for the biggest storm ever. we have snowflakes falling from wisconsin to utah. here's how the storm is going to progress. you get to thursday morning. you're getting pummeled with snow, in south dakota and nebraska, as well. you get into thursday afternoon, you have the snow in minneapolis, turning over to complete for y sleet for you. not until later friday will this dissipate and start to move out. you heard around watertown they could be getting a foot to two feet. that's in pink. and portions of nebraska, as well. that area in blue, that's a foot or so. this is a big storm. this is not just about the snow. wind alerts spreadle 1,600

miles. a huge temperature swing. pratt, kansas, 88. tomorrow morning, 35 degrees. is it going to be a record-setter? it might be. >> as the storm moves on, downpours at the masters tournament on sunday, right? >> this will be a problem for the weekend at >> thank you very much. the pentagon has released the names of three marines killed in a bombing in afghanistan. robert hendricks was 25 years old. benjamin hines was 31. we told you about christopher slutman last night. he is now in charge of immigration enforcement. president trump says he plans to send more troops to the southern

border after hearing complaints of the surge of migrants crossing into the u.s. mar maria traveled to brownsville, texas, to see the crisis firsthand. >> reporter: the latest migrants have been dropped here by border agents. some with no place to go. >> they have the clothes on their back. >> reporter: there's a lot of families here. most show up without food, money or clothes. this is one of the volunteers that tries to help. >> there's water, juice and snacks. this gets them through the day. >> how long has it been like this? >> about 2 1/2 weeks. >> reporter: it's been a steady stream. last month, customs reported 92,000 people apprehended crossing illegally. 8,900 of them are children.

it's a picture that trump has painted. he did it again today. >> dangerous people are coming here. and the good people are dying. >> reporter: but brownsville's mayor says that the president's continuing threat to close the border, and traffic, are briandibriand i grinding commerce to a standstill. >> how do we alleviate why they are coming here? >> reporter: with detention centers overcrowded, some released with nowhere to go, end up in the care of people like jack white. >> there needs to be unity in the way we envision a refugee program. >> reporter: white runs a shelter for migrants who have crossed the border. >> what we are doing here is a

challenge. but will we handle more? if we're asked, we will. >> reporter: the flood of illegal immigrants shows no sign of receding. cameras capture another group, waiting for border agents who have nowhere to send them. sources tell me the contractor who set up that tent city was asked to set up shelters along the border to deal with this influx. they have declined that offer. jeff, we have confirmed the military personnel along the border will be helping with llos and military personnel. >> maria, thank you very much. coming up next, congress demands answers from drug companies over the growing cost of insulin.

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insulin. one study says it has doubled in five years, forcing some diabetics to ration the drug. anna warner has more on our series "your money, your health." >> no one should be rationing insulin. >> and they do every day. >> reporter: drug manufacturers and industry reps were grilled on the sky-high price of insulin. >> being here for a couple of minutes, how frustrating it is to watch everyone do this. >> reporter: some studies say the underuse of insulin could affect 40 million people with diabetes by 2040. >> i wouldn't live to see another week. >> reporter: 28-year-old kristen whitney daniels started rationing her insulin when she was kicked off of her parents' insurance plan two years ago. >> i can't explain how isolating and terrifying it is.

>> reporter: she's a patient where one in four reported cost-related underuse. >> this is a wake-up call for us as a country. >> reporter: dr. cosia lipska was the country's lead author. she testified last week. >> this costs just $21 when it first came on the market in 1996. it now costs $275. >> reporter: some drugmakers are reacting to the outrage. today, sanofi announced it will cut the price of insulin for uninsured patients and those who pay cash to $99 a month. but that doesn't eliminate advocates' concerns. >> people are dieing from lack of access to a drug that's been around for almost a century. i think it's unconscionable. >> reporter: insulin manufacturers told us today they have taken steps to address

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charles vandoren has died. he was at the center of a quiz show scandal in the 1950s. he had the looks and the image. the son of a poet and novelist. he earned instant fame on a 14-week winning streak on the show "21." rumors that the show was rigged, led to his con investigatifessi was given answers. >> i was involved. deeply involved in deception. in 1994, he was played by ray fines in "quiz show." he died in connecticut at the age of 93.

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. our final story begins with a robbery. it did not end the way you might think. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: on saturday night at this 7-eleven inowner, jay s

someone who made him feel suspicious. >> i see him when he comes back that it's empty. >> reporter: singh told an employee to call 911 and confronted the customer. he said, i will put it back. i said, no. you put everything on the counter. i want to see what you have in your pocket. >> reporter: and he wanted him to answer a single question. i said, why are you doing it? >> and he said, i am hungry. i said, if you are hungry, i will give you food. he waved off the 911 call. >> reporter: you could have pressed charges against him. >> there is no point doing that. that will go on his record. he can't do anything in his life. he wouldb.heould n - this is no

going to solve his hunger problem. >> reporter: across the counter, cedric bishop was a witness. >> you did what? >> i posted on facebook. over 1,000 shares brought tears to my eyes, honestly. >> reporter: we asked singh, who moved to this country in 2007, why he did what he did. >> it's our indian culture that if you give food to a hungry person, that's considered, like, god will bless you for that. >> reporter: amen. dean reynolds, cbs news, toledo. that's the overnight news for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check the morning news and "cbs this morning." from new york city, i'm jeff glor.

♪ this is "the cbs overnight news." >> welcome to "the overnight news." you're up early or late. here at the broadcast center in new york city. good to have you with us. the calendar says it's springtime. but don't tell that to old man winter. he dropped a bomb cyclone on the rockies and the plains states. there's fears of massive flooding by the start of next week. this is the second bomb cyclone to strike the region in just a month. >> reporter: spring in south dakota turned winter white.

18-wheelers off of the road. blizzard warnings from six atin the sand and salt being sprayed is salt in the wound from last week's flooding. water in the storm is getting up to 24 inches, on top of the 56 that's fallen this year, nearly triple the norm. we joined scotty brinkman out here treating the roads. he said this april storm is the biggest of the year. >> 50 degrees yesterday. blizzarding today. >> reporter: when it was 50 degrees, did you think you would be out here in a truck, in a blizzard? >> no. i figured we were done. i really did. when they said the snowstorm was coming, i thought, what? >> reporter: more than eight inches have fallen here in watertown, south dakota. and the brunt of the storm doesn't hit until tomorrow. to keep people off dangerous roads, officials have closed the interstate, which is what we took to get here.

most people, including us, are stay putting put for the night. where does the storm go from here? lonnie quinn has the forecast. >> this could set a record for the biggest storm ever. we have snowflakes falling from wisconsin to utah. here's how the storm is going to progress. put the futurecast in motion, you get to thursday morning. you're getting pummeled with snow, in south dakota and nebraska, as well. you get into thursday afternoon, you have the snow in minneapolis, turning over to sleet for you. and then, by friday morning, you're still dealing with snow out there. not until later friday will this dissipate and start to move out. so, how much snow are we talking about? you heard around watertown they could be getting a foot to two feet. that's all the areas shaded in pink. and portions of nebraska, as well. that area in blue, that's a foot or so. is a bistorm. this is not just about the snow. wind alerts spreading 1,600 miles. gust to 60 miles per hour are possible from nevada to kentucky.

it's from illinois to indiana. a huge temperature swing. pratt, kansas, 88. tomorrow morning, 35 degrees. is it going to be a record-setter? it might be. we don't know just yet. there was a natural gas leak in durham, north carolina, that shook homes. errol barnett is there. >> reporter: thick smoke rolling and visible for fires. >> we have an active fire closer to main street. it's starting to break through the roof. >> reporter: while, on the ground -- >> not safe right here. not safe. >> reporter: rescuers had to use makeshift stretchers to get victims to ambulances. others sat stunned and bloody. the blast left 1 dead and 17 people injured with 6 in critical condition. police say at 9:30 this morning, there was a call reporting a gas leak. >> people need to be evacuated.

i need one more unit. >> reporter: while firefighters were evacuating the area around this building, it exploded. >> i have a female in the zone. glass and debris in her head. >> reporter: without the decision to evacuate, casualties could have been higher. >> i don't know how many people they got out of the hazard zone. they put their lives on the line to do it. there's people they saved because of it. >> there's glass everywhere. >> reporter: mark usually works from home, but was at a meeting at the time of the blast. >> usually, i am sitting just outside the main window, at my desk. and the glass was everywhere. so, i can only imagine what would have happened to me. >> reporter: city officials say there had been utility workers installing a fiber network around the city but could not confirm who was working in the area around the explosion. >> our staff is confirming whether or not there was an active permit in the area. we'll release it when we have confirmed.

>> reporter: when the investigation gets going, people here have to deal with the aftermath. duke energy is telling folks downtown to expect intermittent power outages. mark, who we spoke with, his wife and him will spend the night in a hotel. william barr was answering questions again today nancy cordes reporting. >> reporter: president trump got unexpected backup from his new attorney general, william barr. >> i did think spying did occur. >> reporter: barr told senators he's looking into whether the u.s. intelligence community inappropriately spied on the trump campaign, even as barr admitted he had no evidence of that. >> i'm not saying that improper surveillance occurred. i'm saying that i am concerned about it and looking into it.

>> do you want to rephrase what you're doing? >> reporter: democrats called barr irresponsible and accused him of propping up a, quote, long-debunked spying conspiracy, to please donald trump. >> how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer in our country is going off the rails. he is attorney general of the united states of america, not the attorney general of donald trump. >> reporter: the fbi did obtain a surveillance warrant in 2016 to monitor the communications of carter page, a campaign policy adviser who had been courted by russian operatives in the past. the warrant was based in part on allegations in a dossier of an

ex-spy of the clinton campaign, making it a flashpoint of many americans. do you believe that many americans should be concerned that a warrant was obtained against an american citizen with unverified information? >> absolutely. >> reporter: democrats contend this is an effort to undermine special counsel robert mueller's report, which barr is due to release publicly next week. tonight, the democratic leader, chuck schumer, is calling on barr to retract his spying claim or produce some proof. we're not done yet. we have to take a break. you're watching "the cbs overnight news." we'll be back in a bit. ♪

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this is "the cbs overnight news." >> and we're back. the nation's top pediatricians group is asking for the recall of the fisher-price rock 'n play sleeper. we had jan crawford tell us more. >> he was the best thing that happened to us. >> reporter: ezra overton was the pride and joy of his parents. >> this is what life is for. >> reporter: in december 2017, keenan says he placed ezra in a rock n play sleeper at bedtime.

he found his child facedown and wasardnd his face was blue and his nose was pushed in. >> reporter: the couple say they called 911 and began cpr before arriving at the hospital. >> i didn't want to believe it at that moment. i saw him for the last time, it just -- it was the worst day of my life. >> reporter: ezra died three days before christmas. his parents blame fisher-price. >> they're supposed to be about safety. that wasn't the case. >> reporter: fisher-price says the sleep eer meets all safety standards. and says that it is essential that the warnings are followed. those warnings also sewn on the device, include a suffocation hazard and advisory that the product not be used if the

product can roll over. the age limit is 5 months to 3. >>eporte consumereports ke t ad. the sleeper of babies younger than 3 months. >> there's no circumstance this is a safe environment for babies to sleep. >> reporter: the overtons say they want to help other parents avoid a tragedy like theirs. when you think of ezra now, how do you think of him? >> i think of him as a superhero baby. >> reporter: superhero baby? >> we think about that all the time. he was meant for some big purpose. i think of him as being the stopping point as having this product out there. he was going to save babies and families this type of devastation. you may have heard about our trade war with china. it could be wrapping up soon. when it does, president trump is planning a signing summit that will happen with the president

of china. it will happen at the rt in fla.nsro want president to insist that inspectors are allowed in the camps where people are being detained. >> reporter: rounding up religious minorities and put them in intournameurninternment something that the world said shouldn't happen again. but it's happening in china to 1 million muslims. and so far, the trump administration has not taken action to stop it. >> we are the voice of voiceless people. >> reporter: she is from china. her relatives have been taken to internment camps. >> my brother was detained in 2017 september. after i heard that from my mom,

i was asking her, can i just talk this issue openly? and she was asking me, begging me, says, i alr lost one d.o se another >>eporr: do you they're alive? >> no. >> reporter: as a radio-free asia correspondent in washington, she reports on what is happening back home. video posted to social media appears to show the inside of these camps, which the state department believes is designed for mass detention, to erase religious and ethnic identities. >> they have a camera in the bathroom. 24/7, they are watching you. >> reporter: beijing blames muslims for attacks. and they are building these facilities to combat terrorism. today, a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including senator bob

menendez are cautioning u.s. companies. >> we need to make sure that companies are not engaged to allow the resources and the wherewithal to suppress its own people. >> reporter: the lawmakers who authored this letter say words aren't enough. they want inspectors allowed into the camps. they want to make sure u.s. companies aren't selling surveillance technology to

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welcome back. let's lighten it up a bit. sam raockwell has been called a modern day chameleon. his latest, choreographer bob fosse. he talked about his life and career with tony. >> reporter: sam rockwell's acting career, like a toy chest, is full of cowboys. >> trying to wear me down on this. >> reporter: outlaws. >> i'm going to die. >> don't keep going on about it. >> reporter: spacemen, and monsters. if you were to take every role you've been in and dump it out

on the floor in action figures. >> it would be weird. >> what the crap? >> reporter: for rockwell, none of it is child's play. >> i've gone to therapy. i have an acting coach, a dialect coach, a voice coach. i don't do it alone. >> reporter: why so open about the work. >> there is a lot that goes into it. you don't just show up. >> my love. >> reporter: he's been disappearing into characters for so long -- >> this is ridiculous. >> reporter: and so completely, he was once about as unknown as a celebrated actor can be. >> most of you probably know me as that guy from that movie. you know what i'm talking about, the main -- not the main guy but the other guy. >> reporter: but last year, rockwell took home his first oscar. >> don't i know your face from

some place? >> do you? >> reporter: for his role as a racist cop in "three billboards in ebbing, missouri." >> that is against the environment laws. >> i want you to be my v.p. >> reporter: this year, he was nominated again for his portrayal of president george w. bush in "voice." >> you're a kinetic leader. >> i am. people have always said that. >> you get that thing. >> reporter: you can drop into it. there you go. >> sometimes. yeah. it's hard on your mouth, w. >> yeah? >> it gets in there, yeah. >> here we go. >> and action. >> reporter: and now, at 50, he's reminding audiences that he's always had the moves for center stage. >> the parlor tricks, yes, yes. a little hat trick. yeah. that's fun. >> reporter: in a new fx series,

rockwell plays bob fosse, a dancer and choreographer turned director. famed for movies like "cabaret" and "all that jazz." what was it that drew you to him? >> i guess the charisma. there's a cool guy thing about him. he was a genius. and yet, he was also really messed up, you know? >> that's what we do, we take what hurts and we turn it to a big gag. and we're singing and dancing. >> reporter: also a haunted quality. >> very haunted. i'm attracted to characters like that. >> reporter: it helps that rockwell is also a dancer. >> it is fun. >> reporter: sort of. who taught you? you taught yourself? >> i just messed around. you know, i watched "risky business." i watched "footloose."

and i fancied myself a young kevin bacon. >> reporter: sam rockwell, the only child of divorced parents. he shuttled between san francisco, and new york, where his mom was a struggling actor. what are you getting exposed to at that age? >> you're backstage with people and it's a vaudeville existence, i guess you could say. >> reporter: what does that do to a kid? >> it's good and bad. it makes you wiser and it makes you late strange, when you go back to the normal middle-class life or the working-class life, when you're with kids in school, with arelateo them differently. >> reporter: his first role was a humphrey bogart in a sketch with his mother. >> it was thrilling. i got the bug right away. >> and he dreamed big. >> you want to go through faces.

like robert de niro. want to be chris walken. gene hackman. >> you want to be on your own? >> it's fine by me. really. >> reporter: as he grew to being sam rockwell, other actors noticed. >> problem-solving work. >> reporter: george clooney reportedly threw a golf club at a wall to get him in "confessions of a dangerous mind." brad pitt showed up at his house unannounced to recruit him for another role. ding dong. hey, i'm brad pitt. >> that happened. yeah. >> reporter: the secret may be that he has anchored his roles in research. to play a small-time cop in "three billboards." >> are you an idiot? >> don't call me an idiot.

>> i didn't call you an idiot. i asked if you were. >> reporter: he hired a small-time cop to read the script and spent some time with him. >> i wanted to get it right. it was helpful. little details like the haircut. and just the demeanor and the way they handle themselves. >> reporter: after more than 70 films and dozens of television shows, sam rockwell is savoring the life he built, including at home, with his long-time girlfriend. >> in the love department, i'm very lucky. and the work department, i am. >> reporter: these days, having luck means pouring everything into his starring turn as bob fosse. >> where did you learn that? >> i was dancing burlesque houses when i was 14. >> one, two, three. i was 13. >> reporter: does it occur to

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have you heard the song "old town road"? it's apparently one of the hottest country tunes in the nation. but it's been pulled off of the country charts because billboard insists it's not country enough. ♪ i'm gonna take my horse to the old town road ♪ ♪ i'm gonna ride >> reporter: the music video for old town road uses the old west with a hip-hop spin. ♪ wrangler on my bootee >> it was a breakout hit five weeks ago, when it debuted on three billboard charts at the same time. hot 100, hot r&b/hip-hop songs

and hot sun songs. but billboard removed it from the country chart later that week. saying it does not embrace enough country music in its version. >> i started to think about it. why? after like listening to other songs that's on that chart, it's like, wait a minute. something is not right, basically. >> reporter: "rolling stone" reporter elias lite said it's been challenging for black artists to break through on the country charts. >> it's not allowed that blank performers move through charts like white performers are. gonna ta it took off when users posted it to the app tick tock. >> in several markets, radio

programmers actually ripped the song off youtube so they would have something to play. ♪ don't tell my heart >> reporter: the fact that "old town road" was not embraced as a country song was heartbreaking. billy ray cyrus swetweeting, i thought it had an infectious hook. what else do you need? he decided to collaborate on a remix. >> the song deserves to be on every chart. >> reporter: jimmy allen's debut single, "best shot," was number one for three weeks on country radio. >> i came into this genre as a new artist, from a small town in delaware and i'm a black guy. and i had strikes against me that people thought might stop me. and yet, the country community welcomed me in. >> reporter: billboard maintains its decision to take "old town road" off of the country charts

had nothing to do with the race of the artist. >> it's's a good song. it's catchy, and people are talking about it and playi captioning funded by cbs it's thursday, april 11th, 2019. this is the "cbs morning news." a blizzard slams the nation's midsection causing trouble from colorado to wisconsin. >> when they said the snowstorm was coming, i said what? and the south is expected to feel the effects too. church arson investigation. the man accused of starting fires at historically black churches is turned in by his o