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>> glor: tonight, round two, the start of another workweek, another big winter storm from the midwest, and what the system has done to the northeast where it is headed. adriana diaz, michelle miller and eric fisher report. jordan renews an offer for a prisoner exchange as the mother of a slain japanese journalist speaks out, holly williams is in iraq. julianna goldman on president obama's new plan to fix crumbling highways, bridges and transit systems, paid for with a corporate tax hike. survivors off the coast of cape cod, kristine johnson says endangered turtles are getting a second chance down south. and super frenchy, the pioneer of a sport called ski base jumping.
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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: hello, everyone, i am jeff glor. this is the western edition of our broadcast. by the time the super bowl turns into groundhog day, several states will have a fresh coat of snow. it has been a messy weather sunday, in lincoln, nebraska a collision between two semi trucks closed down interstate 80. in chicago, maureen brewer began the long tough job of shoveling outside of her home and in elkhart, indiana, kids took advantage of this weather. here is the accumulation over nine days, new york, nearly a foot from the last storm boston, more than two feet last week, after this storm, chicago is predicted to have 16, detroit, 12, boston, more than 36. at least 3,700 flights have already been canceled today and tomorrow. we have a series of reports, beginning with adriana diaz in chicago.
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>> reporter: chicago was already digging out this morning, by 11:00 a.m. the city had seen seven inches of snow with much more to come. >> it is terrible. i mean, it lets you know winter is definitely here. >> today we are getting 12 inches of snow, so we are getting in this 24-hour cycle, what we got for all of the month of january. >> reporter: mayor rahm emanuel says all city agencies are working overtime. >> our goals are clear, streets are to be plowed and passable, folks are to be safe and secure. >> reporter: are snowplows out all night? >> yes, all night. >> reporter: it is the task of the commissioner of streets and sanitation, charles williams. williams has deployed more than 350 trucks for snow removal, and expects to spread at least 60 tons of salt. the crews are up against 40 miles per hour winds, creating whiteout conditions and reducing the visibility to less than a quarter of a mile. >> well, any time you have high winds, you can plow a street and then the high winds will blow that snow back over it, so you
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have to keep at it and you have to keep plowing it over and over, but we are handling that. >> reporter: so the trucks can focus on main roads, chicago's side streets won't be plowed until the snow stops, but with lake effect snow showers on the way, that could be as late as monday morning. >> the challenge you face when you face lake effect snow is very, very difficult to predict. what we don't know is how long is that lake effect going to last. >> reporter: it is not just chicago that is getting hit, jeff, this, the most far- reaching storm this winter, from nebraska all the way to maine, parts of illinois, indiana and ohio are expected to get up to 16 inches of snow. >> glor: adriana diaz, thank you very much, let's talk new england now, boston is getting ready for the new storm, public schools already closed tomorrow, michelle miller is there. >> reporter: patriots fans weren't just stocking up for big game tonight but prepping for the possibility of being snowed in for the second week in a row and market basket grocery store
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they were doing crowd control, mark pilser is the assistant manager. >> this is definitely pretty crazy, a lot of people coming in and out. >> reporter: last monday's nor'easter pounded boston with almost 25 inches of snow coastal towns like scituate are still recovering after being flooded by tidal swells that moved in thanks to winds in excess of 50 miles per hour. and some of the 8,000 homeowners across massachusetts are still without power. joe curtitone is mayor of the boston suburb of somerville. >> these conditions, we have already been experienced more than two feet of snow falling here in the boston metropolitan area, and now we have another foot coming tonight and we don't know where to put it all. >> reporter: forecasters say the snow will be heaviest here by the start of monday morning's commute. and, jeff, thanks to the last nine days of this, this was the sixth snowiest january on recordst here. >> glor: michelle miller, thank you. to the latest on the forecast
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now, eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our boston station, wbz, what is ahead? >> reporter: jeff, this is a south no nor'easter, a west to east moving, you see the bands of rain and snow together working their way toward the east coast, storm warnings from nebraska all the way to new england, and blizzard warnings continuing for the city of chicago, strong winds plus the snow. so we will track all of this heading into monday morning's drive and also watching the potential for some ice, southern pennsylvania in around new york city, that could really complicate things for the early morning, before things wrap up late monday night. you see the area in purple essentially across southern michigan, central new york into new england could see a foot or more of total snow that would bring some places around massachusetts up to 50 inches of snow in nine days, an entire winter's worth and behind it, it is about the brutal cold heading into monday evening and tuesday with wind chill values well below zero, jeff. >> glor: eric fisher, thank you very much. the mother of murdered japanese journalist kenji goto spoke today.
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tearfully pledging to continue her son's work through her words make the place, make the world a place without any wars. there were failed negotiation, for his release. jordan offered to swap a prisoner, jordan says it will not free the female bombing suspect without proof its pilot is still alive. holly williams joins us now from erbil in northern iraq tonight with more of all of this, i want to start talking about kenji goto. the group publicly demanded ransom for the first time and seemed to change their mind and demand the prisoner swap in exchange for goto, is this a change in tactics? >> reporter: it raised hopes isis may do prisoner swaps which would be welcome news in the u.s. because unlike some european governments which assert to have paid millions of dollars to isis to secure the release of their citizens, the
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u.s. refuses to pay ransom moneyro to terrorist groups. so doing prisoner exchanges seems to open up the possibility for instance of freeing the last remaining u.s. citizen believed to be held by isis. but in the end, of course, isis did what it has done many times before, it murdered a noncombatant and then it used that gruesome video for its propaganda value. >> glor: holly, i know a lot of folks feel u.s. troops on the ground are going to be needed but the u.s. at this point, the air campaign against isis has killed around 6,000 of the groups fighters including half of its leadership. are you seeing signs that isis is weaker on the ground? >> reporter: well, jeff, we haveha spoken to several commanders on the ground here in iraq who say isis is looking more defensive that it has fewer fighters and that they are less willing to go into battle. now, isis is clearly not invincible, last week, it was forced to retreat from this strategically key syrian city of kobani, but it took more than
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700 u.s.-led air strikes and four months of street fighting against local kurdish forces to push isis out. and elsewhere in syria, where there have been far fewer air strikes isis actually gained territory during the air campaign, so isis may be weaker, especially here in iraq, but it certainly looks a long way from defeat. >> glor: holly williams, in erbil, holly, thank you very much. a journalist imprisoned in egypt for over a year is finally going home tonight. peter greste of al jazeera english had been sentenced to seven years in prison for his reporting on the muslim brotherhood. he has instead been deported. two of greste's egyptian colleagues remain behind bars. president obama unveils his $4 trillion budget tomorrow, here is julianna goldman. >> reporter: as part of his 2016 spending plan, president obama will ask for billions of dollars. to repair the nation's crumbling roads and bridges, a request the
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white house is banking on both parties rallying behind. but republicans, including the head of the house tax writing committee paul ryan are already blasting the budget's key details. >> what i think the president is trying to do here is to, again exploit envy economics. >> reporter: the president wants $478 billion for infrastructure projects over the next six years, he wants half of that money, $238 billion to come from a one-time tax on overseas corporate profits, the white house says companies are keeping about $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid paying the high corporate tax rate, so the president is also proposing cutting that from 35% to 28% something republicans have long supported. >> we want to look and work withdm this administration to see if we can find common ground on certain aspects of tax reform and exhaust that possibility. >> reporter: the four trillion dollar budget offers to make spending programs and tax increases. largely on the nation's
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wealthiest, to help pay for middle class tax breaks and proposals, like expanded childcare and a free community college program. >> all the proposals that i put forward connect pay for by fixing a tax code that is riddled with tax holes for special interests and if republicans don't agree with my approach for paying for it, then they should put forward their own proposals. >> reporter: this is the president's first budget proposal in a republican controlled congress, and even though it has little chance of casting it as a fight for middle class economics, and laying the ground work for a political debate through 2016 election. jeff. >> glor: julianna goldman in dc, thank you. a seven alarm warehouse fire in brooklyn has been burning for a day and a half now. firefighters working in bitter conditions, water from hoses turning into sheets of ice coating cars, nearby buildings and sidewalks, officials say the fire is so intense it could smolder for weeks. whitney houston's daughter
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remains in the hospital tonight, 21-year-old bobby kristina brown was found unconscious in a bathtub yesterday, nearly three years after her mother's death in a bathtub. mark strassmann is in atlanta. >> reporter: bobby brown christie to her family, is in a fight for her life. a day after a 911 call reported she was found unresponsive in a bathtub. >> reporter: when paramedics arrived, husband nick gordon was performing cpr, they searched the 21-year-old's suburban town home, no signs of a struggle, no drugs. her family is with her at north fulton hospital and her father r&b singer bobby brown released this statement, please three years ago her mother, pop superstar whitney houston, accidentally drowned in a bathtub of her los angeles hotel room.
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heart disease and cocaine use were listed as contributing factors. her grieving daughter spoke at the 2012 billboard music awards. >> i just want to say thank you to everyone who supported us through it all, when it was good, when it was bad. >> reporter: bad times during her childhood included the addiction and legal issues of both parents. and the glare of tabloid headlines. she alluded to all of it in 2012 on the reality show "the houstons: on our own." >> for me, what she, whatever she did, she was my mother. >> reporter: miss you mommy, she tweeted last week, so much. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> glor: next, the battle of the burgers heats up, shake shack sizzles, mcdonalds fizzles. and, taking extreme skiing to a new level when the "cbs evening news" continues.
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>> glor: new regulations take effect in colorado for edible marijuana products. candy and baked goods containing pot will come in smaller sizes and individually wrapped in child resistant packaging. colorado has seen an increase in the number of children accidentally ingesting the marijuana. with food on many people's mind the super bowl sunday we are looking at shakeups in the fast food industry tonight. this week mcdonalds fired its ceo while shake shack went public, immediately super sizing its stock and now a $1.7 billion business. cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger is here with more on all of this. jill, first of all, shake shack, what a story here. >> reporter: yes, doubled on its first day of trading, pretty amazing, and really, the founder this a modern danny mire calls this a modern version of the classic shack on the side of the road to get burgers and fries and milk shakes and interesting after this ipo he plans to open ten new shake shacks a year, there
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are currently 63 shake shacks in 9 different countries. >> glor: shake shack doing very, very well, mcdonalds maybe not so much right now, what is happening with them? >> reporter: well the ceo stepped down this past week, it was a pretty rough go, we had 13 months of flat or declining sales at mcdonalds, and that meant the stock was under pressure this entire time, and meanwhile, the company seemed to be suffering from expanding its menu very broadly, including healthy stuff which i think a lot of people were saying, "really, at mcdonalds?" i think the company also suffering from changing place by lots of people out there looking for fast food. >> glor: what do the consumers want right now when it comes to fast food? >> reporter: a new category called fast casual, it is a high hybrid, basically between fast food and more casual dining and with these chains like chipotle or panera bread saying we are natural ingredients and cooked to order and more of a customer focused experience. and look at chipotle for a second, this is a company that
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went public in 2006, it is up 1,500 percent since then, the same time the s&p 500 is up 55 percent, this fast casual category growing so quickly, that even mcdonalds is toying and experimenting with the idea of customizing burgers in the future. >> glor: jill schlesinger, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> glor: up next here, endangered sea turtles rescued on the verge of death, they have another chance at life. we are back after this. life. we are back after this. >> expanded minuteclinic for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. introducing cvs health. a new purpose. a new promise... to help all those wishes come true. cvs health. because health is everything. ...and the wolf was huffing and puffing... kind of like you sometimes, grandpa.
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>> glor: we have an update >> glor: we have an update tonight on some rare sea turtles rescued off the shores of cape cod. they are kemp ridley turtles, an ancient species, hundreds were in danger of dying, here is kristine johnson. >> reporter: if turtles could talk, the kemp ridleys in the back of this boat would tell quite a harrowing tale, just over a month ago, far from the gulf of mexico, they were part of a group of 1,200 sea turtles found stranded on a dark and wet shore of cape cod bay, when the water temperature in the atlantic ocean dropped suddenly, their systems simply shut down. the turtles were rushed to new england aquarium hospital in quincy, massachusetts, connie merigo is the hospital's director. >> when they come here, a lot of these turtles are so cold their heartbeat is somewhere around one, two, three, four beats a minute. >> reporter: too large of a group for one hospital to handle, the turtles were split
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into groups and flown to several marine hospitals across the country. a group of 27 landed at the audobon institute in new orleans, here the staff numbered, diagnosed and treated the sea creatures with a lot of tlc. dr. trey clark over saw the operation. >> this take a lot of patience we are giving them groceries so they can get back up to top status. >> reporter: back to the boat ride, in the gulf of mexico, safely passed the oil rig the crew finds a perfect spot to release 21 turtles, now healthy and strong. >> are you ready. >> reporter: number 632 clearly anxious, is the first in line. and then the others. finally, all back where they belong. kristine johnson, cbs news, new york. >> glor: a giant in the broadcasting business has died during his 30 years plus career
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at cbs news, sandy socolow was walter cronkite's right hand. he helped walter cronkite cover the biggest stories of the sixties and seventies, include including the vietnam war and the moon landing. sandy socolow was 86 years old. still ahead here tonight, over the edge, an extreme skier motivated by fear. >> coricidin hbp.
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jumping. sharyn alfonsi met up with a pioneer named super frenchy for "60 minutes" sports. >> what's up everybody, this is professional ski base jumper super frenchy. >> reporter: that's right, super frenchy. because all matthias giraud really needs when he goes to work are high places. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: gravity and a parachute. all year-round. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: all around the globe, giraud throws himself off of mountains, bridges, and out of planes. he is also one of the pioneers of the sport called ski base jumping. racing down mountains and then off them.
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whatever he does, he films himself doing it for his many sponsors. >> yes! >> reporter: there certainly are easier ways to make a living. >> it is not just making a living. if i had more usual job, i would spend all my free time doing this. so, dude, it is 5:00 o'clock on a friday, all right, hike a pair of shoes, introduce drive in your car, drive to the nearest cliff and throw yourself off of it. >> reporter: that's what most people do on a friday. that is your happy hour. >> yes, absolutely. it makes you a better person i feel like. >> reporter: do you have fear? do you experience fear? >> oh, i have fear every time. i am probably one of the most scared people you will ever meet. >> reporter: i don't believe that at all. >> i am really good at fear management, you know, and i guess risk assessment. >> three, two, one. see you.
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>> glor: you can see sharyn's full report this tuesday night on "60 minutes" sports seen on showtime. that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs "60 minutes", and first thing tomorrow, "cbs this morning." also don't forget our new digital network, cbsn, i am jeff glor in new york, 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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