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A very powerful and disruptive noreaster in midmarch up and down the eastern seaboard. You see blizzard warnings in bright red from pennsylvania stretching all the way up into maine. Thats where a combination of strong winds and heavy snow will create some poor travel conditions as we head through tuesday. Heres a look at the timeline. Moving its way up the coast, tricky part of the forecast is the rain snow line arrives right on the 95 corridor, right through the big cities, d. C. , philly, and boston. That means the trickiest forecast where the most people live. Big snow off to the north and west moving quickly and departing by wednesday morning. Heres a look at the snow totals. Again, the bigger snow up to two feet just north and west of most of those major cities. Heres a look at a few of them. Boston at 6 to 12. In the new york area at 12 to 18. Philadelphia at 8 to 12, and d. C. , a few inches of snow but much bigger totals just west of all these cities. And the wind is part of the story. As this deepens and undergoes bombogenesis, well see gusts top 60 miles per hour. So Power Outages will be coming along with this, as well as some coastal flooding. Anthony . Eric fisher, thanks. Michelle miller in cleveland has a look at preparations for the big storm. Reporter road crews are working 12hour shifts, racing to stay ahead of the massive to two feet of snow. Theyve already prepped roads with a chemical snow melt. Did you really think you were going to get away scotfree . I was hoping. Reporter and this afternoon rich deszcz loaded up his salt truck to head out on his tenmile route. The salt on the road from the brine will melt the snow by the time we get out there. Its going to help us out. Reporter an arctic blast has surfaced in recent days from the midwest to the east coast. This house in webster, new york, was entombed in ice. The chill is far cry from the mild winter so far. The state of ohio has spent just 63. 3 Million Dollars on its snow and ice operations budget, 15 million less than a year ago. Its been at least 146 years since chicago has seen no measurable snowfall in january or february, but thats expected to change tonight with at least five inches here. The cold spell is threatening the Cherry Blossoms in washington, d. C. The trees are on the verge of peak bloom. Bitter cold and wet, heavy snow sitting on the flower buds could kill them. And with a little bit more than a week before spring, anthony, this is not even the latest blizzard the hit ohio. Last year nearly a foot of snow fell in the second week of april. Michelle miller in cleveland, thanks, michelle. The storm is already causing trouble for travelers. Transportation correspondent kris van cleave is at Laguardia Airport in new york. Its my fathers birthday, and its a pain in the neck. You know, its making me so upset. Reporter this woman is like thousands trying to beat winters brutal last gasp. She has to get out today to be with her family to celebrate in time. I will have to wait maybe until thursday, or if not maybe i n reporter shes far from alone. Airlines are pulling their planes out of the storms path tonight, and flights are expected to be scarce up and down the east coast tomorrow. Yvonne reese is hoping to get home to ohio. Ive been here in a blizzard in 92. I dont want to do it again. Reporter are you worried about getting stuck . Yeah. Im worried were going to get canceled here because of ohios weather and were going to get stuck here. Reporter amtraks busy express trains wont travel between new york and boston tuesday. Today it was business as usual, a relief for christina sherman. We switched the train a day earlier so we could make it before the snow. Reporter drivers gassed up to prepare, but the roads could be impassable. New york city will be under a state of emergency starting at midnight, just a few hours before the first snow is predicted. The citys mayor, bill deblasio. Change your plans. Get off the streets. Obviously closing schools. Thats going to take a lot of pressure off the roads right there weie reporter and those departure boards are filling up with a lot of red, and red means canceled, anthony, the people behind us here among the last folks who are going to get out of this airport before the snow brings it to a grinding halt. Kris van cleave at laguardia. Thank you, kris. Overseas, iraqi troops backed by the u. S. Have trapped isis forces inside western mosul. The terror group had held iraqs second largest city for nearly three years. The fighting to liberate it is fierce and Holly Williams is there. Reporter au. S. Coalition air strike and another one pulverizing an isis fighting position. [ explosions ] Brigadier GeneralAbbas Al Jbouri confirms they hit their target little more than a city block away. Killed more than 15. Reporter that means your men can now push forward another 200 yards or so . Then its the job of these iraqi forces to clear another neighborhood. Theyre the ones risking their lives to eradicate isis. And after four months of fighting, they have them surrounded. But instead of surrendering, isis militants are still lobbing mortars. And on every street theres more evidence of the chaos theyve reeked on this city. This charred and shattered building is all thats left of mosuls museum. The exhibits nowhere to be seen. Celebrated the desecration in a propaganda video. Artifacts from one of the worlds oldest civilizations, unislamic according to a gang of violent fanatics. Luckily some were apparently plaster replicas, but others were genuine and invaluable. These are all the signs saying what used to be here. Vandalism and hatred inflicted by the socalled Islamic State on this majority muslim city. What do they believe in . I dont know. They are crazy. Just destroy them. Just against human. Reporter just destruction . Yeah. Thats all. Reporter iraqi forces are now on the edge of mosuls historic old city, anthony, where maze of narrow alleyways could mean the toughest urban fighting theyve faced so far. Holly williams on the front lines in iraq. Thanks, holly. Coming up next, a twoyearold girl could be first to die in this country from a burning hoverboard. Wheres the car . Itll be here in three. Uh, four minutes. Are you kidding me . No, looks like he took a wrong turn. Dont worry, this guys got like a fourstar rating, were good. His name is randy. Thats like one of the most trustworthy names ordering a getaway car with an app . Are you randy . Thats me surprising . How much money erin saved by switching to geico. Everybody comfortable with the air temp . I could go a little cooler. Ok. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer with unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship ive ever been in. Freshness for weeks i dont think thats how theyre made. Klondike hooks up with tasty flavors. The best ice cream bars ever conceived. Cough doesnt sound so good. Take mucinex dm. Ill text you in 4 hours when your cough returns. Looks like im good all night some cough medicines only last 4 hours. But just one mucinex lasts 12 hours. Lets end this. A young girl in pennsylvania is believed to be the first person in this country killed by a fire that started in a hoverboard. Jericka duncan is in harrisburg. Reporter when this raging fire tore through this pennsylvania home friday night, several children could not get out. We need an additional line. We still have people trapped in the upper floors. Reporter the fire killed twoyearold Ashante Hughes and seriously injured two others. The surviving children told officials the blaze was started by a hoverboard plugged into an outlet. Harrisburg fire chief brian enterline. I heard some sizzling and crackling in the hoverboard, and in flames. Reporter lieutenant dennis devoe, a 21year veteran of the fire department, was killed in a Traffic Accident while responding to the fire. Last year the Consumer ProductSafety Commission recalled more than 500,000 hoverboards by eight different manufacturers. In some cases the lithium batteries can overheat or catch fire. Since 2015, the commission has investigated more than 60 fires caused by malfunctioning hoverboards. Shaka crawford was greeted with a warm hug from a neighbor as she stood outside of her fireravaged home, a small memorial is now growing in memory of her twoyearold granddaughter. She had a stern warning for anyone who has a hoverboard in their home. Get rid of em. Get rid of em. Get rid of em. Reporter the two girls who were hospitalized as a result of this fire are expected to be released tonight according to the family. Anthony, the Consumer ProductSafety Commission says if you own a hoverboard that is on their recall list, its not too late to return that hoverboard and get a refund. Jericka duncan with some important advice tonight. Thanks, jericka. Still ahead, an Irresistible Force turned them into immovable objects. Two former penn state officials pleaded guilty today to misdemeanor child endangerment charges in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. Former Athletic Director tim curley and former Vice President gary schultz did not report sandusky to police. Each could face five years in prison. Sandusky, the former assistant football coach, is serving a long prison term for molesting ten boys. 35,000 lined up to start a bike race yesterday in cape town, south africa, but Mother Nature wasnt having it. The riders took off and were suddenly blown off their bikes by winds that topped 60 miles per hour. It was a struggle just to stand up. The race was called off. Up next, cactus flowers. Spring in colorful blo finally tonight, as the midwest digs out of a snowstorm and the northeast prepares for a blizzard, spring is blooming in the west in living color. Heres john blackstone. Reporter when wild flowers bloom like this in the Southern California desert, its a sight to treasure. This is good. Reporter visitors to the ana borrego state park east of san diego are witnessing the desert at its most colorful. Its a rare display thanks to rain this winter that finally broke californias drought. Quite a variety thats come up. Reporter steve bier has been a park ranger here for 15 years. You wonder, where did the yellows and the purples and the whites come from. Reporter ana borrego received double its annual rainfall, enough to bring life to seeds lying on the desert floor for years. These seeds have waited all that time . There are some that have been waiting for decades. Reporter what kind of respect does it give you looking out at the desert . This is beautiful. You can not look at this and imagine that someone could come out and say nothing survives in the desert. Reporter but its also true that nothing survives for long in the desert. And then, as well, one day youll come out and this will be gone. It will all be. Reporter the wild flowers are already being consumed by hungry caterpillars, also having their brief moment to thrive in this harsh landscape, and temperatures climbing over 100 will quickly wilt what the caterpillars leave behind, but for a few weeks, blossoms are everywhere. This is certainly an example of the desert in bloom. It is indeed. Reporter for now in this desert, even a cactus is much more than its spikes. It takes your breath away, it really does. Reporter john blackstone, cbs news, ana borrego state park. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you the news continues, for others check back later for the morning news and of course, cbs this morning. From the Broadcast Center in new york city, im anthony mason. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com this is the cbs overnight news. Twok the overnight news. Im tony dokoupil. It looks like the end of the line for Islamic State fighters in the iraqi city of mosul. Forces are closing the noose around the final neighborhoods held by the jihadis and the last escape route has been cut. Still, there are hundreds of thousands of civilians under the gun. Holly williams is on the frontline. Reporter the u. S. Coalition air strike, and another one, pulverizing an isis fighting position. [ explosions ] general Abbas Al Jbouri confirms they have hit the target. Killed more than 15. Reporter that means your men can now push forward another 200 yards or so . Then its the job of these iraqi forces to clear another neighborhood. Theyre the ones risking their lives to eradicate isis. And after four months of fighting, they have them surrounded. But instead of surrendering, isis militants are still lobbing mortars. And on every street theres more evidence of the chaos theyve reeked on this city. This charred and shattered building is all thats left of mosuls museum. The exhibits nowhere to be seen. Isis smashed them and then celebrated the desecration in a propaganda video. Artifacts from one of the worlds oldest civilizations, unislamic according to a gang of violent fanatics. Luckily some were apparently plaster replicas, but others were genuine and invaluabl these are all the signs saying what used to be here. Vandalism and hatred inflicted by the socalled Islamic State on this majority muslim city. What do they believe in . I dont know. They are crazy. Just destroy them. Just against human. Reporter just destruction . Yeah. Thats all. Reporter iraqi forces are now on the edge of mosuls historic old city, anthony, where a maze of narrow alleyways could mean the toughest urban fighting theyve faced so far. At the white house, sean spicer says President Trump doesnt personally think president obama personally wiretapped his phones. Major garrett reports. Reporter President Trump again ignored questions about a weekold claim on twitter that president obama tapped his phones at trump tower. White House Press Secretary sean spicer. I think if you look at the president s tweet, he said very clearly wiretapping in quotes. Reporter that according to spicer could mean any type of surveillance. Spicer said the president s tweets spoke for themselves. The first and second did put wiretapping in quotes, but the third and fourth did not, and fourth accused mr. Obama of a crime similar to watergate, calling him bad and sick. Spicer said the president has not directed the Justice Department to turn over evidence requested by the House Intelligence Committee. So youre saying the president doesnt have an obligation to provide any im not saying that at all. There is no question that there have been an abundance of reports regarding surveillance and other type of activities that occurred during the 2016 election. And that leads us to believe the president s only evidence are these reports. To believe that. Reporter white house councilor Kellyanne Conway also says she has no evidence of wiretapping. There are many ways to surveil each other now. Unfortunately. Reporter do you believe that was there was an article that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phone, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. Reporter in another interview, conway clarified. Im not inspector gadget. I dont believe people are using their microwave to spy on the trump campaign. However, i have im not in the job of having evidence. The National Debate over medical marijuana could now be going to the dogs. A lot of pet owners are choosing cannabis to treat their ailing animals. Mireya villarreal has this story from los angeles. Reporter pet owners who can no longer find pain relief for to products just by this. They swear by the results, but this is not regulated and theres no proven results, which means this product right here is finding sol d ining some dogged. Its dinnertime for brutus and kailee. But theyre also fend something extra, a dose of liquid cannabis. He says its helped alleviate kailees anxiety and brutus chronic pain after surgery for a pit bull attack. Using cannabis has made a big difference. Reporter are you seeing an impact in their life . A huge impact. 13yearold dogs are going to have more issues with mobility and his quality of life is just so much more enjoyable. Reporter some people will say, however, that you are drugging your dog. Okay. I beg to differ. I feel like this is botanical. This is plant medicine. T the animals. Reporter alison got into the medical marijuana field about 20 years ago. Her focus has shifted from humans to animals. We use the same cannabis extract we do in humans. And ive seen better results in the animals than i am in the humans. Reporter she says her products does for animals the same thing medical pot does for humans, alleviates pain, even battles cancer. We dont have any actual Peer Reviewed studies for the use of those compounds on pets. Reporter veterinarian ken polaski says as more states legalize marijuana, cases of pets getting sick for ingesting marijuana are spikin