Were asking for something that would be tough . Yes, but,ll we ,sit tough to go around the world in one night. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Season. Nearly 239,000 just today, but unexpected rain on the west coast has kept thousands of them ground as delays keeping piling up, some unlucky travelers, like shana galinsky, arent sure if theyll be home for christmas. Im delayed, like, about an hour, so ill miss my connecting flight so well see when i get home. Reporter in chicago, thousands of travelers are trying to get ahead of a Winter Weather system that could blankent the region. More than 100 flights have been delayed at oh, hair. The long lines are moving at new Yorks Laguardia airport. Liana hunt was patiently waiting with her travel partner, newman. Hes been a big hit so far. The ticket agents loved him. Really sweet security agents fell in love with him and they were like, come on by dont wait in line. Reporter at new as liberty airport the air train is back in service after temporarily leaving frustrated passengers waiting in the cold. Millions more are highways for the holidays. Snow in iowa led to accidents on slick roads, and streets in and around new york were bumper to bump wer lastminute traffic. Atlantas hartsfieldjackson is the worlds busiest airport. Nearly 40,000 people are expected to go through security behind me just today. But, elaine, the average wait time in security here is only 15 minutes thanks to a small army of t. S. A. Agents and airport workers. Quijano all right, omar villafranca, amid the holiday bustle. Omar, thank you. Well, where are the winter storms headed next . Heres chief meteorologist eric fisher of wbztv in boston. Eric. Good evening, elaine. The storminess all across the west coast. This is going to be the one we track over the next couple of days and that speck ling of clouds you see over the pacific, thats an indicator of much colder air moving in as well. Theres a whole variety of winter storm warnings across the western half of the u. S. , including blizzard warnings across the dakotas. This storm systemli through the southwest tonight. As we head into saturday, crossing the rocketties. By christmas day, a blizzard. In terms of the snow, significant totals all across the west, including across arizona, the mountains there. And then the heavy snowfall on sunday reaching up across western south dakota and across north dakota as well. I mentionedly the warmer side of the storm. Temperatures will be skyrocketing across the plains with that. We will be watching for a chance of Severe Weather on christmas day. A lot of warmth across the south reaching record highs last christmas. We could set a few more this christmas topping what we saw last year. Some good news here we look at snow cover across the country, and elaine, areas that do typically see a White Christmas are getting one this time around. Quijano all right, eric fisher with the holiday forecast. Eric, thank you. Many who arent traveling were out shopping. Don dahler found plenty of lastminute bargains. Reporter twas the week before christmas when all through the stores, prices were plummeting, down through the floors. I feel like everythings expensive these days, but the fit bit we got was actually a good deal. Reporter even highend retailers like ralph laurenate macys have been offering steep discounts. Macys cut the price of a michael kors handbag from 368 to 220. Ralph lauren slashed the price of a pair of leather pants from 898 to 449. Consumers are planning to spend more than what they budgeted for the holiday season. Ana serafinsmith says retailers want to get rid of as much inventory as they can before the new year. In final days leading up to christmas, we will see a total of about 13 of consumers planning to hilt the stores and purchase some of these lastminute gifts. Reporter and yet, more americans are shopping online this year than ever before. From november 1 to december 20, 79. 2 billion was spent but all types of shopping will likely exceed expectations, an increase of more than 3. 6 over last year. Target is targeting shoppers with oneday sales, and sthargt morning at 6 00 a. M. , toys r us will keep its stores open for 39 hours, luring customers with lastminute sales. Another early gift for the retailers a relatively mild autumn. That not only encouraged people to get out and shop, elane. It also encouraged retailers to offer even steeper discounts. Quijano a good deal. Don dahler, thanks so much. In another important story, the u. S. Has made a sharp break with its longstanding policy of shielding israel from u. N. Action. In the past, the u. S. Has vetoed more than 30 resolutions regarding israel and the palestinians, but not today. More now from Margaret Brennan. Reporter by abstaining from the 140 Security Council vote, the u. S. Allowed the United Nations to condemn israeli settlements in the occupied west bank in jerusalem, illegal construction under international law. Settlements have no legal validity. Reporter u. S. Ambassador Samantha Power warned they make it harder to negotiate a separate palestinian state, which the administration believes is crucial to a lasting peace. The United States has been sending the message that the settlements must stop privately and publicly for nearly five decades. Reporter president obama has had icy relations with israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu for years due in part to his continued settlement building. Today, netanyahus office called the vote shameful, and said the u. S. , failed to protect israel. Knowing that the Obama Administration was not going to veto the u. N. Resolution, israeli officials implored president elect donald trump to intervene. Yesterday, in a tweet that put sitting president , trump publicly opposed the action and called egypts president , who temporarily delayed the vote. This morning, when the vote was rescheduled, mr. Obama decided not to stand in the way of the rest of the world powers, as they called for a construction halt. Israeli ambassado ambassador amn argued it will make a peace deal harder. By voting yes in favor of this resolution, you have in fact voted no. You voted no to negotiation. Reporter white house officials insist that mr. Obama has been a friend to israel and point to a recent 38 billion military aid package, the largest in u. S. History. Elaine, as for donald trump, he tweeted after the vote that things at the u. N. Will be different once hes in office. Quijano Margaret Brennan in our washington bureau. Margaret, thank you. The u. S. Russian relationship also figures to be much different. The president elect and russian president Vladimir Putin have alternated between complimenting each other and threatening an arms race. Barry petersen has that part of the story. Reporter parading their military might through red square is an annual ritual for the russians, and so is talking tough. And thats exactly how russian president , Vladimir Putin, sounded today at his annual press conference. The Russian Federation is stronger than any potential aggressor, he claimed. Putins saber rattling echoes the worst of the cold war standoff, and comeses just daze after he threatened to expand russias nuclear capabilities, prompting whaprompting what appe similar comments from president elect donald trump. Some fear mr. Trump and pints comments could trigger a new arms race after years of treaties that reduced nuclear arsenals. Nerves are already on edge. These nato exercises in poland were the biggest in decades, thompting the russians to stage show of force. Russia now says it will expand Nuclear Missile patrols next year on its borders with europe. Today, mr. Trump doubled down on his earlier comments, telling morning joe cohost Mika Brzezinski and while putin had one hand in a clenched fist today, the other offered an olive branch in the form of a christmas letter to the president elect saying he hopes the two men can act in a constructive and pragmaticky manner opinion the two looerds seemed to be jockeying with each other to define a new relationship between the u. S. And russia, elaine, with the danger of Nuclear Conflict if they get it wrong. Quijano barry petersen. Bear, thank you. Mr. Trump also tweeted about the berlin truck attack that left 12 people dead. In the tweet, he asked, when will the u. S. And all countries fight back . Y, and killed in italy. Heres Charlie Dagata. Reporter one of europes mostwanted men died in a shootout, caught by pure chance. Italian police approached a man standing alone near a deserted train station around 3 00 a. M. And asked for yooid. Instead, police say, the man pulled out a. 22caliber pistol and opened fire. It was anis amri. Italian interior minister Marco Minnitti said the gunman was germanys terror suspect without a shadow of a doubt. He had good reason to be confident. Amris fingerprints were on file after he spent four years in an italian prison for setting fire to a refugee center. Just hours after the news of amris death, isis released a video showing him pledging his allegiance to the militant group and encouraging muslims to attack crusaders. German chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered an urge review after what critics have called catastrophic mistakes by German Police who had monitored amri for months, only to stop their surveillance. Merkel has also been criticized heavily for their opendoor refugee policy, especially as amri was a failed asylum seeker. Dr. Philipp lengsfeld, from merkels own party, said the system is clearly overwhelmed. We let hundreds of thousands of people into the country, and this just overstretched our resources. And we have been too liberal regarding this. Reporter now, the question is whether amri was part of a Larger Network that helped plan the attack and his escape, elaine, and how he managed to cross three countries and board trains without being detected. Quijano Charlie Dagata in berlin for us. Charlie, thank you. A hostage drama played out today when a libyan plane headed to tripoli was hijacked to the mediterranean island of two men demanded asylum in europe and appeared to have guns and hand grenades. The weapons were fake and the hijackers were arrested. All 117 passengers and crew are safe. Amy weirich following breaking news from los angeles tonight. Star wars actress Carrie Fisher was rushed to a hospital in Critical Condition after suffering a medical emergency on a flight from london. Ben tracy is in our l. A. Newsroom. Ben. Reporter elaine, a Law Enforcement source tells cbs news that Carrie Fisher is the passenger that went into cardiac arrest on a flight from london to los angeles. Several people who were on that flight have tweeted that they saw fisher receive c. P. R. From passengers on the plane who it turns out may have been nurses. Now, the plane was met by paramedics at l. A. X. Of course, Carrie Fisher, is best known for her iconic role as pri in the original star wars trilogy. She reprized the role just last year in the over the years, fisher has been very forth coming with her struggles with bipolar disorder and addictions to cocaine and prescription drugs. And we should mention we just learned the paramedics who met the plane provided what they are calling advanced life support and that they aggressively treated her and transported her to the hospital. Elaine. Quijano ben tracy in our l. A. Newsroom. Ben, thank you. 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Theres a lot of places you never want to see 7. 95. [ beep ] but youll be glad to see it here. Fidelity where smarter investors will always be. Quijano the debate used to be whether the glass was half empty or half full. Now the question is, is it a glass of milk if its note from a cow . Heres errol barnett. We have seen a dropoff in consumption of dairy products, and also we have seen a significant price drop. Reporter patty family has been farming in Northern Virginia for almost a century. She says nondairy alternatives to milk are cutting into her livelihood. Theyre trying to imitate milk. And i think that says a lot. Theyre trying to be what milk already is. Reporter her beef is with plantbased products like almond and soy milk, a growing industry which generated 1. 4 billion this year and grew 54 over the last five years. Dairy milk sales are down 11 for 2016. So 32 members of congress from dairyproducing states are are urging the food and Drug Administration to enforce its existing definition of milk, which states, it is obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows. Chris galen is with the milk producers federation. In the case of milk youre getting vitamins a and d and calcium and protein. Youre not necessarily getting those things in a imitation dairy milk. Reporter Nancy Chapman disagrees. When you drink soy milk it is equal in terms of the ability to support growth and development. Reporter and consumers like carla borden like having choices. Ting should continue to be called milk. Its used like milk. Reporter now, the f. D. A. , which historically avoids weig weighing in on the milk label debate said it will respond directly to the congressional letter. But with more choices flooding grocery stores, it could be consumers, elaine, could milk this for all its worth. Quijano errol barnett, errol, thanks. 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