here's cbs's nikki battiste. >> reporter: a true pioneer, barbara walters was known for her poise and television interviews. >> in our country, we read that you are unstable. >> reporter: with heads of state. >> are you sorry you didn't burn the tapes? >> reporter: hollywood royalty. >> was he the love of your life? >> reporter: and some of history's most memorable names. >> what will you tell your children when you have them? >> mommy made a big mistake. >> reporter: walters' career started in 1961 as a writer on nbc's "today" show. >> i'm barbara walters with jim hart. >> good morning. >> reporter: she eventually left for abc, where she became the first woman ever to co-anchor an evening news broadcast. >> and i'm very pleased to be with you, harry. >> reporter: earning $1 million a year in 1976, more than any anchor ever, female or male. she also launched her barbara walters specials. >> by many accounts, your wife is more popular than you are. >> mm-hmm. >> this is "20/20." >> reporter: next, she co-hosted 20/20. in 1997, at age 67, she helped create ""the view." walters retired i

cbs' nikki battiste is at the courthouse. >> reporter: alex murdaugh became emotional in court today, as jurors heard him describe his dead son to investigators the night of the murders. >> that's my boy over there. i can see-- i can see his brain. >> reporter: an investigator testified that murdaugh told her he had tried to find his son's and wife's pulses at the gruesome scene. >> i tried to turn paul over first. >> reporter: yet she said he did not see a speck of blood on him. >> did you see blood on his hands. >> no. on his arm. >> no. on his shirt. no, on his no. shorts. no. how were they >> he was clean. >> it didn't look like he had just blown his son's brains off, with blood all over the feed room? >> i didn't say that. >> reporter: yesterday, the first officer to arrive on the scene testified that when he approached murdaugh, he immediately suggested a possible motive for the killer. >> my son was in a boat wreck. he's been getting threats. i know that's what it is. >> reporter: paul murdaugh was facing felony charges after investigators said he was drunk-driving a boat that

here's cbs' nikki battiste. >> reporter: a true pioneer, barbara walters was known for her poise and pointed television interviews. >> in our country, we read that you are unstable. >> reporter: with heads of state. >> are you 0 you didn't burn the tapes. >> reporter: hollywood royalty. >> was he the love of your life? >> reporter: and some of history's most memorable names. >> what will you tell your children when you have them? >> mommy made a big mistake. >> reporter: walters' career started in 1961 as a writer on nbc's "today" show. >> i'm barbara walters. >> reporter: she eventually left for abc, where she became the first woman ever to coanchor an evening news broadcast. >> and i'm very pleased to be with you, harry. >> reporter: earning $1 million a year in 1976, more tn any anc ever, female or male. she alsoy hents urife ise popul. >> this is "2020". >> reporter: next, she cocoasted "2020". ipe create "the vie." walters retired in 2014, surrounded by today's tv stars she inspired, among them our "cbs mornings" cohost gayle king. >> barbara there is not a woman on tv toda that

waived his right to extradition after a bereave hearing in a pennsylvania courtroom and cbs's nikki battiste was there. >> reporter: arriving for his extradition hearing shackled in a red jailed jumpsuit with a bulletproof vest underneath, bryan kohberger appeared stoic and calm. cameras rase were not allowed in the croom where coburg sat but his family was in the front row, his mother and sisters crying as coburg glanced back at them and nodded. a law enforcement source hellz cbs news the suspect's cross country trip in the holidays was tracked using the ez pass from his white hyundai elantra. newly released body cam video shows the suspect stopped by police in indiana for a traffic violation on his way back to pennsylvania. the sources s seikoburger expressed surprised and asked if he was the only one arrested. >> the operation led to taking the suspect into custody and afforded the families peace they deserve. >> reporter: cbs linked bryan kohberger's dna. accused of killing kaylee goncalves, madison mogen, xana kernodle, and ethan chapin as they slept on november 13th. once back in idaho

cbs's nikki battiste shows us how it works and what parents should know. >> this was unlike anythingporter: darren hick, an assistant professor of philosophy at furman university in south carolina recently caught a student using chatgpt to plagiarize a written assi assignment. >> this was a very well written essay, but the things they said were just thoroughly wrong. >> reporter: he ran the essay through a detexz program to see if the paper was written by a human. >> i was now 99.whatever confident that this was written by a.i. and luckily the student copped to it. they admitted they used chat gpt. >> reporter: new york city's department of education recently safety and accuracy of content. open a.i., the creators of chat gpt say the program should not be used for misleading purposes, and they're developing ways to identify text generated by its system. what makes chatgpt different than other a.i. systems is its ability to learn and respond to unique conversations. i'm going to ask chatgpt to write me a 300-word essay on the impact of technology's evolution on society. in less than a

here's cbs' nikki battiste. >> reporter: a true pioneer, barbara walters was known for her poise, andevision interviews... >> in our country, we read that you are unstable. >> reporter: ...with heads of state... >> are you sorry you didn't burn the tapes? >> reporter: ...hollywood royalty... >> was he the love of your life? >> reporter: ...and some of history's most memorable names. >> what will you tell your children, when you have them? >> mommy made a big mistake. >> reporter: walters' career started in 1961 as a writer on nbc's "today" show. >> i'm barbara walters. with jim hartz. >> good morning. >> reporter: she eventually left for abc, where she became the first woman ever to co-anchor an evening news broadcast. >> and i'm very pleased to be with you, harry. >> reporter: earning $1 million a year in 1976, more than any anchor ever, female or male. she also launched her barbara walters specials. >> by many accounts, your wife is more popular than you are. >> mm-hmm. >> this is "20/20". >> reporter: next, she co-hosted create "the view." walters retired in 2014, surrounded by tod

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste, thank you so much. turning now to the weather. we're following two winter storms and an update about whether the east coast might finally get some serious snow next week. parts of the west have no shortage of winter weather. arizona has a half foot of snow,ings and that same system, well, it's on the move. it's expected to bring severe storms into the south and east next week. so let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> reporter: >> good evening norah, our no? nthe northeast on the way out. it gets its origins right here in the plains. heavy snow along i-70 in kansas. snow for the game there in kansas city tomorrow for the jaguars in town. the snow lou the ohio valley and northeast going into sunday and monday. we think snow? the forecast as well for the bills-bengals game. ryan of rain along the i-95 corridor. there will be corridor of 5-eight pockets and more than that. through the middle of next week to the end of next week another blockbuster storm produces sever

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cbs' nikki battiste has more. >> repor o foo are everywhere, but now the u.s.d.a.acking down with new rules that will make it harder to claim that organic label. >> this is the single largest revision to the organic standards since they've been published initially in 2000. >> reporter: the u.s.d.a. will strengthen enforcement of its current guidelines that organic products must be produced without toxic pesticides, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, antibiotics, hormones, or genetic engineering. the new regulations will require certification for all imported organic foods, inspections will increase, and businesses will need to prove all parts of their supply chain are organic. >> organic is created at a farm. it needs to be maintained through a supply chain. >>epr: tomhapman says e stricter guidelines will give shoppers confidence their products are certified organic. it streamlines the authority ay of the u.s.d.a. to of the u.s.d.a. to bring enforcement actions against anyone who is doing anything fraudulent. >> reporter: nationwide, sales of organic foods more than

cbs's nikki battiste shows us how it works, and what parents should know. >> this was unlike anything dealt with before. >> reporter: darren hick, an assistant professor of philosophy at furman university in south carolina, recently caught a student using chatgbt to plagiarize a written assignment. >> this was a very well-written essay, but the things that they said were just thoroughly wrong. >> reporter: he ran the student's essay through a detection program to see if the paper was written by a human. >> i was now 99-point-whatever- percent confident that this was written by a.i., and luckily for my purposes, the student copped to it. they admitted that they'd used chatgbt. >> reporter: new york city's department of education recently banned chatgbt, citing the safety and accuracy of content. openai, the creators of chatgbt, say the program should not be used for misleading purposes, and they're developing ways to identify text generated by its system. what makes chatgbt different than other a.i. systems is its ability to learn and respond to unique conversations. i'm going to ask c

norah. >> o'donnell: nikki battiste with that new information, thank you.'s turn now to the war in ukraine. cbs news has learned it was in fact a long-range rocket system provided by the u.s. and used by ukrainian forces to kill or wound hundreds of russian troops in a new years day attack. that assault was in the eastern region of ukraine, not far from the war-torn city of bakhmut. cbs's ian lee reports from there tonight. >> reporter: we are on the road to the most dangerous place in ukraine-- soldiers call it the "meat grinder." locals call it hell on earth. welcome to bakhmut. russia throws wave after wave of troops at the city. driving into bakhmut, we've been greeted by the sound of artillery, but right now we are driving to meet civilians taking shelter, to learn what life is like under constant russian bombardment. down the road, we see people huddled next to a grocery store. "this is how we get food," she tells me. "two days ago, a strike scattered everyone, and that's how we live. so many people have died." would you leave, if you were able to? >>