Episode 330
Pete Hegseth, a military veteran and Fox News personality picked by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as defense secretary, is facing headwinds on Capitol Hill amid allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking. CBS News has learned Hegseth may not have enough support from Republican senators. Nikole Killion and John Dickerson have more. December has delivered snow and biting cold, a different type of storm from Hurricane Helene, which ravaged western North Carolina in late September. Hundreds of people whose homes were destroyed are still living in campers and tents amid the cold temperatures. Janet Shamlian has more. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law Tuesday, freezing all democratic government normalcy and putting the military in charge. Yoon is a lame duck president who has been battling South Korea's parliament while his wife has been under investigation for corruption. Within hours, South Korean lawmakers voted to block Yoon's move, forcing him to lift the martial law order. Charlie D'Agata has the latest. Every day just outside Drew, Mississippi, people drive by a barn with no idea what they are passing. It was in that barn where 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed in 1955. Till's lynching sparked the civil rights movement. Wright Thompson's new book "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" examines how an ordinary building many see conceals an extraordinary evil no one knows. Jim Axelrod has more. Two sheriff's deputies are being praised for their courage in their rescue of two children who were trapped in a backyard when a home caught fire this weekend in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. The deputies tore a fence apart piece by piece to reach the siblings. Alan Gionet has more on the dramatic rescue.
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