. good morning. it is wednesday, january 28 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." new england slammed by heavy snow high winds and icy floodwaters. but in new york, a storm of criticism over the decision to shut down america's largest city. a professional golfer doubles down on his story of being drugged, kidnapped and beaten but an eyewitness tells a very different tale. plus the crazies come out for super bowl media day. jan crawford takes it all in ahead of the big game. we start with today's "eye opener," your world in 90

seconds. >>s thi is one of the worst ones. some houses we believe were knocked off the foundation. >> new england digs out from a blizzard. >> record-breaking snowfall. throws to 3 neat in some places. >> catastrophic flooding in massachusetts. forcedcu evaations in the coastal town of sciuate. >> there was no epic storm as predicted. >> yes, i will admit the forecast is wrong. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> jordan is ready to hand over a would-be iraqi suicideom bber if their pilot is reedleas. no mention of the japanese being held. >> deflategate. >> it's a bunch of hog wash. >> i'm just here so i won't get fined. i'm just here so i won't get fined. >> if i was the commissioner of the nfl, i would immediately fine him. >> dow dropping after a bunch of big companies missed

expectations. >> in pennsylvania a woman stea pls aeolic cruiser leading authorities on a wild chase and she did it all while she was handcuffed. >>re incdible individual arevideo of a burning home. >> we immediately ran in and wanted to get those kids out. >> and all that matters. >> i didn't want to be quarterback. i wanted to be tom braid y for god's sake. >> no kidding. >> if i could deflate that ball i'd be the perfect quarterback. >> more bad news for the new england patriots. the nfl has video of the footballs alone in an elevator with ray rice. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. >> welcome to cbs this morning. many in eastern new england are

digging out after the blizzard caused coastal flooding and damage in massachusetts. the storm is blamed for at least three deaths. >> several states are dealing with staggering amounts from the snow. hudson and three other towns in massachusetts report 36 inches. that's where anna werner is right now. good morning. >> reporter: you can see what they'll have to clean up around the city today. there's 2 feet of snow in the park. good luck getting to the newspaper boxes. many people's car have that much snow on top of them and they're facing a major challenge to dig out this morning. subways are expected to reopen and logan airport reopened this morning. after more than 24 hours is

finally stopped snowing in boston. good news for the crews trying to clear the highways and roads. state officials lifted the travel ban at midnight but urged caution and asked people to remain off the streets. >> unless you have a reason to be out, we would encourage you not to be. >> reporter: at the height of tuesday's storm, winds measuring 70 miles an hour whipped through the city. this time-lapse video shows snow piling up at 2 to 4 inches an hour. rhode island looked much like its neighbor to the north. some parts of the state received 2 feet and high winds knocked over a 110-foot replica of the historic warship, the "uss providence" breaking its mast. >> you just have to think two steps ahead. pay attention and think two steps ahead. >> reporter: many new englanders are welcoming the storm's departure but last night these bostonians ventured out.

>> we've been cooped up all day. we decided to come explore. >> reporter: so, they're going to be cleaning up today in near freezing conditions. today's high is only 24 degrees and it feels cold out here but for the kids it's more good news because they have another snow day. schools are closed again today. back to you. >> we always love a snow day. thanks very much anna. the storm surge hit the massachusetts coastline especially hard. flooding and ice are major problems this morning. the national guard had to eskew people from very dangerous conditions. kris van cleave is in marshfield, soupt of boston where big waves caused big problems. >> reporter: massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency and in plymouth county with you see why. this is a lobster track, one of many sitting on the sidewalk and in the streets. this is insulation. it came out of these homes back

here as they were pummeled by huge waves and near hurricane-force winds all from a blizzard that people say could be one of a kind. in marshfield a sea wall was breached. an 80-for the section of the barrier went down tuesday morning. the howling wind and forceful waves have punished the massachusetts coast. and late into the night the water kept rising. >> some houses we believe knocked off the foundations. more damage to those the building inspector has already been down here and he deemed those buildings to be unsafe. >> reporter: there was no stopping the high tide. the national guard rescued this man after a massive wave knocked down his door and water came rushing into his home. nantucket hid with widespread power outages. the national weather service has clocked wind gusts nearing 80 miles an hour. stone cold ice paralyzing these

homes along the atlantic coast. some people in plymouth county grabbed whatever they could and got out. >> my wife is more worried than me. she's left and gone inland to our daughter's house. i stay. i say a captain goes down with his ship you know what i mean? >> reporter: and those lingering power outages in nantucket are starting to come down but still some 4,500 customers without power on a frigid day on nantucket. stilt governor says those power outage numbers low. >> the eastern tip of long island got snow but it did not stop these surfers. bodysuits protected them from the cold water which was just above 30 degrees. this morning megan glaros

meteorologist, is watching us. >> epic snowfalls gloucester massachusetts, 33.5 inches of snow. hudson massachusetts, at 36. orient, new york, 30 inches of snow. thompson connecticut, 35. today dry conditions and a chance to dig out during the course of the day today and certainly by tomorrow. thursday into friday, we're watching this an alberta clipper, moving in the general direction of the northeast, arriving thursday into friday and will bring more snowfall. before, that it's all about the cold. after that we'll end january and start february with a bitter blast. gayle? >> you're smiling while you say that megan. thank you very much. tough new questions about why meteorologists got the blizzard forecast for new york city so so wrong and why the

entire sit shut down. we'll get into that ahead on "cbs this morning." the country of jordan is considering a prisoner swap with isis this morning. they will release a failed female suicide bomber in exchange for a jordanian pilot. it comes 24 hours after they set a timeline. holly williams is in erbil. >> reporter: good morning. we calculated the deadline set by isis for killing jen i cankenji goto at 9 a.m. eastern time. at the very moment jordan's government has agreed to release a jailed female terrorist as demanded by isis but only in return for one of its own citizens. the latest threat to kill kenji goto shows him holding a photo of another isis hostage, mu'ath al kaseasbeh, whose plane

crashed in syria during a training run last month. in this video, he says isis will execute both men unless jordan releases sajidaal rishawi, a death row prisoner who was caught after failing to detonate a suicide bomb. today kenji goto's mother from tokyo pleaded for her son's life. in jordan, a small group of protesters urged the country's king to release al rishawi. the extremists first threatened to kill kenji goto and another japanese hostage a week ago, demanding $200 million in ransom money from the japanese government. then on saturday, isis released this image, which appears to show goto holdsing up inging inging

up a photo of his beheaded comepatriot. isis has lost control of the city offof khabani. japan is desperately seeking jordan's help to secure the freedom of kenji goto and jordanians have agreed to release al rishawi in exchange for their pilot. isis has never agreed to free the pilot, just spare his livings for now. a branch of isis this morning says it carried out a deadly attack on a hotel in libya. can you see the flame from a car bomb and gunmen detonated out of

the korcorinthian hotel in tripoli. ten people died including five guards and an american. david berry was a contractor from a virginia security company. this morning two vanderbilt football players could face decades in prison after being found guilty in the gang rape of a student. >> we find corey batey guilty of aggravated rape. we find mr. vandenburg guilty of aggravated rape. >> prosecutors say they laughed and took photos as a group raped a female student in a dorm. the defense argued the men were too drunk to know what they were doing and blamed a college culture of binge drinking and promiscuous sex. golfer robert allenby says he was drugged during a tournament in honolulu.

but they are suspects after seeing these photos on facebook. vladimir dutihi is here. >> it's fair to say, none of allenby's victories never garnered the media and intense scrutiny he now finds himself under. >> i was a victim and all of a sudden you're putting the blame on me. >> reporter: robert allenby says the attack was so violent he was left with a concussion for a week. >> my story stays exactly the same as the way i told it. >> reporter: on january 16th he was at this honolulu wine bar when he was stopped by three strangers on the way t.ou later in the parking lot he says an unknown man approached him. >> 2 1/2 hours later i woke up on the street in the gutter being thrown out of the trunk of a car.

i'd been robbed. so -- and the only reason i know that part is because a homeless lady told me. she said she saw it. >> reporter: but almost immediately doubts about his story emerged. the good samaritan said allenby was already on the street by the time she arrived and never saw him thrown out of a car. >> he was already beaten was groggy, disoriented. >> reporter: senior writer for golf digest spoke to two other homeless people who saw allenby passed out curb. they said his injuries wasn't from an attack. >> one man said he leaned him against a post he fell down and fell against a rock. >> reporter: he was reported seen at a strip club about a mile away with a group of men. >> one of the men i spoke to at the club who identified himself as manager and said allenby ran up a $3400 tab. >> reporter: he insists he was drug.

>> from about 11:06 to 1:27 a.m. i have no memory. i can't tell you how frustrating that is because we all want to know the truth. >> reporter: now, according to hoggart, allenby's wallet was stolen and fraudulent charges were put on his credit card. honolulu police are investigating as a robbery but not as assault or kidnapping. new england patriots are focusing on the super bowl not the deflate controversy. one seattle seahawks thinks the investigation is worth while. jan crawford is at the university of arizona with an enviable assignment. >> reporter: patriots made clear they were done talking about deflategate. robert kraft said with the exception of tom brady, the players weren't paying attention and thought the whole thing was,

his words, hog wash. i talked to players and they said tfsz not a distraction for them. that they were focused on seattle. most of the seahawks said they weren't interested in it at this point either. one exception, though was the ever outspoken richard sherman who said this is the kind of thing that could really damage the nfl. here's what he told me. why does deflategate, why does that matter? >> i guess in a way it's just the integrity of the game you know? whether he did it or whether he didn't, if he didn't do it nothing wrong, nothing's amiss. but if he did, then the integrity of the game is in question. that's what the big deal about it, i think, is to everyone and the league and that's why the league is taking this so seriously. >> reporter: you know, sherman was a little more generous than when talking about this in the past. he said the patriots, tom braid y they care about the integrity of the game and the investigation will set the record straight. we'll have more richard sherman

and you'll see more richard sherman, all these players when we go behind the scenes at this crazy event, known as media day. that's coming up after 8:00. >> are you going to be at the game sunday? >> reporter: charlie, are you kidding me? of course i'm going to be at the game. a never been to a super bowl. i'm so excited. >> go girl. is healed up. >> reporter: it looks that way. there was controversy, whether the patriots would go after him but richard sherman, he's ready. >> looking forward to your next report. a pennsylvania woman faces a series of charges after police say she managed to steal a police cruiser and drive ten miles all while her hands were cuffed behind her. how did she do that? va vinita nair shoisws us.

>> reporter: roxanne was pulled over by center township police after a theft was reported at kohl's department store. this newly released dash cam captures his arrest but what happened next baffled officers at the scene. after she was placed in the backseat of the cruiser, she found a way to climb into the window of the driver's seat smashing into her own car as she sped off. >> with her back turned and her hands cuffed behind her back, she manages to put it into gear and drive. >> reporter: and drive fast. police say she took them on a highway chase at over 80 miles an hour, blaring the siren to avoid other cars. after about ten minutes she pulled the car over and ran off, her arms still handcuffed behind her. she was later found and arrested. she appeared in court monday. prosecutor says she faces 29 charges, including robbery,

aggravated assault and reckless endangerment. >> she not only put the person she hit in that vehicle in front of her, but also the other officers. >> reporter: her defense team argued to ed tod to lessen the charges. it's fascinating, that tiny window 11 by 12 inches. >> where did she think she was going? >> thank you. 7:19. ahead, the new debate how to stop drones after

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tough questions about whether the city should have been shut down. plus here's reason for tiger woods to smile. look, the golfer is toothless no more. he talks about last week's encounter that left him with a temporary hole in his mouth. we've got dha breakingthat breaking news. time to show you headlines. indianapolis star says governor mike pence is starting a sat-run news service. the website and news outlet will feature stories and news releases written by state press secretaries. contradicts say pence is pushing his agenda saying the service is independent news. >> what country does that remind me of. "the wall street journal" says president obama is dropping his proposal to raise taxes on 529 college savings accounts. his plan faced opposition from john boehner and top democrats. they said it would hurt the middle class. he said the white house will focus on delivering a larger

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s&p 500. the new york post looks at the uproar over the bad forecast. new york city got less than half of the snow expected. many people are grumbling the city shut down for nothing. jim is here to explain how forecasters try to explain themselves. >> reporter: forecasters in new york and new jersey apologized after the so-called storm of the century turned out to be a little less than historic. blizzard warnings led officials to close schools and roads even the subways. as a lot of people here asking if new york wasn't a little too prepared. the city of 8 million sprung back to life in well a new york minute. after the blizzard that wasn't. >> life-threatening storm. >> winter storm. >> epic. >> history. >> >> as you can see, our great city still stands. >> reporter: the storm while powerful ended up tracking 50 to 100 miles further east than

the preferred weather model predicted. as a result, new england and long island got nailed, but manhattan, which was forecast to receive up to 2 feet of snow ended up with less than 10 inches. ahead of the storm, local and state officials were quick to issue warnings. >> most likely one of the largest snowstorms in the history of this city. >> reporter: only to find themselves on the defensive after essentially shutting down the city. >> you can't be a monday-morning quarterback on something like the quarterback. >> closing subways down was a bit too far. >> reporter: strike a balance between storm prediction and preparedness has been a challenge for the state of new york. last november the city of buffalo and governor cuomo was caught offguard by the monster storm. >> sometimes the predictions turns out to be more or less accurate. that's the nature of the beast. >> this will stick with governor cuomo, this will stick with mayor de blasio. they caused a lot of

inconvenience and economic when they didn't have to. >> reporter: while cuomo and de blas sew, and gary szatkoski tweeted this mea kulpa. it came as a surprise to lonnie quinn. >> i've done this since 1997. i've never seen an issued apology associated anyone from the national weather service. >> reporter: in a conference call with reporters, the director of national weather service defended his agency's forecast but admitted there is room for improvement. >> what we learned from this storm is we all need to improve how we communicate forecast uncertainty. >> reporter: the national weather service knew this was going to be a complicated storm to predict but that didn't come across since most of the forecast emphasized the worst case scenario. that's something, they say, needs to change going forward. >> what are politicians supposed to do when you get that kind of

data? i think have you to react with what you're given. it could have gone the other way and then people would be complaining. >> rather safe than sorry. >> however, there's a lot of small businesses and stuff who lost a lot of money because people couldn't get to work or wouldn't go out, et cetera. >> i understand. i understand. but mother nature had other ideas. jim, we thank you again. this morning illinois health officials are looking into a case of the measles outside of chicago can be traced to disneyland. so far at least 8 people in 8 states have been infected. most states are in california and originate at the resort. ben tracy shows us how people are shifting attitudes about vaccines. >> reporter: it's been a busy january at this pediatrician's office in santa monica where one outbreak is rethinking parents to get vaccines. >> my patients have decide not to get the mmr and after this

outbreak they have deciding they should. >> reporter: he said he's given more mmr shots this all of last year. he advocates waiting until children are 3 to give them the mmr vaccines and thinks this measles outbreak is overblown. so, this isn't as serious of a disease as people are making out to be in your view? >> it's nothing to be taken lightly but to -- but to frighten people into getting an mmr by leading them to believe that measles has a high complication rate or a haifa talty rate is wrong. >> reporter: still doctor who works across town says the disney outbreak shut be a wake-up call to those who have opted out. about a quarter of those infected in california have ended up in the hospital. >> we hope they vaccinate their children appropriately. >> reporter: he says the rising number of cases might help

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question. >> reporter: president obama addressed the incident while traveling in india saying he wants regulators to look into drones. >> i've asked the faa and a number of agencies how are we managing this new technology? we don't have any regulatory structure at all for it. >> reporter: drones are already used commercially with special faa waivers in industries from farming to hollywood. but existing faa guidelines for hobbyists -- >> don't fly near airports or any manned aircraft. >> reporter: -- are often ignore and drones like the one that crashed at the white house are too small to be caught by existing security. >> so if we have one of these hovering around here this can hear it? >> that's correct. >> reporter: brian is the founder of drone shield a private company that alerts companies when drones are nearby and helps them pinpoint the operator. say you're a celebrity and you're worried about drones coming over your fence and photographing you naked at your swimming pool, what can you do to stop them?

>> right now there's not more you can do. the fc krment -- >> reporter: jamming a drone is illegal? >> jamming anything in the united states is illegal. >> reporter: they spot drones by sound patterns and used by a broad array of clients from nuclear plants to the rich and famous. your technology can alert people that a drone is nearby. then what do they do? >> if it's an airport can you divert airplanes to other runways. if it's the secret service, get somebody down into the safe bunker. >> reporter: technology makes it easier to find drones but stopping them is another matter. house oversight company says the federal government has the responsibility to address the potential threat. >> it affects not only secret service but law enforcement in general. this will happen at a local level, at a national level, here at the capitol or white house, you don't know. >> commercial drone operators have been waiting for years to get some guidance on exactly

what they can and can't do on these flying machines and the incident at the white house might have a silver lining on it. it might speed up the process, the federal government might do what everybody has been waiting for them to do. >> chip reid, charlie just said the same thing, this is a blessing in disguise. >> and a lot of fun, too. >> i see that. do you worry when you're swimming nude in the pool about drones -- >> all the time. >> about paparazzi, i know. >> stay away. chip, thank you again. ahead, tiger woods tries to explain his encounter that left

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woods is in arizona this morning preparing for his first golf tournament of the season. he has a full smile. some have questioned the story that a cameraman who knocked out his tooth and chipped heanotr. he was in italy supporting his girlfriend lindsey vonn when it happened. >> that didn't feel very good. the video camera on his shoulder, stood up turned and caught me square in the mouth. >> here's what i like about this story. tiger also joked about the skeleton mask he wore. he told reporters, i was trying to blend in because there are not a lot of brown dudes at s races. >> he's absolutely right about that. you know what i like about this story you? got to see tiger smile, charlie. he so rarely -- you see personality. i thought that was good. he needs to smile. >> he said it was painful. he couldn't eat afterwards. >> i learned to ski on the slope with michael jordan. >> another brown dude. >> i want to know the name of tiger's dentist.

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ing ing ly ing ly. well good morning, everybody. good morning to you. it's january 28, 2015. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we'll ask melody hobson why airlines are making record profits but are refusing to cut costs. first "eye opener at 8". >> many people's cars have that much snow on top of them. hi>> tss i insulation, which came out of these homes pummeled by huge waves and hurricane-force winds. >> albertali cpper move negotiate general direction of the northeast, arriving thursday into friday and will bring more snowfall. >> jordan's government has agreed to release a jailed female terrorist as demanded by isis. >> there were a lot of questions about deflategate. most of the seahawks said they weren't interested in it at this point either. >> i'm not going to test it.

i don't test balls. >> are you going to be at the game sunday? >> are you kidding me? of course i'm going to be at the me ga. >>to we ok a case that we eradicated and made it popular again. >> brian nearing has a company that developed a technology that lets his clients know if one of these is howeverer erhovering nearby. >> they call you monday you're here friday. how bad does he want to do a show? why are we talking to you? i think something's gone wrong. dave and regis together. i'm charlie rose with gayle and norah o'donnell. >> charlie was on the show last night, too. >> it will take new england days to recover from tuesday's devastating blizzard. some parts of massachusetts have 3 feet of snow on the ground this morning. at the peak of the storm it piled up at 2 to 4 inches an

hour as you can see in this time-lapse video. major airports and highways are open again this morning but schools, many schools, are closed. >> some of the worst problems are along the massachusetts coast. high tides and strong winds left homes and cars covered in ice. there was flooding in marshfield, south of boston after the storm that damaged the city's sea wall. >> the u.s. travel association reports the storm costs the economy $230 million and passengers lost activity due to grounded flights. despite the weather hit to the airlines the four big carriers are flying high. they had strong profits in 2014. even with the nose dive in oil prices, don't expect to see lower fares. the ceo of american said, quote, we're going to continue operating american as though oil was still above $100 a barrel. cbs news financial contributor melody hobson joins us. good morning. >> good morning. >> you hear that statement and travelers say, wait a minute oil is at a record low.

why hasn't this trickled down to me and these ticket prices. >> tell me about it. the airline industry buys $20 billion worth of jet fuel every year. 20 billion gallons, excuse me. for every dollar it goes down they save about $430 million. they've saved somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 to $50 billion just in the last six months. but it turns out, demand drives the prices not the fuel costs. and the planes are full. they're expected to be at 85% capacity in 2015. largely because the industry is consolidated into just four major carriers in the united states. and they're flying fewer routes. >> before we turn to apple, what do they do with the money they're saving? >> well american airlines gave their flight attendants a raise. we've seen them buy newer planes, which benefits the consumers flying them. last but not least, they are, of course passing this money onto

wall street in the form of dividends. their investors are benefits. >> we were talking about apple and those baffling numbers, $75 million. 75 million iphones sold. how remarkable are those numbers? what does that mean in the big, big picture? >> when the ceo says the numbers are staggering and hard to comprehend, that tells you everything. when the wall street joirnl says they sold 34,000 phones an hour. it's hard to even wrap your brain around it. it's huge. huge. >> can you wrap your brain around this they have $178 billion in cash. >> but the cash can become a problem for them because, as you know all too well many people know, cash just sitting there is not earning anything. so, they have to figure out ways to make investments that will allow them to continue to grow. and the real story here is going to be the emerging markets and specifically china. that's what you should watch when it comes to apple. >> that's where they did well

too. that was surprisingly how they did in china, russia and brazil. >> yes. where they don't have a dominant market share, they've been trying to grow in those countries. they're starting to see their strategy really pay off. >> rather have too much money where i need to decide what to do with all that money. how does apple top this, do you think? >> well, you know that's the issue. in some ways they'll be a victim of their own success because the expectations are now so high. we've got the watch coming out in the spring, so we'll see how that does. but it really -- you know trees don't grow to the sky as the old saying goes. it gets harder and harder to top these kind of stories. >> that's great. >> this ought to be said this is really an affirmation of tim cook and his leadership at apple. >> yeah. absolutely. >> melody hobson, always good to see you. thank you, ma'am. president and mrs. obama are back at the white house this morning, but there's a lot of talk this morning about tuesday's brief visit to saudi

arabia. the first lady left air force one in the saudi capital with a headscarf and women normally wear them in the muslim country. some officials at the airport chose not to shake the first lady's hand. they deny online claims that state-run television blurred out mrs. obama's head during coverage. >> the king shook her hand which is an incredible sign. it's not uncommon for women from u.s. delegation not to wear an abaya, the head covering. susan rice condoleezza rice did not wear an abay but they wore long pants. >> i wonder if people didn't deliberately not shake her hand. as you point out, the king shook her hand. >> that's the most important thing, the king shook -- it was an incredible delegation that made it there. >> jim baker.

>> former security advisers. ahead, triumph today for the friendship nine in south carolina. michelle miller talks to the men who gave up their freedom by sitting down

ahead the super bowl teams tackle unconventional questions whether they like it or not. >> i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. >> why is he there? they said he said that 29 times. >> because he can run a football. >> that's exactly right. >> thaet that's the real story. we'll show you how media day keeps seahawk players like marshawn lynch, on their toes. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ everybody wants a new romance ♪

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what stuffed animals do i like? i like like a little puppet you can kind of put your fingers in

it's a little monkey he can talk and move his fingers and nod his head so he can kind of talk back to you. what's your favorite stuffed animal? >> that's so cute. no questions are offlimits during super bowl media day. a 4-year-old girl asked bill belichick, the top question on her mind media day. they meet reporters ahead of the game. jan crawford is at university of glendale. i'm available to carry your bags. just throwing it out there. >> reporter: this first media day and i talked about the big ones what they're hoping. it's a chance for reporters to really get to know the players.

intimate substantive questions. wait did we say reporters? who are you guys? >> we're the reporters for the seahawks. >> reporter: you could call that question intimate. this guy looks substantive, but substance? at media day, there's not a lot of it. like seahawks simmons and milton are dumb founded. >> i don't know. >> reporter: this is known as media day, the time nfl sets aside for players to meet the press just five days before what could be the biggest game of their careers. >> this is not about football. >> you know what this is? entertainment. this is entertainment, is what this is. >> reporter: long-time new hampshire sports reporter tom king has been covering media day for years. this is a show. it's a production. and the nfl loves this. the nfl absolutely loves it. >> reporter: it wasn't always this way.

in the old days sportste wrirs would find the players at their hotels, or in the case of joe name ette nameth pool side. but when downtown julie brown. at the time league officials were mortified but they've come to embrace the madness. >> what's your favorite stuffed animal. >> reporter: in fact, nfl require all players attend even if they have no use for the press, like the seahawks marshawn lynch, whose approach to media day was decidedly different. >> i'm here so i w gon'tet fine. hey, i'm just here so i won't get fined. i'm here so i won't get fined. i'm just here so i won't get fined. >> reporter: if you missed that message, that's how he answered every question. lynch and other superstars get their own risers. each one can suddenly take on a

life of its own. from patriots' quarterback tom brady deflecting a serious question on deflategate. >> i know how i feel. and like i said, we'll deal with it after the season. >> reporter: to seahawks quarterback russell wilson on the one nfl rule he would like to change. >> stop fining my man marshawn lynch. >> reporter: with seahawk star richard sherman, you never know what's going to happen. >> richard sherman has some moves, huh? >> reporter: after all it's media day. in the end when we talk to seahawk player deann bayon bailey, we got caught up too. >> people ask, what's your favorite color -- >> reporter: what's your favorite color? >> red and christmas. >> reporter: like christmas. >> it's all tied in together. >> looks like fun. >> just building the anticipation for this game. >> i'm looking guard to sunday. >> so am i, the game. >> are you going to the game? >> no. >> no. shall i come over?

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americans spend more than $700 billion a year at restaurants. this year a relative newcomer to the food industry wants to create an appetite for change with pop-up restaurants. elaine quijano shows us an experiment in eateries. >> reporter: in this nondescript brooklyn warehouse, there's a food revolution brewing. more like simmering. >> you never know who you meet. you never know who's sitting down in the chairs that can potentially change your life. >> reporter: it's called dinner lab. a unique pop-up restaurant company that, like its founder, brian, is rebelling against conventional notions in the food industry. >> when we first started, we were trying to you know address late night dining in new orleans. that was the original idea. let's get a bunch of people together when restaurants typically close and have some fun. >> reporter: dinner lab is now in 24 cities with nearly 20,000 members. ee each pay a yearly membership fee up to $175 and then sign up

for each meal online for a fixed price, including tip and drinks. usually between $60 and $80. members sit at communal tables encouraging interaction, including the young chefs themselves, like 25-year-old ian from new york. >> it's an opportunity to get out there, play with your own ideas, get exposure and do something that's more about myself versus whoever i'm working for. >> reporter: creativity is a common theme. from the ingredients to the dining spaces. in just a matter of hours, dinner lab transforms venues including parking garages, old churches and local theaters. >> here we get to take a lot more chances. we can do something more obscure or super creative something that people haven't really had before. >> reporter: they've also done corporate events for major companies like google and pandora, and catered to celebrities, serving food at

salonge noles wedding. now he's looking to expand more so he's pioneering an alternate route. >> i think it's disruptive. i think it's really changing the relationship between a chef and his patrons. speaking for myself in new york it adds a whole new dimension to going out to eat. >> reporter: he's taking advantage of a recent change in securities law by crowd funding a relatively small amount of money from his members, $2 million. >> it's a huge vote of confidence that people who utilize our product come on a regular basis, are saying not only do we believe in the product you're offering but future direction of the company you laid out. >> reporter: while slower he's finding bypassing more traditional funding sources has its benefits. >> there's a lot of hooks that come along with venture capital cash. >> reporter: you retain control, some creative control, it sounds like. that's one of the big benefits.

>> creative control and also being able to move the company in directions that we see fit. >> reporter: he hopes to one day expand overseas all while building up dinner lab in the u.s. >> i think we want to be sort of that go-to resource for everything culinary. >> reporter: that's pretty ambitious. >> yeah, we suffer from a lot of things about the ambition is definitely not one of them. >> so far he has raised almost $1.5 million. one of his selling points is the idea that each diner provides direct feedback to the chef. it's a radical idea in some traditional fine dining settings. recipes and egos can be tweaked accordingly. >> sounds like a good idea. >> interesting guy. >> thank you. ahead, a real estate insider's guy to buying and selling your home and sounding smart while doing it.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour how can a home on elm court be more than a home on elm street? the zillow.com is in our green room. hold up that book spencer, proudly. pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest misconceptions in real estate. forced into hard labor defending civil rights. the friends ship nine set a new standard. we're in south carolina this morning to see history rewritten. that's ahead. it's time to show you some headlines. san jose mercury says a furniture store turned out to be a front for marijuana-growing operation. they raided the furniture store and found $2 million of pot in the back room. the store was never opened to customers. a suspect is being held on $200,000 bail. >> clever. >> the wall street journal tells us about seattle seahawks

potential weapon the team's sports psychologist. for three seasons he has worked with seahawks players and coach carroll to make sure they can understand each other and communicate effectively. "usa today" says twitter and instagram accounts of taylor swift was hacked. they posted shoutouts to swift's 20 million followers. they were deleted. and swift tweeted, cause hackers are gonna hack hack hack. >> the post says ireland's postal service is afollow polpologizing after returning her letter to santa. the father says the 3-year-old was upset when she saw it but consoled her by saying sometimes the elves get things mixed up. that's bad. >> what were the elves thinking? dad took care of that.

"the boston globe"," the new plows is called the new uber. the 225 trucks in boston area have been going nonstop. customers pay an average of $49 and plow drivers take home 70% of the fee. "the los angeles times" says company godaddy is pulling an ad it was supposed to run during the super bowl. it was previewed online yesterday following the harrowing travels of a puppy that makes his way home after being separated from its owners. >> look, it's buddy. i'm so glad you made it home. because i just sold on you this website i built with godaddy. ship him out! >> animal lovers were outraged. hours later godaddy said it would not air the ad during the big game. its ceo said, we underestimated the emotional response. >> you think? they made the right decision there. >> sell your dog.

>> yeah. not good. >> this morning a rising star is in her first grand slam semifinal. >> match points. >> 19-year-old madison keys defeated her idol venus williams, at the australian open. keys was just 5 years old when willials won her first grand slam tournament. >> it's amazing. you just have to embrace the moment. obviously, very nervous coming out, but i mean, just enjoying the moment. and i did. and i get to enjoy another moment next round. >> good for her. >> keys will face the other williams sister, top-seeded serena, in the semifinals tonight. >> i think that's cool. >> she said she's wanted to be like venus since she was 5. who are you going to call

for the long-awaited ghost busters sequel? how about an all-female lead cast. director paul twig tweeted out, you'll see a strong snl influence, kristin wiig kate mckennan and melissa mccartney. she's ours on cbs's mike & molly." they say negotiations are still under way but all four are expected to be on board when shooting begins this summer. and if you're digging out from the blizzard this morning, you might be dreaming of buying a new home. zillow.com is america's largest real estate website. it draws 90 million unique visits every month. zillow offers information on more than 110 million homes. the details used to be hard to find. spencer rascoff is the ceo, co-author of new insider's guy called "zillow talk." welcome. tell us what myths you want to debunk?

>> there's a lot. housing is so important and yet so much is just founded on folklore and dpictionzfiction. we analyze it's always better to buy than to rent. sometimes it's better to rent than buy. we look at what type of remodeling projects earn the best return on investment. and we also look at this myth you should always buy the worst home in the best nate neighborhood. -- neighborhood. the data doesn't bear that out. >> you say all remodeling is not created equal. we heard kitchens. we didshowed the before and after. >> data says you should not remodel your kitchen. you should remodel a bathroom. everybody needs a bathroom -- >> everybody needs a kitchen, too. >> but people have very specific tastes about a kitchen. if you remodel a kitchen in a very nice way that may be lost on a potential buyer. if you're just focused on

return, a storeroom or bathroom. >> you said basement too? >> basement doesn't pay out. a lot of chapters analyze it and that's what the data says. >> locations location location, how do you know a great neighborhood that's an up and coming neighborhood where you'll get a good return on your investment? >> by the time a neighborhood is hot, it's already happened. home values there already appreciated. you want to buy a home in the next hot neighborhood. the great way to do that is to look at what neighboring -- this halo effect. >> you say a starbucks. >> starbucks should be your guide. homes near starbucks over the last 17 years have appreciated at 96%. homes near dunkin' donuts at 80%. nationwide homes have appreciated 80%. a huge premium to be near starbucks. whoa analyze in the book is it starbucks is great althought picking

locations or it's about urban renewal? it's a little of each. >> words matter when you list a house. >> we analyze millions of listings over the last ten years and certain words you want to avoid and certain words you want to include in your listing descriptions. >> what are the bad words? >> bad are unique. >> which means transincision. >> which means not for everyone. >> tlc? >> probably means a mess. and nice means, not so nice. it basically means that the agent and the seller have nothing unique -- no pun intended to say -- about the home so they use throwaway homes. >> let's talk about the future of the housing market. >> hopefully, we forecast it's going to be a little more boring, which is good. less volatile. next 12 months we're forecasting 2% to 4% deappreciation is good. which means a little more of a return. >> interest rates? >> interest rates will probably go up certainly by third quarter. mortgage rates at-r at a

20-month low. they'll go up when the fed eventually moves. if you haven't refinanced your mortgage already, now is the time to do so. >> most people know zillow because you can type in your own address in google and a zestimate comes up but people say it's off by a lot. >> our median error is 8%. we value every home in the country every night. we use a lot of complex mathematics to do so. it's not the end all, be all. it's a starting point. if you want a more accurate opinion of your home you should talk to a real estate agent and appraiser. >> you talk about real estate agents, men and women. >> there are significant differences. we have a chapter that analyzes this. women are better at getting the deal done. they're more willing to negotiate, more willing to cut the price, therefore they sell homes two weeks faster than men real estate agents. >> you say men are ruthless.

>> they're more stubborn. they're better at determining the asking price up front. there are ratings and reviews of real estate agents online. a million reviews of real estate agents on zillow. >> stands for what? >> zillions of pillows, two sides of real estate data and emotion. two sides of real estate. >> very interesting. spencer rascoff, thank you very much. ahead, more than half a century of injustice. this morning for the friendship nine. michelle miller is at the courthouse. >> reporter: they simply tried to sit down for lunch one day, right around the corner and that crime cost them dearly. coming up on "cbs this morning," our conversation with civil rights heroes on the bittersweet day they long waited for.

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♪ a decade's long wait for justice for nine civil rights protesters finally comes to an end this morning. michelle miller is in rock hill south carolina and she spoke with the men who helped transform america and the woman who helped change their fate. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, 54 years ago nine activist activists went to prison for their roles in a civil rights

protest. in just a few hours, these surviving members of this group will leave this courthouse with clean records. just one more step in righting the wrongs of the past. >> we just got tired of being second-class citizens. >> reporter: these life-long friends were just teenagers back in 1961. students at rock hill's friendship college. the civil rights movement was exploding around them as protesters across the south confronted segregation head on. >> we were often kicked spit on cursed out. >> reporter: clarence graham and the men who have become known as the friendship nine spent months preparing to enlist in the movement. so this wasn't on a whim. it was carefully orchestrated. >> oh, no, no no this was planned definitely to the "t." we had to because our lives were at stake. >> reporter: on a cold january day they walked up to the white's only lunch counter at mccrory's with the intention of simply sitting down.

a quiet act of defiance met with violence. >> i didn't get to sit down. as soon as i started to sit, i was snatched up thrown on the floor right there and dragged out of this door out the back to the jailhouse. >> reporter: the sit-in strategy started at a northolworth counter in 1960. and brought much needed attention to the cause. but it was also bankrupting civil rights groups because bailing out protesters was expensive. so the friendship nine chose an alternative alternative. jail, no bail. rather than pay a fine they accept aid conviction of trespassing and were sentenced to hard labor. >> the naacp, they couldn't afford it any longer. had to find a method of getting something done without spending their money. >> reporter: were you the first -- >> we were the first students to go to jail to stay in jail. >> reporter: and you served your time. >> we served the time. >> we served the time. >> reporter: it was a hard 30 days in prison. but nothing compared to carrying

that conviction over the next 54 years. >> like dragging a chain behind you. you know you always had it, back then, the memory. and any time you would fill out an application, you always had to tell them. and you wonder whether, is it going to affect whether you got a position or not. >> reporter: was it a burden or was it a badge of honor? >> i think it was a badge of honor. it was. i think all of us realized that we had tapped on something. >> i love the idea that they didn't set out to be heroes or anything. >> reporter: three years ago rock hill native kimberly johnson was writing a children's book when she came across the story of the friendship nine. >> when i asked them i said what was it that made you do it? they said they wanted freedom more. when we talk about freedom, it wasn't just going to mccrory's to sit down and eat. we're talking about the right to choose, the right to walk down

the street without getting spit on. that's freedom. that's what they wanted. >> reporter: she convinced them that their next act towards freedom was erasing the record of their unjust conviction. so johnson went to see rock hill solicitor kevin brackett. he will present their case in court, arguing their conviction would never stand today because it was based solely on the color of their skin. >> i'm giving them back what they are entitled to which s you know their dignity and their ability to say, i broke no laws. >> reporter: what is the lesson here? >> perseverance. perseverance. we knew that eventually all of this would come to fruition. and we would have to be exonerated. >> reporter: you knew that? >> i knew that a long time ago. nobody asked. >> reporter: an interesting part of this case, gayle, is that the lawyer who originally

represented them back in 1961 he'll be standing beside them in court today. and the judge who will clear their name is the nephew of the judge who originally convicted them. >> oh my gosh michelle. >> such an an unbelievable story. >> just that goose bump moment after goose bump moment and then just another button. it makes me want to cry when you think what those men have been through. >> it makes me upset. makes me very upset. for 50 years to wait for that. >> that's why it's so important we tell these stories. i'd never heard of the friendship nine i'm embarrassed to say. >> what aij beautiful story. the girl who too a hands-on approach. how she helped medics after a car crash.

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a 10-year-old can girl is being called a hero this morning because she knew the signs. >> are you hurt? >> she heard a car crash this morning while playing outside. she helped first responders communicate with a hearing-impaired driver using sign language her mom taught her. >> we would not have been able to even establish what her injuries were without significant delays of trying to develop other means of communication. >> paramedics honored her on monday. the crash victim recovered from her injuries. she jumped right in and helped out. >> that does it for us. for news any time anyplace logon to cbs.com. you can visit cbs.com and we'll se

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