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david begnaud, cbs news, tallahassee, florida. folks here in hampton roads are also making a mad dash - to get their powerball tickets. newschannel three will have tonight at 6. lawmakers headed back to richmond - and newschannel three was there. how they plan to spend your tax dollars - ahead at 5:30. plus - we re dealing with the cold - while other parts of the country are dealing with blizzard conditions. see the big mess it s causing for many hookahs may be a hot trend - but did you know they are more toxic than cigarettes? that )s according to a new study released by the university of pittsburgh school of medicine. researchers say smoking hookah exposes the smoker to 125 times the smoke - 25 times the tar - nearly 3 times the nicotine and 10 times the carbon monoxide as smoking a cigarette. ahead at 5:30 - how will lawmakers spend your money this year. newschannel three heads to richmond to find out. then at 6 -- you know the mayor s council meeting was the first as virginia lawmakers begin discussions over controversial new

and as david begnaud shows us, a state that is flooded with water is now having problems finding enough for victims to drink. david: just southwest of st. louis, towns are under water, roadways look like rivers, and homes have been swallowed by water. >> we're still at a flood stage of 42.31 feet, so it's going to go down, but that's a lot of water the levee's holding right now. david: in arnold, missouri, hundreds of people find themselves this new year's day without a home, and temperatures are now dropping below freezing. >> until this goes down and they can come and check our homes and make sure they're safe, we can't live in them, so we're going to be out of a place to stay for a couple of weeks at least. >> just keep us updated. thank you for david:. lost their house in arnold from the floods, but for her and her family, despite their enormous loss, the new year brings a sense of hope. >> oh my lord, it's a new beginning. i have a great grandbaby coming in. david: david begnaud, cbs news, st. louis county, missouri. kim: in little rock, the arkansas river is expected to crest toni

but as david begnaud reports.. areas. the mississippi river is hitting record high levels in the state of missouri.. but the giant flood wall that protects the city of cape girardeau is holding. (house) outside that wall it's a much different story. (stop sign) in low lying areas the water couldn't be stopped. (steven cook/cape girardeau public works director) david: "has cape girardeau ever seen almost 50 feet of water" steven: "no this is the most we've ever seen" we took a ride with public works director steven cook and found vehicles nearly submerged. water street took on a whole new meaning in this neighborhood where homes and businesses have succummed to the water. cape girardeau was devastated by the so called great flood of 1993. afterward most people in these flood prone areas took a government buyout and left. those who stayed behind are now seeing flood waters even higher than 93. (gov. bruce rauner/illinois) "this is one of the worst." on the other side of the river.. illinois governor bruce rauner (r- ow-ner)

david begnaud, cbs news, st. louis county, missouri. >>> the mother of a texas teen who blamed a deadly drunk driving crash on affluenza is spending new year's day in a los angeles jail. prosecutors say tonya couch will not return to texas until next week to face charges of helping her son escape to mexico. 18-year-old ethan couch is fighting mexican efforts to deport him. he could face jail time in texas if investigators find he violated his prosecution. >>> bill cosby is facing a defamation suit separate from the criminal charges filed against cosby wednesday in pennsylvania. camille cosby says the law does not force her to testify against her lawyers say she they will appeal. >>> wayne rogers played trapper john mcintyre and alan alda's side-kick in the early years of mash. >> you're not getting in the ring with that guy until i hear him speech. >> ji called in a chicken. >> we are not throwing in the towel. >> rogers left m.a.s.h. after 15 years on television. spokeswoman said wayne rogers died thursday from

david begnaud has the latest from cape girardeau, missouri. >the mississippi river is hitting record high levels in the state of missouri.. but the giant flood wall that protects the city of cape girardeau is holding. (house) outside that wall it's a much different story. (stop sign) in low lying areas the water couldn't be stopped. (- steven cook/cape girardeau public works director) david: "has cape girardeau ever seen almost 50 feet of water" steven: "no this is the most we've ever seen" we took a ride with public works director steven cook and found vehicles nearly submerged. water street took on a whole new meaning in this neighborhood where homes and businesses have succummed to the water. cape girardeau was devastated by the so called great flood of 1993. afterward most people in these flood prone areas took a government buyout and left. those who stayed behind are now seeing flood waters even higher than 93. (sgov. bruce rauner/illinois) "this is one of the worst." on the other illinois governor bruce rauner (r- ow-ner) says hundreds o

david begnaud reports. >> reporter: southwest missouri towns are under water. roads look like rivers and homes some are nearly submerged. >> we are at a flood stage of 42.31 feet so it's going to go down but that's a lot of water the levey is holding right now -- levee is holding right now. >> reporter: in arnold missouri hundreds are finding themselves without a home. and temperatures are now dropping below freezing. >> until this goes down, and they can come and check our homes and make sure they are safe, we can't live in them. so we are going to be out of a place to stay probably for a couple weeks at least. >> okay. keep us updated thank you. >> reporter: the thorn family has lost their home in arnold due to the flooding. but for linda thorn, this new year brings a sense of hope. >> oh my lord. it's a new beginning. i got a great grand baby coming in. >> reporter: david begnaud st. >>> turning to the weather at home, kind of a sunny but gray day and depends on where you are really. this is a live look at gillette stadium the puck will drop in less than an

david begnaud reporting tonight. david, thank you. in the northeast, this was the warmest december on record. the average temperature in concord, new hampshire, 38 degrees, was the warmest since 1868. 51 in new york's central park, the warmest in 147 years. 51 in philadelphia broke the record set in 1874. for businesses that rely on snow, rising temperatures mean plummeting profits. here's demarco morgan. >> reporter: with near-empty lifts and near-barren slopes, this wasn't the ski trip jackeline vasquez was hoping for. >> it's a mess. it's a mess. the snow's wearing down. this is the last time i'm going. i'm going home now. >> reporter: unseasonably warm temperatures left skiers scrambling. vicki said this one trail at jack frost ski resort in pennsylvania was their only option. >> every single one closed, closed, closed, until we get here and they said we just have one trail open. very disappointing. >> reporter: this barren landscape is a far cry from the winter wonderland of last year. >> it's not best-look snow, but at least we'

flooded. >> glor: david begnaud, thank you very much. the west coast is bracing for a wild weather week. it's a wave of rain associated with el nino. beginning tonight four storms are expected to bring drought relief but also potentially mud slides. >> an entire neighborhood evacuated by a gas leak gets more bad news outside los angeles. and a final salute to the hug lady of forthood hood, texas c following this story of a massive methane leak in california. it's in porter ranch, a neighborhood on the northern edge of los angeles. mireya villarreal reports neighbors are being told it may be months before they can go home. >> do you miss your house? >> reporter: eight year old nate soderlund is among hundreds of children forced out of their porter ranch homes by an odor they can't see but with effects so many have felt. his mother christine. >> i have been gnaw shus. i've felt lethargic. my kids have had nose bleeds, they've had headaches. >> reporter: two schools have closed because of abnormally high level of methane but residents feel

i have a great grandbaby coming in. >> reporter: david begnaud, cbs news, st. louis county, missouri. >> today the music world and fans mourning the loss of natalie cole. the singer died at the age of 65. cbs reporter chris martinez takes a look back at her life and her music. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: her voice was unforgettable. the music in her blood. natalie cole followed in the footsteps of her famous father nat king cole finding her voice and success along the way. she won the first of nine grammys in 1975 with the hit this will be. in 1979 she received a star on the hollywood walk of fame. but in 1991 her popularity reached new heights with her hit, unforgettable, a virtual duet with her late father. ♪[ music ] >> unforgettable too ♪ >> reporter: but through years of success, there were setbacks. cole developed an addiction to drugs and alcohol entering a rehab program in 1983. >> it was such a revelation actually for me to start liking myself after all these years. i didn't realize i was still grieving for my father at 30- something. >> reporter: cole was

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david begnaud reporting tonight. david, thank you. >>> in the northeast, this was the warmest december on record. the average temperature in concord, new hampshire, 38 degrees, was the warmest since 1868. 51 in new york's central park, the warmest in 147 years. 5151n philadelphia brokekehe record set in 1874. for businesses that rely on snow, rising temperatures mean plummeting profits. here's demarco morgan. >> reporter: with near-empty lifts and near-barren slopes, this wasn't the ski trip jackeline vasquez was hoping for. it's a mess. the snow's wearing down. this is the last time i'm going. i'm going home now. >> reporter: unseasonably warm temperatures left skiers scrambling. vicki said this one trail at jack froro ski resort in pennsylvania was their only option. >> every single one closed, closed, closed, until we get here and they said we just have one trail open. very disappointing. >> reporter: this barren landscape is a far cry from m e winter wonderland of last year. >> it's not best-looking snow, but at l

david begnaud, cbs news, tallahassee, florida. >> i will be on my smartphone. >> yes. what?because of the high volume ticket sales lottery officials say it will take hours after the drawing to sort through all the numbers and determine if there's a winner or winners. >>> these workers were not smiling after saturday's drawing. the 42-person pool at this new jersey restaurant was elated then deflated after the ticket they thought was a winner was a loser. the mix-up happened because they were looking at winning numbers from an earlier drawing. a refresh of the lotto's website revealed the news. >> i'm sure i would have lost all the employees, the dishwashers are very happy they don't have to wash dishes anymore. the valet park -- >> one of the restaurant's employees said they took it easier knowing no one in the u.s. won saturday night. but that's -- >> just the fact that they hit numbers from another drawing says maybe they will be lucky. >> i don't know. >> fingers crossed for them and for us. we all have -- > there's through or four different office pools going on here. so

david begnaud is in olive branch. >> reporter: this is where the mississippi river is pouring into one of the poorest counties in the state of illinois: alexander county. i'm standing on the lynn small levee, which failed four days ago, and now that breach is more than 125 properties in alexander county have been flooded. david willis owns three of them. the mississippi river is at his front door. it looks like you built this in the middle of a lake. >> 30 years ago this didn't happen. >> reporter: after a flood in 2011, willis was one of the people living in a flood zone who accepted a state buyout and agreed to leave. when did they offer you the buyout? >> right after the floodwater went down. >> reporter: in 2011. >> yes. >> reporter: and you took it. >> yes. >> reporter: have you gotten your money? >> nope. four years, seven months, probably. haven't heard a word. >> reporter: he had the money to move away and wait for the state to reimburse him. retired truck driver richard johnson turned down the offer. >> i told my wife, we can't afford to move. you can't just up and move like t

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for a cleaner, fresher, >> pelley: now david begnaud behind the scenes of tonight's powerball drawing. >> tonight's powerball jackpot is a guaranteed $40 million. >> reporter: for two months now, we have watched the jackpot jump. >> $949.8 million. >> reporter: this studio in tallahassee, florida, is where millions of wanna-be millionaires and now billionaires see their dreams drop in less than second seconds. sam arland will host tonight's drawing. >> i'm thinking about the possibility that i may completely transform someone's life. >> reporter: with more than $1 billion on the line, this place can feel a lot like fort knox. there's a red plastic lock with a bar code that must match a code kept only by an auditor. there are eight security cameras lottery has muscle agents on standby. what's a muscle employee? >> the multistate lottery which is in charge of powerball -- >> reporter: nobody with big muscles. >> nobody with big muscles, no. >> reporter: two of the four machines and even the lottery balls are selected randomly. >> they are x-rayed. they are weighed to make sure that they

david begnaud has more. >> reporter: the mississippi river is hitting record high levels in the statef missouri but the giant flood wall that protects the city of cape girardeau is holding outside the wall a much different story. in low lying areas the water cannot be stopped. >> have you ever seen more than 50 feet of water. >> no. >> reporter: we took a ride with public works director steven cook and found vehicles nearly submerged. water street took on a whole new mean in this neighborhood where homes and businesses have succumbed to the water. the cape was devastated by the great flood of 1993. afterward most people in this flood prone area took a government buy out and left. those who stayed behind are now seeing flood waters even higher than 93. >> this was one of the worst. >> reporter: on the other side of the mississippi river, illinois governor bruce rounder says hundreds of homes in his state are under water. he's urging people in voluntary evacuation areas to not take any chances and glee a flood in the winters had very rare very different than summer flood, there's hypoth

jim, the river won't drop below major flood stage until at least thursday. >> axelrod: david begnaud in the historic floodwaters of missouri. thank you. california has its own severe weather worries tonight. four el nino-fueled storms are on the way. as carter evans reports, the being felt around the world. >> reporter: the significant snowpack measured in california's sierra nevada this week is a welcome sign but going from severe droughts to flood and mudslides is also a currence says climatologist josh willis. >> we definitely see big extremes whenever there's a giant el nino like this. >> reporter: the latest satellite image showing the warming of water in the eastern pacific is almost identical to the 1997 el nino, which caused significant flooding across much of california. this el nino is already responsible for the warm northeast winter and deadly weather in the south. >> during el nino years we tend to see a very active december and tornadoes late in the year. >> reporter: the weather phenomenon is also causing flooding in south america and drought-related famine in parts of

david begnaud has one woman's story from inside the disaster zone. >> don't do this. >> reporter: at 60 years old, linda thorn has lost everything. this was her mobile home in arnold, missouri, swallowed by nearly eight feet of water. today, we helped her get back there because she wanted to see what was inside. >> oh, my god. my house! >> reporter: the walls are coming apart, the floor has buckled, and outside her backdoor, it is a lake. >> oh, my god. this is supposed to be the levee. the water was not supposed to come up over that. that's supposed to be a field. that's 40 feet down. >> reporter: the red cross is feeding her and housing her at a temporary shelter. the mississippi river through st. louis was receding today. we were invited on an aerial tour of the devastation. because the water was receding so quickly, the state of emergency in effect since sunday in st. louis county was lifted today. major traffic arteries through st. louis both reopened. yesterday, and here it is today. on the illinois side of the mississippi river, evacuations are under way. >> this was my tree.

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