fully cooperating with that inquiry. But for the president and myself and our entire administration, were focused on what the American People hired us to do. Reporter but when he was fired, did you know he had lied to the f. B. I. . Ll what i can tell you is that i knew he had lied to me, and owd i know the president made the right decision with regard to him. Glor Margaret Brennan with the Vice President in afghanistan. Defense secretary jim mattis flew today to the u. S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay on the eastern tip of cuba. Mattis spent time with the more than 5,000 u. S. Troops stationed there, but he did not visit the Detention Center which once held nearly 800 inmates. 41 remain, including Khalid Sheikh mohammed, the 9 11 mastermind. The numbers for open enrollment in obamacare are out. About 8. 8 million enrolled in plans for next year through the federal healthcare. Gov marketplace. That is 400,000 fewer than last year. The Trump Administration cut the Enrollment Period in half, and yesterday, as part of the tax bill, the penalty for not having insurance was eliminated. For the second year in a row, Life Expectancy in america declined in 2016, to 78. 6 years. A big reason for that is more than 63,000 overdose deaths, many from opioids. Dr. Jon lapook is here with more on all of this. Doctor, what stood out to you about this . Reporter well, jeff, deaths from powerful synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, that are eeailable on the street, doubled in a single year, and they now surpass the death rate from pain killers like codeine, oxycodone, and hydrocodone. Ugd those are the drugs that have been commonly overprescribed by doctors in the past. Now, doctors like me, weve been weucated, cracking down on us, trying to prescribe fewer of these opioids. But what do you do about drugs that are illegally obtained on the street or elsewhere . I mean, its really a challenge. Glor so what parts of the country are getting hit the hardest here . Well, you can see in blue, the 22 states plus the district of columbia that have drug sterdose death rates higher than the national average. And at the top of the list was west virginia, followed by ohio, new hampshire, and pennsylvania. Glor and so how does this compare now to causes of death from other factors . Reporter this is causing more deaths now than breast cancer, colon cancer, or car accidents. Glor thats sobering to think about. Reporter it takes your breath away. As a physician, it just takes my breath away. Glor jon lapook, thanks very much. And now to some of the other stories were following in tonights evening newsfeed. The commerce Department Said today the economy grew 3. 2 in the third quarter. Thats enough to give the u. S. The best backtoback g. D. P. Rates in three years. The murder rate in the nations 30 largest cities is down more than 5. 6 this year. That includes doubledigit decreases in houston, new york, ond chicago. But murders have spiked in charlotte, north carolina; columbus, ohio; and portland, oregon. Baltimore has the highest murder rate of any large city, at least 353 murders so far this year. The National Academies of neiences, engineering, and mpdicine say the Trump Administration has halted an independent study of offshore oil rig inspections. The federal agency has been inspecting rigs since the massive deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico. The agency told us the study was halted because it may be duplicating other work. There is much more ahead on the cbs evening news. Reporter whats behind a new Class Action Lawsuit against apple . Instant messaging will be slower, your camera will be slower. Basically, it will affect almost all the functionality of your phone, save for actually making phone calls. Glor remembering the man behind one of the great literary hoaxes. 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Your web browser will be slower, instant messaging will be slower. Your camera will be slower. Basically, it will affect almost all the functionality of your phone, save for actually making llone calls. D reporter he found, as he posted on his geekbench blog, that apple was limiting the power going from the phones battery to its processor which runs apps and other functions on purpose, and slowing it down. At this point in time, the only fix is to replace the battery. Reporter apple now confirms am, saying the issue came up when the iphone 6 experienced sudden shutdowns last year. The problem was, older batteries crashed while trying to keep up with the phones power demands, so the Company Issued a Software Update which made them run slower. Should a 1,000 smart phone have this sort of issue, you know, 12, 16, 18, 24 months after its been shipped . Its disappointing. Reporter Nick Thompson of wired magazine says theyre not making it up, right . They are doing it to prevent spikes, so your phone doesnt shut down. Like, that is a perfectly good reason. Reporter but he also told cbs this morning. But why are they telling us about it now . Well, theyre telling us about it because they got busted on reddit, right . Because, like laughter i was wondering, why are they telling us . They should have just admitted it up front. Bt, they got busted on reddit. Because there are all these forums that have been testing it and they kind of proved it. Reporter well, apple told us in a statement that their goal is to provide the best experience for their customers, including overall performance and prolonging the life of their devices. But, jeff, no response on the lawsuit. For now, some customers say, yeah, were not too happy about at. Glor anna werner, thanks very much. A big change was announced today at alphabet, the Parent Company of google. Eric schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman. 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