Officials there are calling historic white house conditions from the northeast to the midwest. Thousands of travelers are stranded. We dont even know if we are going to get on a flight. George pataki announced the suspension of his campaign and donald trump is ramping up his fight against hillary. Madam president , can you imagine . If it has to be a woman, which im all in favor one day, it shouldnt be hillary. The u. S. Military says Iranian Naval vesse conducted rocket tests near u. S. War strips in the strait of hormuz. A 4. 4 magnitude earthquake widely felt across southern california. Everything started shaking really bad. The fbi is investigating the fatal crash of a plane into an Anchorage Office building. The pilots wife worked on the iron mike tysyn on his sons hoverboard and the latest to hit the deck. Might come out with big moves. In rhode island. My brothernd i will whoop both of their booties if we ever step in the ring with them. Guns n roses will be reunited with the bad coachella. It is a joy to watch a babys first step but a riot to see this baby eatg bacon for the first time. Thank you dada [ screaming ] announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning, im jeff glor with Margaret Brennan. Chilly rose and gayle king and Norah Odonnell are off. Millions of americans face illinois and missouri. Mandatory are under way at this hour and in missouri the flood is blamed for 13 deaths. The Mississippi River could each 14 feet above its flooding stage in st. Louis. The flooding could affect 18 million in its path from illinois to louisiana. Anna werner has more. Reporter this is what youre seeing around st. Louis or they are waiting for it to happen. Way. It looks kind of just like a generic area or a field. This is supposed to be the southbound lane of u. S. 67, but as you can tell, there is no the severity of this is not broken to flooding. They would not sell me Flood Insurance so ive never been concerned about it. Reporter this is not the usual time of year for the Mississippi River to come over its banks. Its been more than 20 years since this kind of event has happened in the area, but all of that december rainfall is all winding up down here. Margaret . Some areas could suffer from the effects of the storm system for days. Chief weather caster lonnie quinn of our new york station wcbs shows us what to expect. Reporter r ood morning, everybody. What is interesting to note you take a look at the satellite image for the entire u. S. A good portion of the country that is having this catastrophic flooding is getting a pretty calm day today. But, remember, a lag effect from when the big rains come and when the river crests. Take a look at the number r rivers we have river flood warnings in effect. 18 states have a flash of green out here. Each and every urnship one a river flood warning. You saw the pictures in st. Louis. Here is the deal. For st. Louis, flood stage is 30 feet and 31 feet will cause a problem and rightow its 41 feet and itt will crest tomorrow at 43. 1 the third highest in history. I dont see it being a record because that would be up to like six feet above that. Two more inches of rain will fall in the southeast so that is problematic as well. Will change by the time you get to new years eve to new year day colder air for the norman tier of country and Midatlantic States have chillier air. In new york city, youre dealing what is the warmest december in our history going back to the late 1800s and start o o a different note as w w go into the new year. That is the latest. Now back to you. Lonnie, thank you very much. Airlines are scrambling this morning to get back on track after days of weather delays. More than 160 flights are cancelled so far today and 170 delayed. Yesterday, more than 7,300 flights weree cancelled or delayed. Adriana diaz is at chicagos Ohare Airport, one of the hardest hit airport. Good morning. Reporter good morning. If youre trying to get through security at this checkpoint this morning you have to get on this line. It is eight rows deep and starts a hundred yards in that direction. Some of the passengers on this flin are frustrated and weary. They are just trying to get home days ago backed up flights. Our flight was at 5 30 and its 10 00 and they cancelled it now they wont speakk to someone this iss bull [ bleep ] its such a bull [ bleep ] reporter emotions are running high at chicagos Ohare Airport as travelers struggle to get to their destination. This woman is trying to get back to northern virginia. How long does this even go . Oh, my god. This is actually this is for security . Reporter yes. The airport set up 400 cots last night for people calling these terminals home and hope pfizer and Scott Millman found a spot on the floor. They described the situation as chaos. They wouldnt tell us that our flight had been delayed for anour and then they would just continue to tell us its been delayed for an hour. Finally, they move your gate and reporter flightawawe. Com ceo daniel baker says flights arere packed so rebooking the stranded take time and when it gets airlines to pony up for a hotel. The airlines doesnt have an obligation to put you up at once. If you put enough pressure on them and you have a good reason you probably could pull that off. Reporter that couple we met sleeping on the floor, they are now at a hotel. They werer rebooked on another flight but it doesnt leave until next year on new years day. Wow. Adriana, thank you. We have breaking news this morning from New Hampshire where four secret Service Agents were involved in a deadly car crash. Local police say the agents car was hit by another car that strayed across the centet line in wakefield along the main border. The driver of that car was killed. The four agents are being treated for serious, but nonlifethreatening, injuries. Donald trump says he is ready to put more money toork in the republican president ial race. Polls for months. Even though other candidates have outspent him. He told reporters, though, he will ramp up spending in the new year. Major garrett in washington looks at trumps plans for the final weeks before republicans start voting. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump played squire aboard his appointed private jet inviting reporters for an onboard press conference but reminding them not to scratch anything. Trump promised to spend 2 million over campaign ads the next month and republicans running far behind trump ignored the frontrunner and started attacking each other. Madam president , can you imagine . Believe me. Women, if its got to be a woman, which ill all in favor of someday it shouldnt be hillary. Reporter at an iowa rally nextxt month, trump aimed most of his barbs at Hillary Clinton but made a pitch to evangelical chbistians who made up more than half of the gop caucus turnout in 2012. Not too many evangelicals come out of cuba. Okay . Just remember that. Just remember. If all fairness, here we are. Reporter rubio and cruz who are cuban descent are trumps rivals. Trump says he will soon hit the air waves because he doesnt want to risk losing momentum. I will be spending a minimum a week of 2 for ads in iowa, south carolina, New Hampshire. Reporter the others battled each other. The super pac supporting jeb bush denounced rubios absenteeism. Rubio admits National Security hearing and missed more votes than any other senator. Millions of dollars in spending and not changing his attack is not new. Reporter another ad criticized kasich and christie. Christie joined the jousting, questioning his rivals qualifications. We do not want anothth president who sits in a chair in the oval office on the first day and spins around and says, gee whiz, isnt it great im president . Reporter George Pataki quid the republican candidates to 12. With big boys and girls of the they are being listened to. One of the challenges the administration has done is unilaterally disarm on collecting on certain allies and not others. It puts the white house in an uncomfortable position on why it decided not to collect on some leaders like Angela Merkel but collecting on netanyahu. Policic in turkey this morning have foiled suicide attacks planned for new years eve. Officers raided a house in ankara. The attackers were going to blow themselves up in the capital city. Police believe suspects were rking with isis. I i less than 24 hours more than a Million People will start pouring into midtown manhattan for the biggest new Years Eve Party in the country. Organizers ran a confetti test tuesday with colorful paper raining down on times square. In full swing. Don, good morning. Reporter the new York Police Department began their preparations for this new years eve celebrations when the last piece of confetti fell last year. With the threat of global terrorism on the rise, security is more intense than ever, some measures you see, some measures you dont. When the clock strikes 12 00 this new years eve, the new york police dement when the clocktrikes 12, nypd new years eve in new york city will be the safest place in the world to be. Reporter roughly 6,000 Police Officers are guard the heart of manhattan. Hundreds of them with long guns and Radiation Detector and bomb sniffing dogs. Rooftop snipersrs and nypd helicopters will be on patrol. At a new operationsenter in downtown, manhattan, officers this year the nypd also set up a specialized counterterrorism unit with more than 500 highly trained cops and Officials Say there are no Credible Threats to new york city, deadly attacks in paris and San Bernardino have raised the level of fear. We are aware that the threat picture has changed because of isis. Share information about any potential threat. Jeff . Don, thank you. One of the most successful rock groups in history may be planning a comeback. Guns n roses is reportedly considering a reunion tour next year and could signal the end of disputes among the bands founding members. Welcome to the jungle jungle m m be in the future for this famous rock group. Billboard magazine says members including axl rose and guitar slash plan to headline a Coachella Music Festival in apriri and a music tour is in the works. One of the most successful rock groups of all time, gnrs 1987 album upended the genre. Slash left the band in 1996. The two havent performrm on stage together in more than 20 years. Rose snubbed an invitation to the bands rock n roll hall of fame induction in 2012 but earlier this year, slash talked to cbs this morning about burying the feud with rose and the e ssibility of the band reuniting. A lot of the attention youre talking about is we dont its something that is more per pep per pep waited by the media. Would you want to do it . If everybody wanted to do it for the right reasons, i think the fans would love it. Representatives for the band have not yet commented on the reported reunion. We would love to see the music but not sure about the hairstyles coming back. Thats true. The socalled affluenza teenager to return to the United States today. Reportedly led mexican policic announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by weathertech. Com. Political Fact Checkers say truth was first a dropout of this years president ial race. 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Look for a very cold day on thursday with partly cloudy skies and a high in the teens. We will see some sunshine but it will stay cold. The rest of the week into the weekend will temperatures will remain mostly in the 20s for highs jacob heller. Heres a look at your morning news. 3 three people from sioux city are in jail in sioux falls this morning. Facing charges related to prostitution. Police in sioux falls say 28 year old amanda meyer and 23 year old Brittany Leners were arrested for prostitution. 26 year old rashad lee was arrested for pimping. They were arrested after Sioux Falls Police investigators answered an online ad and met the two women at a hotel. Lee is believed to have driven the women to sioux falls from sioux city. The arrests are part of the sioux fallllpolice depapaments campaign against human trafficking. And a online ads for prostitution as a way to try and find women being trafficked for sex. 3 iowas state auditor says the city council in the Woodbury County town of hornick failed to catch more than 100 thousand dollars ininimproper spending by two of the citys clerks. Yesterday the state Auditors Office released a report saying the clerk from 2001 to 2009 improperly spent more than 5 thousand dollars. And improperly documented payments to herself of more than 11 thousand dollars. The clerk after her. Who served from 2009 to 2012. Improperly spent at least 42 hundred dollars and failed to properly document more than 47 thousand dollars in payments to the citys mayor and council members. No charges have been filed against either former clerk. But prosecutors and the Iowa Division of criminal investigations both received copies of the report. Have a great day it is my story this is my song all the day long thisis my story gospel music legend with a beautiful tribute to another legend actress cicely tyson that aired last night on cbs. It included a childrens choir from the Cicely Tyson School performing in fine arts, as well can you see the emotion in the audience. The 91yearold honoree was clearly delighted and overwhelmed by that performance. She had an extraordinary interview with gayle king the other day that aired, if you missed it. She talked about how that made such a difference. So good. Welcome to cbs this morning. Fugitive teen ethan couch is in custody and likely to return to texas today. How a call to dominos may led to his capture in mexico. Rikki klieman is in our green room and shows us how couch could face additional charges when he comeses back to the United States. Our Fact Checkers are working overtime in the next campaign. Time to show you some of the mornings headlines from around the globe. The Chicago Tribune to announce that the mayor is expected to announce changes in it includes tasers for every officer on street duty and Training Police to deescalate conflicts when it comes to shoot or dont shoot situations. Fbi leading an investigation into why a pilot crashed a small plane into an Office Building where his wife worked. The cessna clipped her building, first, tuesday, before crashing into another building. The pilots wife worked on the sixth floor. The pilot was the planes only occupant and was killed. Officials do not believe it was an act of terrorism. It is reported the faa