necessarily what had the fans going wild. the entire state of utah got free chicken nuggets, that is thanks to a promotion with chick-fil-a, fans could get an eight piece chicken nugget while supplies last, of course. that is pretty cool. >> i would be pretty excited. >> because he missed two. that seems too easy to fix that. ♪ ♪ ♪ tonight, winter wallop. a dangerous mix of snow, brutal cold and life-threatening windchills from coast to coast. the deep freeze spreading and a big nfl playoff game postponed. >> i'm charlie de mar in davenport iowa.

the snow continues to fall and blow across roads. the brutal snow creating dangerous driving conditions. caucus big chill. republicans scramble to meet iowa voters this final weekend of campaigning despite the frigid weather. >> it is cold. plus, taiwan voters choosing a new president, defying china. >> i'm elizabeth palmer in taiwan. voters have just elected a new government, and beijing's not going to be happy. rallying cry. thousands march in the nation's capitol for gaza. new warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe. >> i'm charlie d'agata in tel aviv. aid agencies say thousands in gaza, the israeli government faces an international court on charges of genocide. and later, golden gate focus. the photographer capturing

life's joys and struggles on the famous bridge. >> i came out here one day by myself photographing and never really left. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from washington with adriana diaz. good evening, everyone. adriana is off. i'm weijia jiang. more than 30 million people are under winter weather advisories with freezing temperatures expanding across the country this weekend. it's snowing and so cold in buffalo, tomorrow's bills/steelers playoff game has been postponed until monday. and tonight's chiefs/dolphins game in kansas city could be one of the coldest games on record. take a look at these feels-like temperatures. havre, montana, negative 44. dickinson, north dakota, 51 below. hastings, nebraska, minus 32. the extreme weather across the

plains made for crippling driving conditions. cbs's charlie de mar is in iowa. good evening. it sounds dangerous out there. >> reporter: and good evening to you. as you can see, it's this drifting snow that's creating a lot of the issues on the roads. we have seen a number of jackknifed semis, and now this bitter cold really is setting in. here in iowa, what's known as the world's largest truck stop, it is packed with drivers and truckers who simply aren't taking any chances on the icy roads. dangerous whiteout conditions in iowa and other midwestern states making travel treacherous. the heavy snow and gusty winds are causing big rigs like these to crash. iowans are digging out after almost 15 inches of snow blanketed the state. >> two snowstorms back to back feels like a little much. >> reporter: and temperatures are plummeting across the country with the windchill as low as negative 65 degrees in the great plains.

this woeful weather having a national impact on travel with more than 2,000 flights canceled today. in maine, record-breaking water levels not seen there in almost 50 years, washing away these portland fish shacks. an avalanche warning in effect for six mountain ranges in utah. officials conducted mitigation operations. this on the heels of 2023 being named the warmest year on record. whitefish is one of several ski resorts across the west that is starved for snow, but closed because of dangerous cold. >> i have been waiting for snow for quite a few years. >> reporter: and so far here in iowa, since friday, more than 500 motorists have needed to be helped by state troopers. i-80 was shut down for hours. state officials advising drivers to simply stay off the roads. weijia.

>> charlie, thank you. let's check in with cbs news meteorologist vanessa murdock for more on the weather threat. good evening to you. >> good evening, weijia. it is a very busy period across the continental u.s. we are watching a massive storm system make its exit. it flooded coastal communities today. behind it, arctic air barrels in, bringing windchill warnings as far south as texas and windchills as cold as 70 below on the northern tier. we will be breaking record cold records through much of the midsection. and then, moving forward, we have got another cross-country storm system. it really begins to ramp up in the tennessee valley tomorrow, bringing snow, and then travels up the east coast tuesday, bringing snow to major cities like new york and boston, and may finally break the storm record here, which is approaching 700 days straight. an inch or more would wrap that record for us. >> vanessa murdock, thanks. this is the last weekend of

campaigning before republicans in the iowa caucus choose their next presidential candidate. there is one thing out of their control. the brutal weather. major garrett is in des moines for us tonight. major, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, weijia. weather really is the unavoidable iowa caucus story. it took us two days to fly here. the closest we got is minneapolis. whiteout conditions, fierce winds, subzero temperatures are conspiring to slow candidates down, punting what would ordinarily be a frenzied campaign to the finish. the final push in iowa looks like this. candidates scraping for momentum in subzero windchills. >> here i am in negative temperatures. i am not going to be canceling -- if people are willing to come out and hear from me, i am going to show up all the way to the end of this caucus. >> the fellas are scared. i'm telling you. you can see our numbers going up in the polls. >> reporter: the far away

frontrunner, former president trump, remained comfortably far away from the polar plains of iowa. >> it's going to be a little bit of a trek. nobody knows how exactly we are going to get there, but we will figure it out. >> reporter: florida governor ron desantis mocked donald trump's absence. >> he phoned it in. hanging out down in mar-a-lago. i am sure it's 75 degrees there. >> reporter: trump with a solid caucus organization here. that and a big lead in the polls allows for long-distance confidence. >> they have the worst weather, i guess, in recorded history. maybe that's good because our people are more committed than anybody else. >> reporter: desantis has visited all 99 iowa counties but is at risk of finishing third. >> i think he will surprise a lot of people. i don't put a lot of stake in polls. >> major is back with us from des moines. former president donald trump remains the frontrunner, as he has been since the start. is there any chance of an upset come monday?

>> reporter: the chance, weijia, zero or less than zero. here's why. he is running as an incumbent, we will remember the incumbent president and the challenger. most republicans here don't like the biden presidency. also, many iowa republicans see him, that is to say, trump, as a victim of overly aggressive prosecutors. put those three together, he has a sizeable lead, and no one i talked to believes he is going to lose it. >> major garrett, thank you so much. >> cbs news will have complete coverage of the iowa caucuses on monday, including special live coverage here on cbs, on cbs news streaming, and at cbsnews.com. now to a critical election in taiwan. today voters elected a new president sharply criticized by china, which had framed the vote as a choice between war and peace. president biden reacted by reiterating that the u.s. opposes independence for the island democracy. cbs's elizabeth palmer is in

taipei for us tonight. >> reporter: the democratic progressive party during the campaign had been a little bit ahead in the polls, but this is a ringing victory. at his final rally, supporters turned out to give a last boisterous endorsement to their man. lai ching te, now taiwan's next president. tonight lai said, we showed the world that taiwan stands on the side of democracy. that's not going to go down well in beijing. in president xi jinping's new year's speech he repeated his claim that taiwan belongs to china, and will be, as he puts it, reunified. china is rapidly building up and modernizing its military and has refused to rule out the use of force if taiwan won't come quietly. under president-elect lai, it won't. china has called him a dangerous separatist. there was huge voter turnout in

this election. the taiwanese take their democracy seriously, even with chinese threats. we accompanied 20-something joanne, our taiwanese colleague, to cast her ballot. could you live in a taiwan ruled by the chinese communist party? >> absolutely not. i don't see that, how that can fit taiwanese people's values, our democracy, our freedom. >> reporter: taiwan's own military, backed by billions in u.s. support, is growing in strength, too. a reminder that one day it might need to rappel a chinese attack. the new president's job is to manage that tone. he says he wants dialogue with china to address tensions, but he is heading into unchartered water. it's late at night here and people are still digesting the implications of this result, and also bracing themselves for a chilly, if not menacing,

response very soon from beijing. weijia. >> elizabeth palmer in taipei, thank you. now to the escalating conflict with iran-backed houthi rebels in yemen. the u.s. conducted a unilateral strike, targeting a houthi radar site. thursday the u.s. and britain struck 60 sites in yemen after weeks of houthi attacks on international shipping in the red sea. tomorrow marks 100 days of war between israel and hamas militants in gaza. today thousands gathered here in the nation's capitol for a pro-palestinian rally. this as new israeli strikes hit gaza today, and israel finds itself on the defensive at the world court. cbs's charlie d'agata is in tel aviv. >> reporter: on the eve of 100 days into the war between israel and hamas, with more than 23,000 dead in gaza, according to the

hamas-run health ministry, israel, for the first time, faced formal charges of genocide at the international court of justice in the hague, netherlands. south africa brought the case forward. >> the government of israel and its military is intent on destroying the palestinians in gaza as a group. >> reporter: israeli lawyers blame the high death toll on hamas waging war among the civilian population. >> israel is constantly taking concrete steps, together with others, to address the humanitarian situation in gaza. >> reporter: that humanitarian situation is increasingly dire. at the kerem shalom, the only crossing into gaza from israel, israeli officials told us 78 trucks entered the territory a day before the war. now it's 110. but that is in direct

contradiction to the u.n. inside gaza, who say about a quarter of the population is facing starvation. and the u.n. says a severe lack of medical help is causing even more deaths. our colleagues inside gaza spoke with dr. chandra hassan, a volunteer from chicago-based med global. >> that is a huge influx of seriously wounded patients in a very brief period of time. the hellcat system collapsed, if not already collapsed. >> reporter: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu dismissed the proceedings at the hague as a hypocritical attack, adding, we are on the path to victory and we will not stop until we achieve victory. charlie d'agata, cbs news, tel aviv. a massive fire is burning tonight in epping, new hampshire. several oil tanker trucks are on fire. it's unclear if an explosion preceded the fire.

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here one day just by myself, just photographing, and then i never really left. >> reporter: a street photographer, he has been here every day capturing life along this iconic landmark. >> some days it's sad and some days it's exciting and a positive experience. i think that's what makes it so amazing. >> reporter: in the last four years, he says he has missed only 20 days, snapping an estimated 100,000 photos. are there ever days you don't want to be here? >> yeah, i mean, all the time. i wish i could sleep in. i wish i could not be in cold, fog, and rain. >> reporter: he is here up to ten hours a day. unlike most people, his eye is not on the bridge itself, but on what's happening on it. >> you have one second to get it right. you could never duplicate that situation again. and when you get something out of that, i think it's way more magical than anything that could be captured in a studio.

>> reporter: over the years, he has witnessed everything from car crashes to protests to weddings, and something else this span has, sadly, become famous for. >> there has been days i literally stopped or played a role in stopping three or four people from jumping in one day. >> reporter: financially speaking, however, he is barely surviving, relying on savings and credit cards to fund his project. so far, he hasn't been able to monetize it. meantime, jake says he's not going anywhere. >> if all my financial problems were solved, this is still what i would be doing. >> reporter: while he has no idea whether his project will get the exposure it deserves, he'll cross that bridge when he comes to it. itay hod, cbs news, san francisco. and finally tonight, we are thrilled to introduce you to the newest member of our cbs news family. you know his mom well.

adriana diaz, the anchor of this saturday broadcast, is celebrating the arrival of leo emmanuel diaz smith and a glorious head of hair. everyone is healthy and happy, especially big sister isa, as you can see. congratulations. that's the news for this saturday. i'm weijia jiang in washington. good night. ♪ from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> a winter storm making its way through the bay area, the issues it is causing on the roads and in the skies. another messy day in the sierra, how travelers are dealing with the heavy snow during the holiday

weekend. methane affects the atmosphere much faster. >> and thousands of protesters trying to shut down the port of oakland, why they say they were hoping to disrupt a specific ship from docking. good evening, i'm andrea nakano. from the rain to the wind, people around the bay area dealing with some pretty ugly conditions today, here is a time-lapse video from our camera on top of the salesforce tower showing the gray taking over the bay, and in the sierra, rough conditions for people heading into the mountains. we have been seeing chain controls in place on interstate 80 and 50. >> this year is not so bad, yet. but the year isn't over yet. >> expect delays on all sierra highways throughout the night. our photographer sent some