Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Students in many places around the nation marched out of class today to protest the decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of 18 yearold Michael Brown in ferguson, missouri. At the white house today, president obama spoke of a simmering distrust between too Many Police Departments and too many communities of color. He called for spending 75 million to expand the use of body cameras worn by officers. Thats something that Michael Browns parents had asked for. Vladimir duthiers begins our coverage in ferguson. No justice, no peace. Reporter students marched through Clayton High School today at 12 01, the moment that Michael Brown was shot and killed in august. Its also the oneweek anniversary of the grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson. It was just one of dozens of similar walkouts by high school and College Students across the country. In new york, thousands marched through union square. In los angeles, protesters gathered outside the Police Department. In cambridge, students staged a diein in harvard square. As these protests were under way, a 16member commission appointed by missouris governor to bring peace to ferguson held its first meeting in a town thats nearly 70 black and a Police Department thats 94 white, its goal is to address the breakdown of trust between police and residents. Its led by Community Leader reverend Starsky Wilson and businessman rich mccluer. We can only get to solutions when we all own that were in a place of brokenness. We require healing, and we all have to come to the table in order to get that done. The commission becomes a place to do that, and it becomes a place where we learn that you dont have to see eye to eye to be able to walk arm in arm to move forward. Reporter those are some really big issues to tackle. How realistic is it that youll be able to accomplish some of these goals . It will be a longterm assessment of whether weve accomplished some of these goals. Reporter the youngest member of the Governors Commission is rasheen aldridge, a 20yearold student who has been on the front line of protests in ferguson every day. Today he was at the white house, joining the discussion about race and policing with the president. He was very open in hearing our thoughts on ways we can move better as nation together. Reporter the Ferguson Commission is not expected to issue its final report before september of next year, scott, but it hopes to make interim recommendations before the Missouri Legislature reconvenes in january. Pelley vladimir, thank you. One procedure that failed in ferguson was officer wilsons attempt to call for backup. His radio was switched to the wrong channel. Bob orr has been looking into a Remarkable Technology in california that sends help the moment a gun is drawn. Reporter Deputy James Wright is a top marksman for the Santa Cruz County sheriffs department. Hes also ones of a dozen deputies now carrying a nine millimeter pistol specially equipped with small tracking module, designed to alert headquarters whenever he unholsters or fires the weapon. Its hightech backup for an officer who patrols without a partner. I could draw my weapon and fire it and dispatch would already be notified that i had done that prior to me updating them. Reporter so there is a sense of reassurance there for you, in that you know help is on the way. Yes. Reporter santa cruz is one of two departments in the United States now testing the technology. The system is simple using the chip in the gun and the officers smartphone, it sends this yellow alert when an officer draws his gun and this red alert when the weapon is fired. You can see how light that is. Reporter jim schaff works for yardarm technology, the Silicon Valley firm developing the technology. When an officer uses a weapon in the field, theyre not immediately able to call by radio. We cut that Response Time down to seconds. Reporter we show you how the technology works. It will have the location, time, number of shots. All this information will be captured. Reporter santa cruz sheriff phil wowak says the system may save lives and it will provide a clear record of what happened in any officerinvolved shooting. This product will give us the knowledge of the exact time the officer drew that weapon, the time between the drawing of the weapon and the firing of the weapon and then the exact time between each individual shot. Reporter so this is not about tracking the actions of your officers or keeping some kind of database on how often so and so pulls a weapon. Not at all. Not at all. It really is about knowing when a person is engaged in a hostile confrontation and getting them the assistance they need to make that situation safe. Reporter sheriff wowak says the guntracking information will be used to adjust and improve deputies training. The police union seems to be on board and early field results show the system does work. Pelley bob orr in our washington newsroom. Bob, thanks very much. Well, its cybermonday for holiday shoppers, and by this afternoon, sales were almost 8 higher than last year. That would be the fourth record in a row. Don dahler now on how retailers are keeping up. Reporter shoppers are expected to spend 2. 6 billion online this cybermonday. To handle the increased demand, retail giant amazon has added 15,000 robots to its facilities nationwide. Each can carry 750 pounds. David clarke is a Senior Vice President at amazon. The Little Orange robot goes out and picks the right plot of inventory and brings it back just at the right time for the person to pick the item out to go in that customers shipment. Reporter shopping, like shipping, is also getting high tech. Desktops account for almost 80 of online sales followed by tablets and smartphones. Jill puleri is with i. B. M. , who tracks online consumers. Are consumers getting more savvy in Online Shopping habits . We have larger amounts of sales, but the average ticket was lower. People are shopping for deals and using their mobile devices when they go in the store, so theyre checking prices. Reporter some retailers are holding back their discounts until evening to take advantage of home shoppers. Walmart predicts one in five wont start deal surfing until after work. Cyber monday is also morphing into cyber week, with some retailers spreading out their sales over a number of days, but waiting to click on that buy button may be a mistake. According to adobe digitals index, prices are expected to rise steadily until the end of the month. The very best bargains already happened on thanksgiving day. Cyber monday may soon become a thing of past. Retailers are seeing more growth in Online Shopping in the days leading up to it. Scott, expectations are next year black friday sales could frpass cyber mondays for the first time ever. Pelley don, thank you. Well, you dont often hear violent rap lyrics at the Supreme Court, but today the language there was raw as the justices heard the case of man who spent three years in prison for what he wrote online. Jan crawford on free speech in the digital age. Reporter separated from his wife and fired from his job, Anthony Elonis turned to pocebook. His postings, most directed at his wife, who left him, were violent. Im not going to rest until your body is a mess, soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts. Im going to tie you to the bed and set this house on fire h elonis said his posts were like lyrics from rap songs, violent but not serious. Hes convicted for making threats, a felony and sentenced to prison. His lawyer john elwood is urging the Supreme Court to set aside his conviction, saying the posts are protected under the First Amendment because he did not intend to harm. You can hear this stuff on the radio any day of the week. O e point is just because you say it doesnt mean its literal. Reporter the justices clearly struggled with the complex case, a major test of speech on the internet where people oftenpush the envelope. Throughout the hourlong argument, they appeared concerned about making it too easy for the government to prosecute online speech. As Justice Sonia sotomayor put it, weve been loathe to create more exceptions to the First Amendment, but they also seemed troubled by letting people like elonis off the hook for speech some may consider threatening, especially in domestic situations. Justice alito, this sounds like a road map for threatening a spouse and getting away with it, but cracking down on speech could have broad implications, especially for young people who blog and tweet and post all kind of provocative things on the internet and may not realize, scott, their words could be considered a threat. Pelley and a decision by the court expected around springtime. Jan, thanks. Today in hong kong, hundreds of police battled pro democracy activists who are demanding political reforms. Its been a twomonth standoff in the former british colony that now enjoys partial autonomy inside communist china. Seth doane is in beijing for us tonight. Seth, what happened today . Reporter good evening. Student leaders encouraged demonstrators to surround one of the main government buildings, temporarily shutting it down, but that sparked some of the worst clashes weve seen with selice. They responded with pepper spray, batons and even water to try to disperse crowds. Now a high court in hong kong has paved the way for police to remove the camps at one of the main protest sites. This as overall public support for these protests has waned and the stock market has dropped in hong kong. Scott, one of the signs this is an increasingly desperate protest movement, weve now heard that several of the student leaders, including 18 yearold joshua wong, have vowed ge go on a hunger strike. Pelley seth doane, our man in china. Thank you, seth. Are elderly drivers a danger on the road . You might be surprised by what a new study says. Californias got too much rain. When the western edition of the cbs evening news continues. To save on your prescriptions. 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