Nearly half of u. S. Co holiday gift this week. Find out why retailers are competing to make reasier. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in were here at the scene of an tragedy. This will rank as one of the worst ls in many, many years. A deadly fire stuns new york. Were shocked by this loss. I hate it. I hate it. Millions are ring in the new year in bonechilling temperatures that great lakes and the northeast. Its going getn a interview trump tells he thinks bob mueller will be fair and believes there was no ar years eve. Doug jones has wti for the u sena. A billion mathematical chance that was not apple has admitted to wn connection to the iphone and will cut the price of a ash and all that matters. Rose marie was best known for her beloved roles rogers on the Dick Van Dyke show. On cbs this morning. This is a great tweey . Thank you . Its a banana. Announcer this pene present toyota. Lets go places. Cbs this morning. Im Bianna Golodryga along with dana vladier duthiers of our streaming network cbsn. Gay king are off. We begin with the deadliest fire inew years. It ripped through a fivestory Apartment Building last night bronx zoo. 12 people wereg fo children. That number could rise. The ages of those wfr 1 to 63. The cause of the fire is unknown. Vi were forced out into the bitter cold with no warning. Don scene of the fire in the bronx. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Police tell us the investigation is active and on 12 people killed, five were pronounced dead at the scene, f dangerously fast mo trapped. Someone said, there was a baby reporter it took only three minutes for respond to the fire in the bronx. But for many trapped ins roughly 100yearold building, it wasnt fast enough. Im very to report 1 2 inclu one child, 1 sthe arch of the continues, so we may lose others reporter the victims range in age from 1 to 63 years old. Were ontle the fire. At least 12 others were rescuedt floor and quickly spread up the people died on various floors of the apartment. Looking real sad christmas f everyone. Reporter stunned neighbors and o the burning building and into the subfree it was a bunch of smoke. Thats it. People were screaming,help. We knew there was trouble. Everyone this e andvening ke these families here in the bronx y reporter reports say city records indicate the building had a number ofolations includi Smoke Detector on the first he. Vlad. Absolutely heartbreaking. Don, thank you veryp is gripping more than half the country this morning. In western new york the lake e crusted with winddriven ice parts are expected to feel 20 to 40 degrees belowzero. Maines Rockport Harbor is freezing over in years. Ied reynolds is in chicago from the freezing weather. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Can michigan is beginning to ice up and chicago ofs inside and if possible off the roads, especially tonight when its i hate it. I hate it. Y the car. Its crazy. Reporter across the midwest and northeast shivering. Its very cold out. I dont like t reporter and doing what they can to avoid the deep freeze. Thermal, two swrs turtleneck, two pair of gloves. Reporter water fity are now of in New Hampshire boiling water at chicagos airport it was too cold to fly. More canceled and nearly 250 were delayed. Whole lot of people here. Reporter chicago Officials Say the temperatures can bely. Extreme weather is more than an inconvenience. It remain as series oflifethre events. Reporter shelters are your flowing with people trying tol youd pretty much die in the street. To death. Reporter he says theyre not its bitter cold weather. Its extremely dangerous. A lot of ou guests have Health Issues already. We want to make sure theyre it reporter now the deep freeze is expected to last well into h until summerdana st we like the optimism, dean. For all of us in studio,he colde t, not just the earmuffs. Dean, thank you. Rtell niles of wbztv has more. T upstate new york and northern maine. 10 to 20 much of the great lakes. Feels like zero in new york city right now. Tomorrow, no bigthere will be a disturbance, enhanced northeast. Last day of 2017, look at these. Its without the wind factored in. Were talking record coldmperur several days. 30s all theay dallas. The first day of the new year will featuresingledigit readings. 30s all the way back down to th forecast is quiet, staying on that positiveno lot of sunshine across the nation for the first day2018. Danielle trying to find something positive but theres nothing good about the temperature bein the date. Dont it. Well, the bitter cold could force some of cities to change their newplans. Ohm harks nebraska, is postponing their celebrations for those going ahead, police are taking unprecedent measures. Tony due kopi squar where over 200 millionvehe weather. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its important to point out that there is no risk of attack but theyre preparing. Atz they prepare far their times square celebration, the nypd is take nothing chances. Oneill. Out of an abundance of caution, youre going to see a Stronger Police presence than youve seen ins. Canines, aerial spotters and snipers in hotels will the almost 200 Million People watching the midnight. It follows a pipe bomb explosion this subway passageway at times square and killed eight people. Our this is people should feel safe. Reporter selveouteppg up th efforts. The Los Angeles Police didnt says they will have anased visible police presence. In miami regular security will be inoutdoor concert and in chicago extra tr strategically placed to prevent following octobers deadly shooting in las 800 steel pylons and rapidfire defense teams will b Clark County Sheriff joseph en cant do this alone. Our out enjoying the festivities, be rv of anything suspicious. Reporter back here at new yorks times nypd is shutting down 125 parking one more, markings on the so in the event of the attack, theyll be able toflr very quic. No credible threat here or this. Tony, thank you. In a rk interview the president denied colluding with russia during 2016 president ial race 16 times. He defended his took a tough stance on china. Chip reid is traveling with the florida. Good morning. Good morning. The in the hotel. There were no white house Staff Members anywhere in sight. He was introduced by a the reporter as a guest. Russia did not help myou, ok . Russia has repeatedly denience e u. S. Election helped him in any way and in an i the new york times, President Trump said special investigatio country. It makes the country look very bad and pount in a bad position, he said. When asked about mueller thims bob mueller will be fair. The president s vote of comes a conservative allies have spent days investigators for bias. Did sug willing bs to intervene saying what i want to do with the justice department. Is, again, the biggest tax cut, bigge times. The president signed back at the critics o h signed into law last week. Greatest cpa. Re than weknowhe d and he touted his quote with c president xi jinping but may go do more to curb north koreas nui have been soft on china. They can solve the problem. But not helping us enough. The president hll be open to infrastructure and health care. Hell be talki at camp david next week with republican leaders. Vlad . Chip f chip. Democrat doug jones will be sworn in wednesday as r. Alabam state Election Officials certified jones victory r moo nearly 22,000 votes earlier this manth. A last alabamas secretary of state found no evidence of that. Twit work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to getgton b apple is apologizing after admitting a Software Update deliberately slowed some iphones. Its donen shoulddowns in the iphone as a side effect, other apps run slower. Of you feel apple has let you down. We apologize. We have never anything to intentionally shorten the life of any apple df phones. Dan ackerman is a section editor at cnet. Great to have you athee. This is confusing. Explain how this all went down. What apple did was come up with an unreasonable solution to a problem thats not easy to fix. Batteries that we r everythi, older, they cant give out the energy at the sam when you have apps on your phones that want to do people f on their older phones, the onat hpened to me with my iphone 6 plus. They had aof. Most are detaermed by the updates, that saide going to tune up these theyre trying to make the battery last interesting. This did make me think when i read this story, when you blackberry, youd take the battery out yourself and put a new one in. With the iphone,todo. You actually have to go into the store and have it done for you. Your battery life more easier easily on your iphone. Explain that. Yes. Theyre not going to change what the Software Update did in slowing yourne battery life but theyre going to add something to the software you monitor it and give you more information, transparency of how much space you why i think peo more upset is the lack of the w telling you they were doing this to your product. You mentioned an how big of a deal is this . We first heard of a n a big apo thats true. Over the years theyve done these big apologies. One was happened in 2010 where they your call wont go through if youre holding the phone wrong with a bumper. Look alt what happened last yea problems with their own batteries. They issued a big shared a lot of information with people and people are still buyingphones. That apology for that. The reason they did you would upgrade to a newer model of theyve deny thad. What do you in doing the opposite, they didnt want you d run out quicker. 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We will see light rounds every snow toow. Pat . Katie we start you off with a wild scene frombo was a look at a car fire, 95 northbound ramp to 413, luckily, no one was and they have since cleared this out of here. We take live look at the sce no, things moving nicely on 95, over to new every accidents, turnpike southbound before 168, the right shoulder blocked,5 southb, are snell. Thanks, next update clobs ths morning the dangers every fake make up and counterfeit we just moved in aboutt four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Haveid designer put it all together. Mmm hmm. Done some of their own research. What do you think about these chairs and that table . With bassett designer was really easy. Ir own research. Us being young professionals, were so busy. We love it us being young professionals, were so busy. Before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt ge whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. 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Claires said in a statement, safety of our customers and. The items can be returned for a raising concerns. U. S. Customs and protection see counterfeit goodt yearorbillion. Fake items are now more common than knockoff jamie yuccas visited an airport the first line of defense for catching illeg heralhi may be fake, they can have very real health conse ce consumers. Beauty blogger tania agray ya found that out. Discounted good likely snuck in u the radar. Just want to know. Can this be as good 50 i e up the next morning my eyes are really uncomfortable. Its really itchy and im going to have to go to the doctor to have this taken care of so it doesnt get worse. Within the first 45 minutes i realized it was an eye infeksz. I couldnt get my contacts on. I look back at the footage and it was on the fake side, the side i used the fake product, 100 . Reporter arguelles isnt alone. Went shopping under cover at the same downtown alley. Most of the fake makeup sold here is half the price of the original. Some vendors admitted the products were knockoffs but assured us theyre just as good. Back at arguelles studio, we compared the makeup. The packaging is nearly identical. Thats interesting. The colors show up pretty differe different. Reporter some makeup made in factories like these have reported to have found dangerous chemicals. We sent the fake and real versions of this mack lipstick and eye shadow to a lap where they were tested for 12 different metals. Most concerning, some of the shadows in the fake palette had nearly four times the amount of lead as those in the real version. In one it exceeded the maximum of 10 parts per million. The lipstick had 15 times the amount of lead as the real thing. Often the unsafe consumer goods are made in factories with unsanitary conditions so the quality is not what you need it to be. Reporter customs and Border Protection says these counterfeit products are costing the cosmetic industry about 75 million a year. They say reducing the amount smuggling into the country could be as easy as educating the customers. They think theyre buying a fake palette. They dont think of it being ingredients that could put my health at risk. Reporter for cbs this morning, jamie yuccas, lax. A great grandmothers family is suing American Airlines after she fell down the escalator. The 75yearold woman who fell in her wheelchair died three months after she was badly injured. Adriana diaz has more. Good morning. Her family made sure shi she arrived safely to her connecting flight, but now theyre suing arguing that the airline did not provide the service as promised. Bernice was coming home from a Family Vacation in ma we. She landed. Surveillance video shows her wandering the terminal alone. She was provided assistance off the airplane and into a wheelchair by alaskas contract and she was left there and she o the fall. Reporter she fell down head first while others tried to help her. The attorney took video statements from the family members. It was so devastating. Reporter kekona suffered multiple injuries. She was in constant pain. Reporter a wound on her right foot became infected leading to am putation that led to surgery. She died a day after. Reporter Alaska Airlines said in a statement it appears that miss ke cota declined ongoing assistance in the term nall and decided to proside on her own to a connecting flight. The reservation did not note any cognitive, audio, or visual impairments. We reached out for comment from the wheelchair contractor but has not heard bad. The familys complaint does not specify any monetary amount but the medical bill totals 300,000. Adriana . Its hard to get the images out of your mind with people around trying to help her. 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