and don't forget, cbs this morning, have a great day everyone. welcome to cbs this morning. how the weather and government shutdown are causing havoc for travelers. we have new video of the encounter that caused national headlines. the activist tell us what happened right before the confrontation and the teen at the center shares his size of the story. plus, the nation pauses to honor the life of martin luther king jr. and his fight for equal rights. we'll show you how many of the celebrations could be impacted by the government shutdown. and nuns are on the run in rome. the vatican launches a bid for

olympic glory with a new track and field team. jeff doan joins the holy athletes. and we begin with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> it's about the cold blast, bitter cold for the entire northeast. >> really incredible temperature drop we've seen. >> this is a shock to the system. bone chilling cold follows a deadly winter storm. >> this weather is dangerous and everything is so icy. >> 250 passengers are back in new jersey after nightmare flight that left them stuck on the tarmac in canada for more than 15 hours. >> 12 hours in, i think that was the breaking point for everybody. >> president trump offered to extend daca protections in exchange for wall funding. >> the president said amnesty could be part of a broader deal down the line. do you take him on his word on that? >> no, i don't. >> president trump's lawyer shot down a buzzfeed report that claims the president directed

cohen to lie to lawmakers. >> that was scandalous, it was horrible. they should be under investigation. >> a new migrant caravan has started a trek to the u.s. border. about 2,000 central american migrants crossed into mexico from guatemala. police in england say they had a talk with prince philip after he was photographed driving without a seat belt just two days after a nasty crash. >> the old city hall building imploded in just seconds. >> and all that matters. >> burkhead to the end zone. hello super bowl. new england is heading back again for the third straight year. >> on "cbs this morning." ♪ want a good time afc ♪ wins in overtime baby ♪ now the super bowl ♪ the temperatures were very cold ♪ ♪ but soon they had a super special showdown for you ♪

♪ having a good time >> this morning's eye opener is presented by toyota. plet's go places. >> well, we have a super bowl, right? it's the patriots. >> the patriots were viewed by some as the underdog going into last night's game. >> what a game that was. >> tom brady's enthusiasm. you would think that would be his first super bowl. he's such a little kid when it comes to win like that. i was thinking about you, norah. i almost called you when it was 30 seconds left because i thought this don't look good. never bet against tom brady. >> now tom brady and bill belichick's ninth trip to the super bowl together. >> he still had that boyhood joy. >> i can see why the saints -- there are big signs all over new orleans that say "we were

robbed." still an interesting discussion. >> 41 is not old. but it is cold outside. it was a cold game. 75 million americans are feeling the deep freeze left behind by a deadly winter storm that swept through the midwest and northeast. at least four deaths are blamed weekend. areas of new york state got as much as 20 inches of snow. parts of ohio, pennsylvania and vermont got up to 18 inches. >> temperatures across the northeast this morning are in single digits or below zero. yikes. windchills right here in new york city are just 15 degrees below zero. and listen to this, it's negative 25 in burlington, vermont. we're feeling balmy here. in killington, vermont, with the bitter cold. yes, you need to jump up and down, go ahead. >> reporter: good morning from killington, vermont, where the temperatures are below zero. the windchill factor, well below zero. in fact, we were going to try to go to the peak of the mountain

here in killington but the snow caps freeze. we're here at the base of the ski resort. the temperatures up there are actually much colder. all of this may look pleasant, it may look nice, but this storm from california to new england, is dang russierous and deadly. the storm buried parts of the northeast in snow and ice. in upstate new york, the hudson river froze over. people in glen falls, new york, near the vermont boborder, spen the day digging out. plows could barely keep up with whiteout conditions on interstate 87. in gray, maine, people raced to clear snow before the arctic temps froze everything do a little bit at a time. go back in, warm up. >> reporter: in connecticut -- >> what we're particularly worried about with the icy conditions and what that means to the electric grid. >> reporter: the snow, sleet and freezing rain knocked out power to more than 20,000 buildings.

the utility worker was killed sunday when a tree fell on him while he was trying to restore service. the storm was deadly from its onset. in kansas, a snowplow driver died when his vehicle rolled off the road. it created a scare in chicago when the united states airlines jet slid off the icy runway after landing at o'hare airport. >> next thing you know, off the runway and stuck in snow. >> reporter: in missouri, this 15-car crash on interstate 55, shutting down the road for hours. the effects of the storm reach as far south as alabama. at least six people were hurt in an apparent ef-2 tornado. winds topping 135 miles an hour significantly damage several buildings outside of montgomery. >> it was just shake, shake, shake, shake. you look up and everything's gone. >> reporter: the good news is, the worst of the storm is over. the system has now moved offshore.

for people here in vermont, it's something they heard many times. if they're going to be outside whether walking the dog or skiing, they've got to take a lot of breaks, hhydrate. especially with warm liquids. and go inside to take breaks. back to you guys in the warm 68-degree studio. >> i'm sorry, omar, thank you so much. yes, get inside quickly, thank you. more than a quarter of the country is waking up to temperatures below 10 degrees. lonnie quinn, chief weathercaster of our new york station, show us how long the bitter cold lasts. >> good morning. take a peak here, gang. this is where the real cold air is, depicted by the pink color. temperatures in terms of the thermometer on one side of the map, the right-hand side, i'll show you what it feels like when you fa you factor in the windchill. dayton ohio, feels like 16 below zero. worcester, massachusetts, feels like 32 degrees below zero. and what a departure this is from yesterday. up and down the eastern

seaboard, you are 42 degrees colder today at this time than you were yesterday in norfork. basically up and down the e ea anywhere from 25 to 30 degrees colder today than it was yesterday. this cold air stays in place about 24, maybe 36 hours. on the back side of it, it's warmer in the midsection of the country. we will watch another storm get to chicago tomorrow, maybe north of chicago, you'll see some snowy weather. that will be mostly rain by the time it makes its way to the northeast. john. >> lonnie, thanks. hundreds of passengers on board a united airlines flight were left trapped on the tarmac in canada for more than 15 hours. flight 179 left newark, new jersey, headed to hong kong on saturday. 250 passengers and 15 crew were on board, about three hours into the flight, the plane was diverted to new funland after a emergency. the passenger was taken to the hospital but before the plane could take off, one of the emergency doors malfunctioned in the freezing temperatures.

it happened to be minus 25 with minus 65 degree windchill. >> so with no customs borders officers working overnight, passengers were forced to spend the night on the plane. the plane had heat but only limited snacks. >> the choice of airport i think was very poor. since, you know, the airport was not equipped. >> i think everybody understood that the circumstances -- nobody could really control. >> a second united airlines plane landed in canada around noon on sunday and brought the stranded passengers back to newark. they arrived last night about 27 hours after their original departure. united has apologized and offered the customers refunds, compensation and hotel accommodations. >> big headache for them. meantime, effects are still being felt this morning of the major weekend storm that disrupted travel for millions of americans. more than 1600 flights were canceled yesterday and more than 4,000 were delayed. more than 200 flights are

canceled today. kris van cleave is at bwi thurgood marshall airport near baltimore where the shutdown is affecting travel. kris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. more than 2 million or so people are expected to fly today here at bwi. the airport has had to close one of its checkpoints at times. we notice today, all the checkpoints are open. each checkpoint has several lanes closed that could be screening passengers. this is in part due to excessive callouts. increasingly being blamed on the financial impact of the shutdown. screeners can't afford to come to work for free any longer and it could get worse this week if they are positioned to miss another paycheck on friday if this shutdown goes past wednesday. nationwide, tsa sick calls hit their highest point saturday at 8% of the workforce. almost 94% of the 1.6 million passengers were cleared in 15 minutes or less but the tsa is experiencing acute staffing shortages at major airports in new york, atlanta, chicago and

miami. officers from other airports have been deployed, flown into those cities to back-fill. but the tsa says it is increasingly likely airports across the country we'll see this w lines are closed. it believes the impact will be minimal. the airport is running a food drive for affected workers. gayle. >> all right, kris, thank you. president trump is defending his first concrete proposal for a compromise since the shutdown began. congressional republicans plan to push the plan the president unveiled over the weekend. in it, he offered immigration, concessions and exchange for billions in border wall funding. major garrett is at the white house with why a deal seems like a carole king song, so far away, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. top advisers to president trump warned him last week the negative effects of the nation's longest government shutdown will begin to worsen rapidly starting next week. stressed bureaucracies will begin to buckle.

federal workers and federal contractors will really begin to feel the economic pinch. that prompted the president to offer a compromise. he did not consult with democrats. they rejected it almost immediately. >> i want this to end. it's got to end now. >> the president who once owned the shutdown -- >> i will be the one to shut it down. >> reporter: now wants to sell. >> i am here to break the logjam. >> reporter: federal workers, some turning to food bafnks, fae another round of missed paychecks and the pressure is building. >> both sides in washington must simply come together. >> reporter: the president offered protection from deportation for some refugees and immigrants brought here by their undocumented parents. for three years, that, in exchange for his original $5.7 billion wall funding demand. >> walls are not immoral. >> reporter: the white house wall language is also softening from this campaign roar. >> we're going to build a wall, folks. we have 1,000 miles that we

need. >> reporter: to this downsized description. >> this is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. these are steal barriers in high priority locations. >> reporter: while the white house is usie ining lofty languo sell the deal. >> one of my favorite quotes from dr. king is now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. that's exactly what president trump is calling on the congress to do. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi called the plan a nonstarter. democrats who doubt the president's plan could pass the house or senate appear unwilling to budge. >> offering some of those protections that he took away back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but hostage taking. >> reporter: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will put the president's proposal on the floor along with other bills to reopen the government. that will trcreate a test mode see if this proposal can divide democratic ranks. if it doesn't, the white house

has one of two choice, compromise with democrats further or declare a national emergency. >> all right, major garrett, thanks very much. a new caravan of some 1,800 central americans making its way to the u.s. this morning. they started crossing into mexico from guatemala late last week and continued arriving though the weekend. adriana diaz is in ciudad h hidalgo. >> reporter: a lot of these migrants have been waiting all night on this bridge. they're officially registering with this mexican government. a week ago, the mexican government in anticipation for this latest caravan, institute add new policy where every migrant that declares themselves gets a wrist band. they wait five days while their identity is verified. then they can get a humanitarian visa, allowing them to stay in mexico for a year. now this is a stark contrast to the situation here in october, when the last major caravan

passed. that caravan had more than 7,000 people and it clashed with police on this very bridge. the bridge was so packed, people even jumped off to swim to mexico. roughly 2,600 people were arrested by u.s. border patrol trying to cross into the u.s. illegally. about 1,300 returned to their home countries. fewer than 700 remain at the border with the u.s. in tijuana, trying to seek asylum. the folks we've spoken to this morning said they heard about this caravan on facebook. a lot of them even with the humanitarian visas to stay in mexico still want to try to get to the u.s. one father actually asked me if he'd be allowed in if he went with his children. >> all right, adriana, thank you. a pair of dramatic overtime wins has set up a super bowl rematch. the new england patriots and the los angeles rams are headed to atlanta for liii. new england beat the kansas

chiefs yesterday to advance to their third super bowl in a row and the rams stunned the new orleans saints thanks to a controversial late game call. the front page of the times picyune, "reefing unbelievable." i'm never seen anything like it, two overtime games. >> i don't know how anybody fell asleep during that second one. it was epic yesterday on sunday. both games ending in overtime for the first time in nfl history. and once again it will be 41-year-old tom brady aiming for, now, his sixth super bowl title. the most of any player ever. he's going to have to go through the rams, who areus pion trophy. >> to burkhead. to the end zone. hello, super bowl. >> reporter: tom brady, bill belichick and the new england patriots proved once again experience matters.

slamming the door on the up and coming kansas city chiefs. it was a shootout against kansas city's young gun quarterback pat track mahome also who led a late drive to send the game to overtime but couldn't stop tom brady. >> had no quit. playing our best football. i don't know, man, i'm tired this was a hell of a game. >> reporter: over in new orleans, a controversy no call helped the rams win a nail biter. >> pass is incomplete. crowd's going crazy. there's no flag right on the saints sideline. >> reporter: that missed pass entire fearance penalty should have put the saints in position to march to atlanta. >> for a call like that not to swallow. >> reporter: instead it breathes new life into the city of angels. even the man at the center of the controversial play was surprised by the call. >> when i seen his hands go up and i hit him, injust heard the wa fla ahey zy and i incomplete. >> reporter: doesn't matter to

the ram, playing for a city devastated by deadly wildfires and a mass shooting. >> i think they'll use this win for momentum. i think it's going to be a team america will root for. >> reporter: this is going to be the ninth time brady and belichick have made the super bowl since 2002. that year, they were the heavy underdogs against the then st. louis rams. they came out on top, thanks to a last-minute drive by a 24-year-old tom brady. that game helped launch the patriots nearly two decade dynasty. it's unclear how much rams quarterback jared goff would remember from that game. he was just 7 years old at the time, norah. >> their coach was only 16 years old at the time. >> exactly. >> imagine. dana, thank you. you can catch super bowl liii and all the pregame festivities right here on, where, cbs. >> we'll all be watching. >> sunday february 3rd.

>> a rare and fiery red celestial body in the sky l good monday morning. we are going to see plenty of sunshine. the seasonal daytime highs middle to upper 50s. so this is just the start. and we are going to warm-up every single day. and that is some of the warmer inland spots. and we still see that sunshine for the weekend.

we have much more news ahead. r. kelly faces new fallout over sexual misconduct allegations as the singer is dropped by his record label. ahead, the first woman to publicly accuse r. kelly opens up about her fight to protect her then-underage niece. plus, a teenager who

encountered a native american activist during a protest on the national mall is speaking out. why he says people angry with him and his classmates are wrong. and new questions about whether 97-year-old prince philip should be behind the wheel after a crash -- i don't know. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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♪ wow. billions of people from north and south america to western europe had the chance to witness a rare event in the sky overnight. a total lunar eclipse made the moon turn a bright, coppery red. it also happened to be a super moon meaning it was especially close to the earth. the first full moon in january is known as a wolf moon. all those factors combined. last night's event was labeled a super blood wolf moon. sky watchers captured the large fiery moon as it slowly moved through the earth's shadow. in case you missed it last night because you were sleeping, we've got it on "cbs morning news." incredible event. >> i missed it because it meant

getting out of bed and walking ten steps to the window. >> the instagram feed. >> see you in the morning. >> as cold as it was last night, just being close to the window was dangerous. >> it was very cold. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here are three things you should know this morning -- overnight, the israeli military launched air strikes on iranian military targets in syria amid new tensions in the region. witnesses say the explosions lasted for one hour. it came hours after israel carried out a rare daylight air raid near the damascus airport targeting iranian munition and military sites. the syrian military said it shot down most of israel's missiles before they reached their targets. facebook is launching a new tool for users in the u.s. today. it will allow you to post and sign online petitions for social causes directly on your news feed. the community actions feature also lets users tag relevant officials and organizations, create fund-raisers, and

organize events.soorryew platfon be used by militias actors to spread disinformation. facebook says it's using a combination of user monitoring, algorithms, and human enforcers to manage the feature. and a restaurant owned by rock star john bon jovi is offering free lunch to furloughed federal workers and their families today. jbj soul kitchen in red bank, new jersey, says free meals may also be offered in the future based on turnout and demand. bon jovi and his wife say they hoe to create a place of support and resources for the furloughed employees. members of the rock group kiss also announced tsa workers nationwide can eat at their restaurant chain, rock and brews, for free. new volley reveals a -- new view reveals a more complicated video of a confrontation between high schoolers and a native american elder that triggered outrage. it happened at the lincoln memorial in washington. the video appeared on s

we're lrning there's more to this than the first videothts rticipated i march ling near the lincoln memorial just as a rally for indigenous peoples was wrapping up nearby. that first video which took off on line appeared to show what people thought was the group of students instigating some kind of threatening encounter. new video tells a different story. ♪ this viral video of high school boys surrounding native american activist nathan phillips who stoically beat his drum caused outrage. a different video surfaced sunday that shows what happened before the encounter. >> you dirty [ bleep ] your day coming. your day coming. >> reporter: when a radical c hebrew israelites taunted the boys for more than an hour with racist and homophobic abuse.

>> a bunch of child molesters [ bleep ] -- >> you could hear the black hebrew israeliites shouting things -- >> racist things at the white people. and the white people -- they were shouting racist things back at the black hue brebrews. >> reporter: phillips couldn't be specific about what the boys shouted. so far no video evidence has emerged. >> i took the drum and was hitting the drum, you know. it was a call to prayer. i'll put myself in prayer. >> reporter: it was phillips who approached the boys, not as it first appeared the other way around. he walked among the group as they appeared to chant to his drumbeats. phillips said he believed he had to do something to protect the black israelites group from the boys. some of whom wore "make america great again" hats. >> the students, they're starting to get this mob mentality. >> reporter: what did you see that made you think it was a mob

mentality? >> well, over 100 individuals, and all of them just hollering things out together. >> reporter: a parent of one of the students told cbs news the boys were told not to engage, and instead were doing high school chants. student nick sandmann said the boys did not shout racial epithets. sand mann was shown in the first video standing close to phillips as phillips continues to beat his drum. in a statement, sandmann said he never interacted with phillips. to be honest, i was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. we had already been yelled at by another group of protesters, and when the second group approached, i was worried that a situation of getting out of control. reporte parent jim wilson says he tried to defuse the situation. >> they were curious of the men. i got in between those men and the boys and pushed the boys back. eventually i could get eight or -- eight to ten of the boys that knew me, and i said we need get out of here. >> reporter: now school

officials had issued an immediate apology and said they'll take appropriate action up to and including expulsion. that was, of course, before all the other videos emerged. parents say students have received death threats. >> it shows the real world we live in of viral videos, right, and people jumping to conclusions without knowing the full story. i'm not saying that once we know the full story that these boys are proven to be right or the native americans proven to be right, but it just -- the lesson learned is get the full story. >> find out what's going on. all the videos are disturbing on all sides. everything i see. just very upsetting to me. >> yeah. restraint in the in a moment and restraint in reacting to the videos. >> exactly. the first woman to publicly accuse r. kelly of semiconductor -- of sexual misconduct is speaking to us. how she became concerned when her 14-year-old niece started spending time alone with the r&b artist and what she wants to happen now. if you're on the go, hear the top stories and what's

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an adviser to the controversial singer r. kelly claims multiple record labels are interested inki w him after he was dropped by rca records. don russell told "rolling stone" magazine, quote, i think he's outgone rca, he's ready for the next level of life anyway. protesters demanded that rca ditch the r&b legend after the docuseries "surviving r. kelly" detailed years of sexual abuse allegations. jericka duncan spoke with the first woman to publicly accuse kelly of misconduct. >> reporter: in 2002, the singer sparkle whose real name is stephanie edwards claimed her niece was the underage girl in that infamous sex video featuring r. kelly. although a jury acquitted r. kelly, "surviving r. kelly" credits spark well being one of the first to shine a light on some of his alleged abuse. ♪ you better be careful what you say to me ♪ >> reporter: in 1998, "be

careful," sparkle's duet with r hip-hop song for six weeks. ♪ now you don't even respect me ♪ >> reporter: about four years later, their professional relationship crumbled amid accusations kelly was sexually abusing sparkle's then-14-year-old niece. >> i was the first person who spoke up and out against him and did it alone. >> reporter: sparkle says she initially wanted kelly to help her niece become a rap artist. >> didn't just throw my niece to the wolves. i introduced my entire family to robert. not just my niece. my sister and my brother-in-law brought her down to the studio. >> reporter: you talk about in the docuseries filing guilty to the point where you choked up and cried. >> i should have never introduced them -- >> reporter: why do you still ? responsible for -- for the introduction. >> reporter: she says she became concerned when her niece started showing up at kelly's studio unaccompanied. sparkle claims she even called

child protective services. her worst fears, she says, were confirmed when she saw a video of what she believed was kelly and her niece engaged in a sex act. >> a guy comes over, he shows me the first few seconds of the tape. it's her. i don't need to see anymore. >> reporter: sparkle was the key prosecution witness at kelly's trial for child pornography, but her niece, her sister, and her brother-in-law who had become kelly's guitarist, refused to testify. kelly was acquitted in 2008. >> i was kind of ostracized, if you will -- >> reporter: from your family. >> yeah. >> reporter: is it your understanding that people in your family settled or had some sort of agreement with r. kelly? >> i don't know if any money was exchanged, you know, from robert to them, to shut up or if they signed something. i don't know. if he threatened them, i don't know anything. they're not talking. >> reporter: you're not sure if your niece is with r. kelly. are you concerned about her

safety if you think she still interacts with him on some level? >> of course i am because mentally the girls -- he's got them brainwashed. i'm really scared of that. >> reporter: r. kelly's attorney, steve greenberg, told cbs news sparkle's names were absurd, "sparkle is using her rejected allegations to try to jump-start her treat. it is beyond transparent." how much of the me too movement played in your decision to speak out? >> i wish they were along for the ride way back when in 2001 when i came up. i feel sometimes that black wohesame, you know, notoriety or interaction so to speak as our white counterparts. and i wanted that to change. >> reporter: what do you think's so different with -- different culturally now? >> they're believing more, listening more. >> reporter: what's next? >> i don't know what's next, but i hope that robert gets help. he really needs to get help. and then they can send him off

to jail. >> reporter: sparkle released a new single titled "we are ready" around the time the lifetime docuseries began airing. in it she sings about her she was no longer suffer in silence. r. kelly has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and no new criminal charges have been filed against him. norah? >> all right. thank you so much. up next, a look at the other headlines including an emotional win for an american tennis player at the good monday morning. and beautiful weather on this holiday. plenty of sunshine is the daytime high right around where he should be. and as high pressure building, every single day this week temperatures and land, some of our warmer spots stopping at 70 on friday with plenty of sunshine as well.

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the new information comes from rudy giuliani's interview with the "times" yesterday. it means mr. trump was seeking a deal with moscow at the time he was calling for an end to economic sanctions against russia. giuliani later said he was merely allowing for the possibility that the president and his former personal attorney michael cohen could have discussed the moscow project through the election. he said no notes indicated specific conversations about russia. "reuters" reports mexico's new government is under scrutiny after a pipeline exploded friday killing at least 85 people. the country's security minister says the state oil firm knew the pipeline was leaking, but did not act for about four hours. hundreds of people were at the pipeline with plastic jugs collecting free gasoline. mexico is facing nationwide fuel shortages as the government shuts down pipelines to stem widespread gas theft. the "washington post" reports american tennis player frances tiafoe is headed to his first grand slam quarterfinal to face rafael nadal in the

australian open. that's after his upset win yesterday over number 20 seeded grigor dimitrov of bulgaria. his victory came on his 21st birthday -- happy birthday to you. brought to mind his immigrant parents from sierra leone. >> i told my parents ten years ago i was going to be a pro. you know, i was going to do this, i was going change their life and my life. now i'm in the slam and 21 now. i can't believe it, man. >> believe it, man. he faces nadal tomorrow. when he was 16 years old, he was invited to practice with nadal during the 2014 french open. he needs to do the ten-year challenge. he said ten years ago he was going to the grand slam. here he is. >> happy for him. athis twin brother -- >> he has a twin? nice. ahead, a woman injured in a crash with britain's prince philip wants him held accountable. ahead in a new interview, how she says the 97-year-old member

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welcome back. we have good news. traffic alert along the 680 has been cleared out. all lanes are open and look at that, traffic so no delays. 684 that commute. they live look here, very quiet. not a lot of folks on the roadway. and, travel time on the san mateo bridge is only about 30 minutes as you work away from 880 over towards the 101. a beautiful day ahead on this holiday as we honor and celebrate doctor martin luther king. seasonal highs, middle to upper 50s and that sunshine will continue over the next days as a high pressure building. we will have a big warm-up. and, near 70s inland, and that sunshine to the weekend as well.

♪ ♪ one day when the glory comes >> john legend, good morning to our views in the west. it's monday, january 21st, 2019. welcome back to "cbs this morning." today the nation honors the legacy of civil rights leader martin luther king jr. how some americans are being shut out of celebrations by the government shutdown. plus, "wonder woman" director patty jenkins will be here with a report on an unsolved murder. >> 75 million americans are feeling the effects of the effects of a deadly winter storm. >> the temperatures are below zero. the windchill factor well below zero. >> up and down the seaboard here on the east coast, we're anywhere from 25 to 45 degrees

colder today than it was yesterday. >> excessive callouts and frequently being blamed on the financial impact of the time longer. >> advisers told president trump the negative effects of the shutdown will begin to worsen rapidly starting next week. >> a lot of migrants have been waiting all night on this bridge. what they are doing is officially registering with the mexican government. >> it was epic yesterday. both games ending in overtime, and once again it will be 41-year-old tom brady aiming now for his sixth super bowl title, the most of any player ever. >> tom brady put the patriots on his shoulders and marched them down the field which couldn't have been hard because he has gigantic shoulders. look at that. doesn't look like a quarterback. he looks like he's in a kanye video. that's why i call him fun tom square pants. >> it is a big coat.

>> yeah. >> it was a funny visual last night on the sidelines. >> what an exciting set of games yert yesterday. >> are you still floating? >> i'm still floating. >> hard to get to bad last night. >> i understand. >> you're not the only one. >> everybody played well. they really did. >> an exciting match to come. >> that's true. >> super bowl coming up. i'm norah owed dell, a patriots fan with john dickerson, gayle king and bianna golodryga. 75 millions americans are waking up to extreme cold this morning. a windchill advisory is in effect from indiana to new hampshire and as far south as northern georgia. the national weather service warns that life-threatening windchills could push temperatures as low as negative 35 degrees in new england. >> and at least four people win storm slammed the midwest and northeast with heavy snow and high winds over the weekend. bitterly cold temperatures are creating dangerous icy conditions and slick roads. more than 4,000 flights have been cancelled since friday.

parts of the northeast could end up with nearly two feet of snow. >> this is day 31 of the partial government shutdown, and federal workers facing critical end of the month bills, preparing to miss another paycheck. real estate website zillow estimates unpaid workers over $438 million in rent and mortgages this month alone. tsa sick calls hit a record high of 8 boston on saturday. that compares to 3% a year ago. more than 50,000 tsa workers are working now without pay. overnight president trump thanked furloughed workers calling them great patriots and pushed for a border wall deal. the president's latest proposal includes three years of deportation protections for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for $5.7 billion and border wall funding. house speaker nancy pelosi insists democrats will not negotiate until the government is reopened and federal workers are paid. the republican-controlled senate is expected to vote on a bill

this week. >> senator kamala harris announced this morning she's entering the 2020 presidential ration she released an official campaieo detaili her supporters to join her at a kickoff rally in her hometown of oakland next sunday. ed o'keefe is on capitol hill. ed, good morning. another woman joining the race. >> reporter: yet another, norah. good morning. harris is bypassing the exploratory phase and jumping right in becoming an official candidate. today the 54-year-old senator was elected to the senate in 2016 and is the former attorney general of california and district attorney of san francisco. in that role she fought to legalize same-sex marriage. harris made headlines during supreme court justice brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearings for questions about the ongoing russia investigation and abortion rights, and show's probably best known up here on capitol hill for that type of tough questioning of witnesses as a member of the judiciary and intelligence committees. she's now the third female

senator to jump into the presidential race joining elizabeth warren of massachusetts and kirsten gillibrand of new york. on this martin luther king jr. day, she is the first black candidate to enter the 2020 democratic race, but harris is also indian-american on her mother's side. the first indian-american elected to the senate, and her decision to join the race just proves again that the democratic field in 2020 is going to be unlike any we've ever seen. john? >> it sure is, ed. it's quite crowded, indeed. thanks, ed. a passenger injured in a car crash with britain's prince philip last week says he still has not apologized to her directly. police spoke to queen elizabeth husband over the weekend after photos surfaced showing him driving without a seat belt just two days after that crash. polly williams is outside buckingham palace. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. when 97-year-old prince philip was involved in a fairly minor car accident last week reportedly suffering cuts, the

public's response was concern, but now much of that sympathy has evaporated because of what the prince has and has not done since the crash. >> i was also in a car that was rapidly filling with smoke and i was panicking. >> reporter: emma fairweather was a passenger in the car that collided with prince philip's land rover as he pulled on to a road near a royal estate last thursday. she suffered a broken wrist, and she's upset she still hasn't heard directly from the prince. appearing on british tv shows this morning, she said he should be prosecuted if he's found to be at fault. >> there needs to be a decision as to whether prince philip and i are from the same walk of life here or not. we either receive the same treatment or we don't. i feel that his treatment, his experience probably hasn't been the same as mine she she said she did receive a voice mail from one of the queen's ladies in waiting sending, quote, good wishes, but making matters worse the prince was pictured 48 hours

after the accident behind the wheel of a replacement land rover not wearing a seat belt. the police gave him some, quote, suitable words of advice. >> highly insensitive and inconsiderate towards me and everybody involved. >> is it actually a public relations disaster? >> yes. >> reporter: this royal correspondent says the prince's actions after the accident were arrogant. >> and actually i think people have been surprised by how insensitive his behavior in this instance has been. >> reporter: in more than 70 years of public life, prince philip has become famous for sometimes inappropriate remarks that have also embarrassed the royal family. gayle? >> seems like they got some splaining to do over at the palace today. lots of questions over there, but i love that the prince was given suitable words of advice. >> can you imagine what that exchange was like. >> imagine what that means. >> holly, thank you very much. today the nation is remembering the life of dr. martin luther king jr.

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hear that speech because we know how it's going to end. today millions of americans are celebrating the life of dr. martin luther king jr. the holiday is observed every third monday in january. this year it falls just days after the 90th birthday of the iconic civil rights leader. 90. it also comes at a time when some lawmakers say the political drama unfolding in washington clashes with dr. king's vision. "cbs morning saturday" co-host michelle miller is here with how the partial government shutdown is affecting mlk day celebrations. the shutdown affects many things you don't even think about right away. it's more than just 800,000 people not getting paid. hello, michelle. >> good morning. >> the impact goes on and on and on. >> many sites often visited to commemorate dr. king are closed today because of the partial government shutdown. the martin luther king jr. national historic park in atlanta was set to be closed. on thursday, private funding came through to open it up. hundreds braved the elements in atlanta this weekend to pay

homage to the father of the modern-day civil rights movement. >> rain, snow, i would have came. >> reporter: sheilah thompson came all the way from connecticut. >> we cannot tolerate it any longer. the cup of endurance has run over. >> like i can see him talking. right in the room, he's right here with you. >> you shall reap what you sow. >> i wish i could have seen him in person. he was a great man. he did a lot. not just for black people. he did a lot for everybody. >> reporter: holly johnson and her friends drove five hours from florida here. they learned the center was only openorek d if t wouav closed it upset. like period. it's his week, his day. we need to learn about his history and what dr. king did for us. >> reporter: others aren't as lucky. some sites in alabama and

washington, d.c., that celebrate dr. king and the civil rights movement remain closed leaving visitors like kate kahn disappointed on this holiday weekend. >> after my women's march, i wanted to specifically come to the african-american museum here. especially this weekend. like open it up. just pay for it. just figure it out. this is why we're all here. >> reporter: decue king came from boston with a busload of international students. hea >> heard about dr. king. they want to follow up on history, but flay cannot. >> may it drive us back to the vision derivative king -- >> reporter: that concerns the reverend raphael warnock who now presides over ebenezer baptist church in atlanta where king co-pastored with his father. >> a deep irony that the place that houses the spiritual and moral legacy of the great unifier has been closed down over the last few days because volunteers, reverend warnock

spent the weekend trying to ease the financial hardship the shutdown has brought to so many federal workers in his community. >> we have a president who has shut the government down in order to build a wall. so we ought to think about that as we go into this weekend celebrating the life and the legacy of martin luther king jr. >> i come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour -- >> he spent his whole life speaking out against the triple evils of racism, poverty, and war. those evils are still with us. in a moment like this, we need people of faith and moral courage to stand up. >> one of the florida women in to see visitors of all nationalities celebrate mlk's legacy at the historic park. dr. king fought for everyone's . she felt united going to the museum with them. we should say, you know, i've heard people say, you know, we don't celebrate this holiday. this holiday isn't for us.

it is for everyone. american and every person in this entire world. >> and known as the civil rights figure but opposed the war in vietnam. i mean, in many ways was a larger figure even than that in terms of a peaceful movement. >> he believed in humanity. >> that's the beauty of the speech. in 1963, he wraps the whole country together, and african-americans' place in it or not place in it as he makes the case. it's clear that it's for the country. >> to be reminded today. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> very nice perspective. >> thank you. >> the african-american museum was ocean open -- was open in washington. a newly formed track and field team has the pope's thikynershasing competition.ead olympic glory at their first race y. some are saying godspeed to this team. you're watching "cbs this morning.

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sights on the olympics after launching its own track and field team this month. the roughly 60 athletes include priests and those who work in thvatican's museums and pharmacy. the team had its first race yesterday morning, and seth doane was there to see them run. >> reporter: they pose in front of the starting line as many teams would. being vatican catholics and with their captain a monsignor, they also prayed. >> amen. >> reporter: they joined about 8,000 runners outside rome's olympic stadium for sunday's 10k, lacing up, a nun, and stretching, a member of the pope's army. little bit of rain not ideal. >> i think for me, that's an advantage because -- >> reporter: thierry roch is a the pope. they carry on a 500-year tradition often standing perfectly still while on guard.

>> you are all the time in the same place. you don't move. >> reporter: it's a relief to go running. >> yeah, exactly. >> reporter: and as roch and some teammates demonstrated, the vatican offers some rather spectacular training grounds. >> for me running is a form of prayer. >> reporter: sister marie theo is from france. the swiss guard said that you were the best on the team. >> no. it's not true. i am the best of nun -- >> reporter: the unlikely team blended in with the thousands of runners. while there were no medals sunday, for vatican athletics, the race was a milestone. for "cbs this morning," seth doane, rome. >> had habit also serves as a good windbreaker, too, right? multipurpose. >> who ? >> who knew? i love that

senator kamala harris is officially this is a kpix 5 morning update. >> good morning, everyone. it is 8:25. i am michelle griego. senator kemal harris is running for president in 2020. she made the announcement on social media this morning. construction for the brrr extension start today with delays between market and third street. car break-ins in san mateo has neighbors on high alert with cases like this to be solved in the past. we will have news updates throughout the day on your favorite platforms, including our website at www.kpix.com.

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taking a look at the roadways right now, we have a c your way southbound blocking one lane with traffic slow but overall, it is very light if you are going northbound near the coliseum. we do have an accident reported on the 87 connector with one lane blocked . here is a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza with no troubles at of oakland because of dr. martin luther king, jr. day . there is a live look at the golden gate bridge traffic is very light into san francisco

. >> thank you. it is a beautiful day ahead as we celebrate dr. martin luther king, jr. you can see all of the sunshine over the golden gate. here is what you can expect. plenty of sunshine and the upper 50s on this holiday. through the week high pressure builds in we will see plenty of sunshine all week long looking at temperatures warming up pretty much every day this week . the locations that are warmer top of near 70 degrees on friday with plenty of sun for the weekend as well. have a great day.

♪ thunder, f ♪ thunder be the thunder ♪ lightning and the thunder welcome back to cbs this morning. it's time the show you the headlines. the hill reports news website buzz feed is standing by an explosive story we told you about last week. it claimed it had documentary proof president trump ordered michael cohen to lie to congress about talks to open amp tobud reporter anthony cormi re who contributed to the piece is defending the piece as solid and accurate. unprecedented pushback from special counsel robert mueller's office who said the story was not accurate. the editor in chief said he's eager to get more details from the special counsel's office on what portions of the story it's disputing as inaccurate. the world's 26 richest

people own as much as the poorest 50%. the charity auction said in 2018 the wealth of the very richest around the world increased 12%. the wealth of the poorest half of the world's population fell 11%. a 1% wealth tax is recommended to raise money for education and health care to help millions of people. cbs jacksonville florida affiliate, wjax, reports on the implosion of the old city hall annex, it took less than a minute to bring down the 60-year-old building yesterday. it's fascinating to me how they do that. the planned implosion caused a huge dust cloud as you might imagine. it apparently shattered windows at a nearby building. the annex was destroyed to make room for future development in downtown jacksonville. the associated press says olympic gold medalist lindsey vonn may be in too much pain to keep skiing, the 34-year-old american surgically repaired knees let her down again over

the weekend while she raced in italy. she missed a gate and failed to finish a world cup super-g event. she was planning to retire in december but she says she may leave immediately. she needs five more wins to break the all-time world cup record. a reporter was living in tehran when he was arrested back in 2014. his detention prompted a 544 day effort to free the iranian-american. >> one of its reporters working in iran is apermanently being detained. >> for nine months jason has been prisoned in tehran for nothing more than writing about the hopes and fears of the iranian people. >> no evidence has been produced, and many people both here and in the u.s. think he's simply a pawn of hardliners who want to derail the nuclear talks and destroy any chance of better relations with america.

>> he's very tired. he's very isolated. >> these things keep oncoming up, all these milestones, when it's the u.n. general assembly or the nuclear deal, all these things come and he gets his hopes up something will map, and then nothing happens. >> a year and a half after he's first locked up, he was finally reunited with his wife, mother and brother. >> my interrogators told me "the washington post" did not exist, that no one knew of my plight and that the united states government would not lift a finger for my release. today i'm here in this room with the very people who helped prove the iranians wrong in so many ways. >> he writes about his experience, called "prisoner." we welcome you to the table. your book iswhat y went through. you and your wife are going down the elevator, the doors open,

there's a guy standing there with a gun and before you know it you're accused of having an affair with a polish ambassador's wife, that your marriage and a cia plot and you're doing something with avocados. blew me away. i never thought about off kw avocados and nefarious in the same sentence. >> it was irrational. none of them held any water. that's the gist of it. >> talk about how the lunacy of the avocado story, that's what kicked this all off for you. >> i started a kick starter project on the crowd funding site several years previous to my arrest. and literally in my first interrogation i'm blindfolded, there are many, many people in the room. and this voice keeps telling me, we know that the avocado is a front for some other kind of project. we just don't know what it is.

tell us what it is. and i'm, you know, at that point, i filnko myself, it can't be about this. >> why do you believe that you were arrested and jailed and held for so many days in solitary confinement? >> i think it had a lot more to do with the fact i was an american, working for an american news organization, during a time of very sensitive negotiations between iran and world powers. there were forces inside the iranian regime that didn't want to see those negotiations come to a conclusion. and so they were doing everything they could to throw rocks at it. i was one of those victims. >> right, were you concerned about your safety, though, going in? we should note you are an expert. your father is from iran. your mother is american. you speak the language. you were at the bureau chief. were you concerned of this scenario taking praylace? >> over the years, i've been working in iran with full

permission, it's the sort of country where you can't go and report from if you don't have state permission. i'd been working there for five years. lly the day we were arrested, july 22nd, 2014, my wife and i, she's also a journalist, had our accreditations extended for another year on top of what we had. you know, at various points in those five years that i worked there, yes, i was concerned about things that were going on in the streets and around us. but i had gotten to that point where i had been living in this society for so long, knew the rules, played by the rules, and this still happened to me. >> it's amazing to have you here and watch you talking. so that's just a blessing. but victor frankel, the famous writer about the concentration camps said he who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow. what was the why for you? >> well, first and foremost, being reunited with my wife. we had the good fortune of her being in iran as well. and after several months, and the raising of awareness around my case, i was given the

opportunity to see her from time to time. and she was, you know, real fuel of that hope, you know, and she was the one that was telling me, hey, you're never going to plead guilty. you didn't do anything wrong. we're going to get out of this. and, you know, we -- i think we supported each other through a really tough process. and knowing that the rest of the world was really behind us helped immeasurably. >> thank goodness for your brother and your mom. he was really the true champion. >> oh, yes. >> you had many true champions, but he kept your name out there. people here, well, you know, you weren't physically tortured, so how bad could it have been? i really want people to understand exactly how bad it was and what you went through. >> from the first night, gayle, they were telling me we're going to cut your head off. >> we're going to behead you, yeah. >> over the ensuing days, when you're in solitary confinement, you're blocked off from all reality. they were telling me that it had been already reported that we

died in a car accident, that nobody cares, that the story has already blown over, there is no story. it wasn't until many weeks later that i realized, oh, actually there are people doing a great deal to raise the awareness around our plight and also probably behind the scenes a lot going on as well. i couldn't know what those things were. >> but when it was over, jason, you hugged your interrogator, i'm surprised at that. >> look, maintaining your humanity, gayle, is the most important thing you can do in life. if you let go of that, what else do you have? >> what is your message to the familis of at least six americans who are either missing or still detained in iran right now? >> my message to them is that my great hope is that they will be reunited with their loved ones, iran has a very long history of doing this to foreign nationals, started 40 years ago with 52 american diplomats who were taken hostage and held for 444 days. this thing didn't start with me. it didn't end with me. thistry of takossn.

but my hope is that they'll be reunited. i hope that the trump administration does a lot more than they have been doing to bring these people home. >> your family really put a lot of pressure, i interviewed your brother, really championed for your release. >> you know, it requires a major effortpy your family, your employers and the u.s. government. >> great to have you. >> thank you so much. >> and great to meet your wife, glad you're reunited. >> thank you. >> "prisoner" goes on sale tomorrow. up next, patty jenkins received wide praise for her hit movie "wonder woman," the

put this on our backs and when i say go, lift hard. diana, shield. go. >> oh, god. director patty jenkins reach new heights in 2017 with her record breaking film "wonder woman." she became the first woman to direct a major super hero film. "wonder woman" made more than

$800 million worldwide say box office. jenkins is back in the director's chair with a new mini series "i am the night," searchi searching for the truth about her background and in the process finds a surprising connection to abinfamous insolved murder. it reunites skren kins with chris pine, whose search for a story draws him into the young woman's search for her family. >> tomorrow morning, city morgue early, there's a press conference, girl got hacked, might be interesting. cop says the body was, and i quote, really something. janice brewster, give me some photos, might be something real and see what i can do. a little more eloquent that be really something. >> another stupid about nothing, it will change nothing, and nobody cares. >> that's the gig. you above it? >> no, i'm down. >> great.

>> you're welcome. >> i love you. >> jenkins executive produced i am the night and directed the first two episodes, welcome. >> thank you. >> you did care, you did care about the story. what attracted you to that story? >> it's such an interesting because it has so many dark things about it. but, you know, we were talking about the fact that what are we doing? we tell stories. why do we tell stories? well, we sat around the campfire and told them for years. in my entire life i had never heard a story like this. and so when i first heard this story i -- >> you're sitting there sitting meat, what do you do? >> i have a baby, like i'm trying to do other things besides dark material. and a friend of mine said you fowhatever reason i went on that and did. and as she's talking, oh, great, you know, i was born a young black girl in reno, nevada, very poor. then she starts to unfold her story.

and then i found out that i was adopted, and she goes to los angeles to find her true story and literally, like, i couldn't believe what i was hearing. and it keeps going. it's like it unfolds and you're like, what, what, what? and i went home and got on the internet and started looking into it and didn't stop for days. but was so rocked by the story that i was like, overwhelmed with how dark it was. but the shining light of the entire story that i couldn't stop thinking about was this happy, beautiful, positive woman who was telling me the scariest thing i've ever heard and the hardest thing to believe about your identity, but yet she said i'm okay with it. >> because she thought she was black, but she wasn't actually black. so you have the black white issue going on there, a big murder case going on at the same time. so you get a great screen writer, your hu part of the dialogue says some stories you can't tell, some stories don't want to be told

and some stories will eat you alive. that is what happened with this particular story. >> this was. people have tried -- >> haunting story. >> for me, first of all -- >> what is the story exactly, patty? >> the real story is this woman's identity, she was hidden away for a very specific reason, once you started to unfold what her identity was, it led to a mountain of very dark secrets that no one could find out. >> and one of the things is a connection to the black valium murder which seized the country in 1947, explain that connection. that's, it's own incredible -- >> it's only one of the things. so it's one of the -- it's the biggest. but it really does, like -- it leads to the person who i believe wholeheartedly was the black dalia killer. as many times as i heard that story, i could never grasp the why. as soon as i heard the story, i said, oh, my, that makes perfect sense, this is the person who does it and that's why.

it's so frighteningly scary. >> you even told them listen, i'm working on "wonder woman" give this story to someone else, but they kept coming back to you, because they thought you would do their mother's story justice. >> we became really good friends. i tried to get it made a long time ago. but no one was making limited series much yet. and then when i was particularly doing "wonder woman" her story started to heat up and i was sawing fawna, don't wait for me, do your story with someone else, i'll help you do your deal or whatever. i don't care -- >> she said chris pine. >> i only told chris pine the story as a friend. i told him the story, and he said you have got to tell that story. i said, well -- and i went home and i started talking to my husband who happens to be like the most prolific reader and a great writer in the genre. all of a sudden sam said, wait a minute, there were all of these male characters that were in the periphery of that story that you

would need to represent. what if we told it with both of those characters? >> hard to keep sam in line as your husband and the director? you're all still together, i think. >> running out of time. when's the next "wonder woman"? ? >> july of 2020. >> "i am the night" premieres on monday, extended interviews and original content on our podcasts, wherever you like to download your podcasts. you're watching what's better than having fast, reliable wifi

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