atlanta scrambles to recover from an unusual winter storm that created chaos throughout the south. the federal reserve continues to wind down its economic stimulus program as president obama unveils a new savings plan. and justin bieber is charged with assault in canada, his second arrest in a week. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, january 30th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. well, the south is struggling to thaw out this morning after that

harsh winter storm. the entire region was paralyzed, but georgia seemed to have suffered the most. there were more than 1,400 crashes between tuesday morning and wednesday evening, more than 175 people were injured. governor nathan diehl in atlanta are taking some heat for the way they handled the storm. both admit they could have been better prepared. mark strassmann has more from atlanta. >> reporter: drivers along many of the south's busiest highways finished wednesday trying to finish tuesday's commute. a rare winter storm brought several inches of snow and paralyzing ice from the gulf coast to the mid-atlantic. highways froze, and soon so did the traffic. all those cars meant salt and sand trucks could not treat the roadways. ron rivera and his truckload of bananas were stuck for more than 30 hours. >> nothing against the south, and i'm from the south.

we're just not prepared for this type of worry. >> gronch nathan deal agreed. >> i didn't think this would have the short window of time in which it would occur. >> reporter: here the traffic is moving again. the focus is on the icy highways where so many people trying to get home had to get out of the storm. drivers slept in bhaefr warm place they could find and more than 10,000 stranded students spent the night in schools. >> reporter: every single child in the city of atlanta has been reunited with their families. >> reporter: government offices will remain closed on thursday while drivers retrieve their abandoned cars. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. meteorologist eric fisher from our boston station wbz has the forecast. >> a lot of folks have been

looking for a changing pattern across the u.s., whether you're in the oukt or west coast h very that coming in the next couple of days. more zonal weather. a little constricted. now, in terms of the ice storm and snowstorm recovery in the south, your thursday high temperature still very chilly. then as we get into friday, finally some relief. we're in the 40s and 50s. down across florida, we're dealing with icy concerns. all that ice will be disappearing. certainly by saturday, many are be looking to this. 50s and 60s here. 70s and 80s for florida. in the midwest, people happy to see this. winter storm advisories all across the northwest. we're watching a storm system dropping through. it's already in progress. it will continue through today. rain showers possibly down toward los angeles. they haven't seen a drop the entire month of january. and in terms of snow, big

totals, colorado, wasatch, and the sierra, big snow totals. it's been a long time coming. i'm eric fisher, cbs news. >> on the "cbs moneywatch" markets tumble on the fed announcement and new clues on the hacking attack. joya is with us. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. good morning, everyone. the fed said on wednesday that the nation's economy does continue to get stronger, and just as important it says interest rates will stay at zero. the fed policy meeting was the last for ben bernanke who is stepping down as chairman for the last eight years. major stock indices fell on the fed decision and the markets. the dow lost 189 points on wednesday. the nasdaq was off by 46 points. asian markets dipped after manufacturing numbers flipped to a six-month low.

the shanghai come pos sit down nearly 1%. it's closed for the holiday. president obama's plan is expected to be in effect by the end of the year. he signed the order on a visit to pittsburgh. the program known as m.y.r.a. is similar to the rockth ira for people who don't have plans. the sales suggest lenovo could become a big player in the smartphone business. finally target says hackers stole credentials from one of its vendors. you may recall in december that these same haerks may have compromised credit and personal information for millions of its customers. target has declined to identify the vendor or say how it happened. they have tightened security on their computers.

anne-marie, the story keeps getting worse and worse by the day. >> i know. hopefully they can wrap up this investigation because it has a lot of people worried about their credit cards. >> especially if they shopped at target. >> many being one of them. thanks a lot, joya. president obama is back on the road visiting a general electric plant. he'll talk about something from his state of the union address. nancy cordes looks at the pros and cons of paying people more money. >> reporter: 16 hours after the president's address, the democratic lead 'eers leader harry reid brings something to the floor, minimum wage, from 7:35 an hour to 10 p$$10.10 an . >> do you see it happening? i don't know.

>> reporter: minnesota congressman erik paulsen says hiking minimum wage will cause businesses to higher fewer workers to save costs. >> from my perspective, one size fits all is not the way go. >> reporter: it was the way to go for his constituents who owned a pizza shop. >> john just gave his employees a raise to 10 bucks an hour. >> reporter: hunch pizza is a chain. >> we were finding as we grew we didn't have enough new people that wanted to come join us. after we announced the $10 an hour starting wage -- >> our applications are about this high. >> reporter: how much does it cost you every year to pay you this much more? >> well, it's going to end up costing us $3 million over the next ten years. >> reporter: they think it will pay off through higher productivity and less turnover. that's true for carrie who has

worked for punch pizza for a year and a half. >> it makes me want to stay here and do a really good job and represent the company. >> reporter: they say they're fine with the president going out and encouraging companies to raise their own wages but in the latest cbs news poll, 72% of the americans say they support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. clapper lashed out against edward snowden. he said snowden's disclosures have caused profound damage and made the u.s. less safe. >> what snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way, way beyond his professed concerns with so-called domestic surveillance programs. as a result we've lot critical intelligent collection sources including some shared with us by partners. >> two norwegian politicians

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eastern virginia. 2 below up north of the pennsylvania border. tappahannock with snow on the ground and light winds in salisbury, zero right now. we've got 19 at reagan national. that's the warm spot easily and 8 in easton. not much of a windchill this morning but a windchill factor in a few spots running just barely below zero like martinsburg at 3 below. light winds. the snow pack allowed the very cold temperatures with the clear skies. this afternoon temps ranging from 28 in hagerstown to 35 in manassas. 33 at reagan national. we do have problems already on 270. problems already and what time is it? really early. it's been a busy week and again today. you see our traffic feature behind me. it's on the northbound side of 270 right here north of route 28. the local lanes are blocked. it was a car that went into an empty box truck and again the l