This Morning from CBS News, Nov. 25, 2014
Ferguson protests
Protests quickly turned violent in the Ferguson, Missouri area last night after it was announced that a St. Louis County grand jury had decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the August 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The decision not to charge Wilson, who is white, in the death of Brown, who was black and unarmed, sparked the fresh demonstrations in and around Ferguson.
Data dump
Shortly after the announcement of the grand jury's decision not to prosecute Wilson, the St. Louis County prosecutor's office released thousands of pages of documents that help shed light on the version of events that Wilson gave of the unarmed Brown's fatal shooting.
Supporting protests
Thousands of people flooded city streets from Los Angeles to New York last night in passionate - but initially peaceful - protests of the grand jury's decision. They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of "Hands Up! Don't Shoot," the slogan that has become a rallying cry in protests over police killings across the country.
Call for calm
President Obama urged demonstrators to protest peacefully, saying, "We need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make." The president said progress in race relations "won't be done by throwing bottles. That won't be done by smashing car windows."
Use of force
Reports of police killings of African-Americans like 28-year-old Akai Gurley, who was shot dead in New York last week, or 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed on Sunday in Cleveland, among others, show that racial bias in policing is a widespread problem. It's a serious enough concern that the Justice Department in September launched a major, five-city probe into the issue.
ISIS offers reward
Leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been increasingly targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes in both countries, and it appears the terror group's management believes foreign spies are to blame. Now, they're trying to tackle their apparent infiltration problem by offering a cash reward to anyone who can hand over "an agent collaborating with the Crusaders."
Thanksgiving travel
More people are forecast to hit the roads and travel by air than last year. In the Northeast, the weather is the variable everyone is watching. CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues reports the number of holiday travelers is expect to be bigger this year.
Ugly tree
A much-criticized Christmas tree in downtown Reading, Pennsylvania, is still standing. Many community members complained that it looked ugly and local officials started to take it down yesterday but, as CBS News correspondent Vicente Arenas reports, the tree got a last-minute reprieve.
Growing replacement parts
Heart tissue is made of stem cells that are turned into cardiac muscle cells. They attach to a collagen material similar to what's found in our skin and organs. That gives the tissue structure. Scientists hope to grow replacement parts someday for damaged human hearts.
Code cracking
This Thanksgiving weekend, Keira Knightley's new film, "The Imitation Game," is released in theaters. It's the story of British math genius Alan Turing and the team that helped him crack a code and win World War II. "CBS This Morning" co-host Norah O'Donnell reports Knightley said she would have to "act" this role after researching the woman cryptographer.
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