noon tomorrow, scott, when temperatures are expected to climb into the low 40s. >> reporter: mark strassmann in atlanta for us, thank you, mark. joining us now is the mayor of atlanta, kasim reed, mayor since 2010. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us. first question: has everyone been rescued? >> the answer is no. everyone. in the city of atlanta is fine, but we still have interstates that are blocked and congested and have frozen ice so we're working to clear up the interstates right now with our state partner. >> pelley: mr. mayor, you learned some bitter lessons as mayor of at than in 2011 when there was another big ice storm that had a similar effect. why was this ice storm not handledded any better than 2011? >> well, scott, i would push back on that. we here in day one of this snow event and we have our city moving again with the exception of the freeways. during 2011, that was a four-day event that had much worse results than this. >> pelley: so you would say that the situation in the city of atlanta, which you're responsible for, is what now? >> i would say that it's significantly impro

mark strassmann is covering.nd elaine quijano with bikers riding to the rescue of abused kids and their moms. >> each one of them, they were there for me and i needed them. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. scott off tonight, i'm maurice dubois. the northeast is about to get hit by a major winter storm-- two of them actually. a storm that dumped a foot of snow in the midwest is joining forces with a nor'easter moving up the coast. winter storm warnings and advisories are up tonight throughout the region. thousands of flights were canceled or delayed today. and these are live pictures from the storm zone where one-third of the u.s. population lives. we have a team of correspondents covering the story. we'll begin in boston with karen anderson of cbs station wbz. karen? >> reporter: maurice, we've already gotten four inches of snow and we're expecting another 10 to 14 inches overnight. now, the governor sent home state workers early today and the

mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. meteorologist eric fisher from our boston station wbz has the forecast. >> a lot of folks have been looking for a changing pattern across the u.s., whether you're in the oukt or west coast h very that coming in the next couple of days. more zonal weather. a little constricted. now, in terms of the ice storm and snowstorm recovery in the south, your thursday high temperature still very chilly. then as we get into friday, finally some relief. we're in the 40s and 50s. down across florida, we're dealing with icy concerns. all that ice will be disappearing. certainly by saturday, many are be looking to this. 50s and 60s here. 70s and 80s for florida. in the midwest, people happy to see this. winter storm advisories all across the northwest. we're watching a storm system dropping through. it's already in progress. it will continue through today. rain showers possibly down toward los angeles. they haven't seen a drop the entire month of january. and in terms of snow, big totals, colorado, w

mark strassmann has more now from atlanta. >> reporter: some of the 2,000 drivers who abandoned their cars during atlanta's storm reclaimed them thursday. other georgians went looking for answers. >> who is really to blame is the question. >> reporter: callers on atlanta talk radio faulted city and state leaders for not being prepared. >> i believe that the governor is responsible. >> the buck stops with me. i accept the responsibility for it. >> reporter: georgia governor nathan deal had defended the city's response for two days, but he defended thursday that he had not followed closely the changing forecast. # >> i did not know it had been upgraded and that a more serious warning had been issuing. >> at 3:20 monday afternoon the national weather service put out a winter storm warning, 1 to 2 inches in northern central georgia but overnight into tuesday morning it included all of metro atlanta and its 5 million residents. # kasim tweeted, atlanta, we are ready for the snow. it began to fall around 11:00 a.m. soon after the governor tweeted this photo of him presenting mayor with a po

aubrey price was arrested tuesday after more than a year on the run, and as mark strassmann reports,convinced his family and a judge that he was dead. >> reporter: aubrey lee price, the former banker, is very much alive, but a changed man. this is what the arrested fugitive looks like now. price, now 47, was a director at a small georgia bank. he allegedly embezzled $40 million and cheated more than 100 investors like wendy cross, the owner of this atlanta food truck who lost almost $300,000. when you first heard it's gone -- >> i literally fell to my knees in complete shock. it was everything. it was everything that i had. >> reporter: like all that money, price disappeared in june of 2012. he left a suicide note. i created false statements, covered up my losses, and deceived and hurt the very people i was trying to help. i am emotionally overwhelmed and incapable of continuing in this life. but the surveillance video taken the day he vanished showed price in key west, florida. he had claimed he was going to kill himself, but he was carrying a backpack and a rolling suitcase. his ne

mark strassmann has more from atlanta. >> reporter: drivers along many of the south's busiest highways spent much of wednesday trying to finish tuesday's commute. a rare winter storm brought several inches of snow and paralyzing ice from the gulf coast to the mid-atlantic. highways froze, and soon so did the traffic. all those cars meant salt and sand trucks could not treat the roadways. ron rivera and his truckload of bananas were stuck for more than 30 hours. >> nothing against the south, and i'm from the south. we're just not prepared for this type of weather on a regular basis. >> reporter: georgia's governor agrees. >> even with this type of forecasting i don't think anyone totally predicted this was going have the magnitude of the short window of time in which it occurred. >> reporter: here the traffic is moving again. the focus is on the icy highways where so many people trying to get home had to ride out the storm. drivers slept in whatever warm place they could find, and more than 10,000 stranded students spent the night in schools. >> reporter: every single child in the city

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>> mark strassmann thanks a lot.y of a girl shot and killed at a school has asked everyone to forgive the killer. the gunman killed himself. claire's father michael davis reflected on his daughter's grace in her final moments. >> claire's last words are poignant and profound. she said oh, my gosh karl what are you doing? the fact is that karl was so blinded by his emotions that he didn't know what he was doing. in her most innocent precious way claire tried to shine a light on karl's darkness. my wife and i forgive karl pierson for what he did because he didn't know what he was doing. we would like to ask you to join us and honor claire by forever showing compassion and forgiveness and using whatever is within your power to reach out to those around you that might need the light of your love to help guide them through the darkness. >> olympic swimmer missy franklin also spoke at the memorial. the governor ordered flags to fly at half-staff in davis's honor. >>> and thousands who lined up to watch the 125th annual ros

cbs reporter mark strassmann with a snow and ice nightmare. >> reporter: two inches of snow, numerous accidents, and a stampede by tens of thousands of people trying to get home, stopped traffic for more than 24 hours on the interstates around atlanta. rescue crews brought food water and gasoline to stranded drivers still stuck on the highways. the national guard was called in escort hundreds of children back home who spent the night in their schools or school buses. the mayor of atlanta admits the city could have done better preparing for the rare southern storm. >> we made a mistake by not staggering when people should leave. so i'll take responsibility for that. >> reporter: the governor says the city got slammed with more snow than national forecasters predicted. >> and even with the best of forecasts, i don't think anyone could have totally predicted that this was going to have the magnitude within the short window of time in which it occurred. >> reporter: georgia was one of six southern states that declared a state of emergency. the storm left new jersey ice coated and dumped 6

mark strassmann is in asheville, north carolina. mark? >> reporter: scott, it was one below here in asheville, which is a record. and because most people here rely on electric heat, the surge in demand for power caused outages on a day when many towns set record lows. more than 20,000 customers lost power in western north carolina. jason walls is a district manager with the duke energy company. >> early this morning, because of cold load conditions, we lost a critical piece of equipment that helps provide electricity to customers, and those customers have been without power most of the day and our crews are working as quickly and safely to get that power restored. >> reporter: while duke energy set a record, the tennessee valley authority averted one by asking customers to limit demand and unplug unnecessary appliances. there were few outages in the seven-state region t.v.a. serves, despite average temperatures there of just four degrees. it sounds like an old joke, but it was so cold in ken(](9va prison inmate who had escaped turned hims

." >> pelley: mark strassmann is on the breaking story. we'll look at what the weather is doing next. a new study links testosterone supplements to heart attacks. dr. jon lapook has the details. and securing the super bowl. bob orr asks the men in charge how they'll protect america's biggest

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." >> pelley: mark strassmann is on the breaking story.at what the weather is doing next. a new study links testosterone supplements to heart attacks. dr. jon lapook has the details. and securing the super bowl. bob orr asks the men in charge how they'll protect america's biggest game. >> reporter: what's the latest intelligence tell you about potential threats? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

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as mark strassmann reports, she now calls her life unbearable. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, clarissa. nicole oulson spoke for only a minute, but in that short amount of time, she managed to convey pain about her loss. she work a pink cast around her left hand, a reminder of the day her husband was fatally shot in front of her. >> in the blink of an eye, my whole world just got shattered into a million pieces. and now i'm left trying to pick them up and put them all back together. and it's so hard, and it's so unbearable. >> reporter: on january 1 3g9, the couple went to see the movie "lone survivor." during the previews, chad oulson sent texts to the baby-sitter watching their 22-month-old daughter alexis. that texting irstated curtis reeves, a 71-year-old retired police captain sitting behind the couple. reeves first complained to the manager and then returned to the inside of the theater to argue with oulson. witnesses told police that oulson threw a bag of popcorn at reeves, who admitted he pulled out a handgun and shot oulson