Marijuana. California officially begins recreational sales. While it could still be hard to find a place to buy it. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Another downright frigid forecast. Temperatures so low, theyre dangerous. Millions of americans battle deadly cold. Its really cold. The new year bringing brutal arctic air, blasting much of the country. Cold weather sticking around for at least the next week. I wish i had some better news for you there. I hate it. I wish i was back in california. South korea offering to hold highlevel talks with north korea. Kim jongun saying the entire u. S. Mainland is within striking distance. President trump responded by saying well see. The death toll rising following days of violent protests in iran. Hundreds of people have also been arrested. The airports all across the u. S. Were impacted by a computer issue for customs and Border Protection causing some long delays. Did you have trouble coming in . Hell yeah, i did. California ringing in the new year by legalizing recreational pot. Heres to a. All that. Matters. The shot, rebound, score ranger fans go home happy. Thousands of fans here watched the winter classic. What was it like . Freezing my butt off while watching an epic ranger game. On cbs this morning. Motion, left. Hes running to the left. Angling. Got a block. 15, 10, 5, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown were headed to atlanta and the dogs are all on the field. Dogs win it in Double Overtime its bed lam here in the rose bowl for the dog fans. A magical year continues for georgia. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im jeff glor with alex wagner and bianna golodryga. Happy new year. Happy new year to you both. Norah and gayle king are off this morning. And millions of americans are waking up in a dangerous deep freeze. Windchills in most of the country are plunging far below normal. All the way down to south texas. Amarillo feels like 10 below. Aberdeen south dakota feels like 41 below. Two deaths in milwaukee and three in chicago are blamed on the cold. The went chill in dubuque, iowa, hit minus 31 degrees overnight. Pittsburgh dropped to 8 below. And boston was minus 11. And parts of new york state had intense lake effect snowfall. 16 inches fell overnight in the town of mexico. Demarco morgan is about 150 miles west of there in Niagara Falls, new york, where the water seems to literally be stuck. Demarco, good morning. Reporter good morning. It is absolutely beautiful out here. But make no mistake about it, it is also dangerously cold. In fact, locals here in Niagara Falls are predicting that by the end of the month, this entire place will be completely frozen. The bone chilling freeze has turned parts of Niagara Falls into ice. On the canadian side, the area around the Horseshoe Falls has been frozen solid for days. From coast to coast, bitter cold is gripping the country. In texarkana arkansas, the intense cold froze this fountain from top to bottom. And Washington State near the British Columbia border, a powerful ice storm took down power lines and damaged more than 30 poles. And in apex, north carolina, three hunters had to be rescued after icy water their boat had just broken through froze again. It can get really cold really quick on days like that out there. Reporter the frigid temperatures are also causing problems for emergency crews. In washington, d. C. Monday, firefighters used a flare to try and thaw a frozen ladder. The water freezes on our equipment. On our air packs. On our masks. Reporter and in nehant massachusetts, firefighters worked to put out a house fire but found water in their hydrants frozen. The icy water didnt stop hundreds from diving head first into 2018. While some places called off their annual polar bear plunge, in coney island, new york, the 150yearold tradition continued in the 37 degree atlantic ocean. I feel like im going a little numb but im happy that i did it. Reporter temperatures outside the water hovered around 17 degrees. Nearly 35 degrees colder than last year. Its accelerating. And extremely cold. Reporter many schools throughout new england and parts of the south and also the midwest will be delayed or canceled because of the cold weather. Experts are saying if you have to head outside, make sure you try not to have too much skin exposed because it only Takes Minutes to develop frostbite. Demarco, keep the mittens on. Temperatures in more than half the country will not reach the freezing mark today. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our boston station wbz has the forecast including an early look at a potential east coast storm. Danielle, good morning. Good morning. The cold is not just in the Northern Tier of the United States. High temperatures only in the upper 20s in dallas. It will actually ease up a little bit through the day tomorrow in terms of highs across the country. 48 for example in dallas. Still in the Single Digits and teens for minneapolis to chicago. Above 20 degrees for the first time in a week in boston. Dont forget these numbers dont reflect the windchill values. We turn our attention to a storm intensifying off the coastline of new england for thursday. Snow on the Northwest Side intensifying through the day thursday. Blizzard conditions possible at the coast. All easing and letting up in terms of snow accumulation and the steadiest snowfall rates through the day on friday. Were talking about totals over a foot in eastern maine. A widespread 3 to 6 across new england. There will be some in massachusetts with 1 to 2 inch an hour snowfall rates. Travel slick through the day on thursday. There will also be some amounts very localized off the east side of lake ontario, over a foot, as we head through the day on friday. Danielle, thank you very much. South korea is offering the first high level talks with north korea in more than two years. The overnight offer comes in response to a new years speech by north korean dictator kim jongun. He said hes considering sending a delegation to next months Winter Olympics in south korea. In the same speech, kim made new threats against the u. S. , saying the entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons. Major garrett is at the white house with the challenge confronting President Trump. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. The president returned here from florida monday, facing hot new rhetoric from north korea and a burst of antigovernment demonstrations in iran. There is no clear path to resolve the former or capitalize on the latter. President trumps arrival after dark monday at the white house came as north korean dictator kim jongun marked the new year with more Nuclear Threats. Kim claimed to have a Nuclear Button on his desk and warned that all of the u. S. Mainland is within striking distance. Well see, well see. Reporter the president reacted cautiously at his new years eve bash at maralago, telling guests adversaries should take notice. We have some pretty good enemies out there but step by step theyre being defeated. Theyre some bad people. Bad people. But thats okay. Someday maybe theyll love us. I dont know. If we blink, god help us all. Reporter on face the nation, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham warned 2018 could be a year of, quote, extreme danger. 2018 is going to be the year to deny north korea the capability to hit the homeland. Sanctions will never work completely without the threat of credible military force. Reporter in iran, violent protests calling for political change entered their fifth day. The president reacted on twitter, writing, iran is failing at every level. And claiming the iranian people are orepressed and hungry for food and for freedom. Graham says the Administration Needs to develop a clearer strategy on iran. You just cant tweet here. You have to lay out a plan. Reporter the president must decide later this month whether to reimpose economic sanctions that were lifted in 2015 as part of the iran nuclear deal. A big decision. Major, thank you. Irans Supreme Leader is accusing the countrys enemies of causing the largest protests against the islamic regime in nearly a decade. According to Iranian State tv, nine more people including a child died overnight. So far, the violence has claimed at least 21 lives. More than 400 people have been arrested. Elizabeth palmer has reported from iran many times. She is currently monitoring the protests from london. Elizabeth, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. This all started last thursday with one isolated protest in a Northern City called mashab. It was about food prices and economic hardship. Such is the pentup frustration in iran that overnight these protests mushroom and morphed until, now, theyve affected more than 50 cities. In tehran, crowds vandalized one of the main shopping avenues. And in city after city, people have come out to protest, jeer and throw stones at the Security Forces. Police have chased demonstrators away with Water Cannons in some area. And there have been isolated reports of shootings, impossibl corruption and unemployment to lack of freedom and religious rule. Theyve even been vandalizing pictures of leader ayatollah khomeini, which is an act of defiance in iran. President rouhani, who is a moderate, went on tv and his response was surprisingly mild. He said people had a right to protest as long as there was no violence. Other hardline voices are now calling for a crackdown. Authorities are desperate to get this unrest under control, but a brutal response like the one we saw in 2009, where Security Forces shocked people in the streets, could add fuel to the fire and turn this into a bloodbath. Now, ive been speaking to contacts of ours in iran this morning. They say in the capital, things are quiet but very tense. Thousands of police on streets, both uniformed and undercover. Normally, over the past two days, the demonstrations have been getting going around 5 00, so its too early to tell whether this is going to spread even further or start to fizzle out. But of course the whole world is watching, alex. Indeed it is, elizabeth, thanks. Investigators in costa rica are trying to learn if strong winds caused a plane crash that killed ten americans. It happened near the town of punta islita on new years eve. All ten people aboard died including a family from new york and another from florida. Don dahler is here with new detail also of the crash. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Two investigators from the National Transportation safety board here in the u. S. Are traveling to costa rica to help with the investigation. Costa rican Officials Say theyre focused on two things that could have caused the crash, mechanical problems and weather. Theres a human loss here thats unspeakable. Reporter jacobson lost her brother, bruce steinberg, and his family in sundays deadly crash. She says shes still waiting on the details of the investigation. Im living a nightmare. My girls are living a nightmare. You know, i lost so much of my family. Reporter when the First Responders arrived at the scene of the crash deep in the forest of costa rica, they found the wreckage of the single engine cessna in flames. The private charter flight operated by the airline nature air crashed just minutes after taking off from a small airfield on costa ricas west coast late sunday morning. The plane was headed to the capital city of san jose. Av ache Officials Say before picking up passengers, the cessna attempted to land but winds of more than 28 Miles Per Hour were too strong. The plane was forced to wait at a nearby airport before successfully attempting a landing a second time. 30 minutes later, the plane departed with ten americans on board and crashed. Olga villatoro was the familys longtime nanny. I dont understand. Beautiful kids. Respect me always. Reporter mitchell and lesley weiss were also on board with their teenage son and daughter. Spencer hornsby lived next door to the familys home outside clearwater, florida. You never want it to happen to somebody you know and they were a good, good family. Reporter the two families on board were part of a tour group led by amanda geisslar, the tenth american lost in the crash. Nature air is calling the incident an unfortunate tragedy and the pilot has more than 20 years of flying that model of aircraft. Thank you very much. Customs and Border Protection computers are running again after outages caused delays at major airports last night. Thousands of International Travelers in miami and other cities had to stand in long lines to clear customs. The glitch shut down passport processing for about two hours. Customs and Border Protection says there was no sign the disruption was malicious in nature. Big headache for travelers nonetheless. The state with the most people is the newest to make Recreational Marijuana legal. Hundreds of californians lined up to buy some. Though pot is not yet available throughout the state. Mireya villarreal is at a d dispensary near hollywood that begins sales today. Reporter out of the more than 400 businesses in california licensed to sell adult use marijuana, only about a quarter of them are actually selling it right now. As we are aware, were standing this morning, is one of them. Its owners tell me, like many in california, theyve been gearing up for this historic moment for several years now. With the cutting of a green ribbon the dispensary opened and kicked off legal sales of recreational Legal Marijuana monday. The first in line. To be able to walk in, show your license and make a purchase, its been a long time coming. Reporter the milestone, which allows anyone 21 years of age and older to buy and possess recreational pot comes nearly two decades after california became the first state to legalize medicinal marijuana. Lines popped up, longtime users to firsttime buyers. The only thing it really surprised me was the number of people my age. I thought i was going to be the only grandfather. Strain as well as the ratio this is absolutely going to be a recreational habit for me. I can just smoke a quarter of a blunt and have doritos and ill be good. Reporter but not everyones a fan. About a dozen california towns have reportedly bans recreational sales altogether. And Law Enforcement is concerned about a potential rise in drug driving. As has been the case in other states like colorado and washington, we fully expect to see an increase in crashed due to marijuana usage. Reporter experts believe the new industry will generate billions of dollars for the state, bringing in an estimated 1 billion a year in tax revenue alone. I think its really important that we have to end the stigma around marijuana. Im an employed functioning adult and i also smoke weed and i dont think theres anything wrong with that. Reporter now that the doors are open here in california, more than 1 in 5 americans live in states where Recreational Marijuana can legally be purchased. However, the federal government still views this as an illegal controlled substance, comparable to heroin and lsd. Alex. Mireya, thanks. Lottery players across the country have two giant prizes to aim for in the new year. An estimated 343 billion Mega Millions jackpot is up for grabs tonight. The first prize for tomorrows powerball drawing has climbed to about 440 million. Add them up and the combined jackpot comes to 783 million. Your chances of winning the power ball jackpot are 1 in 292 million. Theyre slightly better for the Mega Millions at 1 in 259 million. Jeff glor, you cant win if you dont play. What are the chances of winning both . I mean, 1 in a batrillion. A batrillion. Maybe someone will do it. We will find that out. Georgia and alabama will play for College FootballsNational Championship in atlanta next monday. Deflected blocked the dogs do it again this was an incredible game. The bulldogs won the first rose bowl ever to go to overtime. They came from behind last night in a highscoring thriller to beat oklahoma 5448. The win gives georgia a shot at winning its First National title since 1980. At the sugar bowl, alabama obtained Clemson Tigers for dominating 246 win. This will be the crimson tides Third Straight title game. Also the second time in seven years that two sec teams will face each other for the championship. You can say the dogs beat the odds in that one, right . They did, yes. Great night for them. A lot of dogs fans on twitter i noticed last night. One of youtubes biggest names apologizes for one of his videos. Ahead, his attempt to explain why he uploaded a gruesome still on the scene of an Early Morning fire at cardboard good morning. High clouds blocking part of the view of the super moon early this morning. The sunrise is gorgeous. Rain off the coast. We are waiting for it. It will not arrive until later tonight and early tomorrow morning. It will feel nice. Mid to upper 60s for the area today. About 10 degrees above average on this tuesday. We could get up to one inch of rain for the coast and the north bay. A Deadly Police shooting in