captioning sponsored by cbs >> quijano: developing tonight, travel nightmare, a powerful winter storm is slamming the northeast. snow and ice are impacting millions on a busy holiday weekend. we are timing out the storm track. deadly crash. nine people were killed when a plane went with down in south dakota. what we are now learning about the victims. shooting rampage. gunshots erupt near the french quarter. nearly a dozen people are shot. the mayor's message tonight to the city of new orleans. on the agenda, it is a busy week ahead in the impeachment inquiry. what the house has planned and the critical deadline set for the white house. growing pains, what's threatening the spark until your wine. and how an ancient trade -- >> you come here, the you can blow off a little bit of steam, you can tell us what your

problems are rand we are going to listen. >> quijano: -- is being bowl molded into modern medicine. >> this is the "cbs weekend news". good evening, i am elaine quijano. a powerful and dangerous winter storm is wreaking havoc on travelers returning home after the holiday weekend. snow is slamming the northeast tonight. thousands are stranded in airports and on the roads. zoom parts of the northeast will get up to 20 inches of snow. winter storm alerts are up across 15 states, with 125 million americans in the storm's path. we have it all covered for you tonight, we begin with laura podesta in the storm zone. with the holiday over the rush to get back home is in full effect. there are delays at airports across the country. this delta plane slid off the runway after landing in buffalo, new york this morning. wicked weather with in the midwest has also created a headache for flyers. >> you know there is a storm

coming tomorrow so we want to get ahead of that. >> triple a estimates 55 million people are traveling this weekend, 1.6 million more than last year, and 90 percent of them will be on the roads. >> in parts of south dakota and wyoming, that meant whiteout conditions. and a need for four-wheel drive. the weather system has been pummeling the u.s. since before thanksgiving. these mountains in los angeles county saw a rare dusting this early in the season. in arizona, three tornadoes ripped through the phoenix area friday. and 50 miles northeast of that city, two young children were killed after the vehicle they were in was swept away by floodwaters. one girl remains missing. >> our mission is to get that child home today to their family. now new england is bracing for heavy snow and reeseing cold. the national weather service has issued storm warnings, up to two feet of snow is predicted in some parts of new york. governor andrew cuomo has cut

short 0 a trip to puerto rico to return home and monitor the wintery weather. >> the concern for drivers right now is ice. but we have seen trucks out all day putting down salt to try 0 to prevent any ice from forming or snow from sticking, elaine. >> quijano: laura podesta, thank you. this historic storm is crime blink air travel from coast to coast, major airlines have issued ground delays from san francisco to new york. meteorologist jeff berardelli is tracking the storm. jeff, how long do we expect this weather to last. >> he thrain is a really slow moving storm so i think it is going to last at least until tuesday morning. here is the situation right now. we have two storms, the parent one which moved across the ohio valley now transferring its energy and be a more nor'easter with a whole hodgepodge of weather and snow, it is ice and rain along the eastern seaboard and take it step-by-step, over 0 night tonight it is rain from new york to baltimore with mild air being pulled in and the low right along the new jersey coast but as that moves out and it

kind of blossoms or strengthens it will begin to pull cold air just in time for the evening commute and not going to be easy or pretty in new york or boston. then it is snow heavy at times overnight tomorrow night, straight to tuesday morning in boston, we will be done by sunrise or before in new york city. look at how much snow we are expecting to see. anywhere you see the bummer is over six inches anywhere you see the pink that is as much as a foot and a half to close to 22 feet of snow. it could be over a foot in places like boston. and along the west coast, the storm slamming them, it looks like a couple of inches along the coast of rain a and inland areas, sierra nevada could see a couple of feet of snow. >> quijano: december is upon us, jeff, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> quijano: the ntsb is headed to the scene of a deadly plane crash in south dakota. >> nine people were killed when the plane went down in snowy weather, it happened about three hours west of sioux falls. here's john vigliotti on the ovation. south-central south dakota was under a winter storm warning saturday as a heavy snow front quickly moved in.

the single engine pilatus pc-12 like the one pictured here had just taken flight when investigators say it lost control and crashed into farmland. it's unclear why the plane was allowed to take off. the weather prevented other aircraft from landing and even complicated efforts to respond to the crash site. the victims range in ages from 7 to 81 years old, including jim and kirk hansen, brothers and prominent businessman. the family was reportedly returning to idaho falls. incredibly three passengers survived, all men, the youngest, 17. they were transported to an area hospital. their conditions are unknown. the county attorney wrote on facebook the first responders should be commended in their heroic actions to rescue the victims in the extreme weather conditions. ntsb investigators are expected to arrive at the site tomorrow. the bad weather complicated efforts to get to the scene. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news.

investigators are trying to determine a motive in a shooting rampage in new orleans. ten people were shot overnight near the famed french quarter. two peopl people are in critical condition. the mayor is calling it a cowardly and a senseless act. police are searching for at least one gunman. a person of interest is in custody. no arrests have been made. new arrests have been made in the massacre of an american family in mexico. nine people, including six children were ambushed about 100 miles south of the arizona border last month. police thought it might be a case of mistaken identity by drug cartels. one man was ultimately arrested. the exact number of arrests made today is unclear. the impeachment inquiry into president trump is kicking back into high gear this week. tomorrow the house intelligence committee will review a report on the inquiry. on tuesday, the panel will likely approve the findings and send them to the judiciary committee. on wednesday, the judiciary committee will hold its first

hearing. weijia jiang tonight has details on the busy week ahead in washington. >> reporter: president trump himself will not participate in the house judiciary committee's first hearing on wednesday tweeting, i will be representing our country in london at nato, while the democrats are holding the most ridiculous impeachment hearings in history. tomorrow, the house intelligence committee will likely release a report reviewing what members found after collecting evidence for weeks. to determinative president abused power by pressuring ukraine to investigate political rivals. on wednesday, the house judiciary committee will take the lead. ranking republican doug collins said the first witness he wants to call is house intel chairman adam schiff. >> it's easy to hide behind a report. it's easy to hide behind a gavel and intelligence committees behind closed door hearings but it's going to be another thing to actually get up and have to answer questions. >> collins blasted democrats forgiving republicans until friday to decide what witnesses they want to subpoena, and what

evidence they will present. claiming that's not enough time. democratic congressman hakeem jeffries was asked about how long the hearings could go. >> we will see what happens. i mean we need to be guided by the truth. if they come forward with relevant witnesses i think we all may want to hear from john bolton. we all would like to hear from mick mulvaney. >> reporter: the president has said he would 0 too. >> i will tell you, i like to have the people to up. except one thing, it validates a corrupt investigation. too that's the same reason white house sources say mr. trump's legal team may not take part in any of the proceedings. president trump is scheduled to leave for the nato summit tomorrow where he and other world leaders will mark the 70 fest anniversary of the alliance. elaine. >> quijano: weijia jiang, thank you. democratic presidential candidates hit the campaign trail this weekend, but advertising for those campaigns is getting harder. twitter and google have put severe limits on political ads,

facebook, however, has not. gayle king sat down with facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and his wife priscilla chan in their first joint television interview and asked them why. >> the main thing now that people are talking about are the political ads a. that you don't want to take down political ads that people know are false, that they contain false information. >> what i believe is that in a democracy, it's really important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying, so they can make their own judgments. and, you know, i don't think that a private company should be sensoring politicians or news. but a small group of your employees, about 200 wrote a letter saying that they wish that you would reconsider because they said free speech and paid speech are not the same. do they have a point? >> well, this is clearly a very complex issue, and a lot of people have a lot of different opinions. >> quijano: you can watch more of gayle king piece interview with mark zuckerberg and

priscilla chan tomorrow on "cbs this morning." there's much more ahead on the "cbs weekend news". what the faa is doing to combat the problem of shrinking seats. plus why a popular wine is becoming more challenging to produce. and veterans battling ptsd are getting help from an unlikely source. >>

>> quijano: as millions of travelers pack into planes for the holiday weekend, many may be questioning their seat sizes. u.s. airlines expect 31.6 million people to fly over the thanksgiving holiday. that's up nearly four percent from last a year. but the concern now is that seats are not just unaccording y small but dangerously small. here is kris van cleave. >> evacuate, evacuate. >> in a simulated cabin that can be filled with smoke and plunged into darkness the faa will try to determine at what point the size of seats and the space between rows becomes a hazard to evacuate ago plane quickly. but they will do it without any

of the obstacles passengers may encounter during a real emergency, like bags, smoke, comfort animals or the dark. >> we are going to try to minimize variables to the ones that are important for this particular test. that gives us a much cleaner look at the empirical data so it is much easier to make conclusions and recommendations. >> reporter: during the 12 days of faa testing at this oklahoma city facility, the 720 volunteer passengers will be broken into groups of just 60. that wouldn't fill even half the seats on the smallest 7:30 7 ofaa administrator steve dickerson. >> do you have any concerns about how tightly packed folks are on some airliners in the u.s.? >> well i certainly want to make sure there are no safety issues, certainly issues with comfort on certain types of aircraft but that's not my job. >> these tests are going to be nothing but a sham. >> john breyault the is from the national consumer league, he and nine other consumer groups complained to transportation also about the seat testing, they will use the faa testing to

add more seats to increase their bottom lines. already the airlines seat width is do down as much as four inches in the last 30 years as much as 16 inches wide when americans are growing bigger. the space between rows has shrunk from about 35 inches to 31 and in some cases as little as 28. >> consumers should not think for a minute that these tests are being done in a way that would accuratel accurately reprt could happen in an emergency evacuation. >> the faa testing should be done by the end of the year with a report to follow next summer. from there it goes to an advisory committee that will make suggestions to the faa about possible regulations. so don't expect any new rules for at least a couple of years. kris van cleave, cbs news, boston. >> quijano: the tech boom in one of america's wealthiest cities has a dark side. ahead, the dramatic rise in homelessness, including people with jobs and parents with young children.

our nation's capitol, decisions are made here that affect all of us and today more than ever people want truth, understanding and accountability. so join us every evening as we bring you cbs news original reporting from around the world. while keeping our eye on what is going on right here in washington. >> quijano: tonight we explore the growing crisis of homelessness in america. according to the department of housing and urban development, there were more, there were more than half a million homeless people in the u.s. on a given night, as of 2018. for "60 minutes", anderson cooper met a family hoping to avoid another winter out in the cold. >> reporter: in the shadow of interstate 5 in seattle, on a vacant strip of public land, this is tent city 3. there are about 50 people living here without heat or running water. that's ethan wood. he is celebrating his third birthday.

he's lived in a tent for the past year and a half. his parents, tricia and josiah told us ethan has an he learnlgd, has an enlarged hearts and suffers from bouts of asthma and croup so severe they have had to take him to the emergency room several times. last winter one of seattle's cold nest recent memory, ethan was sleeping in a tent covered with blankets sandwiched between his parents for warmth. did you ever think, well, there is not the place. we should have our child? >> we don't want our son here. we don't want to be here. but as of right now 0, this is the safest place for us. >> absolutely. >> because we know the people. we know rules and -- >> our family gets to stay together. >> and our family stays together. >> drug addiction is what led the woods to become homeless. for josiah, it was meth, for for trish, i can't heroin. they were living in alaska at the time. josiah's parents took care of ethan while they both got treatment.

to tricia came to seattle for rehab and afterwards decided it was a good city for a fresh start. they say they haven't used drugs in nearly two years. but it's been hard to find housing. in may 2018, they tried to get a spot in one of seattle's family shelters but there was no room. they didn't want to split up into separate shelters, one for men and another for women with children, so they found their way to tent city 3 and decided to stay. >> oh, boy. >> oh, boy. >> this is our new home. >> this is our new home. >> we are going to live right here. >> quijano: yo you can see more of anderson cooper's report tonight on 60 minutes. >> fizzing out ahead, what is threatening centuries of italian tradition in a region famed for prosecco. >>

bubbly. >> quijano: climate exchange threatening the global wine industry, and creating new challenges at prosecco vineyards

in italy. from extreme heat to torrential rain grapes used t to make the sparkling bubbly are being destroyed. seth doane on our eye on earth. >> climate exchange 0 threatening search centuries of italian tradition in this region famed for prosecco. paolo tomasella says extreme weather is posing new challenges at his vineyard tenute tomasella. >> climate change is a big problem. when it's hot, it's very hot. when it's raining, it rains very much. >> reporter: prosecco, he explained, should have low alcohol and high acidity, but high temperatures and earlier ripening produce the opposite effect. >> it is our prosecco. the results of our efforts. >> reporter: so tomasella is testing new techniques and letting italian government scientist diego tomasi used the, use the vineyard as a sort of laboratory. >> the climate change is making an effect on the acidity because

more temperature means also low acidity. >> reporter: tomasi showed us grapes that have burned on the vine. wine makers are sometimes forced to harvest weeks earlier in the hottest months which can produce different a "roma"s and flavors. >> the vine is like a thermometer, it is very sensitive to temperature. >> reporter: at italy 'crea research center they are hearing from wine makers who are planting at higher el vases, and have discovered the timing between growing stages is now shorter. >> why do you blame climate change. >> this because of course the soil is more or less the same. the variety is more or less the same, and so everything that we are discovering now depends on the climate. >> reporter: which at tenute tomasella means making some adjustments like cutting back foliage to stop photosynthesis, a way to reduce the amount of alcohol that comes from the grapes. and piping nitrogen into the water to boost acidity.

growers could plant new violence, better suited to changing climactic conditions but new violence take years to produce, and ultimately change the character of a wine and a place. as climate change creeps in to yet another aspect of life. seth doane, mansue, italy. >> quijano: serving those who once served. ahead, how a group of blacksmiths is coming to the rescue of veterans suffering from ptsd. >>

>> quijano: finally tonight, a safe haven for veterans living with ptsd. chip reid takes us to virginia where vets are forging a new future. >> reporter: in rural virginia, an ancient strayed being molded into modern medicine. .. it took us from where, you know, we were just scraping and then brought us to where we are living again. >> they are angels.

those angels are steve hotz and dave seitz a gulf war veterans who last year founded black horse forge. >> you can come here, and you blow off a little bit of steam. you tell us what your problems are, we are going listen. >> hotz had these blacksmith tools but no shop, seitz had a shed on his horse farm but no tools. >> they put it together and now teach classes to vets, active service members and first responders who learn lou to transform something old into something new. >> they go from railroad spike prison shank to finished blade. >> reporter: while also trance forging themselves. >> here, no topic is too hot. after all, even tough guys have a melting point. >> it's a comfortable place to be. i guess you could call it a safe zone. >> reporter: and that's the real tool they build together, trust. >> ready? >> when a guy is able to lift a burden while he's here, and then if he has to go home, how far down the road does he get before the burden comes back? >> gets you emotional even talking about about it?

>> yep. >> why is that? >> i think it's because we are vested. we have seen it. >> reporter: seen it in what they call saves, veterans contemplating suicide who find a reason to live here. >> about three months ago, my best friend up here tried to kill himself. literally i got his house and basically pulled the gun out of his mouth. and they helped him out. >> hotz and seitz fuel the forge out of their own pockets and see it as their way to keep serving. >> we literally had a bad night one day and walked here at about 5:00 o'clock in the morning, knocked on his door and dave came right out and just talked to us. we didn't have to fire the forge up that night. 3 just wanted to talk. >> reporter: and find a way forward, with new irons in the fire. >> chip reid, cbs news, stafford, virginia. >> quijano: that's the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. later tonight on cbs "60 minutes". i am elaine quijano in new york. thank you for joining us and good night.

we have some downpours coming to the mountains. the central bay, not much, but again, this rain is coming down and in some places it is condemned pretty good. down the coastline to san luis obispo county, it is raining tonight. the heaviest totals in marin county, more than 4 inches over the last 48 hours. three and a third, we will get three things straight up in the mountains above it. some of the totals in the central bay area are not that impressive at all. twelve hundredths of an inch, in liverpool livermore, the same. the north bay, wh