paula reid has more on the investigation just under way. >> reporter: officials confirmed the site of friday's deadly fire was under active investigation for trash violations and illegal construction. oakland buildings departments darin raneletti: >> the last designated use of the property was as a warehouse. >> reporter: investigators were also looking into whether people may have been living there illegally. >> permits would be needed for people to live in the building, and those permits have not been issued. >> reporter: just two weeks ago, investigators attempted to inspect the property but could not secure access. last night's party may have been another violation. >> such a party would have required a special permit from the city and such a permit had not been issued. >> reporter: the warehouse had been renovated into an artist studio filled with so many objects, officials say it resembled a flee market. deputy chier chief mark coughlin: >> so the whole billion was divided up into small areas that were basically work areas for artists. so it ranged from people doing woodworking

. >> ninan: paula reid, thank you. a pennsylvania state trooper was gunned down in the line of duty last night. 23-year-old trooper landon weaver was fatally shot while responding to a domestic abuse call. the suspect was killed this morning in a confrontation with police. weaver is the 65th officer shot and killed in the u.s. this year. 21 people got the ride of their life last night at the knott's berry farm amusement park in southern california. they got stuck for almost six hours on a sky tram 100 feet up. firefighters used ropes and harnesses to bring everyone down safely. a reminder to be safe on the roads tonight. there's been a jump in drunk driving deaths this year. on average, 28 people a day have been killed in d.u.i. accidents. kris van cleave talked to one woman about how one bad decision changed her life forever. >> reporter: it must be a moment that you think about all the time. >> constantly. >> reporter: christine alexander knows the pain a drunk driver can cause because she was one. when you got in th

paula reid has the saga of the "sequoia." >> reporter: for more than 40 years it was the floating whiteu.s. presidents going back to 1933, order the sequoia to get away. here is herbert hoof hoover. fdr with a smaller catch. nextson us nixon used the vessel. he discussed the nuclear arms race with leon id brezhnev. >> he asked the crew. he played god bless america at the piano. >> reporter: the ship's captain since 2010 when the boat was hired for private charters. he says ownership of the sequoia changed several times since 1977 when president jimmy carter decided the government no longer needed a high maintenance luxury yacht and sold it. >> i think it is very beautiful. glad i as a taxpayer no longer have to help support it. >> reporter: the ship puttered along the potomac in retire. until hauled out of the water for maintenance when the saga of the sequoia ran aground. slowly with each passing season she withered. >> we need to protect it immediately. get it through the winter. >> reporter: the sequoia marooned in dry dock in southern virginia for two years. as you can see it is exp

cbs news justice correspondent paula reid. >> melania trump has the resources to carry on a long legal fight. if she doesn't win it could serve as deterrent to smaller outlets that don't have resources to defend themselves. >> daily mail and tarpley, retracted their stories, tarppley put out a statement said the lawsuit is without merit and attempt to. and also representing mrs. trump. he says the statements about her were 100% false and tremendously damaging. the case its heading to trial in montgomery county, maryland, just outside of washington. for the next few months mrs. trump is planning not to move into the white house but to stay here at trump tower while their son baron finishes the school year. elaine. >> kenneth craig at trump tower. thank you. >>> a massive wave of snowstorms is causing problems from the midwest to the northeast tonight. some areas are also getting a blast of ice and rain. tony dokoupil is in the thick of it. >> reporter: in western new york, jeff butera can barely keep up. >> how has it been? >> terrible. guys running over 22 hours straight. i give them a

do is prevent it from spreading that was containment, and make sure reid don't blow up the world in world war iii. that was the paula c. in caria but then it was clear that the united states had the cold war one on america's terms. this is what he said would have been. a tete 40 years but at that point it seems to be wise and farsighted so wet that point he was ranked right down there the bottom of the list of presidents and rose to take a deposition of where he is now of washington and lincoln and fdr but it is because he played a the long game. this is one where i will not try to speak for george w. bush by cannot help thinking that he does the true then on him -- truman on him that it does now looks so good but history has indicated truman some may be will for george w. bush as well. who knows? >> [inaudible] >> so that aspect of foreign policy it was a different world that truman inhabited in the forties because through the '80s both political parties were coalitions there were liberal republicans as well as conservative republicans and conservative and liberal democrats it was entirely possible to forge a bipar