woo, die hard. good luck to them. thanks so much, samantha. meantime, police are uncovering the events that led up to the murder of a priest on new year s day. and it is a grim picture. it appears the man accused in the death was actually in police custody just hours before. here is david mattlingly. reporter: fredricka, with the suspect in custody, there are questions about how local law enforcement here did their job. could the murder of father eric freed have been prevented? gary bullock had already confronted law enforcement twice, got arrested, spent eight hours in jail, all in less than a day before he became the suspect in the murder of beloved eureka priest, father eric freed. arrested by sheriff s deputies for public intoxication during the day new year s eve, bullock had to be taken away from the county jail for a high heart rate. he acted up at the hospital and had to be physically restrained
0 it s a great way to build olympic spirit. phil black, cnn, moscow. that s it for your money. we ll be back at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. eastern time. have a good weekend. hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield and here are the top stories we re following in the cnn newseum. an art tick blast is about to barrel across the u.s. adding insult to injury for those all right hit by a national storm. it could be a historic event with temperatures plummeting. the cold air will head from the west and southern states could feel some of the pain. you could see zero temperatures as far south as nashville. people in boston including our own margaret conley know what that s like, the chill there. still lots of snow behind you. what s the biggest problem for folks there? reporter: well, fred. we re actually pretty lucky. the coastal regions were hardest hit. there were about 13 deaths that resulted from the storm. here in boston there were up to 2 feet of snow in the massachusetts area and
0 and guess what, experts concur, that is the pope s voice. he jokingly said, quote, what are the nuns doing that they can t answer? then he continued. quote, i am pope francis. i wish to greet you in this end of the year. i will see if i can call you later. may god bless you. that from the pope. the nuns decided they would just wait to call the pope. hopefully he ll call back. good luck on that. we ll have much more on whether he did, indeed, call them back. we re going to have much more ahead in the newsroom, and it all starts right now. here are the top stories we re following in the cnn newsroom. round two. here it comes again. a powerful arctic cold front is going to put nearly half the u.s. in a dangerous deep freeze again, just days after that monster snowstorm slammed into nearly two dozen states. and buying pot legally at a store. people in colorado are lining up in droves just to do that. what they do after they get out of the lines could still land them in jail potential
situation even in warm conditions. thanks so much for that. for those who aren t familiar with new york, the wreck happened north of manhattan island. samantha mohr joins us to pinpoint the site of the wreck. reporter: week talking about where this is. you look at google map. washington, d.c., philadelphia. there s long island. we ll go into new york here. you can see manhattan pop up on the map and here is the hudson river and then spuyten duyvil up the hudson river and where it meets harlem river is the curve we ve been talking about that the train has been going around and has a reputation for often times being a very perilous curve as those trains come around at high speeds and train itself we ve seen those train cars kind of dotted along here where the train tipped over.
outside of worcester but most of the active weather well to the north here. that was not a concern. so the conditions at the time of the accident doesn t look like weather really would have been a factor here at all. hopefully that gives you an idea of how things are set up here where harlem meets the hudson. thank you for that, samantha. we re looking at live pictures of the tracks over where the train actually derailed and just a moment ago we got a picture of the divers in the water. very bright sunlight but in the water. it s very murky right now and muddy. it must be very slow going for any divers looking for virtually anything this time of day. we continue to watch the scene as authorities report to us as they can. i m being told to go now to nick. are you there? one quick point to bring up. according to our local