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may dip to minus 7 and hit 15 below in cleveland. >> more than two-thirds of the country faces temperatures below 20 degrees this morning. tonight atlanta could plunge minus 29 degrees. >> and we're tracking a new system that could bring heavy snow up the east coast. in new york, the windchill is expected to fall as low as minus 10 degrees today. demarco, good morning. >> reporter: that is cold. you can see behind me, it's completely covered in icicles. if that's not enough to show how cold it is, look at this. this is a big block of ice. it was once snow. crazy, right? the cold weather has caused dangerous conditions on the road. one person died after a 75-vehicle crash on the new york state's throughway. dozens of vehicles were stranded on the new york state throughway as drives battled white joutd conditions. >> you couldn't see anything in front of you. everything was blurry. it was a complete whiteout. >> reporter: the snowy roads turned slick. into the night authorities were massive pileup and nearby in buffalo, niagara airport, northeasterly whiteout conditions. a plane is trying to taxi. in new jersey tied a record low of minus 12 degrees. >> we've had to leave our units much more quickly. >> reporter: in new york city icicles hung on power lines and fire escapes. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: william powell's car was parked in front of the building and he came outside to find it frozen shut. >> i have never felt the cold like i'm feeling it in these last few days. the only thing i can think of is alaska or the arctic. >> reporter: it was actually warmer in alaska than in new york city. >> it's chilling. it really stings the temperatures have reached more than minus 21 degrees. >> you thought you were coast last month, last week. now you're cold. >> reporter: schools in new england and parts of the south will be canceled because of the cold weather. but it's not over yet. there's another winter blast headed our way. jeff, we'll send things back to you. >> thank you very much. slick roads could make for dangerous commutes across the south. subzero temperatures froze fountains from texas to georgia. manuel bojorquez is in brunswick, georgia, where they're under a state of emergency. manu manuel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're riding along with georgia state troopers who are out in full force taking a look at the roads. in fact, captain rice said it's becoming a busy morning with state highways. schools are either delaying the start of classes or canceling them all together. let's go ahead and give you a look right now at our outside camera of i-95. of course, this is the main artery up and down coastal georgia. and the big concern here will be ice, which we're told has already started to form on bridges and overpasses. let's talk about the numbers. nearly 250 crew members and 13 trucks began treating roads last night with sand and brian to keep the anticipated ice from sticking, but the headaches are not just here. in texas, slippery roads caused more than 30 car accidents on tuesday. and with possible snow later today, georgia officials are hoping to keep coastal cities from experiences what happened in atlanta in 2014 when a mere 2 inches of snow caused gridlock that lasted more than 24 hours. here in brunswick, city they'll try to treat as many roads as they can, but they don't have the resources to treat all of them. the best advice here is if you do not have to be out on the roads, simply stay home. norah? >> all right, manuel. thank you so much. chief meteorologist lonnie quinn is here to show us where the east coast storm called the bomb cyclone is headed next. good morning. >> good morning, norah. good morning, everyone. we jump into the current radar picture. i-10 in north florida, a lot of icing. that's the problem right now. then you get up into the 95 door in georgia. you just heard from manuel. there's going to be a problem there as well. the computer models are initializing it. it's depicting where the storm is right now. that means we feel confident with the forward projection of where we think the storm is going. it travels up the eastern seaboard. they show the wind as they tighten up and get closer and closer together. that's when the storm bombs we're talking 50, maybe 70-mile-per-hour winds with snow falling as well. northern maine could see 2 feet of snow. blizzard conditions are going to be in effect from the northern border of maine and canada and the cape cod islands as well. bianna, let's go over to you. >> that sounds terrifying, lonnie. thank you so much. south korea said it made contact with north korea overnight on a newly reopened hotline. it was restored for the first time in nearly two years. a spokesman for north korean leader kim jong-un announced the reopening on state tv. it may put the u.s. and south korea at odds. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. so it was just yesterday that south korea said they want the high-level talks with 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button. this is after kim jong-un said it had complete its nuclear forces. chip reid is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning. that war of words came on a wild day of twitter for the president. he tweeted 17 times on everything from immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for hillary clinton aide and, of course, that nuclear button tweet. in fact, the president does not have a nuclear button, but his rhetoric escalated already simmering tensions. president trump raised the temperature in his duel with kim jong-un after boasting he had a nuclear button on his auchlts will someone police inform him i have a nuclear button, too, but it's a bigger and more button and my button works. it caught homeland security secretary kirstjien nielsen by surprise. >> the president speaks for himself. we have to continue to take the threat seriously. >> they will be met with fire and fury. >> reporter: it's nothing new for the president. >> we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> but he has signaled earlier tuesday that peace talks between the north and the south offered by kim and accepted by south korean president moon were worth exploring, tweeting, rocket man wants to talk to south korea now. perhaps that's good, perhaps not. >> we consider this to be a very reckless regime. we don't think we need a band-aid and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. >> the president's other advisers hav cautious approach. secretary of state rex tillerson has even suggested the possibility of talks with north korea. he and secretary of defense james mattis will be here at the white house later today for lunch with the president, and you can bet that north korea is going to be at the top of the agenda. bianna? >> a busy day at the white house. chip, thank you. the president's twitter blast yesterday also praised anti-government protesters in iran and called the country's leaders brutal and corrupt. tens of thousands of iranians came out to show support for the government. many were ordered to attend the rally. six days of protests have left at least 21 people dead. iran's government is restricting internet access and has appeared to shut down social media apps that were used to organize demonstrations. one of president trump's gop critics of 2012 mitt romney is eyeing a new political opportunity to represent utah. the longest serving going to retire after 42 years in office. our sources expect the massachusetts governor to run for hatch's seat. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning. >> good morning. several sources have told cbs news romney has been quietly laying the groundwork should orrin hatch retire. while he hasn't said anything publicly about his intention to run, take a look at this. this is a pretty good include. yesterday afternoon romney listed his location on his twitter profile as massachusetts. but then after hatch announced his plans to retire, romney's profile location was updated to holiday, utah. in 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immigration to pakistan to threatening jail for a hillary clinton aid, and, of course, that nuclear button tweet. >> it is now legal. >> they're just now allowing businesses to apply for licenses. >> to all of our freshly baked california viewers, i just want to say thanks for switching over to the monterey aquarium of jellyfish. i will do my best to move hypnotically. jeff glor and bianna golodryga. gayle's enjoying some time off. nearly the entire east coast faces a powerful winter storm as more than two thirds of the country wakes up with temperatures under 20 degrees. windchills are affecting those in the upper midwest throughout the mideast. it's 24 below in grand forks, north dakota. it stretches into the southeast and southern plains as well. the windchill is 5 degrees in oklahoma stichlt at least 13 people have died from the cold. >> in the east, at least 15 cities tied or set record low temperatures yesterday. dayton, ohio, 13 degrees below zero broke an 1898 record. a major winter storm is slamming parts of the east coast. chief weathercaster lonnie quinn of our >> you talk about i-10 being closed anywhere from madison, florida, to tallahassee. no school because of a winter storm warning in the panhandle. this storm is going to do nothing but get bigger and badder. it's a coastal system, we know that it's going to be roughest along our shorelines as it travels up the coast of maine and it's putting down a lot of snow as well. take a look at. this we're going to be measuring snow anywhere from the panhandle of florida to maine. in maine you're looking at these spots. new york city, right now you're in that 3-inch range. you've got to keep that in mind. bigger numbers are going to be possible even for those big metro cities from new york to philadelphia. but blizzard possibilities exist from cape cod and the islands to the northern coast of maine. we're going to keep an eye on this. north and south korea are talking for the first time in two years. they reopened a cross-border communications system at the demilitarized system overnight. kim jong-un said he's open to sending a delegation to the games in a new year's day speech when he also told the u.s. he has a button for nuclear weapons on his table. then president trump responded on twitter last night. i, too, have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful rng a powerf powerful, and my button works. there are signs they may be preparing another missile test this week. president trump is also threatening to cut off aid to the palestinians if they don't negotiate a peace deal. he tweeted yesterday, quote, we pay the palestinians hundreds of millions of dollar as year, and we get no respect. why should we make any of these massive future payments to them. his u.n. ambassador nikki >> we very much don't want to have a peace process. nothing changes with that. the palestinians now have to show their world that they want to come to the table. as of now, they're not cominging to the table, but they ask for aid. we're not giving the aid. we want to make sure they come to the table and we want to move forward with the peace process. this morning they called the president's comments blackmail. palestinian president mahmoud abbas said the president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital hurt their ability to broker any agreement. a research firm now accuses of republicans working to mislead the company. they commissioned the so-called steeles do area and verified president trump's russian ties, using money from a conservative website and hillary clinton's presidential campaign. in "the new york times," two gps founders claimed inquiry. they want congress to, quote, release tran scripts of our firm's testimony so the american people can learn the truth about our work. cbs news contributor ed o'keefe is a congressional reporter if the "washington post." good morning. >> good morning. >> first, remind everyone what fusion gps. >> they're basically former journalists turned investigators who got hired during the presidential campaign to look into donald trump. >> and the suggestion had been by republicans and the president that something that the democrats, some opposition research is what led to this idea of collusion. they're saying that's not true. >> exactly. they're saying if anything the work they were doing may have verified some things the fbi was look into and sparked the whole thing but not necessarily the collusion and that that dossier, the so-called dossier of the dirt, the gossip, he may or may visiting russia a few years ago are not the basis. >> what are they suggesting they're not looking into in. >> the president's business dealings and attempts to influence the election. they say, look, once you do, you're going to realize there's a lot more here and in some cases these committees are avoiding certain subjects. >> we have multiple investigations going on. is there any sense they can conclude in a bipartisan fashion? >> the one doing the best at that is richard burr, the republican from north carolina and mark warner from virginia. it's seen as the most robust and credible. remember, all that one's looking into is the scope of potential russian interference or collusion or whatever else in an attempt to sort of educate the republicans and congress about it will be interesting, but it's not necessarily going to be something that leads to other political retribution. >> congress has just a few things on their plate as they try to get something done this year. january 19th and march 5th are two big deadline dates, why? >> they're connected to each other. january 19th is the date they would have a shutdown. getting old and too tired to talk about this. but that's the next deadline. part of it is how to resolve the issue of daca, that program that protects about 700,000 immigrants who were brought here as children. if it isn't resolved by then, the date to watch is march 5th. that's the current deadline. the president set the deadline. he said, you figure this out, bring it to me, and we'll cut a deal. everyone seems to want to resolve the daca issue, give them permanent status or figure out a solution. the question is what's the compromise. even the president said i don't want to be the guy that's responsible for deporting so many people, but, you know, the any goegs yags will be do you put up more money for a border wall, make changes to chain migration or something else, and nobody wants to put that on the table, because the moment that ends up there, it becomes the center of debate and could lead to other consequences. >> what else may happen is the republican makeup of the senate. now that we know orrin hatch is retiring, mitt romney may run for the seat. if he runs, will he face other opposition? >> he'll have at least one republican challenger and a democrat. it's only january 3rd. long year ahead. >> safe to say he won't be a rubber stamp for president trump. >> not at all. it could potentially create another poll right in the senate. >> ed o'keefe, thank you as always. we've seen robots that can vacuum or do back flips. tony dokoupil watched them in action. >> we're watching a soft robot. we'll tell you why engineers at mit and harvard show how this can one day be used as wearable muscle and how it can fool learning the ropes as weight wat watchers' social media ambassador. >> how many points? >> eight points total. >> how many points did i eat including this. >> all day 28 points. >> breakfast, lunch, dinner, and my cookie? >> correct. >> mindy grossman is in our toyota greenroom. ahead how social media is attracting a new generation of members. you're watching "cbs this morning." i knew at that exact moment ... i'm beating this. my main focus was to find a team of doctors. it's not just picking a surgeon, it's picking the care team and feeling secure in where you are. visit cancercenter.com/breast you wof your daily routine, so 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at mit and harvard have come up with a softwarable robot that could turn us all into cyborgs. >> so in the future i could have something like this on that could help me move. >> sure. >> reporter: in this garage-like lab at mit, this robotics researcher toils for up to 20 hours a day. >> we saw somebody sleeping on the table. >> that was not me. >> reporter: he's perfecting the material for a new breed of flexible. >> can i put my hand in there? >> yeah. sure. >> i'm shanking hands with a robot. >> yeah. >> reporter: but also two to three times stronger than a human being. >> all right. >> reporter: made of nylon and plastic and powered by compressed air, these artificial muscles have folds inside them, allowing them to grip, lift, and twist everything from a flower to a tire. lee and his colleagues including harvard's daniel voigt hope they'll be able to wear the robot like tony stark in "iron man." >> no more crutches, no more walkers, no more canes. origami muscles. >> you'll be able to wear the robot. >> reporter: the researchers her say waernings of a robot revolution aov classifier running on my phone. >> reporter: after all, you can fool a robot or at least an artificial intelligence program designed to see and recognize the world around it. >> it's good at recognizing things these days. the current algorithms are above 95% accurate. >> reporter: he says that kind of accuracy is influencing a.i. including self-driving vehicles. >> if we point it at the camera, it says, traffic-like light, ipod. >> yeah. these things work pretty well. >> reporter: along with the discoveries, there are dangerous drawbacks. they were able to turn things into something dirjts. >> it's 66% confident it's looking at a rifle. >> posy >> possibly a revolver. >> with pixel changes too small, it can turn a baseball into espresso and a cat picture into guacamole, but his concern is what others might do with ill-intent. >> can a terrorist build a bomb that the computer thinks is a bouquet of flowers? >> yes. we took a missile and then modified the texture so it looks like a balloon. >> wow. when that result comes up, how do you feel? >> i feel that this is good that it's happening now before the systems are widely deployed. >> google reported the program. in a statement the company said it welcomes efforts to identify security risks adding we believe a.i., artificial intelligence, will be beneficial. >> fascinating, frightening, all of that. >> they're working out the kinks now, right? working on it. when it rolls out you want it to work. >> a turtle does not look like a rifle. >> i feel good i bought my 10-year-old a robot. my 10-year-olds. i have two of them. thank you. that's awesome. stay on that story. >> i will. jan crawford sat down with two stars of "the post" to discuss how journalism discovered secrets about the war. >> this is a bipartisan mess. it really eroded our confidence. >> and our choice in government and in our political leaders. >> yeah. yeah. and you should not trust your political leaders, whether they're of your party or the other party, and that's the press's job. >> ahead, what they're most proud of in papers. you're watching "cbs this morning." a song by koolio from "dangerous minds" goes back in time to a 1967 maneuver classic. nick. >> what is "gangsters paradise lost." >> they say you said "gangsters" instead of "gangster." we take $3,200 away from you. >> he thought he correctly said the name of the song but didn't quite get it right. the judges are a stick already fehr gangsters instead of gangsta. in the end he won. >> did you see h ahead, where to go to enjoy >> that was basket. it counts. san antonio's ginobili tossed it up. it was actually an alley-oop pass beyond the three-point line that went into the basket without anyone noticing including ref. the knicks grabbed the ball and they eventually got the he was like, did you see what i did? >> good for the ref. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to show you some of this morning's headlines. the "washington post" said people are paying off their credit card debt all wrong. they say pay the minimum amount, second, put 100% of the remaining money to the card with the highest interest rate. doing that will help you eliminate debt the fastest. most credit card debt holders were only putting 50% to the high interest cards which can result in unnecessary interest payments. >> good tips. "variety" reports they have submitted sex cases against harvey weinstein and director james toback to the l.a. county chaff's office. three potential sex crime cases were submitted against toback. they declined to provide details of the cases. nonconsensual contact. toback also denies any allegations against him. consumers jump to alternatives. in 2017 shoppers increasingly turned to special milk like lactose-free milk or almond or soy milk. demand for white milk fell after farmers ramped up production. now dairies and food companies are looking to turn the oversupply of organic milk into cheese or other products. "usa today" says unusually warm weather has baked alaska. alaska is setting records for warmth. several places in northern and central alaska have had their warmest december ever, and it's not just december. the city barrow had its second hottest year on record. and california's "mercury news" says a rat on a plane caused an alaskan airlines flight to be canceled. boarding the flight yesterday morning. that's when the rat jumped from the airway inside the plane. it got into the cockpit. the plane was taken out of service. i'm creeped out just reading that. >> there was one running around the studio like right over behind you. >> not funny, jeff. not funny. nearly half of the people who made new year's resolutions say they want to lose weight or get in shape. weight watchers has over 3 million subscribers online and at meetings. last month weight watchers introduced free style, a program featuring more than 200 foods that count for zero points. mindy grossman is president and ceo of weight watchers. go welcome. >> good morning. >> we talk about zero points. what gets zero points? >> free style, which is the program that just launched is simple effective program we've had in the company's history. all calories are not created equal. there's a whole group of foods including all fish, chicken, fruits, vegetables, peas, corn that are zero points. and so you build your point values around the day and it gives you such freedom to be able to be as liveable as possible and go out and eat with your family because you're eating foods that everyone else is. you're not eating packaged foods and things. it has had the most effective weight loss we've had in the history of the company. >> fish is zero, but if you put butter on it, it counts. >> correct, correct. >> are you're saying the foods are zero points and calories don't matter, but calories do matter, that it encourages anyone to overeat? >> i don't t chicken breast. >> unless it's fried chicken. >> it's really about balance. what we really do is inspire healthy habits for sustainable capabilities for people to make the right choicesing and that's important. people want to be healthy today. if you think about it. people ask who our biggest competition is. the reality is it's people who believe they can do this themselves, and so we really want to be the partner to everyone, to give them the capabilities and the knowledge to be able to lead healthier better lives. >> look. i've been studying diet and nutrition my entire life. proof is in the pudding weight watchers work and it's the healthiest way if not the only way to lose weight. you now have dj khaled who's a media star and endorser. how did that come about? >> i was introduced to dj khaled by rocat of bit of time with him. he really is authentic. but what's amazing about weight watchers is the power of the community. with his goal to be helloer this particularly for his son assad and inspire his community along with him to lead healthier lives. >> does he want to lose weight? >> he is already. >> he's already lost about 20 pounds, but for him, it's really more about being the best self he can be. and i think that's what people want today. it's not necessarily thinking about diet. it's thinking about sustainable health and how you want to live a better life. >> which is the other part of it. >> very much so. it's mind, body, spirit. it's the combination of eating healthy, having the right level of activity, and mindfulness plays a very big part in how people are thinking about health today. our move from being just about weight to a more holistic approach to giving people the tools to live a healthier life across the board is really very important. it started with beyond the scale. freestyle is another evolution. what you'll see from us around behavior science and the innovation of continuing to make it simple around the power of our community, whether it's our connect community, whether it's our meetings and physical, whether it's the ww cruise that we just had. giving people tools to hoe less ti holistically improve your life. >> there are so many programs out there for consumers 507z. what is it about weight watchers that you want to tell consumers in the market that you offer that others don't. >> there are people who think they can do this themselves. only 5% of the people use a traditional weight loss program. we want to address the 95% where we can truly be their partner where we can give them t and educate them on why they can live healther this lives. and our program, as you said, it's number one globally for sustainable weight loss, and gets people to understand that and have it be part of their lives is really what we want to accomplish. >> what's black coffee. >> you have zero points. you can even put a little milk in it. >> zero points for the day. mindy grossman. >> i've seen gayle has changed hers. she's eating fruit in the morning. >> it's fantastic. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. the hit film "the post" is about cath rim graham and her historic decision to print the pentagon papers. ahead we visit a washington, d.c., home with two stars. don't get me wrong. i think she is a lovely woman. but she brought in a pirate that does nothing but bleed our margins. she doesn't have the result to turn a serious profit. >> that was actor bradley whitford in steven spielberg's new drama the movie that stars meryl streep and tom hanks received six golden globes and eight critics' choice. katherine graham struggled over whether to public documents regarding the vietnam war. jan crawford visited the home in washington, d.c. with two of the stars. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a lot of the movie actually takes place here in georgetown and katherine graham's mansion where she decides to stand up to the government and really comes into her own as publisher. the justice department asked for your a federal court order to stop the "washington post." >> reporter: it transformed a newspaper -- >> we are extremely gratified -- >> reporter: -- and female publisher katherine graham into a public icon. it reveals the powerful pressures on the messenger, the message that resonates today. >> do you have the papers? >> not yet. >> oh, gosh, oh, gosh. >> it's about a lot of things, about women, what's going on with the press, about our need to be vigilant, that you have to make a democracy every day, you just don't get it. but steven spiel derg has no interest in serving vegetables. that's not what he's about. >> i'm here asking your advice, bob, not your permission. >> reporter: at its heart "the post" is about a woman's voice when she decides to change history, where risking financial ruin if she published the pentagon papers. meryl streep played graham in the movie. on "cbs this morning" sheal about the unique role. >> it came down to her to decide, and she felt alone in that position and was, you know, put on the spot. >> reporter: it all came down right in here. >> reporter: we visited graham's historic town in georgetown, near washington, d.c., with bob and brad. the house remains vacant and largely unchanged since graham died more than 15 years ago. >> reporter: the emotional thrust of this story is katherine graham's internal journey and the other stuff is a fun suspense thriller that's about relevant issues to me it's a nonpartisan film. i don't see why any republican wouldn't like this movie except that they love nixon. >> reporter: it blends news reports and telephone recordings of president nixon. >> no reporter fro in the white house, is that clear. >> reporter: you have a reporter who was outspoken on the media who helped track down the classified documents. >> the media already vulnerable are being made a scapegoat for ironic reasons, a scapegoat by the administration. >> i'm proudest of just showing a bunch of professional journalists at work arguing and fighting and trying to figure out what they have a right to do and what's right. >> reporter: you celebrate the best part of journalism which is finding out what the truth is. >> my character is the true believer, the reporter who just wants the story and just wants to tell the public the story. >> there are no page numbers. >> that's where the top secret stamps were. my source had to cut them off. >> if you have the truth, you should print it. that's a strong easy opinion to have if you don't have the responsibility of keeping the one who will go to jail. >> reporter: graham chose to stand up to the government and to forces within her own industry. >> the only reason she's running things is because phil died. >> reporter: like "post" board member who felt she was unqualified because she was a woman. >> thank you for your frankness. >> it never occurs to me a woman should do this. i'm absolutely on the wrong side of history which makes her decision all the more incredible and brave. it ooh tess most excruciating decision that she has to make. she doesn't know -- you don't know if that's the right decision. >> reporter: not only was it the right decision, it transformed graham into a force to be reckoned with, and the "washington post" into a national newspaper. and the lesson of the pentagon papers for the public is that we are right to question the government. bianna? 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