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From tornadoes. Missouri declaring a state of emergency. Torrential rains pummeling the state. The same storm sparked blizzards in three southern states. Iraqi Security Forces insisting they now have control of ramadi. From isis predicting liberation of mosul next. Tension in chicago after police mistakingly shot 55yearold bettie jones waiting for officers to respond to a domestic disturbance. Why did he have to shoot her . Its ridiculous its a joke, its a freaking joke. Peyton manning fighting back against accusations he took human growth hormone. Aljazeera reports manning took hgh in 2009 but now they recant that statement. And rescue crews are using rafts to save people. A car plows into a convenience store. The new York Police Say the 88yearold driver lost control. All that and the ball is loose, recovered, game over. The panthers undefeated season comes to a halt. And the jets game goes into overtime. All right. Eric decker gets it in for the win in overtime. And all that matters atlanta welcomed their 100 millionth passenger. I want to know. I have an intimate moment with sunday morning people. Is this sunday . It is sunday. Then it must be face the nation. Well done. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota, lets go places. That was sunday, this is monday. Im jeff glor with charlie rose, gayle king they are off today. Well start with violent storms pounding states with a deadly combination of weather. It is a storm system that stretches from new mexico to kentucky. More than 40 people have died. Several tornadoes tore apart communities. Other areas are seeing whiteout blizzard conditions. There is also widespread rivers and. Oh, my gosh. Reporter packing winds near 170 Miles Per Hour in some locations. This tornado near garland where 11 people were killed shows transformers flashing as a powerful tornado rolled through. The widespread destruction left behind has prompted Texas Governor greg abbott to declare disaster areas in four counties. The house is destroyed. Reporter in north texas more than 1400 homes are damaged or destroyed. In blue ridge a newborn girl was killed after Severe Weather hit her father, neighbors say, tried to save her life. Thats when we realized that he was running across the road with his baby. He begged, please, and handed me to her. Reporter gwendolyn hid in her closet as the tornado tore through her garland neighborhood. I just stayed in my closet all night long shaking like a leaf in a tree. Reporter in nearby rowlett where more than 400 homes were damaged, energy crews spent sunday looking through the rubble and looking for survivors who may be trapped under debris. This man showed his wife their home for the First Time Since they both lived through the tornado. We were on our patio on the back of the house. What was that . That was the ceiling falling in. Reporter their home of 25 years paid off and is insured is likely a total loss. You heard what they always say is that train, right . There was no Freight Train here. It was unmistakable, thats what they say you hear, and that is true. Reporter nancy, are you okay . No. We dont know what to do. We went from happy to homeless in a minute. Reporter right around the corner from where mike and nancy live is this home. It collapsed like a stack of pancakes. We are told there were four people in the home when the roof collapsed. Theres a car right underneath it. I dont know if you can tell. Three of the people were stuck under the rubble and had to be pulled out by emergency rescuers. This morning 6,000 people in the city of rowlett are without people. And people keep talking about how much the weather changed. On Christmas Day the weather was in the 80s. Saturday they had the tornadoes. And this morning in the dallas metroplex, there was rain and snow. David, thank you. The storm is delivering a winter blast this morning to multiple states. The powerful system is targeting with dangerous blizzard conditions in places. Meteorologist mike seidel of the Weather Channel is in amarillo, texas. They could see more than a foot of snow. Mike, good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The snow has finally ended here in parts of texas and new mexico. More than two feet fell in new mexico with eightfoot drifts and 82mileanhour wind gusts. In west texas, lubbock had 11 inches of snow. Thats more than they have seen typically in the entire season. And after the biggest total of the month in december, temperatures are in the 20s. Windchills in the single numbers. But the sun is up. They checked out major interstates over the weekend. This section of i40 from amarillo all the way to the new mexico line is still closed. Also, from amarillo to the oklahoma line and i27 south to lubbock. D. O. T. In texas tells us they hope to get the major interstates back open sometime later on this morning. Its going to stay colder than average the rest of the month, weve got a big dip in the jet stream. Its been so warm here like most of the eastern twothirds of the country. If you are traveling today, the headache will be Ohare International in chicago. They have already canceled over 300 flights. Hundreds of flights delayed. That storm is dropping snow and ice across parts of the midwest including des moines. Chicago under a winter storm warning. They will primarily just get sleet and ice in those areas. Everything is moving east along with the Severe Threat along the gulf coast throughout today and tonight. Jeff, back to you. Wow. Mike seidel, thank you very much. Mark strassmann is in oklahoma where a treacherous ice storm has left thousands in that state without power. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. Im standing a half hour west of Oklahoma City feeling the full blast of winters fury here. Snow blowing around. A powerful wind has knocked down this power line. And ice is everywhere on the road. As you can see, a couple inches of ice along the line itself. Last 24 hours. Blizzards in the west and, of course, flooding in the east. An ice storm cut off roads and power lines overnight. Utility crews worked to restore power to thousands. Drivers were urged to stop all travel along the texas panhandle with snow is blowing and drifting. Amarillo saw whiteout conditions. With wind gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour. The roads across of texas especially north of i10 remain in a perilous condition. Reporter a state of emergency was declared in new mexico after blizzard conditions moved through the eastern part of the state. Roswell received close to 16 inches of snow. Nearly 400 miles of interstate 40 from albuquerque to the texas state line has been shut down. I was coming through here because i figured it would be reporter these truckers driving on i40 were stopped near albuquerque. Some of their rigs were rerouted and parked at the state fairgrounds. Its better than being in the weeds, you know, you could be on the side of the road. Reporter southeastern oklahoma is saturated with more than eight inches of rain falling on sunday. Were known for getting like 40 inches a year. We got a fourth of that this weekend. So its a crazy year. Reporter as if these wintry conditions werent miserable enough, oklahomas also had three earthquakes over the last 24 hours or so. The most powerful one, 3. 5 magnitude. 17 miles north of Oklahoma City. Mark strassmann, thank you very much. Missouri is under a state of emergency this morning because of these weekend storms. Floodwaters are blamed for at least eight deaths across the state. Rain over the weekend boosted st. Louis to its wettest year on record. Volunteers filled sandbags to keep the rising water away from homes. Three more inches of rain today. The size of the storm is slowing down air travel. Airlines canceled more than 870 u. S. Flights so far this morning. More than 650 others are delayed. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of wbz is tracking more potential for Severe Weather. Danielle, good morning. Good morning. A lot of active weather across the country. We have Winter Weather advisories and warnings from texas to new england. Tornado watch in between and flash flooding in parts of missouri and Northern Arkansas. Clusters of thunderstorms spread east. Isolated tornadoes through the afternoon and into the evening hours. That threat goes into alabama and also stretching into georgia. A snow in the northwest will transition from the midwest to new england overnight tonight into the day tomorrow making the transition over to rain. From south to north, snowfall totals up to a foot possible. Iowa to wisconsin, that is. The storms ramp up through new foot is possible. Great news for ski country. Temperatures in the west coast in the upper 30s in seattle but 50s from redding back down to palm springs. 50 in las vegas as well. A little bit of good news, danielle. Thank you. The u. S. Military congratulated iraq this morning on the progress its making in liberating the key city of ramadi. That provincial capital has been controlled by isis since may. But now Iraqi Forces Say they control most of the city. Iraqi troops are walking freely in the streets after their assault that lasted all weekend. Now they are searching for bombs that isis may have left behind. Debra pada has the story for us this morning. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The iraqis declared victory in ramadi after pushing isis out of the military complex, but the military says they are still facing pockets of resistance. Iraqi troops are taking over but the area is rigged with explosives. The offensive began six days ago and it has been a tough fight. Theres gun battles raged as iraqi soldiers pushed their way into the heart of the city. Their target seizing back the governments main compound. This is a far cry from when the iraqis suffered a humiliating defeat of ramadi. They were shown fleeing after isis captured the city in may. This cbs security contributor and former Deputy Director michael morell. This is the first time they have retaken territory from isis. So it is significant in terms of the iraqi army getting their act together. Reporter capturing ramadi is not only a psychological boost for the military, but the city it lies 60 miles north of baghdad on a road leading to syria. The governments next major target will be the Northern City of mosul, the most densely populated area under isis control. Ramadi really is a test case for seizing back mosul, which remains the big prize for the iraqi troops. Regaining control in mosul would essentially deprive isis of a major source of funding. Thank you. Tensions are high again in chicago after another Deadly Police shooting. The confrontation inside the Apartment Building Early Saturday Morning left two people dead. Anna warner is in chicago where there is angry reaction to the latest in a string of killings. Anna, good morning. Reporter good morning. Chicago police admit one of their officers mistakingly shot and killed 55yearold bettie jones while responding to a domestic disturbance involving her 19yearold neighbor who had a baseball bat. I should watch the news daily mothers, other family members. And now today im grieving myself. When does it come to an end . Reporter janet says her 19yearold son Quintonio Legrier was an engineering student who was dealing with mental issues. The teen was threatening his father with a baseball bat on sunday. Detectives called him combative before being shot. Shots fired out here, shots fired, shots fired. Weve got two down, two down. All right, so weve got two fired by police . Yeah, they were. Reporter bettie jones lived in the same buildin reportedly waiting for police to respond and then was shot along with legrier. Police admitted she was accidentally struck and tragically killed. But relative jamal cole said sunday right now its time for the families experiencing injustices among our city. Reporter this comes after a protest after a string of Deadly Police shootings. This happened after the shooting of Laquan Mcdonald shot several times in october of 2016. The officer faces criminal charges. On sunday mayor emanuel called for a review of how Police Respond to mental crisis. But family and friends holding a vigil outside the homes of jones and legrier are asking for intervention from the white house. We hope to hear from the president. President obama, we are under siege. Reporter now this is one of two separate Police Shootings on saturday. Chicagos independent Police Review board is investigating both of those shootings. And all of this comes at the same time the Justice Department is conducting an Investigation Force appropriately. Tough story. Thank you, anna. The trump effect is sending more ripples along the campaign trail this morning. Donald trump used the sunday talk shows to focus on Hillary Clinton brushing aside his gop rival. Bernie sanders criticized trumps tactics but also says trumps own supporters are his allies. Major garrett is in washington following the campaign talk. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump hasnt been seen in public for days but remains a Campaign Presence continuing his feud with hillary and bill clinton while drawing economic fire from Bernie Sanders. Im winning, im beating everybody, and in my opinion, beating hillary is easier than beating these people. Reporter by that trump means other republicans. He still hasnt won one contest but trump is already plotting a general election run against Hillary Clinton. Ill tell you what, if we have another four years of a hillary, of that kind of mentality and thinking, were not going to have a country left. Criticism from sexism from Hillary Clintons camp, trump threatened to revive debate over bill clintons impeachment and revisit other clinton sex scandals. On twitter trump used hillarys own words to describe husband bill, alleging, quote, hes demonstrated a pension for sexism. Adding without a whiff of ironny, so inappropriate. Trump said bills past is fair game. It is fair game because his presidency was considered really troubled to put it mildly because of all the things shes talking to me about. Reporter clinton hasnt responded to trumps broadside, but on sunday her democratic rival Bernie Sanders accused trump of toying with frustrated voters offering angry, vulgarity and bad policy. What trump has done successfully, i would say, is take that anger, take that anxiety about terrorism and say to a lot of people in this country, look, the reason for and he says they are all criminals and rapists. Sanders also accused trump of imposing an increase in the minimum wage and wanting to see lower wages for workers. Trump called that a lie. And sanders also said his tax plan favors the wealthy. Last week they said trumps tax plan would provide an average tax cut of 1. 3 million a year. And a cut of 2700 a year to middle income earners. Jeff . Major garrett, thank you. Peyton manning says he will probably sue over a documentary claiming he used human growth this inside exploded they are one of the most popular and painful gifts of the season. Ahead, social media testimony sharing the danger of hoverboards as adults are laid low by the best selling toy. The news is back this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by macys. 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Nhp says a woman driving a black hyundai suv was headed north on the 15 to the west bound 215 ramp when she lost control of her car and went down a rock embankment. Ramp from east bound 215 to las vegas blvd. Nhp says the woman wasnt wearing an seatbelt and was ejected from the car. sgt. Trooper scott stuenkel nevada Highway Patrol our biggest message to get across to people is please wear your safety belts. The likelihood of survivability in these types of car crashes is significantly increases just by wearing yreatbelt. S she been wearing her seatbelt in this particular crash the outcome could vebeen different. There are a number of closures in this area. Troopers say the best thing to do is use an alternative route. Quick check on your commute vegas boulevard and the eastbound 215 ramp to las vegas boulevard remain closed after this fatal accident. Southbound i15 can exit at russell and get over to las vegas boulevard. Eastbound 215 can exit at the airport connector and use it to get to sunset, from there you can connect to las vegas boulevard. < < beautiful shot out here on the las vegas stirip only 31 degrees outside very chilly thank you. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines. Wall street journal says the air force is taking a new approach to filling increased demand for drone pilots because of the rise of isis. Its now allowing enlisted personnel, not just officers, to pilot some drones for surveillance and reconnaissance. The limited group of air force Drone Operators is causing retention, moral and training issues. The Washington Post looks at colleges loosening penalties for testing positive for marijuana. Associated press investigation compared todays pshted to those ten years ago. It found at least onethird of the power five conference schools have reduced punishment for pot users and msome athletes are even allowed positive tests reason enhanced video shows a leak first discovered in october at a facility in the Southern California community of porter ranch. Thousands were forced to workers discovered the site of the leaking well over the webleged weekend and repair could take until march. A shopping mall, video from inside the maul showed chaos with people running away from fights that broke out on saturday night. Outnumbered police cleared everyone out. Instead of making arrests, the mall reopened sunday with extra security. The New York Times says hollywood turns to the past to find this years block busters. The most notable . Star wars the force awakens has earned a billion dollars. A billion dollars in a record breaking 12 days and one day faster than jurassic 20yearold movie. Interesting. Yes. For new england. This part of the country, heavily lets take you to another part of the country. Three men accused of leading a Christmas Eve case across the gulf of mexico are locked up in southwest florida this morning. The coast guard brought the stolen boat and the three suspects back to shore on sunday. The men were caught 65 miles west of cuba on christmas morning. The pursuit covered 345 miles. It took 20 hours for local and federal authorities to catch up with them. One of americas most down to earth. Im ben tracy in los angeles. The hoverboard was one of the hottest gifts of the Holiday Season and a lot of adults saw well, it turns out they cant. Dave, im sorry to interrupt. I gotta take a sick day tomorrow. Dads dont take sick days, dads take nyquil severe the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot, but ended up nowhere. Now i use this. 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My daughter got it. I ended up in the e. R. Many are finding the thrills are not worth the frills. This one had a hard time getting into the swing of thing and one reason the hoverboardfails has none gone viral. Just before christmas, the u. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported the number of injuries associated with hoverboards has spiked 35 . That is expected to rise dramatically in the postholiday tally and worry some safety experts. You have a product that doesnt have to meet any safety requirements in its way to findingity way to the u. S. Market. Reporter nathan sells the boards at a mall and says he doesnt think people know they are selfbalancing scooters. They are trying to balance themselves and do this and really, stop. Chill out. Just stand straight up. Reporter he showed me the proper way to board the board. Try to stand straight up. Reporter i thought i got the hang of it pretty quickly. Well, until i didnt. Furnaces cell phone caught me hovering on the ground. 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In may, police say he punched a man to death in the valet area. His arraignment is scheduled for 8 oclock. Patranya Bhoolsuwan nhp is investigating. After a deadly crash on the 215. It happened earlier this morning. Near las vegas boulevard. Nhp says a woman was headed north on the 15 to the west bound 215 ramp when she lost control of her car and went down a rock embankment. Ramp from east bound 215 to las vegas blvd. Nhp says the woman wasnt wearing an seatbelt and was ejected from the car. want to check on your commute the southbound i15 offramp to las vegas boulevard and the eastbound 215 ramp to las vegas boulevard is back open following a deadly, rollvoer accident. Accident in the charleston curve on the southbound side. Expect delays. < < < our weather headlines for the week colder temps for the week make sure to bundle up lows only in the 30s chance of snow at percent chance overnight tonight and going into tomorrow morning. Its also going to be cold on new years eve. Beautiful, but cold start to our day outside. Heres a live look from our sunset cam only 31 degrees outside well have nice sunny skies out there but its going to be a cold day, so definitely bundle up and get ready for it have a great good morning to our viewers in the west. It is monday, december 28, 2015. Welcome back to cbs this morning. More real news ahead including the fallout from the deadly storms in the south. Tornadoes tore through texas and a blizzard hit the southern plains. First, todays eye opener at 8. People who lived through this tornado in rowlett say it took less than 45 seconds to do this. It looks like a trash pile. The storm has finally ended in parts of texas and new mexico. Lubbock had 11 inches of snow. Ice everywhere on the road. As you can see, a couple inches of ice. Tornado watch in parts of missouri and Northern Arkansas. Thunderstorms spread east. In ramadi. But a military force tells us theyre still facing pockets of resistance. Shuck police admit one of their officers mistakenly shot and killed 55yearold bettie jones. The allegations against manning come from a former intern, saying manning attended rehab in 2011. Id love to understand why this guy is saying this, why hes making it up. He admits hes making it up. Onehanded grab by landry. What a play jarvis landry. Unbelievable. One of the best catches ive seen all season, no doubt. Im jeff glor are margaret brennan, charlie, gayle and norah are off. Deadly storms ravaged several states. More than 40 deaths blamed on and plains. The damage in parts of texas is described as total devastation. Tornadoes killed at least 11 people in the dallas area. Survivors describe the horror and the loss. Through. The next thing i know, we looked up and there was nothing ther. We was just looking at the sky. Im thankful just to be here. Im thankful. I wouldnt want nobody to go through that, not 15 seconds not five seconds worth of that. You could feel like the roof trying to lift up. It was an experience like ive never had in my life. The whole front of the house is gone. The only thing left was the closet they were hiding in. In an instant, it hit in less than 60 seconds, which seemed like an eternity, it was gone. Oh, my god. My boys grew up in this house. Everything is gone. We always thought it happened it on television. It just happens. Its all right, baby. Tornadoes are just part of the Severe Weather threat. A dangerous storm is moving through new mexico, texas and oklahoma. Blizzard conditions shut down a significant portion of interstate 40 from albuquerque, new mexico to the Oklahoma State line. An ice storm covered roads and power lines. Officials asking drivers not drive through the texas panhandle where wind gusts reached up to 50 miles an hour in amarillo creating whiteout conditions. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our boston station wbz is tracking the latest storm threat. Good morning. Good morning. Winter storm warnings and Winter Weather advisories from texas to new england. A tornado watch up for parts of alabama and mississippi and flooding on going in Northern Arkansas and missouri. These lined segments of thunderstorms will spread east clusters of storms with isolated tornado risks as well as damaging wind gusts. Snow from the northwest spreading into new england, transitions into rain in parts of southern new england. Over a foot of snow stretching through wisconsin. A sloppy inch in boston with a coating in new york city. Great news for ski country, west coast pretty quiet. A couple showers, upper 30s in seattle, 50s in vegas and the 30s in al bbuquerquealbuquerque. As 2015 comes an end, the president ial race is heating up. Late show Host Stephen Colbert is in the mix. Some of the candidates made a stop on the show. John dickerson ierviewed colbert. He discussed the highs and lows and how the republican frontrunner reminds him of his old Comedy Central character. Whats your view of facts and im a big fan of facts. Im not sure they have any bearing on what persons popularity is, because donald trump im not the first person to say this, but i completely agree that hes my old character with 10 billion. Hes completely playing on an emotional level and so beautifully. Thats one of the reasons why i cant do that old character anymore. Hes doing it better than i ever could, because hes willing to drink his ontario koolaid and manufacture and distribute it because he has the cash. Colbert says he wanted to be respectful to trump because his goal is to have a conversation that does not demonize the other side. Trump is now declaring bill clinton fair game as he takes on Hillary Clinton. He tweeted this morning, quote, if hillary thinks she can unleash her husband with his terrible record of women abuse while playing the womens koord trump also blasted Virginia Republicans plan to have voters say and sign a pledge saying one tweet, straighten out the Republican Party of virginia before its too late. Wall street journal columnist and cbs news contributor peggy noonan is with us this morning. Good morning. Good morning, margaret. How nice to see you. Give us some perspective on why trump would be attacking the Republican Party of virginia. Is this simply because his followers arent themselves the straight edge signup, republican, cardcarrying members of the party . I think that might be a little of it. On the principle of it, trump is probably correct. Politics is a game of addition. Politics is a game, quote, unquote, in which you try to get other people to come in. If you can draw independence in democrats, good thing. Ive never heard of a state in you vote in a primary to swear or state that you are a member of the party. Have the gates be open, invite everybody in. Thats the way to do it. Because theyre scared about what happened with david brat and eric cantor being out in the first primary. Priet. Let the people speak. Youre lucky when youre a Republican Party and independents want to come and vote. On the subject of speaking. You say thank you, come on in, yea. Everybody is allowed. Donald trump is speaking quite a bit, as we just heard. The increased attacks now on Hillary Clinton and bill clinton. What is he thinksing . I think this is mr. Trump being mr. Trump and mrs. Clinton being mr. Clinton. Acting as the nominees. Stuff. I think theyre both speaking to hillary is saying, all of you women who support me, lets not forget this guy is sexist and an enemy of women. Trump is saying to his people, oh, you know what . The normal rules of political comportment, i dont Pay Attention to the false, phony politeness, i go straight for you. It will be a different fight next week. This is all getting very interesting. Bill clinton is going to get more involved now, bill clinton is going to get more attention from donald trump and others now. We dont know how thats going to play. That wasnt the Winning Strategy for her last time. Exactly. It didnt work in 08. In fact, bill clinton hurt mrs. Clinton in 08 by some of his statements and actions on the campaign trail. We will see if it is different in 16. Its eight years later. But if you dont think a donald trump is going to go to war with a bill clinton in some tweet frenzy, you are just mistaken. Cycles to be exciting and fun and surprising and wacky, youre going to enjoy 2016 a lot. I would say so. Speaking of 2016, were talking about iowa here. A lot of folks have tried to poke some holes in the trump strategy in iowa, right . Not only about not polling, but not keeping track of which voters actually can vote in the caucus. Yes. Also it remains unknown whether or not Donald Trumps enthusiastic rallygoers will show up on caucus night with a little snow and a sick kid and a toothache. Caucuses are a little complicated. You dont just show up in a voting booth and go i want this guy. You have to meet with your neighbors. Youre at a set place. You have to have back and forth with them. You have to make yourself part of the process, maybe they will. Maybe they wont. Maybe hell have a good iowa. Maybe not. Bernie sanders was on face he had interesting insight and found what he said was common cause with donald trump. Saying we both hear this discontent among the working class. He almost gave trump more legitimacy despite being a guy on the other side of the aisle and attacking him. If you think Bernie Sanders has legitimacy to bestow, yes. What i thought was interesting is sanders did a really smart thing. Hes looking at the voters and thinking im a left wing populist. We have a lot in common with right wing populists, im going to go straight to trumps guys and say think me. We all hate wall street. I thought that was that is playing the game of addition, not subtraction. One heck of a team, donald trump and Bernie Sanders. Thanks, peggy. Good to see you. Happy new year. Thank you. Happy new year to you. See you in 16. The real world . Dan ackerman is in our toyota green room. Hes looking at the amazon echo and otbeautiful shot out here on the las vegas only 31 degrees outside very chilly morning. Regionally we have 39 in phoenix and los angeles youre not used to these temps 37 degrees only 10 in cedar city cold morning up there. Today our high 48 degrees mostly sunny skies around the valley tonight 36 mostly cloudy skies north winds to itll be cold bundle up out there. Cicely tyson says before she takes a new role, she always says no. The Kennedy Center honoree talks to gayle king ahead on cbs this this video of a people have talked about Virtual Reality before and it didnt work out before. Is 2016 the year . Weve been talking about it for a couple of years but the catch is theres nothing you can buy right now. All those systems are allegedly coming next year, finally after years of delays. So what was grandma looking at there, because she seemed pretty convinced . She had the most basic version. You basically get google cardboard. A cardboard holder for your phone or get Something Like the samsung thing that you slide your phone into and the phone screen is the vr screen and thats all you can get right now. The real stuff is allegedly coming next year. I got to use the oculus last year and when it works, it is extraordinary, the immersive experience that it takes you into, just like grandma saw there, but well see when it all you have something beyond the samsung device here, what else are we looking at here from amazon . I think what well see next year is a lot of that smart home stuff. The virtual personal assistant stuff will start to be more practical. Amazon echo is the first version of that that really works. You can talk to it, you can say its name. I can say alexa, whats the weather today . In new york theres a gale warning in effect from 6 00 p. M. Stop. Wow. And it understands your voice. Ive worked with Voice Recognition technologies for years. Siri on your iphone. Half the time they dont understand what youre saying. Ill say this gets you 80 of the time. These days thats pretty good. Does she get mad when you cut her off like that . Ill find out later. That was pretty good. You called this the breakthrough of 2015. Yeah. It was a real breakthrough product of 2015 because it took Voice Recognition, an online personal assistant, cloud based not new things they have never heard of but things they tried once or twice that actually works an is more practical. I use this to control my lights now. So you can hook that up to your home system. I asked for christmas i asked for smart light bulbs and i got them. I plugged in a couple and now i just say alexa, turn on the lights and the lights go on. I say turn them off and the lights go off. A tv always advancing here, whats the big buzz word in tv technology. Every year they have to come up with a new buzz word to get you to buy a tv. You buy a flat screen tv, theyre good for five, six, seven years. Youre going to hear them talk about hdr. This is a way to do high dynamic range images so the light stuff and the dark stuff both look very clear. You have to shoot it in hdr and have an hdr compatible tv. I think at the end of the year youre not going to buy a tv based on this but theyll try to sell you one. Who is shooting in hdr. The same people who said ive shoot in 4k. The movies that you shoot in the latest technology, you have to pick which one you invest in. A lot of people invested in 4k. And these are all expensive toys . Not too expensive. 179 right now. I think about 150, maybe a little more for this guy. You have to put in your own phone. Thanks very much. Thank you guys. Alexa good, bye. She doesnt like you. No response. In just a few days the world will focus on new york city. The crystal ball gets ready for its yearending show. That story is next on cbs this morning. Have a nice 2016, alexa. Underwear and wiggle, giggle, swerve and curve. With soft dual leak guard barriers and a discreet fit that hugs your curves. So bladder leaks can feel like no big deal. 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Organizers expect a Record Number of people. Have you ever gone to times square on new years eve . I have. But a long time ago. Children who give us no respect . Of two, accused of crashing her car the day before halloween. Then taking off on foot, leaving her kids in the car, has a preliminary hearing at 9 am. Nhp says christal mallettsped through a Construction Zone reaching speeds of 90 Miles Per Hour before crashing into a wall near decatur and alta. The children were not in their seatbelts. Both were injured. nhp investigating. After a woman was killed this morning when she lost control of her car and crashed. Nhp says a woman driving a black hyundai suv was headed north on the 15 to west bound 215 ramp when she lost control of her car and went down a rock embankment. Her car came to a rest on the vegas blvd. Nhp says the woman wasnt wearing an seatbelt and was ejected from the car. sgt. Trooper scott stuenkel nevada Highway Patrol 02;05;41 our biggest message to get across to people is please wear your safety belts. The likelihood of survivability in these types of car crashes is significantly increases just by has she been wearing her seatbelt in this particular crash the outcome could have been different. 02;05;57 there are a number of closures in this area. Troopers say the best thing to do is use an alternative route. now we want to get a check on < all ramps back open after fatal crash in the i15 215 interchange. No delays on the south beltway. Theres a crash on southbound for. Its off to the right shoulder, downs. < < < still very cold out there this morning just 33 degrees your winds are calm, which is a nice Welcome Change compared those winds we saw this past weekend. Regionally, we have 43 degrees in phoenix los angeles, youre at 42 degrees you saw lows in the 30s there, so a very cold morning. Tt2waty ` 4 p bt m [l tt2waty ` 4 p a mpw tt2waty ` 4 p bm m[\ tt4waty ` 4 r dzhq 4 welcome back to cbs this morning. Coming up in this half hour, children taking too much power away from parents. An expert on family says kids and teens are calling the shots too often. Hell tell us why that is not a prescription for their success. Gayle talks with pioneering actress and Kennedy Center honoree cicely tyson. Her marriage to miles davis and tysons answer to stories of their tumultuous relationship. That is ahead. Time to show you some of the mornings headlines from around the globe. The New York Times remembers Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters who died sunday in his arizona home. Lemon was called basketballs halfcourt hook shots and comedy on the court. Meadowlark lemon was 83 years old. The guardian 53yearold john beaton arrived in australia on sunday. The british rower spent 209 days at sea. Bad weather had slowed him down as he crossed the pacific ocean. He rode for about 15 hours a wow. Rolling stone looks at the beatles songs that are most streamed on spotify. Thats it. Come together was the number one streamed song in the first two days of worldwide streaming. Its followed by let it be hey jude and love me do and yesterday. Modern children are growing Research Shows that 69 of 11 and 12yearold have a cell phone bought by their parents and 76 of teens use social media. Dr. Leonard sax argue that too many parents let the kids run the show these days. His new book is called the collapse of parenting. He says the old command no dessert until you eat your broccoli has turned into a plea. How about if you eat three bites of broccoli, then you can have dessert. Doctor, good morning. Guilty on that last one, by the way. We have a 6yearold and 6monthold and talk about this every day. You think parenting has changed for the worse. Why . Well, sure. As you pointed out, 50 years ago, 30 years ago, parents would say, no dessert until you eat your broccoli. But now its a question, how about if you try three bites . In a previous generation, parents would say, do unto others as you would have them do unto to you. Now parents ask the question how that to you and they dont have an answer when the kid says id kick him in the nuts and sit down. You think we are trying to kids like adults and not like kids . Well, i think in a certain way, you need to expect kids to behave like adults, but you should is not give them the authority of an adult. So the question of what school to attend for parents who choose a school, they know chauffeur their kids around to a couple of different schools and the kid makes the choice. Another school i was at they were spritingtrying to enforce a policy of no cell phones in the classroom and one parent pushed back and says i have to text my daughter and ask her what she wants to for supper. The principal is like youre the parn parent and you can decide what is for supper. A lot of parents feel no, i have given that authority to my child. In your book you say this isnt just about something its actually a cultural issue. You say there is role confusion and that authority, overall, has been undermined. Thats ririt. In a previous generation, 50 years ago most americans trusted the president. Most americans trusted the school. Today, the majority of americans dont think you can trust government and when a kid ghets trouble at the school the parents swoop in like attorneys to mount a defense. And the result is that the authority of the parents are under undermined and they give kids the authority that parents should have. But times change, dont they . The issues we are dealing with in 1900 are different than what they are in 1950 and 2016. Im not sugaring 50 years ago were the good old days. They werent. Every year has its challenges but i dont think we are recognizing ours. There has been an explosion in the proportion of kids on medication in this country. Kids need authority and when parents step back from authority, what is happening in many cases is the doctors step in and instead of parents wrong now you have this kid running around throwing things and he is put on medication. So American Kids are now 90 times more likely to be on medication for behavior compared to kids in italy, for example. When you look at what is happening in this country, how much of it is just the patterns of parenting change . Older parents. Parents were exhausted and dont want to have argument whether they eat their broccoli or not because they are exhausted from a full dayss work. The kids are confused and they want their kids to like them and love them. They think if they are authoritative parents their kids wont like them. Your job as a parent is teach right and wrong and keep your kids safe. If youre doing your job your kids may not like you. One example a kid said i hate you and youll ruin my whole life. The mom said, sometimes im not so fond of you either but its my job to keep you safe so youre a parent first and then a friend second. Parent first and a friend second. Dr. Leonard sax, thank you. The collapse of parenting goes on sale tomorrow. Cicely tyson just turned 91 and she is still a force in the acting world. But when she was young, her mother stood in her way. She couldnt understand why i was leaving this good, good job to go do this foolishness. Oh, she was very upset and she told me, i couldnt live there. She kicked you out of the house . Your mom . Oh, yeah. She said you cant live here and do that. Gayles conversation with the Kennedy Centerlas vegas only 31 degrees outside very chilly morning. Regionally we have 39 in phoenix and los angeles youre not used to these temps 37 degrees only 10 in cedar city cold morning up there. Today our high 48 degrees mostly sunny skies around the valley tonight 36 mostly cloudy skies north winds to there. New york cicely tyson was kicked out of her home by her mother, after announcing she was going to be a model an an actress, but tyson refused to give up. She carved out nearly a six decade career that is now being celebrated with a Kennedy Center honor. Gayle met tyson in her old harlem neighborhood to talk about her body of work and some of her other passions. You know, i say no to everything first. Do you . Then i go home and think about it you do . You say no to everything . Because i always want to make sure that when i say yes, i know what im getting myself into. Tuck that shirt in, david lee. Reporter for nearly 60 years, cicely tyson has been particularly about the roles that she played. Oh, dont make no kind of a stance. Big old locks like that wont sit next to a colored child . Reporter what is your criteria what you accept these days . What is your process . Either my skin tingles or my stomach churns its very simple its something that i feel nauseated about. I know that i cant possibly do that. If i cant keep still, i get it when im walking around, i get the feeling, i know thats it. I can handle it. Did you say gold . Reporter tyson made her movie debut in 1956. Black and white film called pair of gold. And we will have kids. We will have all of the kids we want. Reporter it was a small film winning career. For most people when you say sisly tyson sisly, cicely tyson, i remember roots. Give him a very good Life Reporter i remember jane pittman. What stands out is that walk, cicely tyson. What does that role mean to you . Well, when im working, i just tell everybody, i dont care what you see. Please dont tell me about it. If its good, im not going to be able to do anything about it. If its bad, im not because i work so organically, okay . So the next day, when i came on the set, i knew something had happened, and i simply said, please dont tell me, i dont want to know. What they were feeling from having watched it. When it was all over and people were talking about the walk, i reporter that walk led to two emmy awards in 1974, including outstanding lead actress in a drama. She was the first black woman to win in that category. When you live longer than your house and your family, youve lived too long. Reporter almost 40 years later, tysons tony award came for best actress in the trip to bountiful. You cannot pick that up. I wont you will she starred alongside Vanessa Williams who was inspired by tysons work ethic. I love Vanessa Williams. She said this about you. She did not miss one performance ever. She is 90 years old. There is no excuse to not show up when cicely tyson can show up every day i have never missed a performance. Never. I mean, it just never occurs to me to miss a performance. I mean, its a job i have. Right . Aging . Do i think about it . Reporter uhhuh. No reporter you dont . No reporter why . Age is a number, okay . We have the greatest gift that we could possibly ever have, okay . And its just okay . Reporter yes. And if you take care of it, it will serve you well. Ive never been a person who drank, who smoked, who did drugs, never. Reporter ever . Never. Because i love life. Reporter its a life that she has always kept private. That includes her relationship with jazz great miles davis. He put her on the cover of his 1957 album. The two married in 1981, but divorced less than seven years later and surrounded by stories of infidelity and violence. You were like the brad pitt and the beyonce and jayz of your day. That mikes me smile too. I dont really talk about it. Reporter you dont . No, i dont. Joo will you . But i will say this i cherish every single moment that i had with him. Reporter they say it was tumultuous, that it was difficult. What do they know . Reporter what do they know, oh, yeah. They are assuming it was because of the kind of reputation that they perceived was this man. You know . Reporter the reputation wasnt good . No. Reporter the alcoholism, the drugs, the women. Yes, all of that kind of stuff. But thats not the man i knew. I told you men take things they have been taking things from women since the beginning of time as a pioneer for black actresses has given her a unique perspective on inequality and genuine and race. Im going to my ladder. Reporter your ladder . What does that mean . You know what a ladder is, right . Reporter i do know what a ladder is. White man, black man, white woman, black woman. The rungs. We are the rungs and we are holding on to the last rung. And those, they are being trampled on by all of those above and, still, we hold on. Thats our strength. Thats the reason we survive, because we will not let go of that rung reporter wow. I get that. I could cry. I know. I get it. I get it. Because its true. Reporter i get it. Reporter its that kind of perseverance that led a school was named after her. The school got a chance to see her where she is starring in the gin games with james earl ray. Sometimes its the first time for them to see a broadway play. What does it mean to have a school in your name and have those students come . I cannot tell you i cannot tell you what it meant to me, to look out into that audience and see those little black faces, so happy, so full of love. Reporter ania, who is 16, says cicely tyson means i dont think it gets any better than that, cicely tyson. I know that. I know that. Thats my mission for life. So captivating. Gayle did a really nice job with that. So warm. Gosh. Cicely tyson. To be that active still, impressive. Really impressive. You can see cicely tyson and all of the winners at the 38th annual Kennedy Center honors tomorrow. They are broadcast at 9 00 8 00 central here on cbs. Coming up next here on cbs this morning, she barely made it. Firefighters. A koala bear is getting better. On the mend in southeastern australia. She was found unconscious on the side of the road after a fire apparently destroyed her home. They have nicknamed her constable kay there. Cute . Wildfires ripped through southern australia over christmas weekend and forcing animals and thousands of people from their homes. But constable kay bear is doing much better we can happily report. Nice to see you this morning. Nice to see you. After a deadly crash on the 215. It happened earlier this morning. Near las vegas boulevard. Nhp says a woman was headed north on the 15 to the west bound 215 ramp when she lost control of her car and went down a rock embankment. Her car came to a rest on the ramp from east bound 215 to las vegas blvd. Nhp says the woman wasnt wearing an seatbelt and was ejected from the car. Patranya Bhoolsuwan a woman is recovering. Aft er being shot by an offduty metro officer in North Las Vegas. It happened late friday night near west ann road and allen lane. Police are calling it an accidental shooting. They say a metro officer and her husband were asleep when a relative who lives with them. Unexpectedly came home. It spooked the offduty officer and her spouse. And they drew their guns and started shooting. The woman was shot at least once. She was taken to the hospital in stable condition. Authorities have not released the names of any one involved. Patranya Bhoolsuwan today. Bernie sanders is expected to make two stops in the valley. One. Involves a local group of activists who got the candidates attention with their efforts to end Youth Violence. The group hold my hand is set to talk with the democratic candidate. It all comes just after they marched to stop the violence theyve been seeing in their communities recently here in the valley. The organizers of the march say. They organized because theyre fed up of the Youth Violence claiming lives of many in their neighborhoods april smith antiviolence advocate unfortunately we live in a world where its not just going to be zero violence. However if we come together not as a community but with the focus on a solution and not just always looking at the problem. Patranya Bhoolsuwan its going on this morning at the Pearson Community center in North Las Vegas. Sanders will also be speaking at Canyon Springs high school in North Las Vegas at 630. < announcer its live with kelly michael. Today, star of the blacklist, james spader