In Northern Arizona. In Southern California rose parade spectators sporting jackets. Former Governor Cuomo has died. Remembered as the most influential liberal voice of his generation. Im enormously grateful to new york state for giving me and my family 12 years. Its more than i deserve. More than i ever dreamt of. More bodies recovered at the java sea air crash site. The hail mary. Not answered. The dream continues for the buckeyes. Marcus mariota the end zone. Beat down. This seasons flu epidemic is growing. The cdc says the virus has now spread in 36 states. L. A. County sheriffs bomb squad discovered a grenade in malibu. Still unclear what kind it is and how it got there. U2 front man bono wrote its not clear he will ever play guitar again after his recent bicycle accident. And all that matters. Taylor swift wears hats as a singer and songwriter but this christmas she also put on a santa hat for her fans. Adorable. On cbs this morning. These guys are on a mission right now. Its fun to be around. Its fun to be a part of. 5920 . Oh. I got to go. We got to go get ready. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Lets go places. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. Happy new year. It was everything i heard it could be. Thats a good way to start 2015. As you wake up in the west your travel plans for heading home this weekend could get hammered by severe weather. Soaking rains are hitting the south this morning. Violent storms move east across the country. The same system that brought rare snowfall to parts of the Desert Southwest is finding new strength in areas from dallas to nashville. Some people could see huge downpours and thunderstorms. Mar strassmann is in atlanta. To show us the power of this weather system. Mark, good morning. Good morning. Good morning to those watching in the west. Its cold and wet here in atlanta which could be a problem for the first wave of millions of travelers heading home for the holidays. Check out what could be on its way to the northeast. Many parts of the southwest were a mess. Snow and freezing temperatures caused dangerous road conditions. In new mexico cars moved slowly over snow covered highways. While snowplows worked to clear paths for traffic to follow. Some parts of Northern Arizona got over 12 inches of snow. North texas, roads were frozen over with black ice. This truck was stranded on the highway median after a crash. I went to slow down. When i hit my brakes went sideways and hit the rail over there and kind of spun all the way around it. Oklahoma city interstate 40 was shut down after several trucks and cars lost control. In nebraska ice chunks flowed down the Missouri River in omaha. Aaa estimates 99 million americans, and that is a record will be heading home this holiday season. 90 of them by car. One piece of good news gas prices are at a fiveyear low. Mark thank you. People in Southern California are thawing out from a rare winter chill. Many bundled up for the annual rose parade. A frinlgid 33 degrees. One degree above the record low set in 1952. Meteorologist danielle nyles. Good morning to our viewers in the west. One of the big stories is the cold air digging in. High temperatures today, only in the 20s and 30s in a lot of spots. You get close to the coastline, still chilly. Upper 40s in San Francisco for high temperatures today. Also tracking snow. Energy coming into the west coast will dive into the northern plains. May drop 6 to 12 inches right along the canadian border. Another storm will approach the Pacific Northwest on sunday. That brings areas of rain ramping up in intensity sunday morning. Changing to snow in the high terrain. Heavy downpours and flooding possible as we head into sunday. Rainfall totals are going to be topping out 1 to 3 inches in a lot of spots. Right at the coastline, we may see amounts over 2 inches. Norah, back to you. All right danielle, thank you. This morning, president obama is calling mario cuomo, quote, an unflinching voice for tolerance inclusiveness, fairness dignity and opportunity. The former new york governor died at age 82 thursday. The same day his son began his new term as governor. Cuomo was a child of immigrants who became one of americas leading liberal voices in the 1980s. He couldnt be here physically today, my father but my father is in this room. Just six hours after he paid homage to his father in his second inaugural speech the family announced its patriarch, mario cuomo, had died. Born in queens in 1932 cuomo excelled at baseball and was drafted by the pittsburgh pirates. Derailed by an injury cuomo returned to school. Earning a law degree, which opened the door for a career in public service. In 1982 he won his first term as new york state governor. I will perform the duties of the office. Reporter cuomo quickly rose to become a star within the democratic party. A gifted or tore he delivered the keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic National convention. In many ways we are a shining city on a hill. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this citys splendor and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the white house and the veranda of his ranch where everyone seems to be doing well. There is despair, mr. President , in the faces that you dont see, in the places that you dont visit, in your shining city. The publicity thrust cuomo into the National Spotlight and fueled speculation about a future run for president. But the harsh realities of campaigning held cuomo back. As he told cbs news in a 60 minutes interview. Theres something about the ordeal of the campaign. Theres something about the difficulty of it. The impediments that are set up. The excruciating quality, the attack on the psyche. He went into private practice after he lost reelection in 1984. His final appearance was in november celebrating his sons Election Night victory and a family legacy that continues to live on. You know our thoughts are with his family. He was married to his wife for more than 60 years, five kids 14 grandkids, you know, his father came from italy, started digging sewers and then had the Grocery Store in jamaica, queens. He gave a lot of credit to his father for teaching him the values he brought to the state of new york. I thought it was so interesting, there was a picture of his father and then the article about his son right next to it. It said during that inaugural speech, a very similar style to his dad also. Extraordinary legacy. All right. More bad weather in indonesia is slowing the recovery of air asia 8501. Still look for the plane and its black box recorders. Searchers recovered more than two dozen bodies. Allen pizzey is in surabaya indonesia. Where the first identified victims are going to their grieving families. Reporter experts have equipment to detect black box signals scheduled to join the hunt today but they need calm seas and the weather has been anything but good. In spite of bad weather, the success rate is improving. Another body plucked from the sea was brought ashore by the helicopter from the destroyer uss sampson. So far, the american warship crew has found six victims. The hope is the airliner will be found more or less intact and contain most of the passengers and crew still missing. More debris has been found. The focus of the investigation into what happened centers on retrieving the airliners black boxes. Nine search planes, many of them with metal detecting equipment, were scouring 8,000 square miles of the java sea. Search officials said the effort has now been narrowed down to about 10 of that. But there are in fact two search areas because wind waves and currents will have pushed bodies and debris on the surface away from the actual crash site. Relatives of the missing supported by volunteers made their way in small groups to the Crisis Center set up in a police compound to wait for bodies already here to be identified. Today, three victims including an 11yearold boy were handed back to their families. The bodies were identified by dental records and fingerprints as well as clothing and personal effects. The ceremony was short and simple. Prayers, speeches of condolence and then finally, the families could take their loved ones for burial and private grief. As for the crash itself, investigators are working on the theory the plane made a very very steam climb to avoid bad weather and then stalled. Anita. Allen, thank you. Were getting the first closeup view of the greek ferry that caught fire last weekend. Its arriving at the italian port. Authorities suspect there may be more bodies on board that havent been found yet. More than 400 people were rescued from the burning ship. At least 11 died. Two albanian soldiers were also killed trying to salvage the vessel. This Morning Police and city leaders in shanghai china are being blamed for a deadly stampede on new years eve. Victims families say officials failed to prepare for the massive crowds. 36 people died in the chaos just before midnight. Dozens of others were hurt in the crush of bodies. Investigators are trying to determine exactly what triggered the stampede. Jeb bush is sending a new sign that he wants to run for president. The former Florida Governor resigned all of his board memberships on new years eve. A spokeswoman says its a natural next step. Bush is leading recent polls of president ial candidates. The president s holiday vacation is kinding down this morning. President obama will leave hawaii this weekend and return to political reality in washington. 2015 could bring gridlock with the Republican Congress at odds with the white house. Chip reid is traveling with the president in honolulu. Chip, good morning. Well good morning. This has been a very leisurely vacation for the president with lots of time for golf and spending time on the beach with his family. But that pace will change dramatically when the president returns to washington and confronts the new Republican Congress. The white house has often said the president uses his vacations to recharge his batteries and he plans to use every bit of that stored energy in 2015. According to cbs news president ial historian douglas brinkley. Barack obamas an executive power president freed from the state jacket of a midterm election, ready to make the most out of his last two years in office. Reporter the president says he wants to work with the new Republican Congress on big issues like taxes, trade and infrastructure. But brinkley says the president s executive actions in the last few months on immigration, cuba and Climate Change for example suggest that cooperating with congress is unlikely. Hes starting to learn he could be like fdr and theodore roosevelt. Dont worry about congress. Just lay down these executive orders. Reporter Republican Leaders have said they plan to pass legislation the president opposes and dare him to use the veto. In six years, the president has vetoed only two bills. Far fewer than any other president in modern history. In a press conference before departing for hawaii he strongly suggested that could change. If republicans seek to take Health Care Away from people who just got it they will meet resistance from me. If they try to water down Consumer Protections we put in place in the aftermath of the financial crisis, i will say no. Reporter brinkley says the president s biggest worry this year is not the Republican Congress, its the supreme court, which is expected to rule on a key provision of the president S Health Care reform law. If that decision goes against the white house, it could gut the cornerstone of the president s domestic agenda and, of course, the president does not have a veto over the supreme court. Chip, thanks. Stocks are i here this morning on a first trading day of the new year. An impressive run with the dow up more than 7 . Also the dollar shot up in value last year and Oil Prices Fell dramatically. Yahoo finance columnist michael martoli is here. We always hear what goes up must come down. Weve had six years in a row of up, up up. Its hard to say exactly when or how much it might come down. Were kind of overdue for some kind of setback. In october, we had a very very brief but a little bit scary pullback, almost 10 . We rebounded right from there. I think most of the fundamentals which is kind of slow and steady u. S. Growth anyway very very profitable company, which encourages investors to throw money at stocks. Plentiful money around investors. Those things remain in place. It is good to keep in mind the markets been going up for 5 1 2 years. We still havent technically hit a correction as you mention. Theres some real trouble out there. Russia japan, italy, china slowing down. Does that catch up . The u. S. Keeps chugging along . The u. S. Growth which seems as if its set to accelerate. Obviously it seems as if the u. S. Is a little bit of a haven here from a lot of that global turmoil. For big companies, they cant avoid it. I think it could be a bigger issue for Financial Markets than for the u. S. Economy. The u. S. Economys not particularly dependent on exports and the rest of the world. The markets are a little bit more. Maybe were in for a phase when the economy here seems to do a bit better than is reflected in the stock market. Weve had years when that was the reverse. Oil prices have been great for the consumer. Everybodys driving home from visiting their family is going to see it at the pump. What does it mean for the economy . Its generally a good thing. I definitely think the benefit of Lower Energy Prices is far more of a good thing for consumers and even for businesses than it is a bad thing. Its like a tax cut. It largely is. Its not the most dramatic one. Its not like 30 years ago when we were more dependent on energy. I do think for businesses theres been a lot of investment in the middle of this country in oil and Gas Exploration and a lot of that capitals not going to get a good return if Oil Prices Stay where they are. For segments of the stock market, it could be somewhat of an issue. You mentioned staying where they are. Lets talk about wages. Do you think there could be some good news there . Most of the indicators are finally we should get decent wage growth. Lower than 6 unemployment. It seems as if were finally in that phase when the medium wage should have an upside relative than what it is been for a while. Thank you again. Historic new years moment for college football. Four teams with the chance. The new playoff system began with a blowout and an upset. With 19 seconds left. Endaround. Now a pass coming up. Spencer to the end zone. Did he get a foot down . Yes, touchdown it was a matchup of National Championship winning coaches and traditional powerhouse programs in the Second National semifinal. Sims rolls right, fires, intercepted. Despite an early lead and a late rally, alabama could not overcome three interceptions from blake sims. Jones waited until the last minute to let it fly. Ohio state, led by third string quarterback cordial jones, deniedy edied them the chance to win the championship. Buckeyes won. Oregon won by 40 today. Can you talk about oregon won by 40 . 5920. I got to go. We got to go get ready for that one. Mariota. Thinking fast. Makes a completion on the far side. 1,700 miles away in a matchup of two Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, this years winner routed last. Mariota, a green blur to the end zone. After a first close half Marcus Mariota and the oregon ducks capitalized on florida turnovers in the Third Quarter and ran away from fsu 5920. The loss marks the end of a 29game winning streak for Florida State and winstons likely played in his final game for the seminoles will likely declare for the nfl draft. For oregon they move on to the National Championship game against ohio state. In ten days. Im so proud of these guys here. For us to prepare all week and go out there and excel, i mean im just glad for these guys and we got one more to take care of. In the game last night, some of the commentators were pretty critical of the Florida State players and said they gave up in the second hatch oflf of the game and a number of the players left without shaking hands. My son at 8 45 we said its time to go to bed. He said maybe theyll be a comeback. I said, theres no comeback. After baylor the rest of the evening. That was the debate. I washed all edwatched all of it. 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