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that's the secret. >> who knew! got a story idea or comment you would like to share with us? email brian@cbs5.com. see you at noon. thanks for watching. final countdown. final countdown. the 33 trapped miners could be rescued as early as tonight as officials start to bring them to the surface. we are live in chile with the latest on the operation. focus on favre. the football great speaks out about allegations he spent photos to a reporter apologizing to teammates for the distraction. what did he tell them? >> that's between me and my teammates. apparently not all of them. we'll take you inside the nfl's investigation of the growing scandal. classroom meltdown. a teacher loses it and it's caught on a student's cell phone. [ inaudible ] we'll tell you what happened to the teacher and why he's now in
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a hospital. early this tuesday morning, a hospital. early this tuesday morning, october 12th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good morning. from new york, hope your day's off to a good start. i'm maggie rodriguez. >> i'm harry smith. three weeks from today, midterm elections. a lot of people say the republicans are going to take over the house. some say really it's the senate, too. big changes afoot in washington. we'll look into it with former arkansas governor mike huckabee. talk to him exclusively. also ahead this morning, do you want to live to be 100? you should probably move to the place in the world with the highest life exec ppectancexpec. we begin with miners trapped more than two months in chile.
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by this time tomorrow, some of them may be back on the surface and back with their families. cbs news correspondent seth doane is at the san jose mine this morning with the latest on rescue efforts. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, maggie. imagine for a moment the height of the eiffel tower and then double it and then imagine traveling that distance in a tiny capsule through solid rock. that is the incredible rescue operation that's about to get under way today after engineers ran several successful tests of the capsule yesterday. these are the first pictures of that 13-foot tall capsule lowered into the rescue shaft for test runs monday. it was winched 56 feets from the miners, 2,000 feet down. >> we could risk that somebody would jump in. >> reporter: a successful test monday paved the way for the next step, installing a winch
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system to pull them up, most likely starting late tonight. the order coming out is held on a secret lift. shift leader is said to have volunteered to be last. on the surface, teams of doctors will immediately evaluate them. this will be their next stop. air lifted to a hospital for observation. here, beds have been readied for their most famous patients yet and an examining room as dark as a movie theater designed to mimic the mine. deep underground, miners are said to be contemplating life after this odyssey. speak lating about movie and book deals and just outside the mine, loved ones reflected on the last two difficult months. there were days when we lost all hope, maria herrera told me.
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but i don't want it to take away from the joy we're feeling now. herrera is anxious and excited to see her brother daniel again. she pleaded, i want you to tell the whole world that what's happened here was a miracle. now, last night it seemed almost a reflective calm seemed to kind of fall over camp hope here. but of course, this morning tensions are rising. nerves are on edge. as a rescue nears possibly tonight. maggie? >> seth, it's a very interesting that rescuers decided to bring the fittest miners out first and stands to reason that the fittest people able to endure the longest undergrown. can you explain the thinking behind that strategy? >> reporter: absolutely. it seems kind of counter intuitive, doesn't it? rescuers want the fittest, most able, most tech savvy out first to glean as much information about that journey up as possible. in order to help the rest of the
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rescue process. maggie? >> makes sense. seth doane at the san jose mine, we'll see you again tomorrow. thank you. here's harry. now to politics, three weeks from today, voters across the nation will head to the polls for the all-important midterm elections. and democrats are fighting hard to keep seats they once considered safe. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes is in west virginia, one of the new battleground states. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: harry, good morning. the democratic governor here in west virginia has very high approval ratings and yet he's tied for trailing in the polls for senate. so he's released a new ad to try to shake up this race. >> i'll take on washington. >> reporter: if you didn't know any better you would think senate candidate manchin was a republican taking a shot at the president's energy bill in the new ad. >> i'll protect our second amendment rights. >> reporter: he is a democrat firing at his own party. >> i'll take dead aim at the cap
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and trade bill. >> reporter: talk about extremes in the election. isn't it treatment to be firing a gun talking about anyone's agenda? >> in west virginia, if you can't handle a gun, you should run for office. >> reporter: firing at will egs? >> sometimes you need to blow it up when it's bad. >> reporter: here in west virginia the president is deeply unpopular so governor manchin is distancing himself. >> the only rubber stamp i have ever been and will ever be is for you in west virginia. >> reporter: he is not the only candidate putting the president at arm's length. democratic candidate jack conway argued he's his own man. >> this election is not about president obama. this election is about jack conway versus rand paul. >> reporter: democrats playing defense all over the map in the final stretch. 12 of their senate seats are at risk compared to five republican seats. >> william jefferson clinton. >> reporter: former president clinton is trying to help stop the bleeding using the
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wide-spread popularity to campaign for two senate candidates on monday. >> you should thank your lucky stars that you have a governor who's willing to go to washington and do there what was done here. >> reporter: now, there are many places where president obama is being welcomed with open arms by candidates. in fact, he's campaigning in four states this week. there is one president we haven't seen out on the campaign trail this election season, and that's george w. bush. nancy cordes, cbs news, forbegantown, west virginia. >> joining us from destin, florida, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. a fox news contributor and host of "the huckabee show" on the weekend. good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> does this surprise you? because i'm thinking okback to your own candidacy and running in iowa several summers ago, occurs to me you were tapping into the same stuff rising up
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across the country right now. >> yeah. i was a four years too early, harry, obviously. i think there was a sense of discontent beginning to brew, and i was speaking to it but obviously it's grown and i think that sometimes people mistake that the tea party movement is being some republican movement. what it really is a citizens' uprising. a matter of voters watching the government know they can't do in their own businesses and households and that's spend money they don't have and borrow money they can't afford to pay back. >> creates a very interesting conundrum for the republicans welcoming the change in all of these seats predicted and both the house and the senate. but if you look at some of the polling numbers, tea party supporters themselves says -- say there's a lot or some, 84% say there's a lot or some difference between them and republicans. this is not going to be an easy thing to fold in these folks once they get in office. >> well, republicans need to
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understand that it's not that the tea party or the american people in whole are in love with them. they're just so angry that the democrats have shoved down bailouts on them, obama care that they didn't want, overwhelmingly rejecting it. they're tired of the stimulus bills that cost jobs. unemployment hovering near 10% with the net job loss. every month the economists say we're so surprised losing jobs when the economists every month are wrong, maybe they need to be unemployed because they haven't gotten it right yet. i think that what we're really seeing, harry, is that to me this is an affirmation of the greatness and the genius of our founders. they created america to be a self-cleaning oven so that when things get really nasty and the politicians gunk it up, the citizens turn up the heat and then come november 2nd, we open the oven door, sweep out the ashes and give it a new start. >> here's my question, though. when it's time to govern, can
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anger govern or how about this one? if a tug of war starts between the tea party folk and the mainstream republican, who will win that tug of war? >> the people ultimately win and that's the good news for america. political parties are to serve people not to lord over them. the democrats did what they wanted to do and recklessly and irresponsibly disregarded their bosses. if the republicans who have done this in the past and that's why they got booted out in '06 and '08, if they do it again then i think we could be looking at an unusual political climate. if the republicans even have so much as single digit iq after the election they're going to go and cut spending, they're going to do something significant to show that they really mean business when it comes to making government responsible again which hasn't been for a very, very long time, harry. >> mike huckabee, appreciate your time this morning and your insight. good to see you.
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>> thank you very much. >> here's maggie. >> i like that oven analogy, right? time for a look at the rest of the day's head leans. jeff glor is filling in. good morning. >> good morning to you. good morning, everyone. the cleanup continues this morning after some wild weather overnight here in the northeast. is severe storms rolled through new york city. they brought lightning flashes, heavy rain and quarter-sized hail. the hail fell so fast in parts it almost looked like snow in brooklyn. the weather last night delayed the start of the jets and vikings monday night football game. in texas, the alleged ft. hood shooter returns to court facing the accusers for the first time. major hassan allegedly opened fire at mt. hood. he is charged with 32 counts of attempted murder and 13 counts of murder. victims and victims' relatives will be testify today. a medical breakthrough as
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doctors injected a patient with stem cells from a human embryo to try to repair spinal cord injuries. given within seven to 14 days, it's designed for patients paralyzed from the chest down. doctors should know within two months if it's restoring any function. it was a case of real-life interfering with art. take a look at this. a washington, d.c. police suv hit yesterday during the filming of the movie "transformers 3." it collided with a yellow camaro known as bumblebee. the police officer apparently did not know about the filming. >> the police car, he just came through the cut, taping and everything and just came through and all of the cars had to swerve around but bumblebee was in the back and couldn't see. once he came around, it was like, boom, too late. >> little guys are like, what's
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it's 14 minutes past the hour. that's your latest weather. maggie? >> thank you very much, dave. this morning a future hall of famer caught in the middle of a nfl sex scandal. brett favre is scrambling to deal with not only a loss to the jets last night but also allegations he sext'd very racy photos and now speaking out
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about it. cbs news correspondent ken dis gibson in new york tonight. >> reporter: arguably the best quarterback of his generation staring at a scandal more potent than any lineman with the jets last night. did favre send the voice mails and left the photos for a sideline reporter? you're behind the scenes of my photo shoot. >> reporter: no doubt jen sturger can turn heads and two years ago as a sideline reporter, one of the heads she may have turned belonged to quarterback brett favre. >> you know, these guys feel entitled and do some stuff they probably shouldn't. >> reporter: what favre, who's married with two daughters and grandson allegedly did was call her, sports website says he left this voice mail for her in 2008. >> i'm going back to the hotel
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and just, just chill. so send me a text because i'll be in the building for a couple hours. love to have you come over tonight. >> reporter: he reportedly then sent naked pictures of himself. >> it violates, like, that should be -- should probably violate the league's code of conduct policy and possible harassment. >> reporter: nfl commissioner promised a full investigation, one favre says he will cooperate with. but the issue may go beyond this. "the new york post" reported favre had similar contact with two women hired by the jetds to give massages. one told the paper he was looking at me like i was a hanging slab of meat. >> no. i'm not getting into that. >> reporter: favre who's now a minnesota viking reportedly broke down in tears as he apologized to teammates for being a distraction before last night's game against the jets. >> what was the message you gave your teammates?
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>> that's between me and my teammates. apparently not all of them. >> reporter: on the field, favre nearly managed to stage a comeback with three second half touchdown passes and the first quarterback to throw 500 in a career. the vikings fell short losing 29-20. after the game, favre refused to address the scandal. >> nope. >> reporter: he'll eventually have to answer to the nfl for questions that aren't going away. and depending on the outcome favre could face a fine or possible suspension. maggie? >> kendis gibson in new jersey, thank you. still ahead for us, a desperate search for a missing girl in north carolina. we'll speak with two members of her family. also this morning, a teacher has a violent meltdown in the classroom. and it's all caught on tape. we'll tell you what happened to him and the students. uncovering the mountain of youth. we have tips on how you can live to be 100.
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it's 7:25. time for news headlines from cbs 5. i'm elizabeth wenger. ticket lines went up outside children's hospital oakland about a half hour ago. hundreds of nurses have just started a three-day strike to protest the lack of a new contract since their old one expired in july. the main issue is healthcare costs. hospital officials have hired replacement workers and plan to operate as usual during this strike. no injuries reported from this morning's apartment complex fire in antioch. that fire started a little before 4:00. four units in the complex on gentrytown drive were damaged. some people in the area say they heard explosions about the time the fire started. the cause is still under investigation. well, the san francisco giants are in the national
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league championship series! the giants had another close come-from-behind win in atlanta last night. they won 3-2. they took their series with the braves three games to one. next game is saturday when the giants start a best-of-seven series against the phillies in philadelphia, whoo! traffic and weather right after this. i know precisely why thbs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer, and i approved this message.
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westbound highway 4 the ride through antioch stop and go. they cleared a two-car accident near hillcrest that had traffic backing up tropical -- backing
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up towards the antioch bridge. jammed up from 242 and at the bay bridge toll plaza, we are just getting word of a stall now near the san francisco anchorage. traffic backed up towards the maze. and if you are coming down the eastshore freeway, got an accident westbound 80 at mcbride. traffic is backing up towards hercules. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> all right. how about this weather, clear skies all the way to the coastline temperatures heating up already. sun coming up on what looks like a hot day around the bay area again. red flag warnings fire danger high today. be careful and we also have a heat warning inside the bay as temperatures will be running unusually warm. 80s and 90s in the bay, 70s and 80s at the coast, 90s inland. temperatures cool off on the weekend. low clouds and fog make a return late wednesday night into thursday. everybody cooling down for the weekend.
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really nice crowd out on the plaza this morning. we'll get out there and get a chance to get to know them a little bit better a little bit later on this morning. welcome back to "the early show." teachers getting angry at their students, nothing new, perhaps. i don't know if you've seen this tape. my gosh, this teacher in nashville, who literally melts down in front of the classroom. some of what's disturbing is kind of reaction of the kids in the class, and it's not a pretty sight. we're going to take a closer look at what exactly transpired a little bit later on this morning. >> and we get to see it because every kid has a cell phone with a camera these days. we'll have that also ahead. did you know that america ranks 49th in the world in terms of life expectancy. not so great. our dr. jennifer ashton is here
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with what we can learn from other countries and live to be 100 years old. but first, police say time is running out in the search for 10-year-old zahra baker. the little girl suffers from bone cancer and one thing that's making the search difficult is that officials aren't sure how long she's really been missing. before we speak exclusively with two members of her family, cbs news correspondent whit johnson has the latest on the story from hickory, north carolina. whit, good morning. >> reporter: maggie, good morning to you. zahra baker was actually home-schooled this year. police say they haven't found anyone outside her immediate family who has seen her in the past few weeks. it's now been three days since she's gone missing, and we still know little about what may have happened to her. police and the fbi are still trying to piece together a time line. 10-year-old zahra clare baker's disappearance. around 2:00 p.m. saturday adam baker called police to report his daughter missing. he also told investigators that his wife said she last saw zahra
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asleep in her bed about 12 hours earlier. zahra suffers from bone cancer. a disease that's left her with hearing aids in both heres and a prosthetic leg. both her hearing aids were found in the home. neighbors say they haven't seen the girl outside the house in weeks. investigators found what they believe to be a ransom note addressed to her father's boss. and while authorities haven't ruled out the possibility of a random kidnapping they have their doubts about the note, which read in part, we have your daughter, and your son is next unless you do what is asked. 1 million, unmarked. we'll be in touch soon. >> we are questioning the note. we have no further demands from that note. >> reporter: on sunday police arrested elisa baker, zahra's stepmother, on unrelated charges. later that night a search warrant revealed police dogs detected the smell of human remains in two of the baker's cars. >> i hope and i pray that we'll find her and she'll be okay. because that young one was the best young one you could ever ask for.
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>> reporter: now there was also a fire reported at the family's home the same day zahra went missing. police admit this is a complicated case with many layers, and they need more help from the public to put the pieces together. maggie? >> whit johnson in hickory, north carolina. thank you, whit. let's get a bit more insight into zahra's life and her story. also in hickory this morning, joining us exclusively, two of zahra's relatives, brittany bentley, who is married to zahra's stepmother's nephew, and kim drum, her mother. good morning to you both, ladies. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> brittany, let me begin with you. what do you think happened to zahra? >> my honest opinion, i think -- something to do with it. something for a long time that we knew was going to happen. everybody that was close to the family. >> okay, let's tell our viewers, i'm sorry to interrupt but i want to make sure our viewers follow the story. lisa is zahra's stepmother and you are married to lisa's nephew and say that you saw them
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frequently. what makes you think that she would harm zahra? >> just from the times i went over there. the environment she lived in. she was locked in her room, allowed five minutes to eat, that was it. she was beat almost every time i was over there for just -- just the smallest things. lisa would get mad and take it out on zahra. she just had a horrible home life. one time i remember she had a black eye and she said it was from the door. but we all knew it was from lisa. so, yeah. >> wow. she was locked in her room all day? she was beaten? did anyone -- did her father, for example, try to stop this or did anyone report this to authorities? >> that's the crazy thing. i never saw adam spank her, punish her, do anything. but he would sit there and watch lisa do it to his child. he would just sit 24r and not say anything. yes, her daughter actually reported to dsa, and they came.
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i don't know how much was done. but yes, it was reported. >> we should say that lisa has been arrested, but on charges that have nothing to do with zahra's disappearance. so, kim, let me ask you, do you believe it's possible that this was just a random kidnapping? >> no. i knew it from the moment my father had called and told me, this is lisa. >> they found -- authorities say that they found zahra's hearing aids in the home. but they didn't say anything about her prosthetic leg. what does that tell you, kim? do you find that unusual? >> that's -- that's what's completely made it unusual to me. zahra, when she spent the night with us, and she stayed with us a lot, an hour before she would go to bed, she would always take her leg off. it was just -- it was a routine for her. she never, ever went to bed with her leg on. >> i can't imagine what it must
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have been like for a child to endure, if she did endure what you say she went through, plus have this bone cancer that has robbed her of her hearing and a leg. how did she handle her disabilities, brittany? was she kind of a miserable child or was she
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story. jeff, good morning. >> harry, good morning to you. nashville math teacher's tirade went from odd to violent during an 11th grade algebra class, all while one student's cell phone camera was rolling. brian boyd has been a teacher for 21 years but it seems unlikely students have seen anything like this. at first -- >> shut up. >> reporter: students could be heard laughing at her teacher in what seemed like harmless play. but as things escalated and became more violent -- students ran from the classroom. >> once everybody had started running out of the classroom he picked up another chair, threw it at a window. it was scary. it was definitely scary. >> -- started -- >> being honest, we're very fortunate, very fortunate that none of our students were injured or hurt. >> reporter: woods' sister leanne smith, spoke out during a press conference monday, saying her brother suffered a nervous
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breakdown and regrets what happened. >> he expressed his passion and love for teaching. he expressed his concern for his students. >> reporter: although she didn't say exactly what caused his erratic actions, she pointed to students' disruptive behavior in a video. and hinted that disrespect in the classroom is a nationwide problem. >> the lack of respect for authority in our society's classrooms across the nation is one of the many consequences of the way public school teachers are forced to deal with their classrooms today. >> reporter: it is not the first time a frustrated teacher's tirade has been caught on tape. a youtube search shows multiple videos of teachers yelling. >> stop acting like an idiot! >> reporter: throwing -- and even fighting. in may, a houston area teacher was caught physically beating one of her students after they misbehaved. she was later fired. as for mr. wood, he's been placed on administrative leave, as he continues treatment at a
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nearby hospital. wood, a father of five, remains in treatment this morning. as doctors try to figure out what caused him to lose control. sad story. >> especially in the middle talking about the disrespect in the classroom and if we could just see pushing toward the edge. might there be a charges involved here at all? >> right now police say they're not pressing any charges against him, because the principal says he didn't actually threaten any students or touch any students. but this is a guy clearly who didn't just fall into teaching. he's been doing it for two decades. his parents were teachers. he's been in the classroom for a long time. >> jeff, thank you so much. up next, want to live to be 100 years old? we'll tell you about some surprising longevity boosters when we return. equals chili's $20 dinner for two. share one of five appetizers, like our famous texas cheese fries. then choose two freshly prepared entrees from 14 chili's favorites, like our chicken crispers
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78 years, but some people do make it to the century mark and beyond. our dr. jennifer ashton is here with ways to increase your life span and remain in good health. good morning. >> good morning, maggie. >> so, we are 49th as far as life expectancy in this country. macau is number one and we live about six years less than people in macau. >> exactly. >> so what are they doing there in the south china sea f >> we can do better. it's not only what they're doing there. it's what we're not doing here or in some cases what we are doing here. and the theory as to why we don't do so well compared to other parts of the world have to do with how we live. higher rates of obesity, smoking, death from motor vehicle accidents, homicide, that all takes its toll. and then, of course, they tend to have a more active, outdoor lifestyle. and they do some of the things that we're going to talk about and hopefully we can do some of them, too. >> probably they're more stress-free, too. i'm sure stress is a big contributor. >> it can be. and we have a lot of stress here. but there's a lot of things that are in our control. some things are not in our
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control. >> let's look at these things. longevity boosters as we'll call them. number one, we know that marriage can boost -- can enhance your life. >> right. >> but it depends on your spouse's age. >> exactly. so if you're already married -- >> if you're already married, obviously there's nothing that you can do about this. but men tend to do better in marriage if you will, than women. in other words some studies have found that men, if their wives are younger, as it happens in my household, tend to live a little longer. the cougars, the women who marry younger men, don't do as well. their risk of death goes up by 20%. >> what's the thinking? >> it's really unclear. this is one of those things that's an association. maybe for men if your wife is a little younger you tend to be more active, and have a healthier lifestyle. but again -- >> pain if you're an older woman married to the younger man you have the stress of keeping up with him. >> could be. could be. >> the next one, light drinking. >> very controversial. this needs to be individualized. one study has shown that people who drink less than one ounce a day extend their life span by two years.
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again, wine and other forms of alcohol all seem to be equally protected. but it's a very individualized. it's not good for everyone. >> and lastly, drinking -- i mean higher education. >> right. ironically a study done at harvard show people who have 1 or more years of higher education live around 80 years, which is significant, in thinking there that they might have less high risk behaviors such as smoking. again ironically done at harvard. but again, another reason to stay in school. >> dr. jennifer ashton, thank you so much. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. >> "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by citracal. citracal is calcium cictrate so it can be absorbed with or without food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal.
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a question, is gossip a good thing? >> that's like an old -- that's an old story, right, about like the apes exchange information or
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and improve our schools. let's get to work. ♪ it's 7:55. time for news headlines from cbs 5. i'm elizabeth wenger. highway 87 northbound is back open after a fatal motorcycle crash. the accident happened just after 4:00 this morning. chp believes two other vehicles were involved. the guadalupe parkway was shut down for 2 1/2 hours. traffic was diverted to the capitol expressway. a major milestone in san bruno. nearly five weeks since the deadly pipeline explosion, crews have finally finished cleaning up the damage. san bruno city leaders and county officials will be at the site today to discuss rebuilding the neighborhood. a final showdown for jerry brown and meg whitman. the two candidates for governor will debate for the last time tonight. they will face off at dominican university in san rafael.
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good morning. coming into san francisco northbound 101 approaching 3rd there was a two-car crash blocking a couple of lanches. they just re-opened all languages a couple of minutes ago after a two-car crash was blocking a couple of lanes. this is a frozen shot where this accident happened. so still a little sluggish through the stretch. the bay bridge toll plaza, it is backed up to the maze.
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has been for a while. they cleared a stall from the upper deck. also, you notice hefty drive times there. that's because of an earlier accident in richmond so westbound 80, 48 minutes now from the carquinez bridge to the maze. and a quick look at 880 through oakland. not too bad here as you pass the coliseum slowing southbound 880 through hayward. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> weather looking great. like the hot stuff? you'll love today. temperatures warm already 60s and 70s, clear at the beach. offshore winds sweeping the fog off the coast keeping you clear. it's going to stay that way all day even at the beaches. temperatures hot in spots. fire danger is high in the next couple days. numbers up in the upper 90s in many inland spots, 80s and 90s inside the bay, the beaches 70s nea 80. everybody cools down thursday with a couple of patches of fog at the coastline. temperatures coming down big time on the weekend. ,,,,,,,,
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w welcome back to "the early show" on this tuesday morning. a lot of people here supporting the cruise industry encouraging all of us to book a cruise. i love cruises. my friend harry smith has never been on one. what is wrong with you? you are un-american. >> when we were kids you used to, like, cruise down torrance avenue and ridge road. >> shift. to the ocean. >> oh, oh. sorry. >> how come you haven't done that? >> i just, maybe -- maybe i've never had enough time. >> ah. that's the story. >> right? >> just doesn't like being stuck with people -- on a ship -- i'm kidding. i'm kidding.
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i'm giving him a bad rep. i'm sorry. >> okay. >> that's the kind of gossip that can be harmful. what two new studies are saying this morning. some can be good, but there's an important "however" we're going to tell you what it is in just a moment. >> plus fans of the big bang theory are flocking to thursday nights, because the show has moved to thursday nights. it is kicking serious butts on thursday night, and jim parsons -- >> tell them. >> emmy winner jim parsons -- >> woo-hoo! >> right? he's going to tell us all about moves in the show, changes in his life now that he is emmy winner jim parsons. you don't say his name any more without saying emmy winner beforehand. >> even his mom has to call him emmy winner. first, i think he's won an emmy. jeff glor with a check of the headlines. >> thank you very much. have been on a cruise, though. good morning, guys.
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good morning, everyone. in chile rescue crews could begin hauling the 33 trapped miners to the surface by late today. a live picture from the mine site where hopes very high now. they'll ride a tight capsule 21 inches in diameter successfully tested yesterday. seth doane is at the san jose mine with more. >> reporter: the climax of this incredible rescue operation, one of the most complex every attempted, is drawing ever closer. yesterday engineers successfully tested that rescue capsule several times. they found the capsule didn't spin as they worried it might, setting the stage for a possible rescue tonight. underground soon, they'll start fasting for that 2,000-foot journey to the surface, and on the surface, hospitals are being readied and exam rooms created to be as dark as the movie theaters to mimic conditions of the mine. meanwhile, world is focus the on
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this desolate strip of the desert looking forward to possible rescue tonight. three weeks until midterm elections. with both houses in place, both fighting hard to secure final votes. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes in westover, west virginia this morning with more. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: jeff, good morning to you. west virginia has not sent a republican to the senate since 1958. but that streak could be in jeopardy. so the democrat governor joe manchin is pulling out the big guns. in his new ad, democrat joe manchin takes aim at a favorite republican target. >> i'll take on washington and this administration to get the federal government off of our backs and out of our pockets. >> reporter: governor manchin had been seen as a shoo-in for the senate seat. now neck and neck with sarah palin backed republican john raese. in ohio, tea party candidate
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rich would love to get the conversation backs to politics. instead it's all about the pictures that emerged over the weekend of him wearing a nazi sf uniform saying it's part of a historical re-enactment program meant to educate the public. >> this is not just something to do for fun. this is actually serious business to keep the truth alive. what happened, you know, at that time in history in germany is absolutely one of the worst atrocities in, you know, in the history of man. >> reporter: in new york, another tea party darling, goober ma tore hopeful carl paladino isn't backing down after taking heat for his outspoken opposition to gay marriage he made his feelings on gay pride marches crystal clear. >> have you ever been to one? the men wear speedos and grind on each other. would you take your children there? i don't think so. >> reporter: here in west virginia, voters say they're frustrated by all the distractions. the candidates, they say, are running against washington and
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president obama when what they want to hear is what they do to help west virginia. jeff? >> nancy cordes? westover, west virginia this morning. nancy, thank you. five minutes past the hour. we turn back outside to mr. dave price. dave, good tuesday morning to you, sir. >> all right. good tuesday morning to you, jeff. nice to see you. got a great bunch of people out here. here's the deal. so we know maggie has been on a cruise and loved it. i went on a cruise and loved it. harry's not been on a cruise. here's the deal. never been on a cruise let me tell you this. there are big ships. there are small ships. there are ships where you sit with everybody. ships you can sit alone. ships where you can do lots of thing and ships you can just sit there. if want to find the right cruise for you what do you do? you go see a travel agent, and they know what they're talking about. having a big event, of course. cruise night in
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that's why there's kleenex® brand hand towels. gossiping can be like watching a train wreck. it can make you feel ashamed, even guilty, but sometimes we can't help ourselves. two new studies say don't feel so bad it can be a good thing. karen winter brill has more. >> go for it. if you want to talk about me i
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done care. >> reporter: gossip. you know it when you hear it. >> gossip is anytime talking about somebody who is not there. >> reporter: we've been told not to do it. >> if you can't say something nice, don't say anything. >> reporter: sometimes you can't help it. >> unrealistic to expect that human beings won't talk bad about either people. >> reporter: what if we told you gossip could be a good thing? >> depends on the situation. >> reporter: a new british study says chatting about others can make you happier. >> fyi, we were gossiping. >> reporter: there's a catch, though. it has to be nice gossip. >> gossip gets a bad rap. when you think gossip, you think mean, malicious. no, the study shows the bulk of gossip is good for good people. >> reporter: research shows after saying good things about a person, positive emotions were raised 3%, while self-esteem rose by 5. >> i do like to spread good news. >> i think people can be more interested in good news gossip than bad.
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getting engaged, getting married, getting pregnant, having babies, happy occasions. >> reporter: while it's best to keep things positive everybody the study finds that any kind of gossip, bitter or sweet, gives people a greater sense of social support. >> because you feel connected. >> i believe that. >> whether it's good or bad, sometimes really isn't even the context, it's more about what helps us feel better. gossip creates social unity. >> reporter: go ahead, talk amongst yourself. and if you say something nice it just might make you feel better. >> joining us with advice on twloen share, when to zip it is "early show" contributor dr. jennifer heartstein. >> good morning. >> sometimes in the makeup room we engage. gossip is not talking bad about something like everyone thinks, it's saying anything about someone behind their back. >> right. historically, gossip is just talking about people, and talking about situations, and really kind of what did she say?
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did you see how great she looked? that's gossip because you're not talking directly to the person and telling them that, you're talking behind them and that's the underlying theme of goss zblip we've established that. this study found, no matter what you say about someone, good or bad, any time you gossip it makes you feel more bonded, more connected to the other person, does that make sense? >> absolutely. you're sharing a secret, a moment, it's that bit of specialness between two people. it does create a level of connectedness in your own world, good or bad. it does create that connection and you can share it with other people or just between the two. >> if you say something bad after you walk away, studies found, you don't feel quite right. >> that still exists, we have found that if you say positive things you increase positive emotions up to 3%, and you're going increase self-esteem up to 5%. if you criticize you decrease positive emotions 16% -- increase negative emotions up to 34%.
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we want to keep in mind negative stuff is still going to make you feel bad. >> i don't know because the only time i feel good hearing something bad about someone else is when it's about an ex-boyfriend who a friend reports looks terrible and whose wife is not attractive. things not necessarily hurtful because they'll never know we said it. >> exactly. there are moments when we have that whew, my life is better without that person or look at me, look at them. and there is that sense of feeling good. at the end of the day you don't end up holding on to that the same way you do if it's a positive interaction zbl. >> untruths about someone, rumors, to feel like they're the personknows. >> you want to spread good news, positive joy and happiness, those will make you feel good. >> you should never share other people's news, like did you hear so-and-so was pregnant. that's for so-and-so to to tell.
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>> absolutely. but isn't that what makes it gossip? we share other people's stuff we say, don't let anybody know, but we do share those things. >> men don't gossip as much as women. >> men don't gossip as much as women, historically and even today. >> because they were hunting and we were home with babies. >> our ways of creating community was talking about everything else. >> thank you, dr. jennifer heartstein. jim parsons is here to tell us about the explosive new developments on the "the big bang theory." i don't know what that voice was. i'll be back. discover customersl are getting five pcent
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he worked his whole life, served his country defending our freedoms, and depends on social security. so, who would want to privatize it? corporate lawyer david harmer. harmer's social security privatization plan would cut guaranteed benefits and gamble with social security on wall street. while we worry, harmer's wall street friends would make billions in profits from privatization. david harmer. a social security privatization plan we can't afford.
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jim parsons won an emmy this year for his outstanding work on the cbs hit comedy "the big bang theory." he plays a brilliant socially inept physicist, and on this week's show, he gets into an argument about a very noble gas. >> i'm telling you, it's zennen that makes light then the discoveries must be wrong. >> if we lived in a world where slow moving xenon -- you would be correct. pigs would fly, my derriere would produce cotton candy and the phantom menace would be a timeless classic. >> jim parns joins us this morning. good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm well, i'm well. we haven't really seen you since you won your emmy. >> do i look different? >> you seem different. >> do i seem different? >> yeah. have i become callus and rude to you? >> well -- >> no? >> not on camera yet. but i saw the way you were mistreating everybody.
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>> oh, that's not true! >> i'm just kidding. >> i'm lovely as i've always been. >> yes. and for the record, since we had it in the clip, do you know what xenon is? >> well, before the clip you said it was a very noble gas. and i will very nobly repeat your answer. >> it's number 54. >> is that true? >> yeah. >> who coached you? >> i looked it up. but let's talk about stuff. >> okay. >> they move the show. >> yes. >> to thursday nights. >> yes. >> and when you heard that, what did you think? >> ooh i had some abject fear. because i'm a human being, and change is never fun for a human being. but i kind of bit my lip. honestly we've been moved four different times since we've been on the air. and three time slot changes and now a night change. but two things, number one, every move cbs has made with us has worked out for the better. >> right. >> getting more eyes to the show. and the second thing is, it was very exciting to me, as a child
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of the '80s, raised on thursday night sitcoms, you know. >> right. >> to kind of join that old guard of becoming a thursday night sitcom. >> you are cosby. >> i am -- i was very alex p. keaton. but that's just me. >> okay, very good, very good. but that is the time. thursday night is the time. >> absolutely. >> and that is, whew, that's almost breathtaking. especially to think back to where the show started. because, it was not a big bang. >> no. >> when it came out of the box. >> no, i always say we were very healthy. we were very lucky that we never went to work feeling like we were on the chopping block of cancellation. the ratings were healthy. but it grew in a very steady rise for the next three years it's been. and i really think it's benefited us. it let us really find a grounding as a cast, just doing our jobs without a bunch of fanfare. >> voices for the characters. >> exactly. so now, when some bigger times have hit, luckily, audiencewise, we're more grounded in the show.
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and the other thing that's good, is the way the show built had a lot to do with word of mouth. that whole gossip segment. and it's exactly like that. you know, spreading good news from one person to the other about the show. and that's how it built as much as anything. >> 15 million people. >> that's a lot of people. >> right. >> you win the emmy -- >> the enemy. >> you win the emmy, you're on the show that 15 million people watched and when you were in stand up for cancer. >> that's right. >> and people were calling in and stuff and you answered the phone and you said. >> i would say hello, they had already made a donation by that point. speak to a celebrity. i was the celebrity and i said it's jim parsons. who? and i would say from "big bang theory." oh, i've heard of that, never watched it. this happened maybe four or five times. then the last call i got was, didn't know me was somebody who didn't know who i was and said, is fran drescher by you? and i said, i don't know where fran is, i'm very sorry and
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thank you for your donation. so you do what you can. >> it is humbling. >> very humbling. i don't care who you are or about your emmy. >> or your show. very quickly, the character from blossom. >> right. >> came on last year. and so now is there another woman coming onto the scene? could be a love triangle? >> oh, my god i hope not. i can barely deal with the one we have. no, you know, the whole thing that's gone on with mayam and that character has been fun to explore because will sheldon be able to have a row manltic relationship? and i still don't know if he will. i don't know if he's having one. he says that he's not. and having not read scripts beforehand i don't know where it's headed. i do wonder sometimes if we're living in a little bit of denial 73 sheldon is, and perhaps there's more depth to these feelings than he's aware of. >> whoo. >> but i'm guessing. i don't write this stuff. >> we'll tune in. >> did i blow your early morning
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mind? >> we're tuning in. no question. jim parsons, thank you. no question. jim parsons, thank you. you can watch meet the real meg whitman: serving on the board of goldman sachs, whitman was caught reaping millions from insider stock deals. after ebay shareholders sued and a judge cited the obvious conflict of interest she was forced to pay the money back. what kind of person would be involved in deals a fellow republican congressman called corrupt? and in her last year at ebay, whitman paid herself $120 million right before the company laid off 10% of it's workers. we're choosing a governor, shouldn't character matter? or at least that's what my mom thinks. with high speed internet from at&t, i get my homework done fast, leaving me time to download movies and music and chat with my friends. [ mom ] how's your studying? it's coming along! [ female announcer ] work faster, play more with the fastest internet for the price. call to get high speed for $14.95 a month with a one-year
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more than 700 nurses are on strike this mo it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. i'm elizabeth wenger. more than 700 nurses are on strike this morning at children's hospital oakland. they are upset about planned rollbacks in their healthcare benefits. management says the benefits are more expensive. replacement nurses will work during the three-day walkout. the final gubernatorial debate between jerry brown and meg whitman happens tonight at dominican university in san rafael. both candidates are trying to motivate their bases and also appeal to the nearly one fifth of california voters who say they are undecided. the giants are going to the national league championship series after beating the atlanta braves 3-2 last night. the team will start a seven- game series in philadelphia on saturday. tim lincecum will take the
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mound against phillies ace roy halladay. traffic and weather coming right up. ,,,,,,,,
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instrumental music ] good morning. all right. chp is just letting us know about a new injury crash in oakland west wound 580 approaching mcarthur westbound. it's starting to back up. another motorcycle accident this morning. again an ambulance is heading to the scene. 880 might be an alternate looks okay past the coliseum but again, you know, you see your drive time slow and go closer
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to the downtown exit. all right. coming out of the south bay, we are still really jammed on 280 from downtown to cupertino. 35 minutes is your drive time there from 101 towards highway 85. and the bay bridge, this got better in the last half hour. it's only backed up just beyond the first overcrossing so only a good 10, 15 minutes to get on the bridge. that's your traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right. we're talking heat around the bay area today. high fire danger too especially in the north bay and the east bay hills with some strong gusty winds developing there. some of those gusts have been over 20 miles per hour this morning. looks like around the bay area the winds clearing out the skies and it is gorgeous all the way to the coastline. you have sunshine, no fog to speak of, getting hot though in spots. lots of 90s showing up inside the valleys, 90s inside the bay and 80s. at the coast 70s and near 80 degrees. temperatures staying hot inland for tomorrow and inside the bay maybe some slight cooling on wednesday, near the coastline. but then as we head in toward thursday, we should see some fog and low clouds gather along the coastline, fog becoming more extensive cooling everybody down through the weekend. ,,,,,,,,
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welcome back to "the early show," everybody. nice crowd on hand here on a tuesday morning. coming up, ask anyone who has had their home renovated, you are sure to hear -- >> horror stories. >> there are plenty of them out there it seems like. right? they range from simple delays to major rip-offs. so our consumer correspondent susan koeppen is here to help you chooses right contractor. we redid a bathroom about a dozen years ago. took them 8 1/2 months. >> i thought you were going to say years. >> throwing bushels of money at it. >> it's no fun. you know when you get a deodorant stain on your clothes? >> all the time. >> isn't that annoying? >> it can be. >> to no end.
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you know what you should use? a baby wipe. and you have those at home because you have a baby. >> i have lots of them. >> can you use the baby wipe instead of the deodorant? >> no, no, no. to remove the stain. we're going to show you other uses for household things. cooking spray, antacid. >> pam instead of deodorant? >> no, no, no. >> bobby flay goes head-to-head every week on his show "showdown." >> throw down. >> it's a showdown "throw down." >> it's a good show. >> he goes against people who make these iconic dishes. he's compiled the best recipes in his new book. his first cookbook collaboration with the food network. this morning he's going to make green chili cheeseburgers. >> bobby's killing our diet. and we thank you for that. >> the showdown throw down. >> i was trying to think what i would make that i would beat
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bobby flay, but there's nothing. >> not a thing. >> how about you, dave? you got anything you could beat bobby with? >> grilled cheese. >> grilled cheese. >> not just any ordinary grilled cheese, but processed grimed cheese. i challenge bobby to beat me. >> i like it. >> you know, guys -- >> as we transition to weather right now. >> right. >> you know, you can perspire, and you can deodorant stains. you can aspire to be better than bobby flay. or you can respire, back off! >> oh. >> we have friends from hyatt here. this is actually very interesting. they're premiering these new hyperallergenic rooms. 2,000 rooms across the country. more coming on board for all these people who have a real problem going into these dusty,
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that is a quick look at your weather picture. make it a great day. send it inside to you. >> thanks very much. >> beware of bad contractors. americans spend billions of dollars on home improvements
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every year. but before you hire anyone, consumer correspondent susan koeppen is here with tips on how to avoid getting ripped off. because we always appreciate. susan, good morning. >> good morning, harry. i should say there are plenty of good contractors out there. but, as we found out, many contractors go unlicensed, and unchecked, and they can turn dream homes into disasters. the home improvement business is booming in america. with homeowners spending close to $300 billion each year. but what if someone turns your greatest asset into your worst nightmare. >> i did a lot of crying, swearing, and everything else. >> reporter: diane recently retired and decided it was time to upgrade her home. >> i decided let's just go do the whole she bang. >> reporter: but what she didn't know was that her contractor was working without a license. something that's required in chicago, where diane lives. >> we were shocked what we saw.
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i ran out of funds. i mean, i couldn't keep going. >> reporter: after spending almost $30,000 -- >> all this plaster has to be taken out. >> reporter: diane and her husband had to start over from scratch. >> he'd promise you the world, but do nothing. >> reporter: authorities estimate consumers lose millions of dollars to shoddy or unlicensed contractors in the u.s. each year. in fact, only 25 states require contractors to have a license. one of them is california. that's where we met up with investigators from the contractor's state license board. today, they're conducting a sting. luring contractors to this home in redondo beach. all of the contractors invited to this home are being asked to do major painting or repairs. jobs that require a license. but instead of getting a job -- >> -- contractor's license. >> reporter: this contract gets arrested. so you've been working without a
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license? >> i mean -- yeah, okay, i don't have a license. >> reporter: and investigators say this contractor being arrested was arrested at another sting four years ago. are you working without a license? >> as a handyman, yes. >> reporter: california arrested more than 1,000 unlicensed contractors last year. >> you've got to have a license. >> reporter: at this sting, nine out of nine contractors were busted. for working without a license. experts say hiring unlicensed contractors can be a risky proposition. somebody who's unlicensed can come in, take your money, and then run. >> exactly. that's exactly what happens. >> all this wood has been ruined. >> reporter: unfortunately for diane, even living in a city where contractors need a license, she's out thousands of dollars, and left picking up the pieces. >> this one's still hanging. i leave it as a reminder to watch who i'm hiring.
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>> and here's something else to consider. if an unlicensed contractor is injured on the job at your house. he can sue you. and you never know what you're getting. the investigators in california told me that they've caught sex offenders, druggies, even murderers at some of their stings, harry. >> nine out of nine? >> nine out of nine. >> all right. so give us some tips so we can, as consumers, can be protected as we get ready to do some of these home improvements. >> the first thing you should do is check for a license. as we mentioned only 25 states require a license. but your city, your county, your town, they may also require a license. so even if your state doesn't require one, check to see if your neighborhood where you live, they require a license. >> all right. so get a license first. >> right. so check it to see if they're on the up and up. also ask for references from the contractor, but also referrals as well. it's always good to talk to a friend, a family member, they had someone that they loved who was great, who was on time, did the work. good price. go with that. and then also, never pay a lot
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of money up front. it's one thing to make a deposit and put down some money. that's okay. but make sure it's not a lot of money. and if the person is asking you for a lot of money, red flag. >> right. >> and then also try to get everything in writing, project expectations. start dates, end date, and what you want done. >> and that real live estimation that isn't going to grow and grow and grow. >> exactly. >> all right, susan koeppen, as always, thank you very much. now here's maggie. >> thank you, harry. real simple magazine has a popular column called new uses for old things. like turning a pasta maker into a paper shredder. the best ideas have been compiled into a book. and executive editor sarah humphreys is here with some great examples. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm great. we have them in alphabetical order. some uses for antacid tablets? >> we went from "a" to "z" in this book. it hits backstores today.
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antacid tablets. you have a vase that you've had flowers in for awhile. you get that residue on the inside. throw the flowers away, fill the vase with some fresh water. >> plop, plop, fizz, fizz. >> let it do its work. after a couple minutes, swirl it around, dump it out, it will be much easier to clean. >> easier to clean the vase. when you get the deodorant stains on your clothes. >> this happens. >> jeff color i'm going to put it to the test. here we stained this shirt. you just need to be diligent, wipe it down, switch sides. but they really do work. keep these in your glove compartment, in your desk drawer for example, if something happens at the office. they're so good in an emergency and they really do work. >> any fabric? >> any fabric. yep. >> and it will dry quick? you can't go out -- >> if you have a silk top you might want to be a little careful. something that's machine washable, go for it. >> we see a water stain. it's hard to tell. but there is no deodorant there. all right cooking spray. >> cooking spray.
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guess what? it helps things not stick p duchduh. you know you put your candle in the votive holder and it's stuck forever. beforehand you spray the inside with a little cooking spray. >> that's great. >> stick the votive in. light it, it's good to go. pops out after you had your party. >> it's a beautiful thing. i was watching food network yesterday and paula deen had a great tip. she sprayed it on the measuren spoon so when she put syrup in it to put it in the recipe. >> honey, corn syrup. >> it's the same thing with a cheese greater. >> take your cooking spray, spray the cheese greater and grate. that makes cleanup a lot easier. much less of the scrubbing. >> look how easy that is. >> nice and clean. >> very good. this was really cool. how you can use a cork to make your own sewing kit. >> take your wine cork, and then you can just put your pins and needles in the top of it and run some, you know, thread around the base of it and this is good,
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keep it in your glove compartment for emergencies or get in your desk drawer. a good, little impromptu sewing kit. >> and that is cute as can be. >> super cute. >> we all know the obvious use for a salad spinner. but you say there are at least three other uses. >> the best one we have here, you know when you're hand washing your cashmere it takes forever to dry. all you need to do, do this with a hefty southwester. you don't want to do this on your really, really fine cashmere. you stick your damp sweater in the salad spinner. close it up. spin away. >> is this going to get rid of the lint? >> oh, i wish. >> and then when you take it out, right, give it a few spins, put it back on your towel, and let it dry. it's not going to dry it completely obviously. but it will shed some water so it will be a lot faster to dry. >> really? >> no hours of waiting. >> why am i skeptical about this? it really works. >> it works. you've got to give it a few
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pumps. >> what are some other uses for the salad spinner? >> you could actually dress your salad in the salad spinner. if you pour some -- so you're not overdressing. pour some in and it will be lightly dressed. >> and there are more tips in the book for that. vodka. >> vodka. >> not just for drinking anymore. >> that's knife my favorite use. one of the things is before you're cleaning your diamond rings, and our producer has gratefully and graciously lent us her beautiful engagement ring. >> look at that engagement ring. drop it in a little vodka just for a few minutes. hat will just get rid of that greasy buildup ahead of time. and then use your regular jewelry cleaner or soap, water, to just kind of rinse off. this is the preclean. >> this is not -- >> right, got it. the last thing, a lot of customers use this. vodka kills odors. >> oh. >> and it doesn't have an odor. so what you want to do is when you take your clothes out, say of storage for winter, right? just give him a little bit of a spritz. >> isn't your closet going to smell like a martini.
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>> you hang them in a ventilated area. but vodka doesn't really have a smell. >> i guess i never thought of that. >> it's the olives that have a smell. >> oh. well, smells like alcohol. >> a little bit. >> but very faint. all right. so good. thank you, sarah. >> you're welcome. >> you can find 869 of these doozies in the book. so you can go to our website to find out more about the book and see everything sarah talked about. right now here's harry and bobby. >> all right. imagine bobby flay showing up in your kitchen and challenging you to cook your best dish. and then he's going to do his version. that, of course, is the premise of foot network show "throwdown." and also the inspiration for bobby's latest cookbook of the same name. and bobby is here with some of his all-time favorite "throwdown" recipes. of all your shows, my favorite show. >> really? >> piece people live wherever they live. and they write in. you hear about some guy in timbuktu who makes better
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lasagna than anybody else on the planet. and you go down there and cook with them. and they love that you're there. it's kind of a celebration. >> they're surprised that i'm there. usually we just -- >> subterfuge. >> exactly. but to me it's really not about the competition. people consider throwdown a competition show. but i really consider it a show about these great people who make all this fantastic food all over the country. so today we're going to do a dish that i did in new mexico. a place in san antonio, new mexico. not san antonio, texas. and green chili cheeseburgers. i love green chili cheeseburgers. new mexico is the home state of the roasted green chilies. we're going to make green chili cheeseburgers. >> we talked about burgers just the other day. you do this 80/20. >> 80% beef, 20% fat. you've got to make sure you have enough flat to make sure you have enough flavor. just make a well in the burger like that. so this way you don't have to push the burger down. >> exactly. >> a thumb print in there. >> exactly.
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>> and the burger plumps up while it's cooking and turns into a football shape. people press it down and squeeze out all the juices. we're going to fake out the burger and let it come back to its original shape. >> when there's a little pool of juice in there -- turn it over? >> exactly right. you've been paying attention all these years. i love that. >> it's shocking. >> all right. let's get to the green chili part. these are roasted, peeled and seeded poblano chilies. it's a great -- it's a great starter chili i like to say. for people that don't know a lot about chili peppers, poblanos have a nice pepper background flavor but they're not too spicy. they have a little bit of heat. >> they're not going to knock you over. >> we can chop these up. i also have serranos which are kind of like jalapenos. i like a little more heat. if you ate the green chilies by themselves they might be hot to you. don't forget we have the burger, we have the bun and we have the sauce we're going to make out of cheese. so the chilies and the flavor and the spicyness have to fight
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all through all those ingredients. >> then there's a lot of stuff going on here with this burger. >> exactly. so we have our green chilies here. our roasted green kill lis. i love roasted green chilies. just so much flavor in them. and then we're going to take a little bit of honey. >> honey? >> yeah, just a tiny bit of honey to chill out the spac spicyness. a little bit of acidity. a little olive oil and this is going to be our green chili relish. and you can do this a couple days ahead of time and have it already done. >> i like that. i'm getting this now. >> very, very simple. >> comes into clear view. >> let's move over here. we're going to make our cheese sauce, okay? now you can just slap a piece of cheese on there and make a cheeseburger with green chilies. >> no way. >> i like sort of the smoothness of the sauce. so we're going to make a little bit of bejamel. butter, and flour. going to stir that. we're going to add a little scalded milk.
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and what's going to happen is the butter and the flour is the roux. >> right. >> and that's going to actually start to thicken up, the milk here we're going to get a classic what they call vegemel or cream sauce. we're going to take that classic sauce and let this cook for a little while. add a bunch of cheese to this. melted cheese. this is monterey jack. and we also want parmesan cheese in here, as well. a little bit of saltiness. natural saltiness. and season a little salt and pepper. this is what it's going to look like, harry. nice and thick. we want this nice sort of thick, cheese sauce. >> you know what i've been dying to do all morning? >> what? >> just put that in there. >> my wife calls this queso from texas. it's a cheese sauce you can dip in there. you eat and i'll do the burgers. we're going to take our burgers off. >> you toasted the buns? >> exactly. >> all right. you've got a perfect burger. >> i only flip the burgers one time so they get nice and crusty on both sides. take our sauce, let the sauce
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just kind of melt over there. and make sure you put enough cheese in that sauce. look at that. >> oh, man. >> beautiful. green chili relish. >> oh, man. okay. >> the green chili relish is back. put enough on there, you know. you want to really taste the green chilies. >> what do you have there? >> pickled red onions. they give a nice little crunch to them. crispiness. put those on top. and what i do for my crunchification is i put a little bit of blue corn tortillas on here. there you go. that's a green chili cheeseburger. that is a losing recipe on "throwdown." >> bobby, as always, thank you so much. for this recipe, and more on bobby's book tour, all you need to do is go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> i'm on tour everywhere. >> crunchification. right there, dude. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. [ male announcer ] taxes.
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how much do we love that? never gets hold, "hawaii 5-o." we love that. we were compelled to do it. every time we hear it. >> it's iconic. >> just immediately assume the surfing pose. >> without a doubt. >> you know that song was actually a hit record? >> yeah. >> when the show came out, that single, it became a single, was a hit record. >> on a.m. radio. >> there's a new rendition of it that has won a prize. cbs held a contest to find the best performance of the theme song, right? 18 bands across the country made it to the final round of the competition and last night, the winner was announced. ♪ that says "hawaii 5-o." they also spelled out "book 'em dano." that's the university of
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maryland marching band. right? this was during a game against navy last month, which, by the way, the terps won. they also won $25,000 because they beat out 32 other bands who entered this contest. and they say that they're going to ruse it for some new uniforms. the uniforms that they're currently wearing are 13 years old. it will cost $125,000 they say, to replace them. but they have $25,000. >> that's a good start. >> the people -- >> you've got to sell a lot of band candy -- >> apparently next year they're going to be in the competition to march the theme of "all in the family." and spell out "edith" on the field. >> what do you think is the best theme song of a show ever? >> we were talking. the most iconic theme song ever for a tv show. i mean "hawaii 5-o" has got to be up there. >> oh, for sure. >> "mash." >> "all in the family." >> "cheers." >> "cheers" is a very good one. >> moving on up. >> "jeffersons." >> who knows the words to laverne and shirley?
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headlines... more than 700 nurses are on the picket lines at children's land. they are good morning. it is 8:55. i'm elizabeth wenger with your cbs 5 headlines. more than 700 nurses are on the picket lines at children's hospital oakland. they are upset about planned rollbacks in their healthcare benefits. management says those benefits are getting more expensive. replacement nurses will work during the three-day walkout. an investigation is under way into an apartment fire in antioch. it happened this morning at gentrytown drive. four units were heavily damaged. broken gas lines made firefighting more difficult but the blaze was under control by 4:45. two people suffered minor injuries. dozens of school workers in mt. diablo could be laid off or have their ours cut. the city council is meeting today to discuss the futures of 20 maintenance workers and 41 school secretaries. they say reductions are needed
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because of state budget cuts and medical insurance costs. >> we have more on your traffic and weather forecast coming right up. [ male announcer ] carly fiorina.
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as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina shipped them there. to shanghai instead of san jose. bangalore instead of burbank. proudly stamping her products "made in china." 30,000 workers gone while fiorina took $100 million for herself. carly fiorina. outsourcing jobs. out for herself. [ barbara boxer ] i'm barbara boxer, and i approved this message. good morning. chp just canceled a traffic alert northbound 101 approaching mckie. two left lanes are just cleared but as you can see from this line of red very slow sensors traffic is jammed from at least
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hellyer avenue. 280 people may be avoiding 101 using 280 instead. this is getting backed up, as well. it's late to see these kinds of delays. 33 minutes northbound 280 from downtown towards cupertino. and now we have a new accident southbound 880 on the approach to a street looks like that's on the right shoulder. southbound slow but even northbound as you head past the san mateo bridge. things improve a bit closer to the coliseum but it's still sluggish in those northbound lanes. that's your traffic. one last check of your forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right, elizabeth. like those giants colors. hey, folks, great weather around the bay area if you like it hot, you'll love today. it's going to stay clear all the way to the coastline. offshore winds and high pressure bringing in beautiful weather but fire danger is running high. red flag warnings in the north and east bays. hot in spots well into the 90s inland, 80s and 90s inside the bay, excessive heat warning inside the bay as well, cooler
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