We get the water out of the showme state. A massive winter storm batters the nation. Flash flooding claiming dozens of lives. There is more pain ahead. Some areas in the 70s a few days ago are now getting the first winter storm of the season. The manhunt for the affluenza teen is over. Authorities arrest him and his mother in mexico. In cleveland, a grand jury decided not to indict the officer of involved in the shooting of a 12yearold boy. A drone briefly flew near the president s motorcade. Donald trump is taking aim at chris christie. He was like a little child, christie. Disturbing new video of a massive gas like an in Southern California, causing evacuation. Its making people sick. Theyve got to do something about it. Rock and roller lemmy of motor head has died. A local fire chief was able to im to safety. All that. Another hoverboard going up in flames, this time the hoverboard was part of a display still in its box. And the broncos are in the playoffs what a way to lose a football game. And all that matters. Jeb bush says nobody wants his autograph anymore, they just want to take a sell ifvera self. It is a requirement that you take one. And i do it with great joy in my heart. On cbs this morning. The titan cheer leaders set a world record by playing the Worlds Largest game of cornhole. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im Anthony Mason with margaret brennan. The east is facing the same blast of snow and ice that sparked flooding and tornadoes in the south and midwest. The snow has already buried some areas in snow. New mexico saw whiteout blizzard conditions and oklahoma is in a state of emergency following a storm. The system has reached western new york. Overnight, rain and snow created slick roads in buffalo. Ashley roberts of our minnesota station wcco shows us the conditions outside minneapolis. Ashley, good morning. Reporter good morning. This city is under a snow emergency, bracing for a storm expected to hit with a onetwo punch. The first punch has brought around 31 2 inches of snow so far. While cities farther south are only experiencing rain. Swollen rivers flooded dozens of homes in branson, missouri. People have voluntarily evacuated along table rock lake, which is approaching its highest ever flood stage. The Mississippi River could crest at historic levels in missouri. Governor jay nixon has declared a state of emergency. Youre in a scenario that no one has ever been in. If that river hits targets that have been predicted, thats higher than the Mississippi River has ever been. Reporter st. Louis is under a flood warning, with 7 inches of rain since saturday. Its the citys wettest year on record. These men spent monday sandbagging, shoring up homes and businesses near st. Louis. The swollen Meramec River is expected to crest above flood stage. High water made this stretch of interstate 70 impassable. Freezing rain and strong winds set power lines twisting in illinois, everything coated in ice a quarter inch thick. Strong winds struck a car and narrowly missing the people who pulled in to refuel. And along the shores of chicagos icy lake michigan, high waves made for a pretty picture, but it was not inviting. Minnesota department of transportation crews are out in full force, treating roads for this storm. Theyre using around 800 plows, and drivers are working 12hour shifts to keep up. Ashley, thanks. The Winter Weather could ruin travel plans for thousands of people today. So far this morning, more than 770 flights have been cancelled. More than a thousand are delayed. Adriana diaz is at chicagos Ohare Airport where travelers are looking for new ways to get to their destination. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It is a hezoo here in terminal. The line is wrapped around five times, extending the length of a football field. Many people on this line are trying to get home to the west coast. But flights have been cancelled, including flights to los angeles, San Francisco, and portland. Part of the reason is because of the Severe Weather moving through the middle of the country thats causing a lot of the traffic chaos. More than 1300 flights were cancelled here yesterday and nearly 300 were delayed. Passengers were stranded. Many were scrambling to try to rework their travel plans here at the nations second busiest airport. A similar scene at chicagos midway airport, where nearly half the flights were delayed. At texas, there were backlogs of flights across the state because of the weekend storm. More than 1200 flights were cancelled and nearly 600 delays at airports in dallas, austin, and houston, causing a Ripple Effect in air travel across the nation. If you can believe it, there is some good news. Almost all of the Major Airlines are waiving rebooking fees for travelers traveling in the path of the storm system. A little good news, thanks. The storm is delivering snow and ice this morning to parts of the northeast. The lonnie quinn of our new york station wcbs shows us the impact across the nation. Lonnie, good morning. Good morning to you, anthony. All this weather is related to the same system, it all depends on whether the air mass is cold or warm. Youve got blues, pinks, greens. Blue is the snow, pink is the ice, green is the rain, a little bit of everything. Where does the system head from this point forward . The low pressure will push to the east, taking the moisture with it. Is it snow, is it rain . You have to go to the northern portions to find big snowfall amounts, places like the White Mountains and Green Mountains as well. Winter weather advisories for a good portion of the northeast and for portions of the midwest. These have been expiring throughout the day today. Theyll continue to do so. Every little flash of green you see, we have river flood warnings in effect. When you see them this prevalent, across this portion of the united states, this is what we see in the springtime, yet were finding it here in the end of december. Heading out west, its exactly opposite of what weve been seeing so far this winter. Pretty calm out there with the exception of moisture rolling in in the pacific northwest. Other than that, a quiet day. This winter its been all west coast. But today, its a flipflop, the east coast has the storms. Good for skiers, i guess. Theyll get some today, but not enough to get them where they want to be. Winter came late but its finally arrived. Thanks, lonnie. A teenager who sparked National Attention by using the affluenza defense in a deadly crash has been found in mexico. He was fleeing with his mother from texas after possibly violating his probation. The two were missing from the dallas area for weeks but were fount monday in puerto vallarta. Omar villafranca is outside the Tarrant County courthouse in texas. Omar, good morning. Reporter good morning. The bizarre National Search for the socalled after influenfl ad his mother is over. Ethan couch and his mother are in the hands of authorities, after the pair was apprehended on the Pacific Coast of michigan. This image shows him with an altered appearance. Earlier this month the two disappeared after couch missed a meeting with his probation officer. Ethan couch made headlines two years ago when he eluded jail time after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. A psychologist had testified on behalf of couch, saying the teen suffered from affluenza, suggesting his parents wealth left him without a sense of responsibility. Officials believe the pair may have fled because of this video which surfaced this month. It appears to show couch at a party where a drinking game was played. This could have violated his probation. Even though hes 18, his case hasnt been moved to an adult court, which means he will face punishment in Juvenile Court and at worst could be sent to a juvenile detention center. Omar, thanks. Cleveland officials are appealing for calm after a grand jury decided not to indict two Police Officers in a killing of a 12yearold boy in a playground. A video shows tamir rice pulling out a pellet gun before last years shooting. Protests are likely today. Demarco morgan has more. Reporter the dispatcher never told the officers that tamir rice could be underage or that the gun he was carrying could possibly be fake. Protestors marched in cleveland on monday night, hours after county prosecutors announced the grand jurys decision. Given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police. Reporter enhanced Surveillance Video from the november 2014 shooting shows loehmann and garmback drive up to tamir rice. Within seconds of exiting the cruiser, loehmannr is presente tamir rice. He was pulling out the toy gun, possibly to show the officers it wasnt real. There was no way for the officers to know that. Reporter tamir rices family said that the prosecutors hired expert witnesses to try to exonerate the officers. Do the right thing. Indict the Police Officers. Reporter rices grandmother, mildretta warnerdavis, called the decision heartbreaking. This is a 12yearold kids life that was taken. And theyre letting everybody know its okay for the Police Officers to do whatever they want to do. Them do officers and mr. Mcginty, theyre going to have to live with this just like i do. Reporter county Officials Say that all Police Officers will be wearing body cams and their vehicles will be equipped with dash cams. As for officer loehmann, his attorney released a statement saying, this decision does not bring comfort to anyone. This has been a tragedy for both the rice family and the officers involved. Demarco, thank you. Republican president ial candidates are back on the stump this morning after a christmas break. This time donald trump has a new target. This one is not named clinton. The gop frontrunner rallied with supporters in New Hampshire last night after the states largest newspaper compared him to the bully biff tannen in back to the future, remember him . Major garrett is in washington with trumps fiery response. Major, im bracing for it. Reporter good morning. Donald trump did have harsh words for the Manchester Union leader last night and the papers endorsed candidate, chris christie. But after threatening to lead a republican charge into former president bill clintons sexual history, trump apparently thought he had done enough for now. You have a very dishonest newspaper. You also have a failing newspaper. Its going down the tubers. Reporter he called the publisher dishonest. Hes a lowlife. Reporter mcquaid used his paper on monday to call trump a crude blow hard, and compared him to biff tannen, a bully and a fraud from back to the future. But since starting the battle over sexism with hillary clinton, trump tip toed over the word he had used that started it in the first place. He warned allegations of clintons past infidelity were fair game. Hillary clintons camp caused trumps words degrading. That outrage morphed into a Campaign Fundraising appeal. Trumps online attacks were enough to force several gop rivals into his corner. Every past president is fair game. The fact that one of them happens to be married to a president ial candidate doesnt change that. I dont think its hillarys fault that shes married to a man that does this. But it is a question about what kind of laws we should have and how you should treat women in the workplace. Reporter the Clinton Campaign announced bill clinton would campaign on his wifes behalf. Trump tweeted that clinton, quote, failed badly when he has campaigned in the past. A man who flew a drone along president obamas motorcade in hawaii will not be charged. The motorcade did not stop or slow down. The aircraft was brought down after secret Service Agents approached its owner. They say he was completely unaware the president would be in the area. Iraqs Prime Minister is reported to be in the city of ramadi this morning. This follows days of fighting where Iraqi Government troops drove isis militants out. Ramadi is a key provincial capital located west of baghdad. Elizabeth palmer is in london, tracking the newest developments. Elizabeth, good morning. Reporter good morning. The final push to take ramadi followed weeks of preparation as iraqi troops have patiently surrounded the town, then cut off all the isis supply lines. Finally, the symbol of victory. For the First Time Since may, ira iraqs flag was hoisted over government buildings. All week iraq has led the fight to retake ramadi. They won thanks to better equipment and more than 600 air strikes by Coalition Planes on isis targets. But the iraqis also won because they have been learning on the job. In ferocious battles in tikrit earlier this year, they managed to push isis out. In ramadi, they did it without major help from irregular shiite militias. For these soldiers, that was a big morale boost. Cbs newss National Security analyst juan cerati. They have greater will and capacity. They are clearly fighting with more strategic intent and capability. Reporter the battle to retake ramadi, important though it was, it just preamble for whats coming in 2016. On national television, iraqs Prime Minister warned, we are coming to Liberate Mosul next and deal isis a fatal blow. First, though, the government will have to repair damage and restore services in ramadi to lure residents back and keep them loyal so isis stays on the run. The iraqi army is warning that operations in ramadi arent entirely over yet. There are still pockets of isis fighters in at least one suburb. And the city is heavily bobby trapped. Margaret . Elizabeth palmer in london, thank you. A burning hoverboard forced police to evacuate a houston shopping mall. Witnesses say the board was in its box. It caught on fire inside a kiosk at the deerbrook mall, filling the area with smoke. The fire was quickly extinguished. Major new developments in the search for a methane gas like a that forced thousands of families from their neighborhood. Ahead, well tell you why those families still have to wait months to return to their homes. But first, its time to check your local weather. Theyre bumping into things and people. 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