that would be a troubling picture. >> pelley: anna werner is joining us now. na let's look in the future a little bit. what would happen if the supreme court ruled in favor of the administration, but the company still refused to cover birth control? >> reporter: well, at that point, scott, if hercules industries chose not to cover contraception, its attorneys say the company would face fines. how much? by their calculation a company of that size, those fines could amount to as much as $26,000 per day. >> pelley: anna, thanks very much. the court is expected to hear arguments in this case in march. more positive signs in the economy today. the nasdaq composite!u closed above 4,000 for the first time in 13 years. investigators were encouraged by today's housing data. home construction is up 13.9% over the same time last year. home prices are up 13.3% over last year. all of this is feeding into a remarkable trend. remember the millions of americans who have been upside down on their mortgages? well, ben tracy has found that many are getting their heads above water

anna werner is in dallas for us tonight. anna? >> reporter: scott, half of the dead and many of those injured in storm-related traffic accidents were here in texas. parts of west texas got as much as five inches of snow, but it was ice that caused the most travel problems. nearly 500 flights were canceled at dallas fort worth airport. evan van doren was trying to get to indiana. >> i look forward to thanksgiving all year long. having a day cut off this trip is not the best thing in the world for me. >> reporter: icy conditions crept east into oklahoma, causing this s.u.v. to flip over and a 12-car pileup in arkansas. the mayhem kept tommy easter ling and his wrecking service busy. >> people don't realize when they cross those bridges that they've got ice on them. when they cross it, they lose it. >> reporter: but the same system was a welcome holiday boost for ski areas in colorado. they expect their best season in six years. and in utah tonight rescuers are searching for five college students who were on a backpacking trip about

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anna werner has been investigating. >> you're standing on top of the keystone x .l. pipeline right now. >> reporter: crews finished laying the southern half of the keystone oil pipeline through david whitley's texas property last year. so he was surprised in may when a work crew began to unearth the pipe. >> i asked, "is there something wrong?" that's exactly what i said. "is there something wrong?" they said, "no, we just want to visually inspect a small section of the pipeline." >> reporter: whitley took video of the section they dug up. it had been laid on top of a massive rock. workers wrote, "dented, cut out." so what was your reaction when you saw this? >> well, when i saw it i thought they should have done a better job when they first laid the pipe about getting rid of that rock. >> reporter: we obtained warning letters written over the past two months to trans-canada from the federal agency that regulates pipelines. this september 10 letter warned the company it was not following its own construction specifications because dents on the pipe were found at dig

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but texas could see the biggest travel disruptions today and our anna werner is in dallas. good morning. >> reporter: good morning norah and charlie. the temperatures here have stayed just above freezing. so most of what they have seen right here in the city of dallas has been rain. but there is icing in the outlying areas where temperatures are just a little bit lower. we've also seen some scattered p power outages. in amarillo, a snow and freezing rain led to hazardous driving conditions there. icy roadwaysse and snow coated midland, texas where public safety officials cautioned drivers, even told them take sleeping bags and blankets with them in their cars because of the falling temperatures. and as the snow moves farther west, drivers throughout the dallas/ft. worth area are dealing with wet road, rain on the verge of freezing, salt and sand trucks were out in force trying to prevent some of the dangerous road conditions that we have seen out west. also at the dallas/ft. worth airport, hundreds of flights were canceled for today in fact, about a third of the airport's d

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