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it's tuesday, january 2nd, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. anti government protesters in iran take to the streets for a sixth day leaving more dead in clashes with security forces. olympic bridge, south korea and north korea could soon come together for high level talks on participation in the winter games. and a brutal cold snap grips the u.s. closing schools, freezing lakes and sealing cars in a layer of ice. it's an arctic blast that will have people shivering most of the week.
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good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in newk. to b. i'm anne-marie greene. it will likely be another morning of record low temperatures in the much of the country. the bitter cold stretches from the upper plains to the south and much of the country is under a windchill advisory and the national weather service says it will stay this way until the middle of the week. we're in washington where it is also below zero. good morning. below freezing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, you said it. the windchill here in washington currently is a bone chilling 2 degrees and we certainly feel it. a similar story playing throughout the country as people from montana to florida, texas to new england are under windchill warnings or advisories this morning. >> 90% of the nation started 2018 with temperatures below freezing causing all sorts of
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dangerous conditions. these are firefighters in massachusetts fighting flames while icicles form on their helmets. >> the water freezes on our equipment, on our air packs, on our masks. >> in houston temperatures in the low 20s are far from normal. residents are still putting their homes back together after massive flooding from hurricane harvey. many without full walls, let alone insulation are having trouble keeping the warmth inside. >> no sofa, no chair, no heat. >> public schools in indianapolis are closed because of extreme temperatures. it's a mad rush trying to get the homeless off the streets. >> this weather is not just cold. it's deadly. >> chunks of ice are being seen in waters from lake michigan to this stretch of the mississippi in missouri. even those traditional polar bear plunges were cancelled.
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>> i think we as humans we like a challenge. we like to see if we can do it. >> and a weather system is moving in that could bring snow from all of this cold all the way up through canada. >> reporter: the national weather service warns that more many the worst is yet to come as parts of the u.s. will experience prolonged periods of below normal temperatures this week. >> thanks for being the bearer of not so good news. lauren casey of our philadelphia station has more on the dangerous cold snap. >> another downright frigid forecast for a large portion of the country as we head back to work after the long holiday weekend. temperatures struggling across the northeast once again, a high temperature of only 25 in the big apple. 20 in boston. dealing with lake effect snow in buffalo with wind gusts to 45
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miles an hour. temperatures down south below average. a high of only 36 in atlanta. 41 in new orleans where a hard freeze warning is in effect and then bitter cold across portions of the upper midwest. a high temperature of only 11 degrees in chicago. a high of only 13 in detroit and the only place to find some winter warmth and 75 in phoenix, but more trouble is in store for the eastern seaboard. it will impact the east coast as we head into midweek and wednesday night and thursday night, significant snow possible. windy conditions as well so during this timeframe do expect some travel delays. >> overseas now the president of iran is responding to president trump's support for anti government protests sweeping the country. he said mr. trump has forgotten that he had called iranian people terrorists a few months ago.
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president trump also fired off a tweet about iran which he says is failing at every level. iranian state television reports nine people were killed overnight including six killed during attack on a police station. that would put the death toll since the unrest began thursday at at least 20 people. the protests have quickly gathered steam. >> reporter: it just spread like wildfire to the capital teheran where crowds vandalized the shopping avenues and to dozens of smaller cities across the country. it's very unusual. the protesters are young people and the working poor and they're angry about everything from corruption to unemployment to lack of freedom and religious rule. the police have broken up protests with water cannons and they have arrested hundreds of people, but we have not yet any way seen the kind of violent crackdown we saw in 2009 when the security forces shot and
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killed people in the street for protests in the election result. hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested. iran is just one of the issues both foreign and domestic on the president's plate as he begins his second year in office. the president returned to washington last night from a holiday break in florida. >> happy new year. >> the president, first lady and son, baron and other family members welcomed the new year at the club in palm beach. >> we're going to have a great year. a fantastic 2018. >> his first tweet was aimed at pakistan which he accused of lies and deceit and giving save haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan. pakistan fired back. noting its cooperation that decimated al qaeda the last 15 years. and accusing the u.s. of giving them nothing but invective and mistrust. over the past ten days the president visited the trump
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international golf club here nine times, returning to washington, he'll face a litany of challenges including the fact that the federal government will run out of money january 19th raising the threat of a partial government shutdown. next week he'll meet with leaders to hash out the 2018 legislative agenda. top priorities include a massive investment in the nation's infrastructure. and legislation to allow nearly 800,000 immigrants known as dreamers who came to the u.s. illegally as children to stay here permanently. looming over everything will be the special counsel investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election and the possible involvement of the trump campaign. the new york times reported this weekend that former trump campaign aide told an australian diplomat in 2016 that russia had political dirt on hillary clinton. information that was then passed on to the u.s.
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>> a former u.s. official sells cbs news that the information that was provided by australia was quote, key to u.s. investigators that russia might be attempting to interfere significantly in the u.s. election. cbs news, west palm beach, florida. this morning a small step towards possibly thawing relations between north and south korea. the day after north korea leader said he was open to talks with the south, south korea proposed high level talks at a border village. south korea's unification's center will focus on the olympics. the games begin next month in south korea. computers at several major airports are up and running this morning. the immigration processing glitch lasted about two hours. it caused long delays for travelers entering the country in airports in new york, atlanta, miami and denver.
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the service disruption does not appear to be malicious in nature. and we're learning more about those ten americans killed in a plane crash in costa rica. their plane crashed just after takeoff from a resort area. another plane took off 20 minutes earlier and arrived safely in san jose. >> reporter: costa rica's media posted pictures of the plane's burning wreckage. the charter flight was on its way from a resort beach town to the capital sunday afternoon when it crashed into a mountain shortly after takeoff. all ten american passengers and the two pilots were killed. among the victims were a family of five. bruce, his wife irene and their three sons. >> it's so devastating because they're -- they're great people and the kids are great and i feel like they're the family you look to.
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>> the trip leader was also killed in the wreck along with two doctors of florida and their two children. their neighbor said dr. leslie weiss helped deliver their son. >> they were a good, good family. >> reporter: the director of the civil aviation agency said the plane was authorized to fly. he says strong winds had delayed the plane's landing when it arrived from san jose that morning. coming up on the morning news now, taking back hollywood and beyond. the famous names that have signed up to fight sexual harassment and crowds line up for legal pot sales in california. this is the cbs morning news. california. this is the cbs morning news.
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dramatic video of the coast guard in florida rescuing an elderly man from a sinking car. the 89-year-old man had suffered a medical issue that caused him to drive off the side of a marina on saturday. they launched a rescue boat. they pulled the man to safety. booming business on the first day of recreational pot sales in california and some big names in hollywood fight harassment. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. the los angeles times reports shonda rhymes and hundreds of hollywood women have launched an anti harassment initiative. the move called time's up was unveiled yesterday. it includes a legal defense fund to help women protect themselves from sexual misconduct and it will advocate for legislation to battle work place harassment. the new york times says the long time leader of the new york city ballet announced his retirement of sexual misconduct
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allegations. in a letter to the board of directors he denied sexually harassing members of the ballet company. investigations into the allegations will continue. new jersey.com reports fox news anchor will take the helm of the struggling miss america pageant. carlson was named chairwoman over the board of directors yesterday. three other former pageant winners will join her on the board. several pageant officials resigned last month after e-mails about former miss americas were leaked. the san diego union tribune, it's now legal in the state to sell adult use recreational marijuana in licensed shops. people can also possess pot and grow a small amount. san diego and other cities hope to raise millions of dollars in tax revenue from marijuana sales.
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are you feeling lucky in the new year? if you are there's a big lottery jackpot tonight. the jackpot is worth $343 million. the odds of winning are one in 259 million and tomorrow night powerball jackpot is even bigger. it's at $440 million. some workers will get a raise in the new year and air travel marks its safest year. we're at the new york stock exchange with that and more. >> stocks begin hoping for more of what happened last year. the dow rose 5,000 points in a year for the first time ever. in the last week of 2017 trading the dow jones gained 94 points. the s&p 500 ended up where it started but it finished 19 and a half percept higher for the year and the nasdaq added 28% in
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2017. this year there is a higher minimum wage in 18 states. workers will see an increase. eight states and the district of columbia passed a new minimum wage law. the federal minimum wage hasn't changed since 2009. an aviation consulting firm says there were no accident deaths on jets reports the aviation safety network. there were ten fatal accidents on cargo planes and turbo prop aircraft. the last jet crash in this country was in 2009 when a flight crashed up in upstate new york. and "star wars," the last jedi topped $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide in less than three weeks. the latest adventure pulled in over 68 million domestically over the holiday weekend.
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at its closest point to the earth. there's another supermoon on january 31st. we now know the two teams that will be playing in the national championship game. >> the way the game ended last year. and it's matt williams! pick six, tide rolling! >> that interception return for a touchdown in the sugar bowl by alabama linebacker sealed the win over clemson. it was the second of yesterday's two college playoff games. alabama will face off next week against the winner of the rose bowl, the university of georgia and what a game it was in the first overtime game in rose bowl history. georgia beat oklahoma 54-48 in double overtime. the 27 yard touchdown run in the second overtime, propelled the bulldogs to next monday night's
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our top stories this morning. the cold weather that won't go away. the cold stretches from montana to maine and temperatures plunged to below zero in parts of the midwest and there are advisories posted across much of the country. more record lows are expected this morning and president trump returned to washington as his second year in office begins. before leaving mr. trump fired off angry tweets at pakistan and iran which he says is failing at every level. he accused pakistan of lies and deceit. at home the government runs outs of money on january 19th. chief justice has announced a
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new initiative to stop sexual harassment. >> it comes two weeks after a prominent judge stepped down. amid wide ranging allegations of sexual harassment from law clerks. in a washington post investigation, several female law clerks alleged a pattern of inappropriate behavior including showing them pornography. on december 18th, after 30 years on the appeals court abruptly retired but he had been rep remanded before. he apologized for storing sexually explicit material on a publicly accessible website. he told 60 minutes he should have been more careful. >> i had a burge of stuff on the computer and i didn't lock it up. >> his announcement came in his annual report on the state of the judiciary. he said evens in recent months
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have illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the work place and he said events have made clear in the past few weeks that it is not immune. he directed a new working group to consider whether any changes are necessary. these concerns warrant serious attention for all quarters of the judicial branch, roberts wrote. >> and most appeals court judges have young clerks and they're bound by confidentiality agreements. rit could -- it could keep people from coming forward. they were calling for changes in how the judiciary handles sexual harassment complaints and they focused on issues of confidentiality and reporting misconduct. cbs news, washington. coming up on cbs this morning the case of a man
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accused of making a swatting call that left a wichita man dead by police gun fire. new details on the prank call. plus, a highly toxic ingredient has caused deaths. and while industry leaders defend their use, some say they have found a belter alternative. and a new memoir on overcoming sexism in sports journalism. that's the cbs morning news for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie greene. have a great day.
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