Five residents have been displaced. The can you see cause of the fire remains under investigation. A former new york governor drought e brought down by a sex scandal. Elliot spitzer is accused of attacking a woman in a hotel. The former governor may have another scandal on his hands working to determine if those allegations are true. Crime scene investigators parked across the street from the hotel sunday night after allegations from a woman in her 20s that former new york her. The woman claims she and he had been friends for two years. The alleged altercation began saturday night because she was planning to return to her the woman claims the verbal argument turned violent with him pushing her and putting his hands around her neck. A spokesperson issuing a brief statement saying there is no truth to the allegation. In 2008 he resigned as governor after being involved in a proses fusion scandal. The woman in had i most recent case was taken to the hospital after attempting to cut meriweather wrists. She is still planning to return to russia. So far spitzer has not spoken about the case or been charged. Janelle burrell cbs 2 news. John its 14 degrees and it feels warm out. At least its like bearable. I mean it is still chilly you got to gear up on president s day but it will be a day of change and we are going to see a big change into your tuesday outside right now its 14. You are skipping down the street. Its a cold start but at least not two below. Recognize lin took the day off today. We love you. These are current wind chills so sub zero out there. A little bit of snow well to the south and west falling into dry air. Its going to take its sweet time. Dont anticipate problems until later today, middle part of the in. The concern is the changing nature. Its snow in the afternoon and then as the warm air pushes through it will change over to rain because we are in the 50s tomorrow. 4 33. Shes here and ready to say i can save you some time. Yup thats the plan. If you are traveling in lower manhattan. Worth street still closed between west broadway and other than that manhattan checking out pretty well. Queens all clear on the ground. No delays westbound as you make your way tots bridge or lie. To the George Washington bridge ez pass only but you are delay free. Lincoln and holland tunnel. Alternate sides suspended and pay matter the meters. Dont text and drive. Sending water pouring onto the steps and sidewalk. Fortunately students are on vacation this week. In midtown workers were cleaning up when a pipe burst above the store sending a water fall down the windows and onto the sidewalk. Over the last couple of days some of the coldest temperatures in the last 20 years. The temperatures dipped below zero in central park valentines day on record in the city and the coldest day since 1994. The mayor spent yesterday urging people to get inside and out of the cold. They sent nearly 800 Homeless People to health and Hospital Centers and shelters. The code blue plan remains in effect until 8 this morning. A man accused of a triple murder remains in jail. 25yearold Michael Sykes was arraigned with three stabbing deaths. Rebecca cutler and two children. Hes also charged with attempted murder accused of stabbing a twoyearold miracle who survived the attack. Police arrested him saturday after a three day manhunt. An airplane had to return by a laser. The flight returned as a precaution and an investigation is currently under way. A new jersey woman and long island man are among the three People Killed over the weekend. 54yearold pair of bridge water new jersey and kenneth were pronounced dead at the scene. It happened in bethel town ship 75 miles north of philadelphia. Dozens were injured after a massive Chain Reaction crash. Investigators believe passing snow squalls and near white ultimate conditions played a role in the crash that left cars and trucks scattered across three lanes. A 70yearold arrived at the prison where hell serve 19 months for bribery and object instruction of justice years hes the first israeli Prime Minister to serve time in prison prison. A private plan after a flight from west texas found dead in his room on saturday. Officials determined he died of Natural Causes. His caskth was griffin from a funeral home to virginia. President obama will nominate a successor in due time once the Senate Returns from a week long recess. Now to campaign 2016 and saturday nights heated republican debate. They conducted a poll and 32 said marco rubio was the winner 24 said donald trump, 19 john kasich 12 for Ted Cruz Ben Carson and jeb bush. Next saturday the South Carolina primary shows donald at 42 followed by ted cruz with 22 . Marco rubio is third with 15 followed by John Kasich Jeb bush and ben carson with 6 . The cbs news poll of likely democratic voters shows Hilary Clinton leading. Cutting funding of terrorism programs. This is a huge mistake and it will not stand. The president has been good on terror funding but this year bureaucrats got through a very serious mistake that must be reversed. They want to slash funding from 600 million to 300 million to help cities front and respond to and recover from today is the president s day holiday and children have the day off from school. Post offices are closed. No mail delivery. Most banks are closed. There are a few exceptions. Financial markets and federal and state courts. Transit systems are on a reduced schedule. Time is now 4 39. Up next the popes message as he celebrates mass in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods. Pulled from a house of horrors. One of the dogs rescued just in the knick of time. Love in the air but some of the couples in times square got cold feel . It was so cold. Its another cold morning. Snow is going to arrive mid day and then its icy before it traffic and weather on the 2s coming up. Living well your immune system works hard to keep you top of your game. And getting some rest. And you can combine these simple remedies with airborne. No other leading immunity brand gives you more vitamin c. Plus it has a specially crafted blend of 13 vitamins, minerals and herbs. So when you want to support your immune system, take airborne, if you were in new york city this weekend or anywhere in the try state area you couldnt feel anything. Dont forget the grammys are tonight at 8. I think this one is going to take home one of the trophies. Love this song. Lets get over to johnny. When is the warm up coming . Thats a great point. That exposed skin over the weekend just hurt but the warm up is on the way. Still its a chilly morning. Look at that. Two degrees barry in bloomingdale. Concerned the change over will take longer for him in a cold pocket and thats a good point but there will be a change over where you should at least be now this is adam. He has three. I appreciate this. This is daniel. He has three and sent this picture in from yesterday. Look closely his air temperature reading in Greenwood Lake was 6 below with a wind chill yesterday morning of 32 degrees below zero. So just brutal conditions there. So very cold and still Single Digits but at least walter just sent in this dear picture and i wanted to share it with you. You got to have a lot of dough to get that kind of material in the morning. We are going to see warmer temperatures today and thats a key component to that change over with precipitation in the financing so crisp and cold and 14 degrees. Air temperature readings Single Digits and sub zero air believe it or not with limited exception these numbers warmer than yesterday and less wind. So wind chills for the most part are above zero. Every now and then there is the aberration around the shore with gusty wind. Dry air in place waiting for this to push into this dry air mass so takes a while for it to hit the ground but when it starts middle part of the day its going to start as snow. This is the early afternoon. President s day holiday will help. Its going to be slippery for the commute time but as early as 6 you start to see mixing. The pink is the troubling part with that freezing rain and by 10 00 tonight you are looking at rain and then tuesday day its a soaker. You could see an inch to two of rain so watching that as well. Definitely big changes headed your way. Thankfully its a holiday. Traveling on the roads and the rails. No delays but metro north trains are on a saturday schedule. New Jersey Transit is on a weekend Holiday Schedule. Extra trains during the a. M. And p. M. Only. No service on the bridge. The man talk branch can be an alternate. Meter rules are still in effect and dont text and drive. Mary back to you. Heres a quick look at some of the stories making news this morning. Pope francis is back in mexico city after wrapping up a visit to a Childrens Hospital yesterday. He also celebrated and open air mass for more than 300,000 dangerous cities. Today he flies to the Southern State to celebrate the indigenous people. Starting tomorrow airlines in the u. S. Will have 15 days to submit applications for the u. S. And cuba are going to resume scheduled flights for the first time in over 50 years. Crews rescued 48 people from two trampf cars after a New Hampshire ski resort got stuck 40 feet. Passengers were repelled to the ground one by one. No injuries reported. Financial markets are closed for president s day. Last week the dow slid 177 points between monday and friday. Stocks soared on friday with the dow up 313 points nearing the 16,000 mark and the s p up 35. Now the gains tracked a significant rise in oil prices. Now despite the popularity of ebooks sales of hard copies are on the rise from 2. 5 to 11. 2 billion over the increase for the industry since 2007. The figures and say they saw a decline in ebooks last year and print sales went up. Animal shelters were flooded by hundreds of phone calls. People wanted to adopt dogs from a hoarding situation. We tracked down one of the dogs. Valerie castro has more. Bear is a sweet and playful lab mix puppy who just a month ago was rescued from this north bergen home. More than 50 animals were found with no heat and filthy living conditions. A dead dog and several cats were also discovered. The new owner remembers seeing images from the day the animals were rescued. I saw people carrying out the dogs and some of them were so young and to think that no one was really caring for them and some of them looked really frightened. I saw 50 or 60 dogs in need and needs us. She and her husband reached out to a shelter. When she first assessed him she said they had to carry him out. He wouldnt come out on a leash. So thinking they were traumatized. Hes since become a part of the family and has new found friends. He was able to find a loving and happy home but there are still other dogs that are up for adoption. These three are some of the dogs that were most skiddish when they were rescued and can be found in oak ridge new jersey. These other dogs can be adopted from the animal refuge in oakland. Valerie castro cbs 2 news. Cute bear. Since the rescue operation the man accused of hoarding the animals has not been found by police. Why some couples with the record cold putting a chill on and the big winners from last nights british film awards. And another check of traffic and weather on the 2s next. Morning. Big night tonight with the grammys. Youll see ed shereen there with thinking out loud. This morning really cold temperatures. 14 degrees. Welcome back. Love was in the air on valentines day. Dozens of couples braved the record cold to get hitched. Eight couples were set to get married at the cross roads of temperatures. Some couples got cold feet. Katie and jordan refused to let it ruin their wedding. I wanted to wear a Wedding Dress of course but i want to be warm. If this isnt love i dont know what is. These new borns got dressed up in little red hats at pennsylvania Washington Hospital yesterday. Part of the Little Hats Big Hearts Program for american heart association. Those babies look comfortable. I thought she looked great. Congrats to them thats for sure. Time for traffic and weather on the 2s. Those babies are cute. Mary said its cold again 14 degrees so starting off cold and dry. Thats important because weve got snow approaching but even though it will fall in the atmosphere it will take a while before it hits. It arrives and impacted the again its a holiday. Changing to rain by midnight. 55 tuesday but rain freezing rain sleet and snow on the menu today so make sure you are ready for it. The day off. Thats right john. We have changes in queens an accident blocking two lanes on the brown stone white stone bridge. Alternate is a smoother ride. Also hicksville moving well and flowing freely in both directions for you. Alternate side is suspended and meter rules are still in effect. Dont text and drive. Over to you. Thank you. You can trust your childs safety to a nanny but can you trust her marriage with her as well . Celebrity marriages have been rocked with nanny cheating scandals but it doesnt just happen to anyone. If somebody wants to do something hes going to find a way to do it. If you are sexy young and are. Find out what some moms are doing to keep their husbands from falling into the nanny attraction. Grammy awards. In our next half hour more on the loss of Supreme CourtJustice Scalia and how to replace him. Hear what he has to say exclusively to Marcia Kramer. And next a record weekend for dead pool. Well have the rest of the box office winners. Morning. Its a record for any r rated film. Kungfu panda 3 took second place. Zoo lander 2 and the revenant rounding out the top five there. And the award for leading actor goes to leonardo dicaprio. You are going to hear his name a lot. Star of the revenant took home top acting honors last night. The fact is he had been up for the award several times before. This was his first win and helped cement his status as master frontrunner. Revenant also won best picture sound. Hes king of the world. You talk about a great weekend. Thats a great movie. Now 4 57. Still ahead musics big night we head out live to l. A. Where the final preparations are being made for tonights Grammy Awards. Every girl felt special on valentines day. The act of kindness he was able to pull off. And former new york governor Elliot Spitzer in the plaza cbs 2 news begins in 90 seconds. Coming up on 5 00 for you. Its cold out there 14 degrees for monday february 15, president s day. Cold this morning. Snow this afternoon and believe it or not in the mid 50s tomorrow. Well have traffic and weather on the 2s in a moment. Also following a developing story a Police Investigation involving Elliot Spitzer with an alleged assault against a young woman at the plaza hotel over the weekend. Good morning im chris wragge. Im mary calvi. Thanks for starting your morning with us. Firefighters trying to get a massive fire in brooklyn under control. The fire began spreading to neighboring buildings and causing major damage. Diane macedo has more from green point. Flames shot out into the street as neighbors could only stand by and watch. The fire started around 10 30 00 p. M. And moved quickly. If spread to the exposure two and four side. There was fire in three buildings. It took dozens of firefighters to finally put that fire out a task made even more challenging by frigid temperatures. Over the last couple days some of the coldest temperatures weve seen in new york city in the last 20 years. The temperature in central park at negative 1 for the First Time Since 1980 setting a new record but while some tried their best not to let the weather stand in their way. I layer up. Weve had such a good winter. You cant get bogged down by that. Its not a big deal. For others it was a very big deal like workers cleaning up at this Brooks Brothers store in midtown. A busted pipe sent a water fall out onto the sidewalk. Frozen pipes at a high school sending water pouring onto the steps and not clear how much and chris and mary you can see its an active seen here in green point. Up until a few minutes ago transfers still searching the walls of that complex looking for any remains pockets of fire. Now though still a big mess to clean up. I want to show you the salt on the road one of the big challenges in fighting a fire in temperatures this cold is as you spray water on the fire that water turns to ice. In this case it was so cold that firefighters actually had to call in the department of sanitation to come in and salt the entire area. So still a lot of clean up and damage control involved in this fire. The one saving grace is fdny tells us no one was seriously injured. They have two minor civilan and two minor firefighters injuries but no one seriously hurt. Live in Brooklyn Diane Macedo cbs 2 news. Thank you. John has traffic and weather on the 2s. Ice. Still dangerously cold so watch your step as well. In the city we are up a degree. 15 degrees wind out of the east so the wind chill is 8. Mind chill is 1 and still sub zero wind chills out there so you obviously have to layer up today but i would not forget thei dont want to say the umbrella but it might not be a bad idea with snow today and definitely needing it tomorrow. By then the snow is in our area by 3 but notice into the 8 00 hour the surge of warm air will hit our high between 9 and midnight and will change over freezing rain and sleet before it turns to rain and you do need the umbrella on president s day. Thankfully not too much company out there right alex . You are right as you make your way to worth street between west broadway and hudson street following the the crane collapse. Minor delays through the area. Showing you the lincoln tunnel helix portion. The holland and George Washington bridges as well. The turnpike past Newark Liberty airport really no delays. Garden states parkwa