Cranking in the morning, d. C. Towards philly and new york city and long island. Just learned from state police that around 3,000 motorists are trapped on 75. Countrys air traffic is practically at a standstill. A mass shooting in canada as the shooter opened fire in a high school in saskatchewan killing four before being taken inin to custody. Oscars are pledging changes after complaints for a second year about all white acting nominees. Lot of things has to be improved. How do i preach this mike and make this work . Dot like a lady. Dream on why am i showing you . All that go. And all that matters. Curry frameworks half court. And its good. This ones good. On cbs this morning saturday. Its ten day before the iowa caucus. Donald trump, hes in it to win it. He showed it this with week because he brought out sarah palin. Negotiate deals kind of with the skills of a Community Organizer maybe organizing a neighborhoho somhere in arizona Johnny Mccain is going, you should have called me, dude. And welcome to the weekend everyone. We have a packed show for you this morning, including full coverage of the monster storm thatsslamming the east coast. Plus spepeing of snow, well take you to one of the worlds most dangerous sporting events. It is happening today. Some of the best skiers in the world will attempt to navigate the strife in austria. Also a conversation on rock and roll mortality. Y. Withthhe passing ofavid bowie and glenn frey, at least one is wondering if hes next. And a unique display at the London Museum uses raw data to create incredible images of our solar systememnd well show y y how it is done. Our top storor a big and powerful blizzard effecting more than 70 million americans. At least nine stormrelated deaths are reported. Snow, sleet, freezing rains and gale forced wins, combined with high tides is battering coastal areas. One in seven amemecans couou get at l lst half a foot of in snow. In carolinas snowplows are working but conditions are hazardous with many cars just skidding right off the road. In philadelphia not many vehicles are out making it officials are urging residents to stay home today. Philadelphias Transit System has shut down. Here in new york the mayor is also telling people to stay hoho. At least a foot of snono is expected today. There are ten states along the east coast under emergency declarations this morning. As well as no, sir and washington. Thats where chris van cleave is, good morning. Reporter its been snowing about 17 hoursrs and we have about 1717ours more of wibds and snow before the storm leaves the Nations Capital. Behind me, pennsylvania avenue leading up to the kaptcapitol. It is snow covered. Driving is treacherous because of the blowing wind and snow drifts it is hard to get an exact sense of how much snono has fallen but a a of right now weve got about 13 inches or so on the ground here if d. C. Defiant drivers hit the the mayor to stay home. We want people to hunker down and shelt in place and stay you have to roads. Wind gusts 55 Miles Per Hour anan snow falling at 23 inches an hour, conditions are getting worse. Plow trucks struggled coto keep up with the historic snowfall. Nearly three feet could be on the ground by the time it is all over. This a 36 hour storm with expected dangerous winds. Commuters are finding themselves o olockdown as well. The d. C. Metro susnded service late last night and wont be up and running again until monday o. To close it down inside is just kind of ridiculous. Because there are people that have to get to work at hospitals and other places that do not shut down. We came to have dinner with our neighbors, with our friends. We thought we would walk. Because that was the better while kids went sledding down capitol hill friday evening, the first dog got to play in the snow at the white house. But the scene wasnt quite as pretty friday afternoon when daniel made rounds inis owplow. How important is ititor people to get y y have to roads tonight . Very. I just dont want people to be in the street, me personally. Because of time. Once we get behind the snow it is going to be a hard time fighting to get back on top. There is great concern after about an inch of snow wednesday gridlocked the city forhours. Aree running thehe storms response. Our first concern really are the residents. One of the major monikers of success for me personally is to make sure we dont lose anybody. That is first and foremost. Forecasters have been warning about this monster storm for days but some waited untilhe snow started falling to stockck up. We only got 1078 snacks like potato chips`and poprn and stuff to eat around at night. Thats all we got. So everythings gone. Now, d. C. Has asked surrounding states to bring if extra snow removal equipment as they expect the dig out to last for severall ys. The lingering concern here particularly as the snow keeps coming down, high winds. Because that can bring downpour lines. It is well below freezing here so there are concerns of people being without power potentially for days. So far Power Outages have been limited anthony but we have a little more to go before the storm is done. Krist van cleave. In washington. I went to school in d. C. They do not deal with snow very well there usually and that is a lot of snow. All right. The big storm first slammed parts of the south with snow and ice. That caused major problems on the road. Mark is in charlotttt North Carolina. Good morning. Really is those Power Outages. Thousands ofeople are waking dark. But the storm also brought other kinds of wintry misery. Around lexington, kentucky a series of car and truck accidents has closed i75 for 35 miles both ways. Hundreds spent the night stranded in their cars. No time line when the highway should reopen. Nine people were killed in car crashes during the storm in four southern states. Parts of kentucky got more than a foot. Tennessee and arkansas eight inches. In raleigh the issss is power. They report about 135,000 are currently without power. The utility has 6800 workers across the system restoring it. Now here is the good news. Temperatures here are supposed to stay above freezing most of the day. That means less of a chance of and power lines s ss and vinita that should give this area a nice day to recover from the worst of winter so far. Certainly what they need. Mark, thank you to much. One of the biggest dangers from the storm is the threat of severe coastal flooding. One place on edge is new jersey which was hit hard by superstorm sandy. Chris christie did not issue mandatory evacuation orderss but me shore communicates did advise residents to get out before the storm hits. Meg baker has more. Reporter the blizzard has hid the jersey shore and hit hard. The big story now are the winds. And weve been warned about flooding. Take a look behind me. This is the inlet. The water already coming up over the bulkhead. This is the fist high tide of the day and this is powered by the full moon. So it is a dangerous combination of these very strong winds mixed with this lunar high tide that is going to cause major issues over to this side there is the beech front where these hohoes basically y t on the beach front and there i i only a three foot berm of sand protecting those homes from the iact of the storm. Were expecting waves up to 12 feet high that could really create more damage along the coastline. The winds are really whipping down here. Water flying off the jetty, snow on the jetty behind me. Gogornor christie has i iued a state of emergency. That means no one should be on these roads. You can vee very low visibility here. It is awfully slippery. It is freezing and as we go through the day this flooding is only sure to get worse. Meg baker in manasqaun new jersey. Even those in the in the direct path are being effected. Canceling thousands of flights reporter were talking about blowing snow here in philadelphia, to give you an idea driving to our live shot this morning it looked like a snow torordo rolling right inn front of the vehicle. So much so it was setting off the sensors on the front bumper because the vehicle throughout there was an object in front of it. Air traffic has been frozen, snarled and amtrack, cl the station is right where we are. Look at the snow blowing. The aktrack station near us is still rolling. They will modify schedulehey say but it will not stop it. Here is whats expected. From yesterday through sunday whats expected is were talking 82 hundred flights that have been canceled and more than 3300 delayed in and out of the u. S. For the same time period, American Airlines will be canceling over 2 thousand ights. Soututest just over thousand and united just under a thousand. The most wide spread to philadelphia. Bwu, which is in maryland. Reagan national. Washington. The Dulles International airport. Mass cacaellations. Airports will be empty because there will be no flights in or out. But Many Airlines are allowing travelers to make changes for free. So if you had a trip planned and need to rebook the airlines will let you do it and there shouldnt be much of a hassle. As for the drivers on the road, aaa says a dangerous winter storm and bad weather is always factor for about a halfillion crashes and abobo thousand ad deaths everer winter. If you dont have to be out in it today, please do not. Back here in philadelphia they believe they got about a foot of snow overnight. And they think they will get another foot over the next 12 hours. It is in the mid 20s. They have clocked wind gusts up to 45 Miles Per Hour. And you saw the blowing snow rlier. Ananody who thought this storm was overrated was wrong. In all of that David Begnaud in philadelphia this morning thank you. So what is next for the storm . For that we turn now to lonnie quinn in new york. Is the worst over . No. I think today is going to be just as bad as the p pvious days we have had in terms of wintry weather. Today is the worst and then it will be gone tomorrow. Lets take a peek at 77 Million People who are effected in some way, shape or form. Blizzard warning right now. New york city, philadelphia. You saw all the wind blowing around david. And this big swath of blue,hat is not rain or snow. That is moisre. This storm is drawing moisture from the caribbean. It is not going to fade away. Not today. There is just too much moisture available. It will be gone by sunday morning 10 00 a. M. You are measuring the stow more a lot of folks in feet. This is pretty general. It will be less than a foot for that includes boston and the cape. But then 12 feet. The pink shading from new york city, philadelphia, into west virginia, virginia. Here your sweet spot. If you call snow sweet. Two feet or more and that is the 81 corridor in virginia. It is piling up. Washington d. C. Currently on the ground, i think 19 inches. And they will pick up another ten. It could be the biggest storm in d. C. s history. Thanks so much. A Deadly School shooting in the canadian province of saskatchewan is under investigation. It happened in la loche about 400 miles north or calgary. At least 4 people were killed and two were critically wounded in the attack friday. The suspected shooter is custody. Police opened fire on a man waving a gun as he walked in the middle of traffic in las vegas. Last night from front of the at times he pointed the gun at people. He refused to obey police orders. The man was not hit by the gunfire but two bystanders were lightly wounded. As the ininrmural fight tween donald trumppnd start ted cruz continues. The latest poll from fox news shows trump in the lead nationwide with 34 . Cruz 14 percentage points, rubio at 11 and everyone else in single digits. The donald trump ted cruz rivalry hit a new high friday with both candidates unleashihi as they brel towards the iowa bill reporter cruz hit trump for supporting a a profititi from eminent domama laws, which all the government to seize private property. It made him rich, like when trump colluded with Atlantic City insiders to bulldoze the home of an elderly widow. Trump took to twitter once again raising questions about whether canadiann born cruzs eligible to be president. And he fired back at the National Review for publishing a series of essays making a case against the republican front runner. While trump once called the magazine a true conservative voice, he tweeted in response very few read the National Review because it only knowsow to criticize but not how to lead lead. Dismissed trumps twitter tirades and said hed steer clear of personal attacks in favor of policy. Indishablerom bernie sasaers. Politics is not a soap opera. It is not a baseball game. Sanders didnt mention cruz while campaigning in new hampshire. Where hes leading in the polls making clinton supporters neshs. To fight back clinton has been aggressively taking on sasaers record on guns, healthcare e d financial regulation, while emphasizing her experience. We need a prosecuteesident who can do all aspects of the job. For cbs this morning saturday, Julianna Goldman in washington. Theres been another highway death. The tents caused by a d dective manucture takata. Dimarco morgan has more. 52yearold joe knight was driving this ford ranger when a his car struck a cow in the road. A piece of shrapnel out of the air bag killing him. The spokesperson for the national highway traffic administration. This is a National Safety crisis and precipitated by the tact that they manufactured millions of defectivee inflaters and then provided incomplete, mislead on inaccurate information to nista the public. Some deploy with Excessive Force shattering the metal inflater and sending shrapnel flying into the vehicle. As much as 24 million vehicles stephanie was injured when her air bag exbloeded in 2013. Instant blindness followed by gushing blood. It was terrifying. Takata Vehicle Manufacturers are struggling to make enough air bags for millions of vehicles already rerecalled. And tens of millions more may still need to be recalled in the future. For cbs this morning saturday. If to check if your car or truck is being recalled find an updated list on cbs news. Com. Time to show you some of the mornings head lines. The new york city New York Times reports he details with the missing consultant robert lechbsen. Iran maintains it did not know of lechbsens where abouts led to a prisoner swap between the u. S. And iran. Announcer Detroit Free Press say answer e expert in legionnaires is connecting the disease to the citys water condition problems. It is a reasonable link. Though she cant prove the link. Health Officials Say 70 of the people who contracted legionnaires during the recent spike in cases were exposed to flint water two weeks before their symptoms began. A listeria outbreak from dole packaged salads killed one in michigan while sending others to the hospital. The outbreak rigid t at a packaging plant in spring field ohio. Outbreaks in six states. The plant has been shut down. The independent of london murdering Meredith Kurcher say s ss he was trying to sell her something before she died. 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