elaine quijano at the george washington bridge tonight. thank you, elaine. chris christie will be the host to the super bowl sunday in east rutherford, new jersey. today we saw just how tight the security is. three hotels reported packages of a suspicious white powder. police and hazardous materials teams swooped in but now it looks like it was all a hoax. holding america's biggest game in america's biggest metropolis will be a challenge. here's sharyn alfonsi of "60 minutes sports". >> reporter: for fans, getting tickets to the super bowl festivities this year was the easy part. getting to the stadium may be the far more intimidating task. the n.f.l. isn't just encouraging fans to take mass transit, for the first time ever, they're making it the only option for most people. 80,000 fans have tickets for the game but just 12,000 have a parking pass. everyone else is being told to take a train or a bus, no taxis allowed. is the harder part moving all these people to the stadium or is it keeping them safe? >> the challenge there is moving them and keeping them

elaine quijano on the mutts who have finally gained a place at the westminster dog show. >> maybe their tails are a little off or maybe their eye color isn't right or whatever, but with agility, that doesn't matter. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." displim good evening, i'm jim axelrod and this is a western edition of the broadcast. >> the first day of competition is in the books at the 22nd olympic winter games in sochi, russia. while concerns about terror attacks and human rights have dominated the run-up to the games, now the events start and olympic organizers certainly hope that the athletes will take center stage. all told, 230 u.s. athletes will go for the gold in sochi, and tonight one of them already has it. alphonso van marsh has a wrap-up of day one-- fair warning, he is going to tell you which american was the first to win gold. >> reporter: big board, big tricks-- that's slope-style snow boarding and an american sage kotsenburg took the gold medal in the sport's olympic debut. >> honestly, it feels like a dream right now. just winning a gold on th

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we'll have the latest from elaine quijano and john dickerson. just under 24 hours to kicked off. terrell brown is tracking the plan to keep millions of people safe tomorrow. will amanda knox really be sent back to an italian prison? jeff pegues takes a look at the odds. >> i'm going to fight this until the very end. >> reporter: and star spangled soprano-- renee flemin rehearsing her legendary voice to tackle the super bowl rendition of the "national anthem." >> waking up in the middle of the

turns out, there's a better system, and we asked elaine quijano to tell us about it. >> reporter: there more than 1 billion credit cards in circulation in the united states, but just a fraction are like these cards being made at the cpi card group in colorado. >> this is a really critical stage. it's called our smart card area. >> reporter: steve montross is the company's c.e.o. these cards have a computer chip which stores user information. unlike the magnetic strips on the back of most cards where personal information is permanently stored, the data on the chips is encrypted with codes that change whenever the card is scanned. >> therefore, if fraudsters get ahold of card holder data, they're not able to duplicate that data authentication that is dynamic and changes for every transaction. >> reporter: smart cards are widely used in europe, canada, and latin america. they are barely a blip in the u.s., where almost half of all credit card fraud occurs. >> the chip is very different. it's like moving from an eight- track tape to an mp3 player. >> reporter: tim murphy is with mastercard.

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we'll have the latest from elaine quijano and john dickerson. just under 24 hours to kicked off. terrell brown is tracking the plan to keep millions of people safe tomorrow. will amanda knox really be sent back to an italian prison? jeff pegues takes a look at the odds. >> i'm going to fight this until the very end. >> reporter: and star spangled soprano-- renee flemin rehearsing her legendary voice to tackle the super bowl rendition of the "national anthem." >> waking up in the middle of the erial information out there. we would like to see it and know what it is. we would like to get it, cooperatively if possible. >> reporter: a lawyer for the committee met yesterday with the u.s. attorney's office which is also looking into the lane closures. based on that meeting, the investigation will continue. >> axelrod: elaine, thank you. let's bring in cbs news political director john dickerson in washington. john, everyone's trying to digest these latest developments and understand the significance. what do you see? >> well, david wildstein is the official who ordered the lane closings

as elaine quijano tells us, late this afternoon, the governor's office started pushing back. >> once that -- >> reporter: governor chris christie aa peered more solemn than celebratory during a brief appearance today at a super bowl event in times square. as he was introduced, some in the crowd about ood. but privately the governor's office today sent a scathing e-mail in response to accusations by former port authority official and christie ally, david wildstein, that governor christie did not tell the whole truth about the scandal. today's e-mail is a page and a half and resident in part, "david wildstein will do and say anything to save david wildstein." yesterday, wildstein earn clai claims. >> governor, any response to today's report? >> reporter: the governor dodged reporters' questions last night about the allegations, but in a statement, his office said, "mr. wildstein's lawyer confirms what the governor has said all along-- he had absolutely no prior knowledge of the lane closures before they want." last month, the governor repeatedly denied any involvement. >> i don't know

elaine quijano is in detroit, one of the cities hardest hit by the cold winter. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony and norah and to our viewers in the west. the temperature here in detroit is hovering in the single digits, and to the north in parts of michigan's upper peninsula, the temperatures dipped to minus 30 degrees. now, around here sections of the detroit river have frozen over. residents are struggling to deal with the punishing conditions. the midwest is experiencing its most extreme winter in decades. >> it's cold as hell right now, man. it's like 1,000 knives hitting you in every direction. >> reporter: record-setting snow paired with subzero temperatures have struck the area hard with detroit topping the national weather service's misery index. it has been a brutal winter. 88% of the great lakes are frozen over, the largest cover in 20 years. and temperatures have turned deadly. at least 21 people have frozen to death in minnesota, including a 6-year-old girl who was discovered outside her home thursday in behmidji. police are in

elaine quijano is here with us and with christie's new interview. elaine, good morning. >> good morning to you, charlie and norah. it also marked the first time governor christie directly addressed allegations raise this had weekend by a former ally, that the governor was aware of the lane closures as they were happening. chris christie said his office would turn over material presented by federal prosecutors. >> we'll comply, cooperate with the u.s. attorney's inquiry into this. we'll comply with any of the documents that they've requested that are appropriate to turn over as quickly as we uncover them. >> reporter: christie also said he may have read reports of the gridlock in ft. lee in september but dismissed them as routine. >> there's traffic every day at the george washington bridge, at the lincoln tunnel, the holland tunnel. i hear those reports on the radio. we all hear about them. that's not something that rises to the gubernat rochlt. ial level. >> reporter: he suggested on friday that christie was not being truthful about what he knew abo

. >> elaine quijano is here with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, charlie, gayle and norah.g the threat of prosecution, he is now turning on his former ally suggesting that the governor wasn't forthcoming about his role in the bridge scandal. one day after david wildstein made his allegations, governor chris christie launched a counter attack. his office circulated an e-mail asailing the credibility of his former classmate. among other things, the e-mail said wildstein was publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior and david wildstein will do and say anything to save david wildstein. still, the possibility that the governor may have known about the lane closures was enough to subdue even one of his staunchest defender rudy giuliani. >> i think the governor knows the consequences. if he's lying, it's a really bad situation. if he's not lying, then something very unfair is being done to him. >> wildstein's accusation became public in a letter sent by his lawyer friday saying evidence exists tying mr. christie to having knowledge of the lan

for "cbs this morning," elaine quijano, new york. >>> it is warming up this morning in areas battered for weeks by winter storms. the weather change will give states a chance to stock up on needed supplies. a barge carrying 10,000 tons of road salt is expected to arrive in new jersey next week. we reported yesterday that shipment was held up because it has to come in on an american ship. >>> local officials are facing new problems. terrell brown is in raritan, new jersey, in an area damaged by all of the snow. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. and good morning to the viewers in west. these businesses have been closed since friday because under the weight of the snow and ice the roof on this building collapsed. it is a problem we've seen all across the state and certainly all across the country, as this record winter has taken a toll on the nation's already aging infrastructure. the roof on this vacant mill in paterson, new jersey, was no match for the snow. it collapsed sunday forcing the evacuation of nearby residents. about 30 miles east in sparta fears about the roof

elaine quijano.ame toward the end of the event when members of the russian female punk band pussy riot took to the stage. >> it is my privilege and my honor, ladies and gentlemen, to introduce masha and nadya from pussy riots. >> when madonna introduced two women from the pussy riots, nadya tolokonnikova and masha alyokhina. three of the band members were arrested in 2012 for this performance on the altar at moscow's largest orthodox cathedral where the women spewed obscenityies and putin's crackdown on political protesters. they were charged with hooliganism. nadya and masha they're trarns trance you can stage an act of protest in something in your particular country. >> last year they were freed. band members called it a public relations stunt to distract from human rights abuses. >> >> translator: we are just two individuals that spent two years in jail for taking part in a pussy riot protest action. >> and the second question is no, we don't regret doing what we did. >> the women have had a histo