snow bound. the northeast battles another hard-hitting winter storm. holding on, a husband's bedside vigil for the congresswoman shot in the deadly rampage as tucson mourns the other victims. and still struggling. a year after the quake that ripped haiti apart, there are growing questions about the ripped haiti apart, there are growing questions about the recovery efforts. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us, i'm betty nguyen. this morning the northeast is getting socked by its third snowstorm in as many weeks, and this one is a doozy. this is a live picture from new york's times square where the snow started falling early last night. the storm is actually a combination of weather systems.

the storm that paralyzed much of the south is teaming up with a system from the midwest. a foot of snow is predicted here in new york city. but some areas, especially new england, could get up to a foot and a half. terrell brown is in times square. terrell, looks like the snow is sticking. >> reporter: oh, yeah. it's coming down here, betty. but relatively speaking it doesn't seem like this storm is as bad as the storm that we saw move through new york and the northeast during the christmas weekend. a couple weeks ago. it is interesting, though, it is still early. the worst of this storm could be yet to come. new york city had its salt spreaders in action as soon as the flakes started falling. more than a foot of snow is expected in the new york area. forecasters say it could be even worse in new england. blizzardlike conditions are in the forecast. and in new jersey, sandra hughes was surprised at how quickly the snow piled up. >> i came out to all the snow coming down, so welcome winter once again.

>> reporter: here in times square, plows and spreaders have been keeping up with the snow so far. mayor michael bloomberg promised to do a better job this time, after the christmas weekend blizzard left parts of this city paralyzed for days. >> we didn't do the job that new yorkers rightly expect of us in the last storm. and we intend to make sure that that does not happen again. >> reporter: and while the northeast is dealing with its third storm in three weeks, the south is in a deep freeze. from louisiana to the carolinas, thick ice has caused hundreds of highway accidents. >> ice of this magnitude is just unknown for us. >> reporter: frozen atlanta has been hit hard. the city's been virtually shut down for the past two days. thousands of flights at the nation's busiest airport were canceled. >> i see a lot of canceled flights. stuck in the airport waiting for a later flight. >> reporter: more frigid temperatures are in the forecast today, so it could be days before the south begins to thaw out. and according to noaa, every

state in the country, every state in the country has snow on the ground except for florida. even hawaii, where there's snow right now in some of the mountains of the higher elevations. >> looks like it's time to book a trip to miami. all right, terrell brown in times square. stay warm out there, terrell. as you might expect the storm is having a major impact on air travel. by last night flight cancellations had moved from the south into the east. more than 3500 flights were canceled tuesday. many of them in atlanta. another 1,000 flights are expected to be scrubbed today from chicago to boston. so, if you are flying anywhere today, you should call ahead. now to the tucson shooting. sheriff's deputies have been called to the home of shooting suspect jared loughner at least once before saturday's attack. but it's unclear why. a memorial service was held for the victims last night. and the parents of the alleged gunman issued a statement saying, quote, there are no words that can possibly express how we feel.

wrote randy and amy loughner. we wish that there were so we could make you feel better. we don't understand why this happened. sandra hughes is in tucson with more this morning. good morning, sandra. >> reporter: good morning, betty. well, two new doctors who were brought in to examine congresswoman giffords now believe that that bullet wound went in the front of her head, and exited out the back. and that's actually opposite of what we have been told all week. still, she is making a remarkable recovery. newly released photos show the husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords holding vigil by her bedside. doctors are now fully confident the congresswoman will survive her injuries. she's able to move both her arms, and can even breathe on her own. >> a penetrating injury through the skull really, the survival, let alone recovery, is abysmal. she has no right to look this good, and she does. ♪ >> reporter: hundreds packed

this tucson church tuesday night to pray for the survivors of saturday's shooting. and mourn the six dead. among the victims, 9-year-old christina green, who sang in the children's choir. her family sat in the front row. a larger memorial will be held here at the university of arizona tonight. president obama will speak at the event, and is expected to call for unity among americans. as the community tries to heal, investigators continue their search for any new information about alleged shooter jared loughner. the parents of it the 22-year-old issued their first statement tuesday, saying we don't understand why this happened. it may not make any difference, but we wish that we could change the heinous events of saturday. >> they're devastated. do you have a son? how would you feel if your son did it? you'd feel like it's your -- to blame for the people getting shot. >> reporter: authorities tell cbs news that loughner's parents knew their son was becoming increasingly troubled, but were, quote, completely surprised by

the shooting. investigators are now looking for a black bag that loughner's father told them he saw his son taking out of the trunk of a car on the day of the shooting. now that black bag has not been seen since, and they think it could hold vital clues. betty? >> very interesting. all right, sandra hughes in tucson. thank you for that, sandra. arizona lawmakers quickly passed emergency legislation to block a controversial church from picketing the tucson victims' funerals. 9-year-old christina green will be buried thursday. the fundamentalist west grove baptist church which said god sent the shooter to deal with idolatrist america has picketed military funerals in the past. the epic flooding in northeast australia has now started to swamp the city of brisbane. the river that runs through the third largest city is expected to peak tomorrow. some of the city's low-lying

suburbs are already flooded and shelters are getting full. about 20,000 homes are expected to be inundated. 22 people have died since the flooding began back in november. it was one year ago today that a massive earthquake left haiti in ruins. more than 230,000 people were killed. so far less than 5% of the debris has been cleared, and about 1 million people remain homeless. more than $5.5 billion in aid was pledged for the recovery effort but only $2 billion has been handed out. relief workers say they're being cautious. former president bill clinton has been at the forefront of the relief effort. >> to be fair to them, they have a right, they have people that represent, they have a right to know this model didn't work. >> reporter: randall pinkston has more on the effort to rebuild haiti. >> reporter: eric klein and his small team of volunteers are going grocery shopping.

>> eight sacks of rice. five sacks of beans. >> reporter: buying food for children's care center outside port-au-prince. >> here you go. here's five 10s. >> reporter: klein, who is from california, says he's filling in a gap in relief aid for haiti's earthquake victims. we joined him up a rough mountain road which ended a mile from the children's center. why do you have to do this when there's so many organizations that have pledged millions of dollars for assistance? >> you're absolutely right. this is what we're talking about. there's got to be, you know, these organizations need to be held accountable. there's a lot of money coming out to haiti. you've got a lot of places like this that are getting nothing. >> reporter: paul jean-louis said most aid groups stopped delivering food last spring. how do they get the food? >> through family and friends, that's the way we get fed. >> reporter: eric klein and his volunteers made their delivery. this is where it goes? >> yeah, we're going in here. >> reporter: okay. but it's just a drop in the

bucket for haiti's 1.5 million earthquake victims. randall pinkston, cbs news, haiti. vice president joe biden arrived in pakistan this morning. biden is meeting with pakistan's political and military leaders to discuss the fight against the taliban and al qaeda. washington is giving pakistan $7.5 billion in aid over the next five years. it wants islamabad to take a harder stance against extremism. and secretary of state hillary clinton took a nasty fall as she boarded her plane on tuesday. clinton was leaving yemen for the next stop on her mideast tour, oman. just ahead on the "morning news" find out which credit card is tops with consumers. plus michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray, is ordered to face the music in court. this is the "cbs morning news." t. this is the "cbs morning news." a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms.

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dr. conrad murray could go to prison for up to four years if convicted on the charges. murray's license to practice medicine was also suspended. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: michael jackson's personal physician will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter. a los angeles judge made the ruling after a six-day preliminary hearing, in which prosecutors blame dr. conrad murray for the pop star's death. jackson died from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. investigators claim murray was on the phone and did not properly monitor the singer after giving him the drug. security guards and paramedics testified that the doctor did not administer cpr correctly. delayed calling 911. and withheld information about the singer's medication. jackson was working on a comeback tour when he lost his life. he suffered from insomnia and reportedly took propofol to sleep. bodyguard alberto alvarez tearfully testified about seeing

the singer on his bed the morning he died. he says jackson's children followed him into the room, and paris jackson screamed "daddy" and started crying. members of the jackson family attended the preliminary hearing daily. in murray's defense, his attorney suggested that jackson administer the propofol to himself. but on tuesday, the coroner testified that even if that were the case, jackson's death would still be considered a homicide, because of murray's actions. if convicted at trial, dr. murray faces up to four years in prison. manuel gallegus, cbs news. on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia were mixed this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with the latest on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. well, most asian markets have been up slightly today. the hang seng added 1.5% while japan's nikkei was unchanged. today wall street gets the latest snapshot of the economy from the fed. tuesday's strong profits from retailers pushed stocks higher.

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same price for a similar at&t model, but verizon is not saying what the data plan will cost. betty? >> all right. a lot of folks excited about that. thank you, ashley morrison, joining us live here in new york. thank you, ashley. straight ahead, your wednesday morning weather. and in sports, a career night for nick young, as the kings push the wizards into overtime. she felt lost...

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miami, windy, 70. chicago, flurries, and windy though, 26 degrees there. dallas, partly cloudy, 36. and l.a. a sunny 69. time now for a check of the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows clear skies over the plains while another winter storm pounds the northeast. later today, philadelphia, washington, d.c., and new york city will start to see conditions improve from the region's latest snowstorm. the bitter cold in the midwest continues to spread south. and the west coast sees mild temperatures. in sports, we begin in the nba. a last-minute meltdown by the wizards. washington blew a six-point lead to the kings in the last 14 seconds. but nick young continued his hot shooting in overtime. young finished with 43 points, including seven three-pointers. washington beat sacramento 136-133. in portland amare stoudemire

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home.. what crews found inside that's raising suspicion. plus.. a 4 point 5 quake rattles the bay area overnight. the latest on where it was felt.. and the aftershocks. a trail of clues in the arizona shooting rampage. the warning signs the suspected gunman's parents missed. jerry brown hangs up on a state worker cell phone perk. how much of our money it's expected to save. and.. a facebook faceoff. mark zuckerberg's new battle in court. join us for cbs 5 early edition,

on the "cbs morning news" here's a look at today's weather. the northeast is in another big snowstorm. it will pack a big punch through much of new england. continuous showers and snow are all over the west coast, and the midsection of the nation is clear. here's another look at this morning's top stories. a strong winter storm is blanketing the northeast with heavy snow. much of the region could get a foot or more. and president obama travels to tucson today to attend the memorial service for saturday's shooting victims. the president will speak at the service and meet with family members. as we reported, doctors for congresswoman gabrielle giffords are confident that she'll survive injuries sustained in saturday's shooting. john blackstone has an update on the other victims. >> reporter: five other victims remain in the hospital.

among those discharged is manby stoddard whose husband was killed, shielding her from the bullets. >> mom didn't know she'd been hurt. but she thought that she was holding him and her leg started hurting. >> reporter: she was shot in both legs. she and dori married 15 years ago after both were widowed. >> what kind of guy was he? >> he was a busy little guy. he was always thinking about how to fix and repair and help anyone and everyone that he could. >> my mother -- my mother was killed in the shooting in tucson. >> reporter: phyllis' mother was phyllis schneck, 79 years old but with unusual generosity, she seems ready to forgive jared loughner. >> my heart goes out to him and his family. he was a person that was crying out for help, and apparently never really received any. >> reporter: here at the medical center where memorial continues to grow, two military doctors with battlefield experience are

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ted williams, the homeless man with the golden voice, was briefly detained by police in los angeles. williams became a media sensation last week after an internet video went viral. police say he got into an argument monday with his daughter at a hotel in hollywood. williams and his daughter were brought in by lapd, then later released after they calmed down. and the tucson shooting investigation, those who know alleged gunman jared loughner point to red flags in his behavior, which seemed to suggest a mental disorder, but getting help for a mental illness may prove easier said than done. dean reynolds has the story. >> reporter: the fact that jared lee loughner's family apparently never got him help has a familiar ring to clark romans.

>> this ain't no cocktail hour conversation piece. people don't talk about it. there's too much stigma. >> reporter: romans, who heads up the local chapter of the national association of mental illness, says arizona has very progressive laws to deal with the mentally ill. in some states, actual law-breaking must happen before someone can be involuntarily committed. but here, all that's needed is a witness' judgment that a person is persistently delusional or potentially a threat. loughner was deemed a problem at school by teachers and romans says he could have been committed. but there is no record of him ever getting treatment or of anyone calling the mobile acute care teams available here. unfortunately, few know about the assistance. >> probably one tenth of one percent of the population in this community. >> reporter: clark romans estimates there may be as many as 80,000 mentally ill people here in tucson. that's about a tenth of the population. but only 25% of them are getting any kind of treatment. nationwide, money is a big

issue. >> and you know, people, they're afraid it's going to bankrupt the health care system. >> reporter: for the first time in more than three decades, mental health funding in this country is declining. congresswoman giffords attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for a mental health facility here last october. but the fact is that arizona's mental health budgets have been cut $65 million over the last three fiscal years. a 51% reduction. for lois early of green dale the arizona law may be well intentioned but the services are lacking. her 25-year-old daughter has bipolar disorder with psychotic features. >> you call but you really have to be a pest. you have to be a tireless advocate if you have a loved one that has a mental illness. >> reporter: and apparently jared lee loughner had no advocate at all. dean reynolds, cbs news, tucson. coming up a little bit later on "the early show," more on the snowstorm blasting the northeast. and a check of air travel in the region.

also new details on congresswoman gabrielle giffords' medical condition, and an update on her prognosis. plus how safe is your rental car? a shocking report on a little-known loophole. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. ,,,,