Spending her smefter in a Retirement Community. A more Perfect Union series show why Senior Citizens say having a student around is good for everyone. We begin with your eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. You can really feel the windchill here. So uncomfortable and really dangerous. An arctic outbreak. Winter weather grips the northern u. S. Really gotten hit this year. Bone chilling cold bring with it mountains of snow. At least 40 people have died in a bombing attack in afghanistan. The attack targeting a Cultural Center in kabul. President trump is once again touting the stock market as evidence the economy is on the right track. Really a big, big beautiful ship, well turn it around. Homeowners are rushing to prepay their property tax bill. Thats because homeowners in hightax states could take a hit to their wallets when the gop tax plan kicks in. Disruption at the happiest place on earth. Disneyland says it experienced a power outage in parts of their california parks. The line for refunds was out the great. Alabama Senate Candidate roy moore has filed to delay certifying the Election Results until a voter Fraud Investigation is conducted. All that. Two Milwaukee Police officers are being recognized after saving teenagers from a burning car. And all that matters. Oh, my god, you came out. A california mom to be wound up leaving her own delivery at her local store. The butcher take off his apron, caught the baby. Everyone pitched in to help and they saved the day. On cbs this morning. The pacers mascot helping out Damion Wilkins and his fiance jays minute mitchell with their gender reveal. Look at damion, a big smile. He didnt even know. Hes still looking, trying to find out what it is. All the guys letting him know that its to be a boy. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota, lets go places. And good morning everyone, welcome to cbs this morning. Im Bianna Golodryga with Vladimir Duthiers of our streaming network cbsn. Norah and gayle are off. Windchill advisories are in effect for much of new england and new york and northern pennsylvania. Temperatures are plunging to the Single Digits in places like pittsburgh. At least one person is dead from exposure in chicago. International falls, minnesota, hit a record 37 below yesterday. This dramatic satellite image of the great lakes shows the clouds behind the massive snowfall theyve also seen. Demarco morgan is in erie, pennsylvania, where even more snow is piling up on the five feet that has fallen since christmas eve. Demarco, we can barely see you there. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Just take a look at all of the snow here. Were in what appears to be a car lot thats directly across the street from the local hospital here. You can see the vehicles are pretty much covered in snow. I actually stuck my arm in here and you can tell just how deep it is. Just sort of can make out what type of vehicle this is. This is an area that pretty much hasnt been touched since sundays storm first made impact on this area. Were talking about the average this year. It averages 100 inches of snow. Were already at 102 for the month of december. For thousands of people pummelled with snow in erie, pennsylvania, theres no rest for the weary. 36 hours straight. Plow drivers like dave struggling to make roads passable. This is probably the tenth time. We just keep plowing. Its nonstop. Reporter but where the plows are failing, children and neighbors have stepped in. Go. Reporter when this car got stuck in a snowbank, strangered pulled over to help get it back on the road. They looked like they needed some help so we thought why not. Reporter sisters asare and madison mccaul are trying to make the best of it. We havent had a winter like this since we were little kids. Reporter a state of emergency is in effect for Oswego County after they were blasted with more than five feet of snow. Ive not seen this ive lived here my whole life and we really got hit this year. Reporter firefighters used bulldozers and shovels to rescue a woman who was trapped in her home by a sixfoot snow wall. Its freezing. Reporter much of the United States is getting blasted with bone chilling cold. A bridge became partially stuck in green bay, wisconsin, because of the frigid temperatures. And this is the grand haven river in michigan. In minnesota, temperatures dropped to 40 below zero in some parts as mini ha ha falls turned into an ice cave. It feels like your skin is going to be on fire. It hurts after youre out there for a little while. Reporter there is good news. The airport is back open so that means were headed in the right direction. And making progress for this area. But its far from over because were expecting anywhere from 5 to 10 inches of snow over the next couple of days. So we still have a lot to deal with. When you talk about the white stuff. People are just excited to get out and sort of enjoy it. But at the same time, city officials saying be safe while doing so. Please, demarco, get inside, it is bone chilling cold out there. Thank you. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our boston stage wbz has the forecast through new year. Danielle, good morning. What can we expect . This is going to be a brutal stretch. Reinforcing cold coming straight out of the arctic here is going to set up over the next several days with little piece of the polar vortex dive south for a record close to the start of 2018. Temperatures 20 degrees below normal. Want to bring you to the ball drop windchill forecast here. The heart of the cold in place from the Northern Plains stretching east to Northern New England. Brutal windchill values. 15 to 30 below zero from boston to international falls. Feeling like 18 below at midanytime in detroit. 3 below zero in new york. On new years day, temperatures in the Single Digits and teens from a lot of spots from helena down to topeka. 70 of the country is going to be running below the freezing mark. Also tracking the storm system coming into the pacific northwest. A lot of rain at the coast. Elevation snow, near zero visibility at times. For later on today, through our saturday, before weakening. These deep pinks and wihites here, 1 to 2 feet of snow in higher elevations. Bianna, im worried about you as a friend when you do that midnight run. I dont know if im going to be doing it with those temperatures. Isis claims responsibility this morning for a string of deadly explosions in afghanistans capital. Officials in kabul say at least 41 people were kill and 84 were wounded. The bombers targeted a news agency and a shiite muslim Cultural Center. More explosives went off in the basement where students were attending a conference. U. S. Embassy in kabul condemned what it called a horrific and indiscriminate attack. In florida, President Trump made his first public appearance of his holiday vacation, thanking local firefighters and promoting his own record in office. The country has really butchered the big, big beautiful ship were turning around. We broke the record of harry truman. We have the alltime record for stopping ridiculous regulations and were very proud of that regard. Thats one of the reasons the stock market is up. The evidence shows the president went a little too far with one assertion. Chip reid is traveling with him in west palm beach, florida. Chip, good morning. Reporter good morning. This is not the first time that President Trump has claimed he signed more bills into law than any modern president since truman. And according to a cbs news analysis, President Trump has signed more than 90 bills, but that is hundreds fewer than the nearly 700 pieces of regulation that one bill tracking website tracked for president kennedy in the same amount of time and not half as many as the more than 200 bills signed by president s clinton and george h. W. Bush during the same period. Trump is correct the stock market has improved during his presidency and he has kept his pledge to cut regulations. He cant turn that, quote, big, big, beautiful ship around alone, he needs congress. In early january, hell be meeting at camp david with House Speaker paul ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to strategize for 2018. Chip, thank you. Many homeowners are lining up this week to pay their property taxes early. The irs says that some 2018 taxes paid before december 31st can be deducted on this years return. Thats good news for people affected by 10,000 limit on state and local Tax Deductions that begins on january 1st. Jan crawford is at the Government Center in fairfax, virginia, outside washington, with more. Jan, good morning. Reporter good morning. Here in virginia, nearly 40 of taxpayers did pay state and local Tax Deductions in 2017. The average was 1,300 more than the upcoming limit will allow. Here and across the country people stood in line to pay their taxes a little early to save some money. Happy to pay my taxes early. Reporter from illinois to new york i can do some of it now but i really wish i didnt have to. Reporter and massachusetts. Prepay tax and can i do it with a credit card . Reporter taxpayers lined up by the thousands to prepay their property taxes. You can see were not the only ones who think this is probably a good deal. Reporter lawrence and his wife susan braved long lines wednesday in fairfax county, virginia, hoping to deduct their 2018 taxes a bit early. Our accountant said if you can afford em, pay em. And we can afford it so were paying them. Are you paying tax today . Reporter the crowds liking up the week after christmas have been more than ten times what the suburban washington, d. C. Office normally sees. Ive been in this building for 25 years and i have never seen the turnout for this type of event so its unprecedented. Reporter in 2015, more than 44 million tax returns nationwide took advantage of state and local Tax Deduction. And in 19 states and the district of columbia, the average deduction was over next years 10,000 cap. It will have an impact on millions of people. Reporter this tax expert says the irs has now clarified that estimated property taxes that have not been assessed are not deductible in 2017. How the agency enforces that is uncertain. So its kind of a take the deduction and hope that you may not get challenged but if you do, you have to be prepared for the ramifications. Reporter now, that warning from the irs yesterday could mean that some taxpayers who go ahead and take all of their property Tax Deduction could face an audit. The irs says it will challenge and disallow any of the deductions if their home wasnt assessed by the end of the year. All right, jan, thank you very much. Republican roy moore is suing to stop alabama from certifying that he lost this months senate race. He claims there is enough evidence of potential Election Fraud to change the outcome. Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones by about 20,000 votes. In an affidavit, moore also claimed he passed a lie detecter test, proving allegations of Sexual Misconduct against him are false. He said in a statement this is not a republican or democrat issue. As Election Integrity should matter to everyone. The secretary of state said he will investigate any complaint but the board will declare today that jones won the election. Police in georgia are searching for an escaped inmate that is potentially dangerous. He used a stolen metal rod to break through two walls in his jail cell yesterday. He escaped through a hole in the security fence. Carroll then took a van and fled to his home state of south carolina. Police found the van there and used helicopters and bloodhounds to try to find him. Carroll was jailed in october for obstruction of an officer and theft. He was supposed to begin a fiveyear prison sentence today. The fbi is investigating how a passenger with the wrong ticket boarded a flight from los angeles to tokyo. The flight returned to lax after the crew found a passenger was not supposed to be on board. The airline said he is an american in his 20s. The tsa says he had a ticket for another similar flight on united airlines. Don dahler is here with how the incident is raising so many questions about security at the airport. Theres a lot of questions. Good morning. Ana says there is no mandatory regulation that forced the plane to turn around, but the airline defended the decision, but one aviation expert we spoke to said the uturn was not necessary and may have even put flyers at a greater risk. When they called this morning, they said they were going to put us on the 10 00 p. M. Flight tonight. Reporter the decision to bring ana flight 175 back to lax on tuesday night cost flyers on wednesday an entire day of travel. Instead the flight was delayed like, you know, seven hours. Reporter the plane to tokyo turned around about four hours into the trip. After the crew discovered an unauthorized passenger in what was supposed to be a vacant seat. One person wasnt supposed to be on that flight which dont they, like, scan something . Reporter according to the tsa, the passenger was ticketed for a different flight on united. He was traveling with his brother who was ticketed for the ana flight. Both flights were scheduled to depart at around the same time. Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation, babe. Reporter super Model Chrissy Teigen and her husband actor and Musician John Legend were among the passengers sent back to lax. I just need to know why we couldnt have flown to tokyo and settled this one persons mistake there, teigen later asked on twitter. Ana told cbs news the decision was made in consideration of safety. I dont see why they went all the way back to los angeles. Reporter denny kelly is a former airline captain. He says the plane should have landed at the nearest airport and solved the issue as soon as possible. To spend four hours flying back to los angeles, with the guy on the airplane, we dont really know whats going orning thatses s nnot the safest way. Didnt hurt anybody, but it could have. Reporter ana issued an apology on twitter, writing, we failed to deliver the Customer Service we strive for. We welcome ongoing feedback to the fbi says it has not charged the unauthorized passenger. Some of that feedback did come from chrissy teigen, were thankful for that. Exactly. Absolutely. All right, don, thank you. The largest wildfire in california history is about 90 contained this morning. The massive thomas fire has been raging northwest of los angeles for nearly a month. The flames burned more than 280 acres s is in ventura and sant barbara counties. The cause is under investigation. The power is back on at disneyland this morning after sections of the park went dark during one of its busiest weeks of the year. A late morning transformer failure hit the theme park in anaheim, california, just south of los angeles. Jamie yuccas talked to some of the guests. Reporter the power failure made the fun at disneyland grind to a halt wednesday. There were a lot of crying children. Unhappy. Yes, you cant get on rides. You cant buy thingings in stores. They had little reservations to get made over like princesses. They cant do it. The magic of disney sort of fades when the powers out in half the park. Reporter about a dozen rides were affected. Some fans came in from oklahoma and georgia for Rose Bowl Team events. We left the park because its way too busy and its probably going to get worse. Reporter in from texas, she and her friend did not have a carefree time. We were on a ride when we found out that there was a power outage so we were just praying that it wouldnt hit us right when we were on the top of the ferris wheel. Reporter guests took to social media to vent their frustration. Disneyland said it escorted guests off the affected attractions shortly after the outage. A park spokesperson told cbs news an issue with a transformer resulted in loss of power to toontown and fantasyland. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience to all of our guests. Just take it in stride, yes. Thats what i like about you guys. Reporter the taylors from melbourne, australia, paid big bucks to go to the park with their 4yearold daughter grace. How much did you pay . 1,500. Its a big deal. Reporter for cbs this morning, jamie yuccas, los angeles. A lot of money to go there. Disneyland tickets usually are only refundable if they are unused. Power was restored to the entire park within a few hours. The australians took it in stride. People wait years to go there. They plan a trip for a year. Amazing. I wouldnt want to be stuck on one of those rides. Im afraud of them to begin with. No one would want to be stuck on one of those rides, were with you. Starting monday, it will be legal to buy recreational pot in california if you can find a store that sells it. How state regulations are slowin the founders of the Clothing Brand lularoe hit back against their critics on their business. Ahead, why some say the allegations are trumped up. Youre watching cbs this morning. And clean and real, its ok to crave. 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