At least 12 people were killed in a plane crash in the central Asian country of Kazakhstan. The aircraft, which had 93 passengers and five crew members onboard, slammed into a two-story building shortly after takeoff. The flight was traveling from Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, to the country’s capital. Roxana Saberi reports. Source

An investigation from The New York Times revealed how dozens of companies log location data from the phones of more than 12 million Americans. Those companies go largely unregulated, while buying and reselling the data for their own profit. Charlie Warzel, a writer-at-large for The New York Times opinion page, joined CBSN to discuss just how much these companies can learn about you with that information. Source

A recall of hard-boiled eggs and egg salads linked to a deadly listeria outbreak has been expanded from Trader Joe’s. Source

“The movie will never be the same!” the president tweeted. Source

A powerful winter storm in the West is still causing nightmare journeys for some people, in the middle of a very busy travel time. The system is now blowing across the Southwest after dumping torrential rain and heavy snow on Southern California. The mountains just outside Los Angeles got up to three feet of snow. Jamie Yuccas reports. Source

More than 235,000 people have fled Syria’s Idlib region over the last two weeks as attacks by Russian-backed Syrian regime intensify on the country’s final rebel stronghold. The director of policy and advocacy at the International Rescue Committee, Kelly Razzouk, joins CBSN’s Tom Hanson to talk about the unfolding humanitarian disaster. Source

In final days of 2019, the S&P 500 is approaching a 30% annual return number not seen since Bill Clinton was president. Source

Chilling new details have emerged about the conduct of the Navy SEAL who was accused of war crimes but supported by President Trump. Confidential footage obtained by The New York Times shows members of SEAL team 7 being interviewed about the conduct of special operations chief Edward Gallagher. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin joined CBSN with more. Source

NASA astronaut Christina Koch is about to make history for the second time this year. Saturday will be her 289th consecutive day in space, breaking Peggy Whitson’s old record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. Koch joins “CBS This Morning” from the International Space Station to talk about this milestone and others. Source

A lawsuit, filed on Thursday, is drawing new attention to a cancer-causing chemical called ethylene oxide. It’s used to sterilize about half of all U.S. medical equipment. Five former educators who worked at the same Illinois high school blame their illnesses on a sterilizing plant that used the chemical. Anna Werner reports. Source