Interstate. Less familiar is the winter the south is having. In shreveport, there was a rare chance to make a louisiana snowman. Snow, sleet and freezing rain are falling from texas to the carolinas to virginia. A blast of arctic air will freeze the night in the north. Heres jericka duncan. Reporter blizzard conditions in et that, maine triggered this 40car pileup along i95, leaving a mangled trail of vehicles and injuring at least a dozen people. Just as i came to a stop, a woman came around and slid in front of me, and an 18wheeler went flying by us on the inside and slammed into all those cars that were stopped and then people started piling into the back of me. Reporter its the coldest february on record in many parts of the northeast. Harrisburg pennsylvania, hartford, connecticut, worcester, massachusetts, and rochester, new york, all broke records. It hasnt been this cold in rochester in 144 years. Those low temperatures are helping this manmade fountain in nearby Letchworth State Park reach enormous heights. Its attracting thousands many traveling long distances and going to Great Lengths to take photos at the fountain. I have never seen anything like it. Reporter Christopher Kirkwood used a drone to get a birdseye view of the water shooting out. Its really interesting. Its definitely pretty cool here. Reporter park manager roland beck keeps track of the fountains height. He says its grown three feet since last week and now stands 53 feet tall. Have you ever seen the fountain this tall . Ive been here 11 years at letchworth and the fountain this year is very high, and its probably the highest ive seen it. Its quite slar. Spectacular. Reporter park managers say with these low temperatures, this frozen fountain could grow another ten feet before the end of winter. Scott, they also say they expect this to be around until may. Pelley looks like an ice volcano. Jericka, thanks very much. Late today three foreignborn residents of brooklyn, new york, appeared in federal courtrooms and were ordered held without bail after their arrest on terrorism charges. Theyre accused of conspiring to provide Material Support to isis. Heres our Homeland Security correspondent jeff pegues. Reporter the f. B. I. Made one of the arrests this morning at john f. Kennedy international airport, as akhror saidakimetov was preparing to fly from new york to turkey. According to Court Documents he and Abdurasul Juraboev wanted to join isis, and if they couldnt get to syria the backup plan was an attack on american soil. Saidakimetov allegedly told an f. B. I. Informangtdly just go and buy machine gun ak47, go out and shoot all the police. Then we will go to the f. B. I. Headquarters and kill the f. B. I. People. Juraboev came to the attention of the f. B. I. Last august when he posted a threat to the president on a militant web site. What im saying is to shoot obama. That will strike fear in the hearts of infidels. U. S. Intelligence estimates more than 150 americans have traveled to or tried to reach syria and iraq to join the fight. 22yearold moner abu salha, a palestinianamerican from florida, is among them. He recorded this socalled martyrdom video before becoming a suicide bomber in syria. Were coming and well dominate over you. Reporter here in u. S. , there are investigations into homegrown violent extreme itselfs in all 50 states. Just this month alaska was added to the list. F. B. I. Director james comey says through social media isis is encouraging followers to act. If you cant come, kill somebody where you are. Thats a message that goes out to troubled souls everywhere. Reporter and we have photograph of a third man arrested. Hes been identified as abravov habavov, a selfknown repairmen who helped the other two men buy their tickets to turkey. Scott, its not clear how much of what the suspects were plotting here in the u. S. Was just talk. Pelley jeff pegues in the washington newsroom tonight. Jeff, thanks. Tonight a cbs news investigation has found that claims for v. A. Benefits filed by thousands of veterans have gone unanswered for years in some cases until it was much too late. Heres Wyatt Andrews. Why did they take ten years to send me a letter . Reporter dorrie stafford says this letter shows how badly the v. A. s claim system is broken. Its dated july 29, 2014, thanking dorries husband wayne an army veteran for the disability claim he filed ten years before in 2004. But wayne died in an accident seven years ago. Does this upset you . It upsets me. Why would you suddenly after all these years send a letter to a dead man . Reporter five current and former employees tell us that wayne staffords claim went to the oakland california, Veterans Benefits office and was stuffed in a file cabinet and ignored along with some 15,000 informal claims sent by veterans between 1996 and 20 09d. Informal claims tend to be letters from veterans asking for help, and by law the veteran is owed an immediate response. We were getting letters from elderly veterans and for widows. Reporter rusty ann brown worked at the Oakland Office and was part of a Team Assigned to process the claims in 2012. Most of the claims, she says, were for agent orange or ptsd. 13,184 veterans who were waiting for an answer. Begging for help. I mean you have to understand a lot of these letters it wasnt just, this is what im claiming. It was oh, my gosh, please help me. I have nobody else. Reporter then brown learned that thousands of the vets had died while waiting. Half of the veterans were dead that i screened. So almost every other piece of paper that i touched was a veteran who had already passed away. Reporter current and former oakland v. A. Employees confirm her account. They told us that oakland supervisors ordered the team to label most of the claims no action necessary. We pulled 15 indiscriminately to look at, just 15. Eight of them were owed money. One was owed 36,000. They took them, they put them in a file and they stuffed them away. Reporter they wanted you to basically put it aside hide this claim. Absolutely. Reporter brown, along with former oakland employee tony silveria, say that claims are being ignored because of intense pressure on supervisors to reduce the disability backlog. Its all about the numbers. Numbers had to look good. Reporter so when they hid all of these thousands of claim that was not in the backlog . Oh, no. Reporter they took the claims out of the backlog . They were never part of the backlog. No, sir. Reporter the v. A. Declined our request for an interview on camera. It answered our questions by email, saying the v. A. s brandnew Electronic System has transformed Mail Management for compensation claim minimizing any risk of delays due to lost or misplaced mail. Have they already been answered . Yeah, they owed him an answer. Reporter the loss of just one claim hurts both the veteran and their surviving family. Dorrie stafford lives in the mountains of Northern California in a home with no electricity. I wasnt even aware there was widow benefits. I really wasnt. Reporter even if it was a modest pension. A modest pension. Say 400 a month it would so help. Reporter the v. A. Says it has reduced that disability backlog by 60 and by all accounts there has been progress, but, scott the outside experts from the Veterans Service groups to the Inspector General now say they dont trust the v. A. s numbers anymore because of all the files that have been concealed or are just not counted at all. Pelley Wyatt Andrews working with cbs producer jennifer janis. Thank you. It took the american sniper jury about the same time to reach a verdict as it takes theatergoers to watch a movie. The jurors rejected Eddie Ray Rouths insanity defense and late last night convicted him of murdering former Navy Seal Chris kyle and kyles friend chad littlefield. Heres manuel bojorquez. Reporter while eddie routh showed no emotion after the guilty verdict chris kyles brother and parents embraced. Chad littlefields mother judy spoke outside the courthouse. We waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son and as always god has proved to be faithful. Reporter a restriction on audio from Court Proceedings has been lifted, allowing insight into key testimony. The prosecution opened with kyles widow taya, who spoke about the last time she saw him alive. We said we loved each other and kissed and hugged like we always did. Reporter kyle, who is portrayed in the film american sniper shes carrying something. Reporter was with chad littlefield at a texas shooting range with routh when he turned his gun on them. Jurors did not believe rouths insanity defense and statements like this made on the night of his arrest. I dont know pi was insane or i dont know if i was sane. Reporter they were persuaded he knew what he did was wrong by evidence like this, dash cam video of routh leading police on a highspeed chase after the murders. And a confession where he was asked the question the case hinged on, whether he knew right from wrong. [inaudible]. Reporter shay isham was one of rouths defense attorneys. Is it almost impossible to prove insanity . Someone used the analogy its like throwing a dart over your house in the backyard and trying to hit a postage stamp in the front yard. Reporter rouths attorneys plan to appeal. They believe the trial should have been moved out of the county because of pretrial publicity. Pelley manuel, thanks. One day after Southwest Airlines grounded 128 plane onefifth of its fleet, for missing inspection, the f. A. A. Has now cleared the planes to fly before theyre inspected. Chip reid is following. This. Reporter the planes were grounded after Southwest Airlines says it inadvertently missed the periodic deadline for inspecting the system that backs up the hydraulic rudder. The equipment allows pilots to steer if the main system fails. Nearly 100 flights were canceled, leaving some passengers angry. Thats something that shouldnt be overlooked. Its just negligence. Reporter but the f. A. A. Has now allowed the planes the fly while inspections continue over next five days. In a statement the f. A. A. Said it had level waited the risk it had evaluated the risk and agreed the airline could continue to operate the planes during the short interim. Its not first time southwest has made headlines over safety and inspections. Last summer the f. A. A. Proposed a 12 million fine due to the airlines alleged failure to comply with regulations on aircraft repairs. In 2011, the f. A. A. Ordered inspections of dozens of older southwest planes after a fivefoot hole opened on one plane midflight. And in 2009, southwest was fined 7. 5 million for failing to inspect planes for cracks in the fuselage. In a Statement Today southwest said, the safety of customers and employees remains our highest priority, and we are working quickly to resolve the situation. It should be noted scott that Southwest Airlines has been in business for almost 50 years and in that time, only one person has died in an accident. Pelley chip reid. Thank you very much, chip. Hillary clinton has a new strategy for winning. And did a hit song blur the line between creativity and theft . Have a listen when the cbs evening news continues. Ats coming down lets get some rocks, man. Health can change in a minute. So cvs health is changing healthcare. Making it more accessible and affordable with walkin medical care, no appointments needed and most insurance accepted. Minuteclinic. 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Clinton took the stage to the strains of im every woman and opened up about sexism, about being a grandmother and about her own pregnancy in the late 70s. I was the first woman to be a partner in that law firm, and so nobody said anything to me, and i didnt say anything to them. I just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. [laughter] reporter its a big change from her first president ial bid when clinton downplayed her gender, until it was too late. We werent able to shatter that highest hardest Glass Ceiling this time. Reporter a second run clinton says, would be different. I still am going to learn from what i did right and what i didnt in thinking through doing this again. I think that the family issue putting family first creating more supportive work environment, because if you do that, what people find, i mean, is that women who get treated well are such loyal employees. Reporter the former secretary of state has reportedly been working with a Marketing Team to help refine her public image. Judging by her remarks in california, shes been advised to show her softer side. Id like to bring people from right, left, red blue, get them into a nice purple space where everybody is talking and where were actually trying to solve problems and, you know, that would be my objective if i decide to do this. Reporter when she will decide clinton did not divluge but, scott, sources tell us given the lack of competition on the democratic side, she could wait until the summer to announce shes running. Pelley the purple space. Nancy cordes, thanks very much. Coming up, will it be the peoples internet, or will big business rule the web . The fcc is about to decide. That i can fight Psoriatic Arthritis from the inside out. With humira. Humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. 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We asked don dahler to explain whats called net neutrality. Reporter the fcc wants to prevent big users of the internet like netflix and social media sites from buying express lanes on the information super highway. Althea erickson is the policy director at etsy, an Online Shopping site. Whats at stake here . The internet is at stake. This will impact everyones lives. The dechris the fcc makes will impact the internet and you and me and our parents and our families and our friends. Reporter millions of americans expressed concern on the fccs web site. One big worry is Large Companies would be allowed to pay a fee for internet fast lanes Smaller Companies that couldnt afford the fees would have lower access to their sites. Its really hard to imagine a world where your Cable Company gets to decide which web sites load fastest. I dont think Many American consumers would want to put that trust in their Cable Company. Reporter the fcc is proposing a first reclassifying the internet as a public utility, like a phone company. That would ensure everyone continues to get equal access. Former fcc chairman Robert Mcdowell doesnt like the idea. Without rules, the internet works beautifully without the help of government. What is really broken that needs fixing . Reporter it will take a majority vote to pass the rule. Scott, if passed, opponents are expected. Pelley well follow up tomorrow. Robin thickes hit blurred lines is at the heart of a federal lawsuit in los angeles. The late marvin gayes family calls it a ripoff of his 1977 hit got to give it up. Is it . Have a listen. First marvin gaye. Hey hey hey hey, hey hey pelley the trial over those tunes is expected to last two weeks. Well be right back. Your eyes depend on a unique set of nutrients. Thats why theres ocuvite. Ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. Ocuvite has a unique formula thats just not found in any leading multivitamin. 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Report now all of a sudden, wait a minute, he was on my College Campus and you didnt know about it. I didnt know about it and no one knew about it. Reporter burnley had come across a 1961 article in the brown daily herald written by a student of katharine pierce who argued that integration was the key to progress. Malcolm x read the article and came to brown to push back. My instinct was to find her phone number, hope she was still alive and see if she remembered everything. Burnley named in part for malcolm x tracked down pierce and she remembered it all. He did not detract from his central thesis, segregation is better than separation. Brilliant speak center brilliant speaker. She had a tape. And the words of the man himself. We will follow the honorable elijah mohammed, absolutely reject integration because we feel that its hypocritical and that it takes too long. Reporter the idea that somebody like malcolm x could come across the criticism in a student paper and say i want to go there, would that happen today . No, i mean, usually if it was a battle it would happen on twitter if anything. To ms. Pierce and to the brown daily herald. Reporter did he change your mind . Oh, no, no, no. In fact, malcolm x would change his, moving closer to pierces belief in integration before he died four years after he traveled to brown. It was almost giddy being in the midst of something potentially interesting historically. Reporter time has not eroded malcolm xs place in history, nor in her story either. Jim axelrod, cbs news, providence, rhode island. Pelley and thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. E reairs Giuliana Rancics offensive comments about zendaya on fashion police. Will cohost Kelly Osborne really quit the show . Im talking to her mom, what there without joan rivers . She smells like weed. People are offended. Whats going on with kelly . Kelly was really upset. Why her first apology asnt enough. And what zendaya says today. Then will and jada get candid with us about their marriage. Plus music news, madonna talking about what caused hysteria and paranoia in her camp. I didnt sleep for weeks. As new mom Kelly Clarkson learns photo shoots will never be the same. Smashed banana. Also tonight are honey booboo and mama june making