omar villafranca is in bismark, north dakota, where it feels like minus 20. >> reporter: the arctic blast blew through colorado overnight, dropping six inches of snow in the denver area. to try and keep streets passable, but the fast-moving storm coated rocky mountain roads in ice, slowing 18 wheelers to a crawl. in bolder, emergency workers stayed busy responding to accidents caused by the slick streets. further east in north dakota, more than 450 miles of interstate were frozen. in minot, frigid winds gusted more than 45mph. roadways because of limited visibility. even tow trucks needed towing. in bismark, the storm caught eric bjorie off guard. his honda civic had to get pulled out of the snow by a good samaritan. >> we deal with blizzardards every year, so it's kind of like

omar villafranca. is in bismarck, north dakota. >> reporter: people in bismarck waking up to single digits. and what you see here, snowdrifts. there is more snow in the forecast. even worse there is more wind on the way. wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour make it nearly unbearable. with temperatures still dropping people here are bracing for the worst. blinding snow blanketed boulder, colorado, overnight. clogging roads, causing crashes, and forcing emergency crews to help out. north dakota is no stranger to harsh winter weather. although it is technically still fall. nearly all of i-94 stretching across the state is closed. leaving the normally busy highway eerily silent. in minop, the international airport grounded all flights tuesday. whiteout conditions in nearby grand forks made driving nearly impossib impossible. this stop sign marked the only spot of color in a sea of white. in the east, in douglas county, minnesota, heavy winds whipped snow across the roads. bismarck, the capital of north dakota

omar villafranca, cbs news. >>> the death toll rises to 14 following wildfires that ravaged gatlinburg, tennessee. some of the names of the dead have been released including 34- who died along with her 9 and 12-year-old daughters. more than 100 people were injured, more than1,000 structures destroyed. today's rain helped suppress the fire which continues to climb through the smoky mountains. >>> in an interview with reporters today trump adviser kellyanne conway said donald trump will meet with additional include john bolton and john huntsman. exxon mobil ceo rex tiller son and joe manchin are also said to be on that list. >>> 50-year-old david junior washington is charged with first degree murder, robbery and grand larceny in the death of saleh attacked saturday morning while working at the sunoco on jefferson davis highway. washington beat the clerk with a piece of wood before stealing cash from the register. >>> police in prince william county need your help finding a missing 12-year-old boy. e zeke yam amoa was last -- purple shirt. call police if you have any information that migh

omar villafranca, cbs news, bismarck, north dakota. >> what a mess. >> just look, fun? >> just the sound of the wind, my fink remembers cold. i can just sense that on a live shot dealing with that in just a few weeks. or sooner? >> we have our own precipitation mess yesterday, little bit of snow, nothing like that, mostly rain for part of the area. we will quiet things down, but get ready for some cold, yes, we'll need the big winter coat, not to protect us from snow, but to protect us from arctic blast that is going to be moving in toward week's end. but right now temperatures, not too bad. given the season, getting check of r neighborhood network, you can see on the roofs there, that is a little bit of snow still lingering. 44 degrees the current temperature, clouds in place, winds generally tame, around 5 miles per hour. and getting live look in center city philadelphia, some sunshine, trying to break on through this low-level cloud deck, temperatures 46 degrees, bit of breeze out of the northwest 10 miles per hour adding to the windchill, feeling more like 41 degree

omar villafranca, cbs news, bismarck, north dakota. >> america's top health official are telling our young ones not to e-vape that significant rid. says e-cigarettes are not harmless, and teenagers should not be using them. >> this is a vape pen. this is a disposable e-cigarette. >> in the first of its kinds comprehensive report is out by the surgeon general, warning e-cigarettes are dangerously addictive. >> e-cigarettes went from being rare in 2010, to now being the most common tobacco product used by our nation's youth. >> what's behind a surge in use? government and medical experts zero in on widespread advertising, easy access, and state clean air laws that have yet to catch up. the report shows decades of education about the dangers of nicotine addiction are quickly being erroded by e-cigarettes miss under standing. >> this represents staggering development, in relatively short period of time. and it also threatens 50 years of hard fought progress that we've made cushing tobacco use. >> i started using e-cigarettes three years ago when i was high school freshman. >> darren, 16

omar villafranca is looking the a case in tennessee. >> reporter: these days, lawrence mckinney can't seem to stay still. the 60-year-old has spent enough time sitting in one place. how long were you in prison? >> 31 years, 9 months, 18 days and 20 hours. >> reporter: you have it down to the hours? >> yes, sir. mckinney of rape and burglary in 1978. the victim identified him as one of two men who attacked her in her bedroom. he was sentenced to 115 years. what's going through your mind when you're hearing that now you're going to prison? >> i still could not believe because i thought that it was a dream or something. >> reporter: in 2008, dna testing of evidence scientifically excluded mckinney as a suspect. prosecutors said if this evidence had been available, there would have been no prosecution. >> i don't have no life. all my life was took away. >> reporter: in 2009, he was since then, mckinney has depended on odd jobs at his church just to pay the bills. under tennessee law, he could be eligible for up to $1 million compensation. but the parole board which hears such cases has ej

omar villafranca is in bismarck. >> reporter: it's only fall, but winter is here in the great plain. in douglas city, minnesota, drivers battled nearly zero-visibility highway hour, whiteout conditions and icy roads made driving nearly impossible. >> you can see a sem turning the wrong way here. >> reporter: residents are digging out of a blizzard that blanketed parts of the state in 19 inches of snow. bismarck resident core gerts woke up to a seven-foot snow drift blocking her door. the arctic blast is on the move. the cold front is sweeping minnesota wwidespread subzero whind chill temperatures. all the way down to 30 below zero. the wind wind chill is 14 below zero because of these 40-mile-per-hour gusts. and, scott, residents expect this white stuff to stick around until the spring. >> pelley: omar villafranca with the big chill. thanks. today, the supreme court dealt a blow to apple. with samsung in a long-running patent dispute. the court found that samsung did copy some of the apple's design for the iphone, but not enough the to hand over all of its profits from samsung device

omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters cheered after hearing the army corps of engineers announcement it will not grant an easement for the dakota access pipeline to cross just north of the standing rock sioux reservation. >> either we make it or break it, and i guess we made it. >> reporter: the tribe and its supporters claim the pipeline will threaten the tribe's water source and cultural sites. said there will be no black snake going through here. >> reporter: the four-state 3.8 billion dollar project is almost complete in north dakota, except for the segment that would run under the missouri river. the dallas-based company building it has said it is unwilling to reroute it and incoming president donald trump has pledged his support for the pipeline. omar villafranca, cbs news, cannonball, north dakota. >>> in a ste building the pipeline said it has done nothing but play by the rules and it fully expects to complete construction of the pipeline. >>> president-elect donald trump has expanded his search for secretary of state. this week, he plans to interview a

omar villafranca, cbs news, lebanon, tennessee. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more on exxonmobil ceo rex tillerson, donald trump's expected choice for secretary of state. >>> plus author talking about donald trump on race. >>> i'm on ellis island. coming up on "cbs this morning," we'll meet an old school photographer who sheds light by skillfully manipulating it. >> that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching, i'm anne-marie green. have a good day. >> president elected donald trump set to pick rex tillerson as his secretary of state. when mr. trump is postponing a major press conference later this week. >> happening today, bill cosby goes back to court in montgomery county, tell you the decision prosecutors want him to make. >> major security breach approaching 34,000 people, we'll tell you the information that haak ers were able to get their hand on. and today is december 13th, it is tuesday morning, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. let's get your tuesday started with a check on justin and meisha. good morn

blinding snowstorms caused major pileups in the midwest and omar villafranca is in the deep freeze. >> reporter: a snow squall and click roads are being blamed for the deadly pileup of mangled cars, trucks, and 18-wheelers. three people were killed and inf vehicles careened off the michigan's i-96, just south of lansing. 300 miles east in lake county, ohio, another pileup with as many as 50 vehicles occurre truo icy road co father east, in upstate new york, the moving system dropped nearly 17 inches of sticky, lake-effect snow an hour north of syracuse. roads quickly became treacherous, testing the skills of any driver who dared to get behind the wheel. north dakota residents are still cleaning up after the one-two punch of snow and how long wind tore through the state. icy roads were too slippery for even the toughest four boschee'a ditch, but luckily... reid, showed up to pull him back on track. tim kunz of ace towing, started working earlier this week pulling dozens of cars and even bi roads around bismarck. >> the guys that are empty, it's been the wind. the wind pushes the traile

omar villafranca has been looking into a case in tennessee. >> reporter: these days lawrence mckinney can't seem to stay still. the 60-year-old has spent enough time sitting in one place. >> 31 years, nine months, 18 days and 12 hours. >> reporter: you have it down to the hours? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: a memphis, tennessee, jury convicted mckinney of rape and burglary in 1978. the victim identified him as one of two men who attacked her in her bedroom. he was sentenced to 150 years. what's going through your mind when you're hearing that now you're going to prison? >> i still could not believe because i thought that it was a dream. >> reporter: in 2008, d.n.a. testing of evidence scientifically excluded mckinney as a suspect. prosecutors said if this evidence had been available, there would have been have been no prosecution. >> i don't have no life. all my life was took away. >> reporter: in 2009, he was released and given $75. since then mckinney has depended on odd jobs at his church just to pay the bills. eligible for up to $1 million be board, which hears such cases, has reject

about possible charges. >> pelley: omar villafranca, thanks. hiring is solid, and the employers added 178,000 jobs in november. the unemployment rate in the obama years has dropped from 10% in 2009 to the 4.6% announced today. that is the longest streak of hiring since world war ii. but the unemployment rate dropped this time in part because of the high number of men who are out of work and stopped looking, so they're not counted in the labor pool anymore. along with jobs, the housing shows prices are where they were before the bubble burst in 2008. here's don dahler. >> two master suites. >> reporter: eric rothenberg has been looking for a home in the seattle area for past six months. >> it's great. i love the high ceilings. >> reporter: he says every time he's ready to bid on a home, there are five buyers ahead of him. >> i am prepared to get into a bidding war, but there's going to be ape point where it's going to top out, where i'm going to the hottest real estate markets in the country. in 2012, the median home price fell to $30 8,000 afte

omar villafranca is in bismark, north dakota, where it feels like minus 20. >> reporter: the arctic blast blew through colorado overnight, dropping six inches of snow in the denver area. to try and keep streets passable, but the fast-moving storm coated rocky mountain roads in ice, slowing 18 wheelers to a crawl. in bolder, emergency workers stayed busy responding to accidents caused by the slick streets. further east in north dakota, more than 450 miles of interstate were frozen. in minot, frigid winds gusted more than 45mph. roadways because of limited visibility. even tow trucks needed towing. in bismark, the storm caught eric bjorie off guard. his honda civic had to get pulled out of the snow by a good samaritan. >> we deal with blizzardards every year, so it's kind of like the same thing, but not twice right away in december. >> reporter: single-digit temperatures have now started freezing parts of the missouri river. behind me you can see chunks of ice flowing downstream. scott, the arc c heading toward the east coast, where colder-than-normal temperatures are expected by the end of

omar villafranca is covering the protests. >> reporter: scott, while thousands are bracing for blizzard-like condition, the mood here is definitely warm. cheers erupted and tears flowed as news spread throughout the camp that pipeline construction would not consider under the missouri river. that provides water to the sioux reservation. but many activists told me despite the news, they're still staying to make sure this't energy transfer partner, the company funding the pipeline, called the decision purely political. they're counting on the incoming trump administration to reverse the decision. today a spokesperson for president-elect trump said that incoming president supports the construction of the pipeline. people here are bracing for more snow and, scott, the forecast calls for sub-zero temperatures. >> pelley: omar villafranca, thanks. today the u.n. security council tried to impose a ceasefire to aleppo, syria, but russia and china vetoed the plan. no surprise. russia is backing the syrian military as it destroys neighborhoods held by rebels. war correspondent debora patta is in alepp

omar villafranca has details. >> reporter: the dash cam video from july of this year shows a fort worth police officer and a sheriff deputy responding to a robbery call. the two off-duty, uniformed officers approached david callie in an apartment parking lot. one pulls out a flashlight, the other his gun. there's no audio on the footage, but police say they told call tow stop and show his hands. a few seconds later, the officer fired twice, leaving callie crumpled on the ground. nate washington is callie's attorney. >> i see an attempted murder. i see an aggravated assault way deadly weapon. >> reporter: investigators say the officer shot callie after he spotted a silver object in his hand and thought it was a gun. it turned out to be a box cutter. callie spent weeks in the hospital and since he was charged with assault, he was cuffed to a bed. the 33-year-old can't move his legs. >> he couldn't move anything other than his arms. but they have him chained to the bed. >> reporter: this is the second video that has angered some members of the community. last week, a video was released sho

omar villafranca met the widow of one of the fallen in dallas. >> the holidays were really rdrd, a lot harder than i thought that they would be. >> reporter: in july of this year, heidi smith lost her husband of 19 years, dallas police officer michael smith. he was one of the officers illed in an ambush in downtown dallas. >> i don't see any end to it. it just seems to be getting worse. >> reporter: according to the latest numbers, 64 officers were shot and killed across the country this year. this marks a 56% increase over 2015. heve officers were killed in the ambush attack in dallas. three more were killed in a similar attack in baton rouge, louisiana, just 10 days later. in total, 21 law enforcement officers were killed in ambush- style attacks across the country. frederick frazier is the head of the dallas police association and says there are simple solutions. >> you have to have more officers on the street. eaat's the-- that's the easiest answer because an officer needs a partner. he needs somebody to watch his side, watch his back. >> reporter: for heidi and her two girls, the

villafranca, thanks. today the u.n. security council tried to impose a ceasefire to china vetoed the plan. no surprise. russia is backing the syrian military as it destroys neighborhoods held by rebels. war correspondent debora patta is in aleppo. >> reporter: this town was once a thriving aleppo neighborhood, but look at it now. bitter fighting between rebels and the government has destroyed it. a syrian government soldier leads us to the body of m the rebels in eastern aleppo are being pushed back by the searian army together with russia's military muscle. when a mortar landed on a mobile hospital, we were summoned to see the aftermath, but when we got there, we found russian troops. a russian general told us two nurses had been killed. "they are not opposition fighters. they are terrorist," he said. "they kill civilians." the full brunt of this battle under syrian and russian bombs. if they want to escape the bombing, they must run the gaunt let of this road, becoming vulnerable to sniper fire. this ma

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omar villafranca has the holiday getaway covered. >> reporter: after more than 350 flight cancellations and delays today, the last thing some travelers at l.a.x. can do is relax. >> i have waited for 10 hours. >> reporter: 4.3 million fliers are expected to pass season. nearly 239,000 just today, but unexpected rain on the west coast has kept thousands of them ground as delays keeping piling up, some unlucky travelers, like shana galinsky, aren't sure if they'll be home for christmas. >> i'm delayed, like, about an hour, so i'll miss my connecting flight so we'll see when i get home. >> reporter: in chicago, thousands of travelers are trying to get ahead of a winter weather system that could blankent the region. more than 100 flights have been delayed at oh, hair. the long lines are moving at new york's laguardia airport. liana hunt was patiently waiting with her travel partner, newman. >> he's been a big hit so far. the ticket agents loved him. really sweet security agents

but, elaine, fort worth police .ell us he is now back on duty. >> quijano: omar villafranca. omar, thank you. the man convicted in a church massacre in charleston, south carolina, told a judge he doesn't plan to call witnesses or present evidence for when the penalty phase of his federal teial begins next week. dylann roof is acting as his own lawyer. he was convicted of hate crimes and faces the death penalty for killing nine black parishioners in june of last year. can amazon's alexa voice assistant help solve a murder? police in bentonville, arkansas, think so. they served a groundbreaking subpoena on amazon to gain access to the device's audio files. erin moriarty of "48 hours" is here to explain. echoerin, what does a virtual assistant like the amazon echo r:? >> reporter: well, this is one. i brought it from home. and it is a device that is activated with a single word, a hot word or a wake word. and in this case, it's "alexa." it records my command, but it also records everything else, all the ambient sound in my thom. so in this case, in the arkansas case, the prosecu

omar villafranca is in bismarck. >> reporter: it's only fall, but winter is here in the great plain. in douglas city, minnesota, drivers battled nearly zero- visibility highway conditions. in bismarck, north dakota, with wind gusts topping 60 miles per hour, whiteout conditions and ss >> you can see a semi turning the wrong way here. >> reporter: residents are digging out of a blizzard that blanketed parts of the state in 19 inches of snow. bismarck resident corrie guerts woke up to a seven-foot snow drift blocking her door. the arctic blast is on the move. the cold front is sweeping across eastern montana to minnesota, widespread subzero wind chill temperatures. chill-- all the way down to 30 below zero. the wind chill is 14 below zero because of these 40-mile-per- hour gusts. and, scott, residents expect this white stuff to stick around until the spring. >> pelley: omar villafranca with the big chill. thanks. with samsung in a long-running patent dispute. the court found that samsung did copy some of the apple's design for the iphone, but not enough to hand over all of its profits

omar villafranca, cbs news, lebanon, tennessee. >> up next, love lost. and found. z26i0z z17vz y26i0y y17vy >>> we end tonight with a story of undying love. here is ben tracy. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: griffin madden and his girlfriend, love to dance on rooftops. and in nightclubs. but just before midnight on december 2nd, the dancing stopped. >> that guy right there. >> reporter: griffin was trapped inside the massive warehouse fire in oakland, california. 36 people died including griffin. tsai was not there. in her grief she remembered a moment the two shared in new york last year. they had just seen the "book of mormon" on broadway. on face? become she wrote the city was so beautiful and amidst all the lights i got to look at the brightest light of all, my sweetie. i cried and we kissed. a photographer nearby captured the moment, tsai's red lipstick still on griffin's cheek. >> they looked look nobody else existed. arkin avan took the photo one of 200,000 he has taken on the streets of new york. but for her this became everything. track down the photographer. maybe s

omar villafranca has been looking into a case in tennessee. >> reporter: these days lawrence mckinney can't seem to stay time sitting in one place. how long were you in prison? >> 31 years, 9 months, 1 days, 12 hours. >> reporter: you have it down to the hours? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: a jury convicted mckinny of rape and burglary in 19 # 8. the victim identified him as one of two men what attacked her in her bedroom. he was sentenced to 115 years. what's going through your mind when you are hearing that now because i thought -- that it was a dream or something. >> reporter: in 2008, dna testing of evidence scientifically excluded mckinney as a suspect. prosecutors said if this evidence had been available, there would have been no prosecution. >> i didn't have no life, all my life took away. >> in 2009 he was released and given $75. since then, mckinney depended on odd jobs at his church off to pay the bills. under tennessee law, h eligible for up to $1 million compensation. but the parole board which hears such cases has rejected his request twice. >> in the exoneration hearing we h