Dubois tonight, a frigid start to the new year. Records are broken, flights are canceled and firefighters battle flames with frozen hoses. Eric fischer has the forecast. Don dahler on the first test for some new mayors. A Supreme Court justice blocks the contraception requirement in the Health Care Law. Chip reid on the challenge brought by a group of nuns. The colorado experiment. Its now legal for adults to buy marijuana for recreational use. And Manuel Bojorquez introduces us to a social worker who found a new way to give her clients a lift. Its my character. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Dubois good evening and happy new year, scott is off tonight, im maurice dubois. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. Snow is falling in the upper midwest. Tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the midatlantic
Dubois good evening, scott off s off tonight, im Maurice Dubois and this is our western edition. Ice, snow, freezing cold, it is called winter and the northeast got plenty of it today and all the problems that go with it, including air travel problems that spread to the west coast. The storm is being blamed for at least eight deaths, most of them on roadways. The number of Flights Canceled over the past two days has topped 5,000, some places got as much as two feet of snow. Boston set a record. And now the cold is moving in in much of the region. The mercury never got out of the teens today. We have a team of correspondents covering the storm and first Karen Anderson of our boston station wbz. Reporter well, maurice, tonight the temperature is hovering around five degrees with a projected low of minus four. And boston is hoping it can weather this cold as well as it did the storm. Boxford, massachusetts, had the most snow with nearly two feet. In boston, pedestrians outnumbered cars an
Dubois good evening and happy new year. Scott is off tonight, im maurice dubois. This is our western edition. 2014 has begun with much of the country in the grip of an arctic blast. Snow is falling in the upper midwest. Tonight temperatures will once again drop well below zero in some places and all that cold air is headed east and a major snowstorm is forecast from the midatlantic to new england. We have a team of correspondents covering this. We begin in chicago with Chris Martinez of our cbs station wbbm. Chris . Reporter maurice, heavy snow squalls are forecasted for the rest of the night. The National Weather Service Warning chicago to expect dangerously cold temperatures and windchills through tomorrow night. Chicago broke a 96yearold new years day record with more than five inches of snow another foot is expected to fall by tomorrow. More than 370 plow trucks have been deployed in six Northern Illinois counties. Theyre spreading salt to keep the roads from icing. And theres no t
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