anthony and vinita?>> coming up later, to win the golden sochi you have to be a great and dedicated athlete but in in many sports you also need some serious high-tech. we'll show you some of the latest. >>> as much as 18 inches of snow fell in some places in two days. a number of roads are icy and dangerous resulting in wipeouts crashes, and cars sliding. somt cars were abandoned by the side of the road. in detroit at least four cars in a surrounding parking lot were iced over when two feet of water from a broken water main became a frozen lake. front loaders were used to rescue trapped drivers. >>> about 168,000 people in pennsylvania and maryland are still without electricity. three long days and nights after an ice storm downed countless trees and power lines. terrell brown is here in new york with the latest. terrell, good morning. >> reporter: vinita good morning to you. that number is down from the 715,000 that were without power at the height of the storm. the local utility says they can have powe

i'm vinita nair. >> and i'm anthony mason. here are a few of the stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning saturday." a power in ukraine. the president flees the capital. will a new deal end the political upheaval? >>> then what's shaking oklahoma. a dramatic rise in small earthquakes strike the state. why scientists expect fracking. >>> plus a war over olive oil. u.s. farmers mount a slick campaign to woo consumers away from the imported stuff. >>> and they are getting old, but they are still getting tough roles in hollywood. the fascinating reason behind the rise of the aging action star. all that and much more on "cbs this morning saturday." february 22 pd 22nd, 2014. captioning funded by cbs >>> and welcome to the weekend. we also have some great guests for you this morning including the milk carton kids. a folk duo with harmonies that put a kind of contemporary twist on simon & garfunkel days. >> and our chef in the culinary world. >>> first we turn to a dramatic turn. apparently there's a power vacuum there with r

vinita nair on saving children from extreme weather. a remarkable test for fetal defects promises more acexpraes ease. dr. jon lapook reports. the world's most vicious war is captured in a single picture. we have the story behind the image. and jim axelrod burros under ground to discover people who just love a long, hard, winter. >> reporter: you may be one of the few people in america who has loved this winter. >> yeah, there ain't too many out there. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. rarely has an impending decision by a state governor gotten so much national attention. tonight, arizona's jan brewer's under tremendous pressure from all over america from those who want her to veto a controversial bill and those who want her to sign it. the billed would, allow a business to deny service to someone on religious grounds. supporters say it's about religious freedom. opponents say it's about discriminating against gays and lesbians and others as well. carter evans is in ph

vinita nair on the challenges ahead. a cbs news investigation. the remains of american service men go unrecovered. chip reid on the long wait of families. >> i'm bitter. i'm upset. i'm upset. >> pelley: and one of the most majestic animals of north america is vanishing. >> reporter: they set the goal at 20 minutes between darting the animal, harvesting the samples, and getting the moose back on its feet again. >> pelley: don dahler on the mystery of the missing moo mystery of the missing moose. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. while russia is hosting the winter olympic violence is erupting next door, the former soviet republic of kiev. this is a live picture of kiev, a city of almost three million, where riot police are battling an estimated 20,000 protesters. the protesters are demanding closer economic ties to western europe, while the ukrainian government has been moving closer to moscow. today, thousands of police stormed the protesters' camp in

i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm vinita nair.'t recognize his face. joe sip priya know is one of the best known voices in television and he has loads of great stories to share. >>> and having international experiences without leaving north america. our travel expert peter greenberg will show you how. >>> but first our top story this half hour. the east digs out and prepares for the next blast from old man winter. here's the satellite look at the storm that's expected to bring heavy snow, even blizzard conditions today to part of the country still buried by the last snowstorm. >> terrell brown is in central park with the problems faced by cleanup crews. good morning to you, terrell. >> reporter: anthony and vinita good morning to you. after the big storm there's the cleanup. we're talking leak ten snowstorm this season and crews are running out of place to put all of that snow. that was the situation in carney new jersey. 15 inches of snow fell there this week that. was the most in the state. in fact, more snow has fallen in the l

vinita. >> reporter: good evening to you, scott. that's right. and the wind chill has actually made it feel as though it is 24 degrees below zero. unfortunately, it will not warm up. it will stay below freezing in this part of illinois until at least next week. >> okay. >> reporter: as many as six times a day, faith keating gives her six-month-old son tony, her six-month-old son tommy, treatment for a respiratory condition brought on by the cold. keating has lived in this shelter with her four children since december. she came to missouri to find a job. >> we were always outside, always in the cold. i don't have a car, so it's either taking the bus or walking. >> reporter: so how does the weather affect you day to day? >> i have to figure out are we risking somebody getting sick again or somebody getting worse than they already are? >> reporter: across the upper midwest, temperatures are 10-35 degrees below normal. chicago's low was 2 degrees. grand forks, north dakota, was 11 below. this photo taken from space shows nearly 80% of the great lakes

in the sochi winter games have been preparing for years for their chance at olympic gold, but as vinitaeers have been hard at work too. >> reporter: they careen around the track at 80 miles an hour head first with no steering system other than their bodies. it's why the fit of the sled is so important for the skeleton competition and why four teams of engineers took five years to design it. >> i think that when you're talking about this kind of equipment, they're just shaving off hundreds of a second. >> jennifer bogo is with "popular science" magazine. she shows us the revamped change. >> what's the biggest change? >> probably the saddle that they lay down in is custom molded to they're their bodies. they literally made castes and used the steel to bend it to fit them perfectly. >> year they overhauled it. they enlisted the help from carmaker bmw. they shed 15 pounds from the frame and made the sled more aerodynamic. >> they redistributed the weight in the bobsled to lower the center of gravity to make it faster. >> reporte: at today's final run in sochi, bode miller had the fastest ti

vinita nair, cbs news, new jersey. >>> police have someone in custody. they have not located haley owens missing since tuesday evening. they have not released the suspect's name but they found him in a truck matched by one described by witnesses. >> we have no reason to believe it has anything to do with any other crime in the area. we think from what we're understanding, this is a random act. >> reporter: witnesses tell police the suspect drove up and down the street several times before approaching haley. he then pulled her into his truck and drove off. police issued amber alerts in missouri, kansas, and oklahoma. >>> two members of the punk rock group p sussy riot were release. police say they were questioned about a hotel theft. no charges were filed. the group gained international attention protesting against the russian government's record on human rights. >>> and coming up on the "morning news," outrage in utah. a window display has a mom fighting back. >>> also, gracie goes for gold. a preview tonight of women's fig skating and a violent bench-cl

i hope something comes of this somehow. >> that was vinita nair reporting. she also says police raided the apartment after a tip that the tenant may have sold hoffman the heroin. under new york law drug dealers cannot be held liable for the death of a customer. tests on the drugs found in hoffman's apartment came back negative for fentanyl a powerful additive popular among addicts. >>> one of san francisco's corporate elders announcing big changes. why schwab says it will ship hundreds of jobs out of state. >> and the flying tomatoes off a big bombshell in russia. why shaun white says he will skip a signature event in the olympics. >> and why this video of this little boy crying has gone viral, when we come back. ,, ,, safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. right now, our largest jug of arm & hammer detergent is just $5.00. fill your water supply. arrowhead water is only $3.29 a case. and chobani greek yogurt is just a buck. real big de

here's vinita nair.n around the track 80 miles per hour head first with no steering system other than their bodies. it's why the fit of the sled is so important for the skeleton competition and why four teams of engineers took five years to design it. >> i think when you're talking about this kind of equipment, >> i think when you're talking about this kind of equipment, they're just shaving off hundred hundredths of a section. >> reporter: jennifer bogo is an editor with "popular science" magazine. she compares the winter olympics to an arms race in technology. she showed us the revamped skeleton sled. what's the biggest change? >> probably the biggest change to sleets is the fact that this saddle, where they lay down in, is custom molded to their bodies. so they literally made casts of the athletes, and used if to bend the steel in such a way that it frames them perfectly. >> reporter: no american has won a medal in the two-person bobsled since 1952, so this year they overhauled it. u.s. athletes enlis

ñó i'm vinita nair. >> and i'm anthony mason.ere are a few of the stories we'll be looking at on morning saturday." one more day to the super bowl and security is the tightest it you've ever seen. >>> a new pothole for governor chris of helping engineer. he has proof christy knew more.show" >> jay leno prepared to leave sh the tonight show again. >>> photographs destroyed by hurricane sandy emerges with the art industry intact. all that and much more on "cbs this morning," saturday, february 1st, 2014. >>> welcome to the weekend. we have great guests in studio 57 including what may be the best blues rock band going. they are going to play for you here this morning. you. >> then a chef traveled to asia and brought back the good stuff, to street food and translated into fine diner here at home. >> john har baa won the super t bowl. we begin with the super bowl and the massive security measures er way to under way to protect fans and focus players. the focus is the stadium across acros the hudson river in new jersey where they are i

vinita nair is at the scene.e super bowl is here and so is an unprecedented security blanket, don dahler is at metlife stadium. nascar's new stars, as the season starts "60 minutes" sports visits the "pit bulls", sets drivers up to win or lose. and lee cowan on "the stand- in", 50 years ago he had no idea his little bit of help would launch the beatles to stardom. >> the guys in the band were going like, "oh, my god they are lucky they last a year and they are all a one hit wonder." captioning sponsored by cbs

vinita nair shows us how super- storm sandy enhanced one photographer's work, by almost ruining it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

vinita nair on saving children from extreme weather. remarkable test for fetal defects promises more acexpraes ease. dr. jon lapook reports. the world's most vicious war is captured in a single picture. we have the story behind the image. and jim axelrod burros under ground to discover people who just love a long, hard, winter. >> reporter: you may be one of the few people in

vinita nair investigates. and when a cultural revolution landed in america 50 years ago, no one was closer to the beatles than the man jim axelrod meets tonight >> ♪ i want to hold your hand ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. we passed the halfway mark in winter but the storms in much of the country just keep coming. have a look at the map. the latest storm that's been dumping as much as 10 inches of snow on the midwest will be heading into the northeast overnight, bringing all of the travel headaches that go with it. another, bigger storm may be just days behind it. this is a live picture of lee's summit, missouri, outside kansas city. the snow and the temperature there have been falling all day. more than six inches of snow so far. first, we'll go to dean reynolds in chicago. dean. >> reporter: scott, just two other winters have been this snowy in chicago in the last 129 years, and across the midwest, municipal

vinita nair is at the scene. the super bowl is here and so is an unprecedented security blanket, don dahler is at metlife stadium. nascar's new stars, as the season starts "60 minutes" sports visits the "pit bulls", sets drivers up to win or lose. and lee cowan on "the stand- in", 50 years ago he had no idea his little bit of help would launch the beatles to stardom. >> the guys in the band were going like, "oh, my god they are lucky they last a year and they are all a one hit wonder." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, everyone, i am jeff glor with the western edition of the broadcast, and even if you didn't know the name you recognize the face, and work. philip seymour hoffman was one of the most accomplished actors of his generation and today we learned his life came to a sudden end at the age of only 46, hoffman was found dead inside his new york city apartment this morning. we begin with -- in manhattan's west village. >> reporter: more than 100 people gathered

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vinita nair on the challenges ahead. a cbs news investigation. the remains of american service men go unrecovered. chip reid on the long wait of families. >> i'm bitter. i'm upset. i'm upset. >> pelley: and one of the most majestic animals of north america is vanishing. >> reporter: they set the goal at 20 minutes between darting the animal, harvesting the samples, and getting the moose back on its feet again. >> pelley: don dahler on the mystery of the missing moo

vinita nair shows us how super- storm sandy enhanced one photographer's work, by almost ruining it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." good evening. i'm jim axelrod with a western edition of the broadcast. a florida jury has reached a verdict on four of five counts in the trial of michael dunn. he's the man accused of murder in the shooting of a 17-year-old in a convenience store parking lot after they argued over the music coming from a teenager's car. this case has stirred up a lot of strong feelings in florida, seven months after george zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of trayvon martin. manuel bojorquez is at the courthouse in jacksonville tonight. >> reporter: after nearly 30 hours of deliberation, and several questions to the judge it became clear the jury would not be able to break a deadlock. the judge declared a mistrial on the murder charge. but the jury did reach verdicts on four other charges, including attempted murder. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of second degree murder. >> >> michael dunn did >> reporter: michael dunn d

as vinita nair shoes us it was all captured on video. good morning to you. >> good morning.hen people were not inside. but where it opened not so lucky. inside the museum it houses some of the most valuable corvettes. it happened during the early morning hours. the ground begins to buckle. then completely breaks 31 seconds from start to finish. in total, eight vintage cars were ruined. >> the fire department estimates that the hole is 40 feet wide and about 30 feet deep. as for the cars lying nose first in the dirt the estimates of loss are higher especially the 1 millionth corvette that came off the assembly line. >> my hunch is the millionth car is worth at least a million particulars. even if they manage to repair the cars they'll never be what they were. many are irreplaceable. six were owned by the museum but two of them a 1993 spooider and a 2009 blue devil were on loan from general motors. sinkholes are common in this pa rt of kentucky becausely are long caves that run underground. but geologists don't know what caused this to open up. >> what are the odds that the cr

as vinita nair reports hoffman may be the latest victim of an ominous trend. >> reporter: police saidin in a manhattan apartment where philip seymour hoffman was found dead sunday morning. they were labeled "ace of hearts" and "ace of spades." in addition to heroin, muscle relaxers, blood pressure medication and a drug often used to treat addiction. while the sudden death of hoffman is increasing the awareness of the drug, heroin abuse is spreading to some american towns. in pennsylvania 22 people across six counties died in less than two weeks after using heroin laced with a powerful narcotic. and in vermont officials reported a 800% increase in opiate drug abuse since 2000. >> it's a challenge that is really destroying too much lives. >> reporter: governor peter shumlin dedicated his entire state of the state to the growing epidemic. >> it doesn't affect just one class of people. it affects rich and poor. it affects republicans and democrats. in knows no party lines. it knows no economic lines. >> reporter: one government study found between 2003 and 2011 heroin use in the u.s. doub

vinita nair good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, gayle norah and charlie. ice. the ice itself is not abnormal but the size of it is. and the chunks of ice you are seeing behind me are anywhere from 2 to 2 1/2 feet wide. that's what is causing all the problems. keep in mind the situation is playing out in both indiana as well as pennsylvania. and in looking for solutions, somebody suggested dynamite but a facility not far from where we are this morning has come up with a different solution and they are heating up water up to 70 degrees and bumping it back into the river and their hope is by keeping the river's slightly higher when the ice melts they can mitigate the flooding. in terms of the temperature here today, it's zero degrees, and the hope is it will get to 12 degrees and the windchill is negative 24. i will send it back to you guys in that warm studio. >> you are ready. >> it does look good vinita nair. thank you very much. >>> and our meteorologist looks at the expected rainfall. good morning, megan. >> good morning to you, and good morning to you i

vinita nair is here with new information. >> reporter: three of the four people arrested after his death now face drug charges. while the charges don't specifically link the trio to hoffman's death, one had at least a verifiable connection to the actor. robert vineberg appeared in court late wednesday night where he was charged with felony drug possession with intent to sell. also in court, max rosenblum and juliana luchkiw, appeared in court. vineberg's lawyers spoke out shortly after the arraignment. >> i'm hoping he will not become a scapegoat for mr. hoffman's unfortunate death. >> reporter: luchkiw's lawyer said she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> he walked into a buzz saw, and he happened to be in an apartment next to a place, apparently, where mr. hoffman was known to get drugs. but he had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: vineberg luchkiw and rosenblum remain in jail two days after they were arrested in this lower manhattan apartment with more than 350 bags of heroin. hundreds of fans and friends of the actor gathered outside his new york city theater company last

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vinita nair was at madison square garden to watch it all last night. >> reporter: getting ready for thee are the handleres, system who have their own preshow requirements. what make this so different is how close the fans can get to the athletes. >> i noticed today just watching her, people are constantly coming by to touch her. >> they want to see how soft she is. they do. they want to be up close and personal which is great but she needs her rest. >> her groomer, penny doingen is from seattle but traveled to new york to compete. >> at home before the show it took about five hours to get her ready and about 2 1/2 the day of the dog show. >> nearly 3,000 dogs entered the year's competition but only seven made it to the finals. this is the second for riley, a irish water spaniel who placed two years ago. >> do you think she gets a sense of the competition? >> absolutely. if you watch her through the gates, she's on fire. her name is champions whistlestops riley on fire and she loves it. >> shortly after she sauntered into the ring the judge made up her mind. alley, won runner up and rile

vinita, good morning. >> good morning. officers recovered bags of heroin and arrested four people overnight, all of whom had possession charges in the past. the nypd told us they're investigating whether there's any connection between the four people and the drugs found at hoffman's apartment. police raided an apartment in lower manhattan and arrested three men and one woman on drug charges including criminal possession of controlled substances. police seized more than three bags. we now know in days before his dealt hoffman withdrew $1,200 in six separate transactions. he was still found with the syringe in his arm on the bathroom floor inside his home on sunday. please found 70 bags of heroin, used syringes and more than 75 prescription medications. he had an addiction and discussed it with steech krove n cbs's "60 minutes" in 20006. >> yeah r, yeah, i like it it a. >> the growing epidemic of heroin use. >> is there somebody watching who said, wow, maybe i should stop doing this or try to find help? i hope so. i hope som