California begins recreational sales. Why it still could be hard to find a place to buy it. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. 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 the next week. I wish i had some better news for you there. I wish i was back in california. South korea offering to hold high level talks with north korea. Kim jongun saying the entire u. S. Mainland is in striking distance. And days of violent protests in iran. Hundreds of people have been arrested. Airports all across the u. S. Were impacted by a computer issue for customs and Border Protection causing long delays. Did you have trouble coming . Heck yeah i did. California ringing in the new year by legalizing recreational pot. All that, dramatic video of the coast guard in florida rescuing an elderly man from a singhing car. Sinking car. And thousands of fans here to watch the winter classic. What was it like . Freezing my butt off while watching an epic ranger game. Goes in motion left. Hes running to the left. 25, 20, touchdown touchdown were headed to atlanta and the dogs all on the field. Dogs win it in Double Overtime. 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. Happy new year to both of you. Millions of americans are waking up in a dangerous deep freeze. Windchills are plunging far below normal all the way down to south texas. Amarillo feels like ten below. Aberdeen, south dakota feels like 41 below. Two deaths in milwaukee and two in shik slchicago on blamed cold. Pittsburgh dropped to 8 below and boston was minus 11. And parts of new york state had intense lake effect snowfall. Demarco morgan is about 150 miles west of there in niagra falls, new york, where the water seems to be literally stuck. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. You can barely make it out behind me but it is beautiful out here but it is extremely dangerous when you talk about the cold temperatures here. In fact, the locals here are predicting the entire place could completely freeze over before the month is out. A bone chilling freeze has turned parts of the falls into ice. On the canadian side the area around the Horse Shoe Falls has been frozen solid for days. From coast to coast, bitter cold is gripping the country tray. In arkansas the intense cold froze this fountain from top to bottom. And 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 frozen through broke again. It can get really cold really quick out there on days like that. Reporter washington, d. C. Monday firefighters used a flare to thaw a frozen ladder. The water freezes on our equipment, on our air packs, on our masks. Reporter and in massachusetts, firefighters covered in ice worked to put out a house fire, bfound water in some of their hydrants frozen. Some places called off their annual polar bear plunge, the tradition continued in the 37 degree atlantic ocean. I feel like im going a little numb, but im happy that i did it. Temperatures hovered around 17 degrees, nearly 35 degrees colder than last year. Its exhilarating and extremely cold. Reporter now, most of the schools in new england and parts of the south and midwest have been delayed or cancelled because of the cold weather. If you do have to go outside make sure you try not to have too much skin exposed because it only Takes Minutes to develop frostbite. Back to you. Keep those mittens on. Temperatures in more than half the country will not reach the freezing mark today. Danielle has the forecast including an early look at a potential east coast storm. Good morning. The cold is not confined to the Northern Tier of the United States. Were talking about highs in the 20s in dallas today, mid30s in atlanta. Teens, Single Digits the farther north you come. The cold will ease up just a little bit through the day tomorrow. 48 in dallas as opposed to the upper 20s but still only Single Digits to teens in chicago and that is without the wind factored in. Still in the forecast and then we turn our attention to the east coast. Moisture fra the south, energy from the west combining to an intensifying coast off new england. Blizzard conditions possible at the coast and intensifying snow. The worst travel conditions on thursday through the northeast with snowfall rates one to two inches per hour. Snowfall totals will be a couple inches by tomorrow evening, but over a foot here in Eastern Maine for the deep purples here. A widespread 3 to 6 inches but some higher amounts including the city of boston where we have not been above 20 degrees in a week. 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 kim jongun. He says hes considering selling a delegation to next weeks winter olympics. He made threats to the u. S. Saying quote, the entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons. Major garrett is at the white house with the challenge confronting President Trump. Reporter President Trump returned here from florida monday facing hot rhetoric from north korea and the burst of Anti Government 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 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. The president reacted cautiously at his new years bash at maralago telling guests adversaries should take notice. We have some 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. On face the nation, Lindsay Graham warned 2018 could be a year of quote, extreme danger. 2018 is going to be the year to deny north korea to capability to hit the homeland. Sanctions will not work without the threat of credible military force. In iran violent protests entered their fifth day. The president reacted on twitter saying iran is failing at every level and claiming the iranian people are 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. The president must decide later this month whether to reimpose economic sanctions on iran that were lifted in 2015 as part of the iran nuclear deal. Big decision for the president. Thank you. Meantime irans Supreme Leader is accusing if countrys enemies of causing the largest protests against the islamic regime there nearly a decade. Nine more people including a child died overnight. So far the violence has claimed at least 21 lives. More than 400 have been arrested. Elizabeth palmer has reported from iran many times and she is monitoring the protests from london. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Well, this all started last thursday with one isolated protest in a northern city, and it was about food prices and economic hardship. But such is the pent up frustration in iran that overnight these protestsmorphed until now theyve affected more than 50 cities. In teheran, 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 areas and there have been isolated reports of shooting, impossible to verify by both the Security Forces and the demonstrators. The protesters especially the young and the working poor are angry about everything from corruption and unemployment to lack of freedom and religious rule. Theyeyve even been vandalizing pictures of the leader which is the ultimate agect of defiance. He said people had a right to protest as long as there was no violence. But other hard line voices are now calling for a crackdown. The 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 blood bath. Now ive been speaking to contacts of ours in iran this morning. They say that there the capital things are equiet, but police o the streets both uniformed and undercover. Normally the demonstrations have been getting going around 5 00 so its too early to tell whether this is going to spread further or start to fizzle out. But of course the whole world is watching. Alex. Indeed it is. 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. Don has details of the crash. Good morning. Two investigators from the National Transportation safety board are traveling to costa rica to help with the investigation. Officials say theyre focused on two things that could have caused the crash. Mechanical problems and weather. Theres a human loss here thats unspeakable. She lost her brother 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 and i lost so much of my family. 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 in flames. The private charter flight crashed just minutes after taking off from a small airfield on costa ricas west coast late sunday morning. The plane was headed for the capital city of san jose. Aviation Officials Say before picking up passengers at the airport the cessna attempted to land just before 11 00 a. M. But winds of more than 28 miles an hour were too strong. The plane was forced to wait at a nearby airport before successfully atmpting the landing a second time. 30 minutes later the plane deported with ten americans on board and crashed. A steinberg familys longterm nanny. I dont understand. Beautiful kids, respect me always. The weisss were also on board with their son and daughter. You never want it to happen to somebody that you know and they were a good, good family. The two families on board were part of a tour group led by amanda geissler. The pilot had more than 20 Years Experience of flying that model of aircraft. Just awful to hear about. Customs and Border Protection computers are running again after outages caused major delays last night. Thousands had to stand in long lines to clear customs. The glitch shut down passport processing for about two hours. Customs and boarder protection says there kwuz no sign of malicious hacking. Hundreds of californiaians lined up on new years day to buy some, though pot is not available throughout the state. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Out of the more than 400 businesses in california licensed to sell Adult Use Marijuana only about a quarter of them are selling it right now. As we are aware we are standing this morning is one of them and its owners tell me like many in california theyve been gearing up for this historic moment for several years now. With the cuts of a green ribbon, the dispensary kicked off legal sales of Recreational Marijuana monday. Henry was the first in line. To be able to now just walk in, show your drivers 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 mplts lines popped up with customers ranging from long time users to first time buyers. The only thing that really surprised me was the number of people my age here. I thought i was going to be the only grandfather. This is absolutely going to be a recreational habit for me. I can have some chips and ill be good. But not everyone is a fan. About a dozen california fans have banned recreational sales altogether and Law Enforcement is concerned about a rise in drug driving. As has been the state in other states we fully expect to see an increase in crashes due to marijuana usage. Experts believe the new industry will generate billions of dollars for the state bringing 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 one in five americans live in states where marijuana can eely be purchased. However the United StatesStill Believes this to be a controlled substance. Lottery players have two giant prizes to aim for in the new year. An estimated 343 million is up for grabs tonight and the first prize for tomorrows powerball drawing has climbed to about 440 million. 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