up next. have a great day. ♪[ music ] good morning to our viewers in the west. it's wednesday, january 3rd, 2018. welcome to "cbs this morning." a massive winter storm called a bomb cyclone threatens to slam millions in the east starting tonight. already rare snow and ice are striking the south. and a deadly cold snap is tightening its grip on much of the country. north and south korea talk on a hotline for the first time in two years while president trump taunts kim jong-un. mr. trump says his nuclear button is bigger and more powerful. plus youtube faces serious questions about why it didn't take down a disturbing video posted by one of its biggest stars. and amazon ships more than 5

billion prime items last year, so where did all those boxes go? we'll show you what happens to the mountain of cardboard left over from your holiday purchases. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the weather is very cold. >> chilling. it really stings the face. >> the deep freeze gets deeper across most of the u.s. >> a major storm begins roaring up the east coast. >> a beast of an ocean storm. this is going to become extremely powerful. >> diplomatic contact resumed between north and south korea hours after president trump appeared to taunt kim jong-un. >> president trump refusing to back down from his support for the iranian people amidst the continuing protests. >> the u.n. must speak out. in the days ahead we will be calling for an emergency session. >> the crash in peru killing 48 people. the driver lost control after the bus was hit by another vehicle. >> senator orrin hatch of utah has announced he is retiring. this paves the way for mitt

romney to run for his seat. >> i've always been a fighter, but every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. >> blizzard conditions causing deadly conditions on the new york city thoroughway. >> you couldn't see a gosh darn thing in front of you. >> all that -- >> in spain one passenger was so fed up with the delay, he opened a door over the wing and just leapt. >> -- and all that matters -- >> recreational pot is now legal in california. californians can finally try marijuana. >> just like that, millions of fake cases of insomnia and back pain and migraines were suddenly cured. they went away. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> kim jong-un bragging of a, quote, nuclear button always on my desk. at the same time, proposing talks that could lead to north korean participation in the winter olympics. >> sounds like a guy walking into his office like nobody move, i have a bomb strapped to my chest. and put me down for that pot luck on saturday. i'm making oreo brownies. >> this morning's eye opener is

presented by toyota. let's go places. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm norah o'donnell with jeff glor and bianna golodryga. gayle king is off. happy new year. >> welcome back. >> i missed you. it's good to be back. lots of news going on, especially with that weather. a powerful new winter storm will take aim at millions of americans as the record-breaking cold wave intensifies across the country. at least 13 deaths from the midwest to the northeast are blamed on the frigid weather n grand forks, north dakota, windchills could hit minus 28 today. windchills in chicago may dip to minus 7 and hit 15 below in cleveland. >> more than two-thirds of the country faces temperatures below 20 degrees this morning. even southern states like texas, tennessee and north carolina are waking up in the teens. >> and then there's the major new system that is about to

explode in force off the east coast. it will bring heavy snow and strong wind. demarco morgan is in hamburg, new york, where the windchill is expected to fall as low as minus 10 degrees today. demarco, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. just take a look at this outdoor deck right here behind me. it is completely covered in icicles. and if that's not enough to show you just how cold it is, look at this ice block right here. a block of ice which can be extremely dangerous. also the roads are very dangerous as well. one person died after a 75-vehicle car pileup on the new york state thoroughway. >> wow! look at that truck! >> reporter: dozens of vehicles were stranded on the new york state throughway tuesday as drivers battled whiteout conditions. >> you couldn't see a gosh darn thing in front of you. everything was blurry. there was complete whiteout. >> reporter: as temperatures in lancaster plummeted to 15 degrees, the snowy roads turned slick. into the night authorities were still cleaning up remnants of a massive pileup.

in nearby buffalo niagara airport, more whiteout conditions. video shows a plane barely visible while trying to taxi. indianapolis tuesday tied a 131-year record low of minus 12 degrees. >> we've had to relieve our units much more quicker than normal. >> reporter: in new york city, dozens of icicles formed on power lines and fire escapes as firefighters battled flames in 13-degree temperatures. >> wow! oh, my god! >> reporter: willard powell's car was parked in front of the building and he came outside to find it frozen shut. >> i have never felt the cold like i'm feeling it in these last few days. the only thing i can think of is alaska or the arctic. >> reporter: it was actually warmer tuesday in anchorage, alarks th alas alaska, than in new york city. >> it is really chilling. >> reporter: and in chicago where temperatures reached at least 20 degrees.

>> you thought you were cold last year, you thought you were cold last month, but you weren't cold. now you're cold. >> reporter: now, many schools throughout new england and parts of the midwest and the south are delayed or cancelled today because of the cold weather, but it's not over just yet. we're expecting more cold temperatures pretty soon. >> demarco, thank you very much. slick roads could make for a dangerous commute across the south this morning. subfreezing temperatures froze fountains from south carolina to texas. forecasters predict the coastal storm will bring 1 to 3 inches of snow from north carolina to georgia today. manuel bojorquez is in brunswick, georgia, where they're under a state of emergency. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're riding along with georgia state troopers on what has already become a very busy start to the day with dangerous conditions on these roads. we've seen them respond to one accident after another where cars have spun out. it's part of the reason that parts of brunswick have essentially shut down ahead of the weather. they don't want people out in

this. schools have either delayed the start of classes or cancelled them altogether. let's give you a look right now at our outside camera. this is looking at i-95, the main corridor through coastal georgia. it's already slick. the main concern is ice. it's already started to form on bridges and overpasses. we're also getting late word that in florida, a 50-mile stretch of i-10 is shut down because of ice. here in georgia, nearly 250 crew members and 13 trucks began treating the roads last night with sand and brine to keep the ice from sticking. the headaches not just here, in texas slippery roads caused more than 30 car accidents tuesday with possible snow later today. georgia officials are hoping to keep coastal cities from experiencing what happened in atlanta in 2014 when a mere 2 inches of snow caused gridlock that lasted more than 24 hours. here in brunswick, the message is this, we can't get to all the roads to treat them, so stay home if you don't have to be out in them. >> all right, manuel, thank you so much.

chief weather caster lonnie quinn of wcbs is here to show us where the east coast storm that is being called a bomb cyclone is heading next. lonnie, good morning. >> good morning to you, norah, good morning, everybody. we're going to talk about bomb genes genesis in just a second but we jump into the current radar picture. i-10 in north florida, a lot of icing. then you get up into the 95 corridor in georgia, there's a problem there as well. the computer models are initializing it and just fine with this. it's depicting where the storm is right now. so we feel confident with the forward projection of where they think the storm is going. it travels up the eastern seaboard. now, as the black lines show the wind tighten up and get closer and closer together, that's when the storm bombs out. big winds are expected, 50 to 70-mile-per-hour winds with snow falling as well. northern maine could see up to 2 feet of snow out of this. blizzard conditions will be in effect from the northern border of maine and canada all the way

down to block island, cape cod and the islands as well. bianna, let's go over to you. >> that sounds terrifying. thank you so much. south korea says it made contact with north korea overnight on a newly reopened communication channel. the hotline in korea's demilitarized zone was restored for the first time in nearly two years. a spokesman for north korean dictator, kim jong-un, announced the reopening on state tv. ben tracy is in beijing with the move that may put the u.s. and south korea at odds. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. so it was just yesterday that south korea said that it wants these formal high-level talks with north korea and they want them to take place next week. now, the north has responded and appears to be a step in that direction and perhaps an easing at least temporarily of some of the tensions on the korean peninsula. now, this communication channel that we've been talking about between these two countries, it actually exists and is set up in a border area called panmunjom

in the demilitarized zone, but north korea shut down that hotline about two years augo. in recent weeks the south korean president has offered to come to the table for talks with the north without preconditions and in advance of the winter olympics which will take place next month in south korea. now, that contradicts the latest stance of the trump administration, which has said talks could only occur if north korea ends its nuclear program. now, mr. moon has further annoyed the u.s. by saying he can basically veto any military action that might take place on the korean peninsula. now, while all this is happening, u.s. intelligence has actually detected signs that north korea may be ready to test another intercontinental ballistic missile. if they do go through with that, it could happen in just a matter of days. jeff. >> ben, thank you very much. that hotline was reported open just a few hours after president trump lashed out again at kim jong-un. the president tweeted that he has a bigger and more powerful nuclear button. it was a reaction to kim's

recent speech saying his country had completed its nuclear forces. chip reid is at the white house. chip, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that war of words came on a wild day on twitter for president trump. he tweeted 17 times on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for a hillary clinton aide to, of course, that nuclear button tweet. now, the president does not actually have a nuclear button, but his rhetoric escalated simmering tensions. president trump raised the temperature in his duel with kim jong-un who had boasted of having a nuclear button on the desk in his office. will someone from his depleted and food-starved regime please inform him, the president wrote, that i too have a nuclear button but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my button works. the taunting tweet caught mr. trump's homeland security secretary, kirstjen nielsen, by surprise who was briefing reporters on the california wildfire response.

>> the president speaks for himself. i think we have to continue, as he said, to take the threat from north korea very seriously. >> they will be met with fire and fury. >> reporter: explosive rhetoric aimed at north korea is nothing new for the president. >> we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> reporter: but he had signalled earlier tuesday that peace talks between the north and the south offered by kim and accepted by south korean president moon were worth exploring, tweeting rocket man now wants to talk to south korea. perhaps that is good news, perhaps not. u.n. ambassador nikki haley said talks were meaningless if the north continues to build nuclear weapons. >> we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band-aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. >> reporter: the president's other advisers have taken a more cautious tone. secretary of state rex tillerson has even suggested the possibility of talks with north korea. tillerson and secretary of defense james mattis will be having lunch with the president

here at the white house later today. north korea is sure to be on the agenda. >> a busy day at the white house. chip reid, thank you. this morning the president tweeted new praise for anti-government protesters in iran and wrote, you will see great support from the united states at the appropriate time. tens of thousands of iranians came out this morning to back their government. many were ordered to attend the rallies. six days of protests have left at least 21 people dead. iran's government is restricting internet access and appears to have shut down social media apps used to organize demonstrations. one of president trump's gop critics, 2012 presidential nominee mitt romney is eyeing a new opportunity to represent utah. the longest serving senate republican, orrin hatch, says he's going to retire after 42 years in washington. our sources expect the former massachusetts governor to run for hatch's senate seat. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

several gop sources tell cbs news that romney has been quietly laying the groundwork in case hatch were to retire. while he hasn't said anything publicly about his intention to run, take a look at this. this is a pretty good clue. yesterday afternoon, romney listed his location on his twitter profile as massachusetts. but then after hatch announced his plans to retire, romney's profile location was updated to holliday, utah. >> every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. >> reporter: in a video posted on twitter, orrin hatch referenced his early days as an amateur boxer as he revealed his plans to leave the political ring. >> after much prayer and discussion with family and friends, i've decided to retire at the edged of this term. >> this was a landmark day. >> reporter: as chair of the finance committee, senator hatch spearheaded last month's passage of gop tax cuts and he was one of the earliest senior

republicans to support president trump. mr. trump, no fan of mitt romney, had urged hatch to stay in the senate for an eighth term. >> you are a true fighter. >> reporter: trump once had the same respect for romney, and even considered him for secretary of state, despite romney's frequent critiques of him. >> he's playing the members of the american public for suckers. >> reporter: but the relationship has been a rocky one. >> and i said, mitt cannot run. he chokes like a dog. >> reporter: in august, romney urged the president to apologize for his response to the deadly charlottesville protest. >> i think there's blame on both sides. >> reporter: romney wrote on facebook that mr. trump's words caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, and the vast heart of america to mourn. romney congratulated hatch yesterday on his 40-plus years in the senate, saying senator hatch has represented the interests of utah with distinction and honor.

hatch has appeared to go back and forth about retiring over the past few months, partly because of pressure from the white house to stay on. if romney is running, norah, he will likely make his intentions known soon, because the election is this november. >> all right, nancy, thank you. i know there's also a big meeting today between congressional leaders and white house officials. what's on that big agenda? and do the democrats have any leverage? >> reporter: well, they think they do. congress needs to pass a bill to funding the government by mid-month. they punted on this issue when they were trying to get out of town for the holidays. democrats want some kind of solution for daca recipients, young people who came to the country illegally, in exchange for their votes on government funding. right now republicans don't really believe that they'd be willing to shut the government down over that issue. >> all right, nancy, thank you. the first american soldier killed in combat in 2018 was serving in afghanistan.

four other american soldiers were wound edmond in afghanistan's nangarhar province. senator cory booker says the army identified the dead soldiers as sergeant first class mihail golin of new jersey. rescuers worked late into the night after a bus plummeted off a cliff in peru. 48 people were killed and 6 seriously hurt. a tractor-trailer hit the bus in a dangerous section of highway known as devil's curve about 40 miles north of the capital of lima. the bus fell around 260 feet to the rocky beach below. three people are still missing. firefighters say the search is difficult because there is no direct road to that beach. peru's transportation minister said the speed of both vehicles was apparently a factor in the accident. the long-time president of the mormon church died last night. thomas monson had served at the church's highest levels more

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amazon shopping binges are creating big challenges for recyclers.

>> ahead, jamie yuccas shows us what happens to the massive amounts of cardboard. >> reporter: you probably shopped online for the holidays to find the perfect gift, but then what happens to all of these? at this l.a. county recycling center, they have to empty these bins every couple hours to keep up with all those empty boxes. it's a huge problem. we'll have more on that coming up on "cbs this morning." ore on that coming up on "cbs this morning." mes, it eat the way i should. so, i drink boost to get the nutrition i'm missing. boost high protein nutritional drink has 15 grams of protein to help maintain muscle and 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d. all with a great taste. boost gives me everything i need... to be up for doing what i love. boost high protein. be up for it. save seven dollars. look in sunday's paper. ♪

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marijuana are soaring.. since it became legal in california on monday. one san jose dispensary has seen its sales jum good morning. sales for recreational marijuana are soaring since it became legal in california on monday. one san jose dispensary has seen its sales jump 400%. cannabis users no longer need a medical marijuana card. all they need is a valid id showing that they are 21 or older. today the secretary of the department of homeland security plans to visit neighborhoods impacted by the wine country wildfires. secretary kristin nielsen will tour the fire zones and receive an update on the fire recovery efforts. she will also meet with local officials. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a mome nt.

good morning. conditions along 101, we are dealing with a couple of trouble spots causing some slow

and go conditions as you work your way along the peninsula. southbound 101, looks like just before willow road, that accident now cleared to the shoulder. so some better news there. but the damage is done. we are seeing some pretty significant delays as you head through there. 22 miles per hour in some spots. so sluggish in that area. elsewhere san mateo bridge busy as you work your way out of hayward to foster city. and oakland getting a little slow on the northbound side of the nimitz freeway. neda. >> still dry on the roads at least right now. we are watching our hi-def doppler tracking the rainfall and it looks to be just off the coastline. pacific ocean seeing lightning strikes there. and rain is picking up a little bit off the coast. just a light drizzle in places like monterey. santa cruz will be next. rain impacts the coastline first, then widespread rain especially by this afternoon. that's when we're expecting to see the thunderstorms come through.

it's officially the start of a new year unless you're jewish or chinese. with it comes new sexy calendars and most importantly new laws. >> the new year brings new laws around the country. the minimum wage is rising in 18 states from maine to california. in illinois, who gets the dog in the divorce? judges will determine sole or joint custody for dogs. >> in california this used to be jaywalking. now you can cross the street once the clock down clock starts. just make sure you finish before it hits zero. >> am i the only one that notices that she broke the law? it's zero and she's still walking.

it's zero. i think we've got to lock her up. lock her up, lock her up, lock her up. yeah. that chant was fun. you got to admit. >> no, no. >> you might have to rewind. i don't know if that's accurate. >> no locking up jamie yuccas. >> never. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning. the record-breaking cold hits much of the country could bring snow to parts of the south that rarely see it. the wintry mix of snow and freezing rain is forecast today from florida to north carolina. this is the first winter storm warning for some parts of florida in almost four years. in south carolina, crews dropped sand on the roads to make them less slippery. two democrats will be sworn into the u.s. senate this afternoon, narrowing the republican majority to 51/49. minnesota lieutenant governor

tina smith replaces al franken. he resigned yesterday after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. senator doug jones will also take his oath of office. he was the first to be elected in 25 years. the nasdaq composite will trade higher after opening at a record high. it closed above 7,000 points for the first time yesterday. finishing the day at 7,007. the nasdaq composite reached its last major milestone in april when it crossed the 6,000 mark. the backlash of the youtube star is facing more issues. in his latest mea culpa logan paul said he should have put his camera down after finding a man's body. paul posted the controversial video on his youtube channel which has more than 15 million subscrib subscribers. the 22-year-old is one of the most creative content creators. we're shown how this episode is raising uncomfortable question.

vlad, good morning. >> youtube tells "cbs this morning" their hearts go out to the family for the man who appeared in logan paul's video. they didn't take the shocking footage down. paul did it himself. >> i should have never posted the video. >> logan paul appears humbled in his newest apology. nothing like the young man who became a youtube sensation who did just about anything for laughs. >> i made a huge mistake. i don't expect to be forgiven. i'm just here to apologize. >> this just became very real. >> he's referring to this video he posted on new year's eve, which shows paul and his friends making the horrifying discovery in japan's so-called suicide forest. >> this literally probably just happened. >> after an outcry, paul deleted the video, but by then it had

reportedly been viewed more than 6 million times. youtube said if a video is graphic, it can only remain if supported by educational or documentary information. the company can't say how long it ran ad free. >> the editor says as one of the site's most popular personalities, it is not in the best interest to interfere. >> youtube shares the profit with the creator. >> paul is the fifth highest youtube star making $12.5 million according to "forbes." his social media accounts reach 50 million people. his followers are 25 or younger. >> i think there is someone hanging right there. >> i think this has poisoned a lot of people against him who were on the fence. for his diehard fans, i believe they will go back to loving him

just the way they had before. >> last month, youtube said it was adding more than 10,000 moderators after complaints of inappropriate videos aimed at children. cbs asked if the video was flagged by other users and if youtube viewed it before it was taken down. we did not get the response. that is the issue. a lot of children are watching the videos. most of the audience for the internet stars are children. >> so much material is not being looked at. >> myst too. they watch everything they do. >> they get an alert. >> vlad, thank you. it is now legal to sell recreational pot in california, but the rollout is not going smoothly everywhere. it may be months before the digital system designed to track it is fully operational. it's being sold for medical purposes in some large cities like los angeles and san francisco. mireya villarreal is at a

marijuana dispensary in california that is selling recreational marijuana. mireya, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. here in hollywood you can buy recreational marijuana right now. but just a few miles down the road in los angeles, that's not the case. that's because a lot of big cities in caliornia are just now allowing businesses to apply for licenses. potential pot customers in los angeles were hit with a sobering reality january 1st. the city just startedtaking applications for licenses to sell recreational weed today. >> we're going to do this the los angeles way, and that means that we're going to have to do this responsibly. >> reporter: cat parker says medical marijuana dispensaries compliant with the law could get priority. priority processes and be even then it could be a week before the temporary recreational marijuana license will be issued.

>> they're going to have to submit applications, go through pre-licensing inspections. >> reporter: another issue, the digital system the state is using to regulate and track marijuana sales just launched and businesses have to be trained to input data before the state makes it mandatory, which could take months. businesses are asked to file manual invoices. it's not only complicated but it risks pot slipping into the black market. ben curran is the ceo of green bits, a company that helps dispensaries in seven states comply with regulations including in california. >> first year is going to be a lot of the businesses transitioning, getting used to the new rules, learning the differences, and getting good at the scale. the state itself, you'll see, will be a little more lenient at the beginning while people are learning it. >> businesses and other people in the industry are also concerned that the relatively low number of licenses that have been issued so far for recreational marijuana could lead to a dry spell if the new distribution system fails to

meet demand fast enough. norah? >> thank you so much. recyclers are struggling to keep base with the surge of online shopping. >> are you seeing an increase of cardboard? >> absolutely. a tsunami of cardboard. everything goes up 10% to 15% during the holidays. >> we have jamie yuccas with more on what is leftover from your holiday purchases. more ahead. you are watching "cbs this morning." [ phone rings ] hi, tom. hey, how's the college visit? you remembered. it's good. does it make the short list? you remembered that too. yeah, i'm afraid so. knowing what's important to you... it's okay. this is what we've been planning for. thanks, bye.

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companies that recycle cardboard boxes are overwhelmed after record holiday shopping online. the u.s. postal service said it would deliver 10% more holiday packaging in 2017 than the year before. amazon, the leader in online shopping said it shipped more than 5 billion items for prime

members in 2017, and all of that cardboard is a huge recycling challenge. jamie yuccas is at a recycling center in southern california's san fernando valley to show us what happens to all of it. jamie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this bale of boxes weighs clothe -- close to a ton. but amazon said recycling its packages has helped it avoid shipping more than 550,000 semitrucks full. but you can see online shoppers are doing so much buying, recycling centers are struggling to keep up. one after another, a train of trucks unloads at this los angeles recycling center. natasha emptied her suv with boxes in it. >> how many boxes do you think you had in your car? >> well over 200. >> did you do a lot of your ordering online? >> all on amazon. >> reporter: in the u.s. alone,

amazon used 6,000 trucks and 32 planes to get packages to its prime members last year. >> and you keep bringing it in. >> yeah. >> reporter: craig happel is the recycling coordinator for the city of burbank. are you seeing an increase for recycling? >> a tsunami of recycling. >> everything goes up 5%, 10% during the holidays. >> reporter: that's a concern for him because the recycling process is so complex. the boxes are sorted and bundled here. then he said they're loaded in containers and shipped across the pacific to china. there the boxes are soaked in water, stripped of staples, and reborn as boxes. >> there might be a 12,000-mile loop in a lot of the packaging we buy and send back for recycling. >> reporter: but amazon said they put a new focus on sustainable packaging, moving over 100 million shipments from boxes to padded mailers in 2017. they released this video.

>> we make the kind of packaging easy to open, minimal waste, and 100% recyclable. we've eliminated 181,000 tons of waste. >> reporter: but centers are sill overwhelmed as many shoppers prefer to do online shopping and recycling in january. >> you never think, maybe i'll go to the mall? >> never, ever, ever. this trip compared to the mall and trying to find parking and waiting in line at cash registers and people who are rude and ugly, i wouldn't trade it for the world. >> reporter: amazon has a challenge in terms of its packaging. it wants it compact but intact when it comes to your door. all this cardboard recycling center won't be cleared out until february, jeff. >> thank you very much. >> can we clarify, jamie? were you breaking the law as

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we have a live shot of the delays. you can see traffic is slow at first street. the wreck is report at guadalupe parkway. it was blocking the number 3 lane from the left. it's now on the shoulder. hopefully it won't last too long. but it is a little slow there. san mateo bridge sluggish. extra volume working your way westbound 880 to 101. you're going to see about 19 minutes so six-minute delays as you head through there. no troubles though on 101 itself north of there. 880 into hayward, southbound a little slow in that area. and oakland doing okay. here's neda. >> okay. we're watching the rain just off the coastline. right now, it's just off the coast of monterey, not quite impacting any of us across the bay area just yet. but it will arrive about noontime. what we are seeing is cloud cover and a gorgeous sunrise. 47 degrees right now in concord. 64 in san francisco. here's a wider view of what's to come. that low pressure center just off the coast will arrive this afternoon bringing thunderstorms, another one set

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♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, jan 3, 2018. welcome back to "cbs this morning." congress is going back to work facing an overloaded agenda. ahead, two important dates to keep an eye on. plus, the new generation of robots you can wear. and a warning from robot makers on how artificial intelligence can be fool. first, here is today's eye opener at 8:00. powerful new winter storm will take i am at millions of americans as the record-breaking cold wave intensifies the roads are dang rules. one died after a 75-vehicle car pileup on the new york state freeway. the message is this. we can't get to all of the roads to treat them, so stay home if

you don't have to be out in them. blizzard conditions from the northern border of maine and canada all the way down to what looks like block island, cape cod and the islands as well more high-level talks neck week. the north has responded and it appears to be a step in that direction wild day from president trump, he tweeted on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail to hillary clinton aide to the nuclear button it is legal to sell recreational pot in california a lot of cities are allowing business he to aploor for licenses to all of our freshly-baked california viewers, i want to say thanks for switching from the monterey bay live stream of jelly fish. i will do my best to move hypnotically. ♪ i'm norah o'donnell with

jeff glor and bianna golodryga. gayle is enjoying some time off nearly the entire east coast faces a powerful winter storm as more than two-thirds of the country wakes up to temperatures under 20 degrees. >> wind chills below zero and in the single digits from the upper midwest to the northeast. 24 below in grand forks, north dakota. the ark tech blast stretches into the southeast and southern plains as women. wind chill is five degrees in oklahoma city. at least 13 have died from the cold in the east, at least 15 cities tied or second record-low temperatures yesterday. dayton, ohio's 30 degrees below zero broke and 1898 record. a major storm is slamming parts of the east coast. nearly 50 miles of i-10 in northern florida is closed due to ice. chief weather caster lonnie quinn of our station wcbs is tracking a weather sister. >> a bomb cyclone means the

storm will intensify rapidly in 24 hours. you talk about i-10 closed from madison, florida to tallahassee. no school at florida state closed because of a winter storm warning in the panhandle of florida. this storm will do nothing but get bigger and badder as it moves to the northeast. it is a coastal system, we know that. it will be roughest along the shorelines as it travels from florida off the coast of maine, and it is putting down a lot of snow as well. take a look at this. we will be measuring snow in this system from the panhandle of florida up into maine. maine looking at over two feet of snow in spots. some of the big cities, new york city right now in that three-inch range but keep this in mind. if it pushes more to the east -- a little more to the west that is, bigger numbers are possible even for the big metro cities from new york to philadelphia. but blizzard possibilities exist from cape code in the islands and the northern coast of maine. we will keep an eye on this one.

back to you, anothnorah north and south korea are talking for the first time. north korea opened a system at the demilitarized zone after south korea agrieed to open oms in the country. kim jong un is open when he also told the president he has a button for nuclear weapons on his table. president trump responded on twitter, i too have a nuclear button but it is bigger and more powerful and my button works. u.s. intelligence has detected signs north korea may be preparing another missile test this week mr. trump tweeted yesterday, quote, we pay the palestinians hundreds of million also of dollars a year and get no appreciation or respect. they don't even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with israel. why should we make any of these massive future payments to them. u.n. ambassador nikki haley also

pressured the palestinians. >> we very much still want to have a peace process. nothing changes with that. the palestinians now have to show their will that they want to come to the table. always of now they're not coming to the table but they ask for aid. we're not giving the ald. we will make sure they come to the table and move forward with the peace process this morning palestinian officials called the president's comments blackmail. palestinian president said the president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital hurt the u.s. ability to broker an agreement a research firm caught up in the russian election probe accuses republicans of working to mislead the public. they commissioned the steele dossier, using money from a conservative website and hillary clinton's presidential campaign. >> in this morning's "new york times" two of fusion

founders say a fake inquiry is being run. they say this things are being done to punish the connection with russia. cbs news contributor ed o'keefe is a contributor to "the washington post." good morning. >> good morning. >> remind everybody was fusion gps is and their involvement. >> they're basically former journalists turned investigation who were hired by a conservative news outlet, then by the hillary clinton campaign to look into donald trump and try to dig up dirt. >> the suggestion had been by republicans and the president that something that the democrats, some opposition research is what led to this idea of collusion. they're saying that's not true. >> exactly. what they're saying too is that, you know, if anything the work they were doing may have verified some things the fbi was looking into and sparked the whole thing, but not necessarily the collusion, and that that dossier, the so-called dossier of the dirt and things, the gossip that he may or may not have been doing when he was

visiting russia a few years ago was not the basis. >> what are they suggesting the republicans are not looking into? >> well, the president's business dealings basically, and some other aspects of the potential russian attempts to influence the election. they're asking the congressional committees they've talked to release full transcripts and saying once you do you will realize there's more here, and in some cases the committees are avoiding certain subjects. >> we have multiple investigations going on. is there any sense they can conclude in a bipartisan fashion? >> the one doing the best of that is the one led by the senate intelligence committee, richard bure, the republican from virginia and marc warner from virginia. it is seen as the most credible investigation, but all that one is looking into is the scope of russian -- potential russian interference or collusion or whatever else in an attempt to sort of educate the public and congress about what may have been done, what could be done in the future and what needs to be done to avoid it. it will be interesting, but it

is not necessarily going to be something that leads to other political retribution. >> congress has a few things on their plate as they try to get something done this year. january 19th and march 5th are two deadline dates. why? >> they're connected to each other. january 19thth is next time we may have a shut down. kind of old to talk about it but it is the next spending deadline. part of the negotiations involve whether or not or how to resolve the issue of daca, the program protecting about 700,000 immigrants who were brought here as children. if it isn't resolved by then, the date to watch is march 5th. that's the current deadline for the program. the president set the deadline in september, telling congress you figure this out, bring it to me and we'll cut a deal. everyone seems to want to resolve the daca issue, either give them permanent status or figure out some other solution. the question is what is the compromise with that. even the president has said i don't want to be the guy that is responsible for deporting so many people. but, you know, the negotiation

will be either do you put up more money for a border wall, do you make changes to chain migration or something else and nobody wants to put it on the table, because the moment that ends up there it becomes the center of debate and could lead to a lot of different consequences. >> something else that may influence the president's agenda in the future is the republican makeup of the senate. >> right. >> now that we know orrin hatch is retiring, mitt romney wants to run for the seat. if mitt romney runs, will he face opposition? >> he has one other republican challenger and a democrat that's not polling well. it is only january 3rd, a long year ahead. >> safe to say mitt romney won't be a rubber stamp for president trump. >> not at all. it could create another pull in the senate of this never-trump or establishment republican movement. >> ed o'keefe, thank you very much. >> see you guys. >> we have seen robots that can vacuum or do back flips, but what about robots you can wear? tony dokoupil saw them in

action. >> reporter: you are watching what is known as a soft robot. we will tell you why engineers at m.i.t. and harvard believe this material could one day be used as wearable muscle. we will show you how other researchers can actually fool cutting-edge artificial intelligence. ahead on "cbs this morning."

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future capabilities. some can do back flips or complete tasks to make human lives easier. but elon musk and bill gates say if we don't control it, it could cause harm. they're creating robots that can improve our lives. >> improve our lives, we hope, good morning. when we think of robots, we think of hard metal machines like the ones in the movie "terminator," but researchers at mit and harvard have come up with a softwarable robot that could turn us all into cyborgs. >> so in the future i could have something like this on that could help me move. >> sure. >> reporter: in this garage-like lab at mit, this robotics researcher toils for up to 20 hours a day. >> we saw somebody sleeping on the table. >> that was not me. >> reporter: he's perfecting the material for a new breed of robot, one that's light and

flexible. >> can i put my hand in there? >> yeah. sure. >> i'm shanking hands with a robot. >> yeah. >> reporter: but also two to three times stronger than a human being. >> all right. >> reporter: made of nylon and plastic and powered by compressed air, these artificial muscles have folds inside them, allowing them to grip, lift, and twist everything from a flower to a tire. lee and his colleagues including harvard's daniel voigt hope they'll be able to wear the robot like tony stark in "iron man." >> no more crutches, no more walkers, no more canes. origami muscles. >> you'll be able to wear the robot. >> reporter: the researchers her say waernings of a robot revolution are overblown. >> i have a particular image

classifier running on my phone. >> reporter: after all, you can fool a robot or at least an artificial intelligence program designed to see and recognize the world around it. >> it's good at recognizing things these days. the current algorithms are above 95% accurate. >> reporter: he says that kind of accuracy is influencing a.i. including self-driving vehicles. >> if we point it at the camera, it says, traffic-like light, ipod. >> yeah. these things work pretty well. >> reporter: along with the discoveries, there are dangerous drawbacks. they were able to turn things into something dirjts. >> it's 66% confident it's looking at a rifle. >> possibly a revolver.

>> possibly a revolver. >> with pixel changes too small, it can turn a baseball into espresso and a cat picture into guacamole, but his concern is what others might do with ill-intent. >> can a terrorist build a bomb that the computer thinks is a bouquet of flowers? >> yes. we took a missile and then modified the texture so it looks like a balloon. >> wow. when that result comes up, how do you feel? >> i feel that this is good that it's happening now before the systems are widely deployed. >> google reported the program. in a statement the company said it welcomes efforts to identify security risks adding we believe a.i., artificial intelligence, will be beneficial. >> fascinating, frightening, all of that. >> they're working out the kinks now, right? >> it's a good thing they're

working on it. when it rolls out you want it to work. >> a turtle does not look like a rifle. >> i feel good i bought my 10-year-old a robot. my 10-year-olds. i have two of them. thank you. that's awesome. stay on that story. >> i will. jan crawford sat down with two stars of "the post" to discuss how journalism discovered secrets about the war. >> this is a bipartisan mess. it really eroded our confidence. >> and our choice in government and in our political leaders. >> yeah. yeah. and you should not trust your political leaders, whether they're of your party or the other party, and that's the press's job. >> ahead, what they're most proud of in the movie as they're

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>> i'm sorry. that's a little much. ahead, where to go to enjoy berkeley police are looking for possible witnesses to a serious hit-and-run collision that occurred last month. it happened good morning. it's 8:25. i'm emily turner. berkeley police are looking for possible witnesses this morning to a hit-and-run crash that occurred last month. it happened on san pablo avenue and haskell street. authorities say the victim was taken to highland hospital in oakland and remains there still with significant trauma. . a man is in jail after sending messages to an 11-year- old child on snapchat. he is accused of abusing the girl. he is in bail on jail on $1 million bail. stay with us, traffic and

weather in just a moment.

south bay 101 at first street out of lanes on the shoulder. traffic is definitely moving much, much better than it was just moments ago. so hopefully recovery as you head out of the south bay this morning. we have other trouble sports. we are seeing slight delays northbound 101 as you work your way coming away from 680, 280, that whole connector area is bogged down for the morning drive. so a little slow there. also slow on guadalupe parkway northbound with delays there also but no accidents in the area. we have a wreck south 880 at thornton. there is a crash blocking one lane causing a backup with some

very slow speeds. speeds in the teens, 14 miles per hour as you approach the accident into fremont. give yourself some extra time there. let's jump over to the san mateo bridge. 13 minutes 880 to 101. your drive time looks clear there. northbound 880 the nimitz freeway starting to get a little busy into oakland. southbound though not too bad as you head into hayward. checking hi-def doppler you can see the rain coming down south of santa cruz. south of san francisco. we are starting to see it very light along the coast. a wider view shows what's to come. that rain will live. just have to wait. we are seeing cloud cover from the storm that's set to live. it's expected to bring us a chance of thunderstorms later on this afternoon but for now, temperatures are pretty warm compared to this time yesterday. 50 in san jose right now. 47 in concord. and our live camera shot there from or vaca camera showing the cloud cover. rain through friday, had dry

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>> good for ginobili. he was like guys i scored. >> i know. excuse me. good for the refs. welcome to to "cbs this morning." time for the headlines. the washington post says most people are paying off credit card debt all wrong. experts say first pay the minimum amount. second put 100% of the remaining money to the card with the highest interest rate. that will help eliminate debt the fastist. most were only putting about 50% to high interest rate cards which can result in unnecessary interest payments. good tips. sex cases against harvey weinstein and the director james toback to the l.a. county. beverly hills police declined to provide details of the cases. weinstein has denied any non con

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boarded to portland yesterday morning. that is when the rat jumped from the jetway inside the plane. got into the cockpit. passengers were removed and the plane was taken out of service. i'm creeped out just reading that. >> there was one running around the studio like right over behind you actually. >> not funny jeff? people reportedly wanted to lose weight or get in shape. the company has more than three million subscribers on line and for meetings the diet signs points for food and members are given a certain amount of points for e tattoo day. mindy grossman is president and ceo of weight watchers. good morning. >> goormg. >> what gets zero points? >> freestyle, the program just launched literally the most

livable and simple program we've had in the company's history. there is point value. all 300 calories are not created equally. combination of the nutrients and all things. a whole group of food. fish, chicken, vegetable, peas, corn that are all zero points and you build your point values around the day. and it gives you such freedom to be as livable as possible and go out and eat be your family because you are eating foods everyone else is. you are not having to eat packaged food or things and it's had the most effective weight loss in the history of the company. >> fish is zero but if you put butter on it that counts -- >> correct. >> all these foods are zero points that the calories don't matter. because calories do matter. that it would encourage everybody to over eat? >> i don't think anybody ever

over it a chicken breast. it really is about balance. and what we do is really inspire healthy habits. for sustainable capabilities for people to make the right choices and that is important. people want to be healthy today. if you think about it. people ask me who our biggest competition is. and the reality is it is people believing they can do this themselves. and sol we really want to be the partner to everyone to give them the capabilities and the knowledge to be able to lead healthier better lives. >> i've been studying diet and nutrition my entire life. and the proof is in the pudding that weight watchers works and two, i think it is the healthiest way to try and lose weight if not one of the only ways to lose weight. you now have d.j. kalid as an endorsers. how did that come about. >> i was introduced to him and spent quite a bit of time where

him. he really is authentic what. 's amazing about the weight watchers is the power of the community. and with his goal to really be healthier. particularly for his son assad and inspire the community along with him to lead healthier lives. >> does he want to lose weight? >> he's already lost about 20 pounds. but for him it is really more about being the best self he request be. and i think that's what people want today. it is not necessarily thinking about diet. it is thinking about sustainable health and how you want to live a better life. >> which is the other part. the holistic. >> very much much so. >> focus on the entire. >> mind, body, spirit. the combination of eating healthy. having the right level of activity and mindfulness plays a very big part in how people are thinking of health today. so our move from being just about weight to a more holistic approach to giving people the tools to live a healthier life across the board is really very

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the movie that stars meryl streep and tom hanks received six golden globes and eight critics' choice. katherine graham struggled over whether to public documents regarding the vietnam war. jan crawford visited the home in washington, d.c. with two of the stars. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a lot of the movie actually takes place here in georgetown and katherine graham's mansion where she decides to stand up to the government and really comes into her own as publisher. the justice department asked for your a federal court order to stop the "washington post." >> reporter: it transformed a newspaper -- >> we are extremely gratified -- >> reporter: -- and female

publisher katherine graham into a public icon. it reveals the powerful pressures on the messenger, the message that resonates today. >> do you have the papers? >> not yet. >> oh, gosh, oh, gosh. >> it's about a lot of things, about women, what's going on with the press, about our need to be vigilant, that you have to make a democracy every day, you just don't get it. but steven spiel derg has no interest in serving vegetables. that's not what he's about. >> i'm here asking your advice, bob, not your permission. >> reporter: at its heart "the post" is about a woman's voice when she decides to change history, where risking financial ruin if she published the pentagon papers. meryl streep played graham in the movie. on "cbs this morning" she talked

about the unique role. >> it came down to her to decide, and she felt alone in that position and was, you know, put on the spot. >> reporter: it all came down right in here. >> reporter: we visited graham's historic town in georgetown, near washington, d.c., with bob and brad. the house remains vacant and largely unchanged since graham died more than 15 years ago. >> reporter: the emotional thrust of this story is katherine graham's internal journey and the other stuff is a fun suspense thriller that's about relevant issues to me it's a nonpartisan film. i don't see why any republican wouldn't like this movie except that they love nixon. >> reporter: it blends news reports and telephone recordings of president nixon. >> no reporter from the "washington post" is ever to be

in the white house, is that clear. >> reporter: you have a reporter who was outspoken on the media who helped track down the classified documents. >> the media already vulnerable are being made a scapegoat for ironic reasons, a scapegoat by the administration. >> i'm proudest of just showing a bunch of professional journalists at work arguing and fighting and trying to figure out what they have a right to do and what's right. >> reporter: you celebrate the best part of journalism which is finding out what the truth is. >> my character is the true believer, the reporter who just wants the story and just wants to tell the public the story. >> there are no page numbers. >> that's where the top secret stamps were. my source had to cut them off. >> if you have the truth, you should print it. that's a strong easy opinion to have if you don't have the responsibility of keeping the paper alive and you're not the

one who will go to jail. >> reporter: graham chose to stand up to the government and to forces within her own industry. >> the only reason she's running things is because phil died. >> reporter: like "post" board member who felt she was unqualified because she was a woman. >> thank you for your frankness. >> it never occurs to me a woman should do this. i'm absolutely on the wrong side of history which makes her decision all the more incredible and brave. it ooh tess most excruciating decision that she has to make. she doesn't know -- you don't know if that's the right decision. >> reporter: not only was it the right decision, it transformed graham into a force to be reckoned with, and the "washington post" into a national newspaper. and the lesson of the pentagon papers for the public is that we are right to question the government. bianna? >> it's interesting no matter

what party you are, you shouldn't believe everything a politician tells you. that's what journalists are there to do. >> have you seen it? >> absolutely love it. >> we tried to see it on monday. the children -- did you like it? >> terrific. lovely. >> loved having tom and meryl on set. >> they were great. up next, d hock player who made his dad very proud rinkside. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ it's time for sleep number's 'lowest prices of the season' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting.

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american hockey league player bobby butler surpriseds he dad with some huge knurls. the milwaukee admirals' forward was selected if the u.s. olympic hockey team. he learned he made the roster monday and quickly shared his excitement. >> i figured it would be cool to have him come down. it was in the rink near the ice, so its with pretty special. >> he'll soon travel to south korea for next month's games and of course we'll be rooting for him and the team. >> that's awesome. that does it for us.

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start of the 20-18 legislative year.. also on the agenda: the controversial ga good morning. it's 8:55. i'm emily turner. state lawmakers will return to sacramento today for the start of the 2018 legislative year. also on the agenda, the controversial gas tax. a single-payer healthcare system as well as the sexual harassment scandal plaguing the capital. water officials will head to the northern sierra this morning for the monthly snow survey. they will measure the snowpack and the water content so far this rainy season. and a pair of marin county beaches are open this morning after a surfer was bitten by a shark! it happened saturday near drakes beach. the woman was not seriously hurt. no sharks in the area since. weather and traffic in a moment.

good morning. 880 right now we have a traffic alert, chp on scene of this accident causing some major delays as you commute in the east bay out of hayward all the way down into the fremont-union city area. looks like we still have cars blocking lanes of south 880 at thornton. two lanes down for the count, traffic alert in effect so this is going to be there for some time. use an alternate in the meantime. try service streets around the area because 880 is jammed up as a result. your drive time southbound 238 to 84 will take you 24 minutes. we are starting to see a backup a little bit south 880 in the hayward area so you will need extra time there. northbound not bad.

looks better out of oakland, 238 to the maze. that will only take you 15 minutes. we aren't seen anything delays in the maze right now. in fact, clear at the bay bridge. metering lights are off. it is an easy ride out of oakland into san francisco with no troubles in san francisco. but busy west 80 at gilman on the eastshore freeway. here's neda. taking a look now where the rain, our hi-def doppler showing it has arrived reaching the coastline but in santa cruz, so mainly to the south. if you are anywhere near san jose, you may see a light, light drizzle there. but the rest of the rain isn't expected to arrive for another hour or so. most likely this afternoon so you will see the bulk of the action. right now temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s. 52 in san jose. 45 in santa rosa. so here's your futurecast. so for the next couple of hours, mostly cloud cover, light drizzle by 1:00 we'll start to see a little bit more of the rain. 5:00, 6:00 the bulk of the thunderstorm chances will arrive and then late tonight, things should dry up for your thursday. we are also looking like dry conditions and then on friday,

round number 2 will arrive and also monday night of next week another storm.

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