>> brown: good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm james brown and this is our western edition. more people may be iold in a scandal that has put a national spotlight on harassment in the workplace. in this case the workplace is the national football league where richie incognito of the miami dolphins is accused of bullying his teammate jonathan martin. today an inspect investigator said two other dolphin players also harassed martin and there were other victims. here's anna werner. >> reporter: miami dolphins offensive lineman jonathan martin left the team in october claiming he had been bullied and harassed by fellow teammate richie incognito. ct, harassed almost daily. not only by incognito but two other players as well: offensive lineman john jerry and mike pouncey. that martin was taunted on a persistent basis with sexually explicit remarks about his sister and his mother and at times ridiculed with racial insults. and it concluded the pattern of harassment extended to others. that another young offensive lineman-- not named for confidentiality reasons-- was: incognito defended himself in an interview in november. >> this isn't an issue about bullying. this is an issue of my and john's relationship where i may -- i've taken stuff too far and i didn't know it was hurting him. >> reporter: the report found incognito and the others did not intend to drive martin from the team. but martin told the investigators he had been bullied in middle and high school and his experience with the dolphins led him to contemplate suicide on two occasions last year. in a text message to his mother in april last year, he wrote: >> reporter: now, today in a statement, incognito's lawyer said the report is replete with errors, that martin was never bullied by richie incognito or any member of the dolphins offensive line. representatives for john jerry and mike pouncey did not respond to our request for comment. james? >> brown: anna, how much responsibility does the report place on dolphins management? >> well, the report concluded that head coach joe philbin was not aware of any mistreatment and the authors also said that they found no evidence of any knowledge that the dolphins -- at the dolphins front office, either, but the report does allege a position coach jim turner participated in one incident involving that unnamed player, james. >> pelley: more to come for sure. anna, thank you so much. well, the latest winter storm to hit the east is gone, but not forgotten. it left more than a foot of snow in some places and is blamed for at least 24 deaths. icy roads led to a wreck involving dozens of cars in pennsylvania and 389,000 homes and businesses are still without power. we have two reports, first, terrell brown in kearny, new jersey, where they got 15 inches of snow. terrell? >> reporter: james, more snow has fallen in this town over the last two weeks than it normally gets in an entire winter and crews are running out of places to put it. the snow is heavy, wet and exhausting to move. this s.u.v. has been buried for three days. what are you guys doing? >> just trying to get red of it, throwing it on sidewalks, people's bark yards, throwing it on people's cars. it's ridiculous what's going on. >> reporter: icy roads narrowed by mounds of snow made driving dangerous. 30 people were hurt in the series of accidents that shut down the pennsylvania turnpike today. heather pasco's car was hit by a truck. >> i looked in my rear-view mirror, i saw him and i thought i was done. i mean, i thought i was done. the entire back end of my car is gone. >> reporter: staying home could be risky, too, as dozens of roofs collapsed across the northeast. the kearny fire department was responding to its third cave-in. >> normally the salt is filled up to here. >> reporter: public works suspect gerry kerr showed us what's left of his salt supply. if there were another big storm are you in trouble? >> yes. a lot of trouble. we'd have to physically close streets for the safety of the general public. >> reporter: four and a half feet of snow this winter has forced new york city to add $35 million to its cleanup budget and philadelphia with 55 inches has spent nearly twice what it had planned. eight inches of snow could fall in portions of the northeast tomorrow. james, temperatures next week could hit the 50s, possibly melting some of this mess. >> brown: pleasant news to many ears i'm sure, terrell, thank you so much. most of the power outages we mentioned are in south carolina and mark strassmann is there. mark? >> reporter: james, aiken, south carolina, is known for its stately trees but the ice storm toppled and splintered hundreds of them. and 50,000 people in this county still have no power. aiken looks like a tornado barreled through. one quarter of the 205,000 people without power in south carolina live in this county. a half inch of ice adds 500 pounds of weight to power lines and tree limbs. this area was caked in an inch of ice. governor nikki haley. >> what we are seeing here is worse than i think we would see with a hurricane. we have seen how tough and how damaging ice can be. >> reporter: 152,000 georgians are also without power. in north carolina, the state highway patrol received 200 calls for help overnight. two drivers were killed there as they tried to help another motorist who spun out on ice. by midday, temperatures punched into the 50s, the thaw came just in time for maria and george kritzas. their aiken restaurant, the acropolis, lost power for 43 hours. you must have been starting to get worried. >> very worried. very worried. the loss of food and the loss of the business. one day is good but you don't want to be closed too long. >> reporter: with all these downed trees and lines, maria kritzas' house still doesn't have power and james, she thinks she'll be living by candlelight and extra blankets at least until monday. >> brown: mark strassmann, thank you so very much. while the east shivers, the west is having a heat wave.nistratiog some help. $160 million in disaster relief. and nearly all of california is in drought. in 61% of the state it is extreme or exceptional. bill whitaker tells us farmers are taking drastic steps. how many acres will you have to leave fallow because you have no water? >> possibly as much as 600 acres. >> reporter: in a normal year, joe dell bosque's fields grow lush with almonds, cherries and melons. but with reservoirs in record low it is state for the first first time is cutting off water to growers in the central valley farm belt. >> we are expecting to receive no water from the department of the interior. >> reporter: no water? >> no water at all. >> reporter: the fresno area normally gets about 11.5 inches of rain a year. last year it got three. >> it would take some 45 to 60 days of rainfall in northern california to substantially relieve the current circumstances. >> reporter: martin mcintyre is local manager of the water system. california's 54-year-old infrastructure is straining to meet the demands of farms, cities, the environment. >> we need to modernize it, update it, and in some cases expand it. >> reporter: dell bosque managed to save some water from last year, that will go to save his cash crop, almonds. but he won't be growing melons, his 600 fallow acres normally would produce 600,000 boxes of melons. >> when we start harvesting here, we'll have up to 100 people working in this field. and if we don't plant this field, those people are out of work. california produces 50% of the nation's fruits, nuts, and vegetables. and that source of food is in danger right now and it's going to cause shortages of food and rising prices. >> reporter: dell bosque is a second generation farmer in this valley. he fears he'll be the last. >> next year, if we have another dry year like this, where we get no water, i think i'll just be hanging it up. >> reporter: behind me is the l.a. river and we are in extreme drought. but up there in fresno county, where dell bosque is farming, it is even drier. in that one county the top agricultural producer in the country, 250,000 acres will lay fallow because of the drought and, james, that's an area bigger than manhattan. >> brown: bill whitaker, thank you very much. the state department said today it is creating a new diplomatic post-- ambassador to the arctic region. secretary of state john kerry said the arctic is the last global frontier and the u.s. needs to give it greater attention. well, at the winter olympics today the u.s. moved into a tie with norway for first place in the medal count. both have 13. the netherlands and russia have 12. hockey takes center stage or center ice, if you will, tomorrow. kind of a rematch of one of the greatest games ever played. mark phillips is in sochi. >> reporter: from the blurry past, the images of a famous victory endure. >> can you believe it? yes! >> reporter: the miracle on ice, the shock win by a bunch of american college kids over the supposedly invincible soviet union at lake placid in 1980. now the u.s. olympic team is on russian ice and they'll face the russians tomorrow. not only that, the u.s. team-- like all the big hockey teams here-- is loaded with n.h.l. players. the pros have made olympic hockey major league and a much more even contest. minnesotan blake wheeler. if you win this time, it is a good thing? it won't be a miracle. >> well, it would be a miracle to us. it will feel the same. >> there's ovechkin with the shot! he scores! >> reporter: the russians, led by washington capital star alex ovechkin, want revenge. yet this could be the last time this high olympic drama takes place. the n.h.l. is threatening to pull out of future olympic games. to come here, the league has to shut down at the height of its season so its assets can play for their national teams. it risks its multimillion dollar stars for nothing but good will instead of full arenas like this, you have rinks that look like this and in some markets it's tough getting the people back. in fact, it's kind of like shutting down a department store for christmas. n.h.l. deputy commissioner bill dailey told us what the fans like the team owners don't. within the hockey culture it's a big deal. within the business culture not so much? >> i think that's fair. certainly from the n.h.l.'s perspective there's nothing kind of in it from a business perspective. >> reporter: yet the players love it and so does that newfound hockey enthusiast, the shifty left winger vladimir putin. he may be putting on the last big league olympic hurrah. >> score! >> reporter: mark phillips, cbs news, so >> brown: the talented mark phillips. the flu is taking a heavy toll in california. did g.m. know about a dangerous defect years before it announced a recall? and how did america's next jet fighter wind up so far over budget when the western edition of the "cbs evening news" continues. ♪ [ alarm sound for malfunctioning printer ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where you've learned a thing or two. 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(laughs) truth is, mr. o'connor can be a bit of a drudge. >> it means you don't know what you're doing. >> reporter: but the 70-year-old vietnam vet says he's not here to entertain his students. >> it drives me crazy when people say school should be fun. it's nice if it could, but you can't make school fun. >> reporter: and for years the kids thought that's all there was too him. until last november when senior pat mcgoldrick learned they didn't know the half of it. pat was in charge of a student blood drive and had just come here to children's hospital, los angeles, for the a meeting. he said it was weird. whenever he told someone he went to st. francis high school they all said "oh! you must know jim o'connor! isn't he wonderful?" wonderful? >> what? it was disbelief, really. almost like kind of finding this alter ego he has. >> reporter: inside the blood donor center pat found a plaque listing all the top blood donors at the hospital, including the record holder: jim o'connor. then he learned something even more unbelievable. that whenever mr. o'connor isn't torturing kids with calculus, he's on a whole other tangent-- cuddling sick babies. >> come on, you can talk to me. >> reporter: three days a week for the past 20 years jim has volunteered here, stepping in when parents can't to hold, feed, and comfort their children. nurse erin schmidt says he's invaluable. >> they tend to calm for him. they tend to relax with him. they fall asleep with him. >> i just like them and relate to them somehow. is that a smile? >> reporter: jim's never been married, he has no kids of his own but he has fallen hard for these babies. >> i don't want to see them alone. i can't do that. >> reporter: you're not a tough guy at all. >> i know. but don't tell my students! (laughs) if you do the calculations -- >> reporter: sometimes you think you know someone but you don't have the slightest. sometimes you think you're learning calculus, but the real lesson is life. >> i've always, like, respected him, but now it's even a different degree, really, to the point where i try to emulate him. he's the epitome of a man of service. >> what you doing? >> reporter: steve hartman, "on the road" in los angeles. >> brown: jim o'connor, synonymous with love. that's the "cbs evening news." scott will be along sunday on "60 minutes." i'm james brown and thank you for joining us. your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. today we're here to talk about the resources keeping more and more california farmers and families up at night is the lack of water. >> president obama comes to california with a promise to help ease our drought crisis as bay area farmers show us the severity of their suffering. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm elizabeth cook. president obama was in the central valley today and saw firsthand just how bad the drought has impacted farmers. as a result, he is pledging millions of dollars in federal aid to help those who have been hit hardest. 100million goes to help with livestock. another 60 million to food banks. and that's just some of the aid. the president says so goes california, so goes the rest of the nation. >> california's our biggest economy. california is our biggest agriculture producer. so what happens here matters to every working american right down to the cost of food that you put on your table. >> the president avoided getting into the state's water politics, which frequently pits cities against farmers. kpix 5's len ramirez is in morgan hill with farmers in dire need of rain and money. len. >> reporter: elizabeth, the drought effectare real and bad for some families. we talked to a woman today whose family has been ranching in morgan hill since 1917. she is a third generation cattle rancher but she may be the last in her family because of the drought. >> if it was raining, it was a normal season, you couldn't come up this road. >> reporter: janet isn't worried about the road to the top of her morgan hill ranch but she is losing sleep and about

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