michelle miller has found there's pipeline danger in many cities. we learned that g.m. knew about a faulty part for 13 years as it continued to build cars with deadly consequences. jeff glor has details. and a little boat launched on a tide of misery is sent home with a cargo of hope. >> definitely mind blowing thinking that this boat traveled upside down two years all the way across the ocean to get here. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it has been nearly one week now since malaysia airlines flight 370 left linda lane for beijing, and seemingly vanished into thin air. but it has to be somewhere, and tonight the search for the boeing 777 is moving farther into the indian ocean because there is evidence the plane may have changed course toward the west after losing contact with air traffic controllers and that it continued to fly in that direction for quite some time. bob orr in our washington bureau begins our coverage. bob. >> reporter: scott, u.s. officials tell us they do not believe malaysia airl

tonight crews are digging for more victims and michelle miller is there. killed, more than 60 injured and nine are still missing. tonight crews are digging for more victims and michelle miller is there. >> reporter: a gas leak was reported just 15 minutes before the explosion. this video was shot by anthony ferguson. he lives nearby. >> the person that heard was a big boom. the building did not come down right away. i swear to god, the building started from the top and as that was coming down the bricks started to fall little by little and it slowly went down. >> hurry up, hurry up. >> reporter: the buildings were five stories tall and included apartments, a church and piano repair shop. the explosion blew out windows and showered debris on the street and neighboring commuter rail line. a column of smoke could be seen from many parts of new york city. the blast trapped aisha watts in her apartment next door. >> my neighbor came in and kicked it out. after we got out, everybody started evacuating, saying evacuate, the building is going down next door. >> co

michelle miller is here with an inside look at the papers investigation.ing. over the past nine months they've been looking at cities all over the country from philadelphia to los angeles, wanted criminals are crossing state lines and continuing to break laws. how? cities that made the calculated decision not to go after them. kalle morrow abandoned the home she shared with her husband nine years ago after finding him beaten to death inside. >> this is where he was lying. >> right here. >> right here. >> the person convicted of murdering her husband was duane slaughter, a man charged and convicted months earlier in philadelphia. he jumped bail. but nobody alerted the neighboring states. >> if philadelphia had put it on the wanted list and put it all over the states and found out he was wanted they would have locked him up. >> reporter: police and prosecutor as i cross the u.s. are allowing tens and thousands of wanted felons to escape justice clearly by crossing into the next state. >> you can look at cities like philadelphia, atlanta, little rock all high

i'm michelle miller. that story is coming up on "cbs this morning." >>> it's 8:25.ts rooftop when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down. search vehicles on the ground exploded in flames and there are reports of casualties. >>> san jose police are looking into the shooting death of a man inside a house in the area. the body was discovered after an overnight fire at the home. marijuana plants were also found inside. >>> mcdonald's workers who say they are cheated out of overtime pay will hold a protest in oakland today. the class action lawsuits in three states including california. congresswoman barbara lee will join today's protest. >>> stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. >>> good morning, checking the ride on 101. it's still pretty backed up in both directions and it never quite fully recovered after the crash near sfo. it was southbound but you can see southbound and northbound traffic remains heavy all along the peninsula. between san mateo and san francisco. also pretty jammed up the nimitz freeway in oakland northbound. heading

michelle miller is on the scene. >> the walls came tumbling down, i can't die in here, i have three kids need their mommy. >> pelley: heavy weather an a severe drop in temperatures hit a wide swathe of the country. a criminal investigation has begun into a deadly defect in gm cars. jeff glor reports on what gm knew. and after bob wick photographed this stretch of california, the president declared it a national monument. >> it's just the most spectacular piece of coastline you can imagine.

michelle miller has found there's pipeline danger in many cities. we learned that g.m.t a faulty part for 13 years as it continued to build cars with deadly consequences. jeff glor has details. and a little boat launched on a tide of misery is sent home with a cargo of hope. >> definitely mind blowing thinking that this boat traveled upside down two years all the way across the ocean to get here. captioning sponsored by cbs

michelle miller has our story. >> reporter: beachgoers could hear the children inside the minivan callingor help. they pulled out two, ages nine and 10, before realizing a three-year-old was still strapped into her seat. she, too, was safely brought to shore. sheriff ben johnson: >> the waves were strong. the water was cold. they got in the water, got them out of there quickly. it-- if it had been empties longer, the outcome probably would have been different. >> reporter: police say they have visited with their mom before she deliberately drove her minivan into the atlantic. her sister had called 911. >> she's trying to drive and i'm trying to stop her. >> reporter: the officer who made contact with 32-year-old ebony wilkinson noticed her acting strangely but did not see a reason to take her into custody. less than two hours later, she was driving recklessly on the beach. are they saying help? >> tim tesseneer and his wife are driving behind the minivan. >> and i saw a kid sitting on the mother's lap trying to pull the steering wheel out of her hand and turn away from the water, and the

michelle miller tells us how it's putting more money in workers' pockets. >> reporter: ooh cup of joesquare one creating by twitter founder jack dorsey. many of the customers, 4 million customers are small business owners. jeremy co-founed birch coffee in new york city which started using the technology a year ago. >> with square we swipe the card, flip it around and they close out the entire transaction. >> reporter: customers are faced with a screen how much they'd like to tip or you can select no tip. turns out almost nobody wants to seem like a cheapskate and limon says tipping with technology has skyrocketed. >> when people would come in and have to actually physically ten enter a tip amount we'd be taking 100. the day we started using square it went up 100%. >> reporter: exerted cite a combination of factors. the preset options eliminate the mental work. >> there's a lot of research that defaults are suggestions actually make people do what those defaults or suggestions suggest. >> reporter: and then there's the guilt factor. >> i feel like people actually do feel bad pushing no

michelle miller is in chatham, massachusetts, right on the elbow of cape cod. >> reporter: good morningo you and our viewers on the west. here at chatham harbor, sustained winds churned up heavy surf and near whiteout conditions with forecast of hurricane-force winds throughout the day. just before 4:00 a.m., snow started to whip through the cape as wind gusts reached nearly ll miles an hour. it's all part of a weather pattern that has been making its way up the eastern seaboard. on tuesday, flurries coated parts of north carolina, virginia and pennsylvania. before the storm made its way up to massachusetts early wednesday. it's just the latest round in a brutal winter, and cape cod locals are hoping it is the last. >> just one more, that's it. >> reporter: john is the manager at tru value in chatham where they nearly ran out of shovels. >> we thought it was over. >> reporter: with upwards of eight inches expected on some parts of the cape, customers are still straggling in, picking up the last of the shovels and salt, steering clear of fertilizer and seed as we near april. the start of

michelle miller is here with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. the emergency workers are continuing to clear the debris from the site of the deadly explosion. they're expected to reach the basement levels today. they plan on conducting tests to pinpoint the source and time line of the apparent natural gas leak. surveillance video obtained by our new york station wcbs shows an explosion that destroyed a pair of five-story parents in upper manhattan. it blew out windows and sprayed debris in all directions. it happened at 9:30 wednesday morning. utility workers arrived too late. it revealed that an unsafe concentration of gas had seeped into the ground near the buildings. >> is there any indication of how long gas may have been leaking prior to the explosion? that's exactly what we want to find out. >> investigators are focusing on the underground gas main that runs in front of the buildings. the 8-inch cast iron pipe was installed in 1887. firefighters worked friday to clear the remaining rubble. they believe the cause and or gin of the explosion

michelle miller joins us from east harlem as the search for victims continues. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. the pile of rubble is still burning as rescue crews use thermal imaging to search for survivors. neighbors told us they smelled gas days before yesterday's explosion. >> come on, man! come on, let's go help, man! >> reporter: the explosion that rocked this neighborhood was so powerful it could be felt blocks away. [ sirens ] witnesses say the fire burned for several minutes before the two five-story buildings collapsed. >> back up! move out of the street! >> 1644 saw building and 1646, both are down. >> reporter: debris from the blast on park avenue clogged the air with a cloud of ash. the building next door was also seriously damaged, forcing residents to run for their lives. >> it was a rumble, a big boom. the windows blew out. the toilet was shaking back and forth. as i got out of the bathroom, the walls started crumbling down. >> reporter: new york city mayor bill de blasio said the explosion happened 15 minutes

as michelle miller reports, proof is in the printing. >> whether it's comic sans or times new roman,can save ink which turns out it costs more per page than the paper it's printed on. severe determined his pennsylvania school district could save more than $20,000 a year. >> that's for only changing to this particular front, gary monday. >> garamond sounds like the front of choice when it comes to savings. >> it's a thinner lighter frontont and it uses a lighter amount of ink. >> he then send his submission to federal government which plans to save $1 billion on this year's printing alone. >> i found that the federal, state, and local governments together could save almost $234 million. >> $234 million. >> yes. >> that's a lot of money. >> mm-hmm. the government printing office said they would think about it. >> they'd think about it. >> yes. >> the government printing office, which handles about 50% of the fed's printing needs told cbs news it appreciates severe's suggestion and says it will take it under review. >> why wouldn't they do it? just. >> just resistance to change. >> repo

oh, my goodness, michelle miller thank you. they're responsible for one-third of our food.off for nearly a decade. bee colonies are vital to the food supply. the federal government plans to spend billions to turn things around. ben tracy says he thinks one part of the solution would be from making its hobby legal. >> paul and his two boys are running toward what most people would run from. >> that's an open air hive. >> wow. open air hive. >> it's a giant beehive and this is the kind of thing that's given paul a reputation. >> i am the bee guy. >> indeed he is. when his 7-year-old son lucas found a beehive h called 00 love, an organization that helps people become bee coopers. instead of destroying a hive, they put it in a box and ha he became a beekeeper. >> some people have dogs cats maybe a salamander. why bees? >> they're my pets and i treat them as pets. >> people are going to think you're crazy because people run away from bees. >> sure. >> do you think you're misunder. >> yes. bees are friendly as can be. they don't go out to sting humans. they're out doing their job

michelle miller looks at how it is taking a deadly toll. >> good morning to you and our viewers in the west. new york city has 1,300 miles of gas mains made of cast iron or unprotected steel. on average, they are 53 years old. in a tragedy like this, where crews continued to sift through the still smoldering rubble piece by piece, the pipes are under heavy suspicion. investigators suggest that the gas leak that caused all of this devastation may have originated from a buried cast iron gas main more than a century old. jonathan bowles is executive director for a center for an urban future. >> so much of our gas mains are in unprotected steel and cast iron. materials that are very weak prone. and it leads to gas leaks. it leads to in some cases disaster. new york is far from the only city which has an aging gas infrastructure. >> last week an explosion outside trenton, new jersey leveled this town house. one person died, seven injured. in february, another blast tore out the side of this apartment building in chicago. two women were hurt. and this plaming 60 foot wide in kentucky the res

michelle miller is at the world trade center with more video you haven't seen yet. er: good morning. the idea behind b.a.s.e. jumping you fall off of a thick surface like a building and then you use a parachute to break your fall. well these three guys leapt off the roof of the freedom tower police just tracked them down. they're charged with burglary wrecks endangerment and jumping from a structure. 32-year-old andrew rossig dove head first off the world trade center shortly before 3:00 a.m. on september 30th. it was just moments after marco markovich and james brady plunged off the 1,776 tall tower. the b.a.s.e. jumpers claim they abated one security guard and made their way to the top. >> it's pretty simple actually. we found a little hole in the fence between the wall and the fence and just pushed it open. walked right in. saw a worker walk by. got right into the building. went up to the top. didn't see one person the entire way up from the ground. all the way to the roof. >> reporter: the men went largely unnoticed but a few bystanders and surveillance footage c

michelle miller is at 1 world trade center where the stunt is raising questions about keeping the buildingafe when it opens later this year. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie, and our viewers in the west. new york city police do know this -- that fence which lines the perimeter of one world trade center was the point of entry for justin charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass as port authority officials look for answers. an estimated $40 million has been spent on the security system at one world trade center. according to police all it took was a 12x12-inch hole in a construction zone fence for justin casquejo to break into the site. he has done this before posting pictures of himself in precarious positions. perched on a railing near the hudson river. >> he's always been adventurous. honestly, i didn't know it was him, but now that i know, i'm not surprised. >> reporter: the police report said the teen climbed scaffolding up to the sixth floor, took an elevator to the 88th floor, and from there he climbed the stairs to the 104th floor. the port author

>> michelle miller thank you. >>> there is new hope this morning that an hiv infection can be cured. scientists revealed yesterday in an aids conference that a baby in los angeles born with hiv now shows no signs of the virus. the child was given aggressive drug treatment a few hours after birth. it is the second case of its kind. >>> meanwhile, a new study focuses on a promising therapy called gene editing. researchers are using it to create immunity to aids. dr. agus is with us. explain how significant it is. >> it's a technological tour de force out of the university of pennsylvania. and it's based on the fact that an hiv virus enters a white cell and infects it a t-cell, by a protein on the surface of that cell, okay? without that protein, it cannot get into the cell. it's locked out. and what these researchers did was they took the white cells, grew somebody with hiv, brought them outside the body, and imagine this out of 20,000 genes that are in a cell they found the one that controls that protein on the cell surface. they disabled it. they put them back into the person, and no

would-be candidate, and really coming from michele bachmann who ran for president herself last cycle, really it resonate within the room here. >> zeke millerime" magazine there, national harbor, maryland, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >>> still ahead, the latest on that search, an investigation of that missing malaysian jetliner. the families of the 239 people onboard are waiting for answers. all that, straight ahead. i always say be the man with the plan but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i had to do something. i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron the only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to normal in about two weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may occur. report these symptoms to your doctor. tell your doctor about all medical conditions and