Northeast snow
Boston officials say it’s not just the new snow raising concerns, but it’s that it comes on top of the huge accumulation after two previous storms. CBS News Correspondent Jericka Duncan reports, nearly five feet has fallen in just over two weeks, and plows have already removed enough of it to fill 90 football stadiums.
Fight against ISIS in Iraq
Kurdish peshmerga forces battling ISIS in northern Iraq say they’re massively out-gunned, and their lives depend on getting desperately-needed military supplies from the U.S. CBS News Correspondent Holly Williams reports from the frontline in northern Iraq.
Swiss leaks
The largest and most damaging Swiss bank heist in history doesn’t involve stolen money but stolen computer files with more than 100,000 names tied to Swiss bank accounts at HSBC, the second largest commercial bank in the world. It’s now being used to go after tax cheats all over the world. 60 Minutes Correspondent Bill Whitaker working with a group called the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, obtained the leaked files. They show the bank did business with a collection of international outlaws: tax dodgers, arms dealers and drug smugglers — offering a rare glimpse into the highly secretive world of Swiss banking.
To arm?
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with President Obama at the White House today, there is one big point of contention they are expected to discuss: whether the United States and Europe should give lethal aid to the Ukrainian military as it looks to defeat pro-Russian separatist militias. Tom Donilon, the president’s former national security adviser, said on CBS News’ Face the Nation that while he is in favor of arming the Ukrainians, the “sequencing” of decisions will be important.
Cyber-warrior
The recent cyber invasions of Sony studios and military Twitter feeds highlight how hacking has morphed from a commercial nuisance to a matter of national security. 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, the man the Department of Defense has put in charge of inventing technology to fight this new Internet war is Dan Kaufman. He heads the software innovation division of DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, tasked with maintaining our militarytechnological superiority.
Leaky retirement
A good retirement savings strategy can be undermined when money leaks out of your accounts before retirement. Money leakage is a serious issue for retirees, given the almost universal shift from traditional pension plans to 401(k) plans and IRAs as the primary source of retirement security. Historically, the leakage from traditional pension plans has been very small. According to an estimate, leakage can ultimately reduce the value of 401(k) and IRA accounts by 25 percent in aggregate.
Measles memory
Most parents of young children today never, in their own childhoods, witnessed siblings and friends fall ill with measles. Many doctors in the U.S. have never seen a case. Five decades of vaccination efforts virtually eliminated the virus from this country. Now many experts say the current measles outbreak — which has so far sickened more than 150 people — demonstrates what happens over time when the frightening realities of a contagious disease fade into history.
Schieffer on vaccinations
As Mark Twain once remarked, “A lie can travel around the world while the truth is putting its boots on.” Underline that in the age of the Internet, as vaccination rates dropped in some places, and measles came back.
Foreign credentials
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker heads to London Monday for a four-day trade mission, and he’s got to be hoping that his trip goes better than the one fellow Republican Gov. Chris Christie took last week. His staff struggled to reassure the press that yes, Christie does believe children should be vaccinated, a contentious interaction with a reporter in which the governor refused to answer other foreign policy questions, and scores of headlines declaring the trip a train wreck and a disaster.
Edible pot
Edible pot products, like brownies and cookies, make up about 45 percent of the legal marijuana industry in Colorado. And companies that make and sell these products now have to comply with new packaging, labeling, and potency restrictions. It looks like candy, but this is candy infused with pot. CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen reports, the process is still the same, but under a new state law, the packaging is not.
Iconic image
It’s almost impossible to illustrate a history of American music in the late Sixties and Seventies without Diltz’s pictures. It’s been almost 50 years since Diltz firstpicked up a camera. Anthony Mason reports for CBS News Sunday Morning, Diltz shot The Mamas & The Papas, the Eagles, and Jackson Browne for their album covers Paul and Linda McCartney for a Life magazine cover, a young Michael Jackson, an old B.B. King.
The League
The League is a new dating site that claims it will help you find the right partner, provided you fit in. Like a lot of other dating sites, it’s free to join, but unlike others, good luck getting in. It already has a waitlist of 75,000 people. CBS News Correspondent Anna Werner spoke to the League’s creator, Amanda Bradford, in an interview you’ll see only on “CBS This Morning.”
