Warm winter weather in Russia is cause for revelry — and concern

Temperatures rose to unseasonable highs throughout Russia last week. In Moscow, city-dwellers welcomed the reprieve from the cold, casting off their heavy coats and delighting in the sound of singing birds. In more remote parts of the country, though, where people’s lives revolve around the expectation of temperatures well below freezing, the warm spell caused real problems, from melting ice roads to spoiling food in outdoor “freezers.” Levi Bridges has the story.