by any measure, it could have been worse if it hadn' t been for a virginia tech professor who felt compelled to fight for the children of flint. i spoke with citizen scientist marc edwards via skype about why he took up the their cause. professor, welcome to the program. professor edwards: thank you for having me. tragedy in flint, you seem to be the one hope of a hero, maybe, if i' m not overstating it. how did you get involved? professor edwards: well, there' s actually so many heroes involved , and we were just helping them, frankly. the flint residents figured out on their own that their water had high lead in it because their children got lead poisoned and their growth was essentially stunted. so a mother did this all on her own, and also figured out that the state was not following federal law in terms of corrosion control, and so we got involved just to help them in terms of monitoring their water for safety. fernando: but you also, sir, i understand, you put a tremendous amount of your own resources into play. why did you do that? professor edwards: once we realized that no one would

and southside virginia, with nearly all snow along the i-81 corridor and the virginia. monday morning and slick this average of 4-6" of snow on the ground. while travel is not advised, if you must go out, be extremely careful. steady to expected through around midday before the changeover to a here. leslie: it's presidents' day. always the third monday in february. washington's birthday is on the 22nd. and lincoln's birthday is on february 12. it's set up to honor all our president of the united stateses, past presidents. happy presidents' day. [applause] phillip: michael strahan and i did something backstage. we had something called a miracle berry. have you heard of miracle berry? ok. so it comes from the miracle fruit, which is a plant native to west africa. it has mildly sweet flavor, but the fruit is treasured not for its own taste but what it does to your taste buds with regard to other food. so it contains something called glike co protein.

her home and the virginia tech campus. jan crawford is outside in christiansburg, virginia, where the pair is held today. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. i mean, this is an incredibly disturbing story that has people in this community asking not only how, but why it happened. now, the two suspects are expected to be arraigned here at the courthouse before a judge at some point today and police are continuing to sift through about 300 tips as they try to sort through what happened. police discovered 13-year-old nicole lovell's body on the side of a north carolina road. >> it was really, just a sickening feeling this could have very easily been one of my children. >> reporter: authorities believe virginia tech freshman david eisenhauer abducted and murdered the girl and another student natalie keeper has been charged with helping him get rid of lovell's bot. >> body. >> eisenhaw you're used to his advantage to abduct and kill her. >> reporter: permissing child poster noted she required daily medication f

he says central and southwest virginia are strong republican areas. bob denton, political analyst 07200620 it's going to be a spectacle. it's going to be donald trump. whatever he wants to say. he has somewhat of a stump speech but he's going to excite the crowd as a spectacle and of course he hopes to get the >>> they do have a time-out and decide not to use it. curry on top! bang! what a shot from curry! with 0.6 remaining! >> these type of spectacular shots from golden state's steph curry are becoming commonplace. less than a second left in beat oklahoma city on saturday night. >> i saw about the tweets on saturday night and said tune in. the thunder up big. i thought they would never win this game but the comeback was unreal! the shot! >> steph curry broke his own nba reason for threes a season. he has now 288. >> with more than 20 games left in the season! extraordinary! he's on a different plane right now. >>> this half hour, did chris rock's oscar jokes go too far? we will ask "the new york times" wesley morris about his social comedy and wheth

two virginia tech students are charged in connection with her murder. don dahler is outside the montgomery district court in christiansburg, virginia with the new developments. >> reporter: good morning. investigators are trying to piece together exactly what happened to nicole lovell after she disappeared from her bedroom, as her family plans to say their final good-byes with a viewing later today and a funeral tomorrow. >> she had a passion for pandas, music, dancing. >> reporter: a devastated tammy weeks trembled as she remembered the daughter she called choly. >> nicole touched many people throughout her short life. yeah, i can't do that part. >> reporter: at a press conference, authorities revealed 13-year-old nicole lovell was murder the hours after she snuck out of her bedroom window last wednesday. determination of the cause of death is stabbing. >> reporter: it's still unclear why virginia tech engineer students david eisenhauer and natalie keepers allegedly carried out the crime. keepers is accused of being an accessory to the murder before th

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it was her first day with the prince william couy police department in virginia. jeff pegues is at the court where hamilton's arraignment is scheduled to take place. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. not working at his job in i.t. at the pentagon joint staff services center. on saturday, investigators say he got into a heated argument with his wife and first to roll up was a rookie officer and military veteran. ashley guindon was jusus sworn ringing and hundreds gathered on sunday to celebrate fallen police officer ashley guindon. >> recognize that we will continue one step at a time in hohor of ashley.. >> reportete some covered a police car in flowers, while others visited the hospital where she died. >> she had been through so much with the marines and to have this happen over something so stupid. it's so sad. >> reporter: guind don wa serving her first shift died. a day earlier she was sworn in at the prince william police department where she had once interned. picture with the message, be safe. according to reports before deciding to become a po

the latest tracker battleground georgia, virginia and texas. clinton scored a decisive win this weekend. she beat bernie sanders by a landslide in saturday's south carolina primary. clinton will hold an event where nancy cordes is this morning. >> reporter: she is leading by 20 points here in virginia in our battleground tracker. it's one of two states a that she is visiting today. those poll numbers help to explain why increasingly clinton is turning her attention away from bernie sanders, training her fire, instead, on the republican candidates. >> i want to debate whoever they put up because here is what they are saying. they are selling the same snake oil, trickle down economics. >> reporter: clinton changed her focus after her south carolina blowout. >> tomorrow, this campaign goes national! >> reporter: she won the state's african-american vote by a staggering 72 points. on "face the nation," sanders >> we did really, really, really badly with older african-americans voters. we got decimate. >> reporter: tomorrow, he must compete in seven

four people died in virginia. chip reid is in waverly, south of richmond, where one community was torn apart. chip, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you can see behind me, a big pile of just somebody's belongings. but what is really sad about where i'm standing right now is that cinder block foundation back there, that used to be where a mobile home was. it was picked up and sent, who that is where three people lived, two men and a 2-year-old child, all of them died. it's believed that it all took off about 300 yards in that direction. >> a tornado just came through right on 460 right now. . tore this place to pieces. >> reporter: there were reports of multiple tornadoes in virginia, in addition to the three fatalities in waverly. homes were torn apart in pennsylvania also where 30,000 people lost power. at least three tornadoes were reported in north carolina. powerful straight line winds and pounding rains toppled trees and cut one home nearly in half. virginia governor terry mcauliffe will be here later

in the mountains a west virginia and if you do get a burst the snow you my have visibility lowering might find some look spots out there and a quick coating that attention goes to monday we of case one with the storm system stays a little bit more inland and brings in warmer weather quicker out give us snow in the beginning as we of a lot a cold air place snow in the beginning and that will quickly transition over to sleet freezing rain and plain old rain that will be a quick change over scenario number two brings that system a little farther to the south and east keeps the cold air locked in place a little while longer they'll give us a little more snow. but still looks like it will transition over to sleet freezing rain and rain monday looks like several inches of snow and then we see that wintry mix on topic could make travel very treacherous today mostly cloudy watch out scattered snow showers temperatures twenties low to mid thirties and is you had out over the next several days winter out windchill advisory through the entire weekend highs in the twenties overnight lows in the

without a ride to chesterfield, virginia. they were coming from arkansas when northern says a tractor trailer slide on ice and ran them off the road into a guard rail. northern says they all walked from the hospital to a hotel nearby but were turned away after a misunderstanding. a good samaritan helped them find another motel not far away. linda northern/mother: "i'm just beat down, i just don't know what to do. i just didn't even want to stand up for myself or anything. i was just so beat. i haven't had any sleep. nothing to that good samaritan and domino's donated dinner to the family yesterday. northern told us late last night they're reaching out to friends in richmond to come get them. a big concern this morning is ice. freezing rain will continue until temperatures at the surface warm above freezing. most hometowns east of the blue ridge will measure a glaze - .10" of ice with .25"

until i reach my peak performance. >> reporter: sunday, virginia state police searched a pond of virginia tech's campus and it was unclear for what. online, lovell's father shared his devastation writing, i'm so in shock. i know nothing more to say. i'm broken. now the result of an autopsy, that is still pending. and authorities are working to reconstruct a time line of nicole's disappearance and death. >> jan, such a disturbing story. thank you very much. i was devastated to read about this story.ed to hide questionable money from abroad. we will talk to steve kroft about this undercover video. newton's style points.. we are allll talking about them. boy,y, he has got the legs to show >> yeah, he does. >> fashion swagger right there. >> gayle hat inside scoop, right? >> fashion swagger right there. right there. >> colorful and bold i good morning. patchy fog could slow you down early today across eastern iowa. otherwise the weather will be quiet today with increasing clouds and highs near 39. a light wintry mix will move into southwest iowa this evening with snow increasing after midnigh

. >> meisha, thank youment next update 7:55, murder mystery in virginia to virginia two student behi >>> there is no shadow to be cast. >> did you hear that that means punxsutawney phil predicts an early spring. handlers brought him out of his burrow in philadelphia which by the way his record is not so good. he's wrong 61% of the time. i want to believe we're going to have an early spring it's warm in new york. >> that's right. 50 degrees tomorrow. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, will marco rubio's third place give him momentum in new hampshire? >>> plus new developments surrounding the two virginia tech students who killed the 13-year-old girl. what they first told investigators and the family shares memories. that's ahead. >>> "the new york times" reporting on new plans by the united states to deter russia in central and eastern europe. the white house is requesting more than $3 billion from military spending in europe next year. that's more than quadruple the current budget. the money will fund the deployment of heavy equipment in the region. >>>

some of the border counties would west virginia through the newer valley southwest virginia don't be surprised by that still find some slick spots a renowned again but the two areas of high-pressure to our west will be building in our direction that will eventually shut down the snow machine and we will see increasing sunshine pretty much throughout and later this week and you really start to notice the winds on the calm side today they'll still to find gusty winds in around the region in that twenty to thirty mylan our 20 to 30 mylan our range late today they will subside a little bit more right now most areas seeing mainly cloudy skies but over time that sunshine will eventually win out weeding to mostly sunny conditions highs today only in the thirties and chilly side and your first alert wtvj seven day planner see a good amount of sunshine saturday, temperatures a little bit warmer than today will be back up into the upper forties but look at sunday will see a few more clouds but to mid sixties monday and tuesday will be hovering in the lower sixties and then a little cooler wedn

back over to the east from roanoke rapids north on up into virginia, by patchy snow. but the purple areas of course are where we are seeing that precipitation starting to move up to more freezing rain than anything. and then of course downtown -- down south fayetteville, referred to park apartment county, very little of that song at the moment. here's a look at the bigger picture of the radar. you can see earlier this morning, we had a nice band that laid down some snow. up to the north, that has tapered off a good bit. you can see how that has changed over in the purple areas, where we are looking at freezing rain and really a lot of that. as we thought that changeover to freezing rain, heavier precipitation has moved up into virginia. you can see how light and patchy it is from goldsboro, moore county, too. here's a look at what's going on, of course, the traffic cameras really showing what happened. we have the beltline at six forks, traffic rolling, most likely from this slick bridge up here. just realized that no matter where you are you will run into slippery sp

he was born in virginia. >> what do you think. >> >> some object to foreign policy. some are very radicalized. each person is a little different. off therein's a sort of cocktail. >> how do they go from radical to action? fbi spends a lot of time thinking about this. it's not a crime to be radical. they're looking at are you starting to make weaponry? >> before you assembly a weapon you have to have some moment where you cross the line and say i'm going to do something. >> yeah. i mean that's a very -- that's a puzzle. i tried to answer that question in my book. for each individual that's a very -- >> no common denominator. >> yeah. no common denominator. here you have them born in the country playing video games. you found there's a certain profile. they're not loser-type people. >> a third of them are married. a third have kids. they're not as educated as the americans. similar incomes. >> you say the american dream has been good to them. >> yes. american muslims in general. they're well integrated into >> is this a growing threat for the united states. >> >> no. i

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virginia's 4 p-m burning law goes into effect next week. it's also the start of spring fire season in the commonwealth. under the law -- between february 15th and april 30th, you cannot burn anything before 4 p-m, that's within 300-feet of woodland, brushland, or areas of dry grass. if you do, you could be fined up to 500- dollars, as well as the cost of putting out the fire. last year, 616 wildfires burned more than 59- hundred acres in spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a high near 37. watch for slick spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a high near 37. watch for slick spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a high near 37. watch for slick spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a watch for slick spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a high near 37. watch for slick spots this morning. we'll continue to see passing snow showers today with a watch for slick spots