>> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com good morning. newet good morning. new details on osama bin laden's final moments, as u.s. officials change their story and say the world's most wanted terrorist was unarmed when a navy s.e.a.l. shot him dead, this as the debate over whether to release gruesome photos of his body rages on. and as the president prepares to visit ground zero, a brand new cbs news poll shows mr. obama's approval rating skyrocket. "early" this wednesday morning, 2011. >> good wednesday morning to you. nice to have you with us. i'm erica hill >> good wednesday morning to you. nice to have you with us. i'm erica hill. >> and i'm chris wragge. good morning to you. a number of questions concerning the death of osama bin laden, and a growing demand continues

now to see actual pictures of his body. >> a lot of people say that is the only proof that they will accept but that comes with a great deal of concern. we have the latest for you this morning on the killing of osama bin laden and this is important because the official story actually keeps changing. david martin is at the pentagon with new details. good morning to you. why does this story keep changing? what would think the white house wants the message here to be consistent? >> well they have changed their stories and you got to remember, this was an operation where everybody's adrenalin was flowing and it was over in a very brief time, and it does take time to get a coherent story but the issue here is whether and how bin laden fought back. originally, the administration said that bin laden had "resisted." but now the administration acknowledges that he was unarmed. now there's no sympathy for bin

laden here, but this is an issue because the administration has insisted this was not a kill operation, and that they were prepared to capture him, if he surrendered, so now we are trying to find out exactly what happened in that room, but the trouble is, there are only three people in there. there was bin laden, the s.e.a.l. who shot him and bin laden's wife, who was lying on the floor after having been shot in the leg. obviously, we're not going to hear from bin laden. the wife is in pakistan in pakistani custody, and that leaves the s.e.a.l. and until we hear his version, we are never going to know for sure why he pulled the trigger. >> a lot of people would love to talk to that man this morning and get that version. let's talk about these questions over the pictures which may or may not be released. as i understand it the president will have final say here. there must be a fair amount of discussion happening at the pentagon and among intelligence officials as to what may be the best move in their eyes.

>> well, i think this is not seen so much as a move but as part of history. this -- we're beyond a news story here. this is history, and i think everybody agrees that eventually the photo is going to have to be released. i've had it described to me and it does sound very gruesome. remember, bin laden was shot twice at close range, once in the chest and once in the head, right above his left eye, and that blew open his skull, exposing the brain, and it also blew out his eye, so these are not going to be pictures for the squeamish, but this is historical record, and i just personally can't imagine how it would remain secret for very much longer. >> you make a great point. david martin at the pentagon this morning, david, thanks. chris? >> erica, thank you. president obama is getting a big political boost from the killing of osama bin laden. a new cbs news/"new york times" poll shows the president's

overall approval rating jumped 11 points over the past two weeks to 57%. cbs news chief white house correspondent chip reid has more from washington this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. the president gelts huge numbers on his handling of the pursuit of osama bin laden. 85% approve. only 7% disapprove, and that approval includes solid majorities of democrats, independents, and republicans. chris? >> chip let's go back a second and talk about what some are calling this bin laden bump, job approval rating, 11 points in two weeks here. >> reporter: it carries over to one thing. it does carry over to the broader question of his handling of the terrorism threat. take a look at these numbers. now 72% approve. in august, 2010 it was 51%, a gain of 21 points. the white house believes what's happening here is that while the president has for a long time been criticized by republicans as weak and indecisive on issues

involving terrorism, they now see him as strong and decisive and they're hoping that lasts. >> let's talk domestically, chip, where the bin laden has been good news for the president with the poll numbers. it has no bearing on jobs and once again comes back to the economy. >> reporter: absolutely, the bad news for the administration, not only does he not improve on the economy, his approval rate something now 34%, that is the lowest of his presidency. that's down from 38%, just two weeks ago. the white house understands that this boost he's getting as a result of the killing of osama bin laden may well be temporary, and it may go back down again as people focus again on four words, jobs and gas prices. >> chip reid at the white house this morning, thank you. also in washington for us this morning is cbs news political analyst john dickerson. good morning to you. >> good morning, chris. >> the bump we see in president obama's approval ratings, does this look like it could be good news over the long-term in. >> well, those numbers will

likely fall for the president, but if his numbers don't stay up, what may be the long-term benefit for the president here is that there may be a floor here. his numbers may not fall as far. they would have before this. republican candidates were going to make the case the president was indecisive, too ponderous. this shows the president was not only ready to act but had his eye on the ball. that was another charge republicans made. if the numbers don't stay up, it will be harder for republicans to knock the numbers down during the campaign. >> president george w. bush his approval rating shot up after the capture of saddam hussein but didn't last. j is it that foreign policy victories only hold a temporary impact in public opinion? >> foreign policy numbers are durable and helpful to a president in two ways. one, if people are still concerned about the foreign policy exercises going on, not distracted by something else and secondly if people still think that the foreign policy venture, war or whatever is going well.

with george bush, the last president, his numbers went up after saddam hussein was capture but overall people were disappointed with the progress in the iraq war. with his father, people were quite happy with the way the first gulf war went and focus shifted to the economy. when that happened the president's numbers plummeted. >> bush 41 from a 90% approval rating to losing an election. as a practical method getting back to the bin laden issue, do people feel safer now that bin laden is dead? >> not according to our poll. the number of people who thought a terrorist attack was somewhat likely in the next few months shot up 15 points to 69% from 54% last year, that's the highest they've been since 2004. also 70% of the people in our poll said that this didn't make them feel any safer. so what you've got is a country nervous about the economy and a little more nervous about terrorism. a jittery electorate is not good numbers for a president. >> is there a number that stands out the most for you?

>> we knew the economy was bad, that's what people are focussed on, that's why the president's numbers will come down. what surprises me, when something like this happens it lifts all of the numbers up. in this case, the economy went down. you can imagine the president wanting to order a raid to bring gas prices down. the problem is he can't take quick action on the economy in the way he did with bin laden. >> john dickerson in washington, thanks. >> thanks, chris. president obama will be in new york city tomorrow to visit ground zero where he'll meet with families of 9/11 victims. he will be greeted by new york mayor, michael bloomberg, who joins us in the studio. >> thanks for having me. >> timing and the process is being worked out. any idea in particular who the president will be meeting with? >> the president wants to meet with families and i think he wants to meet with some firefighters and police officers who were first responders and i

think to say you don't want to make it a media circus is ridiculous because the president comes to town, it is a big media thing but this is a very serious thing. there's a time to remember those that we lost, a time to say thank you to those who were there, around the world, people who came and helped and then there will be another event here, 9/11, tenth-year anniversary, president i assume will come then, the staffers said that he will come and we'll do somewhat the same thing as we've done before except that we'll be able to do it on the actual site of the memorial. the outside of which will be complete and the museum which will be complete a year later we'll do something in there. >> it's amazing to see the progress. we were down there the last couple of days. yesterday the great vantage point ten stories up but to look at the footprints of the towers and to see the progress being made there. >> when you do construction, it is siting and permitting and design and getting through all of the approvals necessary, those are the things that take

time and you do an enormous amount of work underground and people keep saying nothing's happening, nothing's happening. this is probably the most complex construction project in the history of the world. it is certainly the densest. everything is built on top of each other. every part of the site depends on other parts being constructed at the same time. the air conditioning for all of the buildings comes from one place, the electricity from another, the plumbing from another, that kind of thing and i think history will look back and to say to get to where we are today really was quite amazing but that's from the perspective of history rather than journalism. >> it's a little different day-to-day. in terms of the work down there especially monday we talked to a lot of the construction workers at the site. initially there's a lot of elation, joy, people cheering in the streets after hearing osama bin laden had been killed and a lot of the, mainly men i spoke with on site said this is great but i'm also really concerned and i'm concerned that i'm a target here working at this site every day.

how much of a concern is it for you? >> well, i don't think that that's the concern. i think we're all a target. we will provide the utmost security down at that site. we've been doing it for the last nine-and-a-half years. we will continue to do that. commissioner kelly has this downtown security plan. it's cameras. it's technology that you don't even know exists. it's a lot of boots on the ground. we'll continue to do that, but i think the danger here is that we think because one man is no longer alive, that the threat has gone away and that's not true. the message of 9/11 and the message of 1993, when there was a bomb attack at the world trade center site is that our freedoms are constantly being threatened and after 1993, we forgot. we learned nothing from that and there we were on 9/11, and 3,000 people taken, our world turned upside down, all of the sudden we realized those oceans aren't as big as we thought. i think so far we have not

forgotten that lesson, and the reason for the memorial is for the families it's a place to grieve but more importantly for the city, for the state, for the country, for the world, it is a place to constantly remind our children that there are people who don't like the fact that we can speak our own mind, pray when we want to pray, be in charge of our own destiny, and treat everybody the same. they are willing to give their lives to try to stop us from having ours. that's the threat and that threat has not been diminished, perhaps it's changed, perhaps it's greater, perhaps it's less, only history will tell that but i think for the construction workers we'll make sure they're safe and the danger is that they are working in a phenomenally complex, dangerous world with equipment, one building's up to 60-odd stories, another 25 stories. we want to make sure they're safe. so far we've not had any serious accidents on the site itself. we did have a terrible tragedy a block across the street where

the old deutsche bank building was and lost two firefighters in a terrible event. we've got to make sure those things don't happen again. >> mayor michael bloomberg thanks for coming by this morning. >> thanks for having me. jeff glor is standing by at the news desk with other headlines. >> good morning to everyone at home. flooding remains a major threat in at least four states today from missouri, south to tennessee, mississippi and louisiana, concerns are growing as the river crest moves downstream. the waters of the mississippi could reach the highest level there in 80 years, after as much as 20 inches of rain fell in less than two weeks. the army corps of engineers released some of the pressure with late night explosions on monday. dramatic. those blasts opened a missouri levee which flooded 130,000 acres of farmland but saved the homes of 2,800 people in cairo, illinois, and more intentional

levee breaches are possible. deadly storms in seven southern states last week set a record with 312 tornadoes in a 24-hour period and this morning the cleanup has barely just begun. cbs news correspondent elaine quijano is in tuscaloosa, alabama this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, jeff. it's been a week now since the nation's deadliest tornado outbreak since the depression. it killed at least 328 people across seven states. so far, around 28,000 families have already registered for help with the federal emergency management agency. hundreds of businesses were destroyed. many people across the region are still without electricity today, alabama by certain was the hardest hit state. 236 people killed in this state alone. jeff? >> elaine, so many places affected but in particular tuscaloosa, so many missing. what's the situation there this morning? >> reporter: tuscaloosa is certainly one of the hardest hit areas.

tuscaloosa lost at least 40 people and nearly 1,000 others injured. entire neighborhoods like the one we're standing in were basically wiped off the map. mayor walt maddox is concerned as other news grabs the headlines that people across the nation will lose sight of residents suffering here. >> it's great that we were able to kill osama bin laden, but what about today? what about today's business? the thousands of people tonight in tuscaloosa who go to bed without homes, no ability to know what the future holds for them. please don't forget us. we have to deal with today and today we've got a lot of people hurting. >> reporter: now to make sure that the recovery process continues here in alabama, the governor here, governor bentley, says that the state is going to provide assistance to local governments to pay for debris removal for 30 days. jeff? >> elaine quijano in tuscaloosa, thanks very much. it is 7:15 right now.

back over to erica and chris. >> jeff, thank you so much. we want to take a closer look at the weather now. this is heartbreaking to think about what they are facing now and the aftermath. >> it is, chris and erica, and it's called the katrina of tornadoes the severe weather folks saw last week. today if you look at the map there is a brief reprieve in severe weather, and that will hopefully aid the cleanup effort. we look at really nice, sunny skies on the wes

thanks so much. that's your latest weather. back to you guys. we'll tell you a little bit more about frost advisories. i know it's may, still some frost advisories. >> don't bother. skip it. >> mary, thanks. coming up on "the early show," inside osama bin laden's hideout in pakistan and what investigators learn from the evidence that he left behind. >> and a rare look at navy s.e.a.l.s in action. go along on a secret mission to

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good morning, everyone. welcome back to "the early show," bottom of the hour here on cbs. chris wragge in new york along with erica hill. coming up here on the show, more on the killing of osama bin laden. we're going to get a closer look inside the compound, where he was killed on sunday and get the latest on the computer records and other valuable information taken there by the u.s. >> being referred to as a treasure trove, one can only imagine. it also took a highly trained team to take down bin laden but we know actually very little about the navy s.e.a.l.s and how they operate. this morning lara logan will give us a rare look at the navy s.e.a.l.s, she spent who months in afghanistan two years ago to

track down a taliban leader, to give you a better sense of who were behind the mission who carried it out. first jeff glor with another look at the top headlines this wednesday morning. >> good morning to you and everyone at home. the white house revised its version of the assault that killed osama bin laden. when confronted at the pakistan compound they say bin laden made some threatening moves but he was not armed. his wife rushed the u.s. assault team, she was shot in the leg. this morning, politico reports it looks like bin laden was ready to run. he allegedly had 500 euros and two phone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed. cia director leon panetta says a photo of bin laden's corpse will be released at some point. computer users are being warned of unslilsitied e-mails containing photos are videos purporting to show bin laden's body. the fbi says they may contain a virus that can steal personal identification and damage your computer.

the president's approval rating went up double digits following the bin laden completing. in a just released cbs/"new york times" poll 57% approve of the president's job performance, an 11-point jump over the past two weeks and the president got high marks over the handlinging of the pursuit of bin laden with 85% approving. it is 32 minutes past the hour. back over to chris. >> jeff thank you very much. new details about the operation that killed osama bin laden there's also new information about the way he lived and the family members hiding with him. cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer is in abbottabad, site where osama bin laden lived and died. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well apparently after the navy s.e.a.l.s took away bin laden's body they left various members of the household and bin laden's family. we know the pakistanis have detained between 7 and 11, it's still not clear how many, mostly women and children.

four of them apparently sent to hospital having been injured in the raid, including one of the women who we think was bin laden's wife, the one that was shot in the leg by the navy s.e.a.l.s. every day the local newspapers in abbottabad print more details of the spectacular u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden in his hideout, which itself has turned into an instant local tourist attraction. it's a fortress of a cement house flanked by modest homes. behind these walls bin laden and his family lived possibly for years unobserved. now that it's empty, everyone wants a look. inside, there are clear signs of a battle, and a passport believed to have belonged to one of bin laden's wives. outside, the walls are scorched, probably by the u.s. helicopter that was destroyed here. the house sits in a suburb just over a mile from one of pakistan's largest military academies. 120,000 active or retired

military personnel live in abbottabad, and yet pakistani officials say not one of them noticed when a 6'4" celebrity terrorist moved into town. american officials and some pakistani observers say frankly, that's hard to believe. bin laden's compound has now been searched and sealed. it may be bull dolesed so it doesn't become a shrine to bin laden or a monument to pakistan's security incompetence. now you mentioned a couple of minutes ago that the cia may release photographic evidence of bin laden's being dead. that will go over very well here, because a lot of people, including sympathizers of bin laden simply still don't believe that he really has been killed. chris? >> cbs's elizabeth pal per in abbottabad, pakistan this morning, thank you. let's bring in national security analyst juan zarate with more information found in bin laden's hideout. >> good morning, chris.

>> they grabbed computers, thumb drives, other from the compound. what is the government hoping to get from the information picked up? >> chris this was a real treasure trove. i think they found much more than they were anticipating. they had hard copies and files they picked up, electronic media, cd-roms and computers. they're likely to be looking for names, addresses, phone numbers, bank accounts, anything that gives a sense as to what he was doing, who he was in contact with, in particular looking for attack cells and operatives in the west and also leads to other al qaeda leaders. >> is it safe to assume al qaeda may feel now they have compromised any plans they had made or plans set in motion now need to be altered? what is their operating procedure? >> i think the concerns on the american side are that plans under way, attack planning perhaps against the west will be accelerated now operatives making determination that now is the time to act, that there's no longer a chance to wait for orders from bin laden or the hierarchy, but it's too soon to

tell. i think folks as they look through the documents triage and what they're fighting will make a determination as to what the threat looks like coming from bin laden. >> can the public expect to learn anything that they may have found along the way? >> that's a great question. i think we've been part of the story to date but i think moving forward counterterrorism officials see this as part of ongoing sensitive operations so i don't think we can

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the high stakes mission that killed osama bin laden is putting a rare spotlight on the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. most of what they do is top secret for obvious reasons. in 2004 cbs's chief foreign news correspondent lara logan w world's most elusive terrorists. this is a quick look at some of what we saw. the s.e.a.l.s were receiving final instructions for a mission

that would start in a few hours >> that's it. i'm going home to see my kids. you guys are going home to see yours. >> reporter: their plan to go after a new commander. new intelligence came in compelled them to switch targets at the last minute. a comfortable location for this man, rosie kahn, the most powerful taliban commander in the south of the country. the s.e.a.l.s knew he was the man financing and recruiting taliban and al qaeda fighters and bringing them over the border from pakistan. we flew in with army pilots from the national guard, right into the heart of the taliban insurgency. >> one minute. >> okay. >> reporter: as we approached, people in the village would be able to hear the pounding chopper blades, so the s.e.a.l.s prepared to take fire and braced for impact. the s.e.a.l.s immediately surrounded the village to stop anyone trying to escape into the

nearby mountains. >> you got any update from the apaches? >> reporter: the team commander was in radio contact with his men. >> i want to get a couple of snipers on the high ground there to took lodown. >> i see a guy 12:00 from me took up the hill about 100 meters up the hill. walking. >> reporter: they spotted a lone man heading away from the village but no one knew then if he was the person they were after. the apaches dropped flares to mark the man's position. >> you've got to get him. that's probably him. it's important you hold your positions at this time. we're going to take him out with the apaches. before the team commander could give that order he lost contact so the s.e.a.l.s on the ground returned fire and killed him. the man is down? >> the man is down right now, appears to be the primary target. >> reporter: what would it mean if you really did have this guy? >> it would be huge. >> of course lara, the team you

were embedded with was not team 6 who reportedly killed osama bin laden, but it really does give you a sense of what they're facing and even an idea i'm sure you can give us a better idea of what this mission on sunday must have been like for the s.e.a.l.s and how difficult it was to carry out. >> reporter: well this is the mission that they've all been waiting for and in some sense there's rivalry, only a couple of groups that are specifically trained to that level for high value target mission like this. it's the highest that you can go, and they spend most of my time, even once they're qualified they're training over and over and over again, perfecting their techniques. they have to be able to prepare for anything that happens, and it's a very high stakes world that they live in, and a very shadowy one. their identities are particularly secret. >> and understandably so. part of what they train for, and you touched on this a little bit but talk to us more if you could

is training for what could go wrong including on sunday what we saw with the chopper. >> yes, absolutely right. that's not unexpected. helicopters have mechanical problems or problems arise all the time so they would have been prepared for that. it would have probably got their hearts racing a little bit more than they already were and and what's dangerous about a situation like that, you don't have, you are not in the middle of a war where there are all other kinds of assets around and people standing by ready to come to your aid. you're not supposed to be on the ground in pakistan and so they don't want the pakistani army and military authorities to know that they're there until their mission is over because they don't want anything to go wrong, so even 40 minutes on the ground which is how long this operation took, that's an extraordinary long period of time. all of the operators i've spoken to say it would have only taken about five minutes to kill osama bin laden and capture everybody in that compound, and they would have spent the rest of the time collecting all that evidence. it seems like they knew they

were going into and going to take back everything of value, and you know, we were always led to believe that osama bin laden was in a cave with a notebook at best. it doesn't seem like that's what they believe. i think they went in prepared to collect as much evidence as possible. >> and people are hoping that's what they will have and there will be plenty of information. lara logan thanks again. we'll be back with k with m. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. you're getting calls from his teacher he's impulsive in class. 1

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it is 7:55. time for news headlines from cbs 5. i'm sydnie kohara. public safety taking some big hits as part of contra costa county's efforts to reduce a budget shortfall. the board of supervisors approving a budget plan yesterday. of the 138 county jobs to be eliminated, 82 will be from the sheriff's and probation departments, according to "contra costa times." purses preparing to gone strike against children's -- nurses preparing to go on strike against children's hospital oakland beginning a five-day walkout tomorrow. the 800 nurses voted to strike because the hospital is trying to reduce their healthcare coverage. a key game this evening for the san jose sharks in the stanley cup play-off series against the red wings. san jose winning games one and two at home. if they win game three in detroit, they will be just one win away from winning the

series and advancing to the western conference finals. the puck drops at 5:00 pacific time. we'll take a look at traffic and weather right after this. stay with us. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,

northbound 101, highway 92 an accident in the median. it's slow right now as you pass the highway 92 interchange and even past that. if you are coming across the san mateo bridge, the san mateo bridge itself looks great.

no issues at all in either direction. also in the south bay getting word of this accident northbound 280 at bird and it's slow coming out of downtown san jose in those northbound lanes really all the way up towards cupertino. that is your traffic. for your forecast, here's kristy. >> thanks, elizabeth. beautiful blue skies in store today. and plenty of sunshine already seeing gorgeous clear conditions outside. in this live shot you can see coit tower not a cloud in the sky. this is the story for today and tomorrow. looking at the extended forecast, you can see we are seeing beautiful 80s widespread today even some low 90s. same for thursday, friday drop- off in temperature. and then saturday continuing with that cooling trend for your mother's day holiday going to see a little bit of cloud cover and cooler temperatures. starting to warm up a little bit by monday, though, and then really warming up by tuesday with readings inland in the highway 70s. today, though, gorgeous. get outside to the beach. enjoy your wednesday. ,,,,,,,,

top of the hour on a wednesday morning as we welcome you back to "the early show." a little gray out there this morning. hopefully it's sunshiny where you were this morning. erica hill along with chris wragge. just ahead, you'll meet a connecticut man who celebrated the first anniversary of his new kidney. he found his organ donor on facebook. and this is not all that unusual. just last week, donnie wahlberg, you may know him from new kids on the block, helped a woman find a kidney. we'll take a look at how this

new use of special networks is turning into a game-changer. and drivers can't catch a break as gas prices hit the $4 mark around the country. at the same time, more people are buying new cars. we'll tell you why it's happening and tell you if it's a good time to trade in your car, get something new, maybe an suv, not so good? >> i just want a bargain. >> you want a deal? >> i want a deal. first, we want to check in with jeff glor who has a check of the heads jeff glor is standing by with a check of the headlines for you this morning. good morning again. >> still waiting for my royal trinkets. >> i brought you royal trinkets. >> you did? oh that's right. >> a key chain downstairs with your name on it. >> thank you very much. good morning erica, good morning, everyone. the white house revised its version of the raid that killed osama bin laden. when bin laden was confronted in his pakistani compound he was unarmed. the administration did say he made several threatening moves. it also appears bin laden was ready to run. he had cash with him, the equivalent of about $700 u.s. and two phone numbers sewn into

his clothing when he was killed. last night speaking in washington vice president biden said it was amazing the top secret mission wasn't compromised. >> there were as many as 16 members of congress who were briefed on it. not a single solitary thing leaked. >> cbs news national security correspondent david martin from the pentagon joins us with more on the raid. let me ask you what happened inside. you've confirmed the issue of the money and the phone numbers but they say he also made the threatening moves. will we ever know at some point what exactly happened inside that room? >> well, we've got two witnesses. we've got the s.e.a.l. who shot him, and we have bin laden's wife, who was wounded and presumably lying on the floor, writhing in pain and the only other person we know was in the room of course was bin laden. the wife is in pakistani custody. the s.e.a.l. obviously is still a part of the u.s. military and i'm sure has been debriefed many times by now for complete

account of what happened in that room, and until we get that s.e.a.l.'s account of what happened, we are not going to know what these threatening gestures were or how bin laden is supposed to have done something that convinced him he was a threat, and that he had to shoot. >> and david, quickly, the photo of bin laden dead, you think that does definitely come up but maybe just not right away? >> well, cia director leon panetta has said it will come out. now that's not his call to make. it's the president's call, but this is an historical document. it is described as very gruesome and from what i've heard, it really will be. he was shot at close range and once right above the left eye, and that just blew part of his skull away, and exposed the brain, but this is a man who changed the course of history

over the last ten years, and i just think this is such an important historical document that it will get out there. >> david martin from the pentagon this morning, david, thank you very much. president obama scored high in a new cbs news/"new york times" poll, after the killing of osama bin laden. that poll released just this morning showed the president's overall approval rating took a double digit jump to 57%, after he ordered that raid, with more on the poll this morning here is cbs news chief white house correspondent chip reid. good morning to you. >> jeff let's look at the number we had on the screen. the president gets huge numbers on his handling on the pursuit of osama bin laden. 85% approve, only 7% disapprove. i don't think there's any surprise there, but that positive feeling does carry over to the broader question of his handling of the terrorism threat. now at 72% in august of 2010 it was 51%. the white house believes or at least hopes that this will put to rest any of that criticism

that the president is weak and indecisive on the matter of fighting terrorism. jeff? >> chip, as you've been pointing out to us that feeling does not carry over to the economy, right? >> reporter: it certainly does not, jeff and that's got to be some disappointing news from the white house but again no big surprise. his approval rating on the economy is now 34%. that is the lowest level of his presidency. it was 38% just two weeks ago, and i think the white house understands that whatever boost the president may be getting here in his approval rating it could well be temporary as people turn their attention back to gas prices and jobs. jeff? >> chip reid, chip, thanks very much. by the way president obama sits down with "60 minutes" steve croft for his first and only interview since the death of osama bin laden. watch the president's interview on "60 minutes" this sunday at 7:00, 6:00 central. former president george w. bush has declined an invitation from president obama to participate in tomorrow's events at ground zero. a spokesman says the former president wants to stay out of the spotlight.

and prince charles is in washington and met last night with several wounded u.s. soldiers. he is scheduled to meet later today with president obama at the white house. it is 8:06 and we head back over to erica and chris. guys? >> jeff, thanks a lot. >> thank you. marysol castro is standing by with a check of your weather. good morning again.

>> this weather report sponsored by 21st century auto insurance. the same great coverage for less. >> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now here's erica. just ahead, we know you can find old friends on facebook but what about finding a new kidney? meet a woman who gave a facebook friend the gift of life.

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woman: i will read. in this morning's "healthwatch," organ donation and facebook. half a billion people use facebook to connect with their friends, lovers, exes, colleagues. now it is literally saving lives by linking potential organ donors with the patients who need those organs. michelle miller has the story of one perfect match. >> reporter: as the youngest mayor of east haven, connecticut, april capone knows the important of pressing the flesh. thanks to a post that hit her facebook page in late 2009, she's taken it one step further. >> it was like a little s.o.s., i need help. >> reporter: it came from one of her constituents, carlos

sanchez. in the throes of renal failure after his first transplant failed, sanchez faced another lengthy wait for a healthy organ. with no relatives who were a match, his doctor suggested he turn to his facebook family. >> all of a sudden, i get a private text. i didn't answer her. i said, i think she made a mistake. i think she meant to say, you're in my thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: a few hours later, a second message came through. >> carlos, i'll get tested. i've got two, what the hell, you can have one. >> i thought, what are the odds of her being a match to me. >> reporter: turns out, she was. and in april of 2010, doctors removed april's left kidney and gave it to carlos. facebook tells cbs news that it doesn't track or police these types of posts. but it has noticed what appears to be an increase in the number of users soliciting kidney donations on its website. the official organ donor list

regulated and funded by the federal government has a typical wait time of three to five years. and all of those donations come from the deceased. >> right now, we have no organized system concerning live organ donation. >> reporter: that has spawned websites that match potential live donors with recipients. like facebook, they're not subject to federal oversight. and while dr. robert cliffsman acknowledges these sites do help save lives, he has a protocol to reduce foul play, like paying for organs. >> we need a coordinated system to ensure that as many people can get organs from as many people who are willing to give as possible. >> reporter: a year later, sanchez's health is restored. >> doing quite excellent. >> reporter: they share more than a pound of flesh. >> carlos wasn't my brother. but he is now. >> reporter: they share each

other's lives. >> she's my angel. because of her, i'm going to see my son graduate this year. >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, east haven, connecticut. >> what a story. joining us now, dr. jennifer ashton. this is amazing, we saw in the piece that the doctor actually encouraged carlos to reach out on facebook. but how common is this? >> it's becoming more common. carlos in this piece had already had a kidney transplant. that one had failed. he was about to need to be relisted on the list. and the average waiting list for a kidney is 3 1/2 years. overall in this country, over 11,000 people are on the transplant list waiting for any type of organ. so i think in those situations, really you need to do -- certainly to reach out for other resources like this. and it will be becoming more common. >> it's a wonderful, incredibly selfless gesture. to be a donor. but it doesn't come without risks. >> exactly. and there is no long-term data

on the risks or complications of living organ donation either from a physical or a psychosocial standpoint. but this is major surgery. you can have severe bleeding, infection. when you talk about a kidney donor, you're talking about the possibility of high blood pressure in the future. when you talk the psychosocial or emotional risks or complications to the donor, you want to make sure there's no coercion involved. and obviously it is illegal to pay, to buy or sell an organ. >> which is really important. we're talking about kidneys here. but are there other organs which could work in terms of a living donor? >> there are a couple of other ones. we're hearing more and more about liver -- donating part of your liver, part of the lung, part of the pancreas or part of the intestines. not has common as solid whole organ transplantation. >> you worked six months with the heart transplant unit which gives you incredible experience

in this department. when you look at this, though, what are some other things that people should take into account before heading down this path to help someone? >> i was on the heart donor team. i god a firsthand look at what's involved from the donor's standpoint. most of the time, the relatives are the ones who make that decision to donate organs. this is something that you want to talk to your friends and family about and let them know your wishes. when you talk about the opportunity of taking a tragedy or a sorrowful experience and making it into a positive one, solid organs can save eight to nine lives per organ donor. and when you talk about donating soft tissue and organs, up to 50 lives can be saved. incredible. >> really puts it in perspective. for more information, logon to our website. just ahead, it is probably no secret to you.

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in this morning's "money watch" car sales and gas prices anywhere you go in the u.s. a gallon of regular costs around $4 and gas prices rose more than 30 cents a gallon alone. rebecca jarvis is here to tell us why and what it means if you're looking to buy a new car. gas prices being as high as they are, and car sale prices going

right up. >> car sales are going up. sounds like to some people maybe it's happening in spite of higher gas prices. the reality is that car sales are rising because all of the automakers and the detroit three are a big part of this, they are putting out more fuel-efficient cars and those are the big sellers right now. if you went to the new york auto show this week and last week you saw all of the fuel efficient cars among them the chevy cruise, which is a general motors car, is one of the big ticket items, definitely selling big here and general motors saw its sales of all the automakers go up the most by 27% in the month of april. >> big numbers for gm. let's talk about big cars, suvs. normally when we see gas prices go as high as they are the sales of suvs scales back until the prices come down. any correlation? >> absolutely, that's what we tend to see. in this go round americans may actually be changing their habits. what we've seen in 2008 when prices spiked up to $4.11 in the

summer of '08 we saw a lot of americans cut back on their usage, they thought never again but then they went out and bought gas guzzlers again. this go-round we're seeing a sea change and part of that is being led by the detroit automakers. >> how are american companies doing up against foreign competitors? >> they had a better month in april than their foreign competitors. some of that is due to the fact that japanese automakers like toyota for example have faced serious shutdowns and we're still seeing that on the lots here in the united states. i've been talking to the dealerships, running short on priuses, some of the lexus cars running short and they expect to see more shortages. american carmakers are taking the lead here. >> let's talk bin is enives. you're not going to get me in a car unless you give me a good deal. that is the prevailing theme. >> that is the prevailing theme. the incentives have come down pretty significantly in the month of april, incentives on average were about $2,118.

that's what you can get back in the cash back, low rate financing offers, down $250 from march. so what you're seeing is the automakers don't have to give us customers as much money to get us to buy their cars. >> sounds like they're jacking the prices up a little bit, giving a little pullback on incentives. >> you might see that continuation. what you have here, when there's more interest in buying cars there's fewer cars sitting dormant on the lot, the dealerships don't have a necessity to push them out the door. we're willing to pay a higher price. >> rental cars, with the summer season fast approaching, the gas prices at the rental counter, wow. >> if you return that car without gasoline in it, you are going to pay potentially $9 a gallon. don't do it. if you prepay, here is the interesting thing. if you prepay at these places and say we will take the gas you could actually pay less money for a gallon of gas in many major cities. do that prepay option where you say we'll take the gas but

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ogress on a power and good morning, it is 8:25. time for some news headlines. utility crews are making some progress on a power outage in the east bay. pg&e's website reports about 50 customers in concord are affected by the outage. it started around 6:45 this morning near interstate 680 around monument boulevard. concord traffic lights went dark due to the power outage. and police are investigating another sexual assault on a uc-berkeley student. officers say they are searching for a male suspect who is in his 20s, 6'3" tall, about 150 pounds with black hair. officers say the assault happened on monday night. that's when the man inappropriately touched a female student inside a dorm's mailroom. almost eight months after a pipeline explosion destroyed a san bruno neighborhood, the city issued the first permit to rebuild a home in the area.

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freeway is growing to 35 minutes in the carquinez bridge to the maze. also that traffic heading toward the bay bridge toll plaza, it is backed up well into the macarthur maze about a 20-minute wait to get on the bridge. approaching the castro centrally y, westbound 580 around strobridge, watch out for some slower speeds there approaching the 238 interchange. 880 through oakland, actually not as bad as usual. right now it looks okay in those northbound lanes as you pass the coliseum. that's your traffic. for your weather, here's kristy. >> thanks a lot, elizabeth. beautiful day today. plenty of sunshine and blue skies. couldn't ask for better weather. here's live shot outside from our roof looking at the bay bridge. you can actually see the sun shining down. it's going to be a gorgeous day. widespread 80s throughout the bay area, even low 90s in those inland spots and actually we'll maintain similar temperatures for thursday. friday the sea breezes kick in dropping us down in temperature. and then saturday and sunday, cooling a little bit more. by monday similar to sunday a little bit of cloud cover, tuesday high 70s inland. ,,,,,,,,

welcome back to the early show, bottom of the hour here, wednesday morning, get your martinis and what does that say, monolos? >> monolos. >> it's a shoe thing, right? >> don't act like you don't know. >> i'm kidding. >> a little martini monolos on a wednesday morning.

>> the author who invented "sex & and the city" candice bushnell is here to tell us about her latest "summer in the city" called the sequel to the prequel. >> i think i followed that. maybe we shouldn't have had the martinis before this segment. >> probably didn't help. also ahead, jalsalyson hann in the studio, mom's night out as we gear up for mother's day and i think most moms could agree, mary? >> i would love a mom's night out. >> we love this idea. >> absolutely >> bring your martinis with you. >> we might and monolos. katie lee is also here. >> star packed day. >> yes. indicate see making peanut crusted baked chicken and also

sesame snow peas. she's getting ready right now. katie looks beautiful as always this morning. we'll check in with her in a few minutes. >> all of the dishes in 15 minutes or less. >> marysol? >> yes. >> can you do this weather report quickly and affordably? >> i'm going to milk it

thanks so much. that's your latest weather. over to chris. >> "sex and the city" are out to find to find out about carrie bradshaw and where did it start? we find the answers in the new

book "sumner the city" and candace bushnell joins us. >> great to see you chris. >> you are to "sex and the city" what george lucas is to "star wars." there are so many of these. >> somebody made that comment. >> this is where the comparison is made because there is a p prequel or sequel to the prequel. >> the prequel is two-part. carrie diaries, carrie's first, last year and high school and "summer in the city" picks up where the carrie diaries left off, arrived in new york so her first summer in new york city. she meets samantha and miranda and charlotte comes in, but i'm not going to say when or how. >> it's hard to believe that it's been so long since "sex and the city" debuted on hbo, 1998. >> the crazy thing i started writing it in 1994. >> so this has been following

you around for years. >> you know, i love it. i have to say writing "summer in the city" i had such a great time revisiting the characters in this new iteration and incarnation because they're young. carrie is 17, turning 18. miranda is about 18 and samantha, who was always eight years older of course is 25 years old, and they're all thrown together, and samantha is the one who, she's kind of telling carrie about the city and the way it is and the way men are, and meanwhile, miranda is a hard core feminist. carrie meets her in front of saks fifth avenue and miranda is protesting against pornography, which was a real thing in the early '80s. it was a time when there was so much feminism in the air, and a lot of actually a lot of anger,

because you know, equality between the sexes was not the way it was today. >> yes. >> and there was a lot of sexual harassment, which is hinted at in snan's story. so carrie ends up getting sort of the two sides of, you know, this budding freedom of sexuality, and at the same time this sort of feminist anger that things with men aren't the way they should be. >> that kind of shapes her obviously. >> and it really shapes her to become the carrie who we meet, you know, in the book "sex and the city" and the series "sex and the city." >> you talked earlier, when we first mentioned about how you started this way back in the early '90s, how much you loved writing these characters or writing these books. >> yes. >> the fact it's been so well-received, i know only adds to it. what's the big lesson for people that are familiar with carrie bradshaw, for now the new

generation of people that will become more familiar with her. what's the big takeaway? >> for young women is really is about finding yourself and being an individual, and in fact all three of the characters, carrie and miranda and samantha, although there are different sides of their personalities, they're all on that journey to define who they are outside of society's expectations for women. >> interesting it kind of defined a generation, too. it is something that took on a life of its own and now there's just so many things that are synonymous with carrie with "sex and the city," with new york city, so many identitiable things with the show that kind of comes back to your idea way back when. >> exactly. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> it's incredible. here's erica. six seasons alyson hannigan starred on "how i met your mother." >> he's printing out a whole new

batch of resumes because he misspelled "detail oriented" and when he gets back home he's going to find his favorite soup waiting for him. >> that's sweet but didn't you guys get food poisons here one time? >> three times but they're really nice about it. their policy is get sick, get a free gallon of soup. >> alyson hannigan here with us in the studio. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> it's a fun show. you have a great job but you like going to work every day. >> absolutely. it is a family and i know everybody says that but mostly they're talking about their functional family and this is not like th. this is a healthy we actually chose each other family. >> if only you could do that with your real family. >> sometimes. not our family of course. in the new issue of "entertainment weekly" they talk about the show reinvented itself in the sixth season. do you feel that way, too? >> absolutely.

i feel we hit a great stride this past season and got back to what the fans love about it, and the heart of the show, and it's just so nice to be able to make you laugh but also make you cry. >> yeah, it's always sort of a nice mix of emotion. oh. >> you really care about these people and you feel like hey, i could sit down with them and have a meal. >> which is why they can sit down with you even if you're just being alyson this morning. the beginning of the season a hint of a wedding. >> yes. >> we have a couple of episodes left. what can you tell me? i know you can't spoil it. >> this season's finale, more of a piece of that puzzle and you'll get some more stuff. there's some big -- they never disappoint on the season finales. >> good. so there will be a healthy dose of information with a healthy dose of frustration, just what we want. >> exactly. >> hold us over for the sum per what about a baby? >> well you'll get a piece of that puzzle as well. >> ahhh. >> yep. >> possible wedding, possible

baby. okay. i like where all of this is headed. in real life you have a baby of your own, now a toddler. >> i do. i still call her a baby but she's 2. >> she'll be your baby forever. it's great you can bring her to the set with you. >> it's like kidville there now, we have a big nursery and playground and it's fantastic. >> so much fun. you started out in this business really young, a few months old, right? >> i started print when i was a little baby baby in commercials but it was sort of a hobby in atlanta, and then -- >> look what it's turned into. can you imagine your daughter doing anything like that really? >> no, no, no. >> would you dissuade her? >> i would try. i don't know. i'm scared. she's very expressive and funny but we're going to try to hold it off as long as possible. i want her to just be a real kid. >> keep the bugs from biting her. you also started this initiative which as a mother i have to say thank you for, trying to get mom to take a night out with the girlfriends. >> exactly moms night out,

fantastic, go to stub hub and sign up and you can win an incredible night out, like you know, like a u2 concert for you and your friends and -- >> u2 is my favorite band, so. >> they're so good in concert. all of the amazing events and also benefits adopt-a-classroom, a fantastic charity and close to me, because i play a teacher, and so the classrooms need all the help they can get so the more tickets bought, the more money goes to adopt-a-classroom. >> this helps buy supplies for the classroom which is important because a lot of teachers are taking that out of their own pocket and not that deep to begin with the budget cuts. >> and teachers are so important. moms and teachers are the most important jobs really. >> they really are. >> in my opinion, and doctors, anyway. >> they're helpful, too. you also have a lot of people very excited about this, "american pie 4."

>> i know. >> a big reunion. who knew, what was it 12 years ago the first one came out? >> gosh. >> one summer band camp. >> kept going. >> kept going. >> kept going and going and going. >> a phrase that gets uttered around here. >> i hear it quite often myself. >> did you ever think you'd end up with an "american pie 4"? >> no. no. i mean it was a mall small, little, hey this is a cute script taken became this huge franchise and even after the third one we were like this is probably it. it's a trilogy. that sounds good and here we are. we're like becoming the "police academies" or something. >> will there be anything about band camp? >> yeah, of course, it's a reunion, you know? you've got to like reference it. >> got to have a little bit of that. >> yeah. >> very nice. you've wrapped the '60s and start filming again in august. give us an extra tidbit. we'd love to hear what's coming up. >> thank you so much for having

me. >> alyson hannigan joining us again this morning. catch "how i met your mother" right here on cbs. chris? we're all busy these days and almost no one has the time to spend hours cooking dinner. the truth is you can make a nutritious and delicious family meal in as little as 15 minutes. katie lee is here to prove it. katie, good morning. >> good morning. >> we're going to put you on the spot. >> you are going to put me on the spot but that's fine. i'm prepared. >> you have five minutes. who really has the time to prepare. very few people. >> people always say i don't have too time to cook. that's not true. you can do this meal in 15 minutes, it's going to take less time than calling the chinese delivery and having it knock at your door. it's going to be done and healthy, low-fat, low sodium, delicious and every ingredient is going to count in this. this is a meal that i came up with one night when i was

scratching ahead and i looked around in my pantry. >> there's a health benefit to everything we're going to use? >> exactly. we'll start with our peanut crusted chicken, and you can substitute other nuts. we're using peanuts. i have this handy dandy nut grinder, a great gadget. >> you have one of those at the house. >> i do. peanuts are great because they are a legume, not a nut, a little bit of trivia, and a in oleic acid, a helpful fat, lowers your cholesterol. >> you can use walnuts or almonds? >> pecans or cashews would be yummy. i had peanuts. chicken breast, these are thinly sliced chicken breast which cook a lot faster, keep these on hand in your freezer. also use a fish, tilapia would be great, into some flour. this is an easy breading technique. now into the egg, one egg

lightly beaten. also substood just egg whites if you want to make it lower in fat. >> let's go crazy. >> let the egg sauce drip off and roll it in your peanuts just like that. super easy, delicious and the nuts add a good crunch factor and flavorful. put it right on, get it all nice and coated, it goes on to a prepared baking sheet, spray it with non-stick cooking spray, goes into the oven at 400 degrees at 12 minutes. >> 400 for 12 minutes. >> while that cooks we'll get everything else ready for our meal. >> because we'll put a little sal rah on top of this to dress it up. >> a pineapple salsa, all will having lots of good flavors so you don't need the extra fat. we'll chop up pineapple here. pineapple has 128% of your daily value of manganese. it's an anti-oxidant builder and it also has vitamin b which

helps boost your energy so all kinds of good stuff. >> you weren't kidding. >> jalapenos boosts your metabolism, some cilantro and we're saving some for our couscous coming up. onions for more flavor and a little pinch of salt, and we're just going to stir that together. this is delicious. you can put this on so many different things, with summer coming up, it's great on grilled meats, grilled fish, so this is something that i make quite often. substitute peaches, plums, anything like that. we'll take it down here to save for when our chicken comes out of the oven. next up is couscous, it's herbed and delicious. i have water boiling. couscous is a great time saver. takes five minutes. >> goes a long way. >> totally does. i'm adding curry powder. it's a blend of spices so you don't have to be reaching for a couple different containers. you just do one.

i'm putting two teaspoons in and has tumeric in, anti-inflammatory. it cuts down on the fat, adding in the spice. we put into this our couscous, whole wheat, so lots of fiber and just going to cover it for five minutes, remove it from the heat, and then it comes out like this. >> just five minutes. >> just five minutes, that's it. how great is that? we'll fluff it with a fork and then we'll add to it some other things. we've got some dried cranberries. cranberries are full of fiber, vitamin c and top of the charts for anti-oxidants. they're great. when you buy them, be sure to look for ones that don't have any sugar added. a lot of times with dried fruit which is already sweet enough they add sugar, and you just don't need it. and some of that cilantro we used in our salsa so we only chop it up once. if you don't like cilantro, use parsley or any herb you like. i'll drizzle it with heart

healthy extra virgin olive oil and pinch of salt. >> smells great. >> doesn't that look yummy. >> about a minute left. >> my favorite speedy side dish the peas. if you want to grab the chicken. >> yep. >> snow peas cook in to time at all. put them in the microwave 45 seconds and adding sesame seeds to these and these are a great little seed that adds so much flavor, zinc, b, all good stuff, fibers that lower your cholesterol and the sesame seeds. >> chicken. >> there's our butter and chicken. we're going to put our salsa on top. you grab that salsa, and put some on here. plate this up, a delicious meal, fantastic. no time at all. you see how easy that was? don't you think you could do that? >> you said 15 minutes. we've done this in less than 5. >> we had the power of tv on our side. >> that's okay. >> we'll plate this up, so yummy. i would be thrilled to have this

for dinner. >> you got your leftovers you can have it for lunch the next day. >> absolutely. this couscous is great for a leftover. add it to a green salad and put in some tuna, something like that and got a great leftover lumpbl t lunch the next day. low-fat, healthy and delicious. >> and during the break everybody else will come in. >> it will be all gone. >> a break? >> they won't even wait until the commercial. >> i want a bite. looks really pretty. >> we eat with our eyes first. that's good the kids will like it because it's bright. >> jeff doesn't need a plate. you can take that home, jeff. >> what's great about so many of your recipes, they become staples in our homes. my kids and husband love them and they're quick. >> katie, thank you. you can find the recipes on our website earlyshow.cbsnews.com. great to see you as always. website earlyshow.cbsnews.com. great to see you as always. we'll be right back.,, 3q

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hard to whistle with your mouth open? reviews, jeff? >> i like it. i love the pineapple salsa. >> packs a lot of flavor. super easy. >> thanks, jeff. >> tell her how you really feel. >> feels dry, thank you, jeff. >> it's delicious. >> it is great. >> i love it, not too dry, it's just perfect, katie. >> thank you. >> thank you for playing along. your thoughts? >> it's delicious. >> thank you. >> thank you. i love when you come and cook for us because apparently we never eat at home. watch it. >> we'll be back. your local news is next. see you tomorrow. ,,

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good morning. a lot of slow spots in the bay area including traffic out of downtown san jose. there was an accident northbound 280 approaching saratoga. so that's why we have all those slow -- cars not moving very fast approaching the 880 interchange. almost a half hour drive from 101 towards cupertino. also this new accident is reported along the peninsula. southbound 101 before highway 84. and at the bay bridge things have improved a bit. it is backed up just to the 880 overcrossing. that's your traffic. for your forecast, here's kristy. >> thanks, elizabeth. beautiful outside right now. sunny skies and clear skies, and it will actually break into the low 90s today in those inland spots, widespread 80s elsewhere. you can see in this shot of san francisco, transamerica period, no clouds. and nice weather will continue for tomorrow. and then we see a little bit of nosedive on friday. saturday and sunday cooler with a little bit of cloud cover. monday cooler as well and then tuesday, popping right back up

to those high 70s.