So where did all those boxes go . Well show you what happens to the mountain of cardboard leftover from your holiday purchases. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Its been brutal. Chilling. It really stings the face. The major storm begins roaring up the east coast. A beast of an ocean storm. This is going to become extremely powerful. Contact resumes between north and south korea after President Trump appears to taunt mr. Kim jongun. Its a continuing protest. The u. N. Must speak out. In the days ahead, well be calling for an emergency session. A bus crashed. Senator orrin hatch of utah this paves the way for mitt romney to run for the seat. Ive always been a good fighter, but every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. A deadly blizzard on the state throughway. You couldnt see in front of you. One passenger in spain was so upset over the delay, he opened the door on the wing and left. Californians can finally try marijuana. Just like that, millions of cases of back pain and my grain cured. They immediately went away. On cbs this morning. King jongun says he has a Nuclear Button on his desk. Sounds like a guy walks into his office like, nobody move, i have a bomb strapped to my chest. Oh, by the way, put me down for the potluck on saturday and put d its going to be this thing. Get it . 234 announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im Norah Odonnell with jeff glor and bianna golodryga. Gayle king is off. Welcome back. Thank you. Missed you guys. Lots of news going on today. Were going to start with this. The recordbreaking winter storm will take aim at millions of americans as the record cold wave intensifies across the country. At least 13 deaths are blamed on the frigid weather. In grand forks, north dakota, windchills could hit minus 28 degrees today. Windchills in chicago may dip to minus 7 and hit 15 below in cleveland. More than twothirds of the country faces temperatures below 20 degrees this morning. Tonight atlanta could plunge minus 29 degrees. And were tracking a new system that could bring heavy snow up the east coast. In new york, the windchill is expected to fall as low as minus 10 degrees today. Demarco, good morning. Reporter that is cold. You can see behind me, its completely covered in icicles. If thats not enough to show how cold it is, look at this. This is a big block of ice. It was once snow. Crazy, right . The cold weather has caused dangerous conditions on the road. One person died after a 75vehicle crash on the new york states throughway. Dozens of vehicles were stranded on the new york state throughway as drives battled white joutd conditions. You couldnt see anything in front of you. Everything was blurry. It was a complete whiteout. Reporter the snowy roads turned slick. Into the night authorities were massive pileup and nearby in buffalo, niagara airport, northeasterly whiteout conditions. A plane is trying to taxi. In new jersey tied a record low of minus 12 degrees. Weve had to leave our units much more quickly. Reporter in new york city icicles hung on power lines and fire escapes. Oh, my god. Reporter William Powells car was parked in front of the building and he came outside to find it frozen shut. I have never felt the cold like im feeling it in these last few days. The only thing i can think of is alaska or the arctic. Reporter it was actually warmer in alaska than in new york city. Its chilling. It really stings the temperatures have reached more than minus 21 degrees. You thought you were coast last month, last week. Now youre cold. Reporter schools in new england and parts of the south will be canceled because of the cold weather. But its not over yet. Theres another winter blast headed our way. Jeff, well send things back to you. Thank you very much. Slick roads could make for dangerous commutes across the south. Subzero temperatures froze fountains from texas to georgia. Manuel bojorquez is in brunswick, georgia, where theyre under a state of emergency. Manu manuel, good morning. Reporter good morning. Were riding along with Georgia State troopers who are out in full force taking a look at the roads. In fact, captain rice said its becoming a busy morning with state highways. Schools are either delaying the start of classes or canceling them all together. Lets go ahead and give you a look right now at our outside camera of i95. Of course, this is the main artery up and down coastal georgia. And the big concern here will be ice, which were told has already started to form on bridges and overpasses. Lets talk about the numbers. Nearly 250 crew members and 13 trucks began treating roads last night with sand and brian to keep the anticipated ice from sticking, but the headaches are not just here. In texas, slippery roads caused more than 30 Car Accidents on tuesday. And with possible snow later today, georgia officials are hoping to keep coastal cities from experiences what happened in atlanta in 2014 when a mere 2 inches of snow caused gridlock that lasted more than 24 hours. Here in brunswick, city theyll try to treat as many roads as they can, but they dont have the resources to treat all of them. The best advice here is if you do not have to be out on the roads, simply stay home. Norah . All right, manuel. Thank you so much. Chief meteorologist lonnie quinn is here to show us where the east coast storm called the bomb cyclone is headed next. Good morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning, everyone. We jump into the current radar picture. I10 in north florida, a lot of icing. Thats the problem right now. Then you get up into the 95 door in georgia. You just heard from manuel. Theres going to be a problem there as well. The computer models are initializing it. Its depicting where the storm is right now. That means we feel confident with the forward projection of where we think the storm is going. It travels up the eastern seaboard. They show the wind as they tighten up and get closer and closer together. Thats when the storm bombs were talking 50, maybe 70mileperhour winds with snow falling as well. Northern maine could see 2 feet of snow. Blizzard conditions are going to be in effect from the northern border of maine and canada and the cape cod islands as well. Bianna, lets go over to you. That sounds terrifying, lonnie. Thank you so much. South korea said it made contact with north korea overnight on a newly reopened hotline. It was restored for the first time in nearly two years. A spokesman for north Korean Leader kim jongun announced the reopening on state tv. It may put the u. S. And south korea at odds. Ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. So it was just yesterday that south korea said they want the highlevel talks with north korea and they want them to take place next week. The north has responded and it appears to be a step in the an easing. It actually exists. Its set up in a border area call called panmunjom. But north korea shut down that hotline two years ago. In recent weeks president moon jaein has offered to come forward and talk with north korea. Now, that contradicts the latest stance on the Trump Administration which has said talks could only occur if north korea ends its nuclear program. Mr. Moon has further annoyed the u. S. By saying he could basically veto any military action that might take place on the korean peninsula. While all of this is happening, u. S. Intelligence has detected signs that north korea may be ready to test another intercontinental ballistic missile. If they do go through with that, it could happen inus jeff . ⌞ thank you very much. The hotline was reopened a few hours after President Trump lashed out at kim jongun. He tweeted he had a more powerful Nuclear Button. This is after kim jongun said it had complete its nuclear forces. Chip reid is at the white house. Good morning. Good morning. That war of words came on a wild day of twitter for the president. He tweeted 17 times on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for Hillary Clinton aide and, of course, that Nuclear Button tweet. In fact, the president does not have a Nuclear Button, but his rhetoric escalated already simmering tensions. President trump raised the temperature in his duel with kim jongun after boasting he had a Nuclear Button on his auchlts will someone Police Inform him i have a Nuclear Button, too, but its a bigger and more button and my button works. It caught Homeland Security secretary kirstjien nielsen by surprise. The president speaks for himself. We have to continue to take the threat seriously. They will be met with fire and fury. Reporter its nothing new for the president. We will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. But he has signaled earlier tuesday that peace talks between the north and the south offered by kim and accepted by south korean president moon were worth exploring, tweeting, rocket man wants to talk to south korea now. Perhaps thats good, perhaps not. We consider this to be a very reckless regime. We dont think we need a bandaid and we dont think we need to smile and take a picture. The president s other advisers hav cautious approach. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has even suggested the possibility of talks with north korea. He and secretary of Defense James Mattis will be here at the white house later today for lunch with the president , and you can bet that north korea is going to be at the top of the agenda. Bianna . A busy day at the white house. Chip, thank you. The president s twitter blast yesterday also praised antigovernment protesters in iran and called the countrys leaders brutal and corrupt. Tens of thousands of iranians came out to show support for the government. Many were ordered to attend the rally. Six days of protests have left at least 21 people dead. Irans government is restricting Internet Access and has appeared to shut down social media apps that were used to organize demonstrations. One of President Trumps gop critics of 2012 mitt romney is eyeing a new political opportunity to represent utah. The longest serving going to retire after 42 years in office. Our sources expect the Massachusetts Governor to run for hatchs seat. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Good morning. Good morning. Several sources have told cbs news romney has been quietly laying the groundwork should orrin hatch retire. While he hasnt said anything publicly about his intention to run, take a look at this. This is a pretty good include. Yesterday afternoon romney listed his location on his twitter profile as massachusetts. But then after hatch announced his plans to retire, romneys profile location was updated to holiday, utah. In a video posted on twitter, orrin hatch referenced his early days as an amateur boxer as he made plans to leave the political sflieng after much prayer with family and i have desired to retire at the end of this term. He spearheaded last months gop tax cuts, and he was one of the earliest Senior Republicans to support President Trump. Mr. Trumps no fan of mitt romney and urged mr. Hatch to stay in the senate for an eighth firm. You are a true fighter. Reporter trump once had respect for romney and even considered him as secretary of state even though romney critiqued him. But the relationship has been a rocky one. And i said, mitt cannot run. He chokes like a dog. In August Romney urged the president to apologize for his response to the deadly charlottesville protest. I think theres blame on both sides. Romney wrote on facebook mr. Trumps words caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, a the vast heart of america to mourn. Romney congratulated hatch yesterday on his 40plus years in the senate saying senator hatch has represented the interests of utah with distinction and honor. Hatch has appeared to go back and forth about retiring over the past few months partly because of pressure from the white house to stay on. If romney is running, norah, he will likely make his intentions known soon because the election is this november. All right. Nancy. Thank you. I know theres also a big meeting between congressional leaders and white house officials. Whats on the agenda, and do the democrats have any leverage . Well, they think they do. Congress needs a bill to pass by the government this month. They punted it when they were trying to get out of town for the holidays. 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