manuel bojorquez, cbs evening news. >> dubois: manuel bojorquez, cbs news, minneapolis. >> dubois: andcbs evening news" for scott pelley i' crime. tonight, we ask: how'd they >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> a big bay area city makes stunning progress in curbing violent crime. new at 6:00 da lin is in richmond where he got some answers for us today. da, what did you find out? >> reporter: we're in the iron triangle. it was previously known as california's most dangerous city even worse than oakland. but things have really turned around, 16 homicides in 2013 in richmond and the hard work has paid off for police officers, community organizers and church leaders. it took more than a decade to transform richmond from nights of endless gun battles to this, calm on the streets. >> we have come a long way in richmond. i am proud of richmond. >> reporter: churches in richmond began organizing in 2000 to stop the killings. >> because the community will listen more to the faith community than they will to law enforcement or to the government. >> reporter: they had to wa

in the only state where recreational pot is legal, manuel bojorquez reports supply can't keep up with sky-high demand. >> wow. >> reporter: and 50 years after president johnson declared war on poverty, don dahler visits the front lines with a recruit who says the battle is far from over. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. governor chris christie ran into a traffic jam today on the road to the whitehouse. evidence revealed today shows that a top aide to christie and appointees of the new jersey governor created a four-day tie-up for thousands of drivers on roads leading to the busiest bridge in the world. the motive, political revenge. christie, who's believed to be considering a run for the presidential nomination, says he is outraged by today's developments and insists he was misled by his staff. elaine quijano is in fort lee for us tonight. elaine? is outraged by today's developments and insists he was misled by his staff. elaine quijano is in fort lee for us tonight. elaine? >> reporter

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and manuel bojorquez introduces us to a social worker who found a new way to give her clients a lift. >> it's my character. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> dubois: good evening and happy new year, scott is off tonight, i'm maurice dubois. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. snow is falling in the upper midwest. tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the mid-atlantic to new england. we have a team of correspondents covering this. we begin in chicago with chris martinez of our cbs station wbbm. chris? >> reporter: maurice, heavy snow squalls are forecasted for the rest of the night. the national weather service warning chicago to expect dangerously cold temperatures and windchills through tomorrow night. chicago broke a 96-year-old new year's day record with more than five inches of snow-- another foot is expected to fall by tomorrow. more than 370 plow trucks have been deployed in six northern

first, manuel bojorquez in north carolina. manuel. >> reporter: well, scott, freezing rain has started to fall here, but fayetteville is expected to get up to six inches of snow, its worst storm in three years. drivers unaccustomed to slick roads are going nowhere fast. crews in north carolina sprayed roads with de-icing fluid, but traffic was still a mess in places as drivers tried to beat the ice and snow. this was atlanta; a 20-minute trip took three hours. less than an inch of snow near birmingham, alabama, caused this. six southern states have declared an emergency. widespread power outages are expected. this convoy of trucks was being pre-positioned near jackson, mississippi. now, towns are rolling out rarely used snow plows. bill hammond is a maintenance engineer for cumberland county, north carolina. >> it may be tough, depending on how much snow accumulation we get. if it tracks further east and we don't get none it, won't hurt my feelings at all. >> reporter: schools here will be closed tomorrow. fort bragg, the army

as manuel bojorquez reports she's helping people get back behind the wheel so they can carry on withkathy is working hard to fix a problem. during her 16 years as a social worker she discovered car trouble could make people homeless. >> it doesn't have to be a major repair for it to be $500 or $600 and when you're just surviving, that can break your entire budget. >> reporter: she decided the best way to address the problem was to fix it herself. she became a mechanic. >> one of my first days in mechanic school, the instructor said, okay, i want everybody to turn and face the wall where the crank shafts are. i don't know where those are. i waited and watched for everybody else to turn. >> reporter: she completed a two-year training program and founded the garage last april. she charges t$15 an hour for labor. the going rate is be $100 and she has no markup on parts. judy has been unable to work for five years because of a neck injury sustained in a car accident. her car's engine needed about $400 worth of repairs on this visit. >> $64 for all that? >> yep. >> she paid only $54. >> th

texas has been hit harder than most states and manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: this ambulance in fort worth has responded to an average of 42 flu-related calls a day for the last two weeks. >> we've experienced five different calls within the last 30 minutes. >> reporter: matt zavadsky is med star's director of public affairs. people are calling 911 because they feel they have the flu? >> they're feeling poorly and they're not sure what else to do because their doctor's offices are busy, clinics are busy so by default we've become the health care safety net. >> reporter: area hospitals have brought in extra staff to treat the sick. one fort worth hospital has delayed elective surgery to make room for flu cases. gary floyd is the chief medical officer. >> we've had as many as 35 patients waiting for admission taking up our 56 e.r. beds. >> reporter: texas does not keep statewide data on flu-related deaths but dallas and surrounding counties report at least 41 deaths. there have been 11 flu-related death this is season in indiana. today the health department in california said 4

reports from manuel bojorquez and elaine quijano.arrett on the president turning up the heat on republicans tonight, announcing he'll bypass congress to raise the minimum wage for some workers.we'l talk to house budget chairman paul ryan. >> sounds to me like he wants to go around the constitution. >> pelley: and anthony mason remembers folk singer pete seeger, his music and his message.

manuel bojorquez has that part story. >> reporter: much of the ice has melted behind heads of car remain on the shoulders of i-95. police want it gone tomorrow. this meeting point was set up to reunite drivers with their cars. >> right in the middle lane. >> reporter: or tell them where they were towed. >> have you all been by that location? >> i did. it wasn't there. >> you didn't see it? >> reporter: georgia's national guard supplied cans of gas, and took people to their abandoned cars. >> thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >> reporter: this man's wife abandon her s.u.v. when its battery died. can you imagine trying to pick up this car and get it started your own, given the traffic and everything here? >> oh, no. >> reporter: he was grateful for a lift and a jump start. >> this is about the 18th stop already, man. >> reporter: how relieved are you they were able to get it started. >> very relieved. very relieved. i hope it holds up until i get it to the shop and see what's going on. >> reporter: it didn't. battery could not hold the charge. scott, the national guard told us the

in the only state where recreational pot is legal, manuel bojorquez reports supply can't keep up withmand. >> wow. >> reporter: and 50 years after president johnson declared war on poverty, don dahler visits the front lines with a recruit who says the battle is far from over. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

here's manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: marlise munoz was 14 weeks pregnant with her second child whend found her unconscious. her family says doctors at this fort worth hospital suspect a blood clot in munoz' lung and told them she was brain dead. the 33-year-old has been on a breathing magazine at john peter smith hospital since november. in today's lawsuit, her family says she expressed clearly her desire not to be resuscitated in such a situation. lynn machado is her mother. >> i just... i feel like i'm going to cry because i know in my heart my daughter is gone. but to see her shell there and being forced to be alive, the ventilators and the feeding tubes and all, we feel like we're caught in this limbo. >> reporter: the hospital says it must abide by a 1999 texas law which says "a person may not withdraw or withhold life sustaining treatment under the subchapter from a pregnant patient." >> no matter what, she didn't want to be linked up to machines. >> reporter: munoz is in serious condition and the hospital refuses to confirm whether she is legally brain dead, citing confidenti

and manuel bojorquez introduces us to a social worker who found a new way to give her clients a lift.een healed and now it's my car's turn. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

for "cbs this morning saturday," manuel bojorquez ft. worth, texas. >>> four nfl teams are still in the running for this year's super bowl. tomorrow night just two will remain two. face off. tom brady and the patriots versus peyton manning and the broncos. division rivals seattle and san francisco will play for the nfc title. let's talk about these matchups. i like it when it gets down to four. it's so much more manageable. who do you think has more pressure on them in today's game? brady or manning? >> i think it has to be manning. he only has one super bowl. brady has three. one's 37 one's 36. they're both getting up there. manning's team has had the best record. brady has pressure too. he hasn't won in a long time. >> ten years. >> ten years. it kind of reminds me with derek jeter with the yankees. this is maybe brady's derek jeter moment. >> joe montana was his hero too, who had four. >> four right. >> there are all kinds of rumors that manning might retire at end of the the season? how true is that? >> i don't know. manning loves fo

for "cbs this morning," manuel bojorquez, denver colorado. >> basketball hall of famer dennis rodmann. he brought along several former nba players. attention is giving way to new controversy. seth doane is in beijing. seth, good morning. >> good morning to you, charlie. dennis rodman is calling this game a birthday gift to north korean leader kim jong-un. so little is know about this reclusive leader that not even his birthday is certain. rodman is being criticized for engaging with a man with such a terrible human rights record, a man who just recently had his own uncle executed. >> reporter: dennis rodman sang "happy birthday" to north korean leader kim jong-un before today's game. earlier this week had was seen practicing with other north koor reen players and the other formal nba players traveling with him. this is rodman's fourth trip to the secretive nation. last february he sat alongside dictator kim jong-un, a man he calls a friend. the visit comes as the u.s. pushes for the release of an american christian missionary kenneth bay. he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for un

and manuel bojorquez is in atlanta. >> reporter: good morning. most schools will close again today, but the roads are slowly getting back to normal. tow trucks spent the night hauling away cars that were still blocking emergency lanes, and this morning, traffic is flowing more smoothly than it has in days. >> it's right in the middle lane. >> reporter: some of the 2,000 drivers forced to abandon their cars during atlanta's storm spent thursday getting them back. >> i'm very excited. i'm ready to go home. >> reporter: ginny nickels was one of them. getting a lift from the national guard. >> i left a diet pepsi in here, and it is frozen solid. i'm so glad i didn't sleep in the car. [ laughter ] >> reporter: for her and others it was the end to a three-day ordeal. given what you've been through, do you place blame? >> i can't imagine why that stretch of road was icing. >> i'm the governor. the buck starts with me. >> reporter: georgia governor took responsibility, admitting he had not closely followed the forecast. >> i did not know it had been upgr