paint. jonathan vigliotti, london. >> that's t it's monday, december 10, 2018. this is the "cbs morng southern snowstorm, and it's still autumn. frosty weather stranding drivers. the search is on for the next white house chief of staff. some names on the short list. and french president emmanuel macron is preparing to address the plight of paris today after another weekend of today after another weekend of violent protests. captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning, the southeast is

dealing with the effects of a massive and deadly wintry storm. winter w from tennessee to virginia, but north carolina where some parts got over a foot of snow is hardest hit. a state of emergency has been declared in 18 counties, more than 100,000 customers are without power, and some areas it's impossible to travel and there have been more than 500 accidents on snow and ice-covered roads. marc liverman is here with more on this. good morning. >> good morning. a man in north carolina was killed when a tree fell on his car. the conditions hundreds of thousands have been dealing with since saturday. they're not over yet. a premature blast of winter is taking aim at the a big swath of the u.s. >> north carolina is in the cold, icy grip of a mammoth winter storm. >> the flakes began falling in the carolinas and virginia saturday.

soon, the region was anything but a winter wonderland. conditions got so bad that churches canceled services. >> this is sunday morning and what you see is nobody there because the church is closed today. that sends a strong message. >> by sunday night, more than a foot and a half of snow had fallen and it still hadn't stoppe. drivers were confronted with conditions rarely seen in the south. >> terrible. terrible. that's why we had to pull over. i just told my work and told him. he said you've got to keep moving when it's snowing. i'm like we couldn't, there's no way. >> the snow was too much in some places. streets and highways were overwhelmed by snow stranding drivers and forcing first responders to make a difficult choice. >> we debated get people out of their vehicles and take them to problem is if these cars ofd,afk traffic. >> the storm left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.

and yesterday there were more than 14,000 flights delayed and more than 2,000 cancellations that's according to flightaware.com. some of those cancellations were reported on flights from as far away as the midwest. anne-marie. >> marc liverman here in new york. thank you so much. well, we are following the storm and our meteorologist says the precipitation should start to wind down. >> it's the first storm of the system even though technically it's still autumn. but that did not stop mother nature from dropping massive amounts of snow across the mid atlanta pick. saluda, north carolina, close to 19 inches. 18 inches in linville, north carolina, western virginia getting in on the action. spring valley 15 1/2 inches. the western part of the state south carolina got 11 1/2 inches. you can imagine what that did to area roads and interstate. this is i-85, one of the

largest, busiest interstates on the east coast looking like a ghost town with plenty of cars ending up on the side of roads. visibility very low as well. the large amounts of rain and snow are gone, however, there will still be some light rain and light snow possible on monday. as we look at the forecast map for monday, starting off very early, light rain overnight, could transition back to light snow with minimal accumulation amounts. but through lunchtime, that precipitation starts to pull out of the area. we have dry weather returning to the midatlantic as we head into monday night, but then another problem develops. early tuesday morning with clear skies, that could mean temperatures in the 20s and all rea roads. and even though it is officially fall, high temperatures on monday up and down the east coast only in the 30s and 40s.

cbs news. off to politics now. in washington, president trump says that he'll pick a new chief of staff soon. it was expected that vice president mike pence's chief of staff nick ayers would fill the role. but we learned yesterday that ayers and the president couldn't agree on how long he would serve. he wants to spend time with his family and kelly set it to leave at the beginning of the year. there are four people on the president's short list including north carolina congressman mark meadows, nick mulvaney and acting attorney general matthew whitaker. a series of court filings from special counsel robert mueller linking president trump to campaign finance crimes has some democrats talking impeachment or even time behind bars for the president. errol barnett reports. >> he may be the first president in quite some time to face the prospect of jail time. >> adam schiff expected to chair the house against -- gins

committee next year said president trump maybe guilty of felony crimes outlined in friday's sentencing memo of his former lawyer michael cohen. federal prosecutors said cohen paid off trump's alleged mistresses to influence the 2016 presidential election in coordination with and at the direction of president trump, he referred to as individual one. >> there's a real prospect that when he leaves office they may indict him. >> republicans like marco rubio are withholding judgment. >> these are things that are to be taken into account and seriously and i would caution everyone to continue to wait till all this plays out. >> the president was asked about the development on saturday. >> as far as the report that we sigh according to everybody i've spoken to, i have not read it, there's absolutely no llusion,r

from other allegations emerging from the special counsel's investigation that during the election cohen worked with then candidate trump and russian nationals on a potential hotel in russia described as the moscow project. >> now, if you're asking and saying, i will give you something in exchange for building a hotel, that would be wrong. but i haven't heard any evidence of that. >> the recent filings also disclose russia having political synergy to the campaign as early as 2015. prosing a meeting between candidate trump and president vladimir putin. while another memo charges paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman with serial lying. errol barnett, cbs news, the white house. >> the president is reacting to former fbi director james comey's tesimony before the house judiciary committee. a transcript of the hearing was released saturday. yesterday the president tweeted about comey's testimony. his friday testimony was so untruthful. this whole deal is a rigged

fraud headed up by dishonest people who could do anything so that i would not become president. jeff bah gahas more. >> the republicans were frustrated because they instructed comey not to answer many of the questions. among the notable revelations, comey said when they launched its counterintelligence investigation in 2016, the trump campaign itself was not under investigation but it was launched based on the activity of four americans to see if they were working with the russians to influence the 2016 election. comey did not get into who those four americans are but we know that trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos and carter page had attracted suspicion because of their contacts with russian operatives. republicans were hoping for more revealing information during

and comey's role in the hillary clinton private e-mail session, he wanted in a public setting not behind closed doors. >> we're talking about hillary clinton's e-mails for heaven sakes so i'm not sure we need to do this at all. >> comey disputed the president's allegation that he and robert mueller are best friends. comey also told lawmakers that he didn't believeir mueller alone would be enough to derail the information. he is expected back on capitol hill this month. so later today, french president emmanuel macron will speak to his country about the violent antigovernment protest shaking fraps. -- france. for the last four weekends, there have been violent protests. paris was hit particularly hard. nearly a thousand people are in custody. the protest started as a demonstration against a fuel tax hike that the government has since withdrawn. coming up on "the morning news" now, church investigation. hundreds of allegations of sexual misconduct are uncovered

in fundamentalist baptist churches around the country. and a transgender male boxer makes history in his professional debut. this is the "cbs morning news."

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that's clinically proven to help me feel fuller longer. benefiber® healthy shape. ian d a nationwide search is under way to find 29-year-old kelsey berreth. one of the last places she was seen was on thanksgiving day at a safeway in woodland park. police say a few days later her cell phone ping ed nearly 800 miles away in idaho, not far from where some of her family lives. her brother says all of her luggage was found in her colorado home and her cars are still there. she is a pilot and a mother of a 1-year-old girl. a transgender boxer has made history. and, new church of abuse allegations, those are some of the headlines on the morning news stand. the fort worth star telegram found hundreds of sex abuse allegations in independent fundamental baptist churches

across the u.s. they say the churches and schools covered up the alleged crimes and helped to relocate the offenders for decades. they were accused or convicted of sex crimes against children and at least 45 of them continued in ministry after the accusations came to the attention of authorities or law enforcement. "the washington post" reports another jehovah's witness was destroyed in a nine-month rash of attacks. the fire in a church in lacy was the sixth act of violence since march. in may, someone fired 35 rifle rounds into a church worship hall. in july there are was another arson, and in august a suspicious device was found. >> why are they being targeted? why is this specific religion why are these churches b targeted? what are they doing that's so wrong and oppressive?

>> earli ar ei fires. no one has been arrested and tl have been no reports of injuries. and california's desert sun has a boxer became the first 34-year-old pat manuel won the super featherweight fight saturday in california. manuel competed as a woman in the 2012 olympic trials. a shoulder injury forced him to withdraw with the olympics no longer an option, he transitioned to male following usa boxer and international olympic committee guidelines. still ahead, prices at the still ahead, prices at the pump take a big dip.

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the world's largest economies, u.s., china, and japan all reported weaker than expected economic data and tomorrow it appears the british parliament will reject prime minister theresa may's eu separation deal also raising fears among investors. on friday, the dow tumbled some 558 points. the s&p 500 lost 62 and the nasdaq slumped 219 points. good news for motorists, the price of gas is dropping sharply. the price of a regular grade gasoline is $2.51, down 22 cents in the past three weeks and down 40 cents over the last three months. the highest average price in the u.s. is in san francisco. the lowest in tulsa, oklahoma. diesel fell 9 cents a gallon over the past two weeks. meantime, a bail hearing is scheduled today for the chinese

electronics giant huawei. she was arrested december 1st in canada at the request of the united states. she faces accusations that she misled banks about huawei's control of an operation in iran. yesterday, china summoned the u.s. ambassador to protest her arrest. in court documents she argued that she should be released while waiting an extradition hearing because of her longstanding ties to canada and health conditions. tokyo prosecutors reportedly indicted nissan motor company along with its ousted chairman ghosn. he was arrested on suspicion of underestimating his compensation by $88 million over five years. he's also expected to be charged for underreporting his income for three more years. nissan itself was reportedly indicted today for making false statements in annual reports. and "ralph breaks the internet" remained atop the box week.e for the third straigh >> whoa.

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seven seconds away from defeat the dolphins pulled off on incredible play against the new england patriots yesterday. >> he will throw it. and this will end it after the shovel, or will it? miami running around, circling, oh, look out! didn't have the angle, touchdown! >> dolphins running back kenyon drake took the second of two laterals and ran 52 yards for a touchdown on the game's last play. miami won 34-33. and a month after the deadliest wildfire in california history, a woman came back to her home to find her dog guarding the burnt-out property. andrea gaylord wasn't able to get to her house in paradise when the fire began to spread last month. she left behind her two dogs. one was found in a shelter. when she returned to what was left of her home last week, her other dog madison was standing

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our top story this morning. the southeast has gotten hit hard by a monster winter-like storm an carolina and virginia over a foot of snow has fallen. travel is nearly impossible. on one stretch of virginia highway the national guard has been called to help rescue stranded motorists. one man was killed when a tree fell on his car. some 200,000 customers remain without power. and president trump says he'll make a decision soon on a new chief of staff. john kelly is leaving at the end of the year. vice president mike pence's chief of staff nick ayers was the top pick but ayers and the president couldn't agree on how long he would serve. sources say four people remain on the short list including office of management and budget

director mick mulvaney and mark meadows. a state department official says the u.s. intends to continue supporting saudi arabia's military interests in yemen. a nation torn apart by four years of civil war. some u.s. senators want to pull that support after the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. elizabeth palmer is the only u.s. network correspondent inside yemen. >> reporter: the actual fighting in yemen's civil war say long way from ayden, but there are still plenty of soldiers around. they help to keep things stable here enough for life to resume. the government is quick to thank saudi arabia for helping it win back ayden after they lost it to fighters three years ago. the prime minister. >> the darkest moment in 2015, the saudis backers and so yemen cannot fail in chaos. >> reporter: but to do it, saudi

arabia waged and is still waging a ruthless bombing campaign against the government's enemies often with american weapons. and there's no way to know how many civilians this killed. the americans are backing away from the saudis in the wake of the murder of jamal khashoggi. is that going to hurt you? because if saudi arabia becomes toxic for america, then yemen does too. >> yemen's important country. if u.s. won't stand with yemen, they should decide. it's simple computation. they have relation with the u.s. for decades. >> reporter: america's support in this war for saudi arabia will come down to a political fight in washington. meanwhile, the casualties are mounting. as many as 85,000 children dead. 2 million people on the run. and 14 million facing extreme hunger. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, ayden. coming up on "cbs this

morning," more on last night's 60 minute piece on the effects of screen time on children's brains. plus, best selling novelista especially in the wake of the me too era. and mark phillips talked with olivia colman for her part in "the favourite." that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching, i'm anne-marie green, have a great day. i'm anne-marie green, have a great day.

kicking off the new workweek with a live look outside, san francisco, the bay bridge, there are showers, but it's going to be okay. it's monday, december 10th. thank you for waking up with us.

good morning. >> good morning. >> are you happy to be back? >> yaws. -- always. >> hopefully you had rest as we are kicking off the workweek, starting off the morning with showers. tracking that for you. scattered showers across roanoke park, napa, see the showers pushing through hercules and richmond and the showers from tub ron, through the golden gate bridges zooming in to san franciscos you can see the sunset district, we have the cell right over there, over downtown san francisco as well. also over the bay bridge this morning, a wet start to the day in some spots, also areas of dense fog across the north bay as well as our inland communities getting dense fog as we start off the day. a dry afternoon, the scattered weowers will come to anened as