michelle miller is at laguardia airport with the latest. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. well, activity has picked up at

harry. >> smith: michelle miller at laguardia tonight, thank you. in maine, officials at the sugarloaf ski resort said today they had problems with the chair -lift before today's accident. workers had been trying to fix a cable that was out of place when the lift derailed. some plummeted 30 feet to the slope. high winds also played a role in the mishap. in jackson hole, wyoming, an american airlines jet skidded off a snowy runway this afternoon. the 757 had just flown in from chicago. none of the 181 passengers or crew were hurt. the plane was not damaged. in suburban detroit, an apparent natural gas explosion destroyed a furniture store. the storeo owner is hospitalized tonight in critical condition. if you spend a lot of time behind the wheel, you can't help but notice it-- gas prices are going straight up, up 20 cents in just past month. so how high will they go? here's senior business correspondent, anthony mason. >> reporter: sticker shock is back at your local gas station. >> it's insane. >> it's expensive. >> reporter: as the global economy h

michelle miller is at new york's laguardia airport. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry here at laguardia there are just ten flights on the arrival board and with just two departures set to go out tonight, it isn't likely this many travelers waiting here will be flying out. at new york city's laguardia airport, stranded passengers could do nothing but watch as plows worked late into the day to clear off more than a foot of snow. so far, only one of laguardia's two runways has been reopened. >> thank you. >> reporter: tanya myck was headed back to bozeman, montana, with her dog charlie but they've been stuck here for the last 24 hours. myck was among the 250 people who toughed it out overnight on cots, chairs, even the marble floor. >> you just make your peace with it. all right, i'm stuck here for 24 okay. >> reporter: so how many nights have you been stranded? >> four nights in total. >> reporter: london native antonio christopher began his journey to the caribbean last week just as a blizzard socked london. he spe

michelle miller is at laguardia airport with the latest. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, harry. well, activity has picked up at all three new york city airports. but with more than 500 flight cancellations today, for every plane that took off two more never made it off the ground. for 12 frustrating hours, passengers on a cafe pacific flight from vancouver to new york were stuck on the tarmac at kennedy airport today. officials say there just wasn't any space at the gates. slowly but surely, more planes are taking off, struggling to make up for the more than 6,500 flights canceled since sunday >> i told my daughter i wouldn't leave until i saw the plane take off. >> reporter: it was another rough night for some 200 travelers at laguardia. some have been told they could be stuck here through the weekend. >> take it one day at a time and pretend like it's some expedition, like you're going on a camping trip. >> reporter: the problem? once a flight has been canceled, it takes 36 to 72 hours to match crews with planes again. >

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >>> a tragedy this morning in hialeah, florida, just outside miami. police say five teenagers have died accidentally of carbon monoxide poisoning. the victims' bodies were found monday in a hotel room. police believe they were overcome by exhaust fumes from a car that had been left running outside their room. a maid found them and called 911. >> all males. were unconscious. there was a vehicle running, and the garage underneath that adjoining room. all males had no signs of life. they were all deceased. >> police say the five victims were friends. they were together to celebrate the 19th birthday of one of them. >>> a report this morning says an american aid worker is due in court today in haiti more than two weeks after he was jailed on kidnapping charges. paul wagner says it's all a mistake. the 15-month-old boy he's accused of stealing actually died in february. a texas nurse says she was there and says the boy's father put his son in a coffin. >> we wrapped it in a little sheet of plastic, and i created a flyer on the front that had his name, and

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >>> in miami's main airport tied up tuesday after a bag exploded on the tarmac after it came off a plane. police had to search every other bag on that american airlines flight from boston after that blast. officials say the luggage contained hundreds of bullet parts. one exploded setting off all the others. the bag's owner was arrested but the fbi says there is no connection to terrorism. >>> inspectors will check out a ski lift in maine that broke tuesday causing eight injuries. witnesses at the sugarloaf resort said it could have been much worse if is hadn't been for the blizzard. the victims' fall was cushioned by nearly two feet of new snow. seth doane has more. >> reporter: the serenity of the resort shattered when a chair lift suddenly derailed in high winds causing dozens to plummet 30 feet to the snowy trail below. >> i just realized, we're dropping. and then, i -- then i slammed into the ground. >> reporter: eight skiers including children, were taken to local hospitals with injuries. at the time, dozens of skiers were on the spillway east

michelle miller, cbs news, new jersey. >> couric: that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.ouric. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow. good night. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> it was one point i stopped coming to school. >> and he is not alon oakland's dropout rate going to 40%, even higher for black students. what's the problem? we asked the students themselves. >> california is facing a serious budget crisis, as now. >> the campaign is behind him. now the hard work begins. why it's getting even tougher to dig out of the state's budget hole. >> and a bay area hotel offering much more than a mint on the pillow. how about a dog? good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. >>> california's high school graduation rate is up, but so is the dropout rate. the state says 70% of high school seniors graduated in

thousands of flights have been canceled and cbs news correspondent michelle miller is in laguardia airport with the latest on that. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. on average 70,000 people fly in and out of laguardia airport every day. but look at it. it's a ghost town. while some 250 passengers were stranded overnight, the good news is the numbers weren't higher. here in the northeast, all three major new york airports, jfk, laguardia and newark suspended operations overnight and are closed until noon today. some passengers made the best of a difficult situation. >> if you travel, you got to be prepared for any of the elements. >> hoping to keep the number of stranded travelers as low as possible, the airlines started canceling flights on saturday. but there was no getting ahead of this storm. even at boston logan a flight preparing to take off for paris was turned around. >> we thought we were going to be the last plane out, then you know, it turns sour. >> reporter: delta canceled 850 flights sunday, u.s. airways 679, continental 265, american, 262. hundreds

cbs news correspondent michelle miller is at new york's laguardia airport with more. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, russ. well, the good news is that all three major airports here in new york city are back up and running. kennedy, newark and here at laguardia both runways are now open. certainly good news to the 200 stranded passengers who spent the night here but with 90 cancelations already on the arrival and departure boards, that doesn't mean that flights are back on schedule. >> chaos. everybody wants to go home. >> reporter: but the reality is that almost no one is going anywhere. nearly 7,000 flights were canceled as east coast airports dug out from the brutal storm. tonya muck was among the hundreds who spent the night at laguardia sleeping wherever they could. >> you know, you make your peace with it. all right. i'm stuck here for 24 hours okay. >> reporter: the delays from maine to california and stranded international travelers like these in mexico city. >> the flights in new york canceled because there's too much snow. i have to stay her

>> michelle miller at laguardia airport again this morning, thank you very much. now here's rebecca. >>> new worries on the west coast as a new round of storms is set to pound california bringing the fear of more mudslides and flooding. nick james of sacramento affiliate in blue canyon, california, with the late e. good morning, nick. >> reporter: rebecca, good morning. the latest storm is packing quite a wallop. we are getting a break from the snow that's been falling and the wind gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour. in the low eer elevations, the concern of power outages and more flooding. heavy rains and winds is pounding northern and central california. just one week after southern california was inundated by rain and floods. tuesday, it snowed in the sierras north of san francisco. heavy, wet snow that made driving hazardous. >> my first time driving in the snow like this. it's pretty scary. >> reporter: a little further south, warmer air turned the snow to rain, rained so much that the ma rin county reservoirs at 97% capacity. almost 30% higher than the nor

. >> osgood: michelle miller looks at store windows dressed in holiday style.ena altschul pays a hanukkah visit to a synagogue. our own mo rocca has his own takes on the wikileaks revelations. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 5th of december, 2010. in a rare saturday session of the senate republicans defeated the democratic effort to pass legislation limiting any renewal of bush era tax cuts solely to middle class tax payers. president obama is said to have told congressional democrats he'd consider permitting a temporary extension of the tax cuts for all income levels if the renewal of expiring jobless benefits is part of the deal. today's "new york times" is reporting that billions of dollars in bills faced by state and local governments across the country could be overwhelming in the next few years. a week after publishing those thousands of secret u.s. diplomatic cables wikileaks is struggling to stay online. this morning the website's main server in france went down. also lost its pay pal fund- raising account. the founder remains in hiding

cbs news correspondents michelle miller reports. >> reporter: it is the off-the-field story that's got the new york tabloids talking and is keeping one coach on his toes. tuesday night, youtube video surfaced on the website deadspin.com showing a woman in a foot fetish video with voiceover from an ardent admirer. >> is it okay to touch them again? >> sure. >> can i smell them? >> sure. >> look closely at the woman now. she bears a more-than-passing resemblance to this woman. this is michelle ryan, wife of rex ryan, the head football coach of the new york jets. >> he's a very gentle man in private. >> rex ryan has become known for his bluster and bravado with the media. when asked a direct question -- >> mr. ryan, you did and your wife make the foot fetish videos? >> reporter: the normally tackive ryan found himself, well, with his foot in his mound. >> you know, this is a personal matter. and i'm not going to discuss it. >> reporter: despite repeated attempts by reporters to get a comment -- >> again, it's, you know, it's personal. >> reporter: ryan stayed light on his feet, except to

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> and joining us now is brian smie, a stuntman and coordinator20 years. >> how are you doing? >> just fine. what do you think is going on over there? >> i think there's -- needs a little more in-house overseeing, a manager, stunt coordinator there all the time overseeing everything constantly. >> are these types of stunts that they're doing on the show, unprecedented on broadway. >> they are on broadway but not the movie industry and things that should be happening. i think pushing things faster for the show to get it open, moving. and instead of testing, probably testing until they got it right instead of testing until they got it right every time. >> how dangerous is it for the actors? >> it's pretty dangerous. if you lose a line and some wenches move you at 40 feet a second and like being in a car accident. like being hit by a car. >> the show was shut down while they worked everything out. based on your experience after two days how optimistic are you they have worked everything out? >> not very. >> what do you do? >> bring in the experts, th

. >> cbs news correspondents michelle miller in venice, miller. >> the people have spoken and hope and this week. >> 50 million people across this country don't get enough sleep. >> amazing number to me. >> doctors, analysts studies -- >> including us, right? >> we clap. [ background music ] >> what's up? >> hey there. >> erica is working her glutes, stomach, arms. >> oh, yes, she is. >> get off the floor. >> the -- cream and spinach. >> part of this show is eating. >> southern grits. >> como -style salmon. >> fun, fascinating, furry, feathery, prickly friends. >> cool animal. >> it is going to take your papers. >> watch out. >> my nodes. >> i'm glad wragge's my partner. >> they are bringing the -- >> noise. >> bring the noise, people. >> yeah. >> i'm crazy, i know. >> which begs us to ask the question, what's that about? >> eh? >> i love -- >> feel it? >> exciting and new. >> can you feel it? >> watching the two of you watch that. >> it's fun to watch, actual lie. >> brings back a lot of memories, a lot of laughing over the years. >> we did. >> i remember we first met and did our show

cbs news correspondent michelle miller reports on the music and the controversy surrounding it. ♪ >>one more chance ♪ from the early days with the jackson 5 to a blockbuster solo career. jackson charted 13 number one hits and sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide. >> i think everybody in the whole world is a michael jackson fan. >> i love michael jackson until the end. ♪ this life don't last forever >> reporter: now just over a year since his death is the first new music of michael jackson since 2001. >> the last time was "invisible" a decade ago now. >> i think he needs an opportunity to live on. >> reporter: the album simply titled "michael" is a compilation of tracks michael left behind. >> he was a real workaholic. . be assured this is the best he had to offer. >> reporter: akon's duet is the first track and video. >> music to last forever and music to make a difference. >> reporter: and much like his life, jackson's posthumous album is not without controversy. >> breaking news. >> reporter: three of the ten songs were co-written by a little if not completely unknown ar

cbs news correspondent michelle miller has more. >> reporter: this video captured from a cell phone showse wrong way down pennsylvania's interstate 95. and this was the horrifying scene in california, when a disoriented 86-year-old plowed into a crowded marketplace, killing ten people. both make a case for getting older drivers off the road and a new government report adds fuel, with findings that drivers over the age of 85 are four times more likely to die in traffic accidents than teen-aged drivers. but experts like this say, not so fast. >> age has very little to do with it. the fact that a person's 88 doesn't necessarily mean they can't drive safely on the road. >> about every day. 88-year-old jean turic, who started driving before world war ii. what kind of driver are you? >> i think i'm a good driver, i really do. >> reporter: but her daughter, louise, on the right says lately she noticed something troubling, something we found with a basic question. how many kids do you have. >> three. >> three? >> uh, six. >> reporter: all three of her children want her off the road. do you think

erika miller looks at whether sweeter holiday sales will mean more retail hiring after christmas. >> reporter: let's not sugarcoat things. sales at the chocolate boutique michel cluizel are up over last year, but store manager michele saint laurent says customers are spending less per transaction. >> i think that they're probably looking to get as much for their dollar as they can. so they are spending maybe a little bit less, the purchases might be a little bit smaller. but buying maybe more gifts, it seems. >> reporter: given the mixed sales signals, the store has not decided whether to make any of its six seasonal workers permanent. it's a dilemma facing many merchants. barry sloane is the c.e.o. of newtek, a firm that tracks retail hiring. he does not expect a surge in retail hiring in the new year. >> sales are up marginally over last year. if you actually break down the components of the sales, the biggest percentage of sales that are up are online. and online does not use a lot of staffing. >> reporter: even if store sales are strong, there are other reasons merchants may hold back. >> between higher tax rates, healthcare issues, and government regulat

miller from senator boxer's office, the captain of this fantastic ship, a representative from metro ports, among many colleagues, many from the iowu, will travis, bruce wolfe from the regional quality control board, michele from the quality association of port authorities, captain strode from the u.s. coast guard, welcome. and many more that i'm sure did not make it onto my little card, so thank you very much for coming today. [applause] thank you. thank you. on behalf of all of us at the port of san francisco, we are honored by your presence and your demonstration of partnership. today marks a great achievement for the port. it gives us great pride but it also gives as testimony the wonderful things can happen when leaders come together and great minds work on innovative projects. the port, as i mentioned, is over 100 years old. it is a place of great history. these appears you are standing on were built many years ago and have stood the incredible test of time, thanks to the amazing workmanship with which they were built. tremendous ingenuity has been demonstrated over and over again, and we are doing it again today. today, we get to celebrate our collective ingenuity, so it is with great pride that i

pelosi and chairman miller, congresswoman delauro, congresswoman mccarthy and others who have worked so hard on this issue. and i want to say a special thank you to first lady michelle obama. she has been an incredible champion for our children, particularly in the areas of nutrition and obesity. she has challenged us to live up to one of our highest moral obligations, to make sure that the children of this nation have the nutritious food they need to grow, to thrive and to succeed. mr. speaker, as many of my colleagues know, i co-chair both the house hunger caucus and the congressional hunger center, and i've said many times that hunger is a political condition. we have the resources to end hunger, particularly childhood hunger, and what we need is the political will to make it happen. president obama has pledged to end childhood hunger in america by 2015. if we support that goal, then we must pass this bill. i hope that the members of this house, all of us, democrats and republicans, can come together today to summon the political will necessary to move forward on this issue. there is not a single community in america that is hunger-free. talk to any food bank. th

as michelle miller reports, he chose job security over a dream. >> reporter: for many little boys who football, there's often a dream of one day playing in the national football league. so, when the new york jets called 24-year-old keith fitzhugh, a free agent safety yesterday to ask him to join them on their potential super bowl run, the call came and he said. >> no thank you. >> reporter: because the mississippi state grad has already been on the roster and cut three times by two nfl teams. and now, he has a new job that he's not giving up. >> it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work on the railroad, also. >> reporter: he turned down the chance to make $5200 a week with the jets practice squad -- a guaranteed $30,000 plus but instead chooses to earn the same money but over the next 12 months as a 31,000-a-year trainee with nor fork southern railroad. his father is disabled and his parents are having a tough time making ends meet. keith is carrying the financial load. >> i just can't be selfish right now, for what i've seen my parents been through helping me out and pushing me t