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Im Terrell Brown. The 113th congress has been sworn in, and today the house takes up its first piece of business, the bill of providing aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy. John boehner was reelected as speaker of the house, but he sparked a flood of criticism from within his own party. Tara mergener is in washington this morning. Tara, good morning to you. Terrell, the speaker changed course after an angry backlash for the delay. Its the first of two votes to send up 60 million in aid to the vic...

But that gives you a general idea of what to expect. Im david bernard, cbs news, miami. Well, the storm will impact an area called home for millions and many started preparing for a weekend full of snow. Tetiana anderson is in new york with more. Good morning, tetiana. Reporter annemarie, good morning. It hasnt even started snowing here in the big apple, but were already feeling the effects. Some 3,000 Flights Canceled all across the northeast including airports like bostons logan and the three ...

This is the cbs morning news for friday, january 11th, 2013. Good morning, everybody. Good to be with you. Im terrell brown. Colorado shooting suspect james holmes will face trial for julys deadly attack. Holmes is due to be arraigned today, but his lawyers are likely to ask for a delay. Following a threeday hearing a judge ruled late last night the prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed with the case. Holmes faces 166 felony counts on the charges that he killed 12 people and wound 70 other...

Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, a potentially recordbreaking debilitating storm is expected to slam the northeast this morning. So far totals could top two feet in some arias. Dangerous wind gusts threaten Power Supplies and travel will be affected from coast to coast. The storm is actually a combination of two powerful storms converging off the atlantic koechlt one part of the storm is coming from the midwest. The worst of the storm will hit tonight into saturday mo...

American what the much smaller us airways. If this later airline mega merger is approved, four airlines will control about three quarters of the u. S. Airline traffic. Susan mcginnis is in washington with more on this story. Susan, good morning. Good morning. This is the latest mergener this massive consolidation that has taken place over just the last five or six years. This ones going combine the third and the fourth Biggest Airlines to form the biggest largest. Now, the typical winners in the...

Of minutes. And that is what makes this cold snap even more dangerous for the homeless. Its the kind of cold that gets down to your bone you know, so if you stay out for more than a few minutes it actually hurts. Oh, i dont know where id be. Under a bridge somewhere, in a tent, in someones backyard. Some shelters added beds and warming stations extended their hours where outreach workers ventured out to offer sanctuary from the frigid conditions. Is there ever a time you say its too cold, we can...

Opening its door to more women being killed or wounded in action. Conflicts have cost more than 130 women their lives and more than 800 have been wounded. Dawn halfacre lost her arm fighting alongside an infantry unit. Theres not a big difference at all. And a lot of the missions we did we did with infantry units, we would do with shelled artillery units. We were all fighting the same thing, doing the same thing. This is the executive director of the Womens Service active network. Shes a former ...

In my view thats a military purpose. The lawmakers say the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School show that assault weapons need to be banned. A number of the police who came to newtown said to me we could not have stopped that shooter. Even with the body armor we were wearing with that kind of assault weapon. But Vice President biden downplayed the need for an asalts weapons ban thursday. He said those weapons are only used in a small percentage of crimes. Im much less concerned, quite frankl...

There is one senator in this Bipartisan Working Group whos seen as critical to getting a deal through both chambers of congress. I do like the thinks marco rubio is laying out. Former senator marco rubio is a Tea Party Favorite and a potential president ial candidate in 2016. Many here say hes a key to getting conservatives to support the bill. I support and agree with the principles he laid out about earned legalization. Making sure we can fix this problem. And then theres the political calculu...

Completed his fall from grace monday, confessing to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance enhancing drugs to win the tour de france. Armstrong was stripped of his seven tour titles last year after an exhaustive investigation by the u. S. Antidoping agency. The group questioned 11 of armstrongs former teammates and accused him of masterminding a teamwide operation and intimidating those who threatened to mention it. The agencys chief executive spoke it the report to 60 minutes sports. We heard t...