This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the snow is falling and it will only get worse. This is washington, d. C. Tonight in the leading edge of whats about to become the blizzard of 2016. The storm is already blamed for six deaths on the roads. Travelers are stranded at airports. Store shelves have been wiped out. Six states have declared emergencies and accumulations could reach three feet. We have a team of correspondents. First well go to kris van cleave in washington. Kris. Reporter scott, this is not a region known for hamming a lot of snow well. The has startd and overnight will come the heavy winds. The front end of an epic blizzard swept into the frigid Nations Capital this afternoon as hundreds of washington, d. C. Snow ploaz hit the street, trying to stay aheadave forecast calling for two feet of snow, or up to 55 miles an hour. Daniel curnage is treating the roads in a city snow plow. How important is it for people to get off the roads tonight . Very. I just dont want people to be in the street, me, personally, because once we get behind the snow, its going to be a hard time fighting to get back on top. Reporter but theres great concern after about an inch of snow wednesday gridlocked the city for hours, and now the snow is coming fast, falling at up to three inches an hour, until early sunday morning. Chris geldart is running the district storm response. Storm . Yes, sir. Our first concerns really are the residents. One of the major successes is to make sure we dont lose anyplace exwb. Thats first and foremost. Reporter forecasters have been warning about this monster storm for days, but some waited until just hours before the snow started falling to stock up on food and supplies, finding long lines and empty shelves. Lakisha love will be riding out just making sure we have everything possibly thats on our emergency chic list, and know that we have a backup plan for lighting, candles and batteries and things like that. Reporter d. C. Police chief cathy lanier says the time to be outside hass passed. No matter how pretty the snow is na storm like this, if you go outside while this thoarpg of storm is going and the winds are blowing, youre really putting yourselves at risk. Reporter hundreds of National Guardsmen across the region have been activated to help First Responders get to calls as the snow piles up. Scott, d. C. Is asking other states for help, asking for additional snowremoval equipment. Pelley kris, thank you. In the carolinas, the danger is ice, and Mark Strassmann is there. Mark. Reporter scott, bands of sleet like this fell all day in charlotte, but the real fear was a forecast of freezing rain that could turn this city into an iceglazed nightmare. Snow was falling during this earlymorning traffic accident, the womans body wasnt discovered until eight hours later. Weatherrelated car wreks have killed six people, at least, in three southern states. Duke energy has called in 2800 outofstate line workers to help restore power, and, scott, the utility reports 30,000 Power Outages in the carolina glz thanks, mark. Eric fisher is chief meteorolgist at wbz in boston. Eric. Scott, the storm well under way now, seeing that snow just creeping up into southern parts of pennsylvania and new jersey tonight. That ice in the carolinas, but a change will come overnight. The main storm that really started to take off last night will send its energy over to the coast and this process has already started. This is the storm that rideses up the eastern seaboard to the chesapeake and really increases those snowfall rates as we head into tonight and tomorrow. Looking at the snow on the Northwest Side of this storm, this is where its really cranking, in the morning, tk up towards filly and new york city and long island. Saturday afternoon,. England and slowly all this will rotate out to sea as we get into sunday morning, taking the snow and the wind along with it. In terms of snow totals were still looking at some huge numbers here. In the d. C. Area, were talking upwards of 30 inches . Oaf possible, especially just west of the city. New york at 1018. Roanoke 1824 for a storm total and this is its hall of fame list for d. C. Snowstorms, the most infamous, number one, 28 inches set back in 1922. Scott, i think we have a great chance at number two. Number one, that will remain to be seen tomorrow. Pelley eric fisher, wbz, thanks. Snow, ice, and rain are about the only things that are flying in the northeast. More than 3,000 flights were canceled today. There will be more tomorrow. And David Begnaud reports. Reporter the rush was on from charlotte to new york today to get out before the storm. They said its coming. Im trying to get out of here. I need to go bam home. Reporter 50 airports are in the path of the form including charlotte, reagan, airports. More than 3500 flights have already been canceled. This east coast storm has cause a Ripple Effect on the west coast. Everything is canceled and now i get to fly back monday night. Reporter harry lalor was in los angeles on business. United canceled his flight to wash. Im love to be with me family. Probably the power is going to go out and theres nothing i can do to help them. Reporter in philadelphia, there was a brighter. Note, sung club. They were some of the last to get out ahead of the snowstorm. There will be no flights in or out of here tomorrow in philadelphia. Most u. S. Airlines expect to be back at full operation by sunday, and, scott, as for the railways, amtrak will roll through the weekend, but with modified service. Pelley david, thank you. On the new jersey coast, storm surge conditions could be as bad as when super storm sandy tore thousands of homes apart in Jericka Duncan is in manasquan, new jersey. Reporter in belmar, new jersey, bulldozers were busy this afternoon trying to shore up a milelong sand dune built after super storm sandy. That storm caused more than 36 billion worth of damage to the state. This weekends storm has some of the same characteristics as sandy coming during a full moon and high tide. Belmar mayor matt doherty. We are more prepared for this storm than any storm thats ever come our way before. Reporter four miles south in manasquan, town officials are using loud speakers to warn people in lowlying areas. 75yearold pat galdieri had to have her entire home renovated after sandy. I get a little nervous because we no longer have protection in the front of our house like we did. Originally we had a wall. I gotta go home. Reporter as his state prepared, governor chris spending last two days campaigning in new hampshire. Today he changed his mind and returned. If i didnt go back, theyd criticize me. When i cogo back, theyll criticize me for whatever i do when im there. Reporter yesterday, new jersey learned it will only receive 15 million of the 326 million it requested from the sandy Disaster Relief program. Scott, federal officials blame a weaker application than states like new york, which will get 212 million in relief aid. Pelley Jericka Duncan, thank you very much. In another important story tonight, there is a new daight, the tenth, caused by a defective air bag made by takata. Now the government is adding five million vehicles to the 19 million already recalled. Heres demarco morgan. Reporter 52yearold joel knight was driving this 2006 a cow that had wandered into the middle of the road. His air bag deployed. A piece of shrapnel flew out of it into his neck, killing him. Takata yooshz also blamed on nine other deaths, but this is the first one not in a honda. Gordon trowbridge, the spokesman for national highway Traffic Safety administration, or n. H. T. S. A. , held a Conference Call today. This is a massive safety cries precipitated by the fact that takata manufactured millions of defective inflators and provided incomplete, misleading or nak rate information to n. H. T. S. A. , to takata customers and the public. This is a mess. Reporter n. H. T. S. A. Says some takata air bags deploy with excessive force, shattering the metal inflater and sending shrapnel flying into the vehicle. 14 Vehicle Manufacturers and as many as 24 million vehicles are now involved. Stephanie erdman was injured when her takata air bag exploded in 2013. Instant blindness on my right it was terrifying. I thought i was going to bleed out at first. Reporter takata and Vehicle Manufacturers are struggling to make enough replacement air bags for the millions of vehicles already recalled, and, scott, n. H. T. S. A. Says tens of millions more vehicles with the takata air bags may still need to be recalled in the near future. Pelley demarco, thanks very much. We have posted for you an updated list of all these recalled vehicles. You can find it on cbsnews. Com. 10 days before iowa, there is a Movement Among republican conservatives to derail the trump campaign. Heres Major Garrett. Reporter National Review for decades the intellect dwrul hub of modern conservatism denounced republican frontrunner donald trump as an egotistical amateur with no proven commitment to menace 22 prominent conservatives wrote separate essays along those lines adding trump knows nothing about National Security and his immigration proposal would actually allow more immigrants into the country. People dont even think about the National Review, so i guess they want to get a little publicity. Thats a dying paper. Reporter trump did not appear publicly today, but his campaign released an ad showing rival ted cruz stumbling over his position on immigration. Sounded like you wanted the bill to pass. Pass. Of course, i wanted the bill to pass my amendment to pass. Reporter cruz countered with an ad attacking trump for using government power, eminent domain, to dislodge private landowners. To bulldoze the home of an elderly widow for a limousine parking lot at his casino. Trump wont change the system. Hes whats wrong with it. Reporter with trump and cruz dominating the conversation other republicans have strilged to break through. Put it this way assessing a trump or cruzled gop, whether its death by being shot or poisoning, does it really matter . Pelley Major Garrett reporting tonight. Thank you. By the way, youll see donald trump and Bernie Sanders with John Dickerson this sunday on face the nation. In the flint, michigan water crisis tonight, clinices were crowded with parents hoping to have children tested for lead poisoning. 100 children have already shown high lead levels, but the governor has told us that there are likely many more. For a year and a half the city failed to treat the water with standard anticorrosion chemicals, so the pipes corroded, releasing the lead. Adriana diaz is there. Reporter ariana hawk came to the Health Department today for her childrens lead test results, only to find out shell have to wait at least two more weeks. Still no results. Come on. Was only a year old when flint tapped into its river for water. Now, hes almost three, and has rashes that his dermatologist believes are not due to lead but to the waters poor quality. As soon as he gets in the tub you can, like, see it. Hes digging so bad that the skin is just, like, coming off of him. I dont want no kid should have to go through that. Reporter this week, his face is on time magazine. This exposure is good for everybody because we need this help. You know, weve been going like this for a year and a half before no one even knew about the water. Reporter the genessee county Health Department is am whenned. How did it go, buddy . Good. Reporter nursing director toni larocco. I need more staffing to cover to get the process sped up. Reporter with people working extra hours these days . Oh, yeah. Reporter what happens once someone tests positive for lead . We have nurse case managers. They dp request out and do home visits. They talk about nutritional exposure. Reporter what if the results come back negative . Im still going to be with worried as a parent because for a year and a half we were drink this water with all this lead and all these chemicals chemicals in it and im worried that still in the long term he still has to worry five to six years now, any day now hell wake up and hes going to be different. Reporter she has good reason to worry because lead only stays in the blood for two to three weeks. After that, scott, it can travel to your bones and nervous system and stay there for decades. Pelley adriana diaz on the flint story from the start. Adriana, thanks. Now we have an important food safety notice for you. A listeria outbreak has been traced to salads packaged at a dole plant in ohio. One person has died and 12 became ill. The salads are sold under these six names. All the suspect packages have the letter a at the beginning low oil prices have American Energy workers over a barrel. Also ahead, refunds on a hot item that turned out to be too hot. 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So talk to your doctor, pelley Steve Hartman stopped at a roadside restaurant and brought us back something sweet. Reporter what makes tims place restaurant in albuquerque, new mexico, so special is that it is, indeed, tims place. Hello. How are we doing today . Welcome to my place. Reporter tim harris was the first Restaurant Owner in the country with down syndrome. For the last five years, he has lived for his business, which is why his customers were shocked when tim announced recently that my customers cried a lot. Im going to miss you. Reporter so what drives a man to give up a job he loves more than anything. Oh, yeah reporter a girl he loves more than anything. I cannot wait reporter that blur in the i love tim tshirt is tiffani johnson. They met at a down syndrome convention. I was like, oh, my god, hes, like, oh, my god. Reporter did you go up to him and Say Something . I was too scared to. Reporter too scared to . Because i never met a guy like tim. Reporter tiffani says of it the weirdest feeling. I i think i got hit by the love bug. Reporter eventually, tim got bit by it, too. Will you be my girlfriend . You know i will. Yes. Reporter he made her a steady and decided to move to denver to be closer to her. Tim plans to open a new restaurant there, but its still going to be hard leaving what he knows. In fact, he cries every time he thinks about it. Im really sad. Its incredible to watch. Hes deeply grieving about the idea of the this transition. Reporter tims father, keith. While at the same time, being as excited as ive ever seen him about the possibility of being with tiffani. Im lucky to have someone that loves me. Every time i feel sad, my girlfriend makes me a lot happier. Im trying not to start crying here. Reporter when you look her in the eye, what do you see gisee love. I see joy, and i see that i have i have a future. Reporter why on earth do we call them disabled . I just love him. Reporter when on the important things, they can be so much more able than us. Steve hartman, on the road, in albuquerque, new mexico. Pelley and thats the cbs evening news for tonight. Around the world, im scott pelley. And ill see you sunday on 60 minutes. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by
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