first came the blanket of snow. now comes the bitter cold. freezing temperatures settle in for millions of americans and promise to stay in place for days to come. theater shooting. the widow of a man shot and killed during a dispute over texting in a movie theater speaks out. >> in the blink of an eye my whole world just got shaed into a million pieces. two life-saving surgeries. a pair of sisters received lung transplants from a single donor. and under the helmet. the nfl mikes up seattle seahawks' cornerback richard sherman. you'll hear what he says before going on his epic postgame rant and how the super bowl-bound

player is responding to his critics. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning this is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday, january 23rd, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. we begin with the aftermath of that massive winter storm that stretched from kentucky to new england. in its wake the storm leaves a bitterly cold layer of weather that stretches from north to south. this morning there are freeze and winter weather warnings from texas to florida. now, during the height of the storm, the wind-driven snow blew into and through this amtrak train in baltimore. it looked like a blizzard inside the passenger cars. besides massive travel delays, the storm and bitter cold is driving up the price of natural gas and propane. and at the sight of the super bowl, metlife stadium in new jersey, a dress rehearsal of sorts. some 1,300 workers cleared the snow. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says the

brutally cold weather is not going away anytime soon. >> a storm has come to a close with impressive totals especially in the megalopolis. around boston, up to a foot and a half of snow came down with this one. 11 inches in new york city. that was a daily snowfall record. in philadelphia, over a foot of snow, but it's the third time they've seen over a foot before february 1st. it's never happened in philadelphia before. 4 inches in d.c. it was the biggest in years. now it's about the cold. many, many states with two dozen windchills and advisories as far as arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina, and freeze warnings in effect all the way to the everglades. as we kick off the morning, subzero in boston, near zero in new york, and 30 and 40 below across the upper midwest, chicago, and minneapolis. into atlanta. now, here's app upside-down kind of forecast for you. in juneau, alaska, temperatures in the 40s for the next few days.

big ridge of warmth on the west coast. but colder weather in atlanta, georgia. things looking a bit wild on the weather map. this pattern is going to continue as we look ahead. more outbreaks of cold. another big one arrives as we head into next week. i'm meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. meanwhile california is suffering with what may be its worst drought in history. the water shortage is affecting tinder-dry brush is fueling wildfires. a statewide state of emergency has been declared and governor jerry brown has asked everyone to reduce their water consumption by 20%. israel says it's broken up and al qaeda plot to attack the u.s. embassy in tel a viv. this appears that al qaeda leaders were directly involved in plotting an attack inside israel. besides the embassy in tel aviv,

al qaeda planned to attack a jerusalem conference center with guns and kill rescue workers with a truck bomb. secret service said the plan was in the advanced stage. three palestinians who planned allegedly planned the attack have been arrested. former nsa contractor edward snowden is answering questions online today. he remains in russia where he was granted asylum but snowden denies he was working for the russians when he released those classified documents dealing with u.s. surveillance records. a just released cbs news poll finds 58% disapprove of the government collecting phone data. meanwhile 47% believe it's necessary in order to stop terror attacks. marlie hall is here in new york. good morning, marlie. >> good morning, anne-marie. snowden will almost certainly address questions about the top secret information he's revealed so far. edward snowden will answer questions from the public online

today about his role in exposing secret u.s. surveillance programs. one question u.s. officials want to know is how much help did he receive from foreign intelligence sources. >> my questions about his work with chinese and russian intelligence begin once he arrives in hong kong and then when he moved on to moscow. >> wednesday snowden denied he had any help telling the "new yorker" magazine the claims are absurd. a new cbs news survey showed 61% of those polled believe snowden should stand trial for espionage. 23% think he should be granted amnesty, but as the white house reiterated yesterday, that's not likely to happen. >> it is our firm position he ought to return to the united states and face the charges against him. >> but the snowden leaks have forced changes to the way the nsa operates. last week president obama announced the nsa will still collect americans' phone data in the fight against terror, but

the president says agents will now need a judge's approval access it and he no longer wants the agency to store the information. the president says he's trying to balance the need for intelligence while still upholding american civil liberties. snowden is expected to answer questions during a live chat this afternoon on a website free snowden. you can submit questions via twitter using #asksnowden. >> marlie hall in new york. thanks a lot, marlie. well, opposition leaders in ukraine issued an ultimatum. they want the president to call early elections within 24 hours or face more protests. the demand comes amid escalating violence in the capital. at least two protesters have died since the demonstrations began in november. that's when ukraine's president sided with russia and rejected an economic deal with the european union. at the syrian peace talks in

switzerland, the two warring factions are scheduled to meet separately with the u.n. negotiator. it's still unclear if the two sides are willing to meet tomorrow when serious negotiations are to begin. at the opening session yesterday they called on president assad to step down. the president said that's not happening. president obama has created a task force to respond to sexual assault on american college campuses. the white house released a report yesterday that found one out of five female students is assaulted, but just one in eight victims reports it. president obama said sexual assault is an affront to basic humanity. >> sexual violence is more than just a crime against individuals. it threatens our families, it threatens our communities. ultimately it threatens the entire country. >> the report says sexual

assaults are triggered by drinking and drug use often at parties. he was shot dead for texting in a movie theater. now we're hearing from the man's widow for the first time about the day that tore her family apart. ko im reports. >> reporter: nicole oulson sobbed during her news conference wednesday. the young mother was sitting next to her husband chad last week when another moviegoer, a retired police captain, started arguing with chad because he was texting during previews. >> just to think that in the blink of an eye my whole world just got shattered into a million pieces and now i'm left trying to pick them up and put them all back together. >> reporter: witnesses said the gaumt between chad and the suspect curtis reeves began after someone threw popcorn. nicole said it is just unimaginable that her date turned so tragic. >> i was so excited to spending the day with the love of my life at a place of entertainment, you know, family entertainment. >> reporter: according to

witnesses, chad was texting with his 2-year-old daughter. he died when the bullet passed through nicole's hand and into his chest. >> right now i'm still trying to recover from the shock and my main focus is and always will be on my daughter alexis. >> reporter: police say reeves was very calm when they arrested him. the 71-year-old is being charged with more and is being held without bond. ko im, c b bs news. well, coming up on the "morning news," lava show. a massive volcano in hawaii explodes to life unleashing hot magma. and later, a rare transplant. two sisters saved by one set of lungs. this is the "cbs morning news." . even at a distance of 10 miles... the length of 146 football fields... they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are amazing. look after them with centrum silver. multivitamins with lutein and vitamins a, c, and e to support healthy eyes

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its earnings. report that beat analysts' expectations. the video service added 2.3 million u.s. subscribers and earned $48 million in the last quarter. that's up from just 8 million during the same period in 2012. revenue surged 24% from 2012 to almost $1.2 billion. activist apple investor carl icahn tweet thad he scooped up $500 million worth of stock. icahn boosted his holdings to more than $3 billion. icahn also blasted apple's board saying the company's doing its shareholders a disservice by not significantly increasing its stock buyback. bernie madoff, the man who orchestrated a a multi-million-dollar ponzi scheme, reportedly suffered a heart attack in prison. he e-mailed the network to say he was hospitalized land month but he's back serving his

150-year prison sentence. he also suffers from stage 4 kidney disease but is not undergoing dialysis. and an oakland raiders cheerleader claims her team is not playing fair and now she's suing. they're not paying the raiderettes enough or on time. would only get paid at the end of the season, that their pay worked out to less than $5 an hour, and they could be benched for gaining as little as five pounds. the team had no comment. anne-marie. >> all right. wendy gillette of the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot wendy. coming up in sports, we'll go under the helmet with richard sherman and hear what one of the nfl's most talked about players is saying about his critics. nfl's most talked about players is saying about his critics. accomplishing even little things can become major victories. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events

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shaquille cotton throwing down a huge dunk against illinois state's jones. jones is 6'9". wichita state is 20-0 and ranked number 5 after winning 70-65. now, the smallest player in the nhl scoring a goal, 5'5" nathan gerbe scores a breakaway from carolina. watch as he slips a puck beneath his legs and slips it past the goaltender steve mason. the hurricane beat the flyers, 3-2. super bowl xlviii is more than a week away, and if there is a face of this year's nfl championship, it is seattle seahawks' cornerback richard sherman. >> well, i'm the best one in the game. when you put me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, that's the result you're going to get. don't you ever talk about me. >> sherman became a lightning rod for critics when he called out san francisco's michael crabtree in the moments after the seahawks won the championship game. on wednesday sherman addressed

the backlash. >> this was the football field, you know. i wasn't committing any crimes, you know, doing anything illegal. i was shows passion. i didn't have time to sit there and contemplate what am i going to say but the people behind the computer screens had all the time in the world to contemplate and articulate exactly like they wanted to. some of it i'm sure they're pretty embarrassed about. >> helluva game, helluva game. >> well, guess what? "inside the nfl" miked sherman up last sunday. you'll hear what else he was saying after the pivotal play to help his team beat the 49ers. that's coming up later on "cbs this morning." i want to hear that. when we return, sibling surgeries. when we return, two sisters who were seriously ill received a life-saving transplant from a single donor. ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪

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showers today, but sunny in both atlanta and st. louis. morning snow in denver and morning fog in seattle. two sisters have a second shot at life thanks to a rare transpla transplant. they both now share lungs from the same donor. omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: they're sisters but have two different personalities. >> i think i'm more mellow. >> reporter: in the last two years both sisters started to develop breathing problems. >> i started to cough every time i talked, every time i laughed. >> reporter: doctors told them they needed lung transplants, so the sisters moved from santa barbara, california, to houston, texas, and waited for donors. >> chances are they both wouldn't have made it the next 60 or 90 days. >> reporter: that bad? >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: like all siblings,

they argued who should get the lungs first. >> it was painful to watch her cough. i could live with the coughing but she couldn't live without the oxygen. >> reporter: but earlier this month came a match for both anna and erma. each sister would get one lung from the same donor. it was the first time houston methodist hospital performed such a surgery. before the surgery anna was always coughing, and erma couldn't make it from the bed to the bathroom without losing her breath. now both sisters are able to do something they both love. [ singing ] >> reporter: the surgery was a success. >> we became triple times closer. we're sisters, we're jehovah witnesses, and we have one lung. >> reporter: in the few months anna and erma plan to go back home and serenade their families for years to come. omar villafranca, cbs news,

houston. >> it's great to see. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," nfl commissioner roger goodell joins us in the studio. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." at 100 calories or less, there are plenty of reasons people are saying "progress-oh!" share your progress-oh! story on progresso.com.

here's ather here's another look at this morning's top stories. former nsa contractor edward snowden denies he was working for russia when he released thousands of classified documents about u.s. surveillance efforts. today snowden answers questions online from russia. and recovery efforts continue from that massive snowstorm that snarled an area from kentucky to new england, but the bitterly cold dangerous air that came with the storm could last for days. on the west coast, there's a warming trend. in the coming days, temperatures are expected to reach 80 degrees in los angeles, and that is bad news for the nhl's first regular season outdoor hockey game in a warm weather city. carter evans reports. >> reporter: no one is feeling the heat in los angeles as much as dan craig.

when the nhl planned this, what were you expecting weather-wise? >> we were expecting -- the weather trend is usually 62 to 68. >> reporter: if you'd known it was going to be this hot, would you be here? >> no, we wouldn't have said 80 degrees. >> reporter: craig is the national hockey league's ice guru. the canadian is in charge of the 60,000-square-foot ice rink built on dodger's stadium. this video shows two weeks of construction. >> this engineering feat of this is second to none. >> reporter: thin layers of watter are frozen over aluminum panels and slowly built up to regulation ice. it's kept as cold as possible to 22 degrees by a massive refrigeration truck but the only thing between the ice and the sun is a reflective blanket, what temperatures can it handle? >> the truck was designed to handle 75 degrees. >> reporter: 75 degrees hotter.

>> 75 degrees hotter. >> reporter: what's been a nightmare for craig has become a marketing bonanza for the nhl. hockey great wayne gretzky played for the l.a. kings. >> one thing i always said sit would be so cool to see our game played outdoors in l.a. with people in shorts and t-shirts enjoying our great sport. >> reporter: 105,000 people watched this new year's day game in ann arbor, michigan. snow had to be removed from that rink during the game. the forecast for saturday is 79 degrees. was there ever a point you thought, we're going to have to call this? >> no, never. not a chance. not going to happen. >> reporter: failure is not an option. tickets are almost sold out. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. well, an intense pacific storm is bringing some super swells to hawaii. just take a look at these whopper waves on the north shore of oahu that reached 40 to 50 feet. the national weather service issued a high surf warning through friday morning for

potentially deadly surf conditions. >> and coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on the latest security threats against the sochi winter olympics. we will hear from national security analyst juan zarate. plus, improving the safety of pro football players. nfl commissioner roger goodell sits down with us, and gayle sits down with grammy winner john legend. that's it for this morning. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

your realtime captioner is mrs. linda marie macdonald good morning. it's thursday, january 23. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. the weekend is approaching. and was there a little fog on the bay? >> a little fog out there.

some dense fog along the coastline. we're also concerned red flag warnings posted in the north bay hills as we have some strong offshore winds developing there. also some big-time surf at the coastline. we'll have more on that coming up. >> and so far, the commute is looking good. we don't have any big accidents out there. the bay bridge very light and bart is on time. i'll have more traffic in a few minutes. >> thank you. the wife of a fallen bart officer opens up to kpix 5 about the husband she lost as investigators begin piecing together what went wr detective sergeant tom smith is known to his family as tommy. his wife and three brothers all of them in law enforcement invited juliette goodrich into their home to remember him. >> if you're lucky to find the love of your life, you hold on to. i it did. i cherished every moment we had. reporter: tommy's wife kelly is a k-9 officer with bart pd. she was working with she heard the call come in. >> 34, this was friendly fire. >> co