campaign ad that features smoking. better than ya mrnie madoffn open up. i felt like my head exploded. i don t think if he told me he was an alien, i could have been more surprised. we have more of that interview for you this morning including what the family thinks of madoff today early, this monday morning, october 31st, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i m erica hill. i m jeff glor in for chris wragge this morning. what happened over the weekend? i don t know. happy halloween. oh, a nice pumpkin. as my son said on saturday, a 5-year-old who was very excited about the snow. i love snow, mommy, but it s weird to have snow before halloween. it s weird to postpone halloween but that is where we are. the snow has set records in the northeast and some areas got more than two feet of snow. the storm is now blamed for at least 11 deaths, mostly because of car accidents. some travelers experienced horrendous delays. how bad? we are talking 13 hours
born this week. what s the earth s tipping point? we ll talk about that as well. i m craig melvin. alex is off this sunday. first up, a rare and now deadly october snowstorm in the northeast is breaking records and causing chaos across the region now. right now, a frantic effort is underway to restore power to about 2.9 million people without it this morning. states of emergency are in effect from massachusetts, connecticut, and new york, and new jersey. some areas are seeing nearly 2 feet of snow, shattering records dating all the way back to 1869. and at least three deaths are being blamed on the storm so far. one each in massachusetts, connecticut, and pennsylvania, and at least 1,000 flights were canceled across the country as well. airports in philadelphia and new york, airports in those areas, have been hit the hardest. here in new york this morning, cleanup from that snowfall, only the fourth in october since they started keeping records, about 135 years ago. nbc s r
born this week. what s the earth s tipping point? we ll talk about that as well. i m craig melvin. alex is off this sunday. first up, a rare and now deadly october snowstorm in the northeast is breaking records and causing chaos across the region now. right now, a frantic effort is underway to restore power to about 2.9 million people without it this morning. states of emergency are in effect from massachusetts, connecticut, and new york, and new jersey. some areas are seeing nearly 2 feet of snow, shattering records dating all the way back to 1869. and at least three deaths are being blamed on the storm so far. one each in massachusetts, connecticut, and pennsylvania, and at least 1,000 flights were canceled across the country as well. airports in philadelphia and new york, airports in those areas, have been hit the hardest. here in new york this morning, cleanup from that snowfall, only the fourth in october since they started keeping records, about 135 years ago. nbc s r
trial after defense witnesses bring dr. conrad murray to tears. the big, will he take the stand in his own defense? we have the very latest from inside the courtroom. winter comes early in colorado after an october storm drops more than a foot of snow on the ground. now parts of new england is bracing for their own snowstorm. we will tell you how much is expected early this thursday morning, october 27th, 2011. good morning to you on this thursday. good to have you with us. i m erica hill. i m chris wragge. how about the snow could be headed our way? doesn t this always happen before halloween? you have your costume set and it gets cold and your mother says you have to put a coat over the top of it. we will more on that ahead. stunning claim by bernie madoff s wife. in a 60 minutes interview, ruth madoff says she and her husband tried to kill themselves after his ponzi scheme was exposed in 2008. 60 minutes correspondent morley safer spoke with ruth madoff a
one day, and it s not over yet. we ll tell you how it s impacting roads, trains early this morning august 15th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show on a dark and gloomy monday morning. i m chris wragge. i m rebecca jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. of course the sky looks a little better than it has the last 24 hours. not much. kind of crazy, the rain. yesterday, total deluge. constant, nonstop. day inside. don t leave the house on the east coast. the disaster at the indiana state fair. the fair reopens this morning as state investigators search for answers in saturday night s sudden stage collapse that killed five people. cbs news correspondent cynthia but aers is at the grounds with the latest. cindy, good morning. reporter: good morning, chris. you know, it was supposed to be a joyous night for country music fans gathered at the indiana state fairgrounds to hear the band sugarland, but when a strong storm approached, things to