♪ it's tuesday, december 13th, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." president-elect trump announces his selection for secretary of state today. exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson. but the pick is causing ken over the next administration's relationship with russia. >> he does massive deals in russia. he does massive deals for the company. for himself for the company. mean while, the president obama weighs in. >> this was not a secret running up to the election. and an arctic blast is

morning. a look at how low temperatures will go. captioning funded by cbs good morning, good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. this morning, president-elect trump plans to announce that exxonmobil chief rex tillerson is his selection for secretary of state, questions about the ties to russia come as congressional leaders say they support investigations into the possible russia cyber attacks to influence the election. hena daniels is here in new york. good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. overnight, russian president vladimir putin said he's ready to meet with the next president of the united states. in fact, he wants to give mr. trump time to form his administration first. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump hinted of his secretary of state announcement in a tweet. praised rex tillerson in an interview with fox news.

business executive. i mean, he's a world class player. >> reporter: the development came moments after top contender mitt romney a strided never trump voice during the campaign confirmed in a facebook post that he was out of the running. saying, quote, my discussions with president-elect trump have been both enjoyable and enlightening. tillerson who has no government experience is expected to face an uphill climb. given close ties to russian president vladimir putin. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they support calls for the ceo trying to get trump ele elected. >> i think we ought to approach all of these issues on the assumption that the russians do not wish us well. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news that president-elect will also nominate rick perry to serve as director of energy. the very department he said he would

mr. trump took to social media last night to address plans for his business dealings. writing two of my children, don and eric, plus executives, will manage them. no new deals will be done during my years in office. president-elect is selected to announce mr. romney's niece for the claire. president obama addressed the alleged russia interference in the presidential election. >> this was not a secret running up to the election. the president-elect in some of his political events specifically said to the russians, hack hillary's e-mails. so that we can finally find out what's going on. and confirm our conspiracy theories. >> now, it was at a campaign appearance back in july that

spy on hillary clinton. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> mr. trump said he was only joking. he continues to dismiss reports that russia did anything to help him get elected. but the cia is standing by the assessment that russia tries to smear the election by making embarrassing e-mails. jeff pegues has details. >> reporter: the evidence that russia was trying to influence the election goes back to mid-june when e-mails, opposition research and campaign information stolen before the democratic national committee appeared online. u.s. investigators said the russians were to blame. did their actions impact one candidate over another? >> pie would say that the actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. >> reporter: adam myers

for crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that investigated the hack and works closely with u.s. intelligence. what did you see? >> imagine somebody breaks in a bank and they used some kind of special saw to cut through the safe. we found that saw as they were using it. >> reporter: so you caught them in action? >> we did. >> reporter: myers said it was hackers he nicknamed fancy bearings and cozy bears. the information they obtained was passed on to wikileaks and made public. the hackers also gained access to some republican files but that information never became public. even after being exposed, the hacks against democrats continue. this is pretty bold, pretty brazen in a lot of ways. >> it's very russian. >> reporter: what do you mean by that? >> i don't think that the russians are shy or necessarily pull back after something like that happened. they're doing their thing. >> one reason the cia bve

scales to trump. they've used similar tactics to favor candidates before. most recently the elections in ukraine. no one was saying that the actual vote count in the u.s. was hacked. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. well, coming up on "cbs this morning," we'll discuss donald trump's choice for secretary of state with john zdickerson. the storm system that hit the midwest is just the beginning some areas will see windchill has register 30 degrees below zero. brutal. chief meteorologist erik fisher of our boston station wbz has our forecast. >> well, the arctic air is reload yet again. it's been a theme this december. and the next batch is moving through friday, and the harshest of it

by the end of the week. here's our windchill values as we look towards wednesday evening. 30 below zero in national falls in bismarck. and heading to chicago, by the time we get to thursday morning, that cold is sliding east. by friday, windchills 30 below zero in vermont, maine and even the higher elevations of massachusetts. record territory, about 15 below in bismarck, 16 in st. louis, the core of that cold sliding east as we head into thursday. the coldest temps northeast arriving on friday. a really frigid stretch. also a bit of good news, moving to the west coast. the next storm system moving into california, heavy rainfall and snow midweek and sliding back down the coast as we get to thursday. that rain will get all the way to southern california, could cause rain and much

i'm erik fisher for cbs news. a los angeles flight diverted to new york following a bomb threat was given the all clear. the lufthansa flight called into led quarters in germany. the pilot went in as a precaution last night. passengers and crew were evacuated on the airbus. no one was injured. delta said she did not comply with proper boarding and tech procedures. one witness said she blew by the agent without checking in. she refused to leave the airplane when asked. the woman was taken into custody following the incident. dylann roof, the man accused of killing nine people in a black church had a list of other churches in his car. but roof told the fbi he was too worn out after the shooting at the ame church to

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good morning. a major announcement coming from president-elect donald trump about his team this morning. he is expected to tap the exxon ceo as his nominee as secretary of state. mitt romney is out. and she is the grandmother you don't want to mess with.

just earned a black belt. plus, ordering your holiday gifts online, this is the week to do it. if you don't, it probably won't get there by christmas. temperatures are about to take a nose dive. good morning, melissa nord. >> and a big nose dive. by this time thursday morning, we are talking about wind chills in spots down in the single digits easily. so right now, enjoy the next couple days because we still make it into the 40s this afternoon. and right now, we are starting off at 40 degrees in town. mostly cloudy, a north wind at 6 miles per hour. and the clouds today prohibit the temperatures from warming into the 50s like yesterday. and we have 30s showing up on this tuesday. 30 in frederick. leesburg at 36. and 38 in frederiksberg. mostly cloudy skies stick around today. only a stray shower possible towards the late afternoon and a few showers into late this evening. temperature-wise,

today. something on the roadway, regency 5, some kind of obstruction southbound. so watch out there. seeing delays in the northbound lanes. on the double spur road, eastbound lanes past the beltway, there is construction. no delays yet. and suitland parkway westbound, we had a single vehicle crash. it has now cleared. looks like traffic is moving okay there. mike and jan. >> thank you. we are expecting to learn more about what happened when the el faro cargo ship sunk back in october 2015. it went down during hurricane joaqumn. now transcripts from the data recorder were recovered about a year later. [no audio ]

f0 all right, this morning and today, nothing compared to what is on the way late they are week. 40 in washington. and charlottesville, you can see, yes, it's colder to the north, cleveland, pittsburgh, both in the 20s. but further to the north, temperatures much colder and the cold weather will

in this direction. so in d.c., we're going to see 40s today. there's another arctic blast that's already starting to make its way into the midwest today. and it arrives here into late the tomorrow night. for this afternoon, we keep a mostly cloudy sky around. there will be a couple showers around as we head into the evening. we will talk about the colder temperatures coming up. taking a look at 50 to see how the drive in from prince george's county will be this morning, looking good actually. it's eight minutes starting at the 301 split making your way to the beltway. and beltway to the d.c. line, just five minutes. so smooth sailing. the accident at suitland parkway, the westbound lanes has cleared. so you are good to go heading into d.c. on suit land this morning. and dull -- suitland parkway this morning. and dulles toll road, there's construction there. not seeing it really slowing down. as far as metro goes, if you are riding th