he would be hamming it up. he would love it. he'd be hamming it up right now. absolutely. >> oscar nominee and my vote for right now pound for pound the best actor in the world, matthew mcconaughey. that's all for us tonight. anderson cooper starts right now. good evening, everyone. it only looks like a winter wonderland. capitol hill up on your screen, you can barely see it. pretty as a picture, but on the ground though, it is getting very messy indeed and the storm is rolling north after pummeling the southeast covering carolinas and georgia in ice. at least ten lives lost. more than 100 million others affected or about to be affected by a winter storm that's not going gently into that good night. the chaos started in georgia and now it is hammering north carolina. millions bracing for a storm that the weather service called potentially catastrophic. the largest concern is ice, up to an inch thick in some places.

>> it is pretty bad. i used to live in indiana, and this is worse than that. >> sleet and freezing rain are creating treacherous conditions, coating roads and bringing down tree limbs. already power is out for nearly half a million across the region. and it could remain that way for days or even weeks. anticipating outages, energy companies in south carolina brought in extra crews to help speed up the process. officials throughout the south are pleading with people to stay safe and stay off the roads. >> stay home and stay out of the way of emergency agencies and power companies. >> be smart during these times. realize these are dangerous conditions, and realize that as you put yourself in jeopardy, you're putting other people in jeopardy also. >> well, south carolina and georgia residents seemed to heed the warnings, stocking up on the essentials before the storm hit. much of north carolina, it seems, has not. charlotte and raleigh-durham,

worsening conditions snarling rush hour traffic, causing massive traffic jams, and in a repeat of atlanta's mess last week, forcing people to abandon their vehicles on the roads. all flights into and out of raleigh's airport are canceled. adding to the travel nightmare throughout the east where more than 3,000 flights were scrubbed. the storm will continue to march north where it will develop into a full-fledged nor'easter overnight, dumping upwards of a foot of snow or more along the busy i-95 corridor and interior new england. officials around washington, which could see its largest snow totals in four years, are taking no chances. pretreating roads before the flakes start flying. >> we're spraying salt down in order to prepare for the roads. anything comes down we're prepared for. >> maryland, washington, eastern pennsylvania, all now feeling the first effects of the storm. north carolina on the other hand has already take an major hit. they canceled the duke-unc game for like the first time ever. the national guard is out on area highways searching for

stranded drivers. north carolina's governor restating the warning for people to stay at home saying that c conditions could worsen tonight. one commuter, patricia humphrey of the raleigh-durham area got stuck this evening and her 25-minute drive home took her six hours. a car just up the road from where she was right in front of her eyes, take a look. >> the next thing you know, i see flames and a gentleman came up, and said turn off your car, and you're not going anywhere for a while. finally the police came and they didn't have anything to put out the flames. so the fire truck came and they put out the flames and the car was just a shell when i went by it later. >> it's been quite a day in the tarheel state. david mattingly is in charlotte. we just heard from tricia who was driving home from work. what are you seeing in

charlotte? >> nothing like that in charlotte, but the story here is the precipitation. we started seeing the snow flurries today this morning from about 9:00 in the morning. between 9:00 and 10:00. now 12 hours later and we have a pretty steady stream of sleet coming down right now. occasionally we have a car going by like this one, but for the most part, the streets are deserted tonight. everyone heeding the warning of officials here, who told them to get out early to get out ahead of the storm. people were well-informed. most of them did that. we did see some slipping and sliding going on today, sometime around 4:00 as people started leaving a little bit too late, as there is a little too much snow on the ground. there were some accidents, nothing serious according to the city. right now they're having some big meetings here in charlotte to determine how they're going to proceed tomorrow.

but the buzz word here is, for everyone, stay off the roads for two reasons. one, for your personal safety. the other so that crews can get out here and clear the roads. anderson? >> i'm just amazed. this is pictures from earlier in the day on the highways, people abandoning their cars. how bad is it in the rest of the state? >> it varies. to the south of here, there is going to be more of a problem with ice than we are seeing in charlotte, and to the north of here, there is going to be more snow. the governor made the comment that they are not used to seeing a storm affecting so much of the tar heel state at one time. but that's what they're dealing with here. different parts more severe than others and in different ways than others. >> david mattingly, we appreciate the update. we hope you get warm, david. we showed you the capitol dome in washington. there's the white house. they're expecting as much as 8 inches tonight, which qualifies as epic for the washington area. tom forman is in alexandria, virginia. tom, how is it there?

>> you know, it has stepped up here in the past couple of hour, anderson, and we are starting to get what the carolinas have seen, and this is the transportation department facility here and we have seen dozens and dozens of trucks coming out now to fill up with salt here to get out on the roads to fight the snow as it gathers. the the federal government is closed tomorrow and schools all over are closed tomorrow simply because they don't want to be in the position that atlanta was in recently and the carolinas are in now. there are going to be 4,000 trucks out here by midnight to work the roads as hard and fast as they can. right now, that is the beltway around washington that the you hear so much about and this traffic is moving steadily, but we know that as the hours go on, that is not going to continue, anderson. >> how much does it take to clear roads in a storm like this, tom? >> well, the simple truth is that if this snow is coming down one or two inches an hour, they can't do it. the snow crews can go out there to salt and scrape and do all

they want, but they can't really stay ahead of the snow that fast. nonetheless, if you say that once the storm passes, and they try to clear it all up, as i mentioned, they will have about 4,000 the trucks out here just in the northern virginia area, and they expect to spend about $25 million trying the get over the storm, anderson. >> all right. tom, appreciate it, and stay with us throughout the hour, because we will be tracking the storm as it moves up north. we want to give you more of the big picture as we check with chad myers throughout the evening to get the pulse of the storm. what is the big picture now, chad? is >> the new latest computer models just came out. they started running at about 7:00, they're all printed out. so there's a slight change in the forecast, but not that much. still all of the heavy, heavy snow, all snow, will be west of i-95. but new york city, you start out as snow, heavy snow. maybe four inches very quickly. then you change over to sleet and rain for a while.

then back over to snow. this is going to happen up and down the east coast. new york, philadelphia, d.c., richmond, same story. it's going to snow hard. you could get six inches in a couple of hours and it will rain and sleet on top of that. snow comes back in, because cold air comes in behind it. so snowing now in d.c., philadelphia, birmingham, alabama. this is the story, there's the low, this is why it's changed just a little bit. going to move this low forward and it will drive almost over to charleston and up the east coast, stopping at 7:00 a.m. it's snowing in new york. it's already changed over from the heavy snow that you get all night in d.c. it will be sleeting in d.c. but still reston, you get snow. raining in annapolis. philadelphia, you're right through it, heavy snow all night. by morning, it changes to rain. rain even into new york city. let me make that bigger so you can see it. you see in the city how it is green and blue? that's liquid rain falling down at 34 degrees. same story in philadelphia. 34 degrees.

d.c. for a while. but let me push the button one more time. thursday night, all of a sudden, cold air comes back in. it is coming in behind it and what was raining is now frozen and what was raining in boston is now going back to frozen as it tries to get out of the way. so it is called the crazy forecast of 2014, because you will get a little bit of everything. the farther west, the less rain an sleet, and the more east, the more rain and sleet you will get, and that is how the snow totals are going to be drastically different from central new jersey to long island and a difference of ten inches. >> so what should people in the next 24 hours be worried about most? >> it's already started and it's already here. it started snowing maybe 2 1/2 hours ago in richmond, virginia and they have almost 3 inches on the ground. that is how quickly it is coming down. so what you see is what you get. heavy snow tonight.

plan on being where you want to be by noon, plan on being there by now, like in the next 15 or 20 minutes. get to where you want to be, because it's going to go downhill in the northeast rather fast. >> we'll check in with you throughout the hour. let us know what you think about the storm and what you've seen today on twitter. up next, the storm coverage continues. we want to take a look at airports. a lot of folks are probably watching in airports or planning to go to airports, and we want to tell you what you need to know if you plan on flying in the next several days. we'll also check in on the situation near atlanta, where so many people have lost power. peoi go to angie's listt for all kinds of reasons. to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews

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breaking news. today's storm is moving north, making its way up the i-95 corridor. chad painted a nasty picture of what to expect in the northeast in the hours ahead. snow, sleet, then rain, back to snow and ice. it's bad each for people who are not directly in the path for it, namely air travelers. our aviation expert now joining us. what do we know about the flights in the air right now? >> reporter: anderson, this is just a portion we're looking at along the east coast here. but this is the activity in real time. and over the entire u.s., we have roughly 4100 flights in the air right now.

the big story today about the cancellations, and today we saw more than 3,300 cancellations. the hardest hit airports, atlanta, charlotte, washington, reagan and raleigh airport. but what about those planes that we just showed you that did get into the air? today, we went behind the scenes to look at the operations that coordinates thousands of planes despite a major storm on the move. >> atlanta with the freezing ceilings, and it started to snow just now at charlotte. no changes on that. >> reporter: conference calls every two hours inside the faa command center as another winter storm dumps rain, ice and snow. on the call, airlines, airports and air traffic control. they're coordinating how to get planes around this winter storm and minimize traveler delays. six large screens displayed the storm. planes in the air and planes grounded. in atlanta's hartfield airport, the busiest in the world, planes are parked.

i see a lot of blue by atlanta, and what are you monitoring here? >> this is one of our primary traffic management tools. the blue is the cancellations coming in from the carriers. >> reporter: atlanta is down to nothing. >> pretty much getting down to nothing. >> reporter: all airports have a weather plan, and this faa command center in warrenton, virginia helps coordinate the execution by communicating with 21 regional centers. you're doing real math here as far as how many planes can you de-ice per minute. >> once an airplane de-ices, we want to minimize that from the happening to them departing. so that's where the numbers slow down and we do not want to put anybody in a position where they're on the ramp where they have to go back to de-ice. >> reporter: you could call this the calm during the storm. it really gets busy here after airlines scramble to get their planes back into the air. >> to that point, it's not going to be much better tomorrow, right?

>> reporter: no, you hit the nail on the head. some airlines have canceled overnight flights. those planes will not be in place tomorrow morning, more than 4,000 flights pre-canceled. most of those coming out of atlanta, philly and new jersey. >> renee, thank you very much. atlanta, which is getting a second chance after about two inches of snow and ice two weeks ago turned the city into a giant parking lot. it is hard to forget those images of people stuck in cars hour after hour and kids stuck at school. and people in the grocery store aisles. this time the preparations and warnings came in early and people stayed off the road. gary tuchman joins us now. the storm has been going on there for several hours and it hit early in the morning. does it seem like the worst is over? >> reporter: the worst of this storm is over. it appears this time around the atlanta metropolitan area has passed snowstorm management 101.

there is still some icing, a little bit of icing still left. also a little bit of snowfall left. the snow is supposed to stop between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. local time. but what a difference compared to two weeks ago. two weeks ago we had the highways and the local roads crammed with traffic, and people took 20 hours to e get home from school and their businesses, but today, we saw firsthand interstates look like country roads that empty. >> schools have been closed for the past couple of days in preparation for this storm and trying to avoid what happened two weeks ago. they're not going to open tomorrow, are they? >> reporter: no, and a lot of people up north laugh at that. i'm a chicago and new jersey native. i'm telling you not to laugh at that, because here in atlanta, they have fewer plows, and less salt and sand. it's very hilly, and people

don't see snow very often. before two weeks ago, the last time it snowed here, accumulating snow was three years ago. so that makes it very dangerous to drive and almost all schools canceled tomorrow. >> gary, thank you very much. i want to bring in retired lieutenant general honore. they're weathering this one a lot better. can we expect things to get worse? the situation seems pretty bad in north carolina. >> absolutely. it will get worse before it get better. imagine what happened two weeks ago, they did bet ter this time around. this time we have the lights out. and when we get the electricity out to large populations, it sets us back to 80 year, and no running water and no flushing toilets, and it is a mess when we lose power. but they're doing a lot better, the mayor and governor.

>> in terms of infrastructure, hundreds of thousands without power in the southeast. it's really the ice, not the snow that causes the power lines to fall. is it just a matter of money that they're not putting power lines underground? >> that and the absence of tree trimming. seriously. if you drive around atlanta, and i love the city, but you'll see mile after mile of trees taller than the powerlines. 80% of the power lines in america are above ground. i lived in holland and germany and the power is generally underground. but the down side of underground power is cost. and who pays to put that in the ground? it costs about double the amount to put underground power as it is above ground. above ground, a mile in a new subdivision is about $200,000. underground in that same subdivision is right at $500,000. to put it in an existing inner city neighborhood is over

$700,000. who pays the cost if you want to do that? the other down side is flooding, anderson. like it happens in new york sometimes, they have underground power. but it can be flooding and that has catastrophic consequences. >> and then there's tree maintenance which is obviously important, but then again, it is a question of money? >> money. post of the power companies only trim when they have to, and they're helped in a negative way by the green people in the communities who refuse to allow you to cut a tree. if you want to cut a tree in atlanta, you have to get permission from ann arborist and they come out to tell you whether or not you can cut it. the downside of it is, when we have a storm like this, everybody want to know why isn't the power underground and why those trees are allowed to fall on the power lines. it's a dilemma, short lived. next week people will be talking about something else. we have a problem in america with our infrastructure, particularly our power grid.

this is just one of them, and we must address it with standards. >> general honore, thank you, sir. for more on the story go to cnn.com. up next, the jury in michael dunn's story. they began deliberations today. also ahead tonight, take a look at this. >> are you going to put that in there? wow. look at that. good job. >> tonight, we begin a remarkable series on babies and their brains. the question is are babies born knowing the difference of right and wrong. a lot of babies believe they are blank slate, but wait until you see what researchers at yale university have discovered. it is fascinating. ve to the cou, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirement and be able to focus on other things, like each other,

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"crime and punishment" tonight. a jury in jacksonville, florida is now deciding the guilt of innocence of michael dunn. jurors began deliberating late this afternoon. we've learned they've wrapped up for the night without reaching a verdict. they'll resume deliberations tomorrow morning at 10:00. dunn is charged in murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old man, jordan davis at a gas station in 2012. he claims he acted in self-defense during a confrontation with a group of teenagers in an suv. martin savidge was inside the

courtroom today. >> reporter: in closing arguments, prosecutors said 17-year-old jordan davis may have a big mouth, but he never had a weapon. >> let me be very clear. on november 23rd, 2012, when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis, there was no gun in that durango. there was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipe. there was no gun. >> reporter: 47-year-old michael dunn says it all started when he exchanged words over loud music coming from an suv carrying four teens. he says he pulled his weapon after he thought he saw the teens, at least one of them, point something out the rear window toward him. dunn fired nine shots at near point blank range into the suv, killing davis. assistant state's attorney erin wolfson depicted him as a trigger happy man with a predisposition for hate. >> this defendant fired round

after round after round into that car. >> reporter: without warning, she startled the courtroom playing the sounds of gun fire captured by a surveillance recording. on the witness stand, dunn said he shot in self-defense after davis got out of the suv to attack him. but prosecutors say the suv and dunn's car were parked too close for davis to get out. they say dunn didn't shoot to protect himself but because he was angry that davis has talked back to him. prosecutors say it wasn't self-defense it was murder. >> he took it upon himself to silence jordan davis forever. even people who have a right to self-defense do not have the right to take the life of a child when that self-defense is unreasonable. >> reporter: prosecutors said leaving the scene and never calling 911 that night or the next day was further proof dunn thought he got away with it.

but defense attorney corey strolla quickly countered claims his client was angry, saying the other teens testified the only person they saw upset was davis, not dunn. >> even they admitted on cross-examination, did you see him get angry? no, sir. did you see him curse? no. did he punch anything, throw anything? nope. >> reporter: then defense attorney strolla began a systematic attack on the state's case, claiming witnesses with criminal past got favorable legal treatment from the prosecution for their testimony. that the medical examiner's findings davis could suffer the wounds he did only while remaining seated in the suv didn't match bullet trajectories. >> it's physics. it's the law of a universe that can't change. this isn't the matrix. >> reporter: as for the state's contention the teens had no gun, strolla said there was a gun, police just didn't find it. he says after fleeing the gun

fire the suv stopped for three minutes at a plaza next door. plenty of time, strolla said to toss the weapon. he said in a sign of sloppy police work, the investigators failed to secure the crime scene and never looked for a weapon for days. >> never asked about the plaza. never asked about underneath the cars in the plaza. never checked the bushes. never checked the dumpsters. but you know what the detective alleges they did it? five days later. >> reporter: strolla never attempted to explain why his client never called 911 after the shooting, instead going to a hotel with his fiancee and ordering the pizza. the defense attorney said all that mattered was his client felt threatened. as a result, the jury was required to find michael dunn not guilty. martin savidge, cnn, jacksonville. lots to talk about. let's bring in our legal justice analysts, sunny hostin a former federal prosecutor was inside the courtroom jacksonville today and mark geragos a criminal defense attorney. sunny, the defense saying it was

sloppy police work they didn't secure the crime scene. but dunn didn't call police until or didn't admit what he had done publicly until the next day. it wasn't as if the police were on scene right after the shooting. >> well, that's right. i mean, it was really an interesting argument that he tried to make, saying that the police never searched dumpsters, never searched the grounds for this alleged shotgun. in john guy's closing argument, rebuttal argument which i thought was absolutely brilliant, he pointed out that the only reason that police didn't search the grounds is because they didn't know michael dunn's story until days later. he never called the police, anderson. actually the police looked for him. >> and mark, do you agree with that? this was kind of a red herring by the defense? >> no, not at all. clearly they knew something had happened. i agree that probably the worst fact for the defense is that he didn't call 911 or that he didn't report it immediately. i'm not going to fight that.

but that doesn't excuse what i consider to be and what the defense is arguing shoddy police work. remember, the prosecution has the burden of proof. the defense doesn't have to prove a thing here. they've got to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. >> in terms of searching for a gun, dunn never said there was a gun until days later, mark. >> right. but the police obviously know something happened. shots were fired. that doesn't -- the idea that somehow they weren't going to explore this or they weren't going to go and find out where they went afterwards or anything else i think is not real good police work. i can't tell you how many cases i've had where the police will scour the grounds, so to speak, and scour anybody's route in order to see if they can find something else. you can't believe, and you have to have a healthy skepticism to what anybody is telling you in any kind of a criminal investigation. >> sunny, how did you think both sides did in closing arguments? >> i think it was quite a

surprise to everyone that erin wolfson, the third chair, the youngest assistant state attorney, delivered the closing argument. but she was very good, very competent, very methodical. and really did a terrific job of pointing out all the defendant's inconsistencies. i also actually, though, thought that the defendant attorney did a pretty good job in arguing self-defense, in arguing reasonable doubt, in arguing this notion of shoddy police work. but the best argument of the day, and i know mark is going to say that i'm saying this because it came from mcdreamy but it did come from mcdreamy. assistant state attorney john guy was passionate. he was spot on in his arguments. spot on, mark, and you know that. and there wasn't a dry eye in the courtroom after his argument. he made sure that jordan davis was front and center in that courtroom. in fact, he ended his examination on jordan davis's picture and said to the jury that the dead are owed the

truth. i thought it was brilliant. it was masterful. i would be surprised if the jury isn't thinking about that rebuttal argument when they walked into that jury room. >> briefly before i go to mark, sunny, how diverse is the jury? we talked about this at the beginning of the trial, and what is the makeup of the jury in terms of race? >> it is quite diverse. it's very different from the zimmerman jury. we know there were only six in the zimmerman journey. two african-american women, about in their 20s or 30s, also an asian woman, there's also a hispanic male. all the rest are white. seven of them are women, five are men. >> mark, how do you think that plays? at the start of this you said a lot of this depends on jury selection and the makeup of the jury. >> that's one of the reasons i've said i think the best the defense can hope for in this case is a hung jury. i don't think you're going to see an acquittal. we'll see. it's florida. but my guess is, my best guess is that the best thing the defense can hope for is some

kind of a split and a hung jury. i don't think you're going to see a not guilty. >> interesting. appreciate you both. >> we can agree on that. we'll see what happens tomorrow. up next incredible insight on baby's brains. it could really change the way you think about your own children. >> so when most people think of babies as blank slates, your experiments say that's not true. also tonight, an up close look at the mess in atlanta. she followed the advice, stayed at home when the storm hit. and look at what happened. a tree slamming through her house. we'll tell you how she's doing now. olive garden's best 2 for $25 yet is ending soon!

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responsibility. what's your policy? tonight we start a three-part series on babies' brains over the next three nights. have you ever wondered what a baby is thinking and whether they know the difference between good and bad, even when they're born, even when they're three months old or six months old? researchers at yale university have spent nearly a decade studying the minds and behaviors of babies in order to find out if they're really born as a blank slate as many people think or with a moral belief system already built in. hard wired in. of course, babies can't talk or write, but that doesn't stop the folks at yale's baby lab from seeking answers. what they've discovered is really eye-opening. take a look. meet meghan. she's six months old.

>> look how pretty you are. >> so is connor. hazel is 11 months. and lyle just three months old. these babies are helping to answer one of life's biggest questions, are we born knowing right from wrong? >> so when most people think of babies as blank slates. but your experiments say that's not true, that it's not that they have to be taught wrong from right. >> from very early ages we know there is a lot going on in there. >> can you put that in there? wow. look at that. good job. >> this is the infant cognition center at yale university, otherwise known as the baby lab. based on over eight years of studies, researchers here believe that babies are not taught the difference between good and bad but instead are born knowing it. as these babies grow, their moral beliefs are enhanced by parents and society, but they aren't created by them. the studies are conducted with the help of puppet shows. the puppets acts out good and bad behavior.

watch as this puppet struggles to open a box. a green bunny comes along and helps to open the box. green bunny, nice and helpful. then an orange bunny comes along and slams the box shut. orange bunny, mean and unhelpful. the actions are repeated a number of times. but what does this mean to 6-month-old meghan? she watches the show and is then presented with the two puppets. the nice green bunny and the mean orange bunny. >> who do you like? >> megan grabs for the green bunny, the nice one. dr. karen winn runs the yale baby lab. she says by grabbing with her hands, meghan shows she understands the difference between good and bad. >> when it comes to the social world, little meghan here who is hugging -- that's cute -- she's showing the really typical response of all of the babies that come in. they gravitate towards the helpful characters and the friendly characters from very

early on there. >> how do we know what she's really thinking? >> well, we don't know the subtleties of what she's really thinking. but what we find is when they look at a social interaction between two individuals they can tell whether that's a positive one or a negative one, and they're drawn towards the positive character. >> up goes the curtain. >> connor and soshi watch the same show. nice bunny, mean bunny. according to the studies, over 80% of the time the nice bunny ends up in the arms of the baby. winn and her team wanted to see if babies even younger than six months would recognize good and bad behavior. so they tried this experiment with 3-month-olds. babies this young don't have the motor skills to grab for anything, so how do they show their preference? it turns out by staring. babies this young are known to stare longer at things they like, and they avert their eyes from things they don't like. >> noah, who do you like? >> noah looks a the bad orange bunny, then switches his gaze to

the good green bunny. and he keeps staring. >> they're not old enough to reach, but in their looking they will orient visually to the positive characters much, much more so. >> they look more at the positive character. >> they look lots longer at the positive characters. >> does that surprise you? >> it did. it did. that did surprise me. and what it's caused me to believe is that it's just a kind of a fundamental value. we're built to say this is good, this is positive, this is bad. >> incredible. incredible. yes. >> what's also incredible is that about 90% 3-month-olds tested seemed to recognize good behavior. 19-month-old natalie takes the experiment a step further. by not only recognizing good and bad behavior but acting on it. natalie is presented with two empty bowls placed in front of the two puppets from the show.

>> oh, no. >> oh, no, natalie, look. there's only one treat left. there's only one treat left to give. >> watch as she gives it to the good puppet. >> who do you want to give a treat to? that guy? okay. >> so what does it tell you? >> they're actually -- i think it tells us that they're actually evaluating who's deserving of what types of behavior in the world, and who do they feel warrants getting the benefits. >> and the babies take a step further. they don't just reward, they punish as well. here they're given a choice to take a treat away from a good or bad puppet. >> who do you want to take a treat from? >> almost 90% of the time, the babies will punish the bad puppet. >> now, is it possible this is just coincidence that they're just kind of gravitating to a color of the shirt they like more or where the placement is? >> good question. we switch the colors of the shirts.

so for half the babies the green shirted puppet is nice. for half the babies it's the orange-shirt puppet that's nice. what we find over and over again, it really doesn't relate to color of the shirt or which puppets on the left and on the right. it's who's been the positive character. >> even though these babies can't tell us what they're thinking, their actions here the the baby lab are helping us understand more about what's going on behind those eyes. >> it's really fascinating. a lot more going on behind their eyes than we probably previously thought. we just saw babies recognizing good behavior, bad behavior. in part two of our series tomorrow, we're going to look at situations where bad guys have something that babies want, and then we'll see what it takes for the baby to actually interact with the bad guy. after the show, the good green bunny and the bad orange bunny each offer lucy some graham crackers. the good bunny has just one cracker to offer, but the bad bunny has two. which one will lucy choose?

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welcome back. take a look at raleigh, north carolina earlier today. a taste of things to come for drivers in washington, d.c. and points on the i-95 corridor. it is not just treacherous for people out driving on snowy and icy streets tonight. just before dawn, a woman in atlanta found out that things can come slamming right into your home. g gary tuchman has the story. >> reporter: the advice in atlanta was to stay at home. but for an unlucky few trying to stay safe, it would have been safer to be away from home. a huge tree fell on top of this atlanta house. this is what happened inside. an elderly woman was sleeping on this bed when the roof came down on top of her. that woman is leila greer, who

was hospitalized for bruises and lacerations. >> i woke up with the house on top of me. >> reporter: three weeks ago, she became a widow. her husband of 67 years passing away. how old are you? >> 86. >> reporter: you're 86 years old. you look younger, despite that shiner on your face. are you doing okay? >> yeah, i'm fine. >> reporter: you are a brave woman. it must have been scary. >> it was scary. >> reporter: tell me what happened. >> i was just laying in the bed and i hear all of this noise and all of this stuff is on top of me. >> reporter: did you know what was going on? >> no, i didn't. >> reporter: what did you think was happening? >> i thought it was judgment day. >> reporter: you thought what? >> it was judgment day. >> reporter: you thought it was judgment day? once she realized it was her roof, she yelled for help. her son and nephew found her and rescued her.

>> i'm still shaky from it, because i realized i could have been hurt worse. >> reporter: as a matter of fact, the empty bedroom next to hers was more damaged. she will now move in with other family members and hopes her insurance will enable her to rebuild her damaged home. >> i thank the lord for taking care of me. >> wow, what a lovely lady and i feel so bad for her. how is she doing tonight? >> well, anderson, when i talked to her and learned the story, i could not believe that a 86-year-old woman who had her roof fall on top of her was not in the hospital overnight, but they said she was doing well. she went to the hospital, they assured her she was doing type and let her go home. when i asked her how she's coping with everything, she did say to me, she said it seems high everything is going wrong

at once. but she has a lot of faith helping her through all this. >> i love it when she said she thought it was judgment day. i'm sure she would fair quite well on judgment day. >> reporter: this is interesting. she started off this morning by thinking it was judgment day and ended up thinking she could live until she's 110 years old. >> thank you very much. want to get an update on the storm from our meteorologist chad myers at the weather center. chad, a couple of states have declared a state of emergency, and how serious will the storm get? >> it snows very hard overnight in a lot of cities. then it changes over to rain and sleet, gets warmer for a while tomorrow. then back over to snow before it ends. the snow is going hard in d.c. right now. into richmond, virginia, same story. backing off to rain in raleigh, getting up to about 33 degrees in a place that was almost just stand still earlier today, with all those people looking like atlanta a couple of weeks ago. here's what the forecast looks like. this is an area that is not getting a lot of snow, boston. it snows for a while but almost

washed away by all the rain that's coming through. new york, big difference between long island and west of the city where you could get two inches if you get out towards the hampton. 12 inches west of the city in parts of new jersey. same story in philadelphia. less, more. d.c., less, more. it is just one thing after another. one big city after another that either gets missed because it's just off to the west or if you live off to the east, all of a sudden you get a couple of inches and even from annapolis to reston, virginia, we could go from 2 to 12 inches of snow. and there's only maybe a 40-mile drive across that border. that's the border we're talking about. it snows hard all night long, snows d.c., philadelphia, new york. this is 7:00 a.m. for your commute. it changes over to rain in d.c. and philadelphia for a while, then rain in new york city for a while, rains in boston. tomorrow night, changes back to snow. so it's this rain-snow-rain all over the place. wait five minutes and your

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tomorrow, comcast will announce its intent to acquire time warner cable in a $45 billion deal. >> the former mayor of new orleans ray nagin was found guilty of a slew of charges. found guilty of money laundering and fraud and filing false tax returns. he could face 20 years in prison. he vows to appeal. a source says it's believed a note was attached to a bomb which may have been sent in an act of revenge. at least 15 people stuck on malfunctioning roller coaster for more than three hours in the rain at busch gardens in tam the pa, florida, were rescued by firefight firefighters tonight. everybody is okay, but it is unclear what caused the glitch in the ride. take a look at this video from inside the national corvette museum in kentucky. a sinkhole caused the display floor to collapse, swallowing those two cars. a total of eight of the classic vehicles were damaged by the

sinkhole, said to measure 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep. apparently a cave sits underneath that museum, anderson. >> what a spot. incredible. randi, thank you very much. that is it for us. thank you for watching. up next -- did an intruder commit this brutal murder? >> could this have been even a professional hit? >> and was the victim's lifestyle to blame? >> when we find nude photographs what role does she play in this? >> but the evidence points in a different direction. >> weren't too smart, bobby. you got murdered. the roofing business can be very lucrative. 42-year-old bob bosley started his roofing business from scratch in his hometown of