Transcripts For WUSA CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 2013

Transcripts For WUSA CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 20130208

This postman delivers a lesson in happiness. It was honestly his example that kind of caught taught me its not what you do in life, its how you do it. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening, the director of the National Weather Service Calls it a very dangerous situation. Two storm systems one from the west, the other from the south are colliding right now over the northeast. It is a classic noreaster carrying three feet of snow and wind gusts as high as 70 miles an hour. Major transportation hubs are closing. Widespread Power Outages are expected. We have a team of correspondents on this breaking story but first well go to our weather consultant david bernard. David, wheres the storm headed . Reporter well, lets take a look at the radar, scott. When we do that, we can see those two pieces of the storm that were referring to, the main low is here south of long island, but here comes that second piece, and thats getting trained into the low and thats going to cause the storm to continue to strengthen during the overnight hour. Heres the storm track. As we go overnight and by saturday 7 00 a. M. The worst of the blizzard will be in southeast new england, things will begin improving in new jersey and also the new york metropolitan area and it looks like by late in the day everybody should gradually begin to see some improvement. Pelley and how much snow well, our accumulation map has shifted a little bit during the day today but, again, were targeting southeastern new england where we see the purples and the pink. Thats where we can see one to two feet of snow and its not out of the question an isolated spot may see more than that. Still, six to 12 inches will be possible back towards the south and also back toward the west. Pelley david, thank you very much. As you just saw, boston is ground zero. It may get as much as three feet of snow. Terrell brown has found that travel there is coming to a halt by sea, air, and land. Reporter theres no escaping the blizzard in boston. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has ordered all cars in this state off the road. The rate of snowfall and reduced visibility during the evening rush newshour particular will make safe travel nearly impossible. Train to boston reporter Amtrak Service was shut down between new york and boston this afternoon. Come on, guys, walk. Reporter jacqueline polnicks flight to cleveland was canceled. When we met her she was desperate to catch a train to get her three kids home. Its just been really stressful trying to figure out how to maneuver the transportation system. Reporter it could be days until flights resume at bostons logan airport. Planes out of new yorks airports are grounded, too, creating problems that extend beyond the blizzard. Edward freni overseas operations at bostons airport. Other airports are being affected by this. It takes time for the airlines to relink their crews with the aircraft once they start to get their systems back in order. Reporter and, scott, the wind is picking up now along with that snow. Anyone caught violating the states emergency ban on driving could face a 500 fine or a year in jail. Pelley well, terrell, new yorkers are watching with two bad memories in mind Hurricane Sandy, which was just 103 days ago, and the last blizzard two years ago that paralyzed the nations largest city. Heres jim axelrod. Reporter tonight new york city is take nothing chances. 1,700 snowplows have been deployed, 450 salt spreaders, 65 frontend loaders. Mayor michael bloomberg. Its not going to be a Hurricane Sandy but that doesnt mean you cant get badly hurt or killed if youre not careful. Reporter the devastation from Superstorm Sandy is a fresh memory, and so is the blizzard two years ago that dumped 20 inches here. The streets took days to clear, hindering emergency vehicles and city buses. Were just basically stuck on this block, you know . Reporter g. P. S. Tracking devices on garbage trucks will allow new yorkers to punch their addresss into a web page and track when their block will be plowed. 6,100 sanitation workers are now mobilized. 400 more than two years ago. Union president Harry Nespoli said they just started to catch their breath after sandy. I wouldnt say theyre tired. They feel it, they extended themselves for sandy 12 hour shifts for 60 days. Reporter and here we go again. Yes, and thats why they call new yorks sanitation men new yorks strongest. Reporter new york city has roughly 6,300 miles of road. Thats enough to drive from here to los angeles and back. Scott, the city has 250,000 tons of salt available to help keep all that roadway clear. Pelley jim, thank you, Superstorm Sandy also knocked down defenses against storm surge all along the coast. Tonight, with wind gusts of 70 miles an hour coming in from the atlantic, a lot of folks are casting a wary eye on the sea. Seth doane is with them. This is supposed to be a high wall. All of this is leveled. Where is the ocean going to cogo . Its going to go right over it . The sea berm that used to protect franca costas neighborhood was damaged by hurricane i lean in 2011 and destroyed by Superstorm Sandy last october. Shes angstly watching the ocean. I need to come back in a couple hours and see where it is. Keep your eye on the water . Thats the main thing. I have to keep my eye on where the water. Is. Reporter when sandy hit, a wall of water nearly ten feet high washed through costas Staten Island neighborhood. Her house was one of a handful left standing. My house got destroyed. Theres eight feet on the outside and six feet on the inside. Reporter thanks to neighbors and friends, Flood Insurance and fema, this 47yearold legal secretary was able to rebuild. I just got back in my house in january and now a couple of weeks later were being hit by a blizzard, noreaster. A blizzard wouldnt be so bad, thats just snow, but the noreaster you have to worry about the ocean coming over the berm wall again. Reporter the storm surge from many this blizzard is forecast to be just two to five feet but with little natural protection flooding is a real concern. How many of these storms am i going to have to go through in a couple years that maybe everything may get destroyed again. When that . Am i going to have the energy to rebuild again and the finances and to go through the whole thing again is just mind bloging. Reporter there are just three homeowners left living on costas street where there once were 35. Scott, there are no evacuation orders so they say theyll stay and watch over what they have left. Pelley going to be a long night. Seth, thank you very much. Snow is also a factor in that manhunt in southern california. Police have expanded the search for christopher dorner, a fired cop who is wanted for a series of revenge killings. His targets are Police Officers and their families. Dorners pickup truck was found in flames in big bear and thats where ben tracy begins our coverage. Reporter a foot of new snow added to the challenge for search teams who had to be brought in on armored personnel carriers. The manhunt targeted an eight square mile area where christopher dorners torched pickup was found yesterday. John mcmahon is the San Bernardino county sheriff. Well search until we discover he left the mountain or we find him. One of the two. Reporter deputies have searched 400 cabins and will check 200 more around the big bear ski resort. The snow has grounded police helicopters. What do your instincts tell you . Does this feel like this may have been a diversion . Were going to search primarily up in the Mountain Area to make sure theres a lot of cabins that are up there that are abandoned. He want to make sure he didnt find out a place to hide for the night. Reporter dorners rampage began sunday when police say he shot and killed two people in irvine, including the daughter of a retired Police Captain who defended dorner in disciplinary hearings. Earlier police say he exchanged gun fire with two officers in corona, california, when he tried to approach them. Later he ambushed two riverside policemen at a stoplight. One died. Dorners trail has been cold since his pickup was discovered. Today u. S. Marshals in la pal ma california, searched the home of his mother. Police remain on high alert in los angeles. Dorner targeted several officers in a manifesto posted on his facebook page. He boasted he could outsmart pursuers. He wrote i will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance and Survival Training ive been giving. If dorner is somewhere around here, he may need those survival skills, scott. Were expecting several more inches of snow and the temperatures here are already in the low 20s. Pelley ben, thank you. Correspondent john miller is a former Senior Commander in the l. A. P. D. John, why did he go to big bear . Well, he didnt go there by accident. Thats not a road you make a wrong turn on. If youre going to go up that mountain, its because you intend to. Theres one way in and one way out. Ive been there many times. He didnt end where he wanted to. It appears he broke the axle on that truck. His family had property up there before. Hes familiar with that area if when he was young sore it may be that he intended to break into one of the empty vacation homes and hide out, seek refuge. Its cold and getting colder. Or it may be that he wanted to get into one of those houses, find keys and get a car theyre not looking for all over five counties. Thats why that search was very important and why it unfolded quickly and why theyre still trying to figure out which way he went because that tells us about his next move. Pelley the hunt continues. John, thanks very much. In the internet age anyone can be targeted by hackers, turns out even former president s. Today a web site posted emails that were hacked from the account of dorothy bush cook, the daughter of president george h. W. Bush. In some of them, her brother, george w. Bush, wrote about their fathers recent health issues. The family issued a statement calling this an outrageous breach of privacy. The secret service is investigating. There is an update on malala, the 15yearold crusader that the taliban tried to murder. Weve got an answer on what caused the lights to go out at the super bowl. And well take you to one of the worlds great spectacles. Meet 80 million pilgrims when the cbs evening news continues. Suffer from is bigger than we think. Like the flu. 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Reporter from every corner of india and by every conceivable mode of transport pilgrims are making their way to prayag, the holiest place in the hindu world for the biggest celebration on the hindu calendar, the maha kumbh mela held only once every 12 years. Born by their shared faith, they come here to purify themselves by bathing in the ganges, the river that nurtured indias 5 civilization. Om kumar is a wheat farmer from central india who told us he walked 300 miles to get here. Why did you come from so far away . He made the journey, he said, because the water has special power. For hindus, the ganges suzuki a sacred river and they believe that bathing here during the kumbh mela will wash away their signs. The pilgrims have set up camp in a sprawling city of tents complete with banks, its own police force and traffic jams. But on sunday, which hindus consider the luckiest day for bathing, they expect the number to have swelled to 40 million people, the size of new york, london, and paris combined. Leading the crowds are indias colorful holy men. One of them is mahant ravindranand sarswati who helped explain hindu beliefs, including reincarnation. Thats the start of life. This is a truth. Understand . Reporter most of the pilgrims make do with basic conditions, but for a wealthy few, theres this luxury tented camp where one of the guests is an Indian Princess who normally lives in a palace. Its something that binds you all together. That faith in the ganges, in your gods as many as they are we are one. Reporter a ritual thats been celebrated by hindus for thousands of years in a country of stunning contrast still that has power to draw the faithful. Holly williams, cbs news, prayag india. Pelley well, americas biggest festival, the super bowl was blacked out. We can tell you why now in just a moment. 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