Thats a good boy. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im vinita nair. The monster blizzard that hit the east this weekend continues to claim lives. At least 26 people have died in eight states and washington, d. C. Some were in car accidents. Others suffered heart attacks while shoveling. A growing number have died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning in their homes and cars. Notable snow totals include 42 inches in glengary, West Virginia and 26. 8 inches in new yorks central park, just a tenth of an inch short of the record. We have several reports on the cleanup, beginning in washington, d. C. With kris van cleave. Reporter the storm has stopped, and so has much of the Nations Capital. Theres no way a car could drive down side streets like this. Snowed in cars and feet of snow block the way. Pedestrians are still using main icedover sidewalks. The airports are closed. So is d. C. s metro. Schools and the City Government will be closed tomorrow. Mayor muriel bowser. While we have made some progress, there is still a lot more to do. Reporter the city brought in 400 pieces of extra equipment to dig out and continues to receive help from the National Guard to move first responders. 69yearold raymond tollson is part of d. C. s volunteer snow team. The city asked him to help shovel steps at the homes of two elderly neighbors. Senior citizens cant get out here and walk in the snow like this. Reporter so he dug them out, then cleared the steps and sidewalks for eight more neighbors. You have to be the hero of the neighborhood. Mm. I dont know. Thats up to them to decide. Reporter huge amounts of snow are being removed from freeways. In some areas suburbs are buried under more than three feet of snow. The airports are working around the clock to clear more than 1,000 miles of pavement make up the runways, taxiways, and tarmacs before reopening. For more than 11,000 cancellations. Chris polino is with washingtons airports. The storm of this magnitude affecting so many airports across the country, its going to take a while for the air travel system as a whole to get back to normal. Reporter in whats become a huge d. C. Tradition, when the snow stops hundreds gather and the snowballs fly. Who wouldnt come to a big snowball fight . Reporter d. C. s snowfall total comes from Reagan National airport. It recorded 17. 8 inches of snow. But vinita, cbs news has learned the National Weather service is launching an internal investigation over reports that it got the total wrong. The nearby national zoo recorded much more, 22. 4 inches of snow, and were just learning the federal government has decided to stay closed again tomorrow. Kris van cleave, thank you. Well, new york got more than two feet of snow and is moving forward like it was little more than a dusting. Heres jamie yuccas. Dawn the shoveling started. By midday some started to move. What are you doing . Going to work. Reporter just six hours after the snow stopped all major roads were cleared. Broadway reopened and trains and buses are back in service. Governor andrew cuomo lifted a travel ban at 7 00 this morning. We survived, and then some. Reporter about 300 accidents kept new york officers busy, but none were fatal. Jfk and laguardia are back pen after canceling almost 300 flights saturday and today. Mayor bill de blasio. Sanitation did an extraordinary job even though the storm came early and was obviously in some ways greater than anyone expected. Reporter there is still cleanup in some spots. In queens theyre still working to clear streets. Even if people can get out they first have to find their car. And then theyre going to have to go ahead and dig it out. Reporter the mayor is asking people to keep their cars parked so plows can clear the roads. But kevin valdez says not one had touched his street by noon. What did you think yesterday when the snow started coming down two, three inches an hour . First i thought it was kind of beautiful. It looked artistic. It was kind of nice. But then i thought wow, the cleaning process is going to be a long process for me. Reporter but for the majority of new yorkers it was a good oldfashioned snow day. Well, families had so much fun with all this snow in central park. The mayor says students are headed back to class tomorrow. And vinita, more than 850 plows hardesthit areas. Jamie yuccas tonight. Thank you. Moon high tides sent sea water and chunks of snow and ice flowing through the streets. New jersey. Wildwood is so high in some places cars cant get through. This gets to be a real mess in here. Drove us through the neighborhoods hit the hardest. He says this storms tides were higher than super storm sandys. Theres hundreds and hundreds of cars that were caught in these tides. Reporter marisa rigby returned today and found her car not working. We had beautiful snow for all of a few hours before it just became a river of icebergs. Reporter Restaurant Owner dave bannon spent sunday drying out. He says the water was up to a foot during the height of the storm. As you can see, the signs gone. When i came in, the water was about up to here. Reporter at one point more than 18,000 customers lost power along the jersey shore. Most shore towns saw minor to moderate flooding and new Jersey Governor Chris Christie said overall his state did well. Regular workweek starting tomorrow. Time. Reporter but for people in southern new jersey forced to trudge through flood waters the storm was another reminder of how vulnerable coastal communities still are. Because we didnt do so good down here. Reporter the mayor of wildwood says about 100 people were forced to evacuate from this neighborhood. Hes hoping that by tomorrow, vinita, most of those people will be able to return home. Jericka duncan, thank you. The cbs overnight news will be well, now to the president ial race, which was dominated today by the talk of another name brand new york billionaire who may just in as an independent. Heres julianna goldman. As of now hes just a private citizen who owns a big company. Reporter with Michael Bloomberg exploring a thirdparty bid, president ial candidates dismissed what would be the latest curveball in the 2016 race. If that takes place, i am confident that we will win it. Reporter the former new york he wants to run as a centrist. If the election comes down to donald trump or ted cruz versus Bernie Sanders. Well, im going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesnt have to. Reporter trump encouraged his fellow new yorker to get in. Then im going to have to deal against hillary if she doesnt go to jail or im going to have to deal against bernie. Or somebody. Or bloomberg comes in, which would be great. Id love to have him come in because i love the competition. Reporter with the caucuses just eight days away candidates blanketed iowa where trump and texas senator ted cruz are battling for conservative the republican frontrunner attended church on sunday and continued to raise questions about cruzs eligibility to be president. Hell run for president. Then hell run for Prime Minister of canada. And so we have an opportunity once again to make America Great again. Reporter over the weekend iowa senator Charles Grassley appeared at a rally with trump. While it wasnt an endorsement it is a sign that the even as he doubles down on yet another controversial comment. You said yesterday you could shoot someone on 5th avenue and wouldnt lose voters. Is youre that confident, huh . Well, i have a very great group of people, john. I have people that are so loyal. Reporter over the weekend the Des Moines Register endorsed senator marco rubio and Hillary Clinton. It could give rubio a boost, but the endorsement is probably less influential than it once was in iowa. Vinita, over the summer the papers Editorial Board called for trump to get out of the race. Didnt exactly hurt his poll numbers. Julianna goldman, thank you. Just over a week before the iowa caucuses, a new cbs Battleground Tracker poll shows donald trump has regained his lead over ted cruz in iowa and now has a fivepoint lead. Here with more on the president ial race is elections director anthony salvanto. What is behind trumps surge . Hes made gains with key groups in iowa. Evangelicals, tea party voters. Existing support, which hes retained over this campaign better than any other candidate. His voters tell us they want two things shake up the system and fix the economy. And then almost 80 of iowans say they feel like trump just gets, it understands how they feel. That may be the kind of emotional connection that explains why the recent attacks on him just arent working. Well, the emotions and the numbers are two very different things. So when you look at those numbers and the polls, do you see anything that could derail him . Turnout is always a question. His voters do say, though, that theyre strongly committed to him and ready to caucus. But he may have a hard time convincing those on the fence. People who arent already with him largely say in the poll that they wont consider him. So his challenge is really to grow support beyond that base, vinita, as we get deeper into the primaries. On the democratic side right now Hillary Clinton is one point behind Bernie Sanders in iowa. What does she need to do . Well, sanders has been making gains by trying to tie clinton to big donor money. Say she might side with donors over regular people. But her supporters see her as electable and her plans more realistic. I think thats the argument shell continue to press in this final week. One of the big headlines today was certainly the possibility that former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg could be running, could be running as an independent. Is that realistic, to run as an independent . Its a challenge for any independent candidate. Remember, the presidency is won state by state and the hurdle is getting to 270. That candidate needs to win states that are reliably democratic or reliably republican. Places like texas and california. Its not just about swinging the battlegrounds from the middle, vinita. Cbs News Elections director anthony salvanto. Anthony, thank you. Thank you. A powerful earthquake rattled anchorage, alaska overnight. It was a magnitude 7. 1 centered about 160 miles west of the city. One home near the epicenter was damaged by a gas explosion that followed the quake, but there are no reports of injuries. A community in canada is in rare for that country. A teenager killed four people in the remote village of la loche, saskatchewan. With more details heres jonathan vigliotti. Reporter residents of la loche are doing something theyve never done before. Mourning a mass shooting. The Remote Aboriginal Community of 2,600 has long been known for its rampant drug abuse and longstanding poverty. Until now the town has remained immune to americanstyle gun violence. On friday scenes once thought foreign shattered the already fragile town. It began at this house around noon. Police say the 17yearold attacker, whose name is being withheld, shot open the front door and killed two teenage brothers. Don herman is their uncle. Its hard. Its hard for me to talk about this right now. Its hard. Reporter the violence continued at the suspects local high school, where he shot through the front door and opened fire. Seven people were injured, two Canadian Media identified 35yearold teacher adam wood and 21yearold educational assistant marie genvier as the two victims. Kalisha janvier is maries cousin. She seemed so happy. I walked past her, said hi. That was the last time. Reporter Police Arrested the gunman at the school. Classmates described him as a silent guy who usually kept to himself. Its still unclear what fueled his attack. Jonathan vigliotti, cbs news, london. An intense manhunt is under way for three escaped prisoners. Officials reveal how they broke out. And an officer calls for basketball backup and gets shaq. The cbs overnight news will be right back. Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. Yeah. But what about mike . It works on his cough too. Cough it works on his cough too. Mucinex dm relieves wet and dry coughs for 12 hours. Its not always as easy for me as it is for him. Its easy for me cause look at her. Aw. So we use ky ultragel. It enhances my bodys natural moisture so i can get into the swing of it a bit quicker. And when i know shes feeling like that, it makes me feel like were both. When she enjoys it, we enjoy it even more. And i enjoy it. The manhunt continues for three escaped inmates in southern california. They broke out of a maximum security jail in santa ana on friday. As Mireya Villarreal reports they are considered armed and dangerous. We will not stop until these individuals are back in our custody. Reporter Authorities Say jonathan tieu, bac duong, and Hossein Nayeri may have spent months plotting their daring escape from the Orange County jail. Sheriff sandra hutchins. It appears to be a very meticulous, says sheriff lieutenant jeff halleck. It seems that the inmates cut their way through halfinch steel bars, cut their way through the plumbing tunnels and ultimately gained access to an unsecured area of the roof. From the roof the inmates rappelled down to the ground. Reporter Authorities Say its likely they used bed sheets and other clothing to fashion a makeshift rope. As to what tools they used to escape, how they got them or if they had help, all those questions got the same response. We are still looking into that. Reporter theyre also look at whether a disturbance inside the jail just prior to the nightly head count may have been a ruse by other inmates to help the three men escape. And now, says sheriff hutchins, theres a more immediate concern. We have notified the victims of some of these crimes and the people that investigated those crimes to ensure that everybody who was involved in these cases is safe. Believe theyve left the country. They say tips have poured in but so far no confirmed sightings. Mireya villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. Up next, airlines are making more money than ever. Are they about to give can lower fuel price have Airline Profits soaring to record highs. For example, this past week United Airlines reported profits of 4. 5 billion for 2015. Southwest Airlines Reported nearly 2. 5 billion in profits. What they made in 2014. So does this mean ticket prices will come down . Here is cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger with all answers. We all hopefully think theyll come down. Is there a chance . Think about this. The Major Airlines saved 46 billion on jet fuel costs last year. Unfortunately, just a fraction of that gets passed along to the passengers. According to the transportation statistics bureau, we know that the average domestic flight last year, 385. That was down 2. 8 from the year before. So a little bit. It seems pretty good, though, compared to the peak. 1999, the highest airfare inflation adjusted, 473 bucks. What about the little fees . Weve all gotten so used to paying them. Do you think those will come down . I think well continue to get nickelled and dimed unfortunately. Some of the numbers are pretty remarkable. Weve got the six largest u. S. Airlines making 18 billion in fees. 2014. Its up 163 from 2010. Now, globally all Airlines Make about 59 billion from these ancillary revenue sources. So i dont think those fees are going away anytime soon. Its such an important component to the airline. With all that profit how are their stocks performing . Amazingly. Profits soaring. Stocks not so much. The Airline Index down 23 from a year ago. Investors fear that these Regional Airlines are trying to eat into the big guys business and it could cause a price war. Good news for consumers, though. Go out and get yourself a cheap fare right now. All right. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger. Thank you so much. Thanks. A pickup game in gainesville, florida had a surprise visitor this weekend. Nba great shaquille oneal. He showed up as a guest of local police after seeing a viral video of an officer who played with kids instead of yelling at them after a noise complaint. The sevenfoot big man was rusty but as you can see he still had some moves. Still ahead, an officer who lost his best friend now gets to this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im vinita nair. Tens of millions of americans who live along the eastern seaboard will spend much of this week digging out after the deadly blizzard of 2016. But the weather is not getting in the way of the president ial campaign. In just one week the people of iowa will cast votes in the first in the nation caucuses. The Des Moines Register came out with its endorsements. Hillary clinton is the papers choice for the democratic nomination, and marco rubio gets the gop endorsement. Battleground tracker shows donald trump back on top in iowa with 39 of the vote. Ted cruz is second with 34 , followed by marco rubio at 13 . In New Hampshire trump has a big lead with 34 , compared to 16 for cruz and 14 for rubio. And on to South Carolina, where trump holds his biggest lead. He gets 40 . Cruz is at 21 and rubio 13 . But one name that does not yet show up in the polls, former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is seriously considering a run as an independent. Julianna goldman has more on that from washington. Reporter Mike Bloomberg feels this campaign has been dominated by the extremes in each party, and he wants to jump in if it looks like the election is going to come down to donald trump or ted cruz versus Bernie Sanders. Hes not ruling out running against Hillary Clinton if she emerges from iowa and New Hampshire seriously wounded, but its an even less likely scenario. Bloomberg will do a round of polling after the New Hampshire primary on february 9th, and from there hes given himself decision in early march. His advisers believe that would give him enough time to qualify as an independent and get on the ballot in all 50 states. The electoral map would be a huge challenge for him, but one area where he is okay, on the money front. Prepared to spend at least 1 billion. How will a possible bloomberg run affect the race for the gop nomination . John dickerson spoke with frontrunner donald trump for face the nation. Thanks for joining us. You said yesterday you could wouldnt lose voters. Youre that confident, huh . Well, i have a very great group of people, john. I have people that are so loyal and its been so reported. Even in your poll. But in a lot of the polls they do that. The loyalty factor. And my factors up, when you add it all up, its pretty much close to 90 . These are people that just wont leave. They will not leave. I love my people. And its a great thing. Its a great thing. Far greater loyalty than any other candidate by double, and i love my people. And on the one hand you have your people, and then this week on the other hand you have the National Review putting out a special issue trying to convince people not to support you, not to vote you. Why do you think they did that . What was their reasoning, do you think . Well, its a failing magazine, number one. They need publicity. They are people that, you know, most of whom i dont know. Most of whom dont forget, ive been in business. Ive made a lot of money, which im going to do for the country now. Ive been focused on jobs and money and deals. Thats what i do. And thats what the country needs. These are people for the most part i dont know. I dont even know who most of them are. I dont want to know who most of them are. Theyre just people that are i guess trying to save a magazine thats close to closing up. Theyre going to get publicity. And i actually think it plays into what im saying because it shows the divisiveness. They backed romney, he lost. They backed mccain, he lost. They lose and they dont know how to win. And im not even sure they want to win. They just want to stay relevant. Cruz. You said yesterday you wouldnt vote for ted cruz if he were the nominee. But you pledged to support the partys nominee. Well, it depends on where hes from. In other words, hes got a problem. He in my opinion. I mean, its looking more and more as you noticed, a number of very top constitutional lawyers have come and said he was born in canada. He didnt tell people. He said he didnt know about it until 15 months ago. He was a canadian citizen. He was joint with the United States. But he was a canadian citizen until 15 months ago. He was a United States senator, i guess nobody figured this out, and he was a citizen of canada. And there are a lot of people now that are saying he was born in canada, he was born on canadas soil, on canadian soil, and he cannot run. And as you know, i guess you probably heard last night, illinois is looking at it very seriously. They might not even let him run in illinois. Let me ask you about somebody else whos thinking about getting in the race. Michael bloomberg. You said yesterday, i love it, speaking about him getting in the race. Why would you love it . Well, i would love it. I know michael very well. Id love to compete against michael. And i know him very well. And i think he might very well get in the race. And i would love to have him get in the race. One of the reasons hes very opposite on me with guns and hes opposite on pro life and hes opposite on a lot of things. So i would love to have michael get in the race. But i dont know if hes going to do it, but i hope he does. I would love to compete against michael. As for the democrats, iowa has tightened to a tossup. Our Battleground Tracker shows Bernie Sanders is up over Hillary Clinton 47 to 46 . In New Hampshire sanders has a comfortable lead, 57 to 38 for clinton. But in South Carolina its all clinton. She leads sanders 60 to 38 . Sanders sat down with John Dickerson for face the nation. The Cook Political Report looked at the rest of the states after iowa and New Hampshire and found they didnt have as many liberals as in those first two so the question can you go the distance even if you win in iowa and New Hampshire . Well, john, let me just say was 6038. If thats the case, it is showing us making huge, huge gains. And i feel confident that if we can win here in iowa, if we can win in New Hampshire, and those are going to be tough races, i think we stand an excellent and in nevada. But if you look at the polling recently, and i can tell you because i have been to South Carolina. We have a lot of momentum on the ground. I think were picking up more and more africanamerican support. Frankly, i think we can win there. You have a new ad out this week which is you and the Simon Garfunkel song america. What does that ad mean for you . What that ad is about is to talk about the fact that as we come together as a country, and we have so much strength, so many extraordinary people, that there is nothing we cannot accomplish. We are the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, the highest rate of childhood povertiy, the only country on earth that doesnt guarantee paid family and medical leave. And when we come together that is what it is. Its a beautiful song, and i think the photography is beautiful. Let us stand together and tackle the real problems facing our nation, and we can accomplish enormous things. Characterized your campaign. He said, this other guys madder than she is, referring to his wife, and that feels authentic. And besides, his slogans are easier to say. Your reaction. Well, i am angry. And the American People are angry, john. People are angry because they dont understand why they have to work longer hours for lower and wealth is going to the top 1 . They are angry because their kids are leaving school 40,000 or 50,000 in debt. And theyre angry because they are seeing the United States having a nation in which elderly people are trying to make it on 12,000, 13,000 a year on social security. People are asking why. The country is angry and i share that anger. The cbs overnight news will his final year in office, he is also looking back. Lee cowan covered mr. Obamas first run for the white house and sat down with the president for sunday morning. It is such an extraordinary privilege to have this job. You get tired. There are times where youre frustrated. You wonder why you did this . Absolutely. That i have not walked into the oval office and understood that at no point in my life will i ever have the chance to do as much good and make as much of a difference in the lives of people as i do right now. And thats precious. So im going to try to squeeze every last little bit of good work that i can while i still have the chance. If youre looking for the worlds best cars and the workers who make those cars, you need to be in detroit, michigan reporter the president s visit to detroit, we are toured the north American International auto show this past week, came exactly a year to the day before his successor, whoever he or she may be, will move into the white house and the obamas will move out. So did they sell you on one of these things . I tell you what. This is a spiffy car. Reporter the president seems especially conscious of that he joked that the reason he came here was to browse for a new car. After all, hell soon have to say goodbye to the one hes been using, which is a far cry, by the way, from any car, let alone the one he used to drive. Do you remember the first car you had . What did you have . The first car i drove was my grandfathers granada, which was not a shining moment for detroit. It was not a great car. Not a great date car either. It was not cool. I had to compensate in my coolness given the fact that i was picking girls up in the granada. Reporter although he was all smiles, the trips had a serious message. I could not be prouder of this industry and the road that weve traveled together. Reporter mr. Obama has been struggling to communicate his successes heading into his last year in office. And the u. S. Auto industry is one example. Both gm and chrysler had record sales last year. The result of the government bailout during the first year of his administration. We cannot and we must not and we will not let our Auto Industry simply vanish. Reporter it wasnt a popular idea. Critics thought the new president was overreaching, even cocky. But in hindsight, he says, thats just what the economic crisis demanded. I might have benefited from being young and a little brash and not being as scared as i probably should have been. There was probably some benefit to me thinking we can fix this. And well figure it out. Reporter by some measures mr. Obama did figure it out. Hes overseen shrinking unemployment, a growing job market. We are done. [ applause ] reporter a reduction in the number of americans without and diplomatic breakthroughs on both Climate Policy and relations with cuba. But his foes say those gains have been overshadowed by the rise of isis, the trouble in syria active shooter situation is still under way. Reporter and terrorism at home. And what stands out even to his supporters has been his inability to be the Unifying Force that he had promised. The one thing that gnaws on me is the degree of continued polarization. This has gotten worse over the last several years. And i think that in those early months my expectation was that we could pull the parties together a little more effectively. Reporter do you wish in hindsight that maybe campaigning on that notion of changing the tone in washington, do you wish you hadnt campaigned as hard on that promise . Well, heres the thing. Thats what the American People believe. And thats what i still believe. The American People. And thats why i stand here as confident as i have ever been that the state of our union is strong. Reporter his final state of the union seemed an attempt to remind america that despite the exasperating negativity the last seven years has not been as dismal or dysfunctional or as racially divided as his critics maintain. Hands up, dont shoot when i hear people say, for example, in the aftermath of ferguson and some of the other cases that Race Relations have deteriorated, theyre terrible, i have to say, well, maybe its just because im getting older, but theyre not worse than they were after the rodney king incident in l. A. And theyre certainly not worse than they were back in the 50s but we forget. If you could run for a third term, would you . No, i wouldnt. Number one, michelle wouldnt let me. This is a great sacrifice and a great privilege, but it takes a toll on family life. This is a process in which the office should be continually renewed by new energy and new ideas and new insights. And although i think i am as good of a president as i have ever been right now, i also think there comes a point where you dont have fresh legs and thats when you start making mistakes or thats when you start thinking that you are whats important as opposed to the mission being more important. Im very confident ill be able to say that things are a lot better now than they were when i came into office. And you know, thats a pretty good eight years worth of work. It enhances my bodys natural so i can get into the swing of it a bit quicker. And when i know shes feeling like that, it makes me feel like were both. When she enjoys it, we enjoy it even more. And i enjoy it. Feel the difference with ky ultragel. Lets get these dayquil liquid gels and go. But these liquid gels are new. Mucinex fast max. Its the same difference. This one is max strength and fights mucus. 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Im quite proud of this one because saturn is just a show stopper. It is. And its right at the end of the show. So i hope people will leave on a high note. Reporter a show stopper not just for the unbelievable clarity and detail but also for the unusual process that gave benson an up close and personal glimpse of worlds often cloaked in mystery. Each photo is actually a composite of a series of specialized images capturing different details. This series of photos are taken not by benson or any human for that matter but snapped by nasa spacecraft over the span of the agencys 60year history. Of course. Putting together a jigsaw puzzle of images. So typically youll see an even more astonishing thing as you assemble it. Reporter its a jigsaw puzzle that took benson years to complete. The end result is an exhibit of 77 stunning composites. A perfect fusion of art and science. Reporter dr. Joe makowsky is a scientist at the Natural History museum. In a technical sense this is very clearly an Art Exhibition for the Natural History museum. We hope that people who appreciate art will come here for that. We hope people who come here for science will be pleasantly surprised by the art. Reporter and with all things art there is some interpretation. Many of the original photos are received at nasa in black and white. Benson uses historical and Scientific Data to determine the most accurate tones. Sometimes i say oh, darn, i have to reprint this . Reporter bensons work is casting new light on space, much like ansel adams photography revealed americas Wild National obviously i didnt haul my box camera on a tripod to saturn, and i wish i had that possibility. Reporter as a kid benson grew up wanting to go to space. Instead hes bringing the solar system back to earth. I think its part of growing up as a species to recognize where we are in the universe. Thats part of what im doing, you know, i think, is trying to bring the message. Or with the help, a little bit of help from nasa and the European Space agency. Reporter jonathan vigliotti, london. 2016 is still young, but already some of the biggest names in rock music have passed away. Anthony mason sat down with rock and roll hall of Famer Graham Nash to talk about the loss of two contemporaries. Reporter januarys been a cold month for music lovers. The Eagles Glenn Frey suddenly gone. Just a week after david bowie. Their fans, imagine how it hit their fellow musicians. Yeah. Because whos next . Reporter talking with graham nash about another topic this week, we kept coming back to the shock of it. There was something particularly jarring about both of them. I dont know what. Because it was completely unexpected. Yeah. I mean, glenn was what, 67 . Yeah. Wow. Bowies 69. Are you feeling the clock any more after this month . Ive been feeling the clock a lot in this last six months. Teach your children well reporter nash has had a 50year career in music. Hey, cherry ann starting with the hollies. Are you thinking and then with crosby stills nash. And young. I mean with all due respect, anthony, we have talked many times and you know my next birthday, in less than two weeks ill be 74 years old. And its stunning to me that i candy store with this passion that i still have for communicating. Its amazing to me. And im just going to go right along with it until it, you know, comes to an end. Look up here reporter bowies end, and just days after he released his latest album, blackstar. But after a while glenn frey died just months after the eagles had wrapped up a twoyear tour. Its really weird. I listen to cbs news a lot, you know, on the hour in my car. Yep. And you hear, you know, cofounder of the Eagles Glenn Frey died today and badabadabada. And then i put myself in there, rock and roll hall of Famer Graham Nash died today. And it will be gone and in five minutes it will all be over. Its kind of interesting. So what do you do with the time i think you owe it to yourself as an artist and as a human being to have the best time you can. Yeah. As we face our future. Right. Dont even try reporter artists hope their music lives forever. But rock stars dont. Weve been reminded of that this month, when an eagle left us and a starman took to the heavens. After a weekend whiteout comes the big dig in the east. The Nations Capital takes an extra day to recover. Closing schools tomorrow. The house shuts down for the week. New yorks mayor tells people not to clean up their cars and chill. A week before the first vote the new cbs poll shows two new frontrunners in iowa. Also tonight, the manhunt for three escaped prisoners in california. Plus new details on how they made their jail break. And this officers best friend was irreplaceable. Today he met his new partner. Thats a good boy. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. News. Im vinita nair. The monster blizzard that hit the east this weekend continues to claim lives. At least 26 people have died in d. C. Some were in car accidents. Others suffered heart attacks while shoveling. A growing number have died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning in their homes and cars. Notable snow totals include 42 inches in glen garry, West Virginia and 26. 8 inches in new yorks central park, just a tenth of an inch short of the record. We have several reports on the cleanup, beginning in washington, d. C. With kris van cleave. Reporter the storm has stopped, and so has much of the Nations Capital. Theres no way a car could drive down side streets like this. Snowed in cars and feet of snow block the way. Pedestrians are still using main the airports are closed. So is d. C. s metro. Schools and the City Government will be closed tomorrow. Mayor muriel bowser. While we have made some progress, there is still a lot more to do. Reporter the city brought in 400 pieces of extra equipment to dig out and continues to receive help from the National Guard to move first responders. 69yearold raymond tollson is part of d. C. s volunteer snow team. The city asked him to help shovel steps at the homes of two elderly neighbors. Senior citizens cant get out here and walk in the snow like this. Reporter so he dug them out, then cleared the steps and sidewalks for eight more neighbors. You have to be the hero of the neighborhood. Mm. I dont know. Thats up to them to decide. Reporter huge amounts of snow are being removed from freeways. In some areas suburbs are buried under more than three feet of snow. The airports are working around the clock to clear more than 1,000 miles of pavement make up the runways, taxiways, and so far the storm is responsible for more than 11,000 cancellations. Chris pollino is with washingtons airports. The storm of this magnitude affecting so many airports across the country, its going to take a while for the air travel system as a whole to get back to normal. Reporter in whats become a huge d. C. Tradition, when the snow stops hundreds gather and the snowballs fly. Who wouldnt come to a big snowball fight . Reporter d. C. s snowfall total comes from Reagan National airport. It recorded 17. 8 inches of snow. But vinita, cbs news has learned the National Weather service is launching an internal investigation over reports that it got the total wrong. The nearby national zoo recorded much more, 22. 4 inches of snow, and were just learning the federal government has decided to stay closed again tomorrow. Kris van cleave, thank you. Well, new york got more than two feet of snow and is moving forward like it was little more than a dusting. Heres jamie yuccas. Dawn the shoveling started. By midday some started to move. What are you doing . Going to work. Reporter just six hours after the snow stopped all major roads were cleared. Broadway reopened and trains and buses are back in service. Governor andrew cuomo lifted a travel ban at 7 00 this morning. We survived, and then some. Reporter about 300 accidents kept new york officers busy, but none were fatal. Jfk and lagardia are back open after canceling almost 300 flights saturday and today. Mayor bill de blasio. Sanitation did an extraordinary job even though the storm came early and was obviously in some ways greater than anyone expected. Reporter there is still cleanup in some spots. In queens theyre still working to clear streets. Even if people can get out they first have to find their car. And then theyre going to have oh, my goodness. Reporter the mayor is asking people to keep their cars parked so plows can clear the roads. But kevin valdez says not one had touched his street by noon. What did you think yesterday when the snow started coming down two, three inches an hour . First i thought it was kind of beautiful. It looked artistic. It was kind of nice. But then i thought wow, the cleaning process is going to be a long process for me. Reporter but for the majority of new yorkers it was a good oldfashioned snow day. Well, families had so much fun with all this snow in central park. The mayor says students are headed back to class tomorrow. And vinita, more than 850 plows are still out, targetsing the hardesthit areas. Jamie yuccas tonight. Thank you. On the jersey shore, full moon high tides sent sea water and chunks of snow and ice flowing through the streets. Reporter the water in wildwood is so high in some places cars cant get through. This gets to be a real mess in here. Reporter mayor Ernie Troiano drove us through the neighborhoods hit the hardest. He says this storms tides were higher than super storm sandys. Theres hundreds and hundreds of cars that were caught in these tides. Reporter marisa rigby returned today and found her car not working. We had beautiful snow for all of a few hours before it just became a river of icebergs. Reporter Restaurant Owner dave bannon spent sunday drying out. He says the water was up to a foot during the height of the storm. As you can see, the signs gone. When i came in, the water was about up to here. Reporter at one point more than 18,000 customers lost power along the jersey shore. Most shore towns saw minor to moderate flooding and new Jersey Governor Chris Christie said overall his state did well. We look forward to a normal regular workweek starting tomorrow. Reporter but for people in southern new jersey forced to trudge through flood waters the storm was another reminder of how vulnerable coastal communities still are. Did he do better up there . Because we didnt do so good down here. Reporter the mayor of wildwood says about 100 people were forced to evacuate from this neighborhood. Hes hoping that by tomorrow, vinita, most of those people will be able to return home. Jericka duncan, thank you. The cbs overnight news will be well, now to the president ial race, which was dominated today by the talk of another name brand new york billionaire who may just in as an independent. Heres julianna goldman. As of now hes just a private citizen who owns a big company. Reporter with Michael Bloomberg exploring a thirdparty bid, president ial candidates dismissed what would be the latest curveball in the 2016 race. If that takes place, i am confident that we will win it. Reporter the former new york city mayor has told associates he wants to run as a centrist. Donald trump or ted cruz versus Bernie Sanders. Well, im going to relieve him of that and get the to. Reporter trump encouraged his fellow new yorker to get in. Then im going to have to deal against hillary if she doesnt go to jail or im going or somebody. Or bloomberg comes in, which would be great. Id love to have him come in reporter with the caucuses just eight days away candidates blanketed iowa where trump and texas senator ted cruz are battling for conservative voters. The republican frontrunner attended church on sunday and continued to raise questions about cruzs eligibility to be president. Hell run for president. Then hell run for Prime Minister of canada. And so we have an opportunity once again to make America Great again. Reporter over the weekend iowa senator Charles Grassley appeared at a rally with trump. While it wasnt an endorsement it is a sign that the establishment is warming to the even as he doubles down on yet another controversial comment. You said yesterday you could shoot someone on 5th avenue and wouldnt lose voters. Youre that confident, huh . Well, i have a very great group of people, john. I have people that are so loyal. Reporter over the weekend the Des Moines Register endorsed senator marco rubio and Hillary Clinton. It could give rubio a boost, but the endorsement is probably less influential than it once was in iowa. Vinita, over the summer the papers Editorial Board called for trump to get out of the race. Didnt exactly hurt his poll numbers. Julianna goldman, thank you. Just over a week before the iowa caucuses, a new cbs Battleground Tracker poll shows donald trump has regained his lead over ted cruz in iowa and now has a fivepoint lead. Here with more on the president ial race is elections director anthony salvanto. What is behind trumps surge . Hes made gains with key groups in iowa. Evangelicals, tea party voters. And then added that to his existing support, which hes better than any other candidate. His voters tell us they want two things shake up the system and fix the economy. And then almost 80 of iowans say they feel like trump just gets, it understands how they feel. That may be the kind of emotional connection that explains why the recent attacks on him just arent working. Well, the emotions and the numbers are two very different so when you look at those numbers and the polls, do you see anything that could derail him . Turnout is always a question. His voters do say, though, that theyre strongly committed to him and ready to caucus. But he may have a hard time convincing those on the fence. People who arent already with him largely say in the poll that they wont consider him. So his challenge is really to grow support beyond that base, vinita, as we get deeper into the primaries. On the democratic side right now Hillary Clinton is one point behind Bernie Sanders in iowa. What does she need to do . Well, sanders has been making gains by trying to tie clinton to big donor money. Say she might side with donors over regular people but her supporters see her as electable and her plans more realistic. I think thats the argument shell continue to press in this final week. One of the big headlines today was certainly the possibility that former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg could be running, could be running as an independent. Is that realistic, to run as an independent . Its a challenge for any independent candidate. Remember, the presidency is won state by state and the hurdle is getting to 270. That candidate needs to win states that are reliably republican. California. Its not just about swinging the battlegrounds from the middle, vinita. Cbs News Elections director anthony salvanto. Anthony, thank you. Thank you. A powerful earthquake rattled anchorage, alaska overnight. It was a mag tooutd 7. 1 centered about 160 miles west of the city. One home near the epicenter was damaged by a gas explosion that followed the quake, but there are no reports of injuries. A community in canada is in rare for that country. A teenager killed four people in the remote village of la loche, saskatchewan. With more details heres jonathan vigliotti. Reporter residents of la loche are doing something theyve never done before. Mourning a mass shooting. The Remote Aboriginal Community of 2,600 has long been known for its rampant drug abuse and longstanding poverty. Until now the town has remained immune to americanstyle gun violence. On friday scenes once thought foreign shattered the already fragile town. It began at this house around noon. Police say the 17yearold attacker, whose name is being withheld, shot open the front door and killed two teenage brothers. Don herman is their uncle. Its hard. Its hard for me to talk about this right now. Its hard. Reporter the violence continued at the suspects local high school, where he shot through the front door and opened fire. Killed. Canadian media identified 35yearold teacher adam wood and 21yearold educational assistant marie genvier as the two victims. Callisha genvier is maries causepin cousin. She seemed so happy. I walked past her, said hi. That was the last time. 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Reporter Authorities Say jonathan tieu, bac duong, and Hossein Nayeri may have spent months plotting their daring escape from the Orange County jail. Sheriff sandra hutchins. Reporter the planning was meticulous, says sheriff lieutenant jeff halleck. It seems the inmates cut their way through halfinch steel bars, cut their way through the plumbing tunnels and ultimately gained access to an unsecured area of the roof. From the roof the inmates rappelled down to the ground. Reporter Authorities Say its likely they used bed sheets and other clothing to fashion a makeshift rope. As to what tools they used to escape, how they got them or if they had help, all those questions got the same response. We are still looking into that. Reporter theyre also look at whether a disturbance inside the jail just prior to the nightly head count may have been a ruse by other inmates to help the three men escape. And now, says sheriff hutchins, theres a more immediate concern. We have notified the victims of some of these crimes and the people that investigated those crimes to ensure that everybody who was involved in these cases is safe. Believe theyve left the country. They say tips have poured in but so far no confirmed sightings. Mireya villarreal, cbs news, los angeles. Up next, airlines are making more money than ever. Are they about to give lower fuel price have Airline Profits soaring to record highs. For example, this past week United Airlines reported profits of 4. 5 billion for 2015. Southwest Airlines Reported nearly 2. 5 billion in profits. What they made in 2014. So does this mean ticket prices will come down . Here is cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger with all answers. We all hopefully think theyll come down. Is there a chance . Think about this. The Major Airlines save 46 billion on jet fuel costs last year. Unfortunately, just a fraction of that gets passed along to the passengers. According to the transportation statistics bureau, we know that the average domestic flight last year, 385. That was down 2. 8 from the year before. So a little bit. It seems pretty good, though, compared to the peak. 1999, the highest airfare inflation adjusted, 473 bucks. What about the little fees . Weve all gotten so used to paying them. Do you think those will come down . I think well continue to get nickelled and dimed unfortunately. Some of the numbers are pretty remarkable. The six largest u. S. Airlines making 18 billion in fees. Its up 163 from 2010. Now, globally all Airlines Make about 59 billion from these ancillary revenue sources. So i dont think those fees are going away anytime soon. Its such an important component to the airline. With all that profit how are their stocks performing . Amazingly. Profits soaring. Stocks not so much. The Airline Index down 23 from a year ago. Investors fear that these Regional Airlines are trying to eat into the big guys business and it could cause a price war. Good news for consumers, though. Go out and get yourself a cheap fare right now. All right. Cbs News Business analyst Jill Schlesinger. Thank you so much. Thanks. A pickup game in gainesville, florida had a surprise visitor this weekend. Nba great shaquille oneal. He showed up as a guest of local police after seeing a viral video of an officer who played with kids instead of yelling at them in after a noise complaint. The sevenfoot big man was rusty but as you can see he still had some moves