Player is responding to his critics. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning this is the cbs morning news for this thursday, january 23rd, 2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We begin with the aftermath of that massive winter storm that stretched from kentucky to new england. In its wake the storm leaves a bitterly cold layer of weather that stretches from north to south. This morning there are freeze and Winter Weather warnings from texas to florida. Now, during the height of the storm, the winddriven snow blew into and through this amtrak train in baltimore. It looked like a blizzard inside the passenger cars. Besides massive travel delays, the storm and bitter cold is driving up the price of natural gas and propane. And at the sight of the super bowl, Metlife Stadium in new jersey, a dress rehearsal of sorts. Some 1,300 workers cleared the snow. Meteorologist eric fisher of our boston station wbz says the brutally cold weather is not going away anytime soon. A storm has come to a close with impressive totals especially in the megalopolis. Around boston, up to a foot and a half of snow came down with this one. 11 inches in new york city. That was a daily snowfall record. In philadelphia, over a foot of snow, but its the third time theyve seen over a foot before february 1st. Its never happened in philadelphia before. 4 inches in d. C. It was the biggest in years. Now its about the cold. Many, many states with two dozen windchills and advisories as far as arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina, and freeze warnings in effect all the way to the everglades. As we kick off the morning, subzero in boston, near zero in new york, and 30 and 40 below across the upper midwest, chicago, and minneapolis. Into atlanta. Now, heres app upsidedown kind of forecast for you. In juneau, alaska, temperatures in the 40s for the next few days. Big ridge of warmth on the west coast. But Colder Weather in atlanta, georgia. Things looking a bit wild on the weather map. This pattern is going to continue as we look ahead. More outbreaks of cold. Another big one arrives as we head into next week. Im meteorologist eric fisher for cbs news. Meanwhile california is suffering with what may be its worst drought in history. The water shortage is affecting tinderdry brush is fueling wildfires. A statewide state of emergency has been declared and governor jerry brown has asked everyone to reduce their water consumption by 20 . Israel says its broken up and al qaeda plot to attack the u. S. Embassy in tel a viv. This appears that Al Qaeda Leaders were directly involved in plotting an attack inside israel. Besides the embassy in tel aviv, al qaeda planned to attack a Jerusalem Conference Center with guns and kill rescue workers with a truck bomb. Secret service said the plan was in the advanced stage. Three palestinians who planned allegedly planned the attack have been arrested. Former nsa contractor Edward Snowden is answering questions online today. He remains in russia where he was granted asylum but snowden denies he was working for the russians when he released those classified documents dealing with u. S. Surveillance records. A just released cbs news poll finds 58 disapprove of the government collecting phone data. Meanwhile 47 believe its necessary in order to stop terror attacks. Marlie hall is here in new york. Good morning, marlie. Good morning, annemarie. Snowden will almost certainly address questions about the top secret information hes revealed so far. Edward snowden will answer questions from the public online today about his role in exposing secret u. S. Surveillance programs. One question u. S. Officials want to know is how much help did he receive from foreign intelligence sources. My questions about his work with chinese and russian intelligence begin once he arrives in hong kong and then when he moved on to moscow. Wednesday snowden denied he had any help telling the new yorker magazine the claims are absurd. A new cbs news survey showed 61 of those polled believe snowden should stand trial for espionage. 23 think he should be granted amnesty, but as the white house reiterated yesterday, thats not likely to happen. It is our Firm Position he ought to return to the United States and face the charges against him. But the snowden leaks have forced changes to the way the nsa operates. Last week president obama announced the nsa will still collect americans phone data in the fight against terror, but the president says agents will now need a judges approval access it and he no longer wants the agency to store the information. The president says hes trying to balance the need for intelligence while still upholding american civil liberties. Snowden is expected to answer questions during a live chat this afternoon on a website free snowden. You can submit questions via twitter using asksnowden. Marlie hall in new york. Thanks a lot, marlie. Well, opposition leaders in ukraine issued an ultimatum. They want the president to call early elections within 24 hours or face more protests. The demand comes amid escalating violence in the capital. At least two protesters have died since the demonstrations began in november. Thats when ukraines president sided with russia and rejected an economic deal with the european union. At the syrian peace talks in switzerland, the two warring factions are scheduled to meet separately with the u. N. Negotiator. Its still unclear if the two sides are willing to meet tomorrow when serious negotiations are to begin. At the opening session yesterday they called on president assad to step down. The president said thats not happening. President obama has created a task force to respond to Sexual Assault on American College campuses. The white house released a report yesterday that found one out of five female students is assaulted, but just one in eight victims reports it. President obama said Sexual Assault is an affront to basic humanity. Sexual violence is more than just a crime against individuals. It threatens our families, it threatens our communities. Ultimately it threatens the entire country. The report says Sexual Assaults are triggered by drinking and drug use often at parties. He was shot dead for texting in a movie theater. Now were hearing from the mans widow for the first time about the day that tore her family apart. Ko im reports. Reporter Nicole Oulson sobbed during her News Conference wednesday. The young mother was sitting next to her husband chad last week when another moviegoer, a retired police captain, started arguing with chad because he was texting during previews. Just to think that in the blink of an eye my whole world just got shattered into a million pieces and now im left trying to pick them up and put them all back together. Reporter witnesses said the gaumt between chad and the suspect Curtis Reeves began after someone threw popcorn. Nicole said it is just unimaginable that her date turned so tragic. I was so excited to spending the day with the love of my life at a place of entertainment, you know, family entertainment. Reporter according to witnesses, chad was texting with his 2yearold daughter. He died when the bullet passed through nicoles hand and into his chest. Right now im still trying to recover from the shock and my main focus is and always will be on my daughter alexis. Reporter police say reeves was very calm when they arrested him. The 71yearold is being charged with more and is being held without bond. Ko im, c b bs news. Well, coming up on the morning news, lava show. A massive volcano in hawaii explodes to life unleashing hot magma. And later, a rare transplant. Two sisters saved by one set of lungs. This is the cbs morning news. Even at a distance of 10 miles. The length of 146 football fields. They can see the light of a single candle. Your eyes are amazing. Look after them with centrum silver. Multivitamins with lutein and vitamins a, c, and e to support healthy eyes and packed with key nutrients to support your heart and brain, too. Centrum silver. For the most amazing parts of you. Complete your degree and prepare for a new career with Devry Universitys meritbased career catalyst scholarship. Apply by february 28th for up to 20,000 for qualifying new students. Start at devry. Edu. Apply by february 28th. When you dont have the time, theres crest 3d white 1 hour express whitestrips. Removes years of stains in just 1 hour. Whitening without the wait. Crest 3d white 1 hour express whitestrips. 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The retailer says the cuts are not connected to the data breach affecting up to 110 million customers. Also on wednesday target said it will stop Offering Health insurance to parttime employees on april 1st. Asian stocks were mostly lower on fears of a manufacturing slowdown in china. Tokyos nikkei lost nearly 1 . Hong kongs hang seng fell 1. 5 . Stocks ended mixed on wall street with earnings reports from some tech giants disappointing investors. The dow tumbled 41 points while the nasdaq gained 17. Netflix waited until after the markets closed to release its earnings. Report that beat analysts expectations. The Video Service added 2. 3 million u. S. Subscribers and earned 48 million in the last quarter. Thats up from just 8 million during the same period in 2012. Revenue surged 24 from 2012 to almost 1. 2 billion. Activist apple investor carl icahn tweet thad he scooped up 500 million worth of stock. Icahn boosted his holdings to more than 3 billion. Icahn also blasted apples board saying the companys doing its shareholders a disservice by not significantly increasing its stock buyback. Bernie madoff, the man who orchestrated a a multimilliondollar ponzi scheme, reportedly suffered a heart attack in prison. He emailed the network to say he was hospitalized land month but hes back serving his 150year prison sentence. He also suffers from stage 4 Kidney Disease but is not undergoing dialysis. And an Oakland Raiders cheerleader claims her team is not playing fair and now shes suing. Theyre not paying the raiderettes enough or on time. Would only get paid at the end of the season, that their pay worked out to less than 5 an hour, and they could be benched for gaining as little as five pounds. The team had no comment. Annemarie. All right. Wendy gillette of the New York Stock Exchange. Thanks a lot wendy. Coming up in sports, well go under the helmet with Richard Sherman and hear what one of the nfls most talked about players is saying about his critics. Nfls most talked about players is saying about his critics. Accomplishing even Little Things can become major victories. Im phil mickelson, pro golfer. When i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel for my pain and stiffness, and to help stop joint damage. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. Serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood disorders, and allergic reactions have occurred. Before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether youve been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. You should not start enbrel if you have an infection like the flu. 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New york will be partly sunny today with a high of 21. Miami will be sunny as well. Mostly cloudy in chicago, though, and mostly cloudy in dallas. Morning clouds in l. A. In sports, the Oklahoma City thunder are now the best team in the nbas western conference, and they got there last night by beating the only team that was ahead of them. Kevin durant scores 36 points as the thunder beat san antonio, 111105. Oh, my god. That will make you stand up. Whew. Thats Wichita States shaquille cotton throwing down a huge dunk against illinois states jones. Jones is 69. Wichita state is 200 and ranked number 5 after winning 7065. Now, the smallest player in the nhl scoring a goal, 55 nathan gerbe scores a breakaway from carolina. Watch as he slips a puck beneath his legs and slips it past the goaltender steve mason. The hurricane beat the flyers, 32. Super bowl xlviii is more than a week away, and if there is a face of this years nfl championship, it is Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. Well, im the best one in the game. When you put me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, thats the result youre going to get. Dont you ever talk about me. Sherman became a lightning rod for critics when he called out san franciscos Michael Crabtree in the moments after the seahawks won the championship game. On wednesday sherman addressed the backlash. This was the football field, you know. I wasnt committing any crimes, you know, doing anything illegal. I was shows passion. I didnt have time to sit there and contemplate what am i going to say but the people behind the computer screens had all the time in the world to contemplate and articulate exactly like they wanted to. Some of it im sure theyre pretty embarrassed about. Helluva game, helluva game. Well, guess what . Inside the nfl miked sherman up last sunday. Youll hear what else he was saying after the pivotal play to help his team beat the 49ers. Thats coming up later on cbs this morning. I want to hear that. When we return, sibling surgeries. When we return, two sisters who were seriously ill received a lifesaving transplant from a single donor. Stacys mom has got it goin on stacys mom has got it goin on [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. Lease this 2014 cadillac srx for around 319 a month with premium Care Maintenance included. [ chicken caws ] [ male announcer ] when your favorite food starts a fight, fight back fast with tums. Heartburn relief that neutralizes acid on contact and goes to work in seconds. Tum, tum tum tum tums lactaid® is 100 real milk . Right. Real milk. But it wont cause me discomfort. Exactly, because its milk without the lactose. And it tastes . Its real milk come on, would i lie about this . [ female announcer ] lactaid. 100 real milk. No discomfort. Officer. Detective Sergeant Tom Smiths familys talking exclusively to kpix five. About the loss. More questions today about e safety of the new span of t bay bridge. Details on a new report accusing caltrans of downplaying the problems. Bay Area Health Officials confirm at least 6 more peoe have died from the flu. Why the outbreak is expected to even worse. Join us for kpix 5 news this morning. Beginning at 4 3 good morning. Its thursday,, heres a look at todays forecast in some cities around the country. Washington, d. C. , expect snow showers today, but sunny in both atlanta and st. Louis. Morning snow in denver and morning fog in seattle. Two sisters have a second shot at life thanks to a rare transpla transplant. They both now share lungs from the same donor. Omar villafranca reports. Reporter theyre sisters but have two different personalities. I think im more mellow. Reporter in the last two years both sisters started to develop breathing problems. I started to cough every time i talked, every time i laughed. Reporter doctors told them they needed lung transplants, so the sisters moved from santa barbara, california, to houston, texas, and waited for donors. Chances are they both wouldnt have made it the next 60 or 90 days. Reporter that bad . Oh, yeah. Reporter like all siblings, they argued who should get the lungs first. It was painful to watch her cough. I could live with the coughing but she couldnt live without the oxygen. Reporter but earlier this month came a match for both anna and erma. Each sister would get one lung from the same donor. It was the first time houston Methodist Hospital performed such a surgery. Before the surgery anna was always coughing, and erma couldnt make it from the bed to the bathroom without losing her breath. Now both sisters are able to do something they both love. [ singing ] reporter the surgery was a success. We became triple times closer. Were sisters, were jehovah witnesses,