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So where did all those boxes go . Well show you what happens to the mountain of cardboard leftover from your holiday purchases. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Its been brutal. Chilling. It really stings the face. The major storm begins roaring up the east coast. A beast of an ocean storm. This is going to become extremely powerful. Contact resumes between north and south korea after President Trump appears to taunt mr. Kim jongun. Its a continuing protest. The u. N. Must speak out. In the days ahead, well be calling for an emergency session. A bus crashed. Senator orrin hatch of utah this paves the way for mitt romney to run for the seat. Ive always been a good fighter, but every good fighter knows when to hang up the gloves. A deadly blizzard on the state throughway. You couldnt see in front of you. One passenger in spain was so upset over the delay, he opened the door on the wing and left. Californians can finally try marijuana. Just like that, millions of cases of back pain and my grain cured. They immediately went away. On cbs this morning. King jongun says he has a Nuclear Button on his desk. Sounds like a guy walks into his office like, nobody move, i have a bomb strapped to my chest. Oh, by the way, put me down for the potluck on saturday and put d its going to be this thing. Get it . 234 announcer this mornings eye opener presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. Im Norah Odonnell with jeff glor and bianna golodryga. Gayle king is off. Welcome back. Thank you. Missed you guys. Lots of news going on today. Were going to start with this. The recordbreaking winter storm will take aim at millions of americans as the record cold wave intensifies across the country. At least 13 deaths are blamed on the frigid weather. In grand forks, north dakota, windchills could hit minus 28 degrees today. Windchills in chicago may dip to minus 7 and hit 15 below in cleveland. More than twothirds of the country faces temperatures below 20 degrees this morning. Tonight atlanta could plunge minus 29 degrees. And were tracking a new system that could bring heavy snow up the east coast. In new york, the windchill is expected to fall as low as minus 10 degrees today. Demarco, good morning. Reporter that is cold. You can see behind me, its completely covered in icicles. If thats not enough to show how cold it is, look at this. This is a big block of ice. It was once snow. Crazy, right . The cold weather has caused dangerous conditions on the road. One person died after a 75vehicle crash on the new york states throughway. Dozens of vehicles were stranded on the new york state throughway as drives battled white joutd conditions. You couldnt see anything in front of you. Everything was blurry. It was a complete whiteout. Reporter the snowy roads turned slick. Into the night authorities were massive pileup and nearby in buffalo, niagara airport, northeasterly whiteout conditions. A plane is trying to taxi. In new jersey tied a record low of minus 12 degrees. Weve had to leave our units much more quickly. Reporter in new york city icicles hung on power lines and fire escapes. Oh, my god. Reporter William Powells car was parked in front of the building and he came outside to find it frozen shut. I have never felt the cold like im feeling it in these last few days. The only thing i can think of is alaska or the arctic. Reporter it was actually warmer in alaska than in new york city. Its chilling. It really stings the temperatures have reached more than minus 21 degrees. You thought you were coast last month, last week. Now youre cold. Reporter schools in new england and parts of the south will be canceled because of the cold weather. But its not over yet. Theres another winter blast headed our way. Jeff, well send things back to you. Thank you very much. Slick roads could make for dangerous commutes across the south. Subzero temperatures froze fountains from texas to georgia. Manuel bojorquez is in brunswick, georgia, where theyre under a state of emergency. Manu manuel, good morning. Reporter good morning. Were riding along with Georgia State troopers who are out in full force taking a look at the roads. In fact, captain rice said its becoming a busy morning with state highways. Schools are either delaying the start of classes or canceling them all together. Lets go ahead and give you a look right now at our outside camera of i95. Of course, this is the main artery up and down coastal georgia. And the big concern here will be ice, which were told has already started to form on bridges and overpasses. Lets talk about the numbers. Nearly 250 crew members and 13 trucks began treating roads last night with sand and brian to keep the anticipated ice from sticking, but the headaches are not just here. In texas, slippery roads caused more than 30 Car Accidents on tuesday. And with possible snow later today, georgia officials are hoping to keep coastal cities from experiences what happened in atlanta in 2014 when a mere 2 inches of snow caused gridlock that lasted more than 24 hours. Here in brunswick, city theyll try to treat as many roads as they can, but they dont have the resources to treat all of them. The best advice here is if you do not have to be out on the roads, simply stay home. Norah . All right, manuel. Thank you so much. Chief meteorologist lonnie quinn is here to show us where the east coast storm called the bomb cyclone is headed next. Good morning. Good morning, norah. Good morning, everyone. We jump into the current radar picture. I10 in north florida, a lot of icing. Thats the problem right now. Then you get up into the 95 door in georgia. You just heard from manuel. Theres going to be a problem there as well. The computer models are initializing it. Its depicting where the storm is right now. That means we feel confident with the forward projection of where we think the storm is going. It travels up the eastern seaboard. They show the wind as they tighten up and get closer and closer together. Thats when the storm bombs were talking 50, maybe 70mileperhour winds with snow falling as well. Northern maine could see 2 feet of snow. Blizzard conditions are going to be in effect from the northern border of maine and canada and the cape cod islands as well. Bianna, lets go over to you. That sounds terrifying, lonnie. Thank you so much. South korea said it made contact with north korea overnight on a newly reopened hotline. It was restored for the first time in nearly two years. A spokesman for north Korean Leader kim jongun announced the reopening on state tv. It may put the u. S. And south korea at odds. Ben, good morning. Reporter good morning. So it was just yesterday that south korea said they want the highlevel talks with north korea and they want them to take place next week. The north has responded and it appears to be a step in the an easing. It actually exists. Its set up in a border area call called panmunjom. But north korea shut down that hotline two years ago. In recent weeks president moon jaein has offered to come forward and talk with north korea. Now, that contradicts the latest stance on the Trump Administration which has said talks could only occur if north korea ends its nuclear program. Mr. Moon has further annoyed the u. S. By saying he could basically veto any military action that might take place on the korean peninsula. While all of this is happening, u. S. Intelligence has detected signs that north korea may be ready to test another intercontinental ballistic missile. If they do go through with that, it could happen inus jeff . ⌞ thank you very much. The hotline was reopened a few hours after President Trump lashed out at kim jongun. He tweeted he had a more powerful Nuclear Button. This is after kim jongun said it had complete its nuclear forces. Chip reid is at the white house. Good morning. Good morning. That war of words came on a wild day of twitter for the president. He tweeted 17 times on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for Hillary Clinton aide and, of course, that Nuclear Button tweet. In fact, the president does not have a Nuclear Button, but his rhetoric escalated already simmering tensions. President trump raised the temperature in his duel with kim jongun after boasting he had a Nuclear Button on his auchlts will someone Police Inform him i have a Nuclear Button, too, but its a bigger and more button and my button works. It caught Homeland Security secretary kirstjien nielsen by surprise. The president speaks for himself. We have to continue to take the threat seriously. They will be met with fire and fury. Reporter its nothing new for the president. We will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. But he has signaled earlier tuesday that peace talks between the north and the south offered by kim and accepted by south korean president moon were worth exploring, tweeting, rocket man wants to talk to south korea now. Perhaps thats good, perhaps not. We consider this to be a very reckless regime. We dont think we need a bandaid and we dont think we need to smile and take a picture. The president s other advisers hav cautious approach. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has even suggested the possibility of talks with north korea. He and secretary of Defense James Mattis will be here at the white house later today for lunch with the president , and you can bet that north korea is going to be at the top of the agenda. Bianna . A busy day at the white house. Chip, thank you. The president s twitter blast yesterday also praised antigovernment protesters in iran and called the countrys leaders brutal and corrupt. Tens of thousands of iranians came out to show support for the government. Many were ordered to attend the rally. Six days of protests have left at least 21 people dead. Irans government is restricting Internet Access and has appeared to shut down social media apps that were used to organize demonstrations. One of President Trumps gop critics of 2012 mitt romney is eyeing a new political opportunity to represent utah. The longest serving going to retire after 42 years in office. Our sources expect the Massachusetts Governor to run for hatchs seat. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. Good morning. Good morning. Several sources have told cbs news romney has been quietly laying the groundwork should orrin hatch retire. While he hasnt said anything publicly about his intention to run, take a look at this. This is a pretty good include. Yesterday afternoon romney listed his location on his twitter profile as massachusetts. But then after hatch announced his plans to retire, romneys profile location was updated to holiday, utah. In a video posted on twitter, orrin hatch referenced his early days as an amateur boxer as he made plans to leave the political sflieng after much prayer with family and i have desired to retire at the end of this term. He spearheaded last months gop tax cuts, and he was one of the earliest Senior Republicans to support President Trump. Mr. Trumps no fan of mitt romney and urged mr. Hatch to stay in the senate for an eighth firm. You are a true fighter. Reporter trump once had respect for romney and even considered him as secretary of state even though romney critiqued him. But the relationship has been a rocky one. And i said, mitt cannot run. He chokes like a dog. In August Romney urged the president to apologize for his response to the deadly charlottesville protest. I think theres blame on both sides. Romney wrote on facebook mr. Trumps words caused racists to rejoice, minorities to weep, a the vast heart of america to mourn. Romney congratulated hatch yesterday on his 40plus years in the senate saying senator hatch has represented the interests of utah with distinction and honor. Hatch has appeared to go back and forth about retiring over the past few months partly because of pressure from the white house to stay on. If romney is running, norah, he will likely make his intentions known soon because the election is this november. All right. Nancy. Thank you. I know theres also a big meeting between congressional leaders and white house officials. Whats on the agenda, and do the democrats have any leverage . Well, they think they do. Congress needs a bill to pass by the government this month. They punted it when they were trying to get out of town for the holidays. Democrats want some kind of solution for daca recipient, young people who came to this country illegally in exchange for their votes on government funding, but right now republicans dont really believe they would be willing to shut the government down over that issue. All right, nancy. Thank you. Killed in combat in 2018 was serving in afghanistan. Four other american soldiers were wounded monday in afghanistan. Theyve been fighting pockets of taliban and isis fighters. Senator cory booker says the army identified the dead soldier as Sergeant First Class mihail golin of new jersey. A bus plummeted off a cliff in peru. At least 48 people were kill and six seriously hurt. A tractor trailer hit the bus in a dangerous section of highway known as devils curve about 40 miles north of the capital of lima. It fell 350 feet to the rocky beach below. Several people are still missing. The rescue is difficult because theres no direct road to that beac apparently a factor in the accident. The longtime president of the Mormon Church died last night. Thomas monson served. He kept a low profile for nooerm a decade at the same time mitt romney put a spotlight on the chur churchs belief. The Mega Millions jackpot climbed even higher overnight. The two major u. S. Lotteries is now more than 400 million each. No one matched all six numbers last night. They were and the mega ball was 22. The jackpot jumped to 418 million. The next drawing is friday. Th is tonight estimated the odds of one in 75 quadrillion, 75 followed by 15 zeros. I guess that means theres hope yet, right. I like your lottery announcement. Its exciting. The odds are really against you. It may be legal to sell Recreational Marijuana in california, but you still cannot buy it anywhere. Ahead why its amazon shopping bridges are creating big challenges for resielks. Ahead, jamie yuccas shows us what happens to the massive amounts of cardboard. You probably had to shop to find the perfect gift. Then what happens . 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Am i the only one that notices that she broke the law . Its zero and shes still walking. Its zero. I think weve got to lock her up. Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up. Yeah. That was fun. Youve got to admit. No, no. You might have to rewind. I dont nonas accurate. No locking up jamie yuccas. Never. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Here are three things you should know this morning. The recordbreaking cold hits much of the country could bring snow to parts of the south that rarely see it. The mix of freezing snow and rain is forecast today from florida to North Carolina. This is the first winter storm warning for some parts of florida in almost four years. In south carolina, crews dropped sand on the roads to make them less slippery. Two democrats will be sworn into the u. S. Senate this afternoon, narrowing the republican majority to minnesota governor tina smith will replace al franken. He resigned yesterday after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Senator doug jones will also take his oath of office. He was the first to be elected in 25 years. The nasdaq composite will open this morning at a record high. It closed above 7,000 points for first time yesterday, finishing the day at 7,007. The nasdaq composite reached its last major milestone in april when it crossed the 6,000 mark. In his latest mea culpa logan paul said he should have put his camera down after finding a mans body. He posted its on his Youtube Channel which has more than 15 million subscribers. The 22yearold is one of the most Creative Content were shown how this episode is raising uncomfortable question. Youtube tells cbs this morning their hearts go out to the family for the man who who showed up in the video. They didnt take the shocking footage down. Paul did it himself. I should have never posted the video. Logan paul appears humbled in his newest apology. The young man who became a youtube sensation by doing just about anything for laughs. I made a huge mistake. I dont expect to be forgiven. Im just here to apologize. This just became very real. Hes referring to this video he posted on new years eve, which shows paul and his friends making the horrifying discovery in japans socalled suicide forest. This literally probably just happened. After an outcry, paul deleted the video, but by then it had reportedly been viewed probably youtube said if a video is graphic, it can only remain if supported by educational or documentary information. They cant say how long it ran. Theres definitely a double standard at youtube. Reporter she said as one of the most popular personalities its not in youtubes interest to interfere. Youtube makes money through ads and theyll share the profit with the creator. Reporter paul is the fifth highest pald youtube star, making 12. 5 million according to forbes magazine. His youtube videos bring in 25 and under. I think this has poisoned a lot of people against him who were on the fence, but for his diehard fans, i believe they had before. Last month youtube said it was adding more than 10,000 moderators after the site said they received complaint. They repeatedly asked if his video had been flagged by other users and whether youtube had flagged it before taking it down. Thats the issue, a lot of children are watching these videos. Most of these audiences for the internet stars are children. And so much material is being uploaded and not being looked at. And for followers like this, my kids too, they follow these people all the time. They watch everything they do. They get an alert. Vlad, thanks. It is now legal to sell recreational pot in california, but the rollout is not going smoothly everywhere. It may be months before the digital system designed to track it is fully operatal. Its being sold for medical purposes in some large cities like los angeles francisco. Mireya villarreal is at a dispensary. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Here in hollywood you can buy Recreational Marijuana right now. But just a few miles down the road in los angeles, thats not the case. Thats because a lot of big cities cities in california are just now allowing businesses to apply for licenses. They were hit with a sobering reality january 1st. The city just started taking applications for licenses to sell recreational weed today. Were going to do this the los angeles way, and that means that were going to have to do this responsibly. Reporter she says medical marijuana dispensaries that have been compliant with the law will get priority processing, and even then, it could be a week before a temporary recreational license will be issued. Theyre going to have to submit applications, go thro reporter another issue, the digital system the state is using to regulate and track marijuana sales Just Launched and businesses have to be trained to input data before the state makes it mandatory, which could take months. Businesses are asked to file manual inventory. Its not only complicated but it risks pot slipping into the black market. Ben curran is the ceo of green bits, a company that helps companies in seven states comply with regulations including california. First year is going to be a lot of the businesses transitioning, getting used to the new rules, learning the differences, and getting good at the scale. The state itself, youll see, will be a little more lenient at the beginning while people are learning it. Businesses and other people in the industry are also concerned that the relatively low number of licenses that have been issued so far for lead to a dry spell if the new Distribution System fails to meet demand fast enough. Norah . Thank you so much. Theyre struggling to keep pace with the boxes and record surge in Online Shopping. Are you seeing an increase in cardboard . Absolutely. Its a tsunami of cardboard. Everything goes up 5 2010 . What happens to the mountains of empty boxes left over from your holiday purchases. More ahead, youre watching cbs this morning. [ phone rings ] hi, tom. Hey, hows the College Visit . You remembered. Its good. Does it make the short list . You remembered that too. Yeah, im afraid so. Knowing whats important to you. Its okay. This is what weve been planning for. Thanks, bye. Its why 7 million investors work with edward jones. And lose weight with contrave. 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But amazon said recycling its packages has helped it avoid shipping more than 5,000 semitrucks full. But you can see Online Shoppers are doing so much buying, recycling centers are struggling to keep up. One after another, a train of trucks unloads at this los angeles recycling center. This woman emptied her suv with boxes. How many boxes do you think you had in your car . Well over 200. Did you do a lot of your reporter in the u. S. Alone, amazon used 6,000 trucks and 32 planes to get packages to its prime members last year. And you keep bringing it in. Yeah. Reporter craig hapel is the head of the recycling center in new york. Everything goes up 5 , 10 during the holidays. Reporter thats a concern for him because the recycling process is so complex. The boxes are sorted and bundled here. This enhe said theyre loaded in containers and shipped across the pacific to china. There the boxes are soaked in water, stripped of staples, and reborn as boxes. There might be a 12,000mile loop in a lot of the packaging we buy and send back for recycling. Reporter but amazon said they put a new focus on sustainable packaging, moving over 100 million shipments from boxes to p they released this video. We make the kind of pack anding easy to open, minimal waste, and 100 recyclable. Weve eliminated 181,000 tons of waste. Reporter but theyre still overwhelmed as many shoppers preferred to do Online Shopping and recycling in january. You never think, maybe ill go to the mall . Never, ever, ever. This trip compared to the mall and trying to find parking and waiting in line at cash registers and people who are rude and ugly, i wouldnt trade it for the world. Reporter amazon has a challenge in terms of its packaging. It wants it compact but intact when it comes to your door. They say this likely wont be cleared out until close to february, jeff. Thank you very much. Can we were you breaking the law as trevor noah said . My foot was right there. 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Blizzard conditions from the northern border of maine and canada all the way down to what looks like cape cod and the islands as well. South korea wants highlevel talks next week. It appears to be a step in that direction. A wild day on twitter for the president. He tweeted on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for a Hillary Clinton aid, and, of course, that Nuclear Button tweet. It is now legal. Theyre just now allowing businesses to apply for licenses. To all of our freshly baked california viewers, i just want to say thanks for switching over to the monterey aquarium of jellyfish. I will do my best to move hypnotically. Jeff glor and bianna golodryga. Gayles enjoying some time off. Nearly the entire east coast faces a powerful winter storm as more than two thirds of the country wakes up with temperatures under 20 degrees. Windchills are affecting those in the upper midwest throughout the mideast. Its 24 below in grand forks, north dakota. It stretches into the southeast and Southern Plains as well. The windchill is 5 degrees in oklahoma stichlt at least 13 people have died from the cold. In the east, at least 15 cities tied or set record low temperatures yesterday. Dayton, ohio, 13 degrees below zero broke an 1898 record. A major winter storm is slamming parts of the east coast. Chief weathercaster lonnie quinn of our you talk about i10 being closed anywhere from madison, florida, to tallahassee. No school because of a winter storm warning in the panhandle. This storm is going to do nothing but get bigger and badder. Its a coastal system, we know that its going to be roughest along our shorelines as it travels up the coast of maine and its putting down a lot of snow as well. Take a look at. This were going to be measuring snow anywhere from the panhandle of florida to maine. In maine youre looking at these spots. New york city, right now youre in that 3inch range. Youve got to keep that in mind. Bigger numbers are going to be possible even for those big metro cities from new york to philadelphia. But blizzard possibilities exist from cape cod and the islands to the northern coast of maine. Were going to keep an eye on this. North and south korea are talking for the first time in two years. They reopened a crossborder Communications System at the demilitarized system overnight. Kim jongun said hes open to sending a delegation to the games in a new years day speech when he also told the u. S. He has a button for Nuclear Weapons on his table. Then President Trump responded on twitter last night. I, too, have a Nuclear Button, but it is much bigger and more powerful rng a powerf powerful, and my button works. There are signs they may be preparing another missile test this week. President trump is also threatening to cut off aid to the palestinians if they dont negotiate a peace deal. He tweeted yesterday, quote, we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollar as year, and we get no respect. Why should we make any of these massive future payments to them. His u. N. Ambassador nikki we very much dont want to have a peace process. Nothing changes with that. The palestinians now have to show their world that they want to come to the table. As of now, theyre not cominging to the table, but they ask for aid. Were not giving the aid. We want to make sure they come to the table and we want to move forward with the peace process. This morning they called the president s comments blackmail. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said the president s decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital hurt their ability to broker any agreement. A Research Firm now accuses of republicans working to mislead the company. They commissioned the socalled steeles do area and verified President Trumps russian ties, using money from a conservative website and Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. In the new york times, two gps founders claimed inquiry. They Want Congress to, quote, release tran scripts of our firms testimony so the American People can learn the truth about our work. Cbs news contributor ed okeefe is a congressional reporter if the Washington Post. Good morning. Good morning. First, remind everyone what fusion gps. Theyre basically former journalists turned investigators who got hired during the president ial campaign to look into donald trump. And the suggestion had been by republicans and the president that something that the democrats, some Opposition Research is what led to this idea of collusion. Theyre saying thats not true. Exactly. Theyre saying if anything the work they were doing may have verified some things the fbi was look into and sparked the whole thing but not necessarily the collusion and that that dossier, the socalled dossier of the dirt, the gossip, he may or may visiting russia a few years ago are not the basis. What are they suggesting theyre not looking into in. The president s business dealings and attempts to influence the election. They say, look, once you do, youre going to realize theres a lot more here and in some cases these committees are avoiding certain subjects. We have multiple investigations going on. Is there any sense they can conclude in a bipartisan fashion . The one doing the best at that is richard burr, the republican from North Carolina and mark warner from virginia. Its seen as the most robust and credible. Remember, all that ones looking into is the scope of potential russian interference or collusion or whatever else in an attempt to sort of educate the republicans and congress about it will be interesting, but its not necessarily going to be something that leads to other political retribution. Congress has just a few things on their plate as they try to get something done this year. January 19th and march 5th are two big deadline dates, why . Theyre connected to each other. January 19th is the date they would have a shutdown. Getting old and too tired to talk about this. But thats the next deadline. Part of it is how to resolve the issue of daca, that program that protects about 700,000 immigrants who were brought here as children. If it isnt resolved by then, the date to watch is march 5th. Thats the current deadline. The president set the deadline. He said, you figure this out, bring it to me, and well cut a deal. Everyone seems to want to resolve the daca issue, give them permanent status or figure out a solution. The question is whats the compromise. Even the president said i dont want to be the guy thats responsible for deporting so many people, but, you know, the any goegs yags will be do you put up more money for a border wall, make changes to chain migration or something else, and nobody wants to put that on the table, because the moment that ends up there, it becomes the center of debate and could lead to other consequences. What else may happen is the republican makeup of the senate. Now that we know orrin hatch is retiring, mitt romney may run for the seat. If he runs, will he face other opposition . Hell have at least one republican challenger and a democrat. Its only january 3rd. Long year ahead. Safe to say he wont be a rubber stamp for President Trump. Not at all. It could potentially create another poll right in the senate. Ed okeefe, thank you as always. Weve seen robots that can vacuum or do back flips. Tony dokoupil watched them in action. Were watching a soft robot. Well tell you why engineers at mit and harvard show how this can one day be used as wearable muscle and how it can fool learning the ropes as weight wat watchers social media ambassador. How many points . Eight points total. How many points did i eat including this. All day 28 points. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and my cookie . Correct. Mindy grossman is in our toyota greenroom. Ahead how social media is attracting a new generation of members. Youre watching cbs this morning. I knew at that exact moment. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors. Its not just picking a surgeon, its picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. Visit cancercenter. Com breast you wof your daily routine, so why treat your mouth any differently . Complete the job with listerine® help prevent plaque, early gum disease, bad breath and kill up to 99. 9 of germs. 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So in the future i could have Something Like this on that could help me move. Sure. Reporter in this garagelike lab at mit, this robotics researcher toils for up to 20 hours a day. We saw somebody sleeping on the table. That was not me. Reporter hes perfecting the material for a new breed of flexible. Can i put my hand in there . Yeah. Sure. Im shanking hands with a robot. Yeah. Reporter but also two to three times stronger than a human being. All right. Reporter made of nylon and plastic and powered by compressed air, these artificial muscles have folds inside them, allowing them to grip, lift, and twist everything from a flower to a tire. Lee and his colleagues including harvards daniel voigt hope theyll be able to wear the robot like tony stark in iron man. No more crutches, no more walkers, no more canes. Origami muscles. Youll be able to wear the robot. Reporter the researchers her say waernings of a robot revolution aov classifier running on my phone. Reporter after all, you can fool a robot or at least an Artificial Intelligence Program Designed to see and recognize the world around it. Its good at recognizing things these days. The current algorithms are above 95 accurate. Reporter he says that kind of accuracy is influencing a. I. Including selfdriving vehicles. If we point it at the camera, it says, trafficlike light, ipod. Yeah. These things work pretty well. Reporter along with the discoveries, there are dangerous drawbacks. They were able to turn things into something dirjts. Its 66 confident its looking at a rifle. Posy possibly a revolver. With pixel changes too small, it can turn a baseball into espresso and a cat picture into guacamole, but his concern is what others might do with illintent. Can a terrorist build a bomb that the computer thinks is a bouquet of flowers . Yes. We took a missile and then modified the texture so it looks like a balloon. Wow. When that result comes up, how do you feel . I feel that this is good that its happening now before the systems are widely deployed. Google reported the program. In a statement the company said it welcomes efforts to identify security risks adding we believe a. I. , Artificial Intelligence, will be beneficial. Fascinating, frightening, all of that. Theyre working out the kinks now, right . Working on it. When it rolls out you want it to work. A turtle does not look like a rifle. I feel good i bought my 10yearold a robot. My 10yearolds. I have two of them. Thank you. Thats awesome. Stay on that story. I will. Jan crawford sat down with two stars of the post to discuss how journalism discovered secrets about the war. This is a bipartisan mess. It really eroded our confidence. And our choice in government and in our political leaders. Yeah. Yeah. And you should not trust your political leaders, whether theyre of your party or the other party, and thats the presss job. Ahead, what theyre most proud of in papers. Youre watching cbs this morning. A song by koolio from dangerous minds goes back in time to a 1967 maneuver classic. Nick. What is gangsters paradise lost. They say you said gangsters instead of gangster. We take 3,200 away from you. He thought he correctly said the name of the song but didnt quite get it right. The judges are a stick already fehr gangsters instead of gangsta. In the end he won. Did you see h ahead, where to go to enjoy that was basket. It counts. San antonios ginobili tossed it up. It was actually an alleyoop pass beyond the threepoint line that went into the basket without anyone noticing including ref. The knicks grabbed the ball and they eventually got the he was like, did you see what i did . Good for the ref. Welcome back to cbs this morning. Its time to show you some of this mornings headlines. The Washington Post said people are paying off their Credit Card Debt all wrong. They say pay the minimum amount, second, put 100 of the remaining money to the card with the highest interest rate. Doing that will help you eliminate debt the fastest. Most Credit Card Debt holders were only putting 50 to the high interest cards which can result in unnecessary interest payments. Good tips. Variety reports they have submitted sex cases against Harvey Weinstein and director james toback to the l. A. County chaffs office. Three potential sex crime cases were submitted against toback. They declined to provide details of the cases. Nonconsensual contact. Toback also denies any allegations against him. Consumers jump to alternatives. In 2017 shoppers increasingly turned to special milk like lactosefree milk or almond or soy milk. Demand for white milk fell after farmers ramped up production. Now dairies and Food Companies are looking to turn the oversupply of organic milk into cheese or other products. Usa today says unusually warm weather has baked alaska. Alaska is setting records for warmth. Several places in northern and central alaska have had their warmest december ever, and its not just december. The city barrow had its second hottest year on record. And californias mercury news says a rat on a plane caused an Alaskan Airlines flight to be canceled. Boarding the flight yesterday morning. Thats when the rat jumped from the airway inside the plane. It got into the cockpit. The plane was taken out of service. Im creeped out just reading that. There was one running around the studio like right over behind you. Not funny, jeff. Not funny. Nearly half of the people who made new years resolutions say they want to lose weight or get in shape. Weight watchers has over 3 million subscribers online and at meetings. Last month Weight Watchers introduced free style, a Program Featuring more than 200 foods that count for zero points. Mindy grossman is president and ceo of Weight Watchers. Go welcome. Good morning. We talk about zero points. What gets zero points . Free style, which is the program that Just Launched is simple Effective Program weve had in the companys history. All calories are not created equal. Theres a whole group of foods including all fish, chicken, fruits, vegetables, peas, corn that are zero points. And so you build your point values around the day and it gives you such freedom to be able to be as liveable as possible and go out and eat with your family because youre eating foods that everyone else is. Youre not eating packaged foods and things. It has had the most effective weight loss weve had in the history of the company. Fish is zero, but if you put butter on it, it counts. Correct, correct. Are youre saying the foods are zero points and calories dont matter, but calories do matter, that it encourages anyone to overeat . I dont t chicken breast. Unless its fried chicken. Its really about balance. What we really do is inspire Healthy Habits for sustainable capabilities for people to make the right choicesing and thats important. People want to be healthy today. If you think about it. People ask who our biggest competition is. The reality is its people who believe they can do this themselves, and so we really want to be the partner to everyone, to give them the capabilities and the knowledge to be able to lead healthier better lives. Look. Ive been studying diet and nutrition my entire life. Proof is in the pudding Weight Watchers work and its the healthiest way if not the only way to lose weight. You now have dj khaled whos a media star and endorser. How did that come about . I was introduced to dj khaled by rocat of bit of time with him. He really is authentic. But whats amazing about Weight Watchers is the power of the community. With his goal to be helloer this particularly for his son assad and inspire his community along with him to lead healthier lives. Does he want to lose weight . He is already. Hes already lost about 20 pounds, but for him, its really more about being the best self he can be. And i think thats what people want today. Its not necessarily thinking about diet. Its thinking about Sustainable Health and how you want to live a better life. Which is the other part of it. Very much so. Its mind, body, spirit. Its the combination of eating healthy, having the right level of activity, and mindfulness plays a very big part in how people are thinking about health today. Our move from being just about weight to a more holistic approach to giving people the tools to live a healthier life across the board is really very important. It started with beyond the scale. Freestyle is another evolution. What youll see from us around behavior science and the innovation of continuing to make it simple around the power of our community, whether its our connect community, whether its our meetings and physical, whether its the ww cruise that we just had. Giving people tools to hoe less ti holistically improve your life. There are so many programs out there for consumers 507z. What is it about Weight Watchers that you want to tell consumers in the market that you offer that others dont. There are people who think they can do this themselves. Only 5 of the people use a traditional weight loss program. We want to address the 95 where we can truly be their partner where we can give them t and educate them on why they can live healther this lives. And our program, as you said, its number one globally for sustainable weight loss, and gets people to understand that and have it be part of their lives is really what we want to accomplish. Whats black coffee. You have zero points. You can even put a little milk in it. Zero points for the day. Mindy grossman. Ive seen gayle has changed hers. Shes eating fruit in the morning. Its fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you. The hit film the post is about cath rim graham and her historic decision to print the pentagon papers. Ahead we visit a washington, d. C. , home with two stars. Dont get me wrong. I think she is a lovely woman. But she brought in a pirate that does nothing but bleed our margins. She doesnt have the result to turn a serious profit. That was actor Bradley Whitford in Steven Spielbergs new drama the movie that stars meryl streep and tom hanks received six Golden Globes and eight critics choice. Katherine graham struggled over whether to public documents regarding the vietnam war. Jan crawford visited the home in washington, d. C. With two of the stars. Good morning. Reporter good morning. A lot of the movie actually takes place here in georgetown and Katherine Grahams mansion where she decides to stand up to the government and really comes into her own as publisher. The Justice Department asked for your a federal court order to stop the Washington Post. Reporter it transformed a newspaper we are extremely gratified reporter and female publisher Katherine Graham into a public icon. It reveals the powerful pressures on the messenger, the message that resonates today. Do you have the papers . Not yet. Oh, gosh, oh, gosh. Its about a lot of things, about women, whats going on with the press, about our need to be vigilant, that you have to make a democracy every day, you just dont get it. But steven spiel derg has no interest in serving vegetables. Thats not what hes about. Im here asking your advice, bob, not your permission. Reporter at its heart the post is about a womans voice when she decides to change history, where risking financial ruin if she published the pentagon papers. Meryl streep played graham in the movie. On cbs this morning sheal about the unique role. It came down to her to decide, and she felt alone in that position and was, you know, put on the spot. Reporter it all came down right in here. Reporter we visited grahams Historic Town in georgetown, near washington, d. C. , with bob and brad. The house remains vacant and largely unchanged since graham died more than 15 years ago. Reporter the emotional thrust of this story is Katherine Grahams internal journey and the other stuff is a fun suspense thriller thats about relevant issues to me its a nonpartisan film. I dont see why any republican wouldnt like this movie except that they love nixon. Reporter it blends news reports and telephone recordings of president nixon. No reporter fro in the white house, is that clear. Reporter you have a reporter who was outspoken on the media who helped track down the classified documents. The media already vulnerable are being made a scapegoat for ironic reasons, a scapegoat by the administration. Im proudest of just showing a bunch of professional journalists at work arguing and fighting and trying to figure out what they have a right to do and whats right. Reporter you celebrate the best part of journalism which is finding out what the truth is. My character is the true believer, the reporter who just wants the story and just wants to tell the public the story. There are no page numbers. Thats where the top secret stamps were. My source had to cut them off. If you have the truth, you should print it. Thats a strong easy opinion to have if you dont have the responsibility of keeping the one who will go to jail. Reporter graham chose to stand up to the government and to forces within her own industry. The only reason shes running things is because phil died. Reporter like post board member who felt she was unqualified because she was a woman. Thank you for your frankness. It never occurs to me a woman should do this. Im absolutely on the wrong side of history which makes her decision all the more incredible and brave. It ooh tess most excruciating decision that she has to make. She doesnt know you dont know if thats the right decision. Reporter not only was it the right decision, it transformed graham into a force to be reckoned with, and the Washington Post into a national newspaper. And the lesson of the pentagon papers for the public is that we are right to question the government. Bianna . Its interesting no matter what party you are, you shouldnt believe everything a politician tells you. Thats what journalists are there to do. Have you seen it . Absolutely love it. We tried to see it on monday. The children did you like it . Terrific. Lovely. Loved having tom and meryl on set. They were great. 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We are joined by mary on the couch. We are decked out in our purple, today. We did plan it. Is ultraviolet if you want to get in on the purple scene. That is why we have you here, mary. Tell us what old man winter has planned and how to prepare your cold and more cold is what old man winter has prepared for us. We have had recordbreaking temperatures and more is on the way. Ice forming on plans, freezing rain. That is not good for them and it just covers the car in. Happening because of that white out conditions. A water main broke in baltimore and it is not what you want to walk out to when you are trying to get it does try to trying to get to work in the morning. If it is a little too cold, i am calling in. With this in mind, we are talking about how to protect yourselves. Hats, scarves, gloves, anything you can put on. And the pipes, that has been a huge deal for us. Back my pipes are frozen. My pipes are on the exterior so we have been keeping the water dripping for weeks. The water bill is insane and youre wasting water. When a pipe bursts, it is done. Right now, they are frozen. Florida is getting snow