marlis's family calls that decision absurd.e she is brain-dead, the law does not apply to her. tom mayo, a law professor at southern methodist university helped write the law 15 years ago. he says the hospital is wrong because marlis cannot be brought back to life. >> i don't see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really don't have a patient. >> reporter: marlis's fetus is now about 21 weeks along. doctors can still hear a heartbeat, but it's not clear what kind of damage the blood clot that killed marlis has done to the unborn baby. medical experts say even ultrasounds and heartbeat patterns can't accurately predict if the fetus is viable. that's a risk the family does not want to take. >> with those things can't perfectly predict health and outcome. and there are certainly occasions whereas we look as best as we can tell, a fetus appears to be developing appropriately and meeting all its mile stones, and yet after birth, after delivery there's evidence

marlis's family calls that decision absurd.use she is brain-dead, the law does not apply to her. tom mayo, a law professor at southern methodist university helped write the law 15 years ago. he says the hospital is wrong because marlis cannot be brought back to life. >> i don't see how we can use a provision of the law that talks about treating or not treating a patient in a case where we really don't have a patient. >> reporter: marlis's fetus is now about 21 weeks along. doctors can still hear a heartbeat, but it's not clear what kind of damage the blood clot that killed marlis has done to the unborn baby. medical experts say even ultrasounds and heartbeat patterns can't accurately predict if the fetus is viable. that's a risk the family does not want to take. >> with those things can't perfectly predict health and outcome. and there are certainly occasions where as we look as best as we can tell, a fetus appears to be developing appropriately and meeting all its milestones, and yet after birth, after delivery there's evidenc

>> marlie hall in new york. thank you very much, marlie. >>> now to the weather.here should be some relief this morning as the deep freeze that has made life miserable for millions of americans back off. the brutal arctic air started to retreat, it will remain cold today, but temperatures are expected to rise. traffic on new york's hudson river was forced to maneuver around the ice. the subzero temperatures were dangerous. at least 21 deaths are attributed to the cold. the frigid weather caused all kinds of travel issues and impacted business. dean reynolds has that part of the story. >> reporter: bursting pipes drenched the columbia sportswear store in chicago this morning. >> we had water coming down through this whole front area. >> reporter: alyson anderson is the store manager. >> they were at the froonlt of the building by the door here, so the cold weather was definitely the reason. >> reporter: it happened at the worst possible time for a store full of warm jackets for sale. >> hi. sorry, we're actually closed today. >> o', i'm sorry. >> reporter: the econ

marlie hall is here in new york.arlie, good morning. >> reporter: anne-marie, governor chris christie still maintains he had nothing do with the traffic tampering, but this could be the biggest test of his political career. new jersey governor chris christie says he is outraged and deeply saddened that a member of his staff and associates were behind a major traffic jam at the george washington bridge last year. newly released e-mails and text messages reveal christie's deputy chief of staff bridget ann kelly sent an e-mail last summer saying time for traffic problems in ft. lee. david who was in top of the port authority of new jersey responded, got it. in secht, four lanes leading to the bridge were funneled into one toll booth. traffic was backed up for four days. kids were late to school and first responders were slowed down. >> who does that? who behaves that way? >> reporter: ft. lee mayor says it was for not endorsing christie in last year's election campaign. >> to make those decisions with venomous motivatio

marlie hall is here in new york. good morning, marlie. >> good morning, anne-marie. snowden will almost certainly address questions about the top secret information he's revealed so far. edward snowden will answer questions from the public online today about his role in exposing secret u.s. surveillance programs. one question u.s. officials want to know is how much help did he receive from foreign intelligence sources. >> my questions about his work with chinese and russian intelligence begin once he arrives in hong kong and then when he moved on to moscow. >> wednesday snowden denied he had any help telling the "new yorker" magazine the claims are absurd. a new cbs news survey showed 61% of those polled believe snowden should stand trial for espionage. 23% think he should be granted amnesty, but as the white house reiterated yesterday, that's not likely to happen. >> it is our firm position he ought to return to the united states and face the charges against him. >> but the snowden leaks have forced changes to the way the nsa operates. last week president obama anno

>> marlie hall in new york. thank you so much, marlie. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston fail yacht wbz has more on the first major snowstorm of 2014. >> reporter: well, a lot of folks will be waking up to a big blanket of snow on their back step. we're talking about a northeaster from new england to washington, d.c. picking up snow. motive of it now is going to wind down in terms of accumulating snowfall. the last of the snow clears eastern long island and parts of eastern new england. by the afternoon hours all of it's off to the ocean. we're talking the wind is still lingering. windy and blowing snow. gusts of 50 miles per hour. the good news is it's not a wet snow, not clinging to a lot of power lines, so power outages should not be a big part of this one. what will be a big part is the cold. we have seen that. we've accumulate 12 inches in boston, 6 inches in new york city. much of the northeast goes subzero and certainly some record lows should be set before the sun comes up on saturday. i'm meteorologist eric fisher in boston

>> marlie hall here in new york. thank you, marlie. >>> well, meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has more on this giant weather system. >> reporter: we'll continue to track this storm throughout the morning hours. it will be winding down, but we can expect impacts into massachusetts. as we head through morning the snow starts to transition toward far southeastern massachusetts and by the afternoon all the snow winds down. it leaves a lot of snow in its wake. many folks looking at 6 to 12 inches. 4 to 8 in greater d.c. turn to the cold, a big part of the story. the snow well below average across central u.s. teens as far south as tennessee. i'd love to say things are going to warm up sometime soon. it does not seem to be the case. we're talking bitter cold that should stretch through the next 7 to 10 days, winter definitely striking hard this winter. i'm eric fisher for cbs news. >>> along the west coast, the weather's generally warm and dry, but on the coast of california, they are expecting some of

marlie hall is here in new york with details. marlie, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning.says this ultimatum from the christie administration was delivered in may of last year, seven months after her city was devastated by the monster storm. the message says zimmer was delivered by new jersey's lieutenant governor. >> the lieutenant governor pull med aside and said essentially you've got to move forward with the rockefeller project, this project is really important to the governor. and she said that she had been with him on friday night and that this was a direct message from the governor. >> reporter: the rockefeller project is a multi-million-dollar project in hoboken's north end favored by the governor. hoboken was all but run over by flooding. in the first round hoboken received $342,000 of the $1.8 billion it requested. zimmer admits she should have spoken up sooner. >> looking back, you know, i probably should have come forward, but if i did, nobody would believe me and i would have put hoboken in a worse position. >> reporter: zimmer said she's willing to turn over

marlie hall here in new york. thank you very much, marlie. >>> meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz has the latest on the frigid weather and the coming warmup. >> we look about 30 days back. that's when all this cold really started to get going. and in general over the last 30 days the biggest departures from average across the upper midwest. however, anywhere in these blue shades, below average temperatures in the past few days is down toward florida and the west coast. this is where all the warmer air has been. in terms of the bitter windchills, not quite as bad as it has been but still looking at close to 30 below. close to zero in chicago. single digits for much of the northeast. by the time you head home from work, still feels like the freezing mark in charlotte, 25 in cinci, 15 in new york city. the cold air, though, is going to start to retreat, head back from whence it came. but by the time we get into thursday, the 50s are creeping a little farther north ward, the subzeros move well back in

>> marlie hall in new york. thank you, marlie. eric fisher of our affiliate wbz is tracking the weather system. >> it didn't take long to get our first winter storm of 2014 under way. a winter advisory from missouri to pennsylvania and blizzard warnings in effect for parts of long island. we'll watch this congeal into a larger storm as we head into the evening hours. by 8:00 p.m., a shield of snow from boston back up to d.c. it will wrap up thursday night into friday morning. the worst of the conditions from boston down to new york and perhaps down toward the jersey shore as well. by the time we head to friday morning it starts to wrap up and by friday afternoon/evening the snow works its way off to the coast. snow totals by the time we get to the late thursday hours, 3 to 6 inches in parts of central ohio. 6 to 12 inches in new york state. as it wraps up we could see a foot or so more in boston, half a foot in new york. near blizzard conditions possible near the coast, boston, cape code, and down toward new york and long island a

marlies cannot be a pregnant patient. marlies is dead.hose words declared by his attorneys who are now suing the hospital demanding she be removed from a ventilator immediately. this case stands in sharp contest to another family who fought to keep their 13-year-old daughter alive after an oakland hospital ruled to take her off of life support. the girl was eventually released to the family and she is now at an undisclosed facility. back in fort worth there have been dueling protest in support of the family. >> this family deserves peace and closure. >> there is a second person here, and that's the unborn baby. and that child is within weeks of being viable. >> reporter: doctors are expected to make that determination in february. >>> now to washington where they are dotting the i's, crossing the t's and counting the dollars and cents. lawmakers finalizing the details of the budget deal. libby understandably americans get a little concerned when they hear congress pushing bab yet another deadline. >> del, this looks like it will be able t

anne-marie. >> marlie hall here in new york. thank you, marlie. meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz. >> the breadth of the cold. so many windchill advisories, not often we've seen that on the maps. the windchill advisories go all the way down as far south as naples, florida. subzero windchills in florida, it only takes, say, the teens and 20s for them to issue the advisories. in terms of windchills, still 30 to 40 below in places like chicago. even in atlanta, subzero windchills. got to believe a lot of folks staying inside. a lot of schools are canceled there. most of the cold across the great lake, the southeast, and into the northeast. even on wednesday, still chilly outside. we kick off the day with windchills in at zero in new york and pittsburgh. and boston. teens for wednesday as you wake up. wednesday afternoon, this is starting to depart. in terms of high temperature on tuesday, teens in nashville, 20s in atlanta. 40s for a good chunk of florida. even all the way to miami it will absolutely not be beach weather. then towar

marlie. >> reporter: frank, strong winds and bitter cold are all that's left of this powerful winter storm that struck the northeast that caused some messy conditions. the big digout is under way across the northeast, massachusetts getting hit the hardest. there's more than a foot of snow on the ground in boston, north of the city about 2 feet. >> sidewalks getting cleaned off so it's just cold. i think that's the worst part. >> reporter: along the coast in scituate, big waves pound the the breakwater. normally at this time, you can take a walk on this beach. that gives you a sense of just how much the sea is surging. now that the snow has stopped, the focus here in new york and across the region is the bitter cold. wind chills are below zero in some places. >> how did you prepare yourself today? >> i dressed extra. one, two, three, four, five -- plus the jacket. >> reporter: roads are treacherous. on long island, a major commuter expressway into the city was open again after the governor took the rare step of closing it down overnight. airports are packed with stranded travelers. at

. >> marlie hall is here in new york with more. marlie, good morning. >> good morning, anne-marie. thousands more internal documents related to the scandal are scheduled to be released today. governor christie said he knew nothing about this so-called political payback that caused massive gridlock for several days. one thing he knows for sure is that he says he's sorry. >> i come out here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. >> new jersey governor chris christie apologized dozens of times during a nearly two-hour news conference. he says he's embarrassed some of his most trusted aides allegedly constructed a four-day traffic jam on the approach to the george washington bridge in new jersey. >> a person close to me betrayed me. >> reporter: he fired his deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly who sent an e-mail to a christie associate saying time for some traffic problems in fort lee. kelly reportedly targeted tort leigh's mayor because he refused to endorse christie during last year's election. the governor traveled to fort lee to apologize to mayor mark sokolich. >> he

marlie hall has more on that. good morning, marlie. >> anne-marie, the two top leaders of major league baseball also appeared on "60 minutes" and that outraged rodriguez's lawyer. it was anthony bosch who talked about what he said were the details of what he says were extensive and prolonged use of banned substances. >> testosterone and growth factor 1, human growth hormone, and some different forms of peptides. >> bosch is major league baseball's prime eyewitness against rodriguez. he owned the clinic at the center of the major league doping scandal. bosch says he was paid $12,000 a month and that rodriguez took the drugs right before a game. >> all of a sudden his levels of testosterone are higher, it gives him a little bit more -- gives him more energy, it gives him more strength, more focus. >> rodriguez admitted to using the drugs from 2001 to 2003 but denies the bosch allegations. >> the notion that bosch is now coming on the television without an examination or under oath is laughable. >> reporter: bosch al

dijo que el hospital cree que los tribunales son los indicados para dar soluciÓn , la familia de marlis>> estoy luchando por lo que ella quiere, ella me lo dijo. >>> los manifestantes dijeron que seguirÁn luchando porque el feto siga con vida. por su parte el hospital no mencionÓ si apelaran a esta decisiÓn, pero estÁn esperando, y esto es lo que quieren los manifestaron. >>> muchas gracias. >>> la controversia en torno a las supuestas gestiones que hizo bob menÉndez tomÓ un nuevo giro, seÑalÓ que fue el gobierno de bush que les dio visas estadounidense y que no tuvo nada que ver con la extradiciÓn de los izay en isaÍas. >>> el departamento de justicia investiga si el senador se habrÍa extralimitado al ayudar a los banqueros ecuatorianos a solucionar su problema migratorio. el gobierno de ese paÍs lo acusa de un fraude financiero. menÉndez no niega su ayuda, pero la justifico diciendo que son perseguidos polÍticos del gobierno de rafael correa. >>> en el ecuador toda persona que no estÉ sometida a ordenes de correa es un perseguido. >>> menÉndez contratacÓ con un seÑalamiento a las admi

anne-marie. >> marlie hall here in new york. thank you, marlie. >>> well, coming up on the "morning news," a spacecraft revs up for its mission after a long slumber. >>> and later in "moneywatch," more brides are saying yes to insurance paying to protect the big wedding day. this is the "cbs morning news." ding day. this is the "cbs morning news." with chipotle or margarita chicken. all served with a bowl of soup, like our new southwest chicken. chili's lunch combo starting at 6 bucks. more life happens here. wow...look at you. i've always tried to give it my best shot. these days i'm living with a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. at first, i took warfarin, but i wondered, "could i up my game?" my doctor told me about eliquis. and three important reasons to take eliquis instead. one, in a clinical trial, eliquis was proven to reduce the risk of stroke better than warfarin. two, eliquis had less major bleeding than warfarin. and three... unlike warfarin, there'

marlie, how about other storms? how does this compare? >> well, the temperatures associated with this storm are just so cold. in boston, massachusetts, for example, given the wind chill, it feels like negative 25 degrees in some places and forecasters say we have not seen temperatures this cold across the northeast since 2009. >> and we took a live look at times square. it looks like everyone is indoors right now. are people getting around the city pretty well or is everyone just staying home? >> well, it is certainly very quiet out on the streets of new york city given the weather. most people heeding officials' warnings to stay home and not venture out into this weather because obviously, the conditions are very messy and it's also very cold and that can be dangerous if you are not dressed properly. but there are some folks who are out and about. behind me you see some vehicle traffic. folks needing to get to work. they are certainly doing that. but most people staying home. >> yeah. well, the good news, it's friday so folks can hunker

marly hall, cbs news. >> i know a couple of anchors out in that cold weather maybe tomorrow, right? . >> with shorts, tank tops. >> i don't know if that's right. >> is that a good idea? . >> no. that is dangerous cold. >> so cold. >> got more cold. dry weather outside. a lot of sun made for a gorgeous weekend with more record-breaking high temperatures. headed out the door this morning, going to find a few passing clouds. by the afternoon, a mix of sun, clouds again. the temperatures may be slightly cooler than yesterday, but not by much. generally in the 50s outside. so if you're headed out the door right now it's chilly. seeing patchy frost developing in some of the interior valleys down to 32 degrees, freezing. santa row is a, 40 degrees >>> the right lane closed until 5:00 this morning. should be wrapping up shortly. . 237 toes had get lower. once again by fso, we once again have lanes blocked. it should be picked up within the half hour. that's your latest traffic. back to you, guys. >> thank you. 4:37 now. >>> this morning federal investigators are expected at the scene of a d

marlie hall on what residents are being warned to prepare for. >> reporter: the winter storm system that slammed the midwest is colliding with another system over the northeast bringing blizzard conditions and single-digit temperatures. a car skidded off the road in ohio where 6" of snow is expected today. it was 2 degrees with a wind chills of minus 14 as snow started falling in albany, new york this morning. an overnight water main break flooded a street in downtown boston causing a plow truck to get stuck in a sinkhole. the city is expected to get buried under a foot of snow by friday morning. >> i'm very concerned about the frigid temperature. i am urging everyone to stay indoors. >> reporter: but the bigger problems could be 50-mile-per- hour winds and coastal flooding. massachusetts officials have high water rescue teams ready to go. a new seawall built to protect the town of scituate will be put to the test. in new york city, hundreds of salt trucks are loading up for the storm. more than half a foot of wind- driven snow is expected to fall by friday morning. the storm is already

marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> i think they are skiing in the park. >> why not? >> is that not amazing? >> wow. >> a foot of snow in boston is a lot. >> it's a record. >> paralyze. >> it's a record set in 1904. it's an amazing storm system in the northeast right now. it's not done yet. we'll see more snow there. couple of systems coming together to make this nor'easter special. a lot of cold air on the back side and tropical moisture from the south. the two meeting in the northeast and dumping tremendous amounts of snow into the boston area and along new york along the northeast. looks like we are seeing the back edge of the system. so i think we'll wind the storm system down throughout the day but the damage is done. we have it closed at the airport there jfk. that's going to have a ripple effect around the nation. highs across that area this afternoon, into the deep freeze now they are sitting only at 3 degrees in boston. 11 degrees in new york city. 8 degrees in pittsburg. and 1 degree in detroit! all right. thank goodness we live in the bay area. this afterno

marlie hall for cbs news. >> a christie spokesman says the federal law -- [ indiscernible ] is routine. >>> two veteran pilots are grounded after touching down at the wrong airport in the midwest. the error led to a rough landing. >> reporter: the southwest airlines 737 took off without incident today after landing at the wrong airport last night. southwest flight 4013 with 124 passengers on board was headed from chicago's midway airport to branson airport in missouri. somehow they landed at an airport 7 miles away with a shorter runway, only 3700 feet, roughly half the length of branson's runway. after landing, the pilots slammed on the brakes. no one was hurt but passengers said they were pitched forward by the sudden stop. mary melker was on the flight. >> the road looked like it was three blocks long and that's it. and we were the only plane there. so it was kind of hard to imagine that they didn't know they shouldn't have been there. >> reporter: the plane stopped at the end of the runway at an embankment overlooking a four- lane highway. a passenger took these photographs of the

marlie hall for cbs news. >> after 8 years a former stanford student wins the right to fly to the united states again. rahina ebrahim is a malaysian sit seen. the government was ordered to remove her name from the "no fly" list. she was pulled for questioning at sfo. she eventually did travel to malaysia but had her u.s. visa revoked. now the judge says she was on that "no fly" list by mistake. government had said it didn't want to go to trial because it didn't want to reveal classified information. >>> a california assemblyman is pushing for a statewide ban on filtered cigarettes. democrat mark stone of scotts valley says the plastic cigarette butts are often discarded causing environmental and public health problems. his bill would essentially force smokers to use nonfiltered cigarettes or face hefty fines. stone admits his bill is a long shot to pass but he says the most important thing is to open a discussion. >> if we hadn't done something that striking as this, then nobody is going to be talking about it because there's no motivation to make the changes. >> according to a study hig

marlies the mother of a 16 month old son, was 14 weeks pregnant with her second child when her husbandonscious in their home in late november. doctors believe she suffered a pulmonary embolism. an artery blockage in the lungs, she was rushed to john peter smith hospital in fort worth, she's been on life support there ever sense her husband and parents went to court asking to let her be allowed to die with big at this and have the machines turned off. the hospital argued texas law won't allow it since she is pregnant. the law states a person may not withdraw life sustaining treatment from a pregnant patient. but it also states if a doctor declares the patient to be irreversible brain dead the patient is legally dead. that's why a judge was asked to interpret a state law that is less than clear. after the ruling, the munoz family attorney talked briefly to reporters. >> this is the decision we sought. there is nothing happy about today. it's a sad situation all the way around. we are relieved that eric munoz can now move forward with the process of burying his wife. >> such a sad story b

marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> won't that be fun? the super bowl will be played in east rutherford, new jersey. the coldest super bowl, by the way, ever was super bowl vi in 1972. it was 39 degrees when the cowboys beat the dolphins. that was in new orleans. new york could be extra special. >> it was great weather last year for the super bowl. this year, eh. you like that kind of football weather. >> if you put that up in the north, there's always a chance in the middle of the winter. >> didn't you say yesterday chance of snow? >> there is a chance of snow. i love that. >> i think that's true football weather. >> i say go to miami. >> they may want to after this. >>> around the bay area today, we have changes coming our way. today could be another record- breaking day of heat outside. but you know, we have had that dry air sitting overhead and those offshore winds likely to kick in tonight and into early tomorrow morning. so red flag warnings are posted up in the north bay mountains. the fire danger going to be running high winds up

the weather has left thousand of airline passengers stranded as well and marly hall reports, relief is on the way for the weary travelers and the rest who are suffering through this record-breaking cold snap. >> reporter: every state in the continental u.s. is expected to see at least one city with below freezing temperatures this morning. but the now infamous polar vortex, which brought the bone- chilling cold, will soon be heading back where it belongs. >> by the time we get into thursday, the 50s are creeping farther northward. the sub-zero highs move well back into canada. and then most folks are above zero at the very least for friday. >> the storm can't leave soon enough. >> i want it to end. like i'm done. >> dozens of cities broke record lows tuesday. and includes pittsburgh, and new york, which were set more than a century ago. >> it is expected to be in the 50s by this weekend. in new york. and here in central park, we still started the day in the single digits. each cities used to the cold are having problems. near buffalo, new york, the niagra river is freezing over, causin

marlie hall reports the governor denies he had anything to do with stopping traffic last september. >> i come out here today to apologize to the people of new jersey. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie apologized dozens of times during a nearly two-hour news conference. he says he is embarrassed some of his most trusted aides allegedly orchestrated a four- day traffic jam on the approach to the george washington bridge in fort lee new jersey. >> a person close it me betrayed me. >> reporter: thursday the governor fired his deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly, who sent an email to a christie associate at the agency in charge of the bridge saying, time for some traffic problems in fort lee. kelly reportedly targeted fort lee's mayor because he refused to endorse christie during last year's election. the republican governor traveled to fort lee to apologize to mayor mark sokolich in person. >> he has taken we believe to be a big step in regaining the trust of our community and quite frankly this region. >> reporter: but at least 6 new jersey residents have filed a feder

marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> not a good thing, we're seeing a ripple effect here. jamba juice is already having trouble getting ahold of fresh oranges. the store in fremont totally out over the weekend. they posted this sign apologizing to the customers. getting a little crazy out there. >> no kidding. >> what are we going to do without juice? >> i know. >> oh my gosh. >> my goodness. hey guys we've got some changes coming our way today and got a lot of clouds moving across the skies this morning. and well even a couple of rain drops in the forecast. maybe not today. maybe in the north bay you can see the south side right now the clouds kind of streaming across the skies early on today. we're going to see more of that on and off throughout the day. and into the afternoon. so we'll keep some clouds outside and the temperatures will be cooler today with the on shore breeze. 50s and low 60s towards the coast and 60s inside the bay and in the interior valleys. i think the next couple of days we're going to see more of the same. lot of clouds streaming across the skies

marly hall for cbs news. >>> and here's a live look at sfo right now. pretty there. the weather affecting air travel across the country. more than 2,000 flights canceled this morning. especially, of course, in the big west and out east. new york, boston, chicago. yesterday dozens of arrivals, departures scrapped at fso as well. no word on cancellations at the bay area airports; but you should check if you're headed out that way. >>> it was a ride three people will never forget. they were rescued after their car went over a cliff in the berkeley hills. it happened just before 7 last night -- near centennial drive. firefighters used a rope and pullly system to rescue the people inside. there were no serious injuries, and no word yet on what caused the accident. >>> happening today, students charged with hate crimes will be arraigned. the white teenagers are accused of bullying their block roommates starting when the school year began in fall. the boys arrested, suspended after parents found racist items in their dorm room. >>> four men arrested for allegedly swiping ma

>>> eric muÑoz entrÓ a la corte acompaÑado de su as abajabogad u seguido entraron los pdadres d m marlysada a aparatos qlue la mantienen vaa en forma artitfivcicial. >>> el hospital toma la cond condiciÓn que una persona que estÁ embarazada no se permite a bajo la ley que la desconectren de vida artificial, entonces hay una contradicciÓn entre el seÑora. >>> el mismo codigo tambiÉn dice que una spersona se considera u muerta, cuando sufre pÉrdida de su actividad cerebral. >>> eric muÑoz asegura que su p spesposa testÁ legalmente muer a ademÁs ocurriÓ un giro inespe d inesperado en el caso. >>> por 1primera vez detenide h hsospitalizado sciÓn se decrecÓe la mujer al momento de la audiencia el feto en gestaciÓn n no es viable, sufre de serios r problemas de salud, entre ellos malformacionÉs y p0rbs eroblem e cerebro y corazÓn, la pdrresidea de la coaliciÓn texanos por la v vida defendiÓ la posiciÓn del hospital y de la ley de texas, q que muchos aseguran que ha sido malinterpretada. >>> despuÉs dallas didel dicta e juez se decidiÓ apelar la de decisiÓn. >>> el sureste de texas es co conoci

cbs correspondent marlie hall has the blizzard and winter storm warnings for much of the northeast. >er: the snow is already falling in boston and across the northeast, the snowplows are ready for a major winter storm. >> i have a 9-horsepower snow blower, three bags of rock salt, two shovels and two sons. >> reporter: the heaviest snow is expected to fall tonight and into tomorrow. >> up to a foot or more in boston, 6 to 12 outside new york city and less to the south. >> reporter: many schools in boston will be closed for the next two days. >> sounds like it will be a hard snowstorm and it's the transportation is going to be difficult. >> reporter: here in new york, the governor has asked commuters coming into the city to use mass transit to avoid gridlock if the snow shuts down the highways. the storm has already caused major problems across the midwest. as much as a foot of snow fell in some parts of chicago prompting hundreds of flight cancellations. and in indiana, one person died and 15 taken to the hospital when a pickup truck slammed into a bus. >> the pickup lost control due

marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> forecasters say people from the great lakes to the east coast could get hit with another storm over the weekend. and next week it may snow in florida. >> wow. >>> it's 5:20. a young couple pulled over in new hampshire. what was found in the man's pocket that had his girlfriend in tears. >> and i'm dennis o'donnell. coming up, steph curry joins elite company in the nba. the franchise drought he ended coming up and the sharks go for five straight against the jets. >> "where's roberta?"? we don't want your day to get off to a rocky start. "where's roberta?"? as the news continues on kpix 5. check it out everybody. our kids are out of their rooms. because we've got the kfc favorites bucket. 10 pieces, any recipe. twelve ninety-nine. everybody gets what they want. we love this new extra crispy boneless. he's taller than i remember. ♪ on police dash cam. samanthd matt have been dating for years. they were pulled london, mass >>> a wedding proposal caught on police dashcam. samantha had been dating for several years matt. they were pulled over in new l

marlie hall reports, they may have warned students not to go to school before the attack. >> reporter: gathering for a prayer vigil in roswell, two mexico, where two middle school students were shot. >> it breaks your heart to see the kids, and they have to witness and be part of such a tragedy. >> reporter: the tragedy began at the start of the school day yesterday. officials say students gathered in the gymnasium at the middle school waiting for classes to start when a 12-year-old took out a gun. >> we've confirmed it is a .20-gauge shotgun. that the stock, the wood stock was sawed off and it was contained with any bags. >> reporter: according to police an 11-year-old boy shot in the face, a 13-year-old girl in the arm. >> i was about to walk into the gym and heard three gunshots. >> i just don't know what they want. >> reporter: witnesses say the suspect then turned the gun on teacher john masterson. >> mr. masterson then begins to talk to him to put it down. the young man put the gun down and raised his hands. >> reporter: roswell police say the entire ordeal lasted just 10 second

but let's start things off with cbs news' marlie hall live in new york. >> reporter: michelle, the first winter storm of the new year is pummeling the northeast with blizzard conditions and cold temperatures bringing many cities to a standstill. crews in boston are working around the clock building mountains of snow as they try to keep up with the winter storm. the northeast is getting slammed but massachusetts is one of the hardest-hit areas. some spots up to 2 feet of snow. these french tourists picked the wrong time to visit. >> we like boston but it's snowy. >> reporter: the storm is forcing airlines to cancel flight and planes are grounded at logan airport. driving conditions aren't much better with cars slipping and sliding. new york's governor shut down the busy long island expressway and in new jersey, even the plow drivers are having problems. >> slipping and spinning out. >> reporter: the snow here in new york is expected to wind down by late morning. but across the region temperatures are plummetting. >> subzero temperatures you worry about frostbite and hypothermia. it doesn'

marlie hall has details on this unusual event. >> reporter: edward snowden will answer questions from the public online today about his role in exposing secret u.s. surveillance programs. one question u.s. officials want to know is how much help did he receive from foreign intelligence sources. >> my questions about his work with chinese and russian intelligence began once he arrives in hong kong and then when he moved on to moscow. >> reporter: wednesday, snowden denied he had any help telling the "new yorker" magazine the claims are absurd. a new cbs news survey shows 61% of those polled believe snowden should stand trial for espionage. 23% say he should be given amnesty but that's not happening. >> it is our firm position that he ought to return to the united states and face the charges against him. >> reporter: but the snowden leaks have forced changes to the way the nsa operates. last week, president obama announced the nsa will still collect americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism but the president said agents will now need a judge's approval to access it. and he

cbs reporter marlie hall has an update on the freeze. >> reporter: it's so cold in embarrass, minnesota frost is forming on people's faces. >> this is the natural way of life for you. so you just live with it and you just put on another bundle of clothes and come on out. >> reporter: what may be a natural way of life in embarrass is unnatural for the rest of us. >> it's very cold. very cold. unbearably cold actually. >> reporter: a polar vortex is bringing cold air and biting winds from the north pole. forecasters say about 187 million americans are in a deep freeze. >> the big story about all this has been the breadth of the cold. seeing unusually cold air and windchill warnings and advisories, not often you see that map with that much coverage. >> reporter: it's been racing south and east and here in new york city temperatures plummeted more than 40 degrees in the last 24 hours. new yorkers are waking up to single digit temperatures. and windchills below zero. the weather is partly to blame for jet blue's decision monday to ground all of its planes coming into and out of new york and

marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >> there's also a wind chill advisory on the east coast and thatt will feel even colder than the subzero temperatures already in the forecast. >>> new this morning, the health of former israeli prime minister ariel sharon is deteriorating. the 85-year-old has been in a coma since 2006 when he suffered a stroke leaving him incapacitated. doctors say he is now in critical condition and his life is in danger. sharon's family is reportedly at his bedside. >>> firefighters are still not sure whether anyone still inside a three-story apartment building rocked by an explosion and a fire. it happened yesterday morning in minneapolis. firefighters still can't get inside because the roof partially collapsed. more than a dozen people injured, some critically. the cause still unknown. >>> a heartwarming moment caught on live tv during a new year's eve newscast. >> a proposal happened while a reporter was doing a story in fort worth texas. >> cbs 11 is live there. awww, i don't think that's her. [ laughter ] >> a sneak peek at tonight's celebration. did someone

marlie hall, cbs news, new york. >>> the pentagon is planning on calling blimps back into service to protect airspace over washington, d.c. the drone airships would protect the capitol from missile attacks but they're also raising privacy concerns. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning, susan. >> good morning, anne-marie. the plan is to deploy them over maryland this coming fall. their mission would be to detect any aircraft, cruise missiles, things like that, to intercept them before they read the capital. but it's their potential capability of carrying cameras on board and spying on people on the ground that's raising concerns. they plan to deploy blimp-like aircraft over maryland the fall. they're meant to protect the nation's capitol. >> they would fly low level and very rapidly. >> reporter: one military officer tells cbs news the prospect of a missile being launched at the capitol is the biggest threat. he says, as of today they have zero capability to detect it much less defend against it. they'll have radar that reaches from boston to north carolina. the tec

. >> marli s munoz was 14 weeks pregnant when her husband eric found her unconscious in their kitchen on november 26th. two days later the 33-year-old was declared brain dead by doctors. her family wanted to disconnect the breathing machine, but the hospital refused fighting a 1999 state law. testing found the fetus now at 22 weeks is deformed with fluid on the brain. >> we are relieved that eric munoz can now move forward with the process of burying his wife. >> stocks closed out their worst week since june, 2012. investors are worried about a slowdown in china's economy. the profit outlook for u.s. companies and a possible currency crisis. >>> this week we escaped the anchor desk and found a much cooler place to do our job. you can never unsee that once you've seen it. we were loving it until something happened. you've got to stick around to see wh >>> the grammys are here sunday night on wusa9 and we want to congratulate a local musical professor who has been nominated for the new music educator award. glen mccarthy teaches at george mason university. before that he spent 30 years

. >> reporter: marlis munoz was removed from a breathing machine at 11:30 this morning at john peters smith hospital in fort worth. the hospital said it would not appeal a judges order to have that woman removed. the hospital had said it was following a texas law prohibiting the prohibiting of life sustaining treatment from a pregnant patient but the attorneys said that did not apply to ms. munoz because the doctors already determined she was braindead, a family attorney said the family will now finally be able to complete what has been an unbearably long and arduous journey. anna werner, cbs news, dallas. >> maryland police are putting together a profile of darion marcus aguilar, the 19-year-old gunman who killed two people in a shopping mall outside of baltimore yesterday before killing himself. jeff pegues is there tonight with the latest, jeff. >> reporter: jeff, investigators who have been trying to pin down a reason for this murder, so far they don't have one, they have gone through evidence in the suspect's home including a journal. late today bill mcmahon the police chief lead

marlies munoz was declared brain dead, but because she was pregnant, texas law required her to remain on a slantor. her husband said she was always clear she did not want to be kept alive by machines, doctors have until 5:00 p.m. monday to remove her life support. no word on whether the hospital will appeal the decision. president hamid karzai said he will not sign a deal with the u.s. until peace talks resume with the taliban. that announcement coming one week after americans were killed in a terror attack in kabul. they will not be able to keep troops in afghanistan as long as they want. i'll send you back to cavuto on business only on fox. . >> call it the billing chill. i'm not talking about the winter blast gripping most of the company. a report from the united nations saying rich nations are fuel close global warming. here's our argument. they are producing more gdz for a developing country and compounding their sins. charles payne, i think that means they are blaming pos spert. >> no, but they're blaming global prosperity, too. noon of those countries are getting to a position

yesterday if you look at the total pool mortgages it's only i believe marly positive stat it had been going down for a while and so to get total credit outstanding it's. not good i want to move on because you're obviously going to talk a lot about modern monetary theory and specifically how the government private sector and trade sectors how they all work together i want to ask you do you believe that u.s. consumers are living off of debt accumulation and they're just essentially tapped out. that i think the consumers doing reasonably well at the debt ratios are way down and. there's potential to take on more debt now the problem is the rate of growth of income has been decreasing ok and so it's like if you go into a bank for a loan and he says well the good news is interest rates are down and your your balance sheet is cleaned up the bad news is your income isn't keeping up ok and the income i think is critical to democrats now how does the larger reduction in deficit help sustain growth. where i'll see opposite direction does not help to sustain growth the fact is it's the removal o

yesterday if you look at the total pool of mortgages it's only i believe marly positive stat it had been going down for a while and so to get total credit outstanding it's. not good i want to move on because you obviously are going to talk a lot about modern monetary theory and specifically how the government private sector and trade sectors how they all work together i want to ask you do you believe that u.s. consumers are living off of debt accumulation and they're just essentially tapped out. i think the consumers doing reasonably well at the debt ratios are way down and. there's potential to take out more debt now the problem is the rate of growth of income has been decreasing ok and so it's like if you go into a bank for a loan and he says well the good news is interest rates are down and your your balance sheet is cleaned up the bad news is your income isn't keeping up in the income i think is critical to debt growth now how does the larger reduction in deficit help sustain growth. where i'll see opposite direction does not help to be sustained growth the fact is it's the removal o

marlies nunoz has been taken off a ventilator.any this was a debate about reproductive rights. now they are left to bury a mother, a wife and a baby. nick valencia has more. >> reporter: more than two months after the legal battle began, it came to an end when march lease munoz was removed from the ventilator sunday morning. her family didn't speak publicly but her attorney released this statement: at approximately 11:30 a.m. central time, marlies munoz's body was disconnected from life support. her husband, eric, found her unconscious on the kitchen floor. she was rushed to the hospital but two days later was pronounced brain dead. the family, citing her wishes machines not keep her alive, requested to remove her from the ventilator. the hospital's interpretation of the law led to a court battle that was finally resolved on friday when a state district judge ruled that the law was only applicable to a living patient and ordered john peter smith hospital to remove munoz from the ventilator. >> this was a sad situation all the way

the munoz attorney arguing that marlies munoz has been dead 8.5 weeks. the husband saying every time he touches his wife, he bones crack. he smells death coming off her and when he looks in her eyes, she is solace, no longer there. the family can't understand wipe the hospital wouldn't abide by the wishes, i should say, but again i reiterate, the hospital saying they feel they've done the right thing abide big the state law. they have until 5:00 p.m. nond appeal or that ventilator will be shut off. >> nick valencia, thanks so much in fort worth. >> you bet. >>> eight people dead and more than 20 missing after a massive fire at a nursing home in canada. authority say it's unlikely any of the missing escaped alive. search efforts are complicated by ice that coated the collapsed building when firefighters tried to battle that blaze. police officials spoke to reporters earlier. >> the total number is 32 neem are currently missing. eight of which are confirmed dead. when you conduct an investigation of something of this magnitude you have to determine all the