Year about all white acting nominees. Lot of things has to be improved. How do i preach this mike and make this work . Do it like a lady. Dream on why am i showing you . All that go. And all that matters. Curry frameworks half court. And its good. He banks it in. This ones good. On cbs this morning saturday. Its ten day before the iowa caucus. Donald trump, hes in it to win it. He showed it this with week because he brought out sarah palin. Negotiate deals kind of with the skills of a Community Organizer maybe organizing a neighborhood mccain is going, you should have called me, dude. And welcome to the weekend everyone. We have a packed show for you this morning, including full coverage of the monster storm thats slamming the east coast. Plus speaking of snow, well take you to one of the worlds most dangerous sporting events. It is happening today. Some of the best skiers in the world will attempt to navigate the strife in austria. A race that can quickly turn ledley. Also a conversation on rock and roll mortality. With the passing of david bowie and glenn frey, at least one is wondering if hes next. And a unique display at the London Museum uses raw data to create incredible images of our solar system and well show you how it is done. Powerful blizzard effecting more than 70 million americans. At least nine ormrelated deaths are reported. Snow, sleet, freezing rains and gale forced wins, combined with high tides is battering coastal areas. One in seven americans could get at least half a foot of in snow. In carolinas snowplows are working but conditions are hazardous with many cars just skidding right off the road. In philadelphia not many vehicles are out making it easier for the snowplow. Officials are urging residents to stay home today. Philadelphias Transit System has shut down. Here in new york the mayor is also telling people to stay home. At least a foot of snow is expected today. There are ten states along the east coast under emergency declarations this morning. As well as no, sir and washington. Thats where chris van cleave is, good morning. Reporter its been snowing 17 hours more of wibds and snow before the storm leaves the Nations Capital. Behind me, pennsylvania avenue leading up to the kaptcapitol. It is snow covered. Driving is treacherous because of the blowing wind and snow drifts it is hard to get an exact sense of how much snow has fallen but as of right now weve got about 13 inches or so on the ground here if d. C. Defiant drivers hit the streets here despite a plea from the mayor to stay home. We want people to hunker down and shelt in place and stay you have to roads. Wind gusts 55 Miles Per Hour and snow falling at 23 inches an hour, conditions are getting worse. Plow trucks struggled coto keep up with the historic snowfall. Nearly three feet could be on the ground by the time it is all over. This a 36 hour storm with commuters are finding themselves on lockdown as well. The d. C. Metro suspended service late last night and wont be up and running again until monday o. To close it down inside is just kind of ridiculous. Because there are people that have to get to work at hospitals and other places that do not shut down. We came to have dinner with our neighbors, with our friends. We thought we would walk. Because that was the better option. While kids went sledding down capitol hill friday evening, the first dog got to play in the snow at the white house. But the scene wasnt quite as pretty friday afternoon when daniel made rounds in his snowplow. How important is it for people to get you have to roads tonight . Very. I just dont want people to be in the street, me personally. Because of time. Once we get behind the snow it is going to be a hard time fighting to get back on top. About an inch of snow wednesday gridlocked the city for hours. Are running the storms response. Our first concern really are the residents. One of the major monikers of success for me personally is to make sure we dont lose anybody. That is first and foremost. Forecasters have been warning about this monster storm for days but some waited until the snow started falling to stock up. What are you able to get . We only got 1078 snacks like potato chips and popcorn and stuff to eat around at night. Thats all we got. So everythings gone. Now, d. C. Has asked surrounding states to bring if extra snow removal equipment as they expect the dig out to last for several days. The lingering concern here particularly as the snow keeps coming down, high winds. Because that can bring downpour lines. It is well below freezing here so there are concerns of people for days. So far Power Outages have been limited anthony but we have a little more to go before the storm is done. Krist van cleave. In washington. I went to school in d. C. They do not deal with snow very well there usually and that is a lot of snow. All right. The big storm first slammed parts of the south with snow and ice. That caused major problems on the road. Mark is in charlotte, North Carolina. Good morning. Reporter the head line here really is those Power Outages. Thousands of people are waking up this morning in the cold and dark. But the storm also brought other kinds of wintry misery. Around lexington, kentucky a series of car and truck accidents has closed i75 for 35 miles both ways. Hundreds spent the night stranded in their cars. No time line when the highway should reopen. Crashes during the storm in four southern states. Parts of kentucky got more than a foot. Tennessee and arkansas eight inches. In raleigh the issue is power. They report about 135,000 are currently without power. The utility has 6800 workers across the system restoring it. Now here is the good news. Temperatures here are supposed to stay above freezing most of the day. That means less of a chance of icy build up that topples trees and power lines ss and vinita that should give this area a nice day winter so far. Certainly what they need. Mark, thank you to much. One of the biggest dangers from the storm is the threat of severe coastal flooding. One place on edge is new jersey which was hit hard by superstorm sandy. Chris christie did not issue mandatory evacuation orders but some shore communicates did before the storm hits. Meg baker has more. Reporter the blizzard has hid the jersey shore and hit hard. The big story now are the winds. And weve been warned about flooding. Take a look behind me. This is the inlet. The water already coming up over the bulk head. This is the fist high tide of the day and this is powered by the full moon. So it is a dangerous combination of these very strong winds mixed with this lunar high tide that is going to cause major issues here and down the shore. Over to this side there is the beech front where these houses basically sit on the beach front and there is only a three foot berm of sand protecting those homes from the impact of the storm. Were expecting waves up to 12 feet high that could really create more damage along the coastline. The winds are really whipping down here. Water flying off the jetty, snow on the jetty behind me. Governor christie has issued a these roads. You can see very low visibility here. It is awfully slippery. It is freezing and as we go through the day this flooding is only sure to get worse. Meg baker in manasqaun new jersey. Even those in the in the direct path are being effected. Canceling thousands of flights and creating problems for rails traffic to. Reporter were talking about blowing snow here in philadelphia, to give you an idea driving to our live shot this morning it looked like a snow tornado rolling right in front of the vehicle. So much so it was setting off the sensors on the front bumper because the vehicle throughout there was an object in front of it. Air traffic has been frozen, snarled and amtrack, cl the station is right where we are. Look at the snow blowing. The aktrack station near us is they will modify schedule they say but it will not stop it. Here is whats expected. From yesterday through sunday whats expected is were talking 82 hundred flights that have been canceled and more than 3300 delayed in and out of the u. S. For the same time period, American Airlines will be canceling over 2 thousand flights. Southwest just over a thousand and united just under a thousand. The most wide spread cancellations are from charlotte to philadelphia. Bwu, which is in maryland. Reagan national. Washington. The Dulles International airport. Mass cancellations. Airports will be empty because there will be no flights in or out. But Many Airlines are allowing travelers to make changes for free. So if you had a trip planned and need to rebook the airlines will let you do it and there shouldnt be much of a hassle. As for the drivers on the road, storm and bad weather is always factor for about a half million crashes and about 2 thousand road deaths every winter. If you dont have to be out in it today, please do not. Back here in philadelphia they believe they got about a foot of snow overnight. And they think they will get another foot over the next 12 hours. It is in the mid 20s. They have clocked wind gusts up to 45 Miles Per Hour. Earlier. Anybody who thought this storm was overrated was wrong. We appreciate you being out in all of that David Begnaud in philadelphia this morning thank you. So what is next for the storm . For that we turn now to lonnie quinn in new york. Is the worst over . No. I think today is going to be just as bad as the previous days weather. Today is the worst and then it will be gone tomorrow. People who are effected in some way, shape or form. Blizzard warning right now. New york city, philadelphia. You saw all the wind blowing around david. And this big swath of blue, that is not rain or snow. That is moisture. This storm is drawing moisture from the caribbean. It is not going to fade away. Not today. There is just too much moisture available. It will be gone by sunday morning 10 00 a. M. You are measuring the stow more a lot of folks in feet. This is pretty general. It will be less than a foot for the areas in blue. That includes boston and the cape. But then 12 feet. The pink shading from new york city, philadelphia, into west virginia, virginia. Here your sweet spot. If you call snow sweet. Two feet or more and that is the 81 corridor in virginia. It is piling up. Washington d. C. Currently on the ground, i think 19 inches. And they will pick up another ten. D. C. s history. Thanks so much. A Deadly School shooting in the canadian province of saskatchewan is under investigation. It happened in la loche about 400 miles north or calgary. At least 4 people were killed and two were critically wounded in the attack friday. The suspected shooter is custody. Police opened fire on a man waving a gun as he walked in the middle of traffic in las vegas. Last night from front of the bellagio on the strip. At times he pointed the gun at people. Orders. The man was not hit by the gunfire but two bystanders were lightly wounded. As the intermural fight between donald trump and start ted cruz continues. Shows trump in the lead nationwide with 34 . Cruz 14 percentage points, rubio at 11 and everyone else in single digits. The donald trump ted cruz rivalry hit a new high friday with both candidates unleashing duelling attack ads. As they barrel towards the iowa bill reporter cruz hit trump for supporting and profiting from Eminent Domain laws, which allow the government to seize private property. It made him rich, like when trump colluded with Atlantic City insiders to bulldoze the home of an elderly widow. Trump took to twitter once whether canadian born cruz is eligible to be president. And he fired back at the National Review for publishing a series of essays making a case runner. While trump once called the magazine a true conservative voice, he tweeted in response very few read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize but not how to lead lead. In ab interview with abc cruz dismissed trumps twitter tirades and said hed steer clear of personal attacks in favor of policy. Indishable from bernie sanders. Politics is not a soap opera. It is not a baseball game. Sanders didnt mention cruz while campaigning in new hampshire. Where hes leading in the polls to fight back clinton has been aggressively taking on sanders record on guns, healthcare and financial regulation, while emphasizing her experience. We need a prosecuteesident who can do all aspects of the job. For cbs this morning saturday, Julianna Goldman in washington. Theres been another highway death. The tents caused by a defective air bag maidde by the japanese manufacture takata. Dimarco morgan has more. 52yearold joe knight was driving this ford ranger when a his car struck a cow in the road. A piece of shrapnel out of the air bag killing him. The spokesperson for the this is a National Safety crisis and precipitated by the tact that they manufactured millions of defective inflaters and then provided incomplete, mislead on inaccurate information to nista the public. Some deploy with Excessive Force shattering the metal inflater and sending shrapnel flying into the vehicle. As much as 24 million vehicles are now involved. Stephanie was injured when her air bag exbloeded in 2013. Instant blindness followed by gushing blood. It was terrifying. Takata Vehicle Manufacturers are struggling to make enough air bags for millions of vehicles already rerecalled. And tens of millions more may still need to be recalled in the future. If to check if your car or truck is being recalled find an updated list on cbs news. Com. Time to show you some of the mornings head lines. The new york city New York Times reports he details with the missing consultant robert lechbsen. Iran maintains it did not know of lechbsens where abouts during recent negotiations that. Led to a prisoner swap between the u. S. And iran. Announcer Detroit Free Press say answer e expert in legionnaires is connecting the disease to the citys water condition problems. It is a reasonable link. Though she cant prove the link. Health Officials Say 70 of the people who contracted legionnaires during the recent flint water two weeks before their symptoms began. A listeria outbreak from dole packaged salads killed one in michigan while sending others to the hospital. The outbreak rigid t at a packaging plant in spring field ohio. Outbreaks in six states. The plant has been shut down. The independent of london reports the man convicted of murdering Meredith Kurcher say ss he was trying to sell her something before she died. Which bolted from a slaughter house only to be rounded up by police. Freddy will apparently now go do a farm. Reportedly named after Freddy Mercury the singer. About 22 after the hour now heres look at the weather for your weekend. Coming up. If you got a call asking for a Political Campaign contribution, look out. Your money may not be going where you think. And later, new changes to fix the diversity problem. Well break down the new system. Also we continue to monitor the first major blizzard of the year. Affected areas ahead. Morning saturday. Coming up, why that smart phone in your pocket is forcing change in the banking business. Also we preview tomorrows epic nfl faceoff. Tom brady versus Peyton Manning for what maybe be the last time. Well be right back. This is cbs this morning i wanted to project a warm image. We scientists are human too. So why not. You dont think Nietzsche O Kaku but you are very funny in the commercial. You do this for free. You are not going to get rich shooting a the commercials ill tell you that. What is the plan is move slowly across the night sky, then they suddenly stop, go backwards and that mystified the ancients. So retrograde is associated with uncertainty, confusion, doubt. Dont get married. Dont go embarking upon a business venturer. You believe that. As shakespeare said the fault there is not in our stars but in ourselves. And the due to the fact that mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system. The spol is the man with the wings and as mercury bypasses and swings by the earth it appears to go backwards. Say you are in a car, in the fast lane. You overtake a car in the slow lane and you look at the car it seems to go backside. It is an illusion. Twitter went down this week. The phone system went down. Some didnt get the date they were expecting. Stuff does seem to go wrong during mercury. How do you explain that. Well stuff goes wrong all the time. What can i say . Its just that reremember it during the Mercury Retrograde the time. This is a live look at washington, where a declaration of emergency is already in force as a blizzard blangtss the Nations Capital. Large part of the east to. Parts of washington very a foot of snow. That is epiic and think stale have another 14 hours of snow yet to come. Speaking of washington, by the end of last year, president ial campaigns and outside groups supporting them raised more than 600 Million Dollars between the candidates, party committees, Political Action committees and super pacs. That number is going to explode, funded in part by donations from individual americans. Money it can be confusing. Julianna goldman shows why it is important for donors to do their homework. Reporter christina and jim were paid on commission to call conservative voters. 35, 50, 75, a 00hundred. A thousand. Whatever you felt you could work out of them. Public records show it was paid 400 thousand by a Political Action committee called conservative strike force. He says one caller told her she was dying of cancer so she asked her supervisor for guidance. And he said well why didnt you tell him that this is an opportunity to give one last big donation. To give one last big donation before he dies . Yes. Also enlists on bhafrehalf of veterans, saying can strike force