Layers and boots and hats. The rockies to the east coast. Many states seeing temperatures up to 35 degrees below average. Meanwhile, in western washington state, torrential rain triggered a mudslide. In new york overnight, a man hunt is under way after two Police Officers were shot while responding to an armed robbery. These officers will recover. The United States ski team is reeling from the death of who up and coming stars killed in an avenuealanche in austria. The s p, the biggest oneday drop. A couple of more sessions like this next time im on your show ill be doing it from a sofa. Divers trying to find airasia wreckage are facing bad weather. An offduty Police Officer accidentally shooting himself in the stomach in a parking garage elevator in cincinnati is expected to be okay. Serena williams got a double shot. She went the next two sets. Fancy that. And all of that matters. Chris christie taking heat for being a cowboys fan and hugging jerry jones. Right after jones said lets get some hot wings. On cbs this morning. 2015 gets under way. The 2016 president ial campaign is heating up. 2016. 2016. [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. [ cheering ] this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. As you wake up in the west the first winter blast of the new year threatens 80 million americans. Fast moving snow is spreading in areas from the rockies to the east coast this morning. You can see how it is causing trouble for drivers in illinois. The icy cold could be more dangerous than the snow. By tomorrow morning, windchills will approach 50 below in some areas. Dean reynolds is in chicago where the winter storm is biting cold right now. Dean, good morning. Reporter good morning, and good morning to our viewers in the west. Well, the good news in chicago is that the snow has stopped falling. The bad news is it remains very, very cold. As sub zero temperatures took hold of chicago, so did the snow. Nearly four inches blanketing the snow overnight and causing hundreds of Flight Cancellations at midway and ohare airports. Its so cold Water Management crews were forced to deice fire hydrants. Its 8 degrees. It aint too bad, as long as we keep moving. Reporter and rail workers were heating switches with open flames to keep them from freezing solid. This looks like its on fire though. Not that its being heated, you know. Like a space heater. I know. Theres no danger us. Those are flames but its like a gas grill. Meg thomas riley works for metro, chicagos Commuter Rail link that provides over 300,000 rides every day. Is there a risk of derailment if you dont do this . Yes, if the switch does not engage properly, the train could derail. The relentless cold is also sweeping across much of the midwest. In iowa blinding snow caused this crash involving at least 20 cars and shut down parts of interstate 80. One car just sort of slipped and went to the side. One hit the other. It became a domino effect. In wisconsin windchills sent temperatures plunging near minus 35 degrees. Officials warn it would only take minutes for frostbite to set in. And in sioux falls, south dakota, whoutout conditions forced dozens of schools to close early. They told us it was coming. We knew it was coming. Im glad they let out of school early so i can get out of the road and get home. Those hoping for a thaw will just have to wait because temperatures are expected to hover near 0 zerodegree mark for the next few days. Thanks. The blistering cold is moving east. Its already snowing in washington, d. C. At the white house. Meteorologist Danielle Niles is tracking the winter blast. Danielle danielle, good morning to you. Good morning and good morning to our viewers in the west. 20 states under windchill warnings, advisories or watches for the arctic air in place. Current windchills 20 to 30 below zero in parts of the midwest and northern plains. That cold air will stream south and east over the next few days. So high temperatures by tomorrow wont make it above zero. International falls, back down to des moines Single Digits and teens all the way to northern new england, and by wednesday night and thursday morning, the heart of the arctic air will create windchill values 30 to perhaps as cold as 40 below zero in parts of northern new england. Meanwhile, on the west coast. Its fairly quiet, but there is a storm impacting montana. Areas of snow will drop as much as 6 to 12 inches in the higher rain. Winter storm warnings in effect today. Treacherous travel through the course of the afternoon and evening as well. People in the northwest are anxiously watching rising rivers this morning. A powerful rainstorm is blamed for flooding and mud slides that destroyeded several homes in washington state. Rob is in carnation, a hard hit area east of seattle. Rising floodwater and mud slides have ended in disasters for people across western washington, and there may be more wicked weather on the way. The entire hillside came crashes down onto the coastal on the on monday. Washing away trees and knocking at least three homes off their foundations. I heard a big crack, and the trees come down and they just cracked and boomed and it went that way. Just gone. People were urged to quickly leave the area. Firefighters had to rescue a woman in her 80s and her dog. You could hear stuff breaking and crashing and you think what is going on. Reporter a weekend storm pounded parts of western washington with rain triggering landslides and record flooding. This was one of several rivers to crest. Sub murjing homes and cars attempted to navigate a maze of roads swelled up by water and mud. And the nearby Snoqualmie Falls showed off the voracity. Water forced people to wade through waist high flooding at times. Im going back where i live. Its cold. Business owners struggled to keep the rising wearpts o ut of their stores with no help from passing vehicles. You got a lot of idiots driving down and causing waves in businesses. People not thinking. Theres a lot ot water down here. Several major rivers here in washington will remain at or above flood stage until later today. Perhaps creating more problems. Norah . Rob, thanks. A massive man hunt is under way in new york city after the shooting of two more nwypd officers. Both are expecteded to survive. The shooting comes after police are on high alert after the murder o two officers. Michelle miller has Surveillance Video. Michelle, good morning. Reporter good morning and good morning to viewers in the west. Police are canvassing this neighborhood in the bronx in psearch of the two suspects involved in the shooting that took place at 10 30 last night. Just hours before the attack the Police Commissioner and the mayor were touting the citys record low crime numbers. Reporter this Surveillance Video shows the moment the officers came up against the suspects gunfire. The plain clothed officers were just finishing their shifts when they got a robbery call on monday night. They came under fire when they saw two men near a chinese Food Restaurant who fit the description. As they approached the individual one male was outside. One went inside. The approached the male outside. When the male inside began firing at the officers through the doorway. Two officers were hit. One shot in the arm. The other in the back. They were rushed to the hospital where mayor bill de blasio spoke overnight. Thank god these officers are doing well and will recover. Reporter its been a tense two weeks for the police and the mayor after the double murder of two nypd officers in brooklyn. Some members of the force turned their backs on mayor de blasio in two public memorial services. Earlier on monday he called the gesture unfair. It was disrespectful to the families who had losted their loved one. And i cant understand why anyone would do such a thing in a context like that. At the same event, the citys mayor and Police Commissioner announced record low crime numbers. Last week alone, there were half the amount of arrests made compareded to the same week last year. Weve had a lot of things that have been impacting on activity levels. But even with that the overall crime numbers have continued to decline. Many point to the simmering attention between the Police Department and the mayor as the reason for the work slowdown resulting in fewer summonses. And theres a 10,000 reward for anyone who can lead police to an arrest of these two suspects. Michelle, thank you. The dow is up this morning in early trading after yesterdays big selloff. The plunge was triggered by another drop in crude oil prices. They tumbled below 50 a barrel and thats the first time that happened in more than five years. The dow fell more than 330 points yesterday. Investors are now worried about the instability of oil memorials because now theres no telling when the price drop will come to an end. Family and friends are grieving the loss this morning of two young skiers hoping to join the u. S. Ski team. Ronnie berlack and bryce astle died on monday. Both are remembered as humble,al enlted athletes. Chris ward is in london. Clarissa good morning. Good morning. M 19yearold bryce astle and 20yearold berlack were both dreaming of joining the u. S. Team and one day skiing in the olympics. Hi, my name is bryce astle. Im an alpine ski racer out of utah and im 19 years old. S a astle started crowd funding to raise money. Berlack has a ski coach father. Tom kelly is a spokesman for the u. S. Ski team. These were great young men. Most of all, they were passionate. They loved to ski race. They loved to ski. Ashtle and berlack were part of six skiers when the avalanche struck. The other four survived. Rescue workers received an alert at 10 00 yesterday morning that two skiers were buried in an avalanche. An Emergency Team was dispatched to the site. There were two Emergency Physicians with the helicopters, a spokesman for the Alpine Police said. They tried everything, unfortunately without success. An avalanche warning was declared in the area after days of heavy snowfall and mild temperatures. Neither of the young skiers was wearing emergency gear. The u. S. Ski team is in zagra today. They have an event this evening and all the team members will be wearing black arm bands to commemorate ronnie and bryce. Jury selection enters day two this morning in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Tsarnaev was quiet in court. More than 1200 potential jurors will fill out a questionnaire. And it could take weeks to seat a jury. Federal prosecutors are looking for jurors willing to impose the Death Penalty if czar nef is convicted. Indonesian Officials Say they are fighting time and weather searching for victims of flight 8501. Investigators have a new theory that may explain exactly what happened when the plane crashed. Reporter good morning. Weather and currents are dragging the wreck kaj of the air bus east ward and the search has shifted in that direction. So far 39 victims were locateded but 123 people are still missing. A number of shifts including two from the u. S. Navy continue to use so nar to locate the planes wreckage. So far the crews have identified several large objects on the seas floor. Government Officials Say weather was a contributing fa factor in the december 28th crash. They believe the plane flew through satellite images showing temperatures below zero. A report translated to english says the most probable weather phenomenon is the icing. It can cause engine damage do due to cooling air. Investigators belief thats one of the possibilities that occurred based on analysis of the data. The the worst thunderstorms in the world are in this region. Kyle bailey is an aviation analyst. You have lightning. You have updrafts. You have hail. You have ice. In 2009 air France Flight 447 went down in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people on board. Investigators recovered the planes black boxes two years later. Thas discovered the pilots lost control after ice crystals caused the planes air speed indicators to malfunction. Theres a lot of similarities between that crash and this crash. My gut feeling is that once the black boxes were found within a week or several weeks well have a very good idea of what actually happened to the airplane. Indonesian authorities are hoping an expanded search area will help them locate the planes black box, in the tail section of the plane. It includes the voice recorder. And it is essential that nailing down exactly what happened to the flight. Charlie . Jeff thanks. The winter flu season is getting worse and still has far to go. 43 states have widespread flu cases. Blamed for the deaths of 21 children in 11 states. Dr. Holly phillips is with us this morning. Whats going on . This is essentially the first storm of the flu season. A few things happen. Flu season is peeking earlier. It started in the south. It hit the midwest. Now its moving up the northeast and really not surprisingly is taking ahold in schools, giving it to kids. The other things happening is the strain circulating is called h3n2. It causes injury and death. M and the flu vaccine this season is not perfectly matched eded to it. All these things in tandem and more deaths earlier. Do you need more flu vaccine . Some children actually if theyre under the age of 8, its recommended they get two shots or two vaccinations rather than one. One. And some children got a shot before that would require a second. Your pediatrician can help sort that out. Ultimately its to protect against the h1n1 strain. We called it the bird flu several years ago. That takes two shots for protection. We keep hearing reports that the flu vaccine is not as effective. So what do we need to do . Its still quite effective. If that makes sense. You should still get it. It protects against other strains, influenza b and h1n1 that we may see circulating later. And it also does provide protection against the strain circulating now. We also have to Pay Attention to basic things. Contact precautions. If your kids are sick keep them at home. Make sure youre washing your hands. Cough into your elbow. If you have symptoms of the flu, high fever body aches, chills. Get to the doctor soon. When is flu season over . Unfortunately i know. I wish i had better news since were still in the beginning of january. It could linger straight through april. But we usually see it start to fall off by february. Youre worried this could get worse. Everyone has gone back to work and school. Everybody is in close contact. Its a big issue, norah. Some schools in the south closed early ahead of winter break because they were seeing so much break. Kids get together and start to spread the flu again. Holly, thanks. And it is 7 19. Will the nfl return to los angeles after 20 good Tuesday Morning, for this january 6th we will experience temperatures near or record warmth throughout many locations. Primarily throughout the southern portion of our bay area. Right now, pick a number. 30s 40s and 50s heading on out the door. Later today 60s all the way to the low 70s. Gilroy should see a record high today of 72 degrees. Winds are flat out of the southeast. Therefore yet another winter spare the air alert day. Equally as worm today if not warm tomorrow if not even more so. Sponsored by new Colgate Enamel Health toothpaste. A wealthy banker gunned down. 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