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>> dubois: tonight, a frigid start to the new year. records are broken, flights are canceled and firefighters battle flames with frozen hoses. eric fischer has the forecast. don dahler on the first test for some new mayors. a supreme court justice blocks the contraception requirement in the health care law. chip reid on the challenge brought by a group of nuns. the colorado experiment. it's now legal for adults to buy marijuana for recreational use. and manuel bojorquez introduces us to a social worker who found a new way to give her clients a lift. >> it's my character. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> dubois: good evening and happy new year, scott is off tonight, i'm maurice dubois. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. snow is falling in the upper midwest. tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the mid-atlantic to new england. we have a team of correspondents covering this. we begin in chicago with chris martinez of our cbs station wbbm. chris? >> reporter: maurice, heavy snow squalls are forecasted for the rest of the night. the national weather service warning chicago to expect dangerously cold temperatures and windchills through tomorrow night. chicago broke a 96-year-old new year's day record with more than five inches of snow-- another foot is expected to fall by tomorrow. more than 370 plow trucks have been deployed in six northern illinois counties. they're spreading salts to keep the roads from icing. and there's no thaw in sight. temperatures in the upper midwest are expected to dip to 30 below again today. international falls, minnesota, rang in the new year at minus 27 degrees. it felt like minus one in ann arbor, michigan, for an n.h.l. hockey game played outdoors in front of a record crowd of more than 105,000 people. it snowed throughout the game. many hoping to escape the cold or head home after the holidays were grounded. more than 1,000 flights in and out of o'hare international airport were canceled ord delayed. and it is snowing still right now, maurice, but it is going to get much heavier than it is throughout the rest of the night. we could see accumulations here up to two inches every hour. >> dubois: chris martinez in chicago, thank you. the bitter cold made a dangerous situation even worse in minneapolis today when firefighters were called to the scene of an apartment house explosion. jamie yuccas of our cbs station wcco was on the scene. >> reporter: when firefighters arrived it was 18 degrees below zero. john fruetel is the fire chief in minneapolis. >> it is brutal. it is tough on the firefighters right now. it's tough on everybody. under very treacherous conditions it's like trying to work on a skating rink so it's very difficult with the cold and the ice. >> reporter: 14 people were hurt. the three-story building included apartments, a store and a mosque. conditions were so frigid firemen chipped away at frozen hoses. the spray of water quickly formed a cascade of icicles on the outside of the burning building. firefighters wrapped victims in blankets and worked in shift to avoid hypothermia. 14 residents were taken to local hospitals, six are still in critical condition. the cause of the explosion is still not known but firefighters are still on scene working in these frigid temperatures. the city will have to determine tomorrow, maurice, if the building needs to come down. >> dubois: jamie yuccas, thank you. now to the snowstorm bearing down on the northeast. eric fisher is chief meteorologist of our cbs boston station and, eric, what should we expect there tonight? >> reporter: a good old-fashioned winter storm maurice right off the bat in 2014. the two pieces of the storm we're watching-- one is across the midwest, in other in the south. one across the northern tear states gives the snow for tonight into tomorrow. as we head into tomorrow night, most energy goes to the coast. nor'easter wraps up, big shield of snow from boston down to washington, d.c. and as we head toward friday morning slowly this will start to depart by friday evening, the whole storm is gone. snow totals, we're looking significant. south side of chicago reaching through central new york. this is the first part of the storm system. we're in the coastal low taking over, big totals from boston to new york city, about a half foot in new york but lots of blowing and drifting. a foot or more possible in greater boston and, yes, the "b" word is out there. blizzard conditions are possible. strong gusty winds from boston into new york. also coastal wind and flooding and subzero windchills. maurice, when this departs many spots in the northeast go below zero heading into the weekend. >> dubois: eric fisher at wbz in boston tonight. thank you. snowstorms are a huge challenge for any city and brand new mayors in new york and detroit are about to face their first big tests. don dahler has that part of the story. >> i by, bill de blasio -- >> reporter: hours before he was sworn in as mayor bill de blasio assured new yorkers he knows what's important to them. >> i remember that my own block didn't get cleared for three days so something like a snowstorm i take very personally. >> reporter: that was a lesson learned from his predecessors. michael bloomberg was exscore@ed for days of impassable streets following a 2010 blizzard. >> the world does not come to an end. the city is going fine, broadway shows were full last night. >> reporter: and john lindsay almost lost reelection in 1969 for not having the streets in queens cleared quickly enough following a snowstorm. ten years later, mayor michael bilandic of chicago wasn't so lucky. he was defeated largely because of the city's anemic reaction to a blizzard. with bankrupt detroit looking at a possible seven inches of snow tomorrow, income mayor mike duggan hopped on a plow to show his priorities are straight. but when it comes to clearing streets, he's at a huge disadvantage. detroit has only 145 snowplows. new york city has almost 2,000. while not expected to be as extreme as the blizzard of 2010, this coming storm will be the first test for bill de blasio as mayor of new york. he spent most of his career as a politician not a manager. maur sfles. >> dubois: don dahler, thank you. this was the day president obama's health care law took effect-- most of it, anyway. a supreme court justice temporarily blocked a controversial part of the law that applies to some religious organizations. chip reid explains. >> reporter: the one-page order issued late last night by justice sonia sotomayorts some h affiliated organizations from a requirement in the health care through that they provide health insurance that includes birth control. >> good morning, sisters! >> reporter: those organizations include the little sisters of the poor, an order of roman catholic nuns who provide nursing care for the elderly. in their petition to the supreme court, they said they could face millions of dollars in fines because they cannot comply with the law's requirement to provide access to contraceptives which are forbidden by their religion. the obama administration included a compromise in the law that allows religious groups to sign a certification opting out of the contraceptive requirement leaving responsibility for providing that coverage to insurance companies. but that's not good enough, according to daniel blomberg of the becket fund for religious liberty which represents the nuns in the lawsuit. >> the little sisters say we can't do that. our religious beliefs prevent us not only from participating directly but also participating by forcing someone else to do it. >> reportehe affect hundreds of nonprofit catholic organizations and ministries across the country. marsha greenberger is with the national woman's law center. >> 98% of catholic women at some point in their lives will use contraceptives. the issue whose religious freedom are we talking about? an employerser's religious freedom or an individual woman's own religious judgments about what she should be able to do herself? >> dubois: chip reid is with the president tonight in honolulu. chip, this is by no means the only challenge to the contraceptive requirement of the health care law, right? >> reporter: that's absolutely correct, maurice. numerous religious organizations have filed federal lawsuits against the contraceptive requirement and even some private companies have filed lawsuits saying it violates their religious rights. all of this, maurice, is expected eventually to be decided by the u.s. supreme court. >> dubois: chip reid, thank you very much tonight. an estimated 40,000 new laws went into effect on this new year's day. connecticut now requires assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines to be registered. that's in response to the sandy hook massacre. in california, transgender students can now choose which restrooms to use and which sports teams to join. and 40 and 60 watt incandescent lightbulbs can no longer be manufactured in this country. the biggest change is in colorado. today it became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. at least 24 marijuana shops in eight towns opened today. howard nathan of our cbs denver station kcnc tells us there were plenty of customers. >> reporter: but noon there was a three-hour wait to get inside this denver store to buy marijuana. one of the first customers was an iraq war veteran who says he needs it for post-combat stress. >> i couldn't be happier reportt $59.74 to buy marijuana infused chocolate truffles and an eighth of an ounce of buds called bubba kush. how long will that eighth last you? >> (laughs) we'll see. i don't know if i smoke it. it might just go in a frame and go on my wall. >> reporter: in denver resident says he looks forward to buying and enjoying marijuana without fear of arrest. >> i've been in a lot of trouble before because it's illegal is it's kind of a big deal for me. >> reporter: but there are limits on the sale of marijuana. buyers must be 21 or older. it can't be smoked in public places. colorado residents can purchase up to an ounce per store but non-residents are limited to a quarter ounce and can't take it out of state. organizers of colorado's campaign to legalize marijuana expect almost $400 million in sales this year and say it will create jobs, tax revenue, and reduce crime. brian vicente is an advocate. >> sales have taken place in our country for decades and all that money goes into the hands of underground markets and cartels. well, that stops today. >> reporter: now, this store estimates it's sold 250 customers in the first four hours alone. meanwhile, if you're wondering how much the marijuana costs, how about $100 for only a quarter of an ounce, if just about, what i'm told, that you pay for it illegally on the streets. maurice? >> dubois: howard nathan in denver. thank you. today in north dakota federal investigators say they have found no track or signal problems at the scene of a derailment and fire out side of casselton on mochbd a freight train came off the tracks and the hit another one hauling crude oil. 18 cars fought fire. some exploded but nothing was hurt. trains are expected to start rolling again tomorrow. a chinese helicopter was cleared today to begin airlifting passengers from a research vessel trapped in the ice surrounding antarctica. the ship's been frozen in place since christmas eve. about 1700 miles south of new zealand. holly williams is in london following late developments for us tonight. hallly. >> reporter: maurice, we've been on a conference call with the australian authorities who are coordinating the rescue. they're expecting it to begin very soon and say it could take myt five hours to a full day. >> having a wonderful time. you can see we have this wonderful snowy wonderland. >> reporter: for more than a week now, expedition members have been reassuring worried families and friends via the internet that they're staying positive on board their ice-bound ship. >> brilliant! >> good things happening today! judy is giving us hugs of the day so everybody she meets in the corridor, big hugs. so that's a good thing. >> reporter: ice breakers from china and australia both attempted to free the vessel but they were also stalled by the dense pack ice, up to 15 feet deep. now the plan is to winch most of the team to safety on a helicopter from the chinese ship leaving just 22 crew members on board. one of the expedition leaders, professor chris turney, explained the complicated operation. >> we're looking at about four to five relays of people, 12 people at a time, and then the luggage and then, importantly, the scientific equipment and samples. >> reporter: the helicopter has already scouted the terrain and the expedition members have built a helipad in the snow. if the weather stays clear, a successful rescue could be just hours away. if the rescue is successful, the expedition members will still be in the antarctic and, maurice, it could be another week until they're reunited with their families. >> dubois: holly williams in london tonight. thank you. former first lady barbara bush is in the hospital. a a family continues to fight for a girl that a hospital says is brain dead. and a couple makes history at the rose parade when the "cbs evening news" continues. i'm here to get the lady of the house back on her feet. 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New-yorkUnited-statesAustraliaOaklandCaliforniaAntarcticaChinaBostonMassachusettsMinnesotaHonoluluHawaii >> dubois: good evening and happy new year. scott is off tonight, i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. snow is falling in the upper midwest. tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the mid-atlantic to new england. we have a team of correspondents covering this. we begin in chicago with chris martinez of our cbs station wbbm. chris? >> reporter: maurice, heavy snow squalls are forecasted for the rest of the night. the national weather service warning chicago to expect dangerously cold temperatures and windchills through tomorrow night. chicago broke a 96-year-old new year's day record with more than five inches of snow-- another foot is expected to fall by tomorrow. more than 370 plow trucks have been deployed in six northern illinois counties. they're spreading salt to keep the roads from icing. and there's no thaw in sight. temperatures in the upper midwest are expected to dip to 30 below again today. international falls, minnesota, rang in the new year at minus 27 degrees. it felt like minus one in ann arbor, michigan, for an n.h.l. hockey game played outdoors in front of a record crowd of more than 105,000 people. it snowed throughout the game. many hoping to escape the cold or head home after the holidays were grounded. more than 1,000 flights in and out of o'hare international airport were canceled or delayed. and it is snowing still right now, maurice, but it is going to get much heavier than it is throughout the rest of the night. we could see accumulations here up to two inches every hour. >> dubois: chris martinez in chicago, thank you. the bitter cold made a dangerous situation even worse in minneapolis today when firefighters were called to the scene of an apartment house explosion. jamie yuccas of our cbs station wcco was on the scene. >> reporter: when firefighters arrived it was 18 degrees below zero. john fruetel is the fire chief in minneapolis. >> it is brutal. it is tough on the firefighters right now. it's tough on everybody. under very treacherous conditions, with all the ice out here now, it's like trying to work on a skating rink so it's very difficult with the cold and the ice. >> reporter: 14 people were hurt. the three-story building included apartments, a store and a mosque. conditions were so frigid firemen chipped away at frozen hoses. the spray of water quickly formed a cascade of icicles on the outside of the burning building. firefighters wrapped victims in blankets and worked in shifts to avoid hypothermia. 14 residents were taken to local hospitals, six are still in critical condition. the cause of the explosion is still not known but firefighters are still on scene working in these frigid temperatures. the city will have to determine tomorrow, maurice, if the building needs to come down. >> dubois: jamie yuccas, thank you. now to the snowstorm bearing down on the northeast. eric fisher is chief meteorologist of our cbs boston station and, eric, what should we expect there tonight? >> reporter: a good old- fashioned winter storm maurice right off the bat in 2014. the two pieces of the storm we're watching-- one is across the midwest, in other in the south. one across the northern tier states gives the snow for tonight into tomorrow. as we head into tomorrow night, most energy goes to the coast. nor'easter wraps up, big shield of snow from boston down to washington, d.c. and as we head toward friday morning slowly this will start to depart by friday evening, the whole storm is gone. snow totals, we're looking significant. south side of chicago reaching through central new york. this is the first part of the storm system. when the coastal low taking over, big totals from boston to new york city, about a half foot in new york but lots of blowing and drifting. a foot or more possible in greater boston and, yes, the "b" word is out there. blizzard conditions are possible. strong gusty winds from boston into new york. also coastal wind and flooding and subzero windchills. maurice, when this departs many spots in the northeast go below zero heading into the weekend. >> dubois: eric fisher at wbz in boston tonight. thank you. snowstorms are a huge challenge for any city and brand new mayors in new york and detroit are about to face their first big tests. don dahler has that part of the story. >> i, bill de blasio -- >> reporter: hours before he was sworn in as mayor bill de blasio assured new yorkers he knows what's important to them. >> i remember that my own block didn't get cleared for three days so something like a snowstorm i take very personally. >> reporter: that was a lesson learned from his predecessors. michael bloomberg was excoriated for days of impassable streets following a 2010 blizzard. >> the world does not come to an end. the city is going fine, broadway shows were full last night. >> reporter: and john lindsay almost lost reelection in 1969 for not having the streets in queens cleared quickly enough following a snowstorm. ten years later, mayor michael bilandic of chicago wasn't so lucky. he was defeated largely because of the city's anemic reaction to a blizzard. with bankrupt detroit looking at a possible seven inches of snow tomorrow, incoming mayor mike duggan hopped on a plow to show his priorities are straight. but when it comes to clearing streets, he's at a huge disadvantage. detroit has only 145 snowplows. new york city has almost 2,000. while not expected to be as extreme as the blizzard of 2010, this coming storm will be the first test for bill de blasio as mayor of new york. he spent most of his career as a politician not a manager. maurice? >> dubois: don dahler, thank you. this was the day president obama's health care law took effect-- most of it, anyway. a supreme court justice temporarily blocked a controversial part of the law that applies to some religious organizations. chip reid explains. >> reporter: the one-page order issued late last night by justice sonia sotomayor temporarily exempts some church affiliated organizations from a requirement in the health care law, that they provide health insurance that includes birth control. >> good morning, sisters! >> reporter: those organizations include the little sisters of the poor, an order of roman catholic nuns who provide nursing care for the elderly. in their petition to the supreme court, they said they could face millions of dollars in fines because they cannot comply with the law's requirement to provide access to contraceptives which are forbidden by their religion. the obama administration included a compromise in the law that allows religious groups to sign a certification opting out of the contraceptive requirement leaving responsibility for providing that coverage to insurance companies. but that's not good enough, according to daniel blomberg of the becket fund for religious liberty which represents the nuns in the lawsuit. >> the little sisters say we can't do that. our religious beliefs prevent us not only from participating directly but also participating by forcing someone else to do it. >> reporter: the case could affect hundreds of nonprofit catholic organizations and ministries across the country. marsha greenberger is with the national woman's law center. >> 98% of catholic women at some point in their lives will use contraceptives. the issue is whose religious freedom are we talking about? an employer's religious freedom or an individual woman's own religious judgments about what she should be able to do herself? >> dubois: chip reid is with the president tonight in honolulu. chip, this is by no means the only challenge to the contraceptive requirement of the health care law, right? >> reporter: that's absolutely correct, maurice. numerous religious organizations have filed federal lawsuits against the contraceptive requirement and even some private companies have filed lawsuits saying it violates their religious rights. all of this, maurice, is expected eventually to be decided by the u.s. supreme court. >> dubois: chip reid, thank you very much tonight. an estimated 40,000 new laws went into effect on this new year's day. connecticut now requires assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines to be registered. that's in response to the sandy hook massacre. in california, transgender students can now choose which restrooms to use and which sports teams to join. and 40 and 60 watt incandescent lightbulbs can no longer be manufactured in this country. one of the biggest change is in colorado. today it became the first state to allow the sale of marijuana for recreational use. at least 24 marijuana shops in eight towns opened today. howard nathan of our cbs denver station kcnc tells us there were plenty of customers. >> reporter: by noon there was a three-hour wait to get inside this denver store to buy marijuana. one of the first customers was an iraq war veteran who says he needs it for post-combat stress. >> i couldn't be happier. it's a huge steppingstone for other states as well. >> reporter: sean azzariti spent $59.74 to buy marijuana infused chocolate truffles and an eighth of an ounce of buds called bubba kush. how long will that eighth last you? >> (laughs) we'll see. i don't know if i'll smoke it. it might just go in a frame and go on my wall. >> reporter: this denver resident says he looks forward to buying and enjoying marijuana without fear of arrest. >> i've been in a lot of trouble before because it's illegal, so it's kind of a big deal for me. >> reporter: but there are limits on the sale of marijuana. buyers must be 21 or older. it can't be smoked in public places. colorado residents can purchase up to an ounce per store but non-residents are limited to a quarter ounce and can't take it out of state. organizers of colorado's campaign to legalize marijuana expect almost $400 million in sales this year and say it will create jobs, tax revenue, and reduce crime. brian vicente is an advocate. >> sales have taken place in our country for decades and all that money goes into the hands of underground markets and cartels. well, that stops today. >> reporter: now, this store estimates it's sold 250 customers in the first four hours alone. meanwhile, if you're wondering how much the marijuana costs, how about $100 for only a quarter of an ounce, is just about, what i'm told, that you pay for it illegally on the streets. maurice? >> dubois: howard nathan in denver. thank you. today in north dakota federal investigators say they have found no track or signal problems at the scene of a derailment and fire outside of casselton. on monday a freight train came off the tracks and the hit another one hauling crude oil. 18 cars fought fire. some exploded but nothing was hurt. trains are expected to start rolling again tomorrow. a chinese helicopter was cleared today to begin airlifting passengers from a research vessel trapped in the ice surrounding antarctica. the ship's been frozen in place since christmas eve. about 1,700 miles south of new zealand. holly williams is in london following late developments for us tonight. holly. >> reporter: maurice, we've been on a conference call with the australian authorities who are coordinating the rescue. they're expecting it to begin very soon and say it could take anything from five hours to a full day. >> having a wonderful time. you can see we have this wonderful snowy wonderland. >> reporter: for more than a week now, expedition members have been reassuring worried families and friends via the internet that they're staying positive on board their ice- bound ship. >> brilliant! >> good things happening today! judy is giving us hugs of the day so everybody she meets in the corridor, big hugs. so that's a good thing. >> reporter: ice breakers from china and australia both attempted to free the vessel but they were also stalled by the dense pack ice, up to 15 feet deep. now the plan is to winch most of the team to safety on a helicopter from the chinese ship leaving just 22 crew members on board. one of the expedition leaders, professor chris turney, explained the complicated operation. >> we're looking at about four to five relays of people, 12 people at a time, and then the luggage and then, importantly, the scientific equipment and samples. >> reporter: the helicopter has already scouted the terrain and the expedition members have built a helipad in the snow. if the weather stays clear, a successful rescue could be just hours away. if the rescue is successful, the expedition members will still be in the antarctic and, maurice, it could be another week until they're reunited with their families. >> dubois: holly williams in london tonight. thank you. the united states pulled out of iraq two years ago, but the violence continues. today the united nations said more than 7,800 iraqi civilians were killed after surge in fighting between feuding religious groups. that's the most death since 2008. 661 civilians were killed in december alone. former first lady barbara bush is in the hospital. a family continues to fight for a girl that a hospital says is brain dead. and a couple makes history at the rose parade when the "cbs evening news" continues. i'm here to get the lady of the house back on her feet. 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New-yorkUnited-statesAnn-arborMichiganAustraliaOaklandCaliforniaAntarcticaChinaBostonMassachusettsMinnesota >> dubois: good evening, scott off s off tonight, i'm maurice dubois and this is our western edition. ice, snow, freezing cold, it is called winter and the northeast got plenty of it today and all the problems that go with it, including air travel problems that spread to the west coast. the storm is being blamed for at least eight deaths, most of them on roadways. the number of flights canceled over the past two days has topped 5,000, some places got as much as two feet of snow. boston set a record. and now the cold is moving in in much of the region. the mercury never got out of the teens today. we have a team of correspondents covering the storm and first karen anderson of our boston station wbz. >> reporter: well, maurice, tonight the temperature is hovering around five degrees with a projected low of minus four. and boston is hoping it can weather this cold as well as it did the storm. boxford, massachusetts, had the most snow with nearly two feet. in boston, pedestrians outnumbered cars and fashion gave way to function for those who ventured outside, including chris smith. >> i have long underwear on, i have a turtle neck on, a fleece jacket under this and a ski coat and i am not quite toasty. >> reporter: statewide, some 3,400 plows and salt trucks kept the roads passable and with several highways ordered closed, there were just a handful of accidents. but firefighters in north attleborough had to battle bitter cold and a fire for four ho it left firefighter kevin laliberte encased in ice. south of boston, high surf combined with th e and sent freezing sea water crashing into several homes. the street was littered with debris. the national guard helped evacuate a handful of residents. now comes the bitter cold. governor patrick urged people to limit their time outdoors. >> these are, as i say, dangerous conditions, potentially dangerous temperatures for everybody. >> reporter: dangerous, indeed. the windchills in boston tonight can make it feel like at least 15 degrees below zero. these are conditions where frostbite can set in within about 35 minutes. maurice? >> dubois: karen, thank you. the heart of new york city got about six inches of snow and east of the city parts of long island got more than twice that. terrell brown is there tonight. terrell? >> reporter: maurice, new york's governor took the unusual step of shutting down three interstates so that they could be cleared. that worked but now this arctic air is creating a new problem. some who ventured out in the storm regretted it. on long island, 45 miles per hour winds blew snow back on the road soon after they were plowed, leaving a dangerous layer of ice. brookhaven highway supervisor dan losquandro. it gets to a point where it's so cold there's some things you can't do. >> the regular rock salt we put on the road simply isn't effective in single-digit temperatures. it will not melt the ice on the roads. >> reporter: connecticut state police responded to over 200 accidents and 3,000 calls for help. 50 mile an hour wind gusts required restrictions on vehicles traveling across maryland's chesapeake bay bridge. the buses are running in new jersey but in paterson this one slid down a hill and crashed into a building. no one was hurt. by sunday, temperatures will be in the 40s, melting much of this snow followed by heavy rain and, maurice, with all of that water it could create more headaches for drivers. >> dubois: it sure could. terrell brown on long island tonight. now to the airport, many travelers were stranded as 1,600 flights were canceled or delayed at new york area airports. 188 flights were also canceled in boston. 472 in philadelphia and 463 in chicago. all this created a ripple effect across the country. the web site flightaware shows fewer flights than usual in the skies over america early in the day but as the day goes on the situation improves and more flights are able to take off. joining us now is meteorologist steve baskerville of cbs station wbbm in chicago. steve, old man winter seems to be just about getting started, right? >> reporter: you know, maurice, this winter weather cannot stop being so dramatic. we've got another storm that's brewing! it's starting in the southern plains, it will be moving north and east and affecting places like -- well, new york city could have another mixture of rain and ice, even a half a foot of snow is possible around the eastern great lakes and that won't even be the weather headline! i think it's going to be that arctic air. in the last 20 to 30 years we've not had the kind of cold we're expecting. that minus 11, by the way, that's the high expected in chicago. on monday afternoon many places in the midwest won't get above zero for at least 24 to 48 hours. and arctic air slumps as far south and east as down in georgia and look at your afternoon, st. louis, on tuesday. two below zero. barely zero around cincinnati, double digits maybe around new york city and cold, cold weather shrinking as far south and east as atlanta. georgia may not see 40 degrees in the afternoon. so with all this in mind, this is one of those weekends and five-day periods where either you're digging out from all the snow or trying to stay as warm as you possibly can. maurice? >> dubois: steve baskerville in chicago, tonight. thank you. there is news tonight from iraq where al qaeda militants have battling iraqi government forces for control of fallujah and ramadi. u.s. troops and local militias had driven the mi militants from those two cities in anbar province during the iraq war. more than 1300 americans were killed in the fighting. david martin is following this. >> reporter: despite air strikes by government aircraft, the iraqi cities of ramadi and fallujah where american troops once fought desperate battles against al qaeda are in danger of falling back under control of the militants. fighters dressed in black have burned police stations and raised the al qaeda flag over government buildings. u.s. officials stopped short of declaring that either city has fallen to the insurgents, calling it a fluid situation but one which at the moment looks bad. the iraqi government is moving forces to the outskirts of the cities in an apparent effort to retake control. the fighting pit it is shiite government of prime minister maliki against sunni insurgents and threatens to re-ignite the kind of sectarian warfare that almost destroyed iraq in the years following the american invasion. u.s. officials blamed the resurgence of al qaeda in part, on the incompetence of the maliki government and in part of the spillover effect from the civil war in syria which has become a rallying cry for radical islamists. it's been two years since the last american combat soldier left iraq and now the iraqi government is in danger of losing some of the hardest-won victories of that war. >> dubois: david, do you have any sense that the iraqi government has any shot at retaking these cities here? >> reporter: well, they have the fire power to do it because, among other things, they have american-made tanks. the danger is that retaking the cities could set off an allout civil war between sunnis and shiites. >> dubois: okay. david martin at the pentagon tonight. thank you. the u.s. evacuated nearly two dozen americans from the embassy in south sudan today. they were flown out on a cargo plane because security there has deteriorated. south sudan became an independent country two and a half years ago. more than a thousand people have been killed in fighting between rival ethnic groups. today the two sides met for peace talks in neighboring ethiopia. the obama administration asked the supreme court today to lift a stay that is blocking enforcement of a key provision of the new health care law. at issue is coverage for contraceptives. here's our chief legal correspondent jan crawford. >> reporter: in court papers, the obama administration dismissed arguments that a contraception coverage requirement in the new health care law violates the religious beliefs of a group of roman catholic nuns saying their claim lacks any foundation in the facts or the law. but the little sisters of the poor late this afternoon issued a staunch rebuttal saying the health care law forces them to do what their religion forbids and provide access to health insurance which includes birth control. justice sonia sotomayor agreed on wednesday to temporarily exempt the little sisters from the requirement. the obama administration is urging sotomayor to lift the exemption. it points to a compromise in the law that would allow the nuns to sign a certification opting out of the contraceptive requirement, leaving responsibility for providing that coverage up to insurance companies. but daniel blomberg of the becket fund for religious liberty-- which represents the nuns in the lawsuit-- says that compromise is a sham because it forces them authorize a third party to provide coverage. >> this morally makes us complicit in doing something wrong. please don't make us have to participate in doing something wrong. please don't make us ask someone else to do something wrong on our behalf. >> reporter: cecile richards is president of planned parenthood. >> the government has already said this group of nuns is not required to provide birth control to their employees and there's nothing in the affordable care act that should go against any of their religious beliefs. >> reporter: but this issue goes beyond the little sisters. there are 19 other lawsuits challenging the contraception requirement and, maurice, those involve hundreds of other catholic nonprofit groups as well as schools and universities. >> dubois: jan, do we see all of this ultimately heading to the entire supreme court? >> well, in those other cases that are challenging the contraception requirement some of the federal courts have sided with the catholic group which is means that some point maurice it's likely, i think the, the court is going to have to step in and decide this. >> dubois: jan crawford in washington tonight. thank you. the administration today announced two executive actions aimed at keeping firearms out of the hands of the mentally ill. one clarifies who is prohibited from possessing a firearm because of mental illness. the other gives hospitals more flexibility in providing information to the federal database for background checks. we have the results of drug and alcohol tests in the paul walker car crash. there's a new turn in the case of jahi mcmath, declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy. and scott pelley takes us to the edge of an erupting volcano when the "cbs evening news" continues. 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(cheers and applause) >> reporter: which leads us to what this was really all about. chris says if dying has taught him anything it's about how to live. >> thank you for the warm welcome. (cheers and applause). >> reporter: he says you have to do what you can to make people smile while you still have the chance. he really wants kids especially to know that. >> because if i can't impact people then this whole thing is a waste. >> reporter: message received. steve hartman, "on the road" in durham. >> dubois: and that is the "cbs evening news," scott will be back on monday. i'm maurice dubois in new york. thanks for joining us. have a good ni good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. i'm allen martin. now at 6:00, drought fears confirmed by the first snowpack survey of the year. good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'll allen martin. the it's the lowest snowpack reading on record and unless winter returns to northern california it could be trouble for our water supply. rob mcallister with a look at how bad it is. >> reporter: don't be fooled by me standing in ankle deep snow. the latest snowpack survey does not show great results for california. it's applying reading a bleak reading. snowpack is 20% of normal for the start of the year. >> no water right here. >> reporter: a drastic difference from a year ago at this time when the snow was six times higher than now but even with that, the rest of the winter did not keep pace. >> we had a great december last year. and then things shut off. >> reporter: a lack of storms early this season have hit ski resorts hard who count on the powder to turn a profit. >> it's pretty icy out there right now. i was hoping it would be a better season. >> reporter: even so families are making the best of what mother nature has already left behind. >> still we are having a good time. we are up here for the week. we'll enjoy it and make the best of it. >> reporter: with two months to go in the season, resorts are hopeful. >> we are very optimistic. there's still a lot of winter left. it's just the start of january. we are confident winter will return and have a big impact. reporter: still time for a rebound. >> if we can get into a wet pattern, perhaps we can catch up but the further into the season the less likely that becomes. >> reporter: while the nice doather may be enjoyable to ski
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