0 from helping someone again. i won't let their bad behavior change my good behavior. >> i'm not going to let their bad behavior change their good behavior. line of the morning. bad guys still at large. >> spirit of aloha. >> a lot of news for you this morning so to the "newsroom" with miss carol costello. aloha. >> thanks so much. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking overnight arrests in the death of philip seymour hoffman. police are now questioning them about the drugs found inside philip seymour hoffman's manhattan apartment. >> new details and developments, a bust in this new york city apartment, police laser focus this morning. >> probably going to look at the cctv to see if there was anybody in the background if those transactions were made by hoffman. frozen nation. >> i was headed into work and got stuck twice. from missouri to maine, 120 million in the path of this massive snowstorm. this is not a day opportunity stuck in the snow or stuck with a flat tire and nothing inside to keep you warm. plane stuck in snow bank. interstates becoming ice rink. plus -- >> we are now less than two days away from the opening ceremony. >> sochi stalled. the most expensive olympics ever and this is what we're seeing? camp like bedrooms, bathrooms that don't work, dirty water. >> as far as the hotels yeah, the construction is obviously still going on. >> this from the russian olympic committee. >> we're dealing with it, we're on it. >> and leap of faith. the red hot chili peppers unplugged and giving it away. the band admitting to mi mm i b minimuming -- m iming during the super bowl. good morning i'm cost. thank you for joining me. for 120 million americans it's deja vu all over again. snow and ice are smothering much of the country stretching from wyoming to maine. since thanksgiving it's the seventh storm to plow across the northeast and new england. turning roads treacherous and sometimes deadly. at least one person died on the pennsylvania turnpike when a tractor-trailer plunged through a barrier into oncoming traffic. 2,000 flights already cancelled today. southwest plane hit a snow bank and bogged down as it was trying to taxi at kansas city international airport. some areas of the state got more than a foot of snow. and today parts of the northeast could also see 12 inches. the boston area as you can see is now getting buried under wet heavy snow. that snow could pile up at a rate of an inch or two an hour. chad myers is in new york central park. margaret conley is in boston. chad i'll start with you. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. what's coming down now is exactly the consistency of a snow cone and i mean exactly. sleet pellets coming out of the sky. you would think it just came out of a snow cone machine. earlier today it was raining and it was 31 and this is what was happening all over the city. all of these little ice crystals, all of this coming down here, freezing up on every single surface. this is only the second storm this week. two more are coming next week. from wyoming to maine more than 100 million people are waking up to another round ever snow and ice this morning. >> horrible. horrible. >> reporter: overnight snow beginning to pile up in new england where more than a foot of snow is forecast in some parts. >> it's been crazy. >> reporter: in the midwest up to 11 inches of snow blanketed parts of kansas. the state's governor has declared a state of emergency. in illinois white out conditions coupled with sleet and ice sent car after car skidding off the road. snow emergencies were declared across southern michigan as heavy notice fell at the rate of an inch an hour. down south icy roads abound leading to this fatal crash. the temperatures right now are perfect for icy continues. in oklahoma a school bus transporting students had to turn around because the driver feared getting stuck. this is the seventh winter storm battering the midwest and new england since december. nearly 40 inches of snow have fallen in detroit last month alone and across the country it's the coldest winter in 20 years. and, carol, people are sick of it. i'm not even saying a little bit sick of it. they are a lot sick of it. they are mad at punxsutawney phil because he says more is coming and so do i. there's no change in the pattern. here's a look at the radar. we see snow across new york, vermont, new hampshire, some spots in vermont are indicating three inches of snow per hour at times. even out towards the berkshires. we're seeing the frozen. 300,000 people without power in philadelphia. 80,000 around baltimore. there's the snow that's going to come down over a foot in the purple. what we have south of that is the ice event. ice event bringing down power lines, bringing down all of those branches and we'll see power outages here in new york city as well i believe throughout the day as this continues. this is a few more hours of this to go and there's a lot of ice already on the ground. >> it's snowing like mad in boston. i'll take our viewers there. margaret conley is in boston. >> reporter: we're expecting to see one to two inches of snow per hour throughout the day today. if you take a look it's coming down heavy. it's wet. and it's coming down fast. nationwide it's impacting travel, over 2,000 flights have been cancelled. if you're flying out of boston 45% of flights have been cancelled out of logan. now on the roads the department of transportation they have 200,000 tons of salt ready to tack thl. they have 3,000 snowplows out on the ground already. capacity is 4,000. that gives you some perspective about what they are coping there. they are prepared to deal with the salt. we talked to a lot of people out here walking their dogs. people in boston, some of them are taking it in stride. >> you should be prepared for a lot of snow, a lot of wind. some ice if it drops a little colder. but definitely bundle up. this is wet and heavy. this will stick. this will stick to the roads. all of boston is closed. you got the plows out. put your boots on. lace them up. get out there. >> reporter: now if you do get out there remember to be very careful. boston's new mayor has declared this a snow emergency. public schools are closed. and after we get through this, carol, we have this storm but just in a few days there will be another one. carol? >> i'm just looking at the dogs playing behind you. they are having a great time. >> reporter: they are loving it out here. they have been out here since 6:00 this morning. >> awesome. thanks so much. a bomb shell from the business world this morning. starting in october you'll no longer be able to buy cigarettes at cvs. the nation's largest pharmacy announced it will stop selling not only cigarettes but all tobacco products. the move is the first-ever by a drugstore chain. the company's ceo explained the decision this morning on cbs. >> we had a lot of discussions among our management team and i think everybody came to, you know, the right decision that, you know, it's a real contradiction to talk about all the things we're doing to help people on their path to better health and at the same time sell tobacco products. >> christine romans live in new york to talk more about this story. will other chains follow suit? >> reporter: that's a big question because cvs is the first to do it. it's a bold move and something health care officials are hailing this morning. they love this. the white house coming out with a statement specifically naming that ceo and this company saying this is the right thing to do. this morning we bought a pack of smokes at cvs. you can't do that by october 1st. they say it's inconsistent with the goal of this company. they are a company that has nurse practitioners, they have mini minute clinics where they help people get healthy and they don't think they could be selling these products at the same time. the ceo saying put simply the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose. they are going to be giving up $2 billion, money out of the pocket for smokers who go there every year to buy cigarettes. the growth of this company is in health care. it is moving itself away from a traditional retail drugstore own more towards health care and cigarettes not part of that package. >> christine romans reporting live for us from new york. four people now in police custody believed to be connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. also today investigators say they found the actor's private journal and they are combing through that journal for clues. this comes as police are releasing more information on the type of heroin that killed hoffman. where he was just hours before he died. nischelle turner is following that angle of the story. good morning. >> reporter: we continue to get more and 0 more information as this story develops. big developments overnight. the nypd raided an apartment in manhattan last night. they executed search warrants and arrested four individuals. police are now questioning them about the drugs found inside philip seymour hoffman's manhattan apartment. overnight police arrested three men and a woman in this new york apartment building who they believe are connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. during the raid police recovered 350 bags thought to be heroin. this as new details are emerging about his death, the result of an apparent heroin overdose. a law enforcement source says preliminary results show the heroin found in hoffman's apartment was not laced with a strong pain killer. on tuesday's former partner was seen here at a local funeral home. o'donnell told hoffman to move into another apartment in the city not with their children when she discovered he was aabusing drugs an ongoing battle he recently shared. designee took off his hat and said i'm a heroin addict. >> reporter: he says hoffman made this confession two weeks before his death. during a one on one chat at the sundance film festival. hoffman saying he just got out of rehab. >> he seemed like he was having a one of those coming to god moments where it struck him as, you know, this is the moment. >> reporter: the night before hoffman died cnn learned he with drew $1,200 in six transactions from this atm at the grocery store near his apartment. a witness telling investigators he saw hoffman talking to two men wearing messenger bags. the next morning hoffman was found dead in his bathroom a needle still in his arm. >> he was a really special human being and he was one of the best actors to ever live without a doubt. >> reporter: hoffman's friends and colleagues mourned his loss tuesday night. >> had dinner with him a couple of months ago and i have to say he seemed to be in pretty good shape. i mean there's no way to explain it. >> does something ever come out of it? is there somebody watching who goes wow that guy was amazing maybe i should stop doing this or maybe i should try to find help. >> reporter: of course matt damon starring with him and george clooney starring with him. george clooney echoed what matt damon was saying there. he said he hopes if anything positive, if there is anything that comes out of this positive maybe this can be a teaching moment although george clooney says he doesn't know if there are any great lessons to be learned now that someone so important to him is gone. philip seymour hoffman's representatives have announced, carol, there will be a private funeral service held in new york for the actor's family and close friends and plans for a people ram service will happen later in the month. >> nischelle turner, many thanks. still to come, just days before the winter olympics get under way the suspected mastermind behind those twin bombings in russia is killed by police. phil black live in moscow this morning. hi, phil. >> reporter: yes. security forces in this country say they have killed the leader of a terror group which promised to lodge more devastating attacks during the games. details in just a moment. 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