scott, tomorrow, classes will resume here on campus, and the library will reopen. >> pelley: anna werner in tallahassee tonight. anna, thank you. today for the first time japan's takata corporation faced questions from congress about its defective airbags. at least six deaths are link to the air bags which can explode sending metal shards flying. jeff glor is following this. >> reporter: air force lieutenant stephanie erdman was today's opening witness. she first told us her story in september and came to washington, she said, to be a voice for those who have been silenced. erdman barely survived an airbag explosion inside a honda civic last year. >> since that day, i have endured multiple surgeries and therapies. i have more to go still. my vision will never be the same. i will never be the same. >> reporter: takata executive hiroshi shimizu said the company was deeply sorry that airbags did not perform as they should. senator dean heller of nevada. >> i think there was something that was amiss in your testimony, and that was nowhere does it say takata takes full responsibility. does ta

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anna werner on a big change for many students applying to college. and on veterans day, mark strassmann with a soldier's new mission-- to stop the epidemic of military suicides. >> it's not a sign of weakness to get help. it's a sign of strength. >> captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. in the blink of an eye, the seasons changed as the polar vortex sent arctic air deep into america's heartland. highways became sheets of ice in omaha. st. cloud, minnesota, got more than 13 inches of snow, a record for november. here's how quickly it's spreading. wichita, kansas, tied a record yesterday at 77 degrees. it could plunge to 15 overnight. sanford, texas, has gone from 85 to an expected low tonight of 12. we have more now from jamie yuccas of wcco, our cbs station in minneapolis. in minneapolis. >> reporter: in nebraska, icy roads and stuck cars brought traffic to a crawl and put people power to the test. curtis flowers spent the morning moving cars off the road. >

but as anna werner reports, some schools are thinking that. >> reporter: it's natalie casimir's firsty in north carolina. to get in she had a high school gpa of 3.7 and a long list of honors and extracurricular activity. one thing she did not have to submit, her s.a.t. score. >> i was like no way, no way. >> you didn't believe it. >> i didn't. i did not. >> wake forest is one of a growing number of schools that has dropped the requirement for an s.a.t. score, traditionally a key admission criteria. some 800 schools now let students apply without it. marshal alderman sees many students. >> we see students who don't test well. they vl all the tos to be successful college students but that saturday morning test is their nemesis. >> reporter: casimir says she studied hard for her s.a. the test but still got an average score of 1580. >> i feel like nothing i did would have been good enough to get me ahead of those numbers. >> caller: the college board which administers the s.a.t. calls the exam essential and says combining test scores with the student's high school gpa offers the best pred

anna werner, cbs news, winston, salem, north carolina. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "treme cold across much of the u.s. we will be live from denver and get your forecast. >>> plus, presidential memories. george w. bush shares stories about his father george h.w. bush. >>> and comedian russell brand shares his note to self. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, november 12. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. we're nearly sitting at 4:30. we have a little traffic and weather to talk about. and some rain. >> yeah. i got a chance of some rain coming our way not just yet. we are going to see clouds. we have a lot of clouds out there now. going to have to wait until the evening hours with some showers headed our way and looks like we have plenty more to come. we'll talk about that coming up.

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anna werner on what's becoming a cheap, dangerous alternative to pain pills-- mexican heroin. and mark phillips on war and remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice a century ago. >> it just brings home the number of lives that were lost, m

anna werner on what may have driven the gunman to open fire. who's watching the baby? charlie d'agata tells us russian hackers. and jim axelrod with the director who said he was just trying to make a nice little movie. >> mrs. robinson, you're trying to seduce me. >> pelley: here's to you, mike nichols.

anna werner on what's becoming a cheap, dangerous alternative to pain pills-- mexican heroin. and mark phillips on war and remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice a century ago. >> it just brings home the number of lives that were lost, some might say

for "cbs this morning" anna werner, dallas. >> nice to see everybody pull together to help him out. >hearing from the boston bombing survivor who lost her lower left leg this week. we followed her story since the attack more than a year ago. she had more than a dozen operations and also got married last march. well she revealed on facebook she decided to have her left lack amputated below the knee. she told us everything is important. >> my priorities are in order. i hold my son a little more and love my husband a little more. i'm so excited. i know i'm not going to get a prosthetic right away but if i do, i'll very stubborn and will get one as soon as possible. i'm excited to keep encouraging other people to keep fighting. just what the future holds. endless possibilities and a bucket list a mile long. i'm ready to get started. >> her surgeons say she's a quote inspiration to us all. what a difficult journey she's been on, but the strength she has. >> i marvel people who can go through that and say i want to help you too. nicely done, rebecca. >>> can woman behind that unm k unmistak

anna werner on a big change for many students applying to college.veterans day, mark strassmann with a soldier's new mission-- to stop the epidemic of military suicides. >> it's not a sign of weakness to get help. it's a sign of strength. >> captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news"

anna werner on a big change for many students applying to college. on veterans day, mark strassman with a slaenl new mission-- to stop the emdemmic of military suicides. >> it's not a sign of weak tons get help. it's a sign of strength.

anna werner on what may have driven the gunman to open fire. who's watching the baby? charlie d'agata tells us russian hackers. and jim axelrod with the director who said he was just trying to make a nice little movie. >> mrs. robinson, you're trying to seduce me. >> pelley: here's to you, mike nichols.

anna werner on what's becoming a cheap, dangerous alternative to pain pills-- mexican heroin.illips on war and remembrance of those who made the ultimate sacrifice a century ago. >> it just brings home the number of lives that were lost, some might say wasted. captioning sponsored by cbs

anna werner shows how the invention dramatically improved life for one little boy. >> reporter: ask himtic for roughly $20. >> it's an amazing $20. >> an amazing $20. >> normally the material costs like about a thousand. >> he's right. children like holden born without handing or fingers, in his case the fingers on his left hand often require custom prosthetic replacements costing thousands of dollars but this creative device was created by a college student using a 3-d printer. he took on the project after learning about holden from one of his professors. he used instructions posted on the internet called the sideboard beast and customized it. it builds the part in under 24 hours. >> in the end what you wind up with is this. >> right. so the way this works is it straps onto holden's hand and onto the end of his firearm. when he moves his wrist in the fingers close and when he moves his wrist out, the fingers open. >> do they -- grip strength. they actually do have grip strict. >> yes. >> his goal, for holden to be able to do things the rest of us take for granted. >> to be able to eat

our anna werner has been there. >> nice to meet you. >> how are you doing?it's an unusual art hunt. it was abstract painting. >> this is a flying saucer. >> one that launched these two men on nine-month road trip across america. >> it's a hundred plastic bags that i twisted. hundreds of hours. >> the men and curator chad alligood are emissaries from the crystal bridges museum of american art in arkansas. museum founded by the wal-mart heiress. their mission, find undiscovered artists to showcase in one of a kind contemporary art show in america's heartland. >> wherever you live might be great genius artist right next door. if you haven't paid attention to that it's worth doing. >> together the pair visited nearly 1000 studios in 44 states logging over 100,000 miles along the way. often to places gps couldn't find and curators never visit. everything from a ghost farm in florida to an abandoned church in texas. to this converted school in rural kansas. why was this compelling to you the idea that you would get to travel 50,000 miles going to basements and gar

toy expert elizabeth werner says kids don't want to let "frozen" go. >> they are looking for anna ands well. anything with the music built in from the dolls to costuming, kids are looking for. >> reporter: other characters on hot lists, transformers, even resurgent '90s nostalgia like the teenaged mutant ninja turtles and elmo. >> we are seeing a huge amount of classics that are re-emerging. lots of toys that everyone remembers. and just sort of that back to basic playtime that inspires creativity and imagination. >> reporter: jewelry is big for girls and an old favorite tops the list of the must-haves for boys. leggoes. >> what's nice about a project like this, everyone can sit together and work as a family and that's the best quality bonding time and at the holidays, when a great idea. >> reporter: whether high or low tech, experts say not to wait around for deals on coveted toys. missing out on a smiling face on christmas morning, that's just too costly. >> the day after thanksgiving has its ups and downs for charitable agencies like st. anthony's. it's the day when it collects som