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Texas was especially hit hard. At least 11 people were killed from tornadoes. Missouri declaring a state of emergency. Blizzards in three southern states. Iraqi forces insisting they have control of ramadi from issuing sis predicting liberation of mosul next. In chicago, police mistakely shot 55yearold bettie jones and she was waiting for officers esto rpond to a domestic disturbance. Why do you have to shoot and ask questions later . Its ridiculous its a joke. Its a friggin joke. Peyton manning fighting back against accusations he took growth hormones. Theyre a saying his wife received hgh in 2011 and now he is recanting any such statements. Devastating flooding in the united kingdom. Rescue crews are using rafts to save people. A car plows into a Convenience Store outside of the new York Police Say the driver clostolontr and one man was struck. Falls on it and recovers game over the panthers undefeated season comes to a halt. The patriots win the toss in overtime and they elect to kick justify and the jets say win. Eric decker with a touchdown. Jets win in over. Time a celebration. This poor dude missed his connecting flight. Stephen, i want to know im having an intimate moment with the sunday morning people. Is this sunday . Its sunday. Then it must be face the nation. Well done. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by toyota. Lets go places. That was sunday. This is monday. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im jeff glor with margaret brennan. Charlie rose and Norah Odonnell and gayle king are off. Good to see you. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Happy holidays and new years. All of that. The celebrations continue. We start with violent storms moving across the country are 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 flooding with rainswollen rivers going over their banks. We begin with David Begnaud in rowlett, texas, where there are piles of rubble where house used to be. Reporter good morning. Here in the city of rowlett, eyewitnesses who lived through this tornado said it took less than 45 seconds to do this. You are struck by the personal items. The clothing, baby products, things in the home tossed like sticks. Across this area, more than 80 homes have been destroyed. Many of which have been leveled. There is one man who lives in the area who says he was outside. He saw the sky changing colors. He turned inside to tell his wife they needed to get to a safe place and before they could, the windows, he said, exploded. The Severe Weather continued on sunday with hail and strong winds pounding the dallas ft. Worth area. Oh, there is stuff flying in the air reporter at least nine tornadoes were confirmed throughout the dallas metro plex this weekend. Oh, my gosh big reporter packing winds nearly 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 a has prompted Texas Governor greg abbott to discover disaster areas in at least four counties. No north texas, more than 1,400 homes are damaged or destroyed. In blue ridge a newborn girl was killed after Severe Weather hit this mobile home. 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 he handed me to her. Mrs. Heatley hid in her closet as a tornado tore through her garland neighborhood. No way to go downstairs. I stayed in my closet all night long shaking like a leaf on a tree. Reporter in nearby rowlett people were injured and homes damaged, emergency crews spent the day looking for survivors who may be trapped under debris. Its all right. Reporter mike girard shows his wife nancy their home for the First Time Since they both lived through the tornado. We were on our patio in the back of the house. What was that . That was the ceiling falling in. Reporter their home of 25 years which was 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 its true. Reporter nancy, are you okay . No my boys grew up in this house we dont know what to do we went from happy to homeless in a minute. Reporter not far from where i am is the citys water tower and it can be seen for miles as you approach the city of rowlett. This morning, it may collapse vulnerable due what it stained in the storm. The water has been drained from that water tower and it it will be inspected later today. 6,000 people are without power this morning and the city is cut off. Police are protecting every entrance. No one is allowed in except people who live here. David begnaud in rowlett. The winter storm is delivering a winter blast to multiple states. Its targeting new mexico and texas and oklahoma with dangerous blizzard conditions in places. Meteorologist mike sidle of the Weather Channel is in amarillo, texas. They could see a foot of snow there. Good morning, mike. Reporter good morning. And historic storm for parts of eastern new mexico and western texas. In new mexico, they had as much as two feet of snow and eightfoot drifts. Here in texas, two hours south of here lubbock picked up 11 inches and largest snowfall on record and now the snowiest december on record. Keep in mind they only average about 8 inches of snow an entire season. All of the snow combined with wind gusts as high as 82 miles an hour and causing blowing and drifting and shutting down many roadways including interstate 40 westbound and there is the amarillo sign. You cant go from here to the new mexico state line. I40 interstate to Oklahoma City is shut down and 287 to childress is closed because of the wind and the blowing snow. The winds are now beginning to diminish. Yesterday, we gusted upward of 50 miles an hour for numerous consecutive hours. This morning, the winds are gusting 30 to 35 here in amaril amarillo. By this afternoon, dropping off remarkly to about 5 to 10 miles an hour. They hope to get the interstates back open sometime this morning. The fourth warmest december on record in amarillo until yesterday and that is changing now and may not get above freezing for the rest of december. Jeff, back to you. Wow. Mike, thank you very much. Mark strassmann is in el reno, oklahoma, 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 and the full blast of winter with snow blowing, cutting powerful wind has knocked down this power line. An inch or two thick of ice around this. The state has been blasted the last 24 hours with blizzards in the west and flooding in the east. An ice storm cut signs and power lines overnight. Utility crews worked to restore power to thousands. In the texas panhandlpanhandle, blowing and drifting. The roads across the state of texas especially north of i10 remain in a perilous condition. Reporter a state of emergency was declared in new mexico after a 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, new mexico, to the texas state line has been shut down. I was coming through here because i figured it would be better but, apparently, not. Reporter these truckers driving on i40 were stopped near albuquerque. Some of their rigs were rerouted and parked at the state fairground. 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 8 inches of rain falling on sunday. We are 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, the state is also had three earthquakes over the last day. One of them, a 3. 5 magnitude came just 17 miles north of Oklahoma City. Jeff . 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 and parts of missouri could see 3 more inches of rain today. The size of the storm is slowing down air travel. Airlines have cancelled more than 650 u. S. Flights so far this morning. More than 165 others are delayed. Meteorologist Danielle Niles of our boston station wbz is tracking more potential for Severe Weather. Danielle, good morning. Reporter jeff, good morning to you. It is going to be an active weather day. A color map. Not the colors you want to see, though. Winter storm warnings and Winter Weather advisories from texas to new england. Flash flood warnings in parts of ongoing to missouri and a tornado watch is in effect for the next several hours. So this is the greatest risk of Severe Weather today from the Florida Panhandle stretching back in through tennessee as these lines of thunderstorms spread east, clusters of damaging wind and isolated tornadoes possible. Through the evening hours, the snow ramps up along with ice. All the way from the midwest stretching east to new england tomorrow with a burst of snow changing over to sleet and then rain. Snowfall togethetals over a foo iowa and stretching to wisconsin. A sloppy inch and two around boston but the highest total in Northern New England is a good change because ski resorts will be open tomorrow. The u. S. Military congratulated iraq on the process its making in the liberating the key city of ramadi. That 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. Debora patta is tracking that tough fighting from london. Good morning. Reporter good morning. The iraqis declared victory in ramadi after pushing isis out of a key government complex. The Ministry Source tells us they are still facing pockets of resistance. Iraqi troops are taking over ramadi streetbystreet. But progress has been hampered because the area is rigged with explosives. The offensive began six days ago and it has been a tough fight. There is gun battles raging as iraqi soldiers pushed that i way into the heart of the city near targets and seizing back the main government compound. This is a far cry from when the iraqis suffered a humiliating defeat in ramadi and shown fleeing the city after isis captured this in may. It demonstrates a force that is capable of defeating isis on the ground says cbs news Senior Security contributor and former cia Deputy Director michael morrell. This is the first time the Iraqi Government has retaken territory from isis. So its significant in terms of the Iraqi Government finally getting its act together. Reporter recapturing ramadi will not only be a psychological boost for the iraqi military. The city is also in a key geographical location 60 miles west of baghdad on a strategic road that leads into syria. The governments next major target will be the Northern City of mosul, the most dense depopulated area under isis control. Ramadi really is a case of seizing back mossle which remains a big prize for the iraqi troops. Regaining control in mosul deprives isis of a major source of funding and influence. Debora patta thank you. Tensions high again in chicago after another Deadly Police shooting. A confrontation inside an Apartment Building Early Saturday Morning left two people dead. Anna werner is in chicago where there is angry reaction to the latest in a string of killings. Anna, good morning. Reporter good morning, jeff. Chicago police admit one of their officers mistakenly shot and killed 55yearold bettie jones while responding to a domestic disturbance involving a 19yearold neighbor with a baseball bat. I used to watch the news daily and i would grieve for other mothers, other family members, and now, today, im grieving myself. When do it come to an end. Reporter janet cooksy says her 19yearold son was honors student studying in engineering and recently dealing with Mental Health issues. Family called police to the home early saturday because the teen was threatening his father with a baseball bat. Detectives described legrier as combative. Reporter 55yearold bettie jones, a mother of five, lived in the same building. She was reportedly waiting for police to respond, then was shot along with legrier. Police admitted she was, quote, accidentally struck and tragically killed but relatively jamaal cole said sunday . Right now the compassion toward suffering of families experiencing injustice throughout our city. Reporter the frustration felt by this Community Comes amid protests over a string of Deadly Police shootings. Video released recently showed the death of 17yearold laquan mcdonald, shot by officer Jason Van Dyke 16 times in october of 2014. The officer faces criminal charges. On sunday, mayor rahm emanuel called for a review how police are trained to respond to Mental Health issues in a kris. But family, friends, and local religious leaders holding a vigil outside of jones and legrier, are asking for intervention from the white house. We hoping to hear from the president. President obama, we are under siege. Reporter now that shooting was one of two separate policeinvolved shootings on saturday. The review board is investigating both, while the Justice Department continues to investigate whether Chicago Police used deadly force appropriately. Tough story. Thank you, anna. The trump effect is sending more ripples along the campaign trail this morning. Donald trump used a sunday talk shows to focus on Hillary Clinton. Brushing aside his gop rivals. Clinton rival Bernie Sanders criticized trumps tactics but says trumps own supporters are his ally. Major garrett is in washington following the campaign talks. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning. Donald trump hasnt been seen in public for days, but he remainses a campaign presence. Continuing his feud with hillary and bill clinton, while drawing economic fire from Bernie Sanders. Im winning and 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. I tell you what, if you have another four years of like, a hillary. That mentality and thinking, we are not going to have a country left. Reporter after enduring criticism of 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. Allegeding, quote, he has demonstrated a penchant for sexism and adding without a whiff of irony, so inappropriate. Trump said bills past is fair game. He is fair game because his presidency was really considered to be very troubled, to put it mild, because of all the things she is talking to me about. Reporter clinton hasnt responded to trumps broad side but on sunday, her democratic rival Bernie Sanders accused trump of frustrating voters and offering anger and vulgarity and bad policy. I think what trump has done successfully, i would say is take that anger, take that anxiety about terrorism, and say through a lot of people in this country, look, the reason for our problems is because of mexicans and he says they are all criminals and rapists. Reporter sanders also said that donald trump is favoring loring peoples wages. On twitter, trump called that a lie. Bernie sanders said trump favors increasing tax cuts for the wealthy, the nonpartisan policy center hit last week. The trump tax plan would average cut planner to the earners of top 1 and cut of 2700 to middle income earners. Major, thank you. Peyton manning says he will probably sue over a documentary claiming he used human growth hormone. Ahead, inside the explosive 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 right here on cbs this morning. Announcer this portion of cbs this morning sponsored by macys. Anyand im at the les wihead of that class, knows that its not just about the weight; its about something bigger. Youve been fighting with then wrong tools; youve been looking in the wrong direction. So every time i tried and failed, and every time i tried again has brought me to this most powerful moment. 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David begnaud is in rowlett, texas, outside of dallas, where a huge tornado demolished or damages dozens of homes over the weekend. Good morning. Reporter good morning, jeff. I want to give you an idea of what one area looks like. Harbor drive, there are homes for a good, i would say, 400 yards damaged or destroyed including the one behind me. It collapsed almost like a set of pancakes. Four people were inside this home, we are told. Three of them had to be pulled out by rescuers and are in the hospital this morning. A fourth person was able to get out on their own. You have more homes. You have this one that was flattened. This one is still up but the damage, we are told, is nearly a total loss. As you continue crossing over the wires down the street, there are more homes that are either damaged and or destroyed. In the city of rowlett alone, 23 people were hurt and 600 homes were damaged or destroyed but no one was killed. In the nearby city of garland, eight people were killed. We are talking about an explosion of tornadoes. They say at leasts nine, there was only one that rolled through garland and row lett and it lasted less than 45 seconds. I want to give you an idea of what neighbors say really astounds them. On friday the weather Christmas Day was in the 70s. By saturday, it was the deadly tornadoes. This morning, they are seeing rain and snow in the dallas metroplex. Wow. Reporter jeff . David, wow. 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 some 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 relocate. Workers discovered the site of the leaking well over the webleg 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 World that reawakened that 20yearold movie. I havent seen either. Star wars band wagon, margaret. All right. Legendary quarterback Peyton Manning says this morning, no truth to a report that he took performanceenhancing drugs, hgh. The claim is made in a new documentary called the dark side that aired last night on al jazeera channel. The nfl and Major League Baseball investigating the charges because some Baseball Players were named. Jericka duncan is here with the allegations and mannings angry response. Reporter good morning. The allegations against manning come from a former intern at a clinic manning attended for rehab in 2011. The source has since recanted his entire story, but the fivetime mvp isnt taking any chances going on the offense and even hiring a former white house spokesman to handle the potential fallout. Absolutely not. Absolutely not reporter Peyton Manning fought back sunday vehemently denying allegations he used human growth hormones while recovering from a neck injury in 2011. I busted my butt, you know, to get healthy. It stings me whoever this guy is insinuating i cut corners and ive broken nfl rules to get healthy, its a joke, a friggin joke. Reporter that guy is charlie guy and claims to be a former employee of the Guyer Institute and indianapolisbased clinic manning attended after undergoing four surgeries including a neck fusion operation that caused him to miss the entire 2011 season. A bunch of Baseball Players are taking it too. Reporter eightmonth undercover investigation by al jazeera into the world of performan performanceenhancing drugs in professional sports, sly, caught on hidden camera, claims manning and other top athletes used banned substances. All the time i would be sending Ashley Manning drugs, like growth hormone all the time, everywhere. Florida. Never under peytons name. Always under her name. Reporter sly has since backtracked on all of his claims. The statements on any recordings or communications that al jazeera plans on air are absolutely false and incorrect. Reporter slys account of his employment are also being questioned. The Guyer Institute says he was an intern there for three months in 2013. Two years after manning was a patient. Mannings current and former teams are rushing to his defense. In a statement, the Denver Broncos say they support him 100 . While his former team, the indianapolis colts, called the claims utterly ridiculous, saying manning never took any shortcuts and it would be absurd to suggest he would have taken performanceenhancing drugs. Over an 18year career, manning has built an flawless and incredibly valuable reputation. Peyton manning has become the nfls alltime leader reporter shattering records and winning a super bowl ring. Accusations like this could tarnish that image. His represeutation it means everything to him and this is the sort of thing that could put his career you know, just put questions will all of the things he has accomplished. Reporter al jazeera designed to comment on the questions surrounding his documentary, but says it stands by the reporting. Other marquee athletes including Baseball Players ryan howard and Ryan Zimmerman had been implicated and all have denied the allegations. Odd story all the way around to when it was released to mannings response, im not sure ive ever seen him that aggressive. He is going to hit that car. Look at the team he just hired. Thanks. The new york jets are celebrate ago huge win that could send them to the playoffs but sundays victory was like a late Christmas Present from the new england patriots. Heads is the call. Heads is the call. It is heads. You want to kickoff . That way. Which way do you want to receive . Where do you want to receive at . That way . Just like this. New england wins the toss. They elected to kick. There was some confusion here. The patriots did something that almost never happens. They won the coin toss going into overtime and decided to kick the ball to give the jets a chance to score which they did. Jets ran down the field and Ryan Fitzpatricks touchdown to eric decker they win the game. After the game, coach Bill Belichick said his captain made the right call, even though Matthew Slater of the patriots appeared to be a little bit confused there. The jets will clench now a wildcard spot next sunday if they beat the bills and their old coach rex ryan in buffalo. You have a fun time watching that game last night, jeff . I enjoy the fact that the bills won yesterday. They are not going to be in the playoffs again, but this sunday game should be interesting because then we could see a pats jets rematch in the playoffs. Could be 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 popular toys is bringing buyers 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 their kids do this and thought, hey, i can do that well, it turns out they cant. That story is coming up on cbs this morning. If youre heading off to work, hopefully, not this morning in your home enjoying the holidays, set your dvr so you can watch cbs this morning any time. Our conversation with Kennedy Center honoree cicely tyson is coming up. We will be right back. 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. Iand quit a lot,t but ended up nowhere. Now i use this. The nicoderm cq patch, with unique extended release technology, helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. I want this time to be my last time. Thats why i choose nicoderm cq. Hoverboards were a best seller over the holidays. Shoppers snapped them up in spite of fire warnings and the possibility of injury. Some parents just couldnt pass up the chance to give them a spin. Cell phone video captures the results that could be funny, but also painful for many. Ben tracy is going to show us the spills and falls people are sharing on social media. Piece of cake reporter its the gift that keeps on giving. Especially for kids enjoying seeing their parents hop on their hoverboards and finding themselves cruising for a bruising. Watch your toes reporter in social media videos, helmets and knee pads are nowhere in sight so when many parents go down, it does not end well. This teenager tweeted my dad sprained his arm riding the hoverboard this morning. Merry christmas. Florida congressman Carlos Carbello showed a picture of his arm in a sling saying hoverboards are for kids. 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. It balances for you. 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. Have you seen a lot of adults wipe out on these things . Man, i have to be completely honest. Yes. My mom, in fact, was one of the adults that wiped out on them. Reporter and that maybe the lesson of this Holiday Season. Something that seems like childs play is probably best left to actual children. For cbs this morning. Did you get that on tape . Ben tracy on the pavement of a los angeles parking lot. I still dont get why they are called horboards. They are wheels, right . Right. Like a sideways motorized skateboard. 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Hen re ithe city of rowlett, eyewitnesses who lived through this tornado say it took less than 45 seconds to do this. A storm in eastern new mexico and eastern texas and lubbock picked up 11 inches i. Inch of ice thick around the line itself. Flash floods in arkansas to missouri and tornado watch in effect the next several hours. The iraqis declared victory in ramadi but the military source tells us they are still facing pockets of resistance. Chicago police admit one of their officers mistakenly shot and killed 55yearold bettie jones. The allegations against manning come from a former intern at a clinic manning attended for rehab in 2011. I would love to, you know id love to understand, you know, why this guy is saying this. Why he is making it up and then he admits he makes it up. The pass and onehanded grab by landry what a play jarvis landry. Unbelievable. One of the bes catches ive seen all season. No doubt. Im jeff glor with margaret brennan. Charlie and gayle and norah are off. Deadly storms ralvaged several states. The damage in parts of texas is described as total devastation. Tornadoes killed at least 11 people in the dallas area. Survivors described the horror and the loss. Like a train coming through. And the next thing i know, we looked up and there was nothing there. We were just looking out at the sky. Im thankful just to be here. Im thankful. I wouldnt want nobody to go through that. Not five seconds worth of that. Ears were popping. You could feel, like, the roof trying to lift up and it was just a feeling 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. And in an instant, it hit and less than 60 seconds, which seemed like an eternity, it was gone. Oh, god. My boys grew up in this house and now its gone we always thought it happened to everyone else. When you see it on television and it just happened. Its all right, baby. Tornadoes are just part of the Severe Weather threat. A dangerous winter storm is moving through new mexico, texas, and oklahoma. Blizzard conditions shut down a significant portion of interstate 40 enter albuquerque, new mexico, to the Oklahoma State line. Ice storm across western oklahoma covered roads and power lines. Officials asked drivers not to travel to the texas panhandle where snow is blowing and drifts up creating whiteout conditions. Danielle niles of wbz is track the latest storm threat. Reporter a lot of action going on across the nation today. Winter weather advisories and warnings from texas to new england. We also have a tornado watch that is up until noon simon Central Standard time, actually flash flood warnings continue in parts of missouri as well. The greatest risk of Severe Weather steextends from pensaco the Florida Panhandle to tennessee and line of storms spreading east and isolated tornadoes and damaging wind gusts throughout the afternoon and evening and threat shifts into georgia. Snow and ice on the Northwest Side of the storms system from the midwest and slides into new england overnight tonight and during the day tomorrow. Snowfall totals topping out over a foot in parts of iowa back to wisconsin. New england sloppy in boston but over a foot. Great news for ski country. 2015 comes to an end the president ial race is just heating up. Late show Host Stephen Colbert is in the mix as well. Some of the candidates made the late show and expected stop on the campaign trail John Dickerson interviewed colbert for sundays face the nation. He discussed the years high and lows and how the republican frontrunner remind him of his own Comedy Central character. What is your view about the facts . Facts . And in the conversation. Ill a big fan of facts. Im not sure they have any bearing on what a persons popularity is. Donald trump is like, im not the first person to say this but i completely agree he is my old character with 10 billion. You know . He doesnt he is completely playing on an emotional level and so beautifully. Its one of the reasons why you cant do that old character any more because he is doing it better than i ever could because he is willing to drink his own koolaid and manufacture it and distribute it because he has all of the cash. Drink the koolaid and manufacture it and distribute it. Colbert said he wanted to be respectful to trump because his goal he says is to have a conversation that does not demonize the other side. A respect ble position. 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 card on me, shes wrong. Trump also blasted Virginia Republican plans to have voter say and sign a pledge stating they are republicans before voting for the gop nominee. One tweet read, 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, peggy. Reporter good morning. Margaret. How nice to see you. Nice to see you. Give us some prospect why trump is attacking the Republican Party of virginia . Simply because his followers arent themselves the straight edge, signed up republican, card carrying members of the party . I think that may be a little of it, but i think the on the principle of it, he is probably, 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 throw independence and democrats good thing. Ive never heard of a state in modern times asking you before 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 they are scared about what happened with canner getting knocked outline in the primary . The people spoke in that one and let the people special. They show you are lucky when you are a Republican Party and an independent and want to come in and vote for one of your guys. On the subject of speaking. And 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 thinking . I think this is mr. Trump being mr. Trump and mrs. Clinton being mrs. Clinton. Interesting think they are fighting as if they are both the nominee and he is not the nominee and she is not even yet officially the nominee. They are fighting over small stuff. I think they are both speaking to their base. 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 that phony and i go straight for you. This is getting interesting, right . Bill clinton is going to get more involved now. Bill clinton is going to get much more attention from donald trump and others now. We dont know how that is going to play. Exactly. Im sorry . That wasnt the Winning Strategy for her last time. Exactly. It didnt work in 08 and in fact, bill clinton hurt mrs. Clinton in 08 by some of his actions and statements on the campaign trail. We will see if its different in 16. Its eight years later. If you dont think donald trump is not going to war with a bill clinton, in a tweet frenzy, you are mistaken. If you like political years in cycles to be exciting and fun and surprise and wacky, youre going to enjoy 2016 a lot. Speaking of 2016, we are talking about iowa here. A lot of folks have tried to folk some holes in the trump strategy in iowa, right . Yes. 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 rally goers will show up on caucus night with a little snow and a sick kid and a toothac toothache. And 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, your have to have some back and forth with them, so you have to sort of make yourself part of the process. Maybe they will. Maybe they wont. Maybe hell have a good iowa and maybe not. Bernie sanders was on face the nation. He had some interesting insight and he actually found what he said was some common cause with donald trump, saying we both hear this discontent among the working class. He almost gave trump more legitimacy despite a guy on the other side of the island attacking him. If you think Bernie Sanders has legitimacy to bestow, yes. What i thought was interesting was that sanders just did a really smart thing. He is looking at all of the voters and he is thinking, im a left wing populace but right wing like trump and ill go straight to trumps guys and dont just think him, think me. I share your views and antagonism and insights. We all hate wall street, you know . I thought that is playing the game of addition, not subtraction. One heck of a team, donald trump and Bernie Sanders. Peggy noonan, thank you. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. See you in 16. Is virtuality ready for the real world . Ben ackerman is looking what is in store for Virtual Reality. Cicely tyson says before she takes a new role, she always says no. The Kennedy Center honoree talks to gayle king about her p pioneering career. Its coming up on cbs this morning. Get 60 off coatsrs sefor the family. Ut this Serta Coralee Queen Mattress is just 197. , plusanget extra 15 off appliances over 499 with your sears card. Discover more at sears. [ screaming ] this video of a grandmother taking a simulated roller coaster ride is an Online Sensation and its awesome. We have seen an explosion of new products in wearable tech, drones and Virtual Reality and investors are putting that money into technology. A recent report finds 120 Virtual Reality related deals this year and nearly 4 billion has poured into the Virtual Company in 2015. Happy new year, dan. People have talked about Virtual Reality before and didnt work out before. Is 2016 the year . There is nothing you can buy right now. All of those big systems like the vibes are allegedly coming next year. Finally after years of delays. So what was grandma looking at there . She seemed pretty convinced. She a Google Cardboard on which is the most basic version. Its a cardboard holder for your phone and your phone slides in or get this thing and its kind of a complicated looking plastic box. Again, you slide your Samsung Phone into and the phone screen is actually the vr screen and all you can get right now. The real stuff is allegedly coming next year. I got the easy oculus last year. When it works, it is exrdtraoy. Inar the experience it takes you into just like grandma saw there. But we will see when it all happens. You have something beyond the samsung device here, what else are we looking here from amazon . I think what we are will see next year is a lot of that smart home stuff. The virtual personal assistance stuff being more practical. Amazon echo is the first version of that that works and you can talk to it and if i turn the mike on, what is the weather today, alexa . December alexa, stop. It recognizes your voice. Ive worked with Voice Recognition for years. This gets you 80 of the time. Does she get mad when you cut her off like that . Ill find out later. That was pretty good. You call this the breakthrough of 2015. Because it took things we already have, Voice Recognition and online personal cloudbased stuff and makes it work. What people want. Not new things they have never heard of before or on things they have heard about or tried once or twice and i call this my lights now. So you can hook that up to your home system . I absolutely can. For christmas i got smart light bulbs and plugged in a couple and say, alexa, turn on the lights and the lights go on. Tv always advancing here. What 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 new tv. They last too long now, five to seven years. Youll see them talk about hdr. Forget about old lead and 3d the old buzz words. This is a way to do high dynamic range images so the light stuff and dark stuff looks clear and shoot it in hdr and have a compatible hdr tv. They will try to sell you one even if you dont need one. The same people are doing this. If you want to make sure you have your tv shows and movies you shoot in the latest technology, you know, you have to pick which ones so invest it. A lot of people invested in 4k and a lot of people didnt ve3d are these expensive . I think you have to put in your own phone for this guy. Thank you, dan. Alexa, goodbye. She doesnt like you, jeff she total ignored you. In a few days the world will focus on new york city as the times times square crystal ball gets ready for the end of the new year. Alexa, have a nice 2016. Underwer 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. Get your free pair and valuable coupons at always discreet. Com hooked it just a little bit window breaks, car alarm sounds dont open that cellar door epic comeback starts right here lucky shot. Mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmm it takes a lot of work. But i really love it. S. Im on the move all day long. 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Workers in times square this morning are making final preparations for the traditional ball drop on new years eve. Hundreds of new crystal triangles have been installed on the Waterford Crystal ball and featured 2,688 sparkling panels. That ball carries more than 30,000 l. E. D. Lights and weighs more than six tons. 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. Are we raise ago generation of children who give us no respec get three payments on us and dont worry about payments until march 2016, when you lease a new 2016 xc60. 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 crown prince and known for his 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 day. 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 newspaper a different world than their parents. 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 would you feel if someone did 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 sprititrying to enforce a 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 yre the pa 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 Dynamic within the family. Its actually a cultural issue. You say there is role confusion and that authority, overall, has been undermined. Thats right. 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 soeting clear rules of right and 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 not going to be doing that. 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 Center h its the holidays, which means a house full of people, who all want to get online. So hurry and get verizon fios. Only fios has the Fastest Internet and wifi available, with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. 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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 that launched a huge Award Winning career. For most people when you say sisly tyson sis, cicely 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 said what walk . 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 . Reporter do you think about 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 Angelina Jolie of your day. 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 reporter tysons reputation 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. Because its absolutely true. 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 happiness to me. 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. A koala bear gained back her strength after being rescued by 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. 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I am exposed to a new genre of music with this show. Something for everyone. Hfs was in there. He was so good. Anybody that comes in and plays the piano, whatever genre, i love it. Its a talent. It is. Exactly. Thats why i love our next guest as i mentioned, the performance you are about to see literally moved me to tears. Its a violinist who plays songs from the biggest pop artist of the day like beyonce. It plain out moved me. Lets see what it does for you. This is the Chelsea Green project