People talk about his generous spirit. Truly a symbol of peace and forgiveness as well. We have heard reports that he was with family and friends at his house last night when he passed away. Some close Family Friends were also in johannesburg in south africa when he did. Vinita nair has a look back at Nelson Mandelas life and legacy. And one wonders what must be passing through mr. Mandelas mind at this moment. Reporter after 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela walked into freedom, against all odds the leader of rebellion against south africas white apartheid government became the leader of national unity. Mandelas decades long rebellion transformed him from a convicted trader into a Freedom Fighter and international hero. I have fought very firmly against apartheid on the nation. Reporter mandela was born into approved family. He support into a privileged family. He supported nonviolence to bring about change. He became a lawyer and opened the first south African Law Firm to defend blacks who were forced from their land, but in 1960 mandela turned militant when 69 black protesters were massacred. Many use fear, but it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and nonviolence. Reporter mandela lived up to his tribal name troublemaker repeatedly challenging authority. He was convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and sentenced to life in prison on south africas infamous robin island. He was cut off from the outside world, but mandelas message and his movement endured. His wife winnie became his unofficial ambassador. Finally in 1990 Nelson Mandela was free. So help me god. Reporter mandela became south africas first black president and crafted a new constitution. He preached reconciliation and never spoke of retribution. Mandela became a larger than life figure with rock star status, celebrities and World Leaders came calling. He won the Nobel Peace Prize and traveled the world. Mandela and his wife winnie divorced in 1996. He later remarried. Age eventually slowed him down. He retired from public life continued to welcome dignitaries from around the world to his home. In june he was rushed to the hospital with a lung infection and stayed for three months. Family members say he fought to stay alive. He eventually went home but remained in critical condition. Nelson mandela was 95 years old. Vinita nair, cbs news. He could have been a bitter man, but instead he became one of the worlds most generous souls. Well have more on the life and the legacy of Nelson Mandela a little later on in our show. But for now we turn to some other news, the d. C. Police officer charged in a shocking child porn case could be released to his waldorf home with electronic monitoring by tomorrow. That is the ruling today by a federal Court Magistrate judge, but the order has been stayed for 24 hours to give prosecutors time to appeal. Scott broom is live outside a federal court in d. C. Now. Reporter of course, 32 yearold marc washington, the Police Officer charged in this case, lives in waldorf, maryland, in a neighborhood filled with kids. People there are obviously concerned about this because he has been charged with using his Police Powers to coerce a 15 yearold girl to submit to sexually explicit naked photos. When the camera of marc washington was seized early monday, photos were found dating back to december of 2011 prosecutors said today, among them pictures of a reluctant 15 yearold southeast washington runaway who prosecutors said was coerced into being photographed naked by washington sunday night after he claimed he needed the shots to identify her if she every ran away again. The photos ever ran away again. The photos were sexually explicit and washington tried to delete them from his camera, but investigators were able to recover the files. The prosecutor also said there is ample evidence washington has done it before. At least three other unidentified victims appeared to be on the camera including an unknown girl photographed on her bed in april of 2012. He used his position of authority to commit the most egregious crimes the prosecutors said noting photos were taken while washington was on duty in full uniform and armed. Washington is single and lives with his father in this waldorf townhome. His defense attorney argued for release before trial saying theres no potential danger now, that washington is stripped of his badge and gun and after he turned himself in after first being questioned and released in the case. Washington is an iraq war veteran with an unblemished military and Police Record his defense attorney said. It came out at this detention hearing this afternoon the judge saying a search warrant was signed a few hours ago to search washingtons Police Locker and his cell phone. Well know more of the results of that search in 24 hours or so. In the meantime the judge did say he is satisfied without a badge and gun that washington could be released on home detention, but again the judge stayed his own order for 24 hours so prosecutors could appeal. So for the moment, for the next 24 hours, washington will stay in federal detention. Reporting live at the federal courthouse downtown scott broom, wusa9. Tonight metropolitan Police Department is investing another officer for possibly having a relationship with a 15yearold girl. So is there a bigger problem with illegal behavior on the d. C. Police force . Bruce leshan brings us that story at 6 00. A blast of arctic air making its way east, denver saw temperatures below 0 this morning. Crews are using liquid deicers to keep the roads safe, but it starts to freeze when that mercury dips below 15 degrees. Duluth, minnesota, has seen over 2 feet of snow from this system. At least five people have died on the roads as a result of the storm. That system will have an impact on us sunday and first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us now from the weather center. When are we going to start to see these temperatures drop . Tomorrow and big time saturday and sunday. Weve issued a yellow alert tomorrow for rain and showers, both communities wet and a red alert on sunday. Lets start with a wide look at the radar. You can see where the snow and ice is all the way down to dallas, going to move intoing rock soon. The white is the move into little rock soon. The white is the snow. The pink is the mix. Were just looking at rain that will roll across the mountains and get in here late tonight and especially tomorrow morning. Theres the dividing line, the cold air and warmer air. The cold air is very shallow in here. Thats why youll see sleet and freezing rain because the entire column of air above us is not going to be below freezing. Right now we have rain and showers back to the west, most owerstaying in the mountains hagerstown, cumberland west until 10 00 or 11 00 tonight. Temperaturewise, 64 ithersburg, leesburg, just about everywhere, 64 in andrews, little cooler by the water, 53, still not bad, but look at this cold air. Its 26 now in chicago. This is the last area of the warm air in the east. It will go away tomorrow and tomorrow night. So yellow alert friday, red alert sunday, wet commutes tomorrow and turning cooler. Dress for the 40s tomorrow. When you leave, it will be in the 50s. Saturday cold air moves in. Sunday morning snow and mix, mix all day d. C. North and west. Well come back and talk more about that in a moment. If we are going to call ourselves the land of opportunity, theres got to be some opportunity here in washington and in hundreds of cities across the country fast food workers walked off the job and protested demanding better pay. This was the scene outside the air and space museum, but as Danielle Nottingham explains, the industry argues bigger paychecks could mean fewer jobs. Reporter fast food employees took to the streets from los angeles to new york, chicago to tampa. What do we want . Reporter workers looking to supersize the minimum wage. You cant survive off 7. 50 an hour. Reporter protesters are asking for 15 an hour. In the Nations Capital tamithea butler makes 8. 25 at mcdonalds and says its not enough to raise two children. I just need this to happen because my kids deserve a better life than i have. Reporter groups representing the restaurants say labor unions are organizing these rallies and these protesters do not represent their workers. There has been more people being paid to demonstrate in front of restaurants, very few workers actually walking out. Reporter the National RestaurantAssociation Says the majority of their minimum wage workers are parttime employees there to earn extra cash and raising the federal minimum wage would only lead to layoffs. You end up with a lot of people have that parttime jobs now to having no jobs and being unemployed tomorrow. Reporter the workers have support from the white house and the senate could vote on a federal minimum wage hike before the end of the year, but it has little chance in the republican controlled house. Danielle nottingham, cbs news, washington. Now the federal minimum wage hasnt been raised since 2009. Its 7. 25 an hour. A fulltime worker would earn about 15,000 a year. We are still covering that breaking news that Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95. We want to go to our phone lines right now. Dr. Joe harris, Howard University professor, who was actually involved with a program that gave mandela an Honorary Degree joins us now by phone. Sir, are you there . Dr. Harris . Yes. Here i am. Tell us what you remember about his trip here to the United States. Well, in 1994 Nelson Mandela was invited to Howard University to receive an honorary doctorate degree and in his acceptance speech he asked that Howard University become involved in the development of south africa. As a result of that, the then president of howard, h. Patrick schweigert, invited about 20 some of us from faculty, trustees and others to go to south africa, meet with different people in the country to follow up on the commitment to help develop south africa. One of the things that was especially exciting about this was that Nelson Mandela had studied at the university of ft. Hayre and thats pretty similar to Howard University. So he was familiar with howard and the extent to which howard had anticipated in African Education the same as the university of ft. Hayre has participated in African Education in east and central africa. That was a very smooth relationship for the two universities and i went there as a result set up an office, Howard University, to help put in place collaboration between our university and university at howard. The bottom line of that was that we at howard established what we call the South African Research and archive al project to study the Antiapartheid Movement in the United States. Dr. Harris, what would you say is the legacy, the dual legacy, of Nelson Mandela both in south africa and in this country . And i guess im asking that specificically because you sort of had a birds eye view of what he was able to do in the country and what he was able to create by extension, by reaching out to Howard University to say we want there to be some role here in what happens with south africa going forward. Well, we were very excited when he came because everyone knew about him. In response to what you just raised i think a way to put that would be this. Of the first four recipients of the nobel prize award the first two were given to African Americans and the next two were given to south off cans. That was bishop tutu South Africans. That was bishop tutu and the first one had been albert latulei. Later on, of course, Nelson Mandela would receive one and i say that because those representatives came from countries that had very similar experiences with black people and the whole question of the struggle for freedom and justice rang clear among all of us and weve felt that very deeply at Howard University and were very pleased to go over to try to establish collaboration with them. The other thing is we were very much attracted to others who gave up the fight for racial justice. So we have those ties and as one South African has written those were the ties that bind africans in africa in that case south africa and blacks in the United States. Across the world, dr. Harris, mandela might be seen by some as a moral authority with sort of a great concern for truth. How so . A great concern for what . Truth. Truth . Yes. Across the world some might see him as sort of a moral authority and someone who has a great concern for truth. How would you see that . How was he that . How was he someone who was someone of great moral authority . He was great moral authority because he came from fairly, you know, disadvantaged situation in south africa, but always remained committed to his own people. In fact, hes well known as the madeva. That is the kind of honorific calling and commitment for freedom and justice for people and to the extent that he came out of that kind of background and also being very much aware of what a lot of people do not know is thats where gandhi influenced his nonviolent concept. Coming to the global scene where he had protested and ultimately spent 27 years with unwavering support to that commitment to truth and to liberty and justice for all people, certainly it was something that we here at Howard University and African Americans generally as well as blacks could relate to. Dr. Harris, weve been talking about Nelson Mandela for some time because hes been in poor health and weve got some images to bring up now from just outside of his home in johannesburg and you can see a mix of people, White South Africans, black South Africans. You were able to go to south africa and witness this with your own eyes, this country that had been fractured for so long by apartheid and it was coming undone as this first black south off South African was coming president. Can you speak a little bit about how someone who could have endured 27 years as a political prisoner could emerge and not be bitter, be someone generous of spirit and be someone who brought both black and White South Africans together which we see right now . One of the things ill say about that, he was a man who took the long view, spent a long time in jail. We once heard him speak to that in his book the long walk. He spooks about it at some length, that he was not favor he speaks about it at some length that he was not favoring on the belief, that ultimately blacks and whites were to live together. I can recall seeing him on tv when he was released from jail and he came out very pleasant. You would not have thought that you were looking at a great man, a grit iconic figure who had great iconic figure who had spent so many years in prison but being ushered out by whites and he knew what the story was and only he could keep the country on solid ground. And i think when you think about truth and reconciliation, the group that interviewed those individuals who had abused south africa so long, you think about that, his commitment to truth and his commitment to the struggle i think one cannot overemphasize. Dr. Harris, are you still there . Yes, im here. Okay. I guess we want to thank you so much for your time and for sharing your sentiments and what you were able to witness while you were over in south africa. I know that president obama is expected to speak here in a very short time giving some remarks about the loss of Nelson Mandela and what it means to the world. I want to share very quickly what some of the United States president s in the past have said about mandela because he had met with several of them during his time when he came to the United States. In 1990 george l. W. Bush called mandela a man who embodies the hopes of millions at a meeting at the white house. Of course, there is that infamous picture of bill clinton with mandela in 1998 when clinton went to visit mandela and mandela showed the president the jail cell where he spent 17 years under incarceration by the government. It was a total of 20 years in prison. In 2002 president george w. Bush awarded mandela with a president ial medal of freedom and president obama met with mandela once back when he was a senator in 2005. So right now as we await for the president to speak about the passing of Nelson Mandela. I know it will be some heartfelt remarks from the president because when you think about it, its this nations first African American president offering sentiments about south africas first black president , clearly tied together by their roles in history and connected a number of times in person, the obama family connecting with mandelas family in south africa. Ag