Newspaper and political blogger. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Call a useful idiot. Russians donald trump makesis pick for secretary of state. Anybody whos a friend of Vladimir Putin must disregard the fact that Vladimir Putin is a murderer, a thug, a kgb agent. The relationship betwe exxonmobils tillerson and Vladimir Putin it is not as if theyre friends or either have chosen as god fracture to their air. Its cold. Arctic air making its way across the midwest. A lufthansa superjet made an Emergency Landing at jfk because of a bomb threat. Police dragged a woman by her arms off the plane. Aild and dangerous pice chase to wound through compton. Boy, this guy will not give up. Tom brady off to the races a big win for new england with an eye toward the number one seed. All that president obamas swan on on the daily show. Its important for me to recharge. I think its important for me to reflect. Its important for me to get all that mattered. Calling for an investigation into ssias role into the presi. Oh, great, theres nothing more reassuring than the words, dont worry, congress will do something. Theyron it on cbs this morning clinton getting 162 more votes than his original total. Im not saying russia had from early 84 today. Announcer this mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Toyota. Let places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. President elect donald trump said exxonmobil chairman and ceo will be his secretary of state. Mr. Trump annoced this morning that he will nominate rex topomat. N as the untrys next the decision ended aery public sear llerson could face a confirmation fight because of his ties to russian president Vladimir Putin. The president elect said that tillerson is one othe tly he decided thar rs the world. Governor rick perry will be secretary of ener nancy, good morning. Gd morning. Tillhas spe ent carere tha decades at exnmobil,o he has vast ru and that has been metit some itism, some both inside and outside his pty. At age , Rex Tillerson has heed wor largest publiclyradompanyor nearly adeca lastyear, what else rked5 weulpele. O the most untiso nsleadership exxonmobil struck a dea with russia in 11 to begin drilling fooil in the arctic. But the project was halted t years later by western sanction aer ra crimea. Im going to comply wit the sancons. There not any conversa otherwise authat. Orter illerson earlier hisatrelationships with foreign governments including im not here to represent the United States governments interest. Im not here to defend it. Nor am i hear to criticize it. Thats not what i do. Im a businessman. Reporter but if confirmed as secretary of state, tillerson representing u. S. Foreign policy interests and will need to navigate his 15year history with Vladimir Putin. I have a very close relationship with him. I dont agree with everything hes doing. Reporter putin awarded tillerson a russi this commitment. Reporter for secretary of energy, mr. Trump has settled on former Texas Governor rick perry who once proposed eliminate the Energy Department though it famously slipped his mind during the debate. Third agency of government, i would do away with education commerce and, lets see i cant the third one, i cant. With those two positions still, mr. Trump is now pretty close to completing his cabinets. The president elect hasnt held an official press Conference Since he was a candidate back in july. And late yesterday, he postponed his highly anticipated press conference set for this thursday. Where we was slated to explain how hes going to handle potential business conflicts. Gayle, his aides say the lawyers need a little more time to work out the details a hold that press conference early in january. Thank you very much, nancy. Margaret brennan is at the white house with a closer look for the nominee for secretary of state and how his back ground could shape diplomacy. Margaret, good morning. Rex tillerson will be the first secretary of state of state to take the job with no government experience. He is now americas chief diplomat and face to the world. One positive i am hearing particularly from arab diplomats very comfortable, theyve got good relationships with him. They are hope, the arab diplomat said he will push back and not tear up the deal. Europeanaying to keep in with concern among american. Diplomats. If were going to strike a loof concern there, but some with war actions against syria and ukraine. Some hope that tillerson has some deep relationshipst tha could be hel en he making calls to those leaders. Norah. Thank you, margaret. Cbs news has learned that the u. S. Is likely to pose sanctions on the leaders of russias largest intelligence agency. Telling cbs news news that high confidence that to try and help donald trump. Who has seen evidence of riggs involvement. Jeff, good morning. Good morning, some of idence tying the hacking to ssian operatives stretches backt least six months. Private officials contactsing the actions definitely were more detrimental to one candidate than the other. Clinton . Yeah. And most notably during the 2014 elections in ukrae. The strategy is what some believe is the russian playbook Intelligence Committee is calling for sanctions. The russians are not our friends. And while Mitch Mcconnell casts russia as a foe. I think we ought to approach awful e issues on the assumption, because the russians do not wish us well. So far president elect trump has not acknowledged russian invoement the hacks, and the Russian ForeignMinistry Says this is all part of a turf war betwn u. S. Security agencies. Dickerson, is in washington. Gto. Good morning. How did they come to the decisibout Rex Tillerson and in the end does he have an idea of how the United States suld look at the d . I think he has ideas. Specifically with regard to russia, its interesting the relationship there are some people that believe the ited states is in as bad a place as it has been since the early 1960s. But the world is different than the 1960s. And the United States is i a conflict position with russia, in some place wating what its doing with baltic nations, for example. But also needs russia to counterbalance a growing china. So the complofexy the rsian relationship will be a fascinating case to figure out enen donald um begins and and where his secretary of state begins in terms of choice, it seems that donald trump wanted mebody like he said in the campaign, a ceo who made deals. A ceo who had a strong sense of himsel wouf d be able to do americas bidding overseas. And think donaltrump ally did want mitt romney for a while and just couldnt get over the obstacles. You have senators rubio, lindsey graham, john mccain, have all raid concerns about difficult procesin part because trying to figure out what exactlyonald trump believes about russia. Or where the secretary of state, or the incoming secretary of russia. Hat he thinks about what jo mccain said sunday on face the nation, the first question what do you think of Vladimir Putin . And john mccain thinks hes a murderer and athug. Foreign policy peo t tion right,ll of the that could be wrong. Make after cant you take somebody say murderer and thug and understand theyr a leader of a country. And you have to dl witthem. Therefore you have to bring qualthat will enable you to absolutely. Ter . And thats thergument democrats made with dealing with countrs thatepublicans didnt want tokto. They sa, look, Ronald Reagan dealt with russians and his eyes streng thorin a supine position that let them essentially do their bidding. All the other nations, that will react if they think thathe United States is not really in the game in terms of checking russian power. John, donald trump had said he would hold a press conference on thursday about how he would disconnect himself from any potential cflicts of interest with his businesses. Hes now postpod that conference saying at lawyers are jusnot ready. What are the implica tis . Themplications are, that the big question is still out there. And it seems if theyre not ready, its more focus on the tax returns. In other words, whats the real interest of Donald Trumps interests and how those theres no way tonow unless you look at the actual underlying documents that wou s. There evidence at the moment that donald trump is stinto release those aneres new one abo his sons will run the companynd they wont get inny a new des, thats a b step. But it really doesnt mean anything utheynls eally sort of show their work and have transparency. How likely, john, do you think it is that well ever see the tax returns . Well, based on the promised de during the campaign youd have to be skeptical. Its kind of ld outhe the american that people can be certain that these conflicts that have o mubeen s talked about are really taken care of. John dickerson, always good feels like 18 minneapolis. Reporter good morning, norah, im walking acrs very frozen lake. I just had a dog out here playing nd. Last year, we couldave been swimming across the lake. Not the case right w. The reason we were swimming because it didnt getelow zero until january 9th last year. What a difference a year makes. Because right now, this week, temperatures here the region wi be 15 to 20 degrees below average. C came with all kinds of snow in the regi buats then pushed east. As you canimagine, the cold temperatures are very dangerous. You can actually have your skin freeze in less than ten minutes and doctors concerned that people n bundled up could face hypothermia as the terms head towards the east. This also will not be the last winter storm that we see. Right now, were being told by meteorologists that another winter storm is brewing in the expect it to hit here in the midwest later this week. Temperatures are going to remain very cold here and then move to the east, to you guys, in new york, gayle. Thank you very much, jamie. Drivers are dealing with heavy knosnow in indiana. Heres a scene near gary. Tracking that storm, megan, good morning. Good morning, windchill advisories are in place this morning for parts of minnesota montana. Windchills from 20 to 35 degrees below zero. That spells frostbite in as little as 30 minutes. And high temperatures today will struggle to even reach 8 degrees in minneapolis. 12 for fargo, 14, billings. Chicago, much of the day in the teens. This cold continues to spread to the south and east encompassing much of the eastern half of the country by the end of the week. Watching a storm system come on shore in the west which could mean possible accumulating snow from the mountains in california, all the way across the country to nantucket. Were talking certainly about another week of winterlike weather before winter gets started. Syrias army said its ready to take out the holdouts in eastern aleppo. Controlling 99 of the former rebelheld neighborhoods. Killed at least 82 civilians during the takeover. The red cross said thousands of civilians have nowhere safe to run. A Human Rights Group now says more than 312,000 people have been killed in six years of civil war. 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Were taken to a local hospital with . Moderate serious injuries. . The uthbound lanes of 194 were . Closed . Afe crash but everything is back open now. That wasnt the . Only . Issue on the roads this morning. Lets get a look at the Current Conditions with andy br brovelli 3 3 roads are in good shape this morning. Weather should not commute. Once again, your travel time along westbound i 94 will be a slow one due to the zipper merge. As each day goes by, drivers get more used to the delays. Plan on using alternates. I will have those as well as a look at your drive times coming up. 3 forecast. Today. Colder. Partly sunny in the then clearing. Highs around 12. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Tonight. Partly cloudy. Lows around 2. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Wednesday. Partly sunny. Patchy blowing snow. Highs around 13. West winds 10 to 20 . Donald trump beeas meeting with mark barnett the creator of the apprentice to plan next months inauguration ceremony. Is the whole thing going to be i understand to get to the white house he won an amazing race. Outf the dozensf candidates, trump was the survivor. Even thoughording to the popular vote he was the biggest loser. I think he could have come up with something else. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Coming up in this half hour, the future first lady is suing a british newspaper and a blogger, that helanned more deadly violence. That story is ahead. Some of the headlines. The New York Times says Election Results in wisconsin and pennsylvania are now official. Donald trump picked up an extra 131 votes in mr. Trump won by more than 44,000 votes in pennsylvania. The Electoral College votes on monday. The Philadelphia Inquirer headed to prison f essman is chaka fattah. The term is one of the longest its new spill is not connect to the dakota pipeline. Its focused on oil recovery and environment cleanup. Usa today says g prices ar cut oil production. Analysts say early next year prices could approach 3 a gallon in parts of the country. Gas averaged 2. 21 a gallon nationwide. Reports sho that workers at uber allegedly spied on to spy oncelebrities like beyoe and stalked exboyfriends and information. Now, uber disputes those claims. Prosecutors say accused Church Killer dylann roof may have planned more attacks. Juro head about the alled hit list. Thrgets included other black churches. Charleston where the jury h in the chilling explanation about mark, chilling is the word here. Chilling is the word. Jurors have heard parts of roofs online manifesto read in open court. A former agent found it on the roof computer. He testified that roof looked at a time four hours before the shooting that left nine people dead. In federourtn monday, Law Enforcement officials presented evidence collected from dylann roofs car, including a at least five charleston area churches and their addresses. It made me feel a little disappointed to know that morris brown was on the list, but not quitesurprised. Reporter reverend Charles Keaton is Senior Pastor at one of those churches. I imagine that there was a bible study going on in this very building the night that happened. Reporter in a twohour taped confession with fbi agents roof explained why he chose charlestons historic Emanuel Ame Church . So that is why you chose that church . Right, right. I wasnt going to go to anoth church, you know because there could have been white people there. Were you going to shoot other people . Reporter in roofs car, Law Enforcement also recovered american and confederate flags, along with a laser sight attachment. What kind of gun was it . A glock 45. Reporter roof allegedly bought that weapon at shooters choice in columbia, south the gun store manag