♪ it's tuesday, january 24th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." a winter nor'easter pounds the northeast with wind and heavy rain moves in, flooding roads, knocking down trees and leaving thousands in the dark. >> i've got my family. >> search crews continue to look for the missing and homeowners salvage what they can after deadly tornadoes tear through the south. focusing on employment. today, president trump will meet with the executives of three detroit automakers in a

grow the nation's manufacturing jobs. captioning funded by cbs good morning, from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. howling winds and heavy rain blasting states in the mid-atlantic through new england. millions of people in the northeast are waiting for the storm to ease today. forecasters say it's a classic nor'easter gusts are reaching 60 miles an hour. there's flooding and beach erosion along the new jersey coast. one fatality was reported in philadelphia. downed power lines, slowed trains and busy northeast corridor, utility crews are fixing outages on cape cod in massachusetts. up to six inches of snow is expected in northern new england and upstate new york. and the death toll is now 20 after a barrage of tornadoes and thunderstorms swept the southeast. georgia was hardest

accounting for 15 of the victims. a twister touched down sunday in albany in the southwest pat of the state. forecasters say it packed winds of up to 130 miles an hour. it turned a mobile home park into rubble. >> it literally look like god took half mobile home park and threw it across the street into the woods. >> four deaths were reported in mississippi and one in florida. the national weather service said 39 possible tornadoes were reported through the weekend. president trump has pledged federal help for georgia, florida and alabama. and at least four people are dead and several are missing after a fierce storm hit california. three days of record-breaking rain washed out roads and churned up waves. all but eight of the state's 58 counties are under a state of emergency emergency. mireya villarreal has the story. >> reporter: dramatic rescues played out all over california as the west coast was pelted with days of relentless

firefighters jumped in to save a family of four right before their truck was submerged by floodwaters. along san diego's coast, two women were swept away by a strong current. one was rescued by a witness. >> my daughter, my 2-year-old on my shoulder. >> reporter: violent waves pummeled california's shorelines flooding beach towns. the storm also tumbled trees and knocked out power. in the sierra mountains heavy snow. david ortiz tried to make the best of it. >> we hung out in the back and tried to stay warm. >> reporter: this is the worst storm to hit southern california in seven years, mireya villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. keeping manufacturing jobs in the u.s. will be on the agenda today when president trump meets with the heads of gm, ford and chrysler. and mr. trump said he had

killed the trade deal. craig boswell is in washington. good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, good morning. president trump mixing breakfast meeting at the white house with the big three ceos. monday he promised to cut taxes but those promised cuts come with a caveat. with a stroke of apen, president trump pulled the u.s. out of the 12-nation transpacific partnership monday vowing to pursue bilateral trade talks instead. >> great thing for the american worker what we just did. >> while republican senator john mccain called the move a serious mistake independent senator bernie sanders claimed in part if president trump is serious about a new policy to help american workers then i would be delighted to work with him." the move came the same day president trump met with leaders sl the white house pledging to

also warned of serious consequences for shipping jobs overseas. >> if that happens we're going to be imposing a very major border tax on the product when if comes in which i think is fair. >> reporter: hoping to tackle other items on the agenda, the president met with both parties. among the topics discussed stalling confirmation meetings for his cabinet nominees. late yesterday, the senate voted to confirm a third member of trump's administration. kansas representative mike pompeo who will now lead the cia, but not before hours of debate. >> it has been impossible to walk away with consistent answers on the congressman's beliefs on how he would lead the central intelligence agency. >> reporter: former exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson moved one step closer to being the next secretary of state. a senate panel voted along party lines to approve his

a senate panel has proposed the vote on ryan zenky for secretary. no date has been set just yet. >> craig boswell in washington. thank you so much, craig. ahead on "cbs this morning," we will talk with senator john mccain about why he thinks president trump made a mistake by killing the transpacific trade deal. >> the trump administration said phone calls before the new adviser and russia's ambassador were routine, even though they took place before mr. trump took office. as jeff pegues reports. >> reporter: when president trump left cia headquarters saturday a couple steps behind him was his security adviser retired general michael flynn. cbs news has learned investigators have been looking into at least one phone call in late december between flynn and russia's

united states. the call came just as dozens of russian diplomats handed out sanctioned in the wave of the cyber attack. sergey lavrov suggested on russian television that the kremlin would retaliate by expelling american diplomats. but shortly thereafter, russian president vladimir putin sending out a note saying he would not kick u.s. diplomats out of the country, instead talked about restoring russian-u.s. relations based on the policies. president-elect trump responded great move on delay by v. putin. i always knew he was very smart. so far, sources say they have found no evidence of wrongdoing. white house press secretary sean

flynn and the russian ambassador covered four topics. >> one was the loss of life that occurred in the plane crash that took the military fire. two was christmas and holiday greetings. and three was to talk about a conference in syria and isis. and four was to set up -- to talk about, after the inauguration, setting up a call between president putin and president trump. >> spicer said the men talked again recently about arranging that calm between the two presidents but nothing has been scheduled yet. spicer also said that he had asked flynn if he had spoken to any other russian officials and flynn said no. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. president trump's new press secretary also said the administration's intention is to never lie to reporters. michelle doesn't take about the debunked claim. >>

honest with the american people. >> on saturday, spicer said the audience that witnessed president trump's inauguration was the largest ever, period. the photos prove that to be false. spicer said he was including tv and online viewers. minnesota, lawmakers were stunned when the governor collapsed last night during his state of the state speech. >> get him to the ground. get him to the ground, please. >> aides to 69-year-old mark dayton said he fainted. he quickly recovered and was not hospitalized. dayton has had a history of health problems. the governor says he'll be back at work tomorrow. well, coming up on the "morning news," anti-trump tweet. a staffer at "saturday night live" isus spended for mocking barron trump. we'll show you the puppies that survived a disaster in northern

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may be short-lived. hena daniels is at the new york stock exchange and more. good morning, president trump's plans to pick up trade and tax regulation sent stocks slightly lower. the dow jones dropped 27 points, s&p 5006 points and the nasdaq dropped 2 points. president trump yesterday froze all federal hiring. he says it's the start of a plan to reduce the government workforce through attrition. a public workers' union said contractorses will have to be hired instead. security, public safety and the military are not affected. a critic of consumer friendly rule from the obama era as a new chairman of the federal trade communication. ajit pai was one of two republicans on the panel. he is expected to rule back net

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right now at 4:25, you're getting a look at the radar. we're talking about snow in the forecast right now. plus a maryland student returns from school with

less teeth than what he walked in with. his mother is stunned and confused. how a dental procedure could be performed without her even knowing. >> it's not stuffy and i'm getting to meet a lot of new friends. and how hundreds of people are calling this local diner and asking for donald trump. good morning. >> how are things shaping up out there. >> good morning guys. this is our city together and we need your voice. what are you expecting from the first 100 days of the trump administration. do you care about the health care act. should it just be thrown out completely. what should we hear from you. we want your voice, our city your voice. tkpo you care about immigration. do you

relationship with russian the trump administration has. we want to know what you think as we move forward in these first 100 days. reach out to me on twitter and facebook. any of the wusa9 channels. we want to hear your voice. >> i care about how many coffees you're going to have because you know it's going to be at least 10 cups. you have food there too. we're going to be airing some of the conversations we're having about our new president and his administration throughout the show. let's get a check of the weather forecast. we're talking about rain and snow in some areas. >> this is not too big of a deal. the ground is very warm but we're looking at a little bit of drizzle and a little bit of sleet or even snow flakes falling here across the region. this is not going to last all morning and also the ground temperature is very

about too much around the region. as you head out the door, we do have windshields. this is extremely like guys. don't worry too much about this. let's just give you a heads up. we might see a couple of flakes or sleet in with those showers, how long does this stick around? we will have some passing showers that's through the afternoon. more and more sunshine. very breezy. temperatures will stay into the 40s today and with the wind factored in, it's going to feel into the low to mid-40s. we have a very warm day headed our way before some winter temperatures return to the forecast. we'll detail everything out for you coming up in just a bit.

this early in the morning. but there's already accident on the parkway. between 100 in 32 small delays back to 100 and then you're going it's going to pick back up 17 minutes to get from 100 down to the beltway. that's about a two minute extension on your drive time. so leave about five minutes early you show fine. we have an accident between there and 155. watch out as you head toward the inner loop. former house speaker newt gingrich says madonna should be arrested for what she said saturday at the women's march in washington. madonna said she's thought an awful lot about blowing up the white house. she said she was trying to show

to the trump election, with hope or rage. doctors in houston say former president george h.w bush is sitting up, talking and asking when he can go home from the hospital. the president has been hospitalized for 10 days for treatment of pneumonia. the 93-year-old has been hooked up to a ventilator. his wife, former first lady barbara bush was releaseed from the same hospital yesterday. president trump met with owners of tesla other