Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. The cold winter air in the east is filled tonight with the sounds of plows in search of pavement and shovels in search of sidewalks. After the storm, new bedford, massachusetts, is digging out of more than a foot of snow. Roads throughout the northeast and Midatlantic States are still icy and dangerous. This is virginia. And now temperatures many the region are plummeting again. Today it got as low as nine degrees in washington, d. C. , seven in new york city and boston. Watertown, new york, hit 37 degrees below zero. We have a team of correspondents covering the story. First, Michelle Millner hanover, massachusetts. Just southeast of boston. Michelle . Reporter scott, blizzard warnings were in effect in parts of massachusetts throughout until this afternoon. Now, the heavy snow that wrecked last nights commute for millions in the midatlantic made driving treacherous for much of the day here in new england. First came the snow, up to 18 inches south of boston. Bitter cold followed. Windchills made it feel like ten below zero. Getting around took patience and nerve. A. A. A. Received 50 more Service Calls than usual. This ambulance slipped off the road while on call in stoughton, massachusetts. How we doing . Reporter jackson longs toeing company has taken more than 40 calls since last night. It doesnt take much. Especially if you have ice under the snow. Anything is going to slide on it. Even a big truck like this. You have to be very careful driving on it. Reporter at least seven people were killed in weatherrelated accidents. A 20mile trip took two hours last night on parts of new yorks long island. As you can see i just rear ended a lady by accident. I even hit the emergency break. Reporter the powdery snow even found its way into this amtrak train bound for washington, d. C. The storm dropped as much as two inches of snow an hour. That intensity was a surprise in new york city where buses became stuck on unplowed streets. Mayor bill de blasio tried to explain why some streets remain slippery hours later. What happened was the snow hit right before rush hour in some parts of the city where there was, obviously, a high concentration of vehicles. It created a real jamup and it had to be worked through. Reporter it wasnt much easier here in hanover, massachusetts. It took Kristin Regan two hours to clear her driveway. Its light and tphraoufy and it moves but when the wind blows and it gets in your face it gives the rosie cheeks. Reporter parts of massachusetts have already seen more than a foot of snow than normal this winter. Now, the states annual cleanup budget is 43 million. Scott, theyve already spent 40 million and that doesnt include this storm. Pelley thanks, michelle. Air travel is improving, slowly. About 1,500 flights were canceled today. Thats half as many as yesterday. It brings the twoday total to nearly 4,600. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station in boston, wbz t. V. Eric, whats coming next . Reporter scott, good evening. Cold will be the big story moving forward. Were digging out in those frigid temperatures. 3. 8 inches of snow in d. C. Philly has had three sixplus inch snowstorms before the start of february for the first time in recorded history. Over a foot half . Of snow just south of boston. Now, the lows tonight, frigid, cyr owe in cleveland, 2 in green bay, philadelphia looking at the teens. And the windchill biting, subzero in boston tomorrow morning and 30 to 40 below zero in the upper midwest as we kick on thursday. For an upside down world, how about this . Juneau, alaska, highs in the 40s for the next several days while atlanta looking at highs in the 30s. Freeze warnings as far south as the afterglades and, scott, if youre interested in snowfall, were watching a potential for next monday. Pelley eric fisher, thanks very much. Naturalledly price of heating fuel is rising. Natural gas is up nearly 6 . Propane even more. Heres dean reynolds. Reporter propane trucks are crisscrossing the midwest, distributing fuel to customers from stocks that are now half of what they were last year. Jeff petrash is Vice President of the National Propane gas association. Its operating but under considerable stress. The problem really is that we have to get the propane where its needed. Reporter more than seven million households rely on propane for heat. Some customers may be paying up to 200 more to fill up their home tanks than they did just last month. For natural gas, which heats more than 55. 6 million households, market prices are up more than 8 in the last two days. Phillip streible is a market analyst. Are there any longterm effects . Or is this just once the winter is over things will go back to normal. Thats what i truly believe. Prices, i believe, theyll top out and well start to come back down but i would still expect that next bill will probably shoot up on most of the consumers. Reporter new drilling techniques have increased production to record high amounts, but pipeline production has not grown as fast, causing price spikes in parts of the country. And while the amount of natural gas in underground storage is roughly the same as a decade ago, we are now withdrawing almost double the amount as we once did. Now, to give you another measurement of this winters impact, scott, the weekending january 10 saw the largest withdrawal of natural gas from Storage Facilities in this country in 20 years. Pelley and one School District in tennessee is closing because it ran out of propane. Thanks very much, dean. Today Edward Snowden said that he acted all alone when he stole top secret documents from the National Security agency. Last sunday on face the nation, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, said the russians might have helped snowden in the theft. Snowden escaped to hong kong and then later settled in russia. Snowden told the new yorker magazine that the idea that he had help with the theft is absurd. Well, we put the question to one of the people who know the most about the case mike morell. Until last year. He was Deputy Director of the c. I. A. He also served on the president s task force on surveillance. Morell is now a Senior Security contributor for cbs news. There is no evidence of that, scott. My own thinking is that what Edward Snowden did was steal the material on his own, get out of the country on his own. My questions about his work with chinese and russian intelligence begin once he arrives in hong kong and then when he moved on to moscow. Pelleyc what do we know about what happened in hong kong . Well, there were some a couple of incidents in hong kong that i really cant get into, but those incidents really raised some questions about whether or not he had contact with russian intelligence. Pelley does u. S. Intelligence have a good appraisal today of what snowden took in its entirety . So we dont know what he took. We know what he had access to. My understanding is that the government is still trying to put together exactly what he walked away with. I think about in the three buckets one bucket is what he actually had on computers and hard drives that he showed up in hong kong with. Clearly that information has been compromised. The second bucket is what he has already turned over to mr. Greenwald. And then i assume that theres also a third bucket of information that Edward Snowden still controls and is probably somewhere in the cloud. Scott, one of my concerns is that is accessing that cloud in any way in russia, russian intelligence is clearly watching him do that and they only need to see him do it once to be able to do it themselves. Pelley now, greenwald, of course, is the reporter whos been working with snowden. When you say that he has information in the cloud, this is a widely distributed filesharing system where the information would be spread out over perhaps multiple servers anywhere around the world. After all of these months, would it be possible for someone to repeat what he did or are all of those security lapses now closed . There are places in the u. S. Government where there is classified information, where there is no auditing capability and so this could happen someplace else and one of our recommendations in the review group was that the government move quickly to monitor these networks as aggressively as they can be monitored. Pelley mike morell, former Deputy Director of the c. I. A. And now a cbs news contributor. Thanks. The president , of course, has proposed surveillance reforms after snowdens revelations. In a cbs news poll, we asked americans who should happen to snowden. 61 said he should stand trial on espionage charges. 23 said he should be granted amnesty. Today both sides in syrias civil war met for the very First Time Since the uprising broke out nearly three years ago. Well over 100,000 people have been killed. But the peace talks in switzerland got off to a rough start when the syrian foreign minister went on a half hour tirade. Heres what he said when u. N. Secretary general ban kimoon tried to stop him. Pelley and he kept on talking. Our state Department CorrespondentMargaret Brennan is covering the talks in montreux, switzerland. Margaret . Reporter scott, the Syrian Regime flatly rejected the idea that president assad step down which the u. S. And rebels say is the entire purpose of these talks. Instead, the regime wanted to focus on the rebels as terrorists. But secretary kerry said the only way to move forward is for assad to step down. He has long since because of his choice of weapons, because of what he has done, lost any legitimacy. Who can imagine that tomorrow or in a week or in a month you could suddenly say oh, okay, its all right. You can lead syria. Reporter i asked secretary kerry what happens if diplomacy fails and he said the u. S. Is looking at other options. One possibility is increasing support to the armed rebels. But we might get an answer by tomorrow because u. N. Negotiators are seeing whether they can get the regime and the rebels to even talk to each other behind closed doors. Pelley a very long road for diplomacy yet. Margaret, thank you. Millions of civilians have fled syria, some with terrible wounds, going to neighboring countries including turkey. Holly williams saw this part of the war through the eyes of an american doctor. Reporter dr. Abdalmajid katranji is an american surgeon used to working in toprated hospitals. Now, in a converted kitchen he treats the horrific injuries of syrias civil war. screaming a chronic lack of funds forces dr. Katranji to improvised. Here ive used needle and thread that we use to sew clothes to sew people back together. Ive literally gone to mechanic shops and carpenters to borrow their tools, to clean them up as best as we can to perform certain surgeries or to remove shrapnel. Reporter born and raised in michigan to syrian parents, this is the seventh time dr. Katranji has left his wife and four children at home and come to help the victims of the syrian conflict. This makeshift Rehabilitation Center just over turkeys border with syria relies on private donations and volunteer doctors. Many of the patients are rebel fighters. Dr. Katranji told us what hes seen here has taken a personal toll and especially one case a baby whose life he couldnt save. It got cold enough where basically the baby froze to death and died overnight. The mother asking us to please warm the baby up. All we had to do was warm the baby up and the baby would wake up. It it gets to you. It was a very difficult thing to deal with. Reporter dr. Katranjis patients have visible wounds as well as scars that go much deeper. Nidal hasan is an interior decorator from Hosni Mubarak whose bodholmes whose bodywas lt attack. He told us the same attack killed his three closest friends. While politicians squabble over syrias future, dr. Katranji told us what syrians need is more humanitarian aid. That baby just dying, freezing to death, its a tragedy that could have so easily been averted if the world will just kind of look at this as a humanitarian crisis the way it should. Reporter we speak with a lot of syrians and not one of them has told us theyre optimistic about the peace talks. Most people say they are a pointless political exercise that wont achieve anything. And, scott, many syrians tell us they are angry because they say the outside world is ignoring their suffering. Pelley more than two million refugees, Holly Williams along the board we are syria and turkey. Holly, thank you. Today, two people were shot to death in antigovernment protests in ukraine. Police were beating some protesters and tearing apart their camps. The demonstrations broke out two months ago when ukraines president rejected an economic deal with the European Union in favor of closer ties with russia. An american olympian tells his parents not to come to the winter games. Subcompact cars get poor grades in new crash tests. And a fuel plant is blown to bits. When the cbs evening news continues. The rhythm of life. [ whistle blow where do you hear that beat . Campbells healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ mm. ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. Campbells healthy request. 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So he can stay focused and not have a secondary thing to worry about. Our athletes deserve to be able to just go and compete, not to have any of this going on. Reporter the u. S. Ski and snowboarding association has hired global rescue, a security company, that will have up to 16 aircraft on standby for medical or security emergencies. That is in addition, of course, to the two u. S. Warships on standby in the black sea and u. S. Military aircraft that will be on alert at bases in the region as the pentagon put it, scott, for all manner of contingencies. Pelley charlie, thanks very much. Today the Insurance Industry said that ten out of 11 subcompact cars failed a new crash test which measures frontal impact. Only the Chevrolet Spark earned an acceptable rating. Six were rated poor the honda fit and the fiat 500 performed worst. Theres a new video of a deadly jet crash and well have that when we come back. Start with proteinpacked egg whites and savory roasted turkey for breakfast. 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In east rutherford, new jersey, today, workers tested their snow removal speed at the site of what will be the first outdoor super bowl in a coldweather city. In los angeles, carter evans tells us the n. H. L. s goal is to keep the ice from melting saturday at its first regularseason outdoor hockey game in a warm weather city. Reporter no one is feeling the heat in los angeles as much as dan craig. When the n. H. L. Planned this, what were you expecting weather wise . We were expecting the weather trend is usually 62 to 68. Reporter in youd known it was going to be this hot, would you be here . No, we would havent said 80 degrees. Reporter craig is the National Hockey leagues ice guru. The canadian is in charge of the 16,000 square foot rink built on the infield of dodger stadium. This timelapse video shows two weeks of construction. This engineering feat of this floor is second to none. Reporter thin layers of water are frozen over aluminum panels and slowly built up to more than an inch and a half of regulation ice. Its kept as close as possible to 22 degrees by a massive refrigeration truck but the only thing between the ice and the sun is a reflective blanket. What temperatures can it hand . The truck was designed to handle 75 so youre five degrees hotter. Were five degrees hotter. Reporter what has been an icemaking nightmare for craig has back marketing bonanza for the n. H. L. Hockey hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky played for the l. A. Kings. One of the things i used to always say is it would be so cool to see our game played outdoors in l. A. People in shorts and tshirts enjoying our great sport. Reporter 105,000 people watched this new years day game in ann arbor, michigan. Snow had to be removed from that rink during the game. The forecast for saturday is 79 degrees. Was there ever a poi where you thought, you know, were going to have to call this . No, never. Not a chance. Not gonna happen. Reporter failure is not an option. Tickets are almost sold out. Carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. Pelley and thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For all of us at cbs news all around the world. Good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access gro im scott broom in gaithersburg. How schools recovered from the storm today and how they might be affected by the arctic cold tomorrow. Frostbite, exposure, heart attacks, car accidents, all Health Risks Associated with this cold. Advice from a doctor to keep you safe coming up. Your only local newscast begins right now from the wusa9 ice desk. And good evening, everybody, im jan jeffcoat here on the wusa9 ice desk. We set up shop outside our television station here in northwest d. C. Bruce johnson inside right now as we get ready for that deep freeze, mola outside with me to give you information on how you can keep your family safe as we see temperatures plummet. You survived a couple shows, yo you have to be the coldest person in d. C. The coolest, for sure. Well be talking about roads, what crews will be doing. Talking about metro, airports, all things transportation as folks get back into the routine as far as commuting goes. This is cool. Crews started setting this up around 11 30 this morning. It took them five hours. Heres the time lapse to show you how it all came together. And of course, all this cold prompted the First Alert Weather Team declared today a yellow alert. We want to bring in chief meteorologist with more on this big chill. And it has been Holding Steady right now. 18 degrees for the past couple of hours. Good news is, no