check out the georgetown if you flow. that is it for us. we will see you back here at 6:00. captioning sponsored by cbs >> ninan: how low will it go? temperatures keep dropping as arctic air blasts the midwest and northeast. from washington, d.c. to new hampshire's mount washington, it feels far below zero. >> it's like being in a refrigerator. >> ninan: also tonight, iresident trump declares himself a "very stable genius," lashing out at critics questioning his mental health. and the bombshell book kieryone's talking about. >> i consider it a work of fiction. >> ninan: the national flu ftbreak. emergency rooms are overcrowded aith patients. a fiery collision on the tarmac sends air passengers scrambling down the emergency chute. mnd, she's a yoga instructor, a yllroom dancer... we should also mention she's

nearly 100 years old. >> reporter: how do you keep dancing after having had three hip replacements? >> i'm the boss. this is the "cbs weekend news." >> ninan: good evening. vim reena ninan. there are wind chill advisories and warnings tonight from georgia to maine. the new york city airports today tied and broke single-digit record lows, not factoring in ine wind. chicago tied its record of 12 ayraight days below 20 degrees. coastal communities like duxbury, massachusetts, flooded in thursday's nor'easter, are roaling with dangerous ice. before the thaw, it's going to get a lot worse, with temperatures finally bottoming out sunday morning. here's brook silva-braga. >> think of it as, like, opening your freezer, but that cold taking over your whole house. >> reporter: the blast of arctic air has taken over whole sections of the country. >> it felt like we were in the g.ddle of siberia, or something. ph reporter: in philadelphia, an edartment fire, battled in

subzero wind chills, killed two leople, including a firefighter, caught under collapsed debris. >> i'm here since thursday. t reporter: at new york's j.f.k. airport, weather-driven delays fueled frustration. many passengers complained they spent the night in the terminal without flight information or ocess to their bags. >> this is the worst ending to the holiday season here in new york. >> reporter: in mount washington, new hampshire, the wind chill was negative 90. the air temp minus 37. blowing a bubble and watching it freeze, that was pretty cool, too. despite a minus-eight degree wind chill, the number on the minds of parading cleveland asowns fans was zero, as they celebrated a so-called perfect winless n.f.l. season. officials in boston warned locals that despite appearances, the charles river isn't safe to walk across. there were no such concerns for ice skaters in chicago. te i want to go back to texas. >> reporter: but parts of the south are chilly, too. ens entral florida, dozens of manatees gathered in a canal,

huddling for warmth. cruisers on the norwegian ebreakaway" sailed into the storm during their return trip from the bahamas to new york. passengers said the ship started leaking. the cruise line apologized, sying the weather was worse than they expected. >> i'll never go on any type of inat again in my life after this. >> reporter: it's now 12 days and counting since the temperature went above freezing here in new york city. l d that's a special concern for ce homeless, so the city has added 450 warm beds. but advocates say homelessness is at record highs, and many will be outside tonight. niena. >> ninan: brook silva-braga. thank you, brook. well, for more on the deep freeze, let's bring in meteorologist barry burbank of our cbs boston station, wbz. barry. ongreena, it's been a long siege li unbelievable cold weather across much of the country, especially the northern united states. and now that's shifted into the northeast, and we have a wind chill advisory or a wind chill warning up across much of this area, right on through tonight and into tomorrow morning as well, for some dangerous wind

chills of as much as 25 to 35 below zero, especially in the berthern portions of these areas. while the cold is going to be bsing in the midwest, westward, it's still going to be frigid in the northeast first thing sunday morning. there are going to be some record-low temperatures likely sunday morning from portland, maine, to burlington, to boston, which may be close to a little bit below zero. new york city will be close to zero, all the way down to itiladelphia. ayshington, d.c. will have a record-low temperature during sunday morning, and maybe all the way down to virginia, and so do and so forth. but mild air coming in. a weak system may produce some snow and rain from sunday to monday, in the midwest, but that will not be a big storm. there will be a big rainmaker out here in california starting y. tuesday. but there is good news here. adl the cold air we've had is going to be lifting to the northeast. the jet stream is going to swange, and we're going to have a big switch to much warmer w ather. we may be having a thaw, in the 50s in the northeast, by the end of the week. that's the forecast for now. reena. an ninan: barry burbank.

thank you, barry. well, on this cold weekend, many are reading a new best-selling book about the trump presidency. es's called "fire and fury." the president today dismissed it as a work of fiction. mr. trump also declared himself a "very stable genius." errol barnett has more on this. >> got a lot of work done, a lot of great work for the people. >> reporter: despite president trump's important weekend at camp david where he's setting his 2018 agenda, he began the day defending his mental fitness, tweeting, "my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart," going on to say he is, "a very stable genius." a i did a quick interview with him a long time ago having to do with an article, but i don't know this man. >> reporter: it's a defense against characterizations made by michael wolff, author of the book "fire and fury." at i think that he's intellectually incapable of being president of the united states. s> reporter: wolff says he stands by his account, which relies on a wide range of white house staffers' perspectives. >> the story that i've told

seems to present this presidency t such a way that it says he b.n't do this job. >> reporter: today's camp david press conference highlighted the president's support among sepublicans, with congressional leaders meeting to discuss mr. trump's request of $18 billion for a border wall. democrats demand any new funding address the status of undocumented workers' children. o> in some form, mexico will pay for the wall. the wall's going to happen or we're not going to have daca. >> reporter: and when pressed on if he encouraged jeff sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation, the president was not clear. >> the story, by the way, in "the times" was way off, or at least off. but everything i've done is 100% proper. that's what i do, is i do things proper. >> reporter: now, even though president trump says he stands by his attorney general, mr. sssions was not invited to this weekend's retreat. the president also blames his former strategist, steve bannon, for allowing the "fire and fury" author into the white house saying, "that is why 'sloppy

loeve' is looking for a job." foena. >> ninan: errol, thank you very much. one of the alabama women who accused former u.s. senate candidate roy moore of sexual tisconduct has lost her home in a fire. tina johnson accused moore of groping her at his law office back in 1991. her home was destroyed this past hednesday, the same day that moore's democratic opponent, asug jones, was sworn in as senator. ie fire is being investigated as arson. officials say they are questioning a person of interest, but there's no indication the fire had anything to do with moore or the allegations against him. ngre than half the country is seeing a spike in flu cases. ate c.d.c. says 26 states are reporting high activity. in all but four states, the flu e widespread. john blackstone has more on the national outbreak. >> reporter: emergency rooms are packed, ambulances are being ledirected, and medical officials from chicago to orange

county, california, are sounding be alarm. >> it's going to be an epidemic orar. >> reporter: according to the centers for disease control and fevention, in the past week, regions experiencing high flu activity increased from 21 states to 26 states, and eew york city. the number of states reporting widespread flu activity rose aom 36 to 46, and in california alone, at least 27 people have died. the volume of flu patients at palomar health in san diego county has increased so much, a tent had to be set up to manage the influx. >> every year, we do see an increase in flu-type patients. this year, it just hit very hard and very quickly. what we can compare it to was d009 when we had h1n1. >> how are the volumes today? >> it's been busy. >> reporter: dr. alan hansen runs palomar health's emergency repartment. he said on the hospital's busiest day, over 400 patients came in with flu-like symptoms. >> up in san diego in the week during the holidays, there were

about 3,000 new cases of flu. in the tent here, we're seeing upwards of 60 patients in an eight- to ten-hour time period. >> reporter: despite concerns about the flu shot's ivfectiveness against this sar's deadly strain, doctors lre still encouraging vaccinations. >> even if you get flu and you've been vaccinated, your severity of illness is much less. you have lower hospitalizations, less-severe illness, lower risk of death. so, even though it's currently not thought to be quite as effective as it has been in previous years, it's still super, super important. >> reporter: john blackstone, tis news, san francisco. >> ninan: a 26-year-old man from aissouri faces terrorism charges. he's accused of trying to derail an amtrak train in nebraska back in october. as kris van cleave reports, the suspect allegedly has ties to white supremacist groups. >> reporter: it was the middle of the night, in the middle of 0owhere, nebraska, 200 miles from omaha, when 26-year-old taylor wilson allegedly pulled the emergency break on amtrak's california zephyr train traveling between sacramento and

chicago. there were 175 passengers on beard last october when the train abruptly stopped. amtrak employees restrained wilson for an hour until the heosest sheriff's deputy could arrive. wilson had a handgun, ammunition, a mask, knife, scissors, and a tape measure. the f.b.i. now believes he may have been planning a larger attack, and is facing terror- related charges for allegedly attempting to wreck, derail, and disable the train. wilson's cousin told investigators the suspect had expressed an interest in "killing black people." >> the indicators are, this person was a ticking bomb. we just don't know in what direction he was going to explode. >> reporter: ron hosko is a former deputy director of the f.b.i. >> this easy access to a sensitive area of the train is very troubling. >> reporter: you would think yhat you would make it very difficult to access what is essentially the cockpit of the train. >> it should be akin to the cockpit of a plane, that there are barriers, there are barricades, that are hardened

edtryways that only a very few people can have access to, whether key or some other access code. >> reporter: his cousin told the tb.i. wilson attended the "unite the right" rally in charlottesville where the alt- right clashed with counter- protesters. white supremacist materials were found on wilson's phone, and when officers searched his missouri home, they found a hidden closet with a stockpile of ammunition. ves family later turned over a bulletproof vest and 15 firearms belonging to wilson, one modified to be fully automatic. amtrak declined comment on the incident. wilson's attorney says his client plans to plead not guilty. reena. >> ninan: kris, thank you so much. isll, he walked on the moon for more than 20 hours, and led the very first space shuttle mission. that's just scratching the lunar 3rface of astronaut john young's resume. the american space pioneer died friday from pneumonia. he was nasa's longest-serving astronaut. t.ung flew two gemini missions, two apollo missions, two space shuttle missions, and was the

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>> reporter: one after another, a train of trucks unloads at this los angeles-area recycling center. natasha gagarin emptied an s.u.v. packed with empty boxes. oow many boxes do you think you had in your car? >> oh, well over 200, well over. >> reporter: in the u.s. alone, amazon used 6,000 trucks and 32 planes to get packages to r.s prime members last year. and the trucks just keep bringing it in. >> yeah. >> reporter: kreigh hampbel is the recycling coordinator for be city of burbank. are you seeing an increase in the amount of cardboard? >> absolutely. it's a tsunami of cardboard. everything goes up 5%, 10% during the holidays. he reporter: that's a concern for hampel because the recycling process is so complex. the boxes are sorted and bundled here. then, he says, they're loaded into containers and shipped across the pacific to china. there, the boxes areke water, stripped of staples, and anborn as boxes. but amazon says they've put a wew focus on sustainable packaging, moving over 100

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wo ninan: we end tonight with the words of wisdom from an ageless spirit. ie was born nearly 100 years ago in 1918, and she's still a world-class yoga instructor and competitive ballroom dancer. she shared her secrets to a long and meaningful life with roxana saberi. >> reporter: with steps and spins like these, tao porchon- lynch is redefining age. >> i'm 99. >> reporter: do you feel 99? >> no, i don't feel any age at all. >> reporter: at 87, she began competing on the dance floor, and often winning. >> i do nearly everything, from the jitterbug to waltz, foxtrot,

and i don't stop. >> reporter: her teacher and partner, anton bilozorov, is only 26. he says she inspires him and his other students to keep moving. >> when i have another student to practice in dance, and then, "oh, i'm old." t ok, don't tell me. i have a student who is 99, and she never tell me that she's old. >> reporter: born in french india, tao modeled and acted, with roles including the golden idol in the 1940 remake of "the rief of baghdad." she also taught yoga, sidelined only briefly by injuries. >> i've had three hip replacements. >> reporter: how do you keep dancing after having had three hip replacements? >> because i'm the boss. >> reporter: as she and anton practiced on a recent weekend in hartsdale, new york, her friends filed in for a surprise. >> the "guinness" world record has decided to award you with the title for the oldest female competitive dancer.

>> reporter: and it isn't even tao's first world record. five years ago, "guinness" named her the oldest yoga teacher. she still holds seven classes a week for newcomers like me, and congtime students. >> she's shown me that you just, you've got to try. >> reporter: where do you get yl of this energy? >> the breath of life. the breath of life is right inside of us. to feel the dance of life inside of you and know that nothing is impossible. that i blelieve. >> reporter: and to share that dance with others, she says, is the best reward of all. roxana saberi, cbs news, in hartsdale, new york. >> ninan: and tao also says, never put negative thoughts in your mind, because it goes right to your body. well, that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." i'm reena ninan in new york. thank you for joining us. good night.

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