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[ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." the first winter blast of the new year now threatens 80 million americans. fast-moving snow is spreading through several states this morning. you can see how it's coming down in minnesota. several inches could fall from idaho to new york. >> the icy cold could be even more dangerous by the snow. by tomorrow morning, windchills will approach 50 below in some areas. dean reynolds is in chicago where this winter storm is biting hard right now. dean, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, the good news in chicago is that the snow has stopped falling. the bad news is that it is a brisk 8 degrees above zero. as subzero temperatures took hold of chicago, so did the snow. nearly 4 inches blanketing the city overnight. and causing hundreds of flight cancellations at midway and o'hare airports. it's so cold here that water management crews were forced to deice fire hydrants. >> even though it's below zero 8 degrees, it ain't too bad, man, as long as we keep moving. >> reporter: and rail workers were heating switches with open flames just to keep them from freezing solid. this looks like it's on fire. not that it's being heated. >> i know there's no danger from -- those are flames but it's like your gas grill. >> reporter: meg thomas riley works for metro, the computer rail link that provides over 300,000 rides every day. is there a risk of derailment if you don't do this? >> yes, yes. if a switch does not engage properly, the train could derail. >> reporter: the relentless cold is also sweeping across much of the midwest. in iowa blinding snow caused this crash involving at least 20 cars. and shut down parts of the interstate 80. >> one car just sort of slid and just went to the side. and one hit the other. and it just became a domino effect. >> reporter: in wisconsin, windchills sent temperatures plunging near minus 35 degrees. officials warned it would only take minutes for frostbite to set in. and in sioux falls, south dakota whiteout conditions forced dozens of schools to close early. >> they told us it was coming. we knew it was coming. i'm glad they let us out of school early to get on the road and get home. >> reporter: now, those hoping for a thaw will just have to wait. temperatures are expected to single digits for the next few days. gayle. >> i feel for you, dean. thank you very much. the blistering cold is moving east. snow is falling in washington, d.c. meteorologist danielle niles of our boston stage wbzz is tracking the winter blast. good morning to you. >> gayle, good morning to you. we're talking about temperatures to the mid-atlantic will continue to slide east offshoren today but may drop back from western virginia, northern virginia where it will drop off. 20 states under a windchill warning, advisory or watch overt next few days. brutal windchills feeling currently 20 degrees below zero or great. and that chill is going to be spreading east. forecast highsed to only in the single digits for portions of the midwest. teens all the way back to the great lakes. high temperatures will be below zero that without the wind factored in. it's going to feel like 15 to 30 degrees below zeerro by the time we get to thursday and friday. a powerful rainstorm is blamed for flooding and mudslides that destroyed several homes in washington state. our seattle affiliate cairo reports from falls city a hard-hit area east of seattle. >> reporter: rising floodwaters and mudslides wreaked havoc across western washington monday and there may be more wicked weather to come. an entire hillside came crashing down on the coastal town monday washing away trees and knocks at least three homes off their foundation. >> i heard a big crack, and the trees come down. and they just cracked and boomed. and it went that way. just done. just gone. >> reporter: people were urged to quickly leave the area. firefighters had to rescue a woman in her 80s and her dog. they were trapped after her home slid down the hill. >> you heard this rumbling and breaking and crashing and you're like what is going on. >> reporter: a weekend storm pounded western washington with rain triggering landslides and record flooding. the snoqualmie river was one of hundreds to crest. a maze of roads swallowed by water and mud. and the nearby snoqualmie falls showed off the water's ferocity. water also flooded the streets of aberdeen. >> this is back here where i live, and it's cold. >> reporter: business owners struggled to keep the rising waters out of their stores with no help from passing vehicles. >> you got a lot of idiots going down causing waves going into extra businesses. people are not thinking. a lot of water down here. >> reporter: several major rivers in western washington will remain at or above flood stage throughout the rest of today. creating props even more problems reporting 30 miles east of seattle, henry rosoff "cbs this morning." a massive man hunt is under way after the shooting of two more nypd police officers. both are expected to survivor. this coming with police on high alert officer two earlier in brooklyn. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the police are canvassing the streets of the bronx in search of the two suspects involved in the shooting that took place around 10:30 last night. now just hours before this violent attack the police commissioner and the mayor stood together touting record-low crime rate. this surveillance video showed the moment the officers came up against the suspects' gunfire. >> gunfire! >> reporter: the plain clothes officers were just finishing their shift when they got a robbery call monday night. they came under fire when they saw two men near a chinese food restaurant who fit the description. >> as they approached the individual, one male was outside. one went inside. they approached the male outside. when the male inside began firing at the officers. through the doorway. >> reporter: two worse hit. one shot in the arm. the other in the back. they were rushed to the hospital where mayor bill de blasio spoke overnight. >> thank god these officers are doing well. and will recover. >> reporter: it's been a tense two weeks for the police and the mayor after the double murder of two nypd officers in brooklyn. some members of the force turned their backs on mayor de blasio at two public memorial services. earlier on monday he called the gesture unfair. >> you're disrespectful to the families who have lost their loved one. and i can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that. >> reporter: at the same event, the city's mayor and police commissioner announced record-low crime numbers. last week alone, there were half the amount of arrests made compared to the same week last year. >> we've had a lot of things that have been impacting on activity levels. but even with that decreased activity that the overall numbers have continued to decline. >> reporter: they point to the mayor as the reason for the work slowdown, resulting in fewer summons. and gayle, there is a group offering of a $10,000 reward for any information lead to get arrests of these suspects. it could be the start of another tough day on wall street this morning. dow futures point to a lower open. that is just good news for millions of american drivers. crude oil prices tumbled below $50 a barrel yesterday. that is the first time that has happened in more than five years. that sent a scare through the is stock market. the dow fell more than 330 points that's about 2%. investors are worried about the instability of the oil markets because there's no telling when the price drop will end. family and friends are grieving the loss this had morning of two young skiers who were hoping to join the u.s. ski team. ronnie berlack and bryce astle died monday zmeegtskiing in the alps. chris clarissa ward. >> both promising young skiers of joining the u.s. team and of one day skiing in the olympics. >> hi. my name is bryce astle. i'm an alpine ski racer out of sandy, utah. and i'm 19 years old. >> reporter: astle had had started crowd funding three months ago to raise money with his training. berlack, from new hampshire attended vermont burk mountain academy where his father say ski coach. tom kelly say spokesman for the u.s. ski team. >> these were great young men. they were great role models to others coming up through the system. and most of all they were passionate about what they did. they loved to ski race and they loved to ski. >> reporter: astle and berlack were part of a group of six skiers descending the alps when the avalanche struck. the rest of the four survived. rescuers received an alert 10:00 yesterday morning that two skiers had been buried in an avalanche in soelden. an emergency team was dispatched to the site. there were two emergency physicians with a helicopter a spokesman said. they tried everything unfortunately, without success. an avalanche warning had been declared in the area after days of heavy snowfall and mild temperatures. neither of the young skiers was wearing emergency gear. the u.s. ski team is in zagreb croatia today. they head a meeting and all of the team will be wearing black arm bands to commemorate them. a julyry trial begins for dzhokhar tsarnaev. 1200 potential jurors will fill out a questionnaire and it could take weeks to seat a jury. federal prosecutors are looking for jurors willing to impose the death penalty if tsarnaev is convicted. indonesia officials say they are fighting time and the weather searching for victims of the airasia flight 8501. investigators now have a new theory this morning that may explain exactly what happened when the plane crashed. jeff pegues is in washington watching the recovery effort. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, the weather is dragging the airbus eastward. and the shift has shifted in that direction. a number of ships including two from the u.s. navy continue to comb the java sea using sonar to locate the plane's wreckage. so far crews have identified several large objects on the seafloor. government officials say weather was a triggering factor in the december 28th crash. they believe the plane through through cloud clusters with satellite images showing temperatures at 121 degrees below zero. a report from indonesia's meteorological agency translated to english says the most probable weather phenomenon is the icing that it can cause engine damage due to the cooling air. investigators believe that is just one of the possibilities that occurred based on the analysis of the data. >> the worst thunderstorms in the world are in this region. >> reporter: kyle bailey is an aviation analyst. >> you have lightning, updrafts downdrafts, you have hail ice. >> reporter: air france went down in the atlantic ocean with 228 people on board. investigators recovered the black boxes two years later. they discovered the pilot lost control after it caused the air speed to malfunction. >> there's a lot of similarities between that crash and this crash. my gut feeling is once the black boxes are found within a week or several weeks, we'll have a very good idea of what actually happened to the airplane. >> indonesian authorities are hoping an expanded search area will help them locate the plane's black box which is in the tail section of the plane. it contains the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. and it is essential to nailing down exactly what happened to the doomed flight. charles. >> jeff thanks. the winter's flu season is getting worse and still has far to go. the cdc said 43 states have watch flu cases. the illness is blamed for the deaths of at least 22 children. what's going on? >> this is essentially the perfect storm of a flu season. a few things happened. number one, flu season is starting to peak early. way earlier than we usually see it. it started in the south. it hit the midwest. and now it's moving up to the northeast. and really not surprisingly it's taking hold of the schools. giving it to a lot of our kids. the a couple things that's happening, the strain that's circulating is called h3n2. it causing more severe illness and death, generally. and unfortunately, our flu vaccine this season is not perfectly matched to it. so it's with all of these things in tandem and we're seeing more deaths earlier. >> do you need more flu vaccine? >> well you know some children actually under the age of 8, it's recommended they get two shots, two vaccinations rather than one. >> only if it's their first shot? >> only if it's their first shot. actually there are some children who have gotten a shot before that would require a second. your pediatrician will help you sort that out but it's against the h1n1 strain which you might remember we called the bird flu or avian flu. and that takes two shots. >> we keep hearing reports that the flu shot is not effective this year? what do we need to do? >> exactly. the flu vaccine isn't as effective, but it's still quite effective, if that makes any sense. >> you should still get it? >> you should still get it. other train sstrains we might see circulating later. and it also does provide cross protection against the strain that's circulating now. we also have to pay attention to basic things. contact precautions. your kids are sick keep them at home. make sure you're watching your hands. cough into your elbow as opposed to your hands. if you have any symptoms of the flu, high fever, body aches, get to the doctor soon because antivirals can help that. >> when is the flu season over? >> unfortunately, i know, i wish i had better news since we're sitting at the beginning of the january, it can go all the way through april. but we usually see it fall off by end of the february. >> you're worried it's 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>> women oftentimes the comments are different, whether it's about appearance attire it's just different than male candidates. there are different challenges. >> reporter: people made comments on what kind of tights you wear. >> they did. i wear patterned tights which are not that fashion forward. if you look around there are staff members that wear patterned tights. they're very tasteful. it's just part of being a young new candidate. >> reporter: republicans are calling her the future of heir new party. they're looking to her to attract new voters. someone noted that the republican party has wanted to bottle candidates like you, young, female and republican. does the republican party have an image problem? >> we certainly fixed this past election cycle. and i hope that we take away lessons from this past election cycle. i think we need to have a tone reaching out to women. that's something that i've been very focused on. i also think we need to do a better job of listening. that's something that i prioritize over the course of the campaign. an one current member of congress who gave me the best advice is actually congressman paul ryan. who when i first went to him and said i'm considering running for office he too, ran at a younger age than i was. said you have one mouth and two ears. use that ratio. >> reporter: stefanik considers ryan her mentor. her disappointment in that election pushed her to run. this is where most of the freshmen members of congress have offices. >> a lot of freshmen are up here. >> reporter: her credentials are rock solid. a graduate of graduate that helped in the bush white house she's understanding of differenting views. she talks about something that's rare in washington compromise and working with democrats. americans are sick of gridlock in congress. i think you're going to see a congress that works and a senate that would. >> reporter: i can hear voters at home saying ah i'll believe it when i see it. >> maybe it's my youth coming through and knew naivety and hospital optimism. i bring a sunny side to congress and a willingness to work with hem. i hope i'm not frustrated in the next two years. >> reporter: and if you had had to bet your house on it? >> again, i'm so young. i'm optimistic. >> she's on the armed services committee which is where that room was. she were the first to go in wars like afghanistan. she's optimistic on tax reform. they're going to vote on the keystone pipeline. they're going to vote on repealing parts of obamacare. she's interesting. the republican party knows more than half of voters are women and they know the segment of millennials is growing in terms of the population and they have to reach out to those groups. >> she seemed to have eye a great attitude. and very poised. and 30's young. >> the average age of a member of congress is 58. >> now, you're talking. >> yeah. state-of-the-art drones 4k tv, what is that? you're watching "cbs this morning." we'll be right back. of right where it starts. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. fact. advil liqui gels are faster on tough pain than extra strength tylenol. and not only faster. stronger too. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. available at walmart for a low price every day. unny, kyle. patented sonic technology with up to 27% more brush movements. get healthier gums in two weeks. innovation and you philips sonicare save when you give philips sonicare this holiday season. ♪ make a right turn. >> wait, wait wait, no no no it means bear right. >> no it said right. so take a right. >> no no look. it means go up to the right. bear right over the bridge and hook up with 307. >> make a right. >> no it's a short cut. it said go to the right. >> it can't mean that! there's a lake there! >> no! >> stop yelling at me! >> no! >> here! >> remain calm. we're trained for this. okay. exit the windows. here we go! >> make a u-turn. [ laughter ] >> that is so true. with the gps. >> all right. >> you might want to drive on over to the international consumer electronics show opening to the public this morning in las vegas. >> more than 150,000 people expected to attend this year. 30,000 of them companies want to dazzle you. brian cooley from our partners at cnet on the convention floor. hi, good morning. >> hi, charlie, hi gayle. >> hi i'm norah! i'm here too. >> good morning. >> tell us about the 4k tv to start with, brian? >> yeah, 4k tv is important for consumers to know about because it's going to be the next tv you buy. by the end of the year, all the good sets are going to be 4k. what does that mean? >> that doesn't mean it's better but substantially better. 60 inch and above you really see a quality improvement because the dots get so small, it looks like reality. and not like a bunch of pixels. and these are wall to wall here at the show. they also have better color. they do everything better. the prices need to come down before they can match what we're currently pay for tvs. let's face it we're used to playing low prices. this is the next best thing. not like 3d which came and went. >> is that content available? >> we're seeing tons of content for 4k. what is interesting, primarily screen content. there is a 4k blu-ray and it snuck out yesterday. the streams, netflix, dish announced the streaming yesterday. that's where you'll get the content. >> that's so exciting where you can see the black heads better on your screen. >> we're dreading that. >> they're talking about the home technology being better connected at home what does that mean? >> connected technology means whatever is in your house as a big old range or a door lock on your front door can be connected to the internet. now, privately, of course so you can access it through your phone. or, so those divisions can talk to each other. those are the two main things. and when they talk to each other, behaviors can get macroed. as we say. in other words, one device will say, i know something is happening in the house right now, all other devices follow me and behave accordingly. >> and what about drones brian? >> well drones are fascinating because this is a window where we're coming to ces and doing aircraft stories. we're actually looking at consumer aircraft where we're flying these in this case dji inspire. 1. the bell of the ball for the qdro continue copters. they're all about the cameras. we heard about amazon using them to deliver packages. and we had an early drop on that. but the key is stabilized high-def cameras that gets you shots no one else can get. now, the pricing on this is where we want to see it continue to come down. these guys for example, range from a top-end model 700 bucks for an hd camera that is stabilized. you view it and record it on your tablet in realtime. it's very cool. >> very cool brian cooley, great to sigh,ee you. ahead, say i re's some news you may find surprising. we're for an open internet for all. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. comcast and time warner cable, together for more net neutrality protection. and data. dr. eric taupe is author of "the patient will see you now." dr. topel, good morning. >> good morning. we have this technology how is this going to affect our health? >> up until now, it's really controlled by the doctor. and it was a whole different look than what it could be. which is the data that you're generating through your smartphone you that get to see first and you get to make the call with computer assistance. so it's a real flip of how medicine has been for thousands of years. >> do you think it's like a guttenberg moment? >> yeah. it really is. a printing press -- the printed word and how the common man became access to all information. it's the same now in 2015 with the medical world and medical data. your date a. >> looks like you brought devices with you? >> i did. to help bring the point across. we start off with a cardiogram. basically, this is a great thing you can pull up an app. instead of going to the emergency room if you feel like your heart is fluttering. you can take a device like this put your thumbs on the sensors, and just in a second you'll have a cardiogram. >> wow. >> and it's actually great because it will tell you with a computer reading, highly accurately, what exactly is your heart rhythm. >> wow. >> so if you saw something that alarmed you, what would that be? >> well you could have a serious heart rate atrial fibrillation. >> you wrote in the book you that got an e-mail from a patient that said i'm in atrial-fib what should i do? you knew that was a changing day? >> right. you'd have to go to the emergency room. but in seconds on your phone you could go through a reading. >> what else do you have? >> this is an interesting necklace that you can just pop on like this. >> gayle likes necklaces. >> it's not a fashion statement for julyvy. but, you can then get an incredible amount of information about the heart. so, in just a second it will show basically, not just the heart rhythm but also every other aspect of the -- >> well why would an average consumer want or need something like that? >> well the heart -- this is not for the average consumer. this is for someone with heart failure trying to avoid going into the hospital. this is the biggest problem for readmission we have the in united states. >> the lighting is blue. is that a bad sign? before it was green? i thought green was good? >> yeah. yeah. it should go. but at any rate this will basically show all heart, the cardiac output. the fluid and everything else. >> what's the impact? is it going to impact hospitals? is it going to impact in other ways how we exercise our own responsibility for our health? >> well having new information,ing your data this is not about lifting something off the internet. this is your data. realtime. so if you have high blood & pressure and you wear a watch, every heart beat your blood pressure is getting reported on your phone. or if you want to not wear a watch, you can put this to your forehead and get your blood pressure in various key medical metrics. >> do you encourage people to diagnose themselves? i kind of want to go see you. you're the rock star the science doctor but you're encouraging us to do this? >> well doctors are still going to be needed critically for helping to make the appropriate treatment. diagnosis and wisdom and experience. that's so vital. but for diagnostic stuff, you'll be able to do this over your smartphone. in your world, rather than the one visit to the doctor's office. >> i like this very much so. simply because if we're here if you discovered something early, the treatment would be different and more successful. and secondly to know there's danger doctors can do eye alost things. just the fact if you get attention early to a stroke you can minimize the damage. >> exactly. and we've never had this information before. we've been kind of warned off specialists, not having real data. and just for something like blood pressure, we've never had night, when you're in traffic, and being able to monitor, quantify stress and moves. these are exciting opportunities. >> you say the term "doctor's orders" should be eliminated from our vocabulary? 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>> exactly. >> reporter: in past decades after a shark attack in hawaii officials would kill as many sharks as they could find that that area. >>dying sharks for years. >> reporter: marine biologist carl meyer specializes in debunking myths about sharks. he said all that killing was a waste of time and a waste of sharks. >> there's no evidence that sharks hang out at one particular beach waiting for people to go in the water so they can bite them. >> reporter: he knows that because he's attached high-tech tracking devices and cameras to sharks throughout the hawaiian islands. over the past 25 years, shark attacks average three a year in hawaii. while 29 attacks since 2012 meyer says it's too early to say there's an upward trend. >> to keep it in perspective, your drive to the beach is actually a far more risky activity than going surfing or snorkeling. >> reporter: meyer has also dispelled myths about shark cages, a popular tourist atrakdz. some critics believe that sharks attracted to the cages follow the boats back to shore endangering swimmers. >> when the boats leave, all they do is go from the surface to the bottom out of those particular sights. >> reporter: and the sharks that frequent the cages almost never include tiger sharks which are responsible for most attacks in hawaii. we decided to take a look for ourselves. these sharks are all friendly right? 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>> that's so nice. >> i love what anthony said dogs are just happy for no reason. and that in turn makes you happy. it's so great. that's so great. that's a great story. >> gayle, we're getting a lot of twitter reaction about your shoes. want to tell everybody what happened? >> i was exercising fell while i was exercising and tour a good morning to you. it is now 8:55. >> i'm mike hydac. all kinds of problems on the roads. many schools that started with delays early this morning are now closing. the latest one is montgomery county. we want to toss it now to scott broom who is driving west towards frederic, maryland, along i-70 in his mobile newsroom. scott, what does it look like? >> it is really a tough morning out here. let me give you a look at 695. i'm trying to get my normal 30, 35 minute commute into frederic county here from where i live up around the baltimore area. i've been on the road an hour and i'm 20% of the way there. travel speeds about 5 miles per hour. this is a major interstate. the baltimore beltway just like the capital beltway. our traffic cameras are showing the same thing there. we have a lot of slush and sticking snow on the roadway and a lot of traffic out here. many people trying to get themselves to work despite the weather conditions. you are going to have to account for a lot of extra time if you need to get out here today. this is a heavily salt treated roadway, but unfortunately, with speeds of 5 to 10 miles per hour, i can see a plow in front of me. about 10 or 15 car lengths ahead of me. it cannot move any faster than the rest of the traffic that is getting the roads clear, much more challenging situation for both county and state highway crews across maryland and northern virginia. it is a big problem and it is safe to say this is one of the reasons the school system found themselves in a bind this morning and had to modify the calls that they were making. the scene not good on major roadways right now. reporting live from the dash board cameras of our mobile newsroom, wusa9. >> thank you, scott. scott mentioned school closures here, fairfax county public schools elected to keep schools open and it's clear some students and parents are big fans of that move. >> they are taking their frustrations out on twitter. delia is live with that story. >> twitter is on fire and fairfax county schools really taking a beating online because of this. the hashtag, close spcs. on twitter, it's also making the list worldwide. parents received an e-mail from fairfax county schools just this morning. and it reads quote, the weather may result in your child's bus being delayed this morning. please be patient and safe if you are driving this morning. now students though, not happy and those parents aren't happy either. they have taken to twitter to voice their displeasure that they have to go to school in such conditions. let's take a look at some of what we have so far. some of the twitter account that we have for you. someone tweeted, when you need some water and class, you scrape off some snow and eat that snow. check it out. it is a student in his classroom scraping off snow from that window sill and he's using that to drink some water in class. take a look at another one we have for you that we just got off twitter. quote, sent the entire first period chilling, literally, in the auditorium because teachers aren't here. wow. that is from atstewart. obviously, lots of students upset in class wondering what to do next. they are waiting for their teachers to arrive. comments also pouring in on the facebook page for fairfax county public schools. listen to this, an ironic twist yesterday afternoon, school leaders posted an interview with jeff. he's a school assistant superintendent for facilities and transportation services. that video was how he decides to close schools due to weather. no word from fairfax county public schools. when we do hear back from them, we'll let you know. >> hashtag, irony. >> wow, social media is a voice for people who normally don't get a say. thank you, delia. even though it's piling up quickly, the snow is expected to taper off sometime earlier before or after noon. and maybe even some sunshine. >> we shall see. first alert meteorologist, allison has been tracking the snowfall totals. allison, how much higher are you expecting numbers to climb? >> we will see a half inch for some areas before this is said and done. we have already seen half an inch up to reports of 2 1/2 inches and we're going to keep on adding to that. we have seen snow start to pick up in the past couple of hours and here you can see earlier today, this is a fine little flakes of snow, not the case anymore. we're talking moderately heavy snowfall falling and accumulating on the roadways. as you saw from scott broom.mobile newsroom. the roads are a mess. if you can hold off your plans, it's just the best idea. i mean, this is not going to get any better in the immediate future. we're talking later on this afternoon. things will be better. 24 degrees right now. those temperatures are not going to warm. that snow is not going to melt until this afternoon. later on tonight, we're going to refreeze and have to watch out for slick spots. also, visibilities, we're looking at a half a mile through the d.c. area. half a mile through dulles. over to annapolis, quarter mile visibility. snowfall totals, we have increased them because the snow just keeps on coming down. we are seeing those reports of 1 to 2 inches south of the district. 2 to 4, especially in the higher elevations. you're going to get 3 to 4 inches of