this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. evening. an ice and snowstorm in the south is now blamed for at least five deaths. the storm is making travel dangerous, if not impossible in places. more than 1700 flights have been canceled. and it knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses. we start tonight with kris van cleave. >> go! >> reporter: from texas to the carolinas, there are major travel problems across the south and hundreds of crashes as people try to navigate the treacherous roads. at least one county in georgia has taken the unusual step of issuing a mandatory curfew for tonight so people will stay off the roads. >> i don't think i recommend coming out. >> reporter: in louisiana where a state of emergency was declared today, an eight-month-old baby is dead and a woman was left in critical condition after their vehicle slid off the road into a canal. >> if we can you know, use this as a lesson a reminder to stay out of the weather today, stay home with your children. >> reporter: this storm system brought the houston area some of the coldest temperatures seen in decades. the harris county sheriff's office reported almost 600 crashes in the last 24 hours, with one fatality due to ice. traffic conditions were so bad on this houston highway, some drivers actually started turning around looking for the closest exit. in charlotte, north carolina where around four inches of snow fell this car lost an axel. police responded to almost 200 wrecks in that area alone today. in atlanta, where temperatures hovered in the teens all morning, two inches of snow fell, and the normally busy roadways were empty. but there were long lines at atlanta's airport, not only due to caenlsed flights but because t.s.a. workers couldn't make it in. many schools across the region are closed for the second day in a row. >> the kids like it. the parents, you know, it gets old. i-- i've missed a lot of work too much. >> reporter: here in greensboro, we've seen at least eight inches of snow fall so far. take a look at this. this is what roads look like throughout north carolina, a layer of snow and ice. we made a treacherous drive from charlotte to greensboro watching vehicles spin out. the state police have responded to more than 1500 crashes today and, jeff we watched police cars spin out, too. >> glor: scary. kris van cleave, thank you very much. it is not just the cold that is closing schools. in some cases, it is the flu. here's omar villafranca. >> cough, fever. >> reporter: for the past few days 13-year-old mauro has been coughing and running a fever. his two sisters at home already have the flu, so his mother laura garza, brought him to children's health in dallas. >> well last year they didn't get sick on me or nothing like that, and just this year i guess they-- it was their time i'm guessing, to get the flu. >> reporter: the c.d.c. says flu-related hospitalizations nationwide nearly doubled last week. dr. ray tsai says this is one of the worst outbreaks he's seen firsthand. >> we're seeing a lot of children with cough, runny nose high fevers and they get that muscle ache-- the chills and just really feel miserable. >> reporter: all the schools in bonham, texas, are are closed until next week after 244 students called in sick. across the border classes at all the schools in hugo oklahoma, were shut down. 168 students there have the flu. kayla moore is the school secretary. >> it's going to happen. it spreads like wildfire. you can try to protect them as much as you can but sometimes you can't help it. >> reporter: the flu has already killed at least 20 children this season. in western new york 10-year-old nico mallozzi was traveling with his hockey team when he was diagnosed with the flu. the little boy died on his way back home to connecticut. dr. tsai says people should protect themselves. >> the more that you're in close quarters with somebody when it's warm-- when it's dry, cold air, the more likely you are to catch the flu. >> reporter: the children's health system here in north texas has seen more than 2100 confirmed cases of the flu just this season. and, jeff, that number is expected to go up. >> glor: omar, thank you. the clock is ticking toward a possible government shutdown friday night. the main hang-up is extending protections for immigrants brought to this country illegally as children. and today, chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes caught up with the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell. >> reporter: how is your agreement likely to be different from the deal that was already struck by a bipartisan group of senators? why not use that as a starting point? >> i'm looking for something that president trump supports and he's not yet indicated what measure he's willing to sign. as soon as we figure out what he is for, then i would be convinced that we were not just spinning our wheels going to this issue on the floor, but actually dealing with bill that has a chance to become law and, therefore, solve the problem. >> glor: nancy cordes with mitch mcconnell earlier today. cbs news has confirmed that steve bannon, the president's former chief strategist, is cooperating with the special counsel. robert mueller is investigating russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. f.b.i. agents visited bannon at his house last week. a former c.i.a. officer is under arrest tonight, accused of mishandling classified information. jeff pegues tells us the suspect may be the key to solving a mystery that has troubled the agency for years. >> reporter: as early as 2010 officials at c.i.a. headquarters in langley virginia were concerned about a mole. c.i.a. contacts and informants in china were being killed or imprisoned, and investigators wanted to know why. now sources say former c.i.a. case officer jerry chun shing lee may have been leaking information to the chinese. lee worked at the spy agency from 1994 to 2007 and was involved in cases in china. according to court papers in 2012, f.b.i. agents discovered that he had handwritten notes containing the true names and phone numbers of assets covert c.i.a. employees, and c.i.a. facilities. f.b.i. agents found the documents when they served two hotel rooms lee stayed in during a trip to the united states. he was then interviewed five times but for unknown reasons, he was not arrested and returned to hong kong. lee, a naturalized u.s. citizen, served in the army before his timeae c.i.a. >> 55,000. >> reporter: he most recently worked at christie's auction house in hong kong. on monday he flew to airport in new york where he was arrested. >> the way you calm aims the way you caught canc ehanson was in the act of hager information. >> reporter: michael morell compared the lee case to soviet moles to aldrich ames and robert hanssen. >> if the reporting here is true with regard to the loss of chinese assets and if the reporting is accurate with regard to mr. lee's role in that, and if that was intentional on his part, then this is the equivalent of ames and hanssen. >> reporter: lee was not charged with espionage but is accused of illegally having classified information. tonight we were unable to reach a lawyer for lee. jeff. >> glor: jeff pegues, thanks very much. on the senate floor today, arizona republican jeff flake condemned what he called president trump's shameful and repulsive attacks on some in the media. flake said when a figure in power calls news that doesn't suit him fake news someone else should be under suspicion. >> 2017 was a year which saw the truth objective, empirical, evidence-based truth, more battered and abused than at any time in the history of our country at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government. no politician will ever get also-- tell us what the truth is and what it is not. and anyone who presumes to try to attack or manipulate the press for his own purposes should be made to realize his mistake and to be held to account. >> glor: flake says 2018 should be the year in which the truth takes a stand against power. the first year of the trump administration has brought a sea change to the environmental protection agency. administrator scott pruitt has steered the agency's priorities away from some issues such as climate change. major garrett sat down with pruitt today. >> so we spent past year trying to achieve regulatory certainty, regulatory clarity to make sure that people knew what was expected of them so they can invest, achieve good outcomees for the environment. >> reporter: and is the philosophy to protect the environment or protect business? >> it's neither. i mean, our focus here should be on stewardship. >> reporter: by that he means rolling back regulations to develop all forms of energy including coal and natural gas. pruitt points to the obama-era clean power plan, an effort to regulate existing coal-fired power plants in hopes of boosting renewable sources. the supreme court halted the move, based in part on a lutz filed by pruitt when he was oklahoma attorney general. >> the clean power plan was an example of this administration picking winners and losers in the development of electricity, in the generation of electricity choosing renewables at the expense of what? natural resources we have. >> reporter: meaning coal. >> across the spectrum natural gas and the rest. so this agency shouldn't be in the business of saying we're going to favor certain source of energy over others. >> reporter: pruitt also set new goals on removing lead from u.s. water supplies. >> we need to declare a war on lead and we need to eradicate lead in our drinking water and set a goal of doing that in 10 years and it can be. >> reporter: some wonder if people placed in leadership positions have the public's best interested at heart. michael honeycutt is head of the e.p.a. advisory board. he is quoted "i haven't seen the data that says lowering ozone will produce a health benefit." do you agree with that? >> ozone is something we must regulate. >> reporter: there are other alsos who wonder about those who come from industry who are in leadership positions here. why should the american public be comfortable with someone coming from industry and into this agency? >> so i don't buy the paradigm major, this paradigm that says we must choose industry over the environment or the environment over industry is the old way of thinking. and i will tell you if we have companies, industries citizen, who violate the lay, we will prosecute them but we should not start with the premise that all people are that way or all industries that way. >> glor: woody allen's adopted daughter dylan farrow stands by that he sexually assaulted her. she gave her interview to gayle king for "cbs this morning" this morning. here is dylan farrow. >> i think we've gotten very attached to this concept that in order for a victim or accuser to come forward credibly that they have to be flanked by 49 other people. and this is absolutely sloout garbage. it shouldn't have to be that a small army has to come forward fancy one person to be credible. i have come forward with evidence, and i am credible, and i am telling the truth. and i think it's important that people realize that one victim one accuser matters, and that they are enough to change things. >> glor: woody allen has always denied the allegations and has never been charged with a crime. allen put out a statement today that says in part: you can see gayle king's interview with dylan farrow tomorrow on "cbs this morning." apple said today it plans to open a new corporate campus somewhere in the united states location to be announced later this year. apple also said it will create 20,000 new jobs over the next five years, and that it plans to bring about $250 billion in offshore cash back into the u.s. and pay $38 billion in taxes. now to some of the other stories we're following in the evening newsfeed the dow soared more than 300 points today to close above 26,000 for the first time. a jump from 25k took just eight trading session. and the navy says it intends to prosecute five officers, including the commanders two of destroyers involved in separate deadly collisions in the pacific last year. the charges could include negligent homicide. 17 u.s. sailors were killed in the two accidents. there is much more ahead on tonight's cbs evening news. >> reporter: who hasn't thought of themselves from time to time as a real piece of art? 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