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their unborn son. the nonprofit group is seeking new evidence to set him free. and nominations are out for the iheartradio music awards. taylor swift leads the way with 9 while jelly roll, 21 savage, and sza all received 8. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. it's friday, january 19th, 2024. this is the "cbs morning news." wicked winter. the storms that just keep coming, snow, ice, and bone-chilling temperatures blamed for dozens of deaths across country. demands nature for accountabiliti. uvalde families renewing their calls for justice after a scathing justice department report confirmed their worst fears -- police failed their loved ones.
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first, the battle for new hampshire. donald trump and nikki haley stepping up their attacks on each other just days before voters get their say. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. all three top republican presidential candidates are expected back on the campaign trail in new hampshire today as we head into the final weekend before the nation's first primary. bradley blackburn joins us from new york with the escalating attacks between the former president and his former u.n. ambassador. good morning, bradley. >> reporter: good morning. it was striking that yesterday, just days before the new hampshire vote, only one major candidate was on the ground in the state. but the campaigning carried on on cable news, and the big question is whether haley has enough time to pull off an upset. former president trump and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley traded barbs in dueling cable news appearances last night. trump on fox news -- >> she's not going to make it.
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she has no chance. she's got no way. maga's not going to be with her. >> reporter: haley was asked to respond directly to the comments later on cnn. >> the reason he's throwing these temper tantrums is because he knows i do have a chance. the reason he's doing this is because he knows he's not able to defend his record. >> reporter: haley had new hampshire to herself on the campaign trail. trump attended his mother-in-law's funeral in florida. florida governor ron desantis also spent the day in the sunshine state as his campaign continues to shift focus to haley's home state of south carolina. in a radio interview yesterday, desantis said he has the resources to stay in the race through march. >> i'm in it to win it at some point. you know, if that's not working out for you, i recognize that. this isn't a vanity thing for me. >> reporter: yesterday president joe biden weighed in on trump's iowa caucuses win before heading to an infrastructure event in north carolina. >> i don't think iowa means anything. the president got 50,000-some votes, the lowest number of
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votes anybody's won. >> reporter: the president's re-election campaign plans to highlight abortion rights with ads and a rally to mark next week's anniversary of the landmark roe versus wade supreme court decision. and democrats will also be going to the polls in new hampshire, but it's a strange situation this year. there's a dispute between the state and the democratic national committee which wants south carolina to be the first democratic primary. new hampshire is going ahead with its vote anyway, but the dnc is refusing to give the state any delegates. president biden is, of course, expected to receive the nomination, anne-marie. >> all right, thank you very much. now to those deadly winter storms impacting the country from coast to coast. the death toll rising now to 16 nationwide. a big scare in rochester when a plane slid off a runway after landing in snowy conditions. no one was hurt. the snow keeps coming in buffalo, though. the city enduring another round of lake-effect snow. the five-day tally up to five feet in spots.
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there seems to be no relief in sight. snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, parts of northeast could see up to half a foot of snow. and philadelphia and south jersey will likely be among the hardest hit. here's cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: blinding snow and dangerous ice continue to torment vast regions of the country making driving dangerous and even venturing outside deadly. >> throughout this period of storm, we are averaging around 900 to 1,000 calls a day. >> reporter: here in portland, a horrific loss of life caused by this arctic blast. three family members killed and a 9-month-old injured after power lines fell on their suv while they were inside. neighbor daniel buck heard the boom. >> saw that the tires on the car were on fire. >> reporter: were they panicking? >> yeah. they were trying to get out as fast as they could. >> reporter: he said the family escaped, and that's when they were electrocuted. >> they ran down the sidewalk,
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and part of the line was in the -- in the water. and at that point, they had already walked where the rest of the line had landed. it was just horrible. it was a horrible thing. >> reporter: 18-year-old majiah washington managed to save the baby. were you worried you might get shocked, too? >> that never ran through my head. i was just thinking i have to save this baby. >> reporter: in copenhagen, new york, homes and cars are buried in up to six feet of snow. in nearby rochester, authorities are investigating an american airlines plane that slid off the runway. meanwhile, a massive ice jam along the kankakee river in wilmington, illinois, is pushing closer to homes. and in indianapolis, ems workers are responding to four times as many cold weather emergencies as they did this time last year. >> we've had people so cold that they needed resuscitation. >> reporter: downed power lines are common during winter storms, and if one were to fall on your car, experts say you should stay inside until the line is
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de-energized. if you have to get out, you should jump out with both feet first, at the same time, so you're not touching the car and the ground at the same time. carter evans, cbs news, portland. a scathing justice department report slams local police officials for their response to the 2022 uvalde school shooting where 19 children and two teachers were killed. the most significant failure in the nearly 600-page report, not recognizing the incident as an active shooter situation and waiting around 77 minutes before confronting the president obama -- confronting the gunman. cbs' lilia luciano reports. >> reporter: failure and chaos, that's how a new justice department report describes the emergency response to the shooting at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. more than 300 law enforcement officials were on the scene, but it took 77 minutes for them to confront and kill the gunman. >> 33 students and three of their teachers, many of whom
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have been shot, were trapped in a room with an active shooter for over an hour as law enforcement officials remained outside. >> reporter: the doj's critical incident review found responding officers inside the school should have gone into the classroom immediately to stop the 18-year-old shooter. some of the first officers on scene acted appropriately, but once they were grazed by bullets they retreated. that's when the scenario changed from active shooter to barricaded. >> that failure meant to law enforcement officials prioritized a protracted evacuation of students and teachers in other classrooms instead of immediately rescuing the victims trapped with the active shooter. >> reporter: investigators place much of the blame on the school district's former police chief, pte arredondo, who displayed a lack of leadership as well as the uvalde pd's acting chief. the report found some lacked active shooter training and wasted time searching for a classroom door that was likely
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unlocked. 17 families of victims are considering legal action. >> do right by the victims and survivors of robb elementary. terminations, criminal prosecutions. >> reporter: the doj says its goal is to honor the 19 students and two teachers killed inside robb elementary and provide law enforcement with recommendations to better handle active shooter situations. lilia luciano, cbs news, uvalde, texas. the uvalde county district attorney has said that she is still considering whether to bring criminal charges related to the shooting. turning now to the escalating tensions in the middle east. the iranian-backed houthi rebels launched another unsuccessful missile attack on a u.s. commercial ship. the attack comes after the u.s. carried out a fifth strike on houthi military sites in yemen. a u.s. official says american forces have managed to take out enough of the houthis' air test system to enable drones to fly over for surveillance.
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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is rejecting u.s. calls to scale back its offensive in gaza, and he's opposing the establishment of a palestinian state as part of a post-war scenario. netanyahu says a palestinian state would become a launching pad for attacks on israel. and the idf appears to confirm reports that forces dug up graves in gaza in its mission to recover and bring the bodies of all hostages home. the military says it carries out rescue operations after receiving intelligence about the hostages' possible locations. iraelis marked a somber 1st birthday for the youngest hostage held by hamas. kfir babas. there was a birthday cake, a special song, and orange balloons, a nod to his red hair. he was kidnapped along with his 4-year-old brother and their parents. there's new information in the misconduct allegation made against the district attorney in the georgia election interference case against donald trump and others.
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a court filing last week accused fani willis of having a romantic relationship with nathan wade, a special prosecutor she hired for the case. willis is accusing wade's estranged wife of conspiring with others to interfere in the proceedings against trump and his co-defendants. a hearing is scheduled for next month. hunter biden has agreed to appear before the house oversight committee next month for a private deposition. it comes after the president's son said that he would only testify publicly. house republicans are investigating hunter biden's business dealings as part of their impeachment inquiry into president biden. they had threatened to hold hunter biden in contempt. coming up, a new bid for freedom for convicted killer scott peterson. why the los angeles innocence project is taking his case. and burning up. an american moon lander falls short of its mission.
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the first privately built u.s. moon lander burned up as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. the spacecraft was recorded firing its thrusters over australia before its demise earlier today. the doomed lander developed a fuel leak hours after blasting off from cape canaveral january 8th. it was attempting to become the first u.s. spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 years. a group is working to exonerate convicted murderer scott peterson, and scary explosions in d.c. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the washington post" reports gas explosions in the nation's capital leveled a convenience store and damaged a day care center. officials say yesterday's blast happened after a vehicle hit a gas meter attached to one of the buildings. firefighters evacuated the buildings including more than a dozen children from a day care center less than 30 minutes before the explosion.
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one person suffered minor injuries. "the san francisco chronicle" says the los angeles innocence project filed court papers in an effort to exonerate convicted murderer scott peterson. the now-51-year-old is serving a life sentence after being convicted of killing his pregnant wife and unborn son in 2004. the innocence project claims that key evidence was not properly presented at the trial including a van that contained blood splatter that might have cleared peterson. prosecutors say the group's contentions are wrong. and cbs news sacramento says the family of murdered cal poly state university student kristin smart filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the school. smart disappeared from the campus in 1996. her remains were never found. fellow student paul flores was convicted of murder in 2022. smart's family says the school could have prevented her death if it dealt with previous allegations that flores had stalked and harassed women there. still to come, salmonella
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here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. ♪ who doesn't love a snow day, including our four-legged friends? norman, an 80 pound goldendoodle, was certainly trying to enjoy the fresh powder in salt lake city this week, but the pup couldn't seem to get his human to play along. norman kept on trying to bring him toys, but the owner just kept on shoveling. keep on shoveling. there you go. cookies for breakfast, how does that sound? and an expanding charcuterie recall will have you checking your fridge. here's today's cbs "money watch." >> reporter: u.s. stocks will
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open higher bouncing back after a three-day slump. the dow and nasdaq jump around 200 points yesterday. the s&p 500 climbed near 42. congress passed a short-term legislation ahead of deadline's to avoid a government shutdown. senate and house approved the measure to fund federal agencies into early march. the short-term measure comes amid negotiations on a separate spending package that would provide money to ukraine and israel and strengthen security at the u.s.-mexico border. the cdc says salmonella cases from recalled charcuterie boards sold at sam's club and costco have doubled since january 5th. at least 47 people in 22 states have gotten sick, and ten people have been hospitalized after eating busseto and fratelli bertta brand meats. consumers are urged to throw away the products immediately. macy's is getting ready to cut more than 2,300 positions and shut down five stores nationwide as it tries to reduce
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costs and boost slowing sales in this online shopping era. the layoffs represent 3.5% of its work force. and how sweet it is -- cookies and milk for breakfast. mega stuff oreo o cereal is back in stores for the first time in four years along with a chips ahoy cereal that only will be available for a limited time. that's your cbs "money watch" report for in friday -- for this friday morning. i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. up next, some angry madonna fans are expressing themselves, if you will. why concert-goers are taking the music superstar to court. i know what it's like to perform through pain. if you're like me, one of the millions suffering from pain caused by migraine, nurtec odt may help. it's the only medication that can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks. treat and prevent, all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were
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