The roads are still very slick and slushy. The state of emergency declared in alabama, georgia, North Carolina. Hes been named as Mohammed Emwazi. The man discussed in commits attacks on american soil including president obamas life. This is real. This is a concern about the lone wolf. Hes under scrutiny for too much spending. Its about whos paying for it. If the Congress Thing doesnt work out, check it out. You would obviously make an awesome travel channel host. They have warned that local leaders could faye prison time. Youll soon be able to scarf down your cup after you finish your coffee. All that ma john na at the british awards took quite a tumble on stage. You could own a piece of rob ford history on ebay including rob ford sized pants. And all that matters this is going get solved because at some point theres going to be a president rodriguez or a president chin. On cbs this morning. Lindsay lohan. The judge threw out Community Hours she claim and tacked 125 hours on top of that. See, i would count every hour that she isnt driving as a service. Announcer cbs this morning is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Much of the south is shivering from another blast of snow, sleet, or ice. Its the third winter storm in less than two weeks. Customers have lost power. Alabama, georgia and the carolinas have declared states of emergency. And its been snowing all night in washington where federal offices are opening late because of the storm. Vinita nair is in durham North Carolina because of the snow. Good morning. Reporter good morning. It is the heavy wet stuff. Take a look up at those power lines. You can see theyre completely coated and its really starting to affect the trees. Weve been hearing loud pops and snaps and we see tree branches come tumbling down. The storm is making it hard for just about anything to stay on these southern roads, sidelining trucks, spinning tires, and overturning cars. Plows in North Carolina are pushing their way through the mess clearing aside the cold slush. Were anticipating a very very tough storm. Reporter state troopers responded to nearly 3,000 accidents in 36 hours and on wednesday governor mccrory urged people to stay home. Its not just the tar heel state thats dealing with the elements. Fog, rain, snow and freezing temperatures created these treacherous conditions in northern georgia wednesday. Two cars collided with a semi bringing traffic to a crawl. Low visibility plagued tennessee roads with snow accumulating at up to two inches an hour. Oh man. Drivers in texas made their way through the accumulation where a bus carrying three people landed on its side after hitting ice. Luckily everyone was okay. As we speak to you right now, some light snow is starting to fall again, but, of course all of this snow has to be cleaned up. Weve been watching crews go down the road. Right now as many as 2,000 people and 13 tons of salt. Guys, i have to say, just being out here that might be a generous and conservative number of what it will take to clean up. Vinita, thank you. It has nothing to do with the news but please come back and bring that coat. You look great. Wednesdays pileups on interstate 95 injured at least 17 people. More than 70 people were involved including a tractortrailer and a school bus. This morning a man is being identified. He appeared in several videos carrying out the beheadings last year. Mark phillips is monitoring it from london. Good morning. Good morning. Its been obvious to anyone who has heard him known as jihadi john was from britain. The accent gave him away and this is what he sounds like. This is an american citizen of your country. Now according to two News Agencies, the bbc and the washington coast the coldhearted masked man with theis Mohammed Emwazi. He grew up in london and went to college with a degree in computer programming. Hes believed to have later joined the selfproclaimed islamic state. The site reports friends and family familiar with the case its been assumed for some time the police knew the mans identity. Theyre still not confirming it as others are being held and their lives are at risk. More lives were lost. 17 militants were killed. Naming jihadi john as Mohammed Emwazi will no doubt lead to an investigation of who he was involved with here in the case to fight and in his case to murder in the name of islam. Norah . Mark, thank you so much. This morning three men are accused of plotting with syria. They were possibly planning to care out attacks here new state. All three are in custody. Jeff pegues with how investigators tracked them down. Good morning. Good morning. Its not clear how much was just talk but it was enough for investigators to consider the three men as a threat. Not only for domestic plans for domestic attacks but there was also talk of hijacking a plane and joining the u. S. Military to help filter information to isis. Two of the suspects appeared in Court Wednesday accused of attempting to join the militant group isis. According to Court Documents the two wanted to join isis in syria by traveling through turkey, and if they couldnt get there, they would carry out an attack on american soil. If they were not able to go they would seek to acquire weapons here handguns machine guns, and seek to attack very specifically police officers. The fbi investigation began last august after one of the suspects posted a threat to president obama on a militant website. Is it possible to commit ourselves as dedicated martyrs anyway while here he wrote . What i am saying is to shoot obama and then get shot ourselves, that will strike fear in the hearts of infidels. He was arrested at the armtd moments before he could secure a flight. A second man was arrested in his apartment. A third man is being held without bail accused of helping to secure their plane tickets. These young men were detained by the fbi. Presented without counsel. Reporter more than 150 residents traveled to or tried to reach iraq to fight alongside the militants. Those people exist in every state. I have home grown violence extreme state investigations in every single state. For more than six months the fbi monitored the three men with help of an informant. According to investigators they also talked about planning a bomb in new yorks coney island. Gayle . Thank you. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell broke an impasse wednesday. He put language to block president obamas act on immigration in a separate bill. Its not clear if Speaker John Boehner and the house will support mcconnells approach. Its opened up a gop rift. Up until yesterday the two most powerful republicans in washington had reportedly not spoken to each other in two weeks. Bill plante is in the white house while the president is pushing ahead with hitz plan. Good morning. Good morning. The president pitched his plan to an audience at a florida university. Mr. Obama says hes confident that his immigration plan will survive. Were going to be as aggressive atz we can because not only law is on our side but history is on our side. The president pushed back against the order and republicans who want to do away with it. If mr. Mcconnell, the leader of the senatespeaker of the house john boehner want to have that vote they can do what they want. I will veto that vote because i know what were doing is the right thing to do. Under the bill children born in the u. S. Would be allowed to stay and protect those brought in illegally when they were children, but the republicans maintain it oversteps the president s authority and threaten to block funding for the department of Homeland Security unless the immigration actions are repeal. Senate democrats have stood in the way for three week over a bill thats been debated and passed. So until they do something, were in a waitandsee mode. But the president said he wont back down. This is going to be solved because at some point theres going to be a president rodriguez or theres going to be a president chin. The country is a nation of immigrants. Now, of course, its no coincidence that the president delivered his speech in florida, a state thats mostly hispanic. He told voters to ask him this question are you really going deport 11 million people. Norah . Bill, outside a beautiful snowy white house. Picture postcard. Yeah. Thank you, bill. A new law to legalize weed in washington, d. C. , went into effect overnight, and depending on who you believe, the District Of Columbia is wouf three states where you can use it legally or its where elected officials can go to jail. Julianna goldman is there to explain the clash. Good morn. Reporter good morning. Some members of congress are calling for the arrests when they arrive here later this morning but so far the Justices Department has no plan to take them up on it. The law will go into effect one minute after midnight. Reporter she surrounded herself wednesday with a defiant support. Allowing people to carry up to 2 ounces of pot and grow six Marijuana Plants on private problem. Facing what she calls bullying from jason cha fit. I have a lot to do. Being in jail would bmt a good thing. We believe there are reasonable ways to resolve those things without us threatening him nor he us. In a letter cha fis has asked for it. Up to two years prison time. Republican andy harris wrote the language to define the laws. But Officials Say theres a loophole in the language because it was enacted by voters before congress stepped in. Harris said it may fall to the court or even the next president. The statute of limitations is five years. These government officials, if they take that chance now, theyre going to be looking over their shoulder for five years. If our mayer or any member of our City Government is arrested for doing their jobs the entire city is going to rise up. Like other states that have legalized pop its still illegal to pie or sell its illegal to smoke in public and on federal land and illegal to carry on federal land. So dont think about lighting up on the steps of the lincoln memoirrial memorial. Gayle . We can say weve been warned. Thank you. The pilots have been warned. They cite recent things. In one instance a pilot had to use a pullup maneuver to avoid landing in ground. Another landed with fewer fuel reserves than legislature requires because safety is a requirement. A construct worker is in the hospital. It happened wednesday during demolition of the 3story management. He rode down the falling debris by standing on a scaffold. As a marngs hes lucky. They plan to file a new claim. Hes under fire for spending habits that range from doing the tango in argentina to partying with ariannaa grande. Nancy, good morning. Good morning. Most lawmakers are reluctant to admit they do anywhere. But aaron schock has made no. Hes one of the rising stars and top fundraisers but his donors may not have known he would spend some of the millions he brought in on p90x exercise video, a stay at a fivestar greek hotel and a photographier to capture his life on the go. Its clear he likes to live a very lavish lifestyle. She represents is. Claiming he sold his illinois townhouse to a top donor for an outsized profit. When it comes to selling your house for well over 100,000 above its fair market value, the rules are clear thats a gift. Thats a contribution. You cant do that. Schocks expenser tasteses first hit the spotlight earlier this month when the Washington Post showed photos of his office with a Downton Abbey scene. He said he would pay for the remodel but only after blowing off histhem. Taylor saft said haters are i got to hate but voters are going to vote and indicters are going to indict. Reporter hes a crisis consultant whos worked with politicians and celebrities. You never know how constituents are going to react. Sometimes theyre horrified by allegations. Other times they feel that someone in washington t elites are picking on them and they rally behind the person. So its way too early to determine where it ooh goengs to go. Theyre used to his highflying style. White water rafting in the app dees surfing in hawaii doing thegentina and posing with ariana grande. He even posted shirtless in mens health. If you focus on other things other than the job hes been given, youll probably be out of a job. His new p. R. 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Depending on your location you had may not have seen much of anything yet and this snow may not impact you at all a lot have of what we are finding in southeastern pa on the radar isnt verifying to the ground level but it is, as you go to i95 and points east and south. So that is where youll find your best shot for a accumulation and that said heres how you we break it down for the rest of this morning drive. Steady snow slick in delaware and southern most new jersey. It is southern half of the new jersey. In philadelphia eventually we will see some snow showers, south philadelphia might be seeing them id love to hear from you living in south philadelphia because i think mile or two down the road here down broad street you might have some snow that we are not finding just yet. Outside to the live Neighborhood Network and shot of rehoboth definitely snow there and it continues to fall as well. As the day progresses, skies do start to gradually clear. I could see a flurry in to tonight the buzz nothing more than that otherwise clouds. We will catch a break with any Stormy Weather friday and saturday, mess of sunday too but sunday night another disturbance on the horizon but notice temperatures have a chance to ease up, they are not warm but they are certainly easing up and getting closer to seasonal. Vittoria, back over to you. Thanks so much katie. Good morning everyone. We are definitely seeing snowy shots. We are taking a look first at i95 northbound ramp to 476 we have a disable tractor trailer, good news, it is on the shoulder bad news it is slowing things down, going to and from i95 in this area and 476 generally traveling in and around Delaware County and making your way in delaware. That is where we are seeing some snow and traveling in south jersey a as well, if you are traveling on the garden state parkway and new jersey turnpike, we have speed restrictions of 45 miles an hour as a result of weather. You do want to give yourself more time and practice extra caution. Traveling on the schuylkill expressway we are in the seeing any snow flakes here but we are seeing rush hour westbound approaching city avenue and make your way out toward gladwynn. Traveling throughout your western suburbs we will have eastbound delays for sure and as you make your way down through vine street expressway in either direction it is saturated around center city and i95 toward vine street expressway delays there too. Be mindful of this accident closing Germantown Pike eastbound, township line is your best bet. Lets do it again at 7 55. Up next post game basketball celebrations get too far, for more local news weather traffic and sports were on the cw philly on these when people say you miss much, i miss, for example, the air forces accommodating me with a shower on the plane i flew around. I dont get irritated but i have to stop at stoplights now. I miss those who volunteer, to put themselves in harms way. Three of whom are here today and i have vowed that for the remainder of my life that i will do all i can do to help our vets. And so its good to hear him talk about his commitment to the vets. He does a bike ride with them, golf tournament. Hes been very com