Approaching 30 below zero in the dakotas. And scott, in chicago as the packers come to town, it could be the coldest game ever played at soldier field. Eric fisher, thanks. Today in syria hundreds of civilians escaped aleppo in a deal that gives the assad dictatorship control of a city ruined by syrian and russian bombs. Air strikes intensified in recent days, and today secretary of state john kerry called them nothing short of a massacre. The only hope syrians have under this bombardment is a force of volunteer rescue workers called the White Helmets. This sunday on 60 minutes, youll see their nearly miraculous rescues, like this. This little boy was alone and nearly invisible when the White Helmets happened to spot just his hair in the pulverized concrete of his home. Bare hands were in a race with suffocation. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Reporter this is that same boy, his face freed. They excavated the ruin hour by hour. The White Helmets say they have saved 70,000. And with each they shout their gratitude to god. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar. Reporter majd ka lav and radi saad quit college to join the White Helmets. There was a woman and her husband, he told us. Only four of her fingers were sticking out of the rubble. We could see her moving her fingers like this. Fingers or here the leg of a boy are clues in a chaos of concrete. The leg led to hips and a torso. Body parts are expected. Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar reporter but then they uncovered a face. More often than anyone could expect, life is resurrected from a shallow grave. As of tonight, 154 white helmet volunteers have been killed in the line of duty. Our story this sunday on 60 minutes. We learned more today about the Chattanooga School bus crash last month that killed six children. The driver is charged with vehicular homicide. Police said he was speeding about 20 miles an hour over the speed limit and had used his cell phone on the bus. They still dont know whether he was using it at the time of the crash. Two children are still in the hospital. Tonight there is a water emergency in corpus christi, texas. More than 300,000 residents are being warned not to use tap water for anything. A chemical from an Asphalt Plant is leaking into the water, and people lined up for bottled water today with no idea how long this will last. When youve got an uncontrollable cough, take delsym, the 1 12hour cough medicine. It helps control the impulse to cough for 12 hours. Which means, youre controlling your cough on your morning commute. And later when youre joking with beth. Even when most cough medicines stop, delsym is still working. And when your days over, your cough is still under control. Thanks to the 1 12hour cough medicine. Delsym. The cough controller. Jack knocked over a candlestick, onto the shag carpeting. And his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. 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Weve got 15 meteorologists 24 7 around the clock watching the weather worldwide. And were really geared up here. Reporter its not just fedex gearing up. U. P. S. Also expected to break its record of more than 700 million packages delivered. The company relocated hundreds of staff to its shipping hubs to pitch in. The increase in Online Shopping will drive up the volume of packages this Holiday Season. U. P. S. Will handle 14 more packages that than qulaefrt and fedex is expected to increase thm by 10 . The major shippers are working overtime to handle the avalanche of orders and prevent shopper discontent. Upss on time delivery rate was 93. 1 last week. Fedex ground was 96. 2 . Considering they move millions of packages a day, even a few Percentage Points means hundreds of thousands of late deliveries. Satish jindel of ship matrix tracks the carriers. Christmas is on sunday. Even though saturday is not a working day, if they find packages that didnt make it on time when people ordered it correctly, they will put people on the streets to make a delivery so people are not disappointed. Reporter tomorrow is expected to be one of the busiest Online Shopping days of the year. Scott, it happens to be the last day packages can be guaranteed to arrive by christmas without an extra charge. Santa needs the help. Don dahler, thanks. Up next, well remember craig sager, the sportscaster, and his outfits. Were going to prove just how wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. Now were going to show you how degree dry spray is different. Degree dry spray. Degree. It wont let you down. Im good. . I just took new mucinex clear and cool. What is this sudden cooooling thing happening . Its got a menthol burst. You can feel it right away. New Mucinex Fastmax clear cool. Feel the menthol burst. And clear your worst cold symptoms. Lets end this. Dobecause youve got ams lot of cheering to do get fast sinus relief. With vicks sinex. And get your head back in the game. Sinex. The congestion, pressure, pain to clear your head, medicine. Sportscaster craig sager died today after a long battle with leukemia. Sager worked nba games on tnt for nearly a quarter century. Known for pointed questions and loud suits. One outrageous outfit drew a foul from nba star kevin garnett. You take this right here, i dont care if its versace, name brand its sai no, sai, i dont care. You take this and you burn it. 1974 when hank aaron hit his recordbreaking 715th home run, sager, a young radio reporter, dashed onto the field and scored an exclusive interview. The great craig sager was 65. Dolly parton held a telethon this week that raised 9 million for victims of wildfires in the great smoky mountains. 14 people were killed in those fires. 2,000 buildings burned. Two juveniles are charged with arson. Michelle obama gave her final oneonone interview as first lady to Oprah Winfrey for an upcoming cbs special and shared her thoughts about race. Color, wealth, these things that dont matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And its sad because the thing that least defines us as people is the color of our skin. Theres more of the interview tomorrow on cbs this morning. The oprah special airs monday on cbs. Up next, Steve Hartman with the untold story behind a holiday classic. ,,,,, 8drw tis the night before Steve Hartmans annual sleigh ridelong with secret santa. Tonight steve shows us how this santa got off the ground. Merry christmas to you, sweetie. Reporter its the one story that never gets old. Every year we ride with secret santa as he and his elves hand out hundreds of hundreds to random strangers across the country. Oh, my god, this is crazy reporter youve no doubt seen the happy endings. But almost no one knows the humble beginning. Thank you so much. Reporter the legend of secret santa can actually be traced back to a single act of kindness in houston, mississippi. It was 1971. A homeless man had wandered into town, and he was starving. The stranger stopped here at the dixie diner and ordered the biggest breakfast on the menu. His plan was to sneak out before the bill came. But the owner, a guy named ted horn, sensed what was about to happen. So he snuck up behind the guy with a 20 in his hand and said, i think you may have dropped this. And that was the end of it as far as he was concerned. Reporter david and sandra horn are teds children. They say their dad died in 2009 but that one gift keeps giving. That one little 20, just look what it did. Its difficult to imagine that. Reporter the money went to a man named larry stewart, who vowed that day if he ever got rich he would return the favor in spades larry eventually made millions in cable and Long Distance and became the first secret santa. His identity revealed only after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006. Merry christmas. Reporter which brings us to larrys good friend. Larry was hospitalized reporter the current secret santa. And i went up to visit him at night. Moonlight shining in, kind of surreal. So i asked larry, i said do you have any regrets . And he said yes. I said what is it . He said, i just wish i could have helped more people. Reporter after giving away more than 1 million to total strangers, larry still felt more needed to be done. So thats when i assumed the responsibility. Reporter over the last decade this new secret santa has run the total to more than 2 million and counting. Tomorrow well take you on his latest sleigh ride, which comes with a twist. Lets just have fun. Reporter this time the job of giving the green will fall to some deserving elves in blue. Until then, im Steve Hartman on the road in kansas city, kansas. And thats the overnight news for this friday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back with us a little bit later for the morning news and be be sure not to miss cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im scott pelley. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im don dahler. American intelligence officials now say the president of russia himself approved the hacking of our president ial election. Sources confirm to cbs news they believe Vladimir Putin was aware of the attacks that started in july of 2015. This is the first time the hacking is being linked directly to putin. Jeff pegues has more from washington. The evidence linking the hack to Vladimir Putin comes from what intelligence Officials Say are a variety of sources. Hundreds of people from the kremlin, the Russian Military and the Intelligence Directorate may have been involved in the elaborate network of cyber espionage. It included two separate hacking units nicknamed fancy bear and cozy bear. Investigators believe that putin initially wanted to damage Hillary Clinton and to inject chaos and doubt into the election process. U. S. Officials say it was an added bonus that donald trump, seen as more friendly to russian interests, became the republican nominee. The hack that ultimately breached computers at the Democratic National committee began in the summer of 2015. These arent super sophisticated attacks. Reporter clint watt is a fellow at the center for cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington university. What russia does well is they target it at key people they want to gain information from and they do it on a large scale hitting thousands of people over the course of time. Reporter today in japan Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters the u. S. Accusations are silly and futile. And president elect trump tweeted, if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long to act . Why did they only complain after hillary lost . But mr. Trump is wrong. The Obama Administration did publicly blame russia for the hacks in early october. Thats a full month before the election. The president elect is getting closer to filling his cabinet. On thursday mr. Trump selected montana congressman ryan zinke for interior secretary. Meanwhile, he continues to meet possible cabinet picks and Business Leaders at trump tower. On wednesday the president elect met with the ceos of apple, google, and amazon but not twitter. Heres nancy cordes. Well, they did not get a dressing down by donald trump the way media executives did a few weeks ago, even though Silicon Valley leaders were largely critical of the president elect when he was running. Instead, he and they declared the meeting very productive and he told them his door would always be open to them. Were going to be there for you. And youll call my people, youll call me. It doesnt make any difference. We have no formal chain of command around here. Reporter mr. Trumps meeting with facebooks sheryl sandberg, apples tim cook, and others lasted more than 90 minutes. The group discussed jobs, taxes and specific Innovative Solutions that have been blocked by narrow thinking in washington. I wont tell you the hundreds of calls weve had asking to come to this meeting. Reporter its a shift from the campaign when some of these Industry Leaders kept their distance from mr. Trump. Wikileaks revealed Googles Eric Schmidt had been working with Hillary Clintons campaign since 2014. Teslas elon musk said mr. Trump is not the right guy for america. And amazons jeff bezos publicly dueled with the president elect. Thats not an appropriate way for a president ial candidate to behave. You know, its amazon. He wants political influence so that amazon will benefit from it. Thats not right. Reporter twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey was not invited to the round table, even though mr. Trump is a famously avid tweeter. That led some to assume the trump team is nursing a grudge after twitter reneged on an agreement to provide a special emoji to go along with the hashtag crooked hillary. In a statement twitter said they ultimately decided not to permit this particular format for any political advertising. The conference table was only so big. Reporter rnc Communications Director sean spicer insisted there was no attempt to shut twitter out. If you go down the list of the Top Tech Companies i guarantee you youll find additional ones that werent there. Reporter and twitter is smaller than the other companies that were represented in the room. Also in the room were mr. Trumps two sons, eric and don jr. , despite his vows to turn his business over to them and create a wall between the business and the white house. New Research Shows hundreds of Airline Pilots around the world are likely flying while depressed. Some even report having suicidal thoughts. The study comes after last years germanwings crash in the french alps. A copilot intentionally flew his plane into a mountain, killing all 150 people on board. Kris van cleave explains why some pilots keep quiet about depression. Reporter the study uses a commonly used questionnaire to help pinpoint signs of depression. It comes at a time when the faa and its european counterpart are stepping up efforts to address Mental Health issues. The researchers say there is more work to do. Pilots identify with their job, with who they its a part of us. Reporter in 2008 Airline Pilot colin hughes says he made the decision to ground himself after being prescribed antidepressants. Having that dream at that time felt like was being shattered. Reporter he told us hes now flying again but says depression is a topic the industry doesnt like to talk about. Pilots are people too. We have feelings and emotions just like everyone else. Reporter new Research Found about 12 of Airline Pilots surveyed met the threshold for clinical depression. 4 admitted to having ewesidal thoughts. The Current System is set up and designed all around selfreport. Reporter Harvard UniversityProfessor Joseph allen worked on the study just published in the Online Medical journal environMental Health. For many of us people in the general population they can seek treatment or counseling. Whereas pilots if they do so they run the risk of severe impact to their career. Reporter seeking treatment or reporting an issue can result in a pilot being grounded. Since 2015 the faa has started working with airlines and the pilots unions to increase the understanding of Mental Health issues and the symptoms while trying to reduce the stigma of selfreporting while improving treatment options. But issues like depression are believed to remain underreported. Pilots who are not fit to fly should not fly. But we need to make pathways for them to come back to work when their issues are resolved. Reporter retired Airline CaptainSully Sullenberger is a cbs news aviation and safety expert. Sullenberger maz worked to try to reduce the sti ma of Mental Health issues after his father took his own life after a battle with depression. Its likely given these statistics