Stretching all the way up into maine. Thats where a combination of strong winds and heavy snow will create some poor travel conditions as we head through tuesday. Heres a look at the timeline. Moving its way up the coast, tricky part of the forecast is the rain snow line arrives right on the 95 corridor, right through the big cities, d. C. , philly, and boston. That means the trickiest forecast where the most people live. Big snow off to the north and west moving quickly and departing by wednesday morning. Heres a look at the snow totals. Again, the bigger snow up to two feet just north and west of most of those major cities. Heres a look at a few of them. Boston at 6 to 12. In the new york area at 12 to 18. Philadelphia at 8 to 12, and d. C. , a few inches of snow but much bigger totals just west of all these cities. And the wind is part of the story. As this deepens and undergoes bombogenesis, well see gusts top 60 miles per hour. So Power Outages will be coming along with this, as well as some coastal flooding. Anthony . Eric fisher, thanks. Michelle miller in cleveland has a look at preparations for the big storm. Reporter road crews are working 12hour shifts, racing to stay ahead of the massive noreaster expected to bring up to two feet of snow. Theyve already prepped roads with a chemical snow melt. Did you really think you were going to get away scotfree . I was hoping. Reporter and this afternoon rich deszcz loaded up his salt truck to head out on his tenmile route. The salt on the road from the brine will melt the snow by the time we get out there. Its going to help us out. Reporter an arctic blast has surfaced in recent days from the midwest to the east coast. This house in webster, new york, was entombed in ice. The chill is far cry from the mild winter so far. The state of ohio has spent just 63. 3 Million Dollars on its snow and ice operations budget, 15 million less than a year ago. Its been at least 146 years since chicago has seen no measurable snowfall in january or february, but thats expected to change tonight with at least five inches here. The cold spell is threatening the Cherry Blossoms in washington, d. C. The trees are on the verge of peak bloom. Bitter cold and wet, heavy snow sitting on the flower buds could kill them. And with a little bit more than a week before spring, anthony, this is not even the latest blizzard the hit ohio. Last year nearly a foot of snow fell in the second week of april. Michelle miller in cleveland, thanks, michelle. The storm is already causing trouble for travelers. Transportation correspondent kris van cleave is at Laguardia Airport in new york. Its my fathers birthday, and its a pain in the neck. You know, its making me so upset. Reporter this woman is like thousands trying to beat winters brutal last gasp. She has to get out today to be with her family to celebrate in time. I will have to wait maybe until thursday, or if not maybe i dont know when. Reporter shes far from alone. Airlines are pulling their planes out of the storms path tonight, and flights are expected to be scarce up and down the east coast tomorrow. Yvonne reese is hoping to get home to ohio. Ive been here in a blizzard in 92. I dont want to do it again. Reporter are you worried about getting stuck . Yeah. Im worried were going to get canceled here because of ohios weather and were going to get stuck here. Reporter amtraks busy express trains wont travel between new york and boston tuesday. Today it was business as usual, a relief for christina sherman. We switched the train a day earlier so we could make it before the snow. Reporter drivers gassed up to prepare, but the roads could be impassable. New york city will be under a state of emergency starting at midnight, just a few hours before the first snow is predicted. The citys mayor, bill deblasio. Change your plans. Get off the streets. Obviously closing schools. Thats going to take a lot of pressure off the roads right there we believe. Reporter and those departure boards are filling up with a lot of red, and red means canceled, anthony, the people behind us here among the last folks who are going to get out of this airport before the snow brings it to a grinding halt. Kris van cleave at laguardia. Thank you, kris. Overseas, iraqi troops backed by the u. S. Have trapped isis forces inside western mosul. The terror group had held iraqs second largest city for nearly three years. The fighting to liberate it is fierce and Holly Williams is there. Reporter a u. S. Coalition air strike and another one pulverizing an isis fighting position. [ explosions ] Brigadier General Abbas Al Jbouri confirms they hit their target little more than a city block away. Killed more than 15. Reporter that means your men can now push forward another 200 yards or so . Then its the job of these iraqi forces to clear another neighborhood. Theyre the ones risking their lives to eradicate isis. And after four months of fighting, they have them surrounded. But instead of surrendering, isis militants are still lobbing mortars. And on every street theres more evidence of the chaos theyve reeked on this city. This charred and shattered building is all thats left of mosuls museum. The exhibits nowhere to be seen. Isis smashed them and then celebrated the desecration in a propaganda video. Artifacts from one of the worlds oldest civilizations, unislamic according to a gang of violent fanatics. Luckily some were apparently plaster replicas, but others were genuine and invaluable. These are all the signs saying what used to be here. Vandalism and hatred inflicted by the socalled Islamic State on this majority muslim city. What do they believe in . I dont know. They are crazy. Just destroy them. Just against human. Reporter just destruction . Yea. Thats all. Reporter iraqi forces are now on the edge of mosuls historic old city, anthony, where a maze of narrow alleyways could mean the toughest urban fighting theyve faced so far. Holly williams on the front lines in iraq. Thanks, holly. Coming up next, a twoyearold girl could be first to die in this country from a burning hoverboard. Wheres frank . Its league night saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Bowl without me. Frank. im going to get nachos. Snack bars closed. Gah ah, ah ah. Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . Geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. Clearasil rapid action begins working fast for clearly visible results in as little as 12 hours. Wow but what other teen problems can it fix fast . Will clearasil act fast to help this teen concentrate on his math test . Darn it only worked on the acne. Can it hel. Nope. 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I heard some sizzling and crackling in the hoverboard, and shortly thereafter it exploded in flames. Reporter lieutenant dennis devoe, a 21year veteran of the fire department, was killed in a Traffic Accident while responding to the fire. Last year the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 500,000 hoverboards by eight different manufacturers. In some cases the lithium batteries can overheat or catch fire. Since 2015, the commission has investigated more than 60 fires caused by malfunctioning hoverboards. Shaka crawford was greeted with a warm hug from a neighbor as she stood outside of her fireravaged home, a small memorial is now growing in memory of her twoyearold granddaughter. She had a stern warning for anyone who has a hoverboard in their home. Get rid of em. Get rid of em. Get rid of em. Reporter the two girls who were hospitalized as a result of this fire are expected to be released tonight according to the family. Anthony, the Consumer Product Safety Commission says if you own a hoverboard that is on their recall list, its not too late to return that hoverboard and get a refund. Jericka duncan with some important advice tonight. Thanks, jericka. Still ahead, an Irresistible Force turned them into immovable objects. Two former penn state officials pleaded guilty today to misdemeanor child endangerment charges in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Former Athletic Director tim curley and former Vice President gary schultz did not report sandusky to police. Each could face five years in prison. Sandusky, the former assistant football coach, is serving a long prison term for molesting ten boys. 35,000 lined up to start a bike race yesterday in cape town, south africa, but Mother Nature wasnt having it. The riders took off and were suddenly blown off their bikes by winds that topped 60 miles per hour. It was a struggle just to stand up. The race was called off. Up next, cactus flowers. 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Reporter ana borrego received double its annual rainfall, enough to bring life to seeds lying on the desert floor for years. These seeds have waited all that time . There are some that have been waiting for decades. Reporter what kind of respect does it give you looking out at the desert . This is beautiful. You can not look atthis and imagine that someone could come out and say nothing survives in the desert. Reporter but its also true that nothing survives for long in the desert. And then, as well, one day youll come out and this will be gone. It will all be gone. Reporter the wild flowers are already being consumed by hungry caterpillars, also having their brief moment to thrive in this harsh landscape, and temperatures climbing over 100 will quickly wilt what the caterpillars leave behind, but for a few weeks, blossoms are everywhere. This is certainly an example of the desert in bloom. It is indeed. Reporter for now in this desert, even a cactus is much more than its spikes. It takes your breath away, it really does. Reporter john blackstone, cbs news, ana borrego state park. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues, for others check back later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im anthony mason. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im tony dokoupil. It looks like the end of the line for Islamic State fighters in the iraqi city of mosul. Forces are closing the noose around the final neighborhoods held by the jihadis and the last escape route out of the city has been cut. Still, there are hundreds of thousands of civilians under the gun. Holly williams is on the frontline. Reporter the u. S. Coalition air strike, and another one, pulverizing an isis fighting position. [ explosions ] general Abbas Al Jbouri confirms they have hit the target. A little more than a city block away. 150 meters, killed more than 15. Reporter that means your men can now push forward another 200 yards or so . Very easy now. Reporter then its the job of these iraqi forces to clear another neighborhood. Theyre the ones risking their lives to eradicate isis. And after four months of fighting, they have them surrounded. But instead of surrendering, isis militants are still lobbing mortars. And on every street theres more evidence of the chaos theyve reeked on this city. This charred and shattered building is all thats left of mosuls museum. The exhibits nowhere to be seen. Isis smashed them and then celebrated the desecration in a propaganda video. Artifacts from one of the worlds oldest civilizations, unislamic according to a gang of violent fanatics. Luckily some were apparently plaster replicas, but others were genuine and invaluable. These are all the signs saying what used to be here. Vandalism and hatred inflicted by the socalled Islamic State on this majority muslim city. What do they believe in . I dont know. They are crazy. Just destroy them. Just against human. Reporter just destruction . Yeah. Thats all. Reporter iraqi forces are now on the edge of mosuls historic old city, anthony, where a maze of narrow alleyways could mean the toughest urban fighting theyve faced so far. At the white house, sean spicer says President Trump doesnt really think president obama personally wiretapped his phones. Its the latest attempt to tamp down the firestorm sparked by an Early Morning tweet by President Trump. Major garrett reports. Reporter President Trump again ignored questions about what evidence he has to back up a weekold claim on twitter that president obama tapped his phones at trump tower. White House Press Secretary sean spicer. I think if you look at the president s tweet, he said very clearly wiretapping in quotes. Reporter that according to spicer could mean any type of surveillance. Spicer said the president s tweets spoke for themselves. The first and second did put wiretapping in quotes, but the third and fourth did not, and fourth accused mr. Obama of a crime similar to watergate, calling him bad and sick. Spicer said the president has not directed the Justice Department to turn over evidence requested by the house intelligence committee. So youre saying the president doesnt have an obligation to provide any im not saying that at all. There is no question that there have been an abundance of reports regarding surveillance and other type of activities that occurred during the 2016 election. And that leads us to believe the president s only evidence are these reports. No, no, no, that leads you to believe that. Reporter white house councilor Kellyanne Conway also says she has no evidence of wiretapping. There are many ways to surveil each other now. Unfortunately. Reporter do you believe that was there was an article that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phone, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. Reporter in another interview, conway clarified. Im not inspector gadget. I dont believe people are using their microwave to spy on the trump campaign. However, i have im not in the job of having evidence. The National Debate over medical marijuana could now be going to the dogs. A lot of pet owners are choosing cannabis to treat their ailing animals. But is it safe . Mireya villarreal has this story from the buds and roses dispensary in wloeshgs. In los angeles. Reporter pet owners who can no longer find pain relief for their Furry Friends are turning to products just like this. They swear by the results, but this is not regulated and theres no proven results, which means this product right here is finding some dogged resistance. Its dinnertime for brutus and kailee. But along with the meal, Brett Hartman also feeds them something extra, a dose of liquid cannabis. He says its helped alleviate kailees anxiety and brutus chronic pain after surgery for a pit bull attack. Utilizing cannabis every day with him has made a big difference. Reporter are you seeing an impact in their life . A huge impact. A 13yearold datsun are going to have more issues with mobility. And his quality of life is just so much more enjoyable. Reporter some people will say, however, that you are drugging your dog. Okay. I beg to differ. I feel like this is botanical. This is plant medicine. Its specifically made for the animals. Reporter alison got into the medical marijuana field about 20 years ago. But for the past decade, her focus has shifted from humans to animals. We use the same cannabis extract we do in humans. So we dont differentiate between humans and the animals. And ive seen better results in the animals than i am in the humans. Reporter she says her marijuana based product, treat well and others like it, does for animals the same thing medical pot does for humans, alleviates pain, even battles cancer. We dont have any actual Peer Reviewed studies for the use of those compounds on pets. Reporter veterinarian ken polaski is president of the california veterinarian association. He says as more states legalize marijuana, cases of pets getting sick for ingesting their owners pot are spiking. We see pets that come in with intoxications and they can run the gamete from being fairly mild to severe. Unfortunately, there are instances where there have been fatal overdoses. Reporter although such deaths are rare, he says they often cause sensory overload, lack of coordination and tremors. If you use small amounts and follow the instructions, it does not get the animal high. Reporter she says because pet products have fewer chemicals that cause the sensation of being high, the animal wont get sick. As for Brett Hartman, he hopes lawmakers clear the way for studies which could confirm the safety of cannabis for pets. Im looking forward to common sense legislation, which is going to be based on facts. Reporter if people want to give pot to their pets, they have to have a valid cannabis cards. Veterinarians are not allowed to prescribe or recommend marijuana for animals, which means that the pet owner is now acting as the pets doctor, which is also causing concern for some vets out there. Now, if you are interested in how much this costs, right now these products are running between 30 ad and 60 apiece. Show me the carfax. Now the car you want and the history you need are easy to find. Show me used trucks with one owner. Pretty cool. [laughs] ah. Ahem. Show me the carfax. Start your used car search and get free carfax reports at the allnew carfax. Com. 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He knew he was on a dangerous mission. When we met him last year, he told us that one day in may, 2015, he learned just how dangerous. I was in a work meeting with my colleagues in moscow when i suddenly started to feel really sick. And i went in 20 minutes from feeling competely normal to a very sick man. I dont remember anything for a month. I was in a coma for a week and i dont remember anything for a month and i had a cascade all of my major organs failing, just switching off. The lungs, the heart, the kidneys. Reporter he was shuttled from hospital to hospital in moscow for two days, as doctors frantically tried to figure out what was wrong with him. I was at one point connected to i think eight different Artificial Life support machines and doctors told my wife that it was going to be 5 chance that i survived. Reporter but he beat the odds. When we spoke with him last year, he had been recovering for a year. But he was still walking with a limp from nerve damage. So what happened . It was some kind of very strong toxin, i dont know what it was. With these things as people who know more about this explain to me, you basically have to know exactly what youre testing for to find it. Reporter so they never found the exact compound . They never did. Reporter it wasnt until the fourth day and after he had been on a dialysis machine that blood was drown and sent to a Toxicology Lab in france. It found heavy metals in his blood, but no specific toxin. Still, he maintains that he was poisoned. I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate poisoning, that it was intended to kill. Because as i mentioned, the doctors told my wife its a 5 chance of survival. And when its that kind of percentage, its not to scare, its to kill. Reporter can you be sure that what happened to you was directed by mr. Putin . Well, that i have no idea. I dont know the precise circumstances, the who or the how. But i do know why. [ speaking Foreign Language ] reporter in recent years, quite a few of putins enemies have perished by swallowing things they shouldnt have. In 2006, russian spy turned kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko drank tea laced with pelonium 210. Two years earlier, the ukrainian politician Victor Yushchenko ingested dioxin. He survived but was disfigured. But what would the motive be in the case of the critic vladamir karamerzer. Cambridge educated, he was for years a washington based reporter for a russian tv station. So he was well connected and had perfect english, which he used to incessantly criticize the regime on the international stage. A government based on genuine support does not need to jail opponents. Reporter as if his outspokenness wasnt enough to ager the kremlin, he made matters worse for himself when he joined forces with this man. His death, if you cross the putin regime. Reporter bill broader was for years the largest foreign investor in russia. And putins champion. But he turned into a dogged adversary, when his russian tax attorney blew the whistle on alleged largescale theft by government officials. We discovered massive corruption of the putin regime. Serge exposed it, testified against officials involved. He was subsequently arrested, put in pretrial detention, tortured for 358 days and killed at the age of 37. He was so outraged, he joined with vladamir karamerzer to lobby the u. S. Congress for a law targeting those responsible for that death and other human rights violations. They succeeded. The madnitski act passed in 2012. Its the first law that sanctions individual russians, 44 so far. Its designed to sanction, to freeze the assets and ban the visas for people who commit these types of crimes in russia. Reporter so they cant get to their money which may be stashed in the United States. So vladamir putin is extremely angry that the act was going to be passed. He was angrier when it got passed and angrier when names started getting added to the list. Reporter one reason vladamir karamerzer is convinced he was targeted is that six people connected to the case have ended up dead. One was boris nemzov, who was a leader of russias opposition and his partner in lobbying for the act. On the 27th of february, 2015, he was filled by five bullets in the back as he was walking home. Reporter this was an assassination. In some of the deaths, proving there was foul play has been a challenge. Take the case of this russian banker who came forward with incriminating documents related to the case. Alexander paraplicni. He was a whistleblower. At the age of 44, he went jogging outside his home outside of london and dropped dead. The police deemed it an unsuspicious natural death. Reporter they did look for poisoning but couldnt find any. They did a very first round toxicology screen. They didnt find anything on the first run through. Reporter detecting poison can be extremely difficult, and theres a reason. This cold war cia memo reveals that the soviets ran a laboratory for poisons in a large and super secret installation known as the chamber to test undetectible compounds. In the case of the banker in london, the coroner wasnt willing to give up. He ordered more tests and three years later it was revealed in court that an exotic toxin was found with the help of an authority on flowers. A small sample of his stomach content were sent to me, and one of the scientists found a compound that is a chinese herb, they call it the heartbreak grass. And it causes a person to die unexpectedly, without explanation. Reporter still, theres no direct evidence of a kremlin connection. But the list of those who have come to die unexpectedly after running afoul of mr. Putin is long. Political opponents and human rights lawyers have been shot. Overly inquisitive reporters have perished in mysterious plane crashes or by car bombs, by poison or gunfire. This journalist was poisoned and shot. Then there are enemies who kill themselves. One by hanging, one by stabbing himself to death with two knives. And one by tying himself to a chair and jumping into a swimming pool. And you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews. Com. The overnight news will be right back. Yeah, i just saved a whole lot of money by swhuh. Ing to geico. We should take a closer look at geico. You know, geico insures way more than cars. Boats, motorcycles. Even rvs geico insures rvs . Whats an rv . Uh, the thing weve been stuck on for five years wait, im not a real moose . . Weve been over this, jeff. Were stickers im not a real moose . Give him some space. Deep breaths, jeff. Whats a sticker . . Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. New degree ultraclearnt saving black white. Othes. No yellow stains on white clothes. 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The band, the cheerleaders, the facepainted fans. But courtside you also find the unexpected. A pair of student sportscasters calling the action for fans halfway around the world. We want to introduce our basketball to more people, not only in the United States but back in china. So i just feel like really excited. Reporter they are among the universitys first Foreign Language broadcasters. I feel very excited. But also nervous. Very nervous. Reporter up to a thousand fans from abroad tune in. Jolin listens on his smartphone from beijing. I spent five years in dayton. Its unbelievable i can still listen and watch the game when im back in china. Reporter poised and prepared as they are, they are not broadcast or communications majors. Theyre graduate students studying electrical engineering. Working with some components like lasers. Reporter theyre also a couple. We started dating like five years ago. She knows me better than somebody else. Yeah, i know like what kind of mistakes he will make like in the homework, so will i tell him dont do this or something. I like their chemistry. They just have an it factor. Reporter daytons assistant athletics director recruited them. Im assuming you dont speak mandarin. So you had to get somebody in to help you know if they knew what they were talking about. Absolutely. I reached out to a professor and he helped with the translation. Not just for the knowledge of it, but how do they call a game . Are they excited at the right points . Do they know the terminology of basketball . Reporter listeners abroad cant see the game, only the audio is streamed. And its not always clear. I listened to the game. Its hard to the signal is not stable. Reporter still, he considers the program, now in its second season, a success. I think just having that access and that connectivity through the game of basketball, which is just such a shared language, you cant beat it. Reporter daytons International Students arrive as fans of the game. When they arent filling seats in the arena, theyre competing at the campus rec center. How did you get interested in basketball . I think yao ming landed in the nba. Reporter yao ming, the First Chinese athlete to become an nba allstar, played for eight seasons with the houston rockets, starting in 2002. Hes also credited for bringing basketball to a generation of chinese fans. Yao ming play in america very, very good. And i think maybe i can come to u. S. To broaden my horizons and practice my english. Yes, i felt like i am. Reporter between practicing english and broadcasting in mandarin, they discovered Something Else in dayton. A shared love for college basketball. College basketball game is much more passion than nba game. And sometimes just one game has everything. And the dunk i love basketball much, yeah. I think we will be the flyer fans forever. Police in france are still hunting for the poachers who broke into a wildlife refuge, outside of paris, killed a white rhino and stole his horn. Its the first such case of poaching in france. But around the world, the illegal slaughter of animals is big business. South africa is attacking the problem in a unique way, with flying dogs. Debra patta reports. Reporter meet arrow and his handler, henry. Harnessed together, they take off across the vast wildlife preserve. Arrow seems unperturbed, even as they hurl themselves out of the helicopter, falling more than 6,000 feet to earth. Landing in the middle of the poaching wars. Getting the dog on the front lines as fast as possible is always a challenge. And parachuting is one of the ways. Reporter these elite canine dogs are trained to immediately sniff out the poacher. Rushing to attack, pinning him to the ground, until more help arrives. This may be a training exercise, but the dogs bites are real and special biteproof suits are needed. The dogs are up against heavily armed poachers who run a mull multimillion dollar industry. In the past seven years, a third of africas elephants have been wiped out. Nearly 100 of these sky diving dogs have been placed in game reserves across africa. In oneregion, they caught over 100 coachers in 18 months. He told us one dog, killer, nabbed more poachers than rangers equipped with the latest hightech weapons. That is the most effective tool against the fight against coaching ever used. And its low cost compared to other technologies and it works. Reporter mans best friend may turn out to be a poachers worst enemy. Debra patta, cbs news, johannesburg. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues. For others check back later for the morning news and cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im tony dokoupil. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com Severe Weather is moving into our area, storm scan3 shows major storm headed east, most of the region is under a winter storm warning or even a blizzard warning. And take a look, this is a live look at Center City Philadelphia from our studios at spring garden, snow has been falling for the last several hours, as you can see, it is already coating everything. Today is tuesday, march 14th, good morning, im jim donovan. Im rahel solomon, complete coverage of the winter wet they are morning, trang do watching the snowfall in allentown, pat gallen is in port richmond. First we turn to meteorologist, katie fehlinger, for detailed look at the forecast, good morning, kate. I good morning, guys, jim, nice vest, well be seeing much more f
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