As coal production jobs continue to shrink amid an otherwise positive job market, a new program is working to teach former miners new skills to help them find other work. Mark Strassmann has more on the training program that restores both land and labor. Source

Doug Melville’s new nonfiction book “Invisible Generals” takes a look at the father-and-son team who helped integrate the U.S. military and were the institution’s first Black generals. Their story was ignored for decades — until Melville got the surprise of a lifetime a decade ago. Jeff Glor has more. Source

A Texas woman agreed to have her pecan tree decorated for Christmas to bring some joy to her terminally ill father. Now, more than 15 years later, the tree is a Christmas staple, drawing visitors from hundreds of miles away. CBS News’ Janet Shamilian reports from Bartonville, Texas. Source

More Republican presidential debates will be held next month, but it’s not clear which major candidates will be appearing. Source

Hundreds of protesters in Spain made a human mosaic of the Palestinian flag and the Pablo Picasso anti-war painting, Guernica. Meanwhile, a Jewish customer at a coffee shop said she was asked to leave after finding antisemitic graffiti in the establishment’s restroom. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Source

Javier Milei will be sworn in as president of Argentina Sunday. Milei, a former TV personality and libertarian populist, has been polarizing and and led to comparisons to former U.S. president Donald Trump and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. CBS News’ Cristian Benavides has more. Source

The suspect barricaded himself in an apartment after the incident, sparking an hours-long standoff with Minneapolis Police. Source

Los Angeles is home to about 46,000 people who are considered homeless, but Mayor Karen Bass is working to change that. Source

Hundreds of volunteers from outside Israel – and within – are harvesting fruit and vegetables from Israel’s farms before the produce rots on the ground. Source

Patients in intensive care at St. John the Evangelist hospital in Tivoli were transferred immediately to other hospitals via ambulance, the Tivoli mayor’s office said in a statement. Source