>> tonight, bad eggs, the fda is searching contaminated necessary 14 states, more than half a billion already recalled. >> i am jeff glor, also tonight, fueling controversy, iran begins fueling a nuclear reactor, israel reacts what does the white house say? >> steve, high speed and high risk on the water, drag racing in boats. >> and stealth help, fooling new students not putting on that dreaded freshman 15. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. >> good evening, we begin tonight with the massive egg recall, and numbers that remain

startling, 550 million eggs, the number called back so far, four more brands of eggs were voluntarily recalled today and even more recalls are expected. nearly 2000 is the number of american sickened with salmonella and those numbers could grow as the pda continues its investigation. tonight barry peterson has more. >> reporter: the fda said today that anxious americans waiting to see what went wrong need to wait a little longer. >> our investigators are on the ground now, conducting extensive environmental investigations, reviewing processes and practices on the farm to try and determine exactly what happened. >> reporter: in la it was breakfast as usual, don't hold the eggs. >> i like them, so i figure, you know, i will take my risk on it, yeah. >> reporter: and less like her, you had salmonella once before. >> i was sicker than i had ever been. >> her oops moment beginning what goes in french toast. >> that's why i got french toast

until i learned there was eggs in them. >> omelets, the advice from experts is clear, dump eggs listed in the recall, and if you are still concerned, follow this recipe. >> cook them thoroughly and not run any and the eggs are cooked all the way through, yes, they should be safe to eat. >> reporter: in fact, as outbreaks go this is far are the worst. >> close the 2000 cases reported since may. >> last year's incident of salmonella was wider and deadly. >> and while the company struggled with the recall, egg producers elsewhere are struggling to keep up with extra demand. >> it is bad for the industry but good for us because we have the good eggs. >> as for bad eggs, the cv a-1 case in 38 actually gets reported, the rest are minor enough people get over it fairly quickly, with 200 2000 actual cs reported that means more like 76,000 americans have suffered from some form of salmonella so far. >> jeff? >> barry pederson from la

tonight, barry, thank you. >> overseas tonight a controversial milestone in iran's nuclear program. the iranians began fueling the first nuclear power plant today, they called the plant designed and built by russia, quote, a symbol of defines of western sanctions. israel which claims iran's program is aimed at developing weapons said tonight the power plant is totally unacceptable. the u.s. reportedly told israel this week it would take iran at least a year to make a nuclear weapon, the chief white house correspondence is travelling with obama tonight and joins us from martha's vineyard, israel says totally unacceptable what does the white house say. >> they are downplaying any concerns on the plant and this is the way they say a nuclear power program is supposed to work, getting the fuel from russia and giving the spent fuel back to russia and has no opportunity to try to turn it into nuclear weapons and the international atomic energy agency is overseeing the entire

process, of course they are still deeply concerned about other sites all over iran where they think they are trying to develop nuclear weapons, but not this plant. >> let's talk about-face for a second. in the face of this debate over the proposed mosque near ground zero, polls this week show a surprising number of americans nearly a quarter still think the president is a muslim, a practicing muslim, he is not, of course, is the white house concerned about that? are they commenting on that? >> well, they certainly are surprised, you know, officials i have talked to say that they know the president as a deeply committed long-term christian, but they say it is true the president doesn't wear his religious beliefs on his sleeve, now they don't suddenly expect him to start talking about it all the time but they say he has talked about it before, and they do expect him to talk about it at some point again in the future. >> finally chip, the issue of vacations, critics right now say the president shouldn't be on vacation with the economy in such bad shape, is the white house responding to that? >> well, and vacationing in beautiful places like this does create an image problem, they

are saying look he spent 80 days since the beginning of his term either vacat vacationing and george bush spent 225 during that same period. they also say they believe the american people understand that somebody with a high pressure job like president and with a young family needs and deserves an opportunity to unwind and recharge the batteries, jeff. >> our chief white house correspondence chip reid travelling with the president, tonight, thank you. >> the president to run the bp oil fund says he hopes to process individual claims within 48 hours and business claims within seven days. but even before he takes charge on monday, there is already an uproar tonight over application guidelines. >> we have more on that. >> we survive off the water and live off the water. >> gulf coast restaurant owner matt chip has been rushed by the bp oil spill. >> financially personally i have lost pretty much everything, there is no more personal finances available in my life anymore. >> he has waited months for a

compensation check from bp. his alabama restaurant has lost a quarter of a million dollars. as of monday the fate of gulf coast businesses like his will lie in the hands of prominent washington lawyer ken fine bird. >> if you have documented your claim you will be paid in 48 hours. >> feinberg will take over as administrator of bp's 20 billion-dollar claim fund. he is touring the region explaining the process, helping people fill out forms and promising quicker payments. he faces a daunting challenge in trying to assign a dollar value to damages that could continue for years to come. >> under the rules for emergency claims, people who work near or make their living on the water will qualify immediately. >> fishermen, shrimpers, crabbers, oyster people, you are all covered, you are all eligible. >> yet for businesses far from the beaches, but that still claim spill related losses it will be more difficult to get compensation, and many are crying foul.

bp received claims from 48 states, 48 states. now, obviously we will not recognize claims from 48 states for harming this gulf shore. >> there are others that will not be reimbursed, including claims for loss of property value, mental health claims, and loss of jobs due to president obama's drilling moratorium. already protests are mounting. the word happy is not in the dictionary, nobody can be expected to be happy. these citizens have suffered a great harm, few will consider themselves happy over this. >> at the restaurant, the doors are still open, barely. >> it is a survival mode and that's what we are trying to do. >> now under the guidelines, people who receive emergency compensation will not waive the right to sue and if the $20 billion fund runs out bp says it will continue to pay legitimate claims. >> jeff. >> elaine, at the a know, thank

you. >> the whistle blowing when side on the verge of releasing more document mrs. the afghan war, he made news again today, sweden issued a warrant for the arrest of julian on a rape charge, but then that charge was dropped. richard roth explains. >> reporter: julian is the elusive 39-year-old australian put in the spotlight when his whistle blowing web site published thousands of classified pentagon documents on the war in afghanistan. >> he is the most extensive history over war to ever have been released during a war. >> u.s. officials called the wikileakss exposure the most damaging in years and warned he could face criminal charges but the arrest warrant in sweden was a total surprise. issued based on an accusation of rape according to a swedish prosecutor, then swiftly

rescinded. >> the prosecutor in question has decided there is no longer reason to believe that he has committed rape. and, therefore, there is no longer a warrant for his arrest. >> she said he is still being investigated on a molestation complaint, unrelated and unexplained, except on the internet, where his supporters blogs could fill a swedish crime novel, as one put it, he poked the hornet's nest. with more secret documents to release, a wikileaks lawyer says the pentagon has been offered special internet codes to access the data, but only he says, to minimize harm. >> there is not a possibility of doing anything else than saying please pay extra attention to this particular document. >> so you are not caving in to pressure from the pentagon now? >> absolutely not. >> nor is he making himself years to find, swedish authorities say they don't know his whereabouts.

>> richard roth, cbs news, london. >> officials in pakistan expect floodwaters covering a fifth of the country to finally begin receding in a few days but over 6 million people have no homes to return to and the u.n. says three and a half million children are in danger of contracting deadly diseases. >> we here at cbs news have very sad news to report tonight. hairline dow who worked on 48 hours since 1990 died today. harold won about every prestigious award in journalism there is. peter worked closely with him and i know this is difficult for you. >> jeff, the world stood still this morning for the cbs news family when we learned of harold's death. when harold started his career, there was no such thing as a black television journalist he was the first one in the state of nebraska working for kettv and there he moved up to the network and worked for calter cronkite and did it through merit and hard work and creativity, everything he would always bring to the broadcast,

and he did some extraordinary work here at cbs news, exclusive interviews with oj simpson when that story was at its peeks, mike tyson, patty hearst, who was kidnapped by a terrorist organization he got that interview which was the biggest in the world and of course the documentary, the breakthrough documentary 48 hours on crack street from which 48 hours was born. but harold was an even better person, i could tell you i am going to miss him but it doesn't even come close, all i can say is god bless you, harold dow and god bless your family. >> harold just loved every day that he worked, great sense of humor and he could interview anyone from a president to a pimp to an accused murderer to a rock star, we will miss him desperately, he was 62 years old. we will be right back.

>> glor: all of a sudden, it seems like they are everywhere from homes to the empire state building, government health officials say the country is fighting an alarming resurgence of bedbugs. joel brown has more tonight. >> reporter: it makes you itch just thinking about it. bedbugs are back, pint size pests tinier than an apple seed, with breakouts across the country. >> these are some nasty things. >> they are some nasty, insidious, very reproductively capable creatures. >> reporter: wayne wright studies insects and how to kill them, at his pest control firm in maryland, the business of bedbugs is way up. >> we go out to units where there are, units at home by the hundreds and sometimes thousands of bedbugs. >> reporter: ten years ago, only about a quarter of the nation's exterminators reported ever encountering a bedbug, this

year, it is 95%. >> i woke up and found myself i had a couple of bites on me. >> reporter: bedbugs want to be wherever the people are, homes, hotels, airplanes. human blood is all they feed on, in manhattan, this time square movie theatre was forced to shut down this week, bedbugs to blame. even the city's most iconic buildings, not immune, in the empire state building, bedbugs were found in a changing room in the basement. bedbugs do leave behind their own kind of calling card you can check your suitcase or your mattress for red or brown dots, it is a good sign of infestation, no one is certain what is refueling the sure generals. some suggest it is the rise in international travel. bedbugs were all but eradicated in the u.s. for 50 years, the pesticide ddt which is now banned helped wipe them out. >> if we had ddt now we probably would have some pretty ddt resistant bedbugs to try to deal with. >> reporter: more of a nuisance they are not a known health risk

but the tiny think bugs are proving to be a big headache to get rid of. >> joel brown, cbs news, tacoma park, maryland. >> glor: next on tonight's cbs evening news, mix speed, danger and water, you get this fast growing sport. ♪ and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels.