>> axelrod: tonight, a nasty head start. >> a wide swath of the country gets another whipping of snow and ice and winter is still a week away. terrell brown has the latest. why did he do it? barry petersen upon the search for a motive in the nation's latest school shooting. the controversy on college football's biggest night, jeff pegu repor on the cloud over the heisman trophy. >> and on the day of the final homecoming for nelson mandela, mark phillips will share the stor

tremendous this is the third maw and ice storm this month. more than 10,00 10,000 flights e been canceled this week, 1,000 today alone and as terrell brown reports, the timing of this storm couldn't be any worse for retailers among a short shopping season that has been underwhelming. >> reporter: in the middle of a dusty snowstorm on a 19-degree day in mohegan lake new york, nicki couldn't resist going to shop. >> we are in a snowstorm. >> yes. >> and you are shopping. >> yes. >> why? >> because it is still christmas, and things still need to get done and there are gifts to buy. >> reporter: a snow day for retailers during the holiday shopping season could be the difference between a profit or loss. so many so many stores stayed open and were counting on shoppers like audra aggin. >> the stores are throwing some

good sales, to, so you have to get out when they have the sales. >> reporter: in upstate new york, clearing the snow has been a week long marathon. just ask ron bacon. >> i get out with a blower and blow it out and it piles back up again and blow it out again. >> reporter: the storm dumped as many as five inches an hour in syracuse, mary lou smith could barely recognize her car. >> it was insane, it wasn't, it was big puffy flakes, small ones, then large ones, just pounding, just insane. >> reporter: whiteout conditions and slick roads prompted troopers to close down portions of interstate 65 in indiana. plows in st. louis were on the move all day, clearing some of the ten inches of snow on the ground. at least one person died in a snow related car accident in michigan. with the official start of winter just a few days away, meteorologist say just over half the country has snow on the ground, slightly above normal for this time of year.

>> oh, come on, it is perfect. >> you are right. >> at today's army navy game more than 60,000 fans braved wind gusts and 20 degrees windchill. this storm has caused major disruptions to service all across the country. with we talked a retail analyst said this storm would have been so much worst if it happened next weekend, the weekend before christmas, jeff. >> terrell brown in the middle of this storm, thank you. >> meteorologist derek fisher of boston station wbz who joins us from a frozen boston common. eric, i guess we don't need a official start to winter to see a significant storm. >> no, we do not, fast and furious this year, the snow flakes flying as they have been doing most of the day. >> the storm leaving indiana, missouri where a half foot fell in some towns, it is moving to the northeast tonight, new england will see six inches or more of snow, coming down an

inch an hour in some points. >> it will move out as we head to tomorrow morning, through midday most of the snow is done and when the big dig will be done and albeit cold temperatures still tick sticking around. >> #01: the good news is it should be done by tomorrow afternoon, thank >> axelrod: the good news it should be over by tomorrow afternoon, eric, thank you. the snow in the midwest this time of year isn't exactly rate rare, but snow in the middle east? now that is a different story, check out jerusalem, where they are digging out of the heaviest snow they have seen there in 50 years. more than a foot fell on the old city. now to south africa, where the body of nelson mandela has arrived home. in the village of kuni to be precise, that's where he grew up and that is where tomorrow he will be buried. today, south afternoon cans lined the, africans to lined the streets to see the casket go by, allen pizzey spoke to some of them. >> draped in the south african flag, nelson mandela body went

through the good-bye process, a culmination of state funeral, full military honor send-off, family mourning, the political occasion. mourning mandela has been a worldwide phenomenon, with the tears of his window graca machel were no less personal for that .. >> president jason zuma's speech was less a all i didn't than to bolster the flagging popularity of his ruling anc party. the military handled the trance part of mandela's body, complete with fighter escort. the convoy to his home area of kutin formed up, mandela's former wife win any and his widow graca united in grief only they could measure. the funeral allowed ordinary south africans to say good-bye in their own unique way. and the message they sent made it clear that nelson mandela was coming back to where he belonged. >> the people of mandela's home village lined this road when he came out of prison to welcome him home but now they are here

to say good-bye to wish him on his way, at the end of what is called his long walk to freedom. > in the streets, it was enough for her. >> reporter: even children here know what mandela did. it means that now when they head back home, it is to what is theirs. thanks to their neighbor who made such a long walk for their freedom. allen pizzey, cbs news, kunu south africa. >> axelrod: tonight investigators in colorado are piecing together just what happened yesterday at arapahoe high school in centennial, colorado, a high school senior opened fire there, seriously injuring a fellow student before killing himself, barry petersen has the latest. >> reporter: arapahoe county sheriff grayson robinson said

the shooter came ready to kill, armed with a shotgun, machete and three incendiary devices. the shooter came armed with a pump shotgun, and had multiple rounds available to him. >> reporter: but when a deputy stationed at the school confronted the shooter in the library, the shooter killed himself. the shooter, 18-year-old karl halversonwas called a top debator with excellent grades, he was outgoing with good friends and came from a religious family, his parent recently divorced. fellow senior classmate chris davis. >> he is really smart but weird, just had some weird ideas and weird thoughts about stuff. >> reporter: his target was teacher and debate coach tracy murphy, who reportedly kicked pierson off the debate team. officials think pearson wanted revenge but murphy fled the building, beer son fired at fellow student, 17-year-old claire davis, apparently at random.

sheriff robinson read a statement from her family. >> our beautiful daughter claire davis has severe head trauma as a result of a gunshot. she needs your continued prayers. >> reporter: dylan johnson had several classes with her. >> it is kind of surprising for me just like to know such a nice girl and such a girl that is so innocent would just like this happen to. >> reporter: there are whys that go unanswered, why another school shooting, why again the dread of frantic parents in a place where parents and students say it should never have happened. barry petersen, cbs news, centennial, colorado. >> axelrod: this latest school shooting took place as we got ready to mark one year since the shooting at the sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut, at 9:30 this morning, president and mrs. obama lit 26 candles at the white house to remember the 20 children and six adults who were shot and killed a year ago today.

all over connecticut, you could hear church bells tolling 26 times this morning. they decided not to hold any sort of public ceremony in newtown asking instead for privacy so people could deal with the pain of this anniversary in whatever way provided the most comfort. a composer who grew up not too far from newtown is hoping that his music will provide some form of comfort to the families. tonight he shares his plan with our don dahler. >> reporter: the search for harmony is what drives composer stephen sametz. >> you want to try that. >> the lehigh university professor grew up just 20 miles from newtown. >> i was raised in an environment so similar to newtown, those are lives not led. >> reporter: lives not led. cut short. >> cut short.

that there is just a sudden hole in the fabric of what could have been. >> reporter: too honor the victims sametz is composing a special piece of music. >> i elected to start this project in a very unusual way, for me, i wanted to enlist school children, i wanted to get their responses to tragedy and loss, because i wanted the piece to speak from the point of view of the group most affected at newtown. >> reporter: he has received hundred of letters, ranging from depictions of violence... >> this is a fourth grader writing, my dad was about to go outside with me and someone had a gun, and shot my dad. >> reporter: to pictures of heaven... >> and this 17-year-old, jeff, gave me this incredibly beautiful picture, and it just said where people go when they die. >> reporter: sametz says the piece entitled a child's requiem will have a hope not living.

>> it is aunt the living, it is offering comport to those left behind, so perhaps i can offer that. >> reporter: it will debut at the university of connecticut in 2015. don dahler cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: later, $550 million and counting as the mega- millions jackpot goes unclaimed again. and the controversy shadowing tonight's heisman trophy ceremony, those stories when the cbs news continues. con >>

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jameis winston florida state star quarterback had few equals. >> winston on first down. >> at six-four and nearly 2:30 pounds his play launched the seminoles into college football national championship game and made him a heisman winner. >> you think about the investigation, i always respected the process. >> reporter: but allegations of sexual assault in connection with an incident last year have haunted winston's heisman's campaign while his accuser continues to press her case, he has denied he has done anything wrong and prosecutors in florida have chosen not to file charges. sportswriter bruce feldman was one of the heisman voters this year. >> i think ultimately as voters, all we can go on is what we see, have seen in the three months it is not supposed to be a lifetime achievement award, and, you know, i think it is just who is the most outstanding player. >> the heisman is college football's greatest individual honor, awarded to the player who best exhibits what the heisman trust calls the pursuit of

excellence with integrity, but two of the last three winters have faced allegations of impropriety and 2010 representatives of then auburn quarterback cam newton were accused of soliciting money, auburn and newton were cleared. and just this past summer after winning the heisman, texas a & m's johnny manziel was accused of accepting money for signing autographs, he was suspended for half a game. >> we are not picking spouses here. we are picking who we think is the best football player. >> reporter: few can argue with winston's numbers on the field, his team's 12 and zero record and now his heisman, showing the voters believe he best exemplified what the trophy means to the game. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. jackpot for the mega-millions drawing is now $550 million. there were no winning tickets in last night's $425 million mega-millions drawing, so now this new jackpot which is the fourth largest, in the history

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in arizona last summer. 19 hotshot firefighters were killed, and as carter evans tells us several families have filed multimillion dollars lawsuits. >> the fire is out here now. >> video from a firefighter's helmet cam shows the yarnell fire bearing down, and casts a desperate radio hall from the. [ gunshot ] as, hotshot as 100-foot of wall of flames closes in on them. >> >> hotshots. >> the recordings were released after an investigation revealed commanders made numerous mistakes managing the wildfire that killed the 19 hotshots, and destroyed more than 100 homes. >> little by little, the truth is coming out. >> julianne ashcraft saw the video for the first time yesterday. >> her husband andrew was one of the hotshots who died. their leader eric marsh made one of the final calls for help. >> we are preparing a deployment

site. we are burning out around ourselves the brush and will give you a call. >> in his voice, what i heard was he knew, i think, and i believe that he knew that they were all going to die. >> moments before the hotshots deployed their fire shelters, they called for water dropping aircraft. >> aircraft. >> but fire commanders did not even know where the hotshots were. >> so you are on the south side of the fire. we have got several aircraft coming to you. see if we can't take care of business for you. >> there was confusion, and that is heartbreaking. >> reporter: but to deborah pfingston, andrew ashcraft's mother the recordings also provide some comfort. >> these guys were working to save each other to the very last moment, and that is commendable. >> reporter: at 4:38 p.m. there was a call from dispatch.

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he turned 77, pope francis enjoyed a birthday surprise today. >> it was all smiles when he popped by the vatican's pediatric clinic and some of the children presented him with a cake. >> one of the kids apparently mistook his white skullcap for a party favor. >> we want to leave you tonight with a little more from south africa as they get ready to bury nelson mandela tomorrow. this week, we have seen and heard so many deeply felt expressions of the meaning of the man from around the world. as mark phillips shows us, people loved everything about the man known by his tribal man of madiba right down to his shirt. >> a lot of people have been stitching together all the remarkable aspects of nelson mandela's life, here, they do it literally. this is where the famous madiba shirt was born. the colorful loose fitting shirt that became a kind of trademark.

mandela was a fashion icon too. deliberately. these shirts were no stylistic accident. >> and this is the man who created them, johannesburg designer sonwabile ndamese. >> i said, hey, i understand that you are a designer. but hey, i can't believe this. >> and a salute for mr. nelson mandela. >> the design he wanted was a radical departure from the suited politician look he had when he was released from prison in 1990. >> he wanted a signature look to be cool in both senses. >> we wanted to break the norm as well of how people have been looking in terms of the statesman. >> so the madiba shirt came to be, often in a carefully chosen african print. >> but with a formal button color, hidden buttons, worn loose, not tucked in, it led to

some interesting conversations between at a. >> tailor and client. >> you can pick up this one, and well, what do you expect that i will wear with it? >> reporter: and it worked. there was never a problem spotting mandela in a crowd. the shirt made him identifiable and accessible, grand mandela and the look became grand south africa. >> when he had this shirt, he carried the aspirations of the people, the poor, the rich, the continent. >> a shirt will do that? >> the shirt managed to do that. >> although the shirt had help. >> the shirt could not do it on its own. it took the person inside could not carry that kind of message. >> and the shirt and the man came to have a kind of power. >> the moment other people get inside this shirt, you start

feeling the joy of madiba. >> a little bit of nelson wears off on you. >> that's right. >> a little bit of nelson has worn off on a lot of us. mark phillips, cbs news, johannesburg. >> axelrod: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, 48 hours, for now, i am jim axelrod in new york, and from all of us here in new york, thanks for joining us. good night. >> captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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