Cranking in the morning, d. C. And long island. Just learned from state police that around 3,000 motorists are trapped on 75. Countrys air traffic is practically at a standstill. A mass shooting in canada as the shooter opened fire in a high school in saskatchewan killing four before being taken into to custody. Oscars are pledging changes after complaints for a second year about all white acting nominees. Lot of things has to be improved. How do i preach this mike and make this work . Do it like a lady. Dream on why am i showing you . All that go. And all that matters. Curry frameworks half court. He banks it in. This ones good. On cbs this morning saturday. Its ten day before the iowa caucus. Donald trump, hes in it to win it. He showed it this with week because he brought out sarah palin. Negotiate deals kind of with the skills of a Community Organizer maybe organizing a neighborhood somewhere in arizona Johnny Mccain is going, you should have called me, dude. And welcome to the weekend everyone. We have a packed show for you this morning, including full coverage of the monster storm thats slamming the east coast. Plus speaking of snow, well take you to one of the worlds most dangerous sporting events. It is happening today. Some of the best skiers in the world will attempt to navigate a race that can quickly turn ledley. Also a conversation on rock and roll mortality. With the passing of david bowie and glenn frey, at least one is wondering if hes next. And a unique display at the London Museum uses raw data to create incredible images of our solar system and well show you how it is done. Our top story, a big and powerful blizzard effecting more than 70 million americans. At least nine stormrelated deaths are reported. Snow, sleet, freezing rains and gale forced wins, combined with high tides is battering coastal areas. One in seven americans could get at least half a foot of in snow. In carolinas snowplows are working but conditions are hazardous with many cars just skidding right off the road. In philadelphia not many easier for the snowplow. Officials are urging residents to stay home today. Philadelphias Transit System has shut down. Here in new york the mayor is also telling people to stay home. At least a foot of snow is expected today. There are ten states along the fallen but as of right now weve got about 13 inches or so on the defiant drivers hit the streets here despite a plea from the mayor to stay home. We want people to hunker down and shelt in place and stay you have to roads. Wind gusts 55 Miles Per Hour and snow falling at 23 inches an hour, conditions are getting worse. Plow trucks struggled coto keep up with the historic snowfall. Nearly three feet could be on the ground by the time it is all over. This a 36 hour storm with expected dangerous winds. Commuters are finding themselves on lockdown as well. The d. C. Metro suspended service late last night and wont be up o. To close it down inside is just kind of ridiculous. Because there are people that have to get to work at hospitals and other places that do not shut down. We came to have dinner with our neighbors, with our friends. We thought we would walk. Option. While kids went sledding down capitol hill friday evening, the first dog got to play in the snow at the white house. But the scene wasnt quite as pretty friday afternoon when daniel made rounds in his snowplow. How important is it for people to get you have to roads tonight . Very. I just dont want people to be in the street, me personally. Because of time. Once we get behind the snow it is going to be a hard time fighting to get back on top. There is great concern after about an inch of snow wednesday gridlocked the city for hours. Are running the storms response. Our first concern really are the residents. One of the major monikers of success for me personally is to make sure we dont lose anybody. That is first and foremost. Forecasters have been warning about this monster storm for days but some waited until the snow started falling to stock up. We only got 1078 snacks like it will bring down power lines it is bitter cold, well below freezing, if youre without power, could be for days. Reporter good morning, the is Power Outages. Thousands of people are waking up in the cold and dark. Er the storm also brought other kinds of winter misery. Around lexington, kentucky, a car and series of car and truck accidents closed i75 for 35 the highway miles. Re wkrt says the number is 3,000. Nine people were killed in car crashes during the storm in four southern states, parts of k kentucky got more than a foot of snow, tennessee and arkansas got ark 8 inches. Cities like raleigh, the issue powe is no power. Duke power, major utility in theently wi carolinas reports 135,000 customers are without power. The utility has 6800 workers across the south trying to restore it. If theres any good news, it is that temperatures are supposed means less chance of icy build up that topples trees, power lines, and causes different Power Outages. Gives the south a chance to recover today. Cer certainly what they need. T thank you so much. One of the biggest dangers is from the storm is threat of re coa severe coastal flooding. On one place on edge is new jersey which was hit hard by superstorm sandy. Sandy. Ch governor Chris Christie didnt cuat issue mandatory evacuation orders, but some shore tes communities advised residents to get out before the storm hit. Megabaker from wcbs is in new h jersey. Reporter it hit hard. And hit the big story are winds. And we have been warned about flooding. Take a look. This i this is an inlet, this water coming over the bulkhead. This i first high tide of the day, by powered by the full moon. A dangerous combination of very g strong winds mixed with lunar l high tied that will cause major behind me, you can see it is starting to flood. To this side, theres a beach front. These housers on the beach only front, only a three foot blush of sand protecting homes. Stor expecting waves up to 12 feet high, could create more damage along the coastline. Winds are whipping down here. W water is flying off the jetty. G o snow on the jetty behind me. A governo christie issued a state of emergency. Means n no one should be on roads. Low visibility here. It is awfully slippery. It is freezing. As we go through the day, this e to flooding is only sure to get worse. Meg baker, thank you. Even those not in the direct path are effected. Se the blizzard cancelled thousands of flights, creating problems for rail travelers, too. No in philadelphia. Reporter good morning from the city of brotherly love. It is beautiful this saturday morning. Snow is blowing but it is cold around 25 degrees. Amtrak says theyll continue running through the weekend but here at a modified schedule. Air travel, boy has that been 00 snarled. Yesterday to sunday, 8200 fo flights cancelled, more than 33 delayed in and out of the u. S. American airlines will be cancelling ove2,0001,000, and united will have under a thousand just cancellations. Airports where we see the most cancellations from charlotte to philadelphia. Charlotte, douglas s international, bwi, washington nal. Dulles, philadelphia are all seeing mass cancellations this es weekend. In philadelphia, it will be a ncella ghost town, no flights in or l be out. Many airlines are allowing if you planned a trip in or out rebo of any of those airports rgs call the airline. Much of a you should have much hassle. On back in philadelphia, there was dan blowing snow earlier. Storm we saw something of a snow a tornado as i was driving to the live shot, swirling in front of our vehicle. The sensors on our rental car were going off, the vehicle was senting some object in front of it, it was simply snow. They had ten inches of snow in philadelphia in the last ten hours. Man, that feels cold. They expect another ten inches over the next 12 hours. Looks like the meteorologists got this one right. We appreciate you being out in all of that, David Begnaud in philadelphia, thank you. Whats next for the storm. We turn to lonnie quinn in new york. Is the worst of it over . No. I think today will end up just to be as bad as the previous days in is the worst day, then gone is the tomorrow. Lets take a peek at 77 million s take people who are effected in some way, shape or form by winter i storm warnings and blizzard warnings. Hape or we have a blizzard warning, new york city, philadelphia, you sawblowing that wind blowing around. And this this big swathe of blue is not rain or snow, thats moisture. Snow. This is drawing moisture from the caribbean. Fr it is not going to fade away, theres too much moisture available. As it pulls it up. It wil it will be gone by sunday morning, 10 00 a. M. , clear at cape cod and the islands. Measuring this snow in feet. In i could have broken it down this is more, this is general. A less than a foot for the areas in blue, including boston and the cape then one to two feet from new ding york city, philadelphia, out elphia, into west virginia, virginia. Heres the sweet spot. If you call a lot of snow sweet. Two feet or more, 81 corridor inhat is t virginia, winchester, say 19 inches. I get another 10 today. If you get 29 inches, could be p the biggest storm in d. C. Biggest history. 77 million effected. Lonnie quinn, thanks so much. A Deadly School shooting in the canadian province of sask saskatchewan under investigation in a small town 400 miles north of calgary. Calgary. Officials say at least four wo killed, two critically wounded in the attack friday. Attack friday. The suspected shooter is custody. Police opened fire on a man waving a gun as he walked in the middle of traffic in las vegas. Last night from front of the bellagio on the strip. At times he pointed the gun at people. He refused to obey police orders. The man was not hit by the lightly wounded. As the intermural fight between donald trump and start ted cruz continues. The latest poll from fox news shows trump in the lead nationwide with 34 . Cruz 14 percentage points, rubio at 11 and everyone else in single digits. The donald trump ted cruz rivalry hit a new high friday with both candidates unleashing duelling attack ads. As they barrel towards the iowa bill reporter cruz hit trump for supporting and profiting from Eminent Domain laws, which allow the government to seize private property. It made him rich, like when city insiders to bulldoze the home of an elderly widow. Trump took to twitter once again raising questions about whether canadian born cruz is eligible to be president. And he fired back at the National Review for publishing a series of essays making a case against the republican front runner. While trump once called the magazine a true conservative voice, he tweeted in response very few read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize but not how to lead lead. In ab interview with abc cruz dismissed trumps twitter tirades and said hed steer clear of personal attacks in favor of policy. Indishable from bernie sanders. Politics is not a soap opera. It is not a baseball game. Hampshire. Where hes leading in the polls making clinton supporters neshs. To fight back clinton has been aggressively taking on sanders record on guns, healthcare and financial regulation, while emphasizing her experience. We need a prosecuteesident who can do all aspects of the job. For cbs this morning saturday, Julianna Goldman in washington. Death. The tents caused by a defective air bag maidde by the japanese manufacture takata. Dimarco morgan has more. 52yearold joe knight was driving this ford ranger when a his car struck a cow in the road. Air bag killing him. The spokesperson for the national highway traffic administration. This is a National Safety crisis and precipitated by the tact that they manufactured millions of defective inflaters and then provided incomplete, mislead on inaccurate information to nista the public. Some deploy with Excessive Force shattering the metal inflater and sending shrapnel flying into the vehicle. As much as 24 million vehicles are now involved. Stephanie was injured when her air bag exbloeded in 2013. Instant blindness followed by gushing blood. It was terrifying. Takata Vehicle Manufacturers are struggling to make enough vehicles already rerecalled. And tens of millions more may still need to be recalled in the future. For cbs this morning saturday. If to check if your car or truck is being recalled find an updated list on cbs news. Com. Time to show you some of the mornings head lines. The new york city New York Times reports he details with the missing consultant robert lechbsen. Iran maintains it did not know of lechbsens where abouts during recent negotiations that. Led to a prisoner swap between the u. S. And iran. Announcer Detroit Free Press say answer e expert in legionnaires is connecting the disease to the citys water condition problems. It is a reasonable link. Health Officials Say 70 of the people who contracted legionnaires during the recent spike in cases were exposed to flint water two weeks before their symptoms began. A listeria outbreak from dole packaged salads killed one in michigan while sending others to the hospital. The outbreak rigid t at a packaging plant in spring field ohio. Outbreaks in six states. The plant has been shut down. The independent of london reports the man convicted of murdering Meredith Kurcher say ss he was trying to sell her knox was convicted and heard about the cow which bolted from a slaughter house only to be rounded up by police. Freddy will apparently now go do a farm. Reportedly named after Freddy Mercury coming up. If you got a call asking for a Political Campaign contribution, look out. Your money may not be going and later, new changes to fix the diversity problem. Well break down the new system. Also we continue to monitor the first major blizzard of the year. Well have updates from the affected areas ahead. Morning saturday. Coming up, why that smart change in the banking business. Also we preview tomorrows epic nfl faceoff. Tom brady versus Peyton Manning for what maybe be the last time. Well be right back. This is cbs this morning this is a live look at washington, where a declaration of emergency is already in force as a blizzard blangtss the large part of the east to. Parts of washington very a foot of snow. That is epiic and think stale have another 14 hours of snow yet to come. Speaking of washington, by the end of last year, president ial campaigns and outside groups supporting them raised more than 600 Million Dollars between the candidates, party committees, Political Action committees and super pacs. That number is going to explode, funded in part by donations from individual americans. With so many groups asking for money it can be confusing. Julianna goldman shows why it is important for donors to do their homework. Reporter christina and jim were paid on commission to call conservative voters. 35, 50, 75, a 00hundred. A thousand. Whatever you felt you could work out of them. Public records show it was paid 400 thousand by a called conservative strike force. He says one caller told her she was dying of cancer so she asked her supervisor for guidance. And he said well why didnt you tell him that this is an donation. To give one last big donation before he dies . Yes. Also enlists on bhafrehalf of veterans, saying can strike force count on your support or important times . But we couldnt find any money going to veterans causes. We looked at federal records and found since 2011 conservative strike force and other packs raised over 33 million largely from republican retirees yet only 8 actually went to the causes they claim to support. The rest went to a group of companies who used those donations to make more money. Is it a scam . No question. You cant say an organization its money just to raise more money and never has any intention of doing any of the things it is telling the people do. You cant call that anything else. 2013 republican candidate for governor. Conservative strike force used his name in their pitches without his approval. He says they made false promises to voters. So he sued them. Literally, they listed eleven things. Were going to do phone call, radio ad, Television Ads and they didnt do any of those. When donors give, where does the money go . The pack a as well as six others all have the same treasurer, a man named scott mckenzie. They also have the same address, p. O. Box 806 at this store in virginia. He paid himself consulting fees and directed over half a Million Dollars to one company where hes the treasurer. Of all of these packs. He says he doesnt have any current ties for the vendors. As treasurer for a total of 25 packs he takes all the heat he says for the decisions other people make. Already in this election cycle donald trump asked mckenzie to shut down his unauthorized group patriot for trump. Mckenzie says hell comply. In the meantime this former telemarketer in gave this advice. Dont give anything other the phone. If you want to give something go to the website of the organization you want to support. And im sorry. Im sorry for my part in that. For cbs this morning, Julianna Goldman in washington. All right this year some of mckenzies pacs have reportedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars from voters across the country. Coming up the most dangerous ski race in the world is happening today and well get a now a look at the weather for your weekend. Up next, medical news in our morning rounds. Including new guidelines for treating pregnant women who may have been exposed to the zika virus which is liked to birth defects. And dr. s john youre watching cbs this morning saturday. Come on in pop pop. Happy birthday. I just had a heart attack. And now i have a choice. For her. For them. A choice to take brilinta. A prescription for people whove been hospitalized for a heart attack. I take brilinta with a baby aspirin. No more than 100 mg. As it affects how well it works. Its such an important thing to do to help protect against another heart attack. Brilinta worked better than plavix. 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