year, stast, ni funded by cbs good morning. it's friday, december 29th, 2017. welcome to "cbs this morning." a fire burns through york city apartment building killing at least a dozen people including four children.he citys deadliest fire in a quarter of a century. the unprecedented level of security at times square on new year'se. see what other cities are doing and where celebrations are already postponed because of the cold. plus president trump says the russia investigation makes believes special counsel robert.

nearly half of u.s. co holiday gift this week. find out why retailers are competing to make reasier. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in we're here at the scene of an tragedy. this will rank as one of the worst ls in many, many years. >> a deadly fire stuns new york. we're shocked by this loss. >> i hate it. i hate it. >> millions are ring in the new year in bone-chilling temperatures that great lakes and the northeast. >> it's going getn a interview trump tells he thinks bob mueller will be fair and believes there was no ar year's eve. >> doug jones has wti for the u

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morning." i'm bianna golodryga along with dana vladier duthiers of our streaming network cbsn. gay king are off. we begin with the deadliest fire inew years. it ripped through a five-story apartment building last night bronx zoo. >> 12 people wereg fo children. that number could rise. the ages of those wfr 1 to 63. the cause of the fire is unknown. >>vi were forced out into the bitter cold with no warning. don scene of the fire in the bronx. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. police tell us the investigation is active and on 12 people killed, five were pronounced dead at the scene, f

dangerously fast mo trapped. someone said, there was a baby >> reporter: it took only three minutes for respond to the fire in the bronx. but for many trapped ins roughly 100-year-old building, it wasn't fast enough. >> i'm very to report 1 2 inclu one child, 1 'sthe arch of the continues, so we may lose others >> reporter: the victims range in age from 1 to 63 years old. were ontle the fire. at least 12 others were rescuedt floor and quickly spread up the people died on various floors of the apartment. >> looking real sad christmas f

everyone. >> reporter: stunned neighbors and o the burning building and into the sub-free >> it was a bunch of smoke. that's it. >> people were screaming,help. we knew there was trouble. >> everyone this e andvening ke these families here in the bronx y >> reporter: reports say city records indicate the building had a number ofolations includi smoke detector on the first he . vlad. >> absolutely heartbreaking. don, thank you veryp is gripping more than half the country this morning. in western new york the lake e crusted with wind-driven ice parts are expected to feel 20 to 40 degrees belowzero. maine's rockport harbor is

freezing over in years. ied reynolds is in chicago from the freezing weather. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. can michigan is beginning to ice up and chicago ofs inside and if possible off the roads, especially tonight when it's >> i hate it. i hate it. y the car. it's crazy. >> reporter: across the midwest and northeast shivering. >> it's very cold out. i don't like t >> reporter: and doing what they can to avoid the deep freeze. >> thermal, two swrs turtleneck, two pair of gloves. >> reporter: water fity are now of in new hampshire boiling water

at chicago's airport it was too cold to fly. more canceled and nearly 250 were delayed. whole lot of people here. >> reporter: chicago officials say the temperatures can bely. >> extreme weather is more than an inconvenience. it remain as series oflife-thre events. >> reporter: shelters are your flowing with people trying tol >> you'd pretty much die in the street. to death. >> reporter: he says they're not it's bitter cold weather. it's extremely dangerous. a lot of ou guests have health issues already. we want to make sure they're it >> reporter: now the deep freeze is expected to last well into h until summerdana st >> we like the optimism, dean. for all of us in studio,he colde

t, not just the earmuffs. dean, thank you. >> rtell niles of wbz-tv has more. t' upstate new york and northern maine. 10 to 20 much of the great lakes. feels like zero in new york city right now. tomorrow, no bigthere will be a disturbance, enhanced northeast. last day of 2017, look at these. it's without the wind factored in. we're talking record coldmperur several days. 30s all theay dallas. the first day of the new year will featuresingle-digit readings. 30s all the way back down to th forecast is quiet, staying on that positiveno

lot of sunshine across the nation for the first day2018. >> danielle trying to find something positive but there's nothing good about the temperature bein the date. don't it. well, the bitter cold could force some of cities to change their newplans. ohm harks nebraska, is postponing their celebrations for those going ahead, police are taking unprecedent measures. tony due kopi squar where over 200 millionvehe weather. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's important to point out that there is no risk of

attack but they're preparing. atz they prepare far their times square celebration, the nypd is take nothing chances. o'neill. >> out of an abundance of caution, you're going to see a stronger police presence than you've seen ins. >> canines, aerial spotters and snipers in hotels will the almost 200 million people watching the midnight. it follows a pipe bomb explosion this subway passageway at times square and killed eight people. >> our this is people should feel safe. >> reporter: selveouteppg up th efforts. the los angeles police didn't says they will have anased visible police presence. in miami regular security will be inoutdoor concert and in chicago extra tr

strategically placed to prevent following october's deadly shooting in las 800 steel pylons and rapid-fire defense teams will b clark county sheriff joseph en can't do this alone.ou'r out enjoying the festivities, be rv of anything suspicious. >> reporter: back here at new york's times nypd is shutting down 125 parking one more, markings on the so in the event of the attack, they'll be able toflr very quic. no credible threat here or this. >> tony, thank you.

in a "rk interview the president denied colluding with russia during 2016 presidential race 16 times. he defended his took a tough stance on china. chip reid is traveling with the florida. good morning. >> good morning. the in the hotel. there were no white house staff members anywhere in sight. he was introduced by a the reporter as a guest. >> russia did not help myou, ok? russia has repeatedly denience e u.s. election helped him in any way and in an i "the new york times," president trump said special investigatio country. it makes the country look very bad and pount in a bad position, he said. when asked about mueller

thims bob mueller will be fair. the president's vote of comes a conservative allies have spent days investigators for bias. did sug willing bs to intervene saying what i want to do with the justice department. >>is, again, the biggest tax cut, bigge times. >> the president signed back at the critics o h signed into law last week. greatest cpa.re than weknowhe d and he touted his quote with c president xi jinping but may go do more to curb north korea's nui have been soft on china. they can solve the problem.but

not helping us enough. the president hll be open to infrastructure and health care. he'll be talki at camp david next week with republican leaders. vlad? >> chip f chip. democrat doug jones will be sworn in wednesday as r.alabam state election officials certified jones' victory r moo nearly 22,000 votes earlier this manth. a last alabama's secretary of state found no evidence of that. twit work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to getgton b apple is apologizing after admitting a software update deliberately slowed some iphones. it's donen shoulddowns in the iphone

as a side effect, other apps run slower. of you feel apple has let you down. we apologize. we have never anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple df phones. dan ackerman is a section editor at cnet. great to have you athee. this is confusing. explain how this all went down.. what apple did was come up with an unreasonable solution to a problem that's not easy to fix. batteries that we r everythi, older, they can't give out the energy at the sam when you have apps on your phones that want to do people f on their older phones, the

onat hpened to me with my iphone 6 plus. they had aof. most are detaermed by the updates, that saide' going to tune up these they're trying to make the battery last interesting. this did make me think when i read this story, when you blackberry, you'd take the battery out yourself and put a new one in. with the iphone,todo. you actually have to go into the store and have it done for you. your battery life more easier -- easily on your iphone. explain that. >> yes. they're not going to change what the software update did in slowing yourne battery life but they're going to add something to the software

you monitor it and give you more information, transparency of how much space you why i think peo more upset is the lack of the w telling you they were doing this to your product. >> you mentioned an how big of a deal is this? we first heard of a n a big apo >> that's true. over the years they've done these big apologies. one was happened in 2010 where they your call won't go through if you're holding the phone wrong with a bumper. look alt what happened last yea problems with their own batteries. they issued a big shared a lot of information with people and people are still buyingphones. that apology for

that. >> the reason they did you would upgrade to a newer model of they've deny thad. what do you in doing the opposite, they didn't want you d run out quicker. they ended up doing o had an ip that waskey. i upgraded to at to a friend. they said, oh, man, you've got to get a new get an apology fromined tt the batteries don't last forevetrue >> it's the slug that gets us ordering newou. ahead, what

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>> just want to know. can this be as good $50 i e up the next morning -- >> my eyes are really uncomfortable. it's really itchy and i'm going to have to go to the doctor to have this taken care of so it doesn't get worse. >> within the first 45 minutes i realized it was an eye infeksz. i couldn't get my contacts on. i look back at the footage and it was on the fake side, the side i used the fake product, 100%. >> reporter: arguelles isn't alone. went shopping under cover at the same downtown alley. most of the fake makeup sold here is half the price of the

original. some vendors admitted the products were knock-offs but assured us they're just as good. back at arguelles' studio, we compared the makeup. the packaging is nearly identical. >> that's interesting. the colors show up pretty differe different. >> reporter: some makeup made in factories like these have reported to have found dangerous chemicals. we sent the fake and real versions of this mack lipstick and eye shadow to a lap where they were tested for 12 different metals. most concerning, some of the shadows in the fake palette had nearly four times the amount of lead as those in the real version. in one it exceeded the maximum of 10 parts per million. the lipstick had 15 times the amount of lead as the real

thing. >> often the unsafe consumer goods are made in factories with unsanitary conditions so the quality is not what you need it to be. >> reporter: customs and border protection says these counterfeit products are costing the cosmetic industry about $75 million a year. they say reducing the amount smuggling into the country could be as easy as educating the customers. >> they think they're buying a fake palette. they don't think of it being ingredients that could put my health at risk. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," jamie yuccas, lax. a great grandmother's family is suing american airlines after she fell down the escalator. the 75-year-old woman who fell in her wheelchair died three months after she was badly injured. adriana diaz has more.

>> good morning. her family made sure shi she arrived safely to her connecting flight, but now they're suing arguing that the airline did not provide the service as promised. bernice was coming home from a family vacation in ma we. she landed. surveillance video shows her wandering the terminal alone. >> she was provided assistance off the airplane and into a wheelchair by alaska's contract and she was left there and she o the fall. >> reporter: she fell down head first while others tried to help her. the attorney took video statements from the family members. >> it was so devastating. >> reporter: kekona suffered multiple injuries. >> she was in constant pain. >> reporter: a wound on her

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at least 8,000 drug convictions in massachusetts are likely to be thrown out because of a state lab drug scandal. they joined in pushing for the dismissals. the tainted cases are tied to former lab employee sonja farak. paula reid has more. good morning. >> good morning. if these cases are thrown out, many people will be getting out of prison, and it will be the second time in two years that thousands of drug convictions are being thrown out for

official misconduct in the state. at least 8,000 cases are now in the hands of the massachusetts supreme judicial court. for eight years sonja farak worked at the laboratory as a chemist, analyzing chemicals in drug cases. she was arrested after a search of her car revealed even more stolen drugs. during her trial, farak admitted to using drugs in the lab and even manufacturing in the lab of crack cocaine for her own personal use. she was given an 18-month jail sentence. >> this is really a historic case here in massachusetts. >> reporter: carol rose is the director of the aclu. the group is seeking dismissal of all of the cases that farak handled. >> their loved ones had served time in jail and in prison. >> reporter: this isn't the first drug lab scandal in massachusetts.

in 2013 chemist annie 'do ookhan who worked at a state lab in boston pled guilty. in april the massachusetts supreme judicial court made the historic decision to dismiss nearly 22,000 wrongful drug convictions that dookhan worked on. >> she was just making it up. >> the magnitude of this disaster is grand to say the least. >> reporter: nicole deborde is a district attorney. she said the cases will be thrown out and they'll be difficult to prosecute again. 11 of the state's district attorneys believe some of the cases are still pursuable. the amhurst drug lab where farak works is now closed. they hope they can come to a decision by early spring.

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but thinking about 11, 12 degrees at best, for the current conditions at that point high 19, light round of snow tomorrow will help the cold. >> colds one out there, here we go, the bad. no delays. disable vehicle off to the shoulder, not causing anye accident in paoli route 30 at central avenue outside o block here, then couple every accidents over in new jersey one on the other 295 southbound. >> pat, thank you, next update is at 8: 25, coming up this morn ndely stand-off

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that's 2 feet on top of trd-bre dropped on the city already thi moved south. they'll see windchills of zeroy. windchills are expecting 40 below zero the midwest. president trump is using the extreme cold to make light of perhaps we could use a little bit of that global warming that our countries was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect trump pulled the us the climate agreement earlier this year. senator his onded, quote, climate change is morning for many homeowners trying to prepay next year's t the existing state and local tax deduction beforet'

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republican leaders say the new tax code will save millions it could cause problems for charities. non-profits receive about dona but by some code could result in a drop of $20 billion a year. a charity that feeds the homeless in washon concerned that new law could mean less giving. jan, good morning. moing. for to be a spike in donations. that's because people see way to cut their tax bill, but next year that might change. with temperatures in washington dipping below freezing, thesehi. handing out food to those in

across the country rely on in 2017 as many as 30% of rede bill by itemizing donations. but in 2018 they may double their deduction. their e will be 30 million taxes. >> reporter: united way brian gallagher said his organization can feed over yea >> the average contribution by a you donor is $350. >> those are the donors now tha >> less reporter: additional t

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fathered 20 children. he committed statutoryra. >> they were his. he allowed others to leave. >> it wasn't the siege he let t but inside those were biological children and he keep them with him. >> to see the pain on the ups dr f live with this so many years later. fantastic individual who telling his story for the first time on "48 we'll be watching. thank you so much. you can see he secrets of g central right here on cb are reg their gifts this holiday season. i hope you're notoi leigh gallagher is in studio 57 with how retailers are easier to return more than ever. your local news is next.

this is cbs-3 "eyewitness news." >> good morning, i'm rahel wille tomorrow if the parade will step-off on new years day. >> t mto cold on new years day d they're concerned about the safety of performers and paraded be delayed until a week from saturday whether temperatures are higher, not much but slightly. a check on the meteorologist, katie fehlinger , yes, very cold out ther days than others, even yesterday morning , rahel, worse than it currently is, saving grace for you here, but his is what it does still feel like, it does still feel like a, and teens, as best we can hope

for anywherethe windchills not h today, but come tomorrow fresh round of reinforcing snow tnd wh , really only leaves coating to 2 inches for most of the region, and it that light fluffy snow will be very easy to remove but this serving main purpose of reinforcing this frigid cold. so specially come new yrs been t cold with a high of 19 since >> wow. >> really long time. >> i was still young back then . here is a look at the schuylkill expressway, we will walk over to this every inbetween cameras here, so you eressway it, but as you can flowing nicely this morning. there is an accident out in paoli route avenue, one lane block, right outside of paoli hospital. then we've got some problemsepts , have downed wires, they're bussing, and they're rahel. >> pat, thank you. next update 8:55, ahead on retas

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that is forcing shops to finde convenient. fortune seniorr leigh gallagher is here with more. good morning. >> good morning. >> we know we want to get it shipping. what about the returns? >> returns have been aeconsumer the retailers as well. shopping grown, it's become a huge point of friction in t researchers have spent the last few years trying to address d f. they need to find a way to deal with it. and the co have been so spoiled, we expect everything to be seamless andheo meet that need. so there's all kinds of creativ year. we're starting to see more of them. a big thing is buy online and return in store. so these acty consumer in many ways. it's cheaper for the retailer. it ri lot of companies will havesin

under five minutes. amazon bought whol f you can return. but amazon in this never did we think we would sed a relationsh kohl's wruwhere you can buy on also lockers and the whole thing. >> make it other stores you can return physically. of course, a lot of retenh of te you can have and paying for shipping, doing everything they can e it's still going to require an errand which trips me it was a . i do return thi online back to the physical store. >> they want that. it's better for online policies changing? little bit like extending the home. of course, you need a printer. this is called

is, bringing the project back through the d't care about rev logistics. inventory. we want this to be taken care returned. it's what they're doing this week. i retur things yesterday. >> what are somt of the vendors? you were talking during ia wha >> they're trying to address this problem. of money on something and there's a big ther are entrepreneurs that try to come in and make it easier. there are companies helping ret customers, a company called happy reually trying to make it at the front end easier to know whatbuyi red of a return. >> how does it work? i hateet

would they send somebody to my apartment? >> no. it's not about that.e pressure off of the retailer. you can go to a k mall. there's a ways that a lot of retailers are better photos online. around that, pugt it tting it o. those things are important. educe the amount of returns in the first place. think about it. you're desperate. you think, i can buy it or return it. ihoo goes up during the holiday season. all the pressures and all the o >> the minute i receive a gift, i'm returning gifts, all of the. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you very much. happy new year. >> you too. kris van cleave shows us a secret restaurant that di

different level. >> this hallway leads us to resl of the area. we're nowhere near manhattanrpt. the restaurant, classified. but coming up on "cbs this morning," we have yo >> is there

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if you get an invite. it's s nd celebrities uest lists like madonna. >> it's very much like new yocr. i actually had to take a little bit of time to find it was very so i felt very united frequent morrow was one of invited. >> i had oysters ander fresh salad with shrimp. i appreciate being ableo a nice wine. >> it rivals anything you a new restaurant. it could easily set you back $100 you don't order a $500 bottle of wine. he's with thesul mostly forgottn

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invited -- >> perspective. right now it is classified and it does remain ide a to create f the elite resan in the new york? we didn't set out most elite restaurant and most difficult to get into, butked o >> reporter: this is your ticket insi united said for the flyers who haven't gotten one, request to be invited but they won't say how long t is. >> our kris van cleave is there. i have not gotten my e-mail >> nor have i. >> my big pet peeve whstaurants don't have bathrooms inside the to go out to the airport? >> if classified hasit. >> i would hope they

through security. anying that ups the game isi certainly appreciated. >> that i'm saying. coming up next, to look at all that mattered this week. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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good morning, everyone, i'm jan carabeo, at least four people are firefighter after a huge fire breaks out at a house in burlington county.ut around 1:00 this morning, alone 600 block every union avenue, officials say, ice on the grounds, and frigid temper difficult and construction of the house with nothe cause is nr investigation. >> now, to the eyewitness weathe meteorologist, katie fehlinger hi, kate. >> i hey there, january, today our area. we had the worse of the kinds chill at least osttch yesterday. at 13 degrees it, feels basically like 13 degrees.as broken out.

you can expect sun and cloud throughout the day. >> satur s way, and the expected apartments and the all that impressive. minor midday, coating to 2 inches is the general idea across our region,vaety of the snow, too, o should be pretty easy to remove which is nice. now, lmith this disturbance is it reinforces the coal for the rest of the dn right bitter specially on monday. the high9 grees. hasn't been that cold on new years since about 120 years ago. >> long, long time, it will be chilly, might have to alter the plans little bit forrs eve. if you are taking the schuylkill expressway, this morning, not bad. briefut aboard, looks nice at 8:56 a.m. in newe southbound past route 541, the center lane blocked den mass trt problems, 101 and 102 trolleys

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