captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. late today, french authorities identified suspects wanted in the massacre this morning at the offices of a satirical magazine in paris. all are frenchmen. brothers in their early 30s are well known to police. 18-year-old hamyd moordad is described as a homeless man. 10 journalists were killed when two gunmen opened fire with machine guns during an editorial meeting at charlie hebdo which translates charlie weekly, charlie from charlie brown from the peanuts strip which ran in the magazine. two police officers were killed. the magazine lampooned all religions. the magazine called for the resignation of the editor after years of the prophet muhammad. liz palmer. >> reporter: good evening scott. well, the two brothers, you mentioned there were two brothers. french media are reporting the i.d. card of one of the men was in the freak. one had been arrested in 2005 for recruiting fighters to go to iraq. the french media are also saying both of them were in syria fighting this summer which

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the integrity of the most popular sport in america is being called into question just days before its biggest game. did the new england patriots cheat their way into the super bowl by deflating game balls so they would be easier for the quarterback to grip and for receivers to catch? today as the nfl investigates the man at the center of the controversy, tom brady talked to the press including anna werner. >> you know, i didn't alter the ball in any way. >> reporter: quarterback tom brady said he did pick out the game balls but insists he doesn't know what happened after that. >> reporter: are you comfortable within yourself that nobody on sunday on the patriots' said did anything wrong? >> i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrongdoing? >> reporter: are you comfortable that nobody did anything wrong? >> i'm very comfortable that nobody did it as father as i know. i was in the locker room preparing for a game. i don't know what happened over the course of the

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. late today, french authorities identified suspects wanted in the massacre this morning at the offices of a satirical magazine in paris. all are frenchmen. the brothers in their early 30s are well known to police. 18-year-old hamyd moordad is described as a homeless man. 10 journalists were killed when two gunmen opened fire with machine guns during an editorial meeting at charlie hebdo, which translates to charlie weekly charlie for charlie brown from the peanuts strip which ran in the magazine. two police officers were also killed. the magazine lampooned politicians and all religions. but al qaeda called for the murder of the editor after years of cartoons of the prophet muhammad. we begin with liz palmer. >> reporter: good evening, scott. well, the two brothers, you mentioned there were two brothers. french media are reporting the i.d. card of one of the men was found in the getaway vehicle. one had been arrested in 2005 for recruiting fighters to go to

th scott pelley" is next. captions by: caption colorado comments@cap >> pelley: tonight, a violent end to three days of terror. french police kill the gunmen behind the massacre at the magazine. but four more victims die in a second terrorist attack. this time a jewish grocery store. the french president warns the threat is not over. elizabeth palmer and clarissa ward are on the scene. bob orr is following the terrorists' trails and we'll have some thoughts about the failed attempt to silence the press. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. for the people of france, it was 54 hours of anguish, from the moment terrorists stormed the offices of a satirical magazine in paris wednesday to the moment today when french police stormed a kosher grocery store, freeing many hostages but discovering four more innocent victims. tonight, all three suspects are dead. brothers said and cherif kouachi, the men behind the massacre of

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. for the people of france, it was 54 hours of anguish from the moment terrorists stormed the offices of a satirical magazine in paris wednesday to the moment today when french police stormed a kosher grocery store freeing many hostage bus discovering four more innocent victims. tonight, all three suspects are dead. brothers said kouachi and cherif kouachi, the men behind the massacre of 12 people at the magazine charlie hebdo and amedi coulibali who acted in what the president called an act of antisemitism. his girlfriend hayet boumddiene is at large. police say she is an accomplice. we have extensive coverage and will start with elizabeth palmer at the seen on the store. >> reporter: after a tense standoff that lasted five hours police commandos suddenly swung into action. first with percussion grenades brakt(blasts) >> reporter: then storming both doors of the supermarket. a burst of heavy gunfire followed. with at least one body visible on the floor, the s.w.a.t. team officers faci

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we begin tonight with breaking news from washington. it appears the white police officer who shot an unarmed black man to death in ferguson, missouri, will not face federal civil rights charges. darren wilson had been cleared by a state grand jury in the death of michael brown but now cbs news has confirmed the f.b.i. has completed its investigation. justice correspondent bob orr has the details. >> reporter: the f.b.i. has been investigating officer darren wilson to determine if he intentionally violated civil rights laws when he shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown last august. brown, who was unarmed was shot multiple times after a confrontation with wilson. the shooting sparked widespread protests and the accusation that the officer had used unjustifiable source. a missouri grand jury though, exonerated wilson and cleared him of any possible state charges. now the justice department is getting ready to close its federal probe. source say the f.b.i. has completed interviews wi

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the integrity of the most popular sport in america is being called into question just days before its biggest game. did the new england patriots cheat their way into the super bowl by deflating game balls so they would be easier for the quarterback to grip and for receivers to catch? today as the nfl investigates, the man at the center of the controversy, tom brady, talked to the press, including anna werner. >> you know, i didn't alter the ball in any way. >> reporter: quarterback tom brady said he did pick out the game balls but insists he doesn't know what happened after that. >> reporter: are you comfortable within yourself that nobody on sunday on the patriots' side did anything wrong? >> i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrongdoing. >> reporter: are you comfortable that nobody did anything wrong? >> i'm very comfortable thatobod nobody did it, as father as i know. i was in the locker room preparing for a game. i don't know

scott pelley has that and all of the >> pelley: tonight frozen solid. flood waters from the nor-easter turn homes from iceboxes and wreck others. >> i never saw it. >> pelley: anna werner is in frigid new england. meteorologist eric fisher on the storm that's coming next. nancy cordes has the confirmation hearings for america's top law enforcement officials r official. and the best information for republicans? >> you're not eric holder are you? >> no, i'm not. >>.>> pelley: which cars are safest. and michelle miller with the men who took on jim crow. >> we were students tired of the status quo. >> pelley: today, a half century later, justice. >> we cannot rewrite history but we can write history. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is as much as 3 feet of snow in parts of new england tonight. lunenburg, massachusetts, for one. boston is digging out out of two feet but there is also ice and flooding. hard hit is marshfield, massachusetts where we find anna werner. >> homes along the

. >> pelley: good evening. president obama is about to do something he has never done before-- he will address a congress controlled completely house and senate, by the opposition party as he reports on the state of the union and lays out his agenda for the final two years of his presidency. the question, of course, is how much of that agenda the republican majority will accept. the president will say "this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules." chief white house correspondent major garrett has the speech hot off the press. major. >> reporter: scott, the president will tell the country the time has come to turn the page on an era defined by recession and direct u.s. combat in afghanistan and iraq. another excerpt just released from the white house the april will say: >> reporter: for the first time in office, the u.s. economy san asset to president obama. his approval ratings and consumer confidence have risen as he prep

captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: breaking news-- the >> pelley: breaking news-- the f.b.i. investigation of theuson c ferguson case is over. no federal civil rights charges are expected in the fataln th shooting of michael brown. bob orr has the latest. the measles outbreak is spreading, and ben tracy reports millions of american adults may need a booster shot and don't know it. anna werner on the nfl under pressure. the league nears the end of itses t investigation into charges that the super bowl-bound patriots underinflated nearly a dozenhampio balls in its championship victory.lack and john blackstone on saving anstar aging star. >> we have a senior rover.hy >> pelley: why nasa is notxiou anxious to let this opportunity pass. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: good evening, this is our western edition. we begin tonight with breaking news from washington. it appears the white police officer who shot an unarmed black man to death in ferguson missouri, will no

>> pelley: tonight targeting the elderly. as the flu spreads it's sending a record number of seniors to the hospital. but there's some good news about the flu season. dr. jon lapook is on call. two planes and one close call. >> the airplane's all over the place. >> pelley: jeff pegues on what happened next. >> more excitement than i needed today. >> pelley: from jan crawford on the eve of the super bowl. roger goddell talks about off-field violence, deflate-gate, and his own performance as commissioner. >> it's been a year of what i would say humility and learning. >> pelley: and steve hartman "on the road"" to a time long ago, lost, now found. >> you smell the smells. you hear the sounds. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. so let's start with the good news about the flu. today, the c.d.c. said that the flu season in much of the country appears to have worst of it. but the worst still includes this-- the flu is now widespread in all but six states, and it's s

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. tonight the number of measles cases is approaching 100, and we've learned that hundreds more people may have been exposed. as of tonight, there are at least 98 cases in 14 states, most of them in california, and most linked to that outbreak at disneyland. with each case, there is more pressure for those at risk to get vaccinated and here's ben tracy. >> six-year-old rhett krawitt has battled leukemia. his immune system is too weak from chemotherapy to get a measles vaccination. nearly 10% of the kids at his school are not vaccinated and that worried his parents, carl and jodi. if their son got measles, it could kill him. >> let's say if you're not vaccinated with a medical exemption, you can't come to school. >> reporter: but there are parents who have very strong beliefs about vaccinations and say i don't want them in my kid. >> we rely on the people that can be immunized to be immunized i to protect the rest of the population. >> reporter: it's what doc

here's scott pelley. >> pelley: tonight targeting the elderly. as the flu spreads it's sending a record number of seniors to the hospital. but there's some good news about the flu season. dr. jon lapook is on call. two planes and one close call. >> the airplane's all over the place. >> pelley: jeff pegues on what happened next. >> more excitement than i needed today. >> pelley: from jan crawford on the eve of the super bowl. roger goddell talks about off-field violence, deflate-gate, and his own performance as commissioner. >> it's been a year of what i would say humility and learning. >> pelley: and steve hartman "on the road"" to a time long ago, lost, now found. >> you smell the smells. you hear the sounds. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. so let's start with the good news about the flu. today, the c.d.c. said that the flu season in much of the country appears to have peaked. so we've seen the worst of it. but the worst still includes this-- the flu is now widespread in all

>> pelley: tonight tower of tears. france mourns the victims of the terror attack as thousands of police search for the killers. we'll look into their links to al qaeda. reports from clarissa ward, elizabeth palmer and bob orr. jeff pegues on why the u.s. is hitting honda with the biggest fine ever against a carmaker. vinita nair is covering the biting cold and blinding snow facing millions of americans. don dahler on a judge's decision today on whether a teenage cancer victim can be forced to get chemotherapy she doesn't want. >> this is my daughter's decision. i think she's mature enough. >> pelley: and on the day elvis would have become a roctogenarian, mark strassmann shows us how it all began. >> this is the holy grail of rock 'n' roll. >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight in their hour of sadness, the people of france are showing the world their determination. they mourned the 12 killed yesterday in the terror attack on the satir

with scott pelley" is next. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, targeting the elderly. as the flu spreads, it's sending a record number of seniors to the hospital. but there's some good news about the flu season. dr. jon lapook is on call. two planes and one close call. t >> the airplane's all over the place. >> pelley: jeff pegues on what happened next. >> more excitement than i needed today. >> pelley: from jan crawford on the eve of the super bowl. roger goodell talks about off- field violence, deflate-gate and his own performance as commissioner. >> it's been a year of what i would say humility and learning. >> pelley: and steve hartman "on the road"" to a time long ago, lost, now found. >> you smell the smells. you hear the sounds. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. so let's start with the good news about the flu. today, the c.d.c. said that the flu season in much of th

pelley reports the "cbs evening news" from new york. >> pelley: tonight, it's dangerous out there. a blast of winter hits much of the country turning roads into sheets of ice. we'll get the latest from kevin youkilis and meteorologist eric fisher. two more new york city police officers have been shot, and michelle miller reports tensions are growing between the cops and the mayor. a billion dollar drone program is supposed to catch illegal immigrants, but today we learned how much it's costing taxpayers for each arrest. >> if you do the math on that, that's about $27,000 per apprehension. >> pelley: and john blackstone on the new targeted of hackers. how they're getting their hands on your fingerprints and what they plan to do with them. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're going to lead the broadcast with the deep freeze, because tens of millions of americans are facing a bitter cold night. lows were in negative territory across the midwest today single digits in the northeast. the ill arctic wind blew no good

>> pelley: tonight frozen solid. flood waters from the nor-easter turn homes from iceboxes and wreck others. >> i never saw it. >> pelley: anna werner is in frigid new england. meteorologist eric fisher on the storm that's coming next. nancy cordes has the confirmation hearings for america's top law enforcement officials r official. and the best information for republicans? >> you're not eric holder are you? >> no, i'm not. >>.>> pelley: which cars are safest. and michelle miller with the men who took on jim crow. >> we were students tired of the status quo. >> pelley: today, a half century later, justice. >> we cannot rewrite history but we can write history. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there is as much as 3 feet of snow in parts of new england tonight. lunenburg, massachusetts, for one. boston is digging out out of two feet but there is also ice and flooding. hard hit is marshfield, massachusetts where we find anna werner. >> homes along the

tha >> pelley: eric, thank you. we had to show you this picture that caught our eye today from boston. there's no greater symbol of resilience like the marathon finish line. this man couldn't bear to see it covered.he he treated it with reverence. in another important story tonight, we waited all day for word on a prisoner swap but didn't happen. the kingdom of jordan offered to trade a prisoner for a pilot and japanese hostage held by i.s.i.s. holly williams is following this. >> reporter: the fate of japanese journalist kenji goto is now intertwined with another i.s.i.s. hostage, muath al- kasaesbah, a jordanian pilot whose plane crashed in syria during a bombing raid last month. i.s.i.s. vowed to execute both today unless jordan released sajida al-rishawi, a death row prisoner caught after failing to detonate a suicide bomb in 2005. the militants offered to free the japanese reporter in return and to spare the life of their jordanian hostage, though not to release him. in tokyo this morning, kenji goto's mother p

>> pelley: i'll take that as a dead. >> boehner: dead, real dead. >> pelley: make community college free of charge, dead or alive? >> mcconnell: we added more debt during the obama years than all the presidents from george washington down to george bush. and giving away free tuition strikes me as something we can't afford. >> pelley: i'll put that down as dead as well. increasing the federal minimum wage? >> boehner: bad idea. >> pelley: dead? >> boehner: it's a bad idea. i've had every kind of rotten job you can imagine growing up and getting myself through school. and... and i wouldn't have had a chance at half those jobs if the federal government had kept imposing higher minimum wage. you take the bottom rungs off the economic ladder. >> pelley: finally, dead or alive, tripling the childcare tax credit for working families? >> boehner: we're all for helping working class families around america. i think we'll take a look at this when he sends his budget up, something that could be looked at in the overall context of simplifying our tax code and bringing rates down for everyone. >> mcc

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. most folks never saw it coming. patches of ice, impossible to see, covered walkways and roadways across the northeast, knocking pedestrians off their feet, and sending cars and trucks skidding. there were hundreds of accidents in what looked like a demolition derby. tonight, the death toll reached nine, as three more people died in vermont and massachusetts. jericka duncan has our report. >> reporter: they looked like scenes from a movie, a tractor- trailer sliding out of control on i-95 near new brunswick, new jersey, barely missing cars as it jumped a divider. this s.u.v. slid for more than 50 yards on a street in yonkers,he n new york. in the northeast on sunday, more than 500 incidents were reported due to black ice. bijal patel arrived just after a deadly 60-car pile-up in philadelphia. >> shaken up. it easily could have been me. >> reporter: meteorologists say the rain froze almost immediately when it hit the cold roadway. today some are asking why

"cbs evening news >> pelley: tonight, a day of >> pelley: tonight, a day of mourning. funerals in france and in israel for victims of the paris terror attacks. we have new video of the gunmen, and new information about who financed their deadly rampage. reports from elizabeth palmer and bob orr. chip reid on questions about the safety of one of america's biggest subway systems after a passenger dies and dozens are injured. the freefall in gas prices continues. manuel bojorquez reports, while you're saving money, others are losing their jobs. and it's men against mountain. john blackstone on two climbers out to conquer el capitan as it's never been done before. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the funerals began today. victims of the terror attacks in paris were laid to rest in france and in israel. we'll have more about that in just a moment, but first, the latest on the investigation. there is new information tonight about who paid for the attack that left 12 people dead

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the nfl revealed today that the footballs for the a.f.c. championship were all checked by officials before the game and found to be legal, but after that check, something happened to the balls owned by the new england patriots. in a statement today the nfl confirmed that during the game those balls were found to be underinflated, which can make them easier to grip. the patriots crushed the indianapolis colts and are headed to the super bowl. anna werner is following this. >> reporter: the nfl may not know how those balls got on the field, but they were tossed out at halftime. all second-half game balls were checked at the end of the game and remained in compliance. league rules stipulate that each team provides 12 footballs before each game. the nfl's investigation is squarely focused on the ones the patriots provided. the nfl has hired both a law firm and an investigative firm that it said has sophisticated forensic expertise to assist in reviewing electronic and video information.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight the number of measles cases is approaching 100 and we've learned that hundreds more people may have been exposed. as of tonight, there are at least 98 cases in 14 states, most of them in california, and most linked to that outbreak at disneyland. with each case, there is more pressure for those at risk to get vaccinated and here's ben tracy. >> six-year-old rhett krawitt has battled leukemia. his immune system is too weak from chemo therapy to get a measles vaccination. nearly 10% of the kids at his school are not vaccinated and that worried his parents carl and jodi. if his son got meas telz could kill him. >> let's say if you're not vaccinated with a medical dpevmention, you can't come to school. >> reporter: but there are parents who have very strong beliefs about vaccinations and say i don't want them in my kid. >> we rely on the people that can be immunized to be immunized to protect the rest of the population. >> reporter: it's what doctors called herd immunity. if the

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. tonight the tail end of a powerful nor'easter is whipping northern new england. this is portland, maine, where the snow is coming down and the streets are deserted. the storm dumped as much as 2.5 feet of snow in places, but which places became an issue today. predictions that the new york city area would see an historic blizzard and paralyzing snowfall did not pan out. as the storm shifted overnight long island, east of the city and massachusetts took the beating. we have a series of reports tonight beginning with anna werner who joins us in boston. anna? >> reporter: scott, the snow is still coming down here. you can as you can tell from this bigd me pile of snow behind me, the snowplows are still workingg overtime trying to keep the streets clear. now, the city of boston had more than 26 inches of snow. outlying areas saw more than 31 inches of snow from this major storm. hurricane-force winds up tos wh 76mph created dangerous white- out conditions in

>> pelley: tonight, a big helping of winter. the northeast starts shoveling as much as 30 inches of snow but millions are not digging the less-than-accurate forecast. >> we in this country don't like to cry wonderful. -- wolf. we get angry. >> pelley: ben tracy on the growing measles outbreak and the debit over forcing parents to get their kids vaccinated. >> measles is an almost-always benign child illness. >> people don't remember children staying in dark rooms because they have measles and the light hurts their eyes. >> pelley: and on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz, a survivor tells dean reynolds about the family he lost. >> i said good-bye to them never to see or hear from them again. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. tonight the tail end of a powerful nor'easter is whipping northern new england. this is portland, maine, where the snow is coming down and the streets are we deserted. the storm dumped as much as 2.5 feet of snow in places

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. we have taken the broadcast outside tonight because that's where the news is right now. with snowplows running all over manhattan, a winter storm is hitting much of the northeast. it's about to turn enter a blizzard. in new york, we're expecting temperatures as low as 20, winds as high as 38 miles-per-hour and blowing, blinding, steadily mounting snow. blizzard warnings are up from atlantic city, new jersey, to portland, maine. and 52 million people are in the path of this nor'easter. forecasts are calling for as much as three feet of snow. state and local governments have begun closing roads and shuttingtatatiti down public transportation. we have a team of correspondents covering the blizzard of 2015. first we'll go to don dahler in new york where the entire subway system is about to close. don? system is about to close. don? >> reporter: yeah, scott, ther: last time new york city saw snowfall like what's being predicted for tonight was february 2006, 2

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have taken the broadcast outside tonight because that's where the news is right now. with snowplows running all over manhattan, a winter storm is hitting much of the northeast. it's about to turn enter a blizzard. in new york, we're expecting temperatures as low as 20, winds as high as 38mph and blowing, blinding steadily mounting snow. blizzard warnings are up from atlantic city, new jersey, to portland, maine. 52 million people are in the path of this nor'easter. forecasts are calling for as much as three feet of snow. state and local governments have begun closing roads and shutting down public transportation. we have team of correspondents covering the blizzard of 2015. first we'll go to don dahler in new york where the entire subway system is about to close. don? >> . >> reporter: yeah, scott, the last time new york city saw snowfall like what's being predicted for tonight was february 2006, 26.9 inches fell and virtually shut down the city. the mayor warns that tonight's sto

t pelley reports tonight from new york. >> pelley: tonight an attack on the u.s. military by hackers. david martin on if so-called cyberjihad that took down military twitter and youtube accounts. the search for an accomplice in the paris terror attacks. and where was the u.s. at that anti-terror rally? reports from holly williams and elizabeth palmer. dr. jon lapook on an outbreak of measles linked no disney theme parks. and the president and the preacher. >> hello? >> yes dr. king. >> yes mr. president how are you today? >> pelley: michelle miller on johnson, king and the search for the truth about selma. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. today the most powerful military in the world fell victim to hackers. tonight the f.b.i. is investigating how they broke into the twitter and youtube accounts of the u.s. central command, the command that overseas u.s. military operations all across the middle east, including the war against isis. the hackers claimed to be working on behalf of that terror organ

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the nfl revealed today that the footballs for the a.f.c. championship were all checked by officials before the game and found to be legal, but after that check, something happened to the balls owned by the new england patriots. in a statement today the nfl confirmed that during the game those balls were found to be underinflated, which can make them easier to grip. the patriots crushed the indianapolis colts and are headed to the super bowl. anna werner is following this. >> reporter: the nfl may not know how those underinflated balls got on the field, but they were tossed out at halftime. all second-half game balls were checked at the end of the game and remained in compliance. league rules stipulate that each team provides 12 footballs before each game. the nfl's investigation is squarely focused on the ones the patriots provided. the nfl has hired both a law firm and an investigative firm that it said has sophisticated forensic expertise to assist in reviewing electronic and video

>> pelley: tonight, a day of mourning. funerals in france and in israel for victims of the paris terror attacks. we have new video of the gunmen and new information about who financed their deadly rampage. reports from elizabeth palmer and bob orr. chip reid on questions about the safety of one of america's biggest subway systems after a passenger dies and dozens are injured. the freefall in gas prices continues. manuel bojorquez aren'ts while you're saving money others are losing their jobs. and it's men against mountain. john blackstone on two climbers out to conquer el capitan as it's never been done before. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the funerals began today. victims of the terror attacks in paris were laid to rest in france and in israel. we'll have more about that in just a moment, but first here's the latest on the investigation. there is new information tonight about who paid for the attack that left 12 people dead at the offices of the sat

from washington, here is scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. barack obama was first sworn in as president six years ago today today. he will leave office two years from today. so he has just entered what he calls the fourth quarter and he's about to let us in on his playbook. the opposition will be tougher now as he tries to get his agenda through congress. for the first time in his presidency, both houses are controlled by republicans. as he reports tonight on the state of the union some key numbers are moving in his favor. the unemployment rate and gasoline prices are down, and his job approval rating is up to 46%. joining

. >> pelley: good evening. most folks never saw it coming patches of ice, all but impossible to see, covered walkways and roadways across the northeast, knocking pedestrians off their feet and sending cars and trucks skidding. there were hundreds of accidents. tonight the death toll reached nine as three more people died in vermont and massachusetts. jericka duncan has our report. >> reporter: they looked like scenes from a movie a tractor-trailer sliding out of control on i-95 near new brunswick, new jersey, barely missing cars as it jumped a divider. this s.u.v. slid for more than 50 years on a street in yonkers, new york. in the northeast on sunday, more than 5,000 incidents were reported due to bla ice. bijal patel arrived just after a deadly 60-car pile-up in philadelphia. >> shaken up. it easily could have been me. >> reporter: meteorologists say the rain froze almost immediately when it hit the cold roadway. today some are asking why it seemed to catch state and local road crews by surprise. gene blaum i

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. the nfl revealed today that the footballs for the a.f.c. championship game were all checked by officials before the game and found to be legal, but after that check, something happened to the balls owned by the new england patriots. in a statement today, the nfl confirmed that during the game those balls were found to be underinflated, which can make them easier to grip. the patriots crushed the indianapolis colts and are headed to the super bowl. anna werner is following this. >> reporter: the nfl may not know how those underinflated balls got on the field, but they were tossed out at halftime. all second-half game balls were checked at the end of the game and remained in compliance. league rules stipulate that each team provides 12 footballs before each game. the nfl's investigation is squarely focused on the ones the patriots provided. the nfl has hired both a law firm and an investigative firm that it said has sophisticated forensic expertise to assis

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. today the most powerful military in the world fell victim to hackers. tonight the f.b.i. is investigating how they broke into the twitter and youtube accounts of the u.s. central command, the command that overseas u.s. military operations all across the middle east, including the war against isis. the hackers claimed to be working on behalf of that terror organization, and we have more now from national security correspondent david martin at the pentagon. >> reporter: the hack lasted about half an hour and no secrets were spilled. but it left the u.s. central command with egg on its face. its social media accounts briefly turned into propaganda platforms for the enemy. whether by accident or design, the hack occurred just as president obama was announcing new measures to tighten cyber security. >> if we're going to be connected, then we need to be protected. >> reporter: the central command twitter account, which has more than 100,000 followers, suddenly

. >> pelley: tonight, a day of mourning. funerals in france and in israel for victims of the paris terror attacks. we have new video of the gunmen and new information about who financed their deadly rampage. reports from elizabeth palmer and bob orr. chip reid on questions about the safety of one of america's biggest subway systems after a passenger dies and dozens are injured. the freefall in gas prices continues. manuel bojorquez aren'ts while you're saving money others are losing their jobs. and it's men against mountain. john blackstone on two climbers out to conquer el capitan as it's never been done before. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the funerals began today. victims of the terror attacks in paris were laid to rest in france and in israel. we'll have more about that in just a moment, but first here's the latest on the investigation. there is new information tonight about who paid for the attack that left 12 people dead at the offices of the sat

. >> pelley: good evening. most folks never saw it coming patches of ice, all but impossible to see, covered walkways and roadways across the northeast, knocking pedestrians off their feet and sending cars and trucks skidding. there were hundreds of accidents. tonight the death toll reached nine as three more people died in vermont and massachusetts. jericka duncan has our report. >> reporter: they looked like scenes from a movie a tractor-trailer sliding out of control on i-95 near new brunswick, new jersey, barely missing cars as it jumped a divider. this s.u.v. slid for more than 50 years on a street in yonkers, new york. in the northeast on sunday, more than 5,000 incidents were reported due to black ice. bijal patel arrived just after a deadly 60-car pile-up in philadelphia. >> shaken up. it easily could have been me. >> reporter: meteorologists say the rain froze almost immediately when it hit the cold roadway. today some are asking why it seemed to catch state and local road crews by surprise. gene blaum

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. we saw something today we haven't seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. the s&p nearly 38. in both cases a loss of nearly 2%. elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. >> reporter: today marked the worst drop in the dow and s&p since october. analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason but the continued free-fall in oil prices played a major role. bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. why are the markets tanking? >> oil did breech a kind of psychological barier going below $50 a barrel. when you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economic downturn

>> pelley: tonight, it's dangerous out there. a blast of winter hits much of the country turning roads into sheets of ice. we'll get the latest from kevin youkilis and meteorologist eric fisher. two more new york city police officers have been shot, and michelle miller reports tensions are growing between the cops and the mayor. a billion dollar drone program is supposed to catch illegal immigrants, but today we learned how much it's costing taxpayers for each arrest. >> if you do the math on that, that's about $27,000 per apprehension. >> pelley: and john blackstone on the new targeted of hackers. how they're getting their hands on your fingerprints and what they plan to do with them. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're going to lead the broadcast with the deep freeze, because tens of millions of americans are facing a bitter cold night. lows were in negative territory across the midwest today single digits in the northeast. the ill arctic wind blew no good

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. we're going to lead the broadcast with the deep freeze because tens of millions of americans are facing a bitter cold night. lows were in negative territory across the midwest today, single digits in the northeast. the ill arctic wind blew no good, pummeling much of the country with snow, ice and chaos. jamie yuccas is in the thing of it. >> reporter: more than 200 pileups around minneapolis made icy roads more like demolition derbies than highways. kent barnard with the minnesota department of transportation says black ice is the major worry. >> it's really hard sometimes to see black ice because it basically blends in with the pavement. >> reporter: and then we get all the crashes like we did today. >> absolutely. >> reporter: residents of sioux falls, south dakota, began their day clearing up to six inches of snow dumped by yesterday's storm. in sioux city, iowa, this s.u.v. veered off the road and ended up in an iced-over river. no one was injured. to

>> pelley: tonight, tower of tears. france mourns the victims of the terror attack as thousands of police search for the killers. we'll look into their links to al qaeda. reports from clarissa ward elizabeth palmer and bob orr. jeff pegues on why the u.s. is hitting honda with the biggest fine ever against a carmaker. vinita nair is covering the biting cold and blinding snow facing millions of americans. don dahler on a judge's decision today on whether a teenage cancer victim can be forced to get chemotherapy she doesn't want. >> this is my daughter's decision. i think she's mature enough. >> pelley: and on the day elvis would have become a rocktogenarian, mark strassmann shows us how it all began. >> this is the holy grail of rock 'n' roll. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. tonight in their hour of sadness, the people of france are showing the world their determination. they mourned the 12 killed yesterday in the terror a

scott pelley reports tonight from new york. >> pelley: tonight, slipping on oil. the stock market slides as the price of crude falls to the lowest level in nearly six years. elaine quijano has the numbers and the story behind it. also dropping, the mercury. dean reynolds on the first big cold wave of the year. sole survivor. adriana diaz reports this girl may hold the key to the mystery of a plane crash that killed four members of her family. >> [inaudible]. >> and airasia flight 8501 -- vicente arena confronts the man who sent jackson to prison for 30 years. >> we were innocent. we were about to be sent to prison for something we didn't do. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we saw something today we haven't seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow

. >> pelley: good evening. we saw something today we haven't seen since the dependents of the great recession. the price of oil fell below $50 a barrel. it ended the day at 50.04, the lowest close since spring of 2009. have a look at this. just since june of last year, the price of oil has dropped by more than half. no one knows when the slide will end. on wall street, the dow fell more than 300 points. the s&p nearly 38. in beth cases a loss of nearly 2%. elaine quijano is looking into why investors are worried. >> reporter: today marked the worst drop in the dow and s&p since october. analysts and traders say there was no one particular reason, but the continued freefall in oil prices played a major role. bill stone is chief investment strategist for pnc wealth management. why are the markets tanking? >> oil did breech a kind of psychological barrier going below $50 a barrel. when you see oil fall that much, historically that has been associated with a significant economic downturn. the difference is really t