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>> jeff: tonight bitter weather is back, two-thirds of the country plunging into the icebox, we'll have the full forecast. the world's most wanted drug lord is in custody but where will he stand trial? dean reynolds reports from chicago. pothole pandemic, cars take the brunt of the bitter weather, is it going to get even worse. jeff pegues fil in the gaps. and saying good-bye to sochi. as the winter olympic ends. >> friends of putin thought they may as well make money from these venues, maybe. >> a reporter's notebook from mark captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, i'm jeff glor with a western edition of the broadcast.
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and that didn't last long. after a brief warmup, a deep freeze once again will consume most of the country this week. all the way from montana to atlanta. off the top we want to get right to eric fisher, chief meteorologist at wbz in boston. eric what is the outlook? >> jeff, at least we got a little break this weekend but cold air going to be coming down from the north very quickly as we head into tonight, tomorrow and for much of this week, oozing its way down to the dope south with the polar jet stream taking a big dip in its usual suspects. the northern plains through the midwest and into the northeast really feeling the kbrunt of this one. looking forward to the wol week, if you are east of the continental divide,-- looking at below average temperatures, the worse in the great lakes. if you want warm warment go to the southwest or extreme south florida. highs in the single dig, single digits to low teens, chicago stands well below average, the teens around 20. into the northeast as we head into tuesday and wednesday, teens and 20s for
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most of these towns are typically well up into the 30s if not the 40s as we're on the doorstep of march it has been a winter to remember. it is not just you, it has been cold and snowy. snow yeast record on record, second colde in minute yap list, third in phillie, and in duluth 59 minds subzero. >> we were tempted to call this the return of the polar vortex that terminology is not correct. >> the polar vortex is always there there in the summer, in the winter it is stronger during the winter and it is circulation. tens of thousands of feet up it never disappeared completely. it's oscillating a little farther south as we head into this week allowing to steer some that really cold arctic air down not united states so it does play a part but it's not visiting ohio or visiting florida, per se. >> jeff: eric fisher, thank you very much. >> one day after the president of ukraine fled the capitol of kiev mosko moskow-- moscow recalled its ambassador for consultations. u.s. national security advisor susan rice said it
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would be a grave mistake for russia to use its military to intervene. on "face the nation" this morning, senator john mccain said what is happening holds a lesson for vladimir putin. >> if i were vladimir putin today at the end of the olympics, i would be a little nervous because the people of russian-- of russia have watched this france prior and they're tired of the crony capitalism and cleptocracy that governs russia. if i were him i would be nervous. >> jeff: for the latest on the situation tonight we turn to holly williams in keefe. holly, the big question here is who is in charge this evening? >> well, it's a good question, jeff, and it is not entirely clear. ukraine's parliament voted it to sack president yanukovych an today elected oleksander turchinov. parliament would say he is in charge. many would say they are in charge and yesterday
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yanukovych himself whose whereabouts we're not sure of popped up on television and said that he is still the president. i think the reality is that with ukraine's security forces now apparently in support of the protestors,ian -- yanukovych would sooner or later have to acknowledge defeat. but i think the protestors will probably stay out on independence square until ukraine holds fresh elections which is scheduled for may. >> jeff: and hard for the president to argue is he still in control when protestors have seized his actual house. that is another big story here too. >> well, it certainly doesn't help his case, jeff. the protestors took control of yanukovych's residence outside of kiev yesterday and when they opened it up to the public there were some extraordinary scenes. it is a palatial home with a private zoo and golf course. than all adds to the anger that the protestors feel for viktor yanukovych. these demonstrations were always all about him. and the people here on independence square accuse him not just of becoming
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increasingly dictatorial but of being massively corrupt. >> jeff: holly williams, thank you so much, once again. the the olympics are officially over tonight. the final medal count russia on top with 33. most medals and most golds. the u.s. had the fourth most gold medals but the second most overall, 28 medals. norway was third and canada fourth overall. the 2016 summer games will be in rio. the chairman of the house homeland security committee is calling on mexico to extradite drug kingpin el chapo guzman sow can be tried in the u.s. guzman was arrested this weekend in a joint u.s. mexican operation and faces federal grand jury indictments in at least seven cities including chicago where dean reynolds picks up the story. >> chapo guzman's flight >> chapo guzman's flight from the law ended inauspiciously in a rundown bedroom of a mexican resort. and while he had been on the run since 2001, it was over the last few months, even weeks that his
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room to maneuver schrank to a few square feet. eduardo medina mora is mexican's ambassador to the u.s. >> he was a mexican operation and a mexican story but the assembly relies on a strong collaboration between mexican authorities and u.s. law enforcement that has been going on for months. >> reporter: since november, a slew of guzman's henchmen were either gunned down or arrested. intelligence from wiretaps lead recently to a broad crackdown in mexico's sinoloa state. guzman's base of operation. and this month an arsenal of weapons was seized along with drugs-- drugs, money, at least ten more guzman lieutenants, that lead to the discovery of a number of safe havens in the mazatlan area along mexico's pacific coast. authorities missed guzman by only seconds about ten days ago when he disappeared down a tunnel. but the chase ended saturday morning without a struggle. in the past, violence was a guzman trademark.
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a means to expand his grip on the drug trade. in chicago, he had an army of 100,000 armed gang members to sell drugs and rub out rivals without regard to the many innocents caught in the crossfire. jack riley, the d.e.a. special agent in charge here has been fighting guzman forriers. he told "48 hours" guzman didn't particularly like that. >> he made it clear to some of the su board nationals he would like to see my head lopped off. i still have my head. >> reporter: guzman bribed his way out of a mexican prison 13 years ago but ambassador medina mora says it won't happen again. >> he's locked up in the most reliable prison we have in mexico. and once beaten, twice shy, we will take our precautions in this case. >> reporter: right now guzman is in a cell underground in a prison near mexico city we are is awaiting trial. probably first in mexico, and then possibly here in chicago or one of several other u.s.
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jurisdictions that want to bring him to justice. jeff? >> dean reynolds, thank you. >> this afternoon basketball player jason collins made history becoming the first openly gay athlete in a major professional sport. collins has signed a ten day contract with the brooklyn nets. here's don dahler. >> reporter: it may not look like it but this is a historic photograph. the brooklyn nets tweeted this picture of jason collins signing a ten day contract next to him is nets head coach jason kidd. kidd was colin's teammate when its seven-foot tall center was drafted by the then new jersey nets in 2001. >> he is a basketball player. you know, he's a great guy. can help this team. >> collins played 12 seasons in the nba until being released by the washington wizards last spring. then came the game changing moment when collins told "sports illustrated" he is gay. if i had my way, he said, someone else would have already done this.
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nobody has. which is why i am raising my hand. for the next ten months collins was unemployed. he didn't receive a single invitation to training camp. now with the nets fighting for a play-off spot, collins will play backup center to star brook lopez. on friday nets guard joe johnson said collins would be a great addition. >> i had a chance to play with him for two years in atlanta. great teammate. and you know, we would gladly welcome him here with open arms >> being a basketball player was his main goal, not necessarily being the first openly gay basketball player. a sentiment echoed by potentially the first openly gay nfl player, michael sam. >> i just wish you guys will see me as michael sam, the football player, instead of michael sam the gay football player. >> reporter: the nets current manager said signing collins was a basketball decision.
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he will suit up against thes will and less lakers tonight. nearly 57 years after another milestone was set in brooklyn when jackie robinson broke the color barrier. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> a carbon monoxide leak killed a restaurant own never long island and sent two dozen to the hospital. also in many areas requirements for carbon monoxide detectors. >> their plate plates of food on the table left behind after police recorded everyone out of the restaurant. investigators say this a faulty water heater flu pipe caused carbon monoxide leak. at the seafood in new york, claiming the life of manager steven nelson. the 55 year old was found in the basement and later died at an area hospital. >> roger berkowitz is the president & c.e.o. of legal seafoods. >> really good guy. he just, he sort of epitomized, you know, sort of the family spirit that we have. >> berkowitz says the assistant general manager megan smith was looking for nelson when she succumbs to the carbon monoxide, falling and hitting her head it was that fall firefighters responded to.
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and only suspected carbon monoxide after many of them found themselves getting nauseous and dizzy. the restaurant wasn't required to have a carbon monoxide detector and there wasn't one installed. across the country 25 states require carbon monoxide detectors in residential buildings. only connecticut and maryland require them in schools. rhode island and texas require them in day care centers. and about half a dozen other states require detectors in hotels, motels and lodges. >> this is a terrible wake-up call to have. but you know, maybe it's an opportunity to focus everyone's attention on the need for commercial co-2 detectors. >> the local fire chief said no problems had been found when the restaurant was inspected last march. and another inspection was scheduled for next march. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: the battle against the pothole plague. when the "cbs evening news" continues.
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>> jeff: scientists today announced that this is the oldest piece of earth ever discovered, they found it on a sheep ranch in australian, a zircon crystal, 4.4 billion years old. that is almost as old as the earth itself which is thought to have formed 4.5 billion years ago. >> now something far less durable, america's roadways. a plague of potholes is rattling drivers nationwide. one estimate says they will cost car owners 6.4 billion dollars by the end of 2014. mostly in repairs. here's jeff pegues. >> spring can't come soon enough for the nation's roads. the extreme cold and snow have been chipping away at the infrastructure of american cities. and leaving holes in driver's wallets. it will cost kofi minor hundreds of dollars, maybe more to repair her front driver's side tire. >> what did it feel like when you hit the pothole.
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>> it was awful. i mean it was very scary. it jarred me. and even my air bag deployed on the side. >> a close the country motorists spend $377 annually in added vehicle operating costs driving roads in desperate need of pothole repairs. they form when water from melting snow and ice seep into the pavement, freezes and expands. when the ice melts, there are gaps in the pavement and passing vehicles cause it to break up. this winter streets and highways are taking a pounding. and with more cold weather in the forecast, new york city workers like albert mercado will end up repairing a lot more than the 117,000 potholes they've already filled. that is more than the last two years combined. >> you have to keep in mind. >> every fourth car pulling into this repair shop needs at least a new tire because of pothole damage. >> olivia scottland is the manager. >> we're also seeing an
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increase in damaged rims. and that runs a customer a lot more. >> kofi minor just found out she didn't just ruin her rims and the tire, the pothole also damaged the front of her car, the cost of driving these roads just went up. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >> next up, as the economy goes up, so do divorce rates. we'll explain.
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>> jeff: the divorce rate in the united states after hitting a 40 year low in 2009 is up 15% since then. that means that the economy has gotten better. the divorce rate has gotten worse. cbs news business analyst jill schlesing certificate here with more on this, jill, what is happening. >> i think during the recession a lot of people felt so financially strapped that they couldn't even figure out a way to split up. according to the university of maryland, there's 150,000 couples that waited until economic conditions got better. and that means a lot of things. it could be that until one of us got another job. could be until the equity of our house was up enough so we could sell it and both go on. but either way was's clear is that we have a pent-up demand, sort of a weird thing to think about, people wanting to get divorced now. >> jeff: it's very weird to think about it this way.
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but some people are calling it sort of an economic stimulus. >> yeah, this is a little bit sobering but it makes sense. when you have two people living in one house and then you have to have two households, we have the formation of a new house. and what happens then. someone is either renting or buying a new place, furnishing it, going through and doing a lot of different things in their lives. and that is all stimulative to the economy. of course there is a great social unrest that comes with that but again, from an economics point of view, a boost. >> but from an economic standpoint individually, nobody makes out. >> yeah, we're talking about the economy as a whole. but individuals do terribly in divorce. in fact, we see that women's household income can go down by 40%. men's by 25%. so no individual coming out of divorce is doing financially better jses those numbers on average but both significant. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> jeff: the oldest known survivor of the holocaust has died. alice herz-sommer was 39 when she was sent to a concentration camp.
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she spent two years there. but the music never left her. she said classical music helped keep her alive. after the war she became a teacher of music. first in jerusalem and then in london. a short documentary about her called the lady in number 6 is up for an oscar award next week. until the end of her life she never stopped playing the piano. alice herz-sommer was 110 years old. >> still ahead, a look back at the olympics that only mark phillips can provide. near one of these? nstang because now you can take control with $8 off oxytrol for women when you visit oxytrolforwomensavings.com are you ready to live with less frequency, urgency and accidents? two weeks, up to half off, can help you get started. so don't wait. take control with oxytrol for women. visit oxytrolforwomensavings.com today to save.
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>> jeff: finally tonight as we mentioned earlier the olympics are over. the host country won the overall medal count. and its leader won the award for attracting the most attention. with a reporter's notebook here's mark phillips from sochi. >> the idea that the olympic games are only about sports is long since just over the slalom pole of reality. they are held as much as anything else to make a point. we've arrived in beijing. we're still here in london. we're back in sochi.
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but perhaps never in modern times has the games been so closely identified with one person all political agenda as this one. these are putin's games. the hockey tournament here may as well have been called the putin cup. sadly for him, not a triumph for putin's team. the russian's shockingly eliminated early. the loss blamed, of course, on the players made soft and unpatriotic by their huge nhl salaries. the facilities themselves tell a story. the brand-new ski resort carved out of the wilderness. the unfathommably expensive olympic park, so out of place on the palm fringed coast. this instant olympic city is also an instant show-and-tell about how russia works these days. friends of putin were invited to put money into these venues. and friends of putin thought they may as well make a little money from these venues. maybe. the bolshoi hockey rink, for
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example, was built by a putin party crohnee. vyacheslav dvorak ofski. and not all the money pour mood it can be found on the books. the ol i will garches are usually camera shy but the olympic provided a sighting. oleg looks over the park like a lord surveying his manor and why not. he built the basic structure and kicked in, he says, a billion dollars of his own money. the widely reported stories that $50 billion have been spent here, he says, are an exaggeration. >> that figure thrown around is $50 billion, you smile, is it that much money. >> i would wish. no. the numbers maybe in the range 26, 29. >> only 29 billion, then. pocket change to the new russia. so what is the moral of this olympic story in. it may be too much to say these games have been the athletic everybody-- athletic
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expression of putin politics, the equivalent of russian backing the assad regime in syria, or yanukovych or spitting in washington eye by harboring edward snowden. it may be too much to say that the olympics is politics by another name. or it may not. mark phillips, cbs news, sochi. >> jeff: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs, "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pellee will be here tomorrow-- scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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