>> strapped on the buster browns and hood of it out. >> getting on a plane today to go home. >> between ready to go home, as well. thanks for watching cbs 5 "early edition." see you at noon. not working. unemployment is up as the job rate slows down. more signs the economy is fading. why the job market is sluggish and visit an auto plant where the president is headed later today. romney is running. he takes another shot at the presidency saying president obama failed america. >> the economy was in recession and he made it worse. and he made it last longer. >> we will ask him why he thinks he can win this time. and also, sarah palin made it to new hampshire on the same day as romney's big announcement. hero dad. an armed gunman threatens to kill two boys in a florida

robbery. their army sergeant father protects them from harm and ends up capturing the suspect himself. we will talk with the hero this himself. we will talk with the hero this friday morning, june 3rd, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning on friday, june 3rd. chris wragge. >> erica hill. glad to have you with us. don't mess with the military, don't mess with the parents either. those two instincts kicking in, soldier and dad, you can see why this staff sergeant is a man to be recognize onned with. probably one of the nicest guys you will meet. he will tell us what happened in that bank robbery and how he managed to hold the suspect until the cops could get there. his kid's pretty proud of dad. he got the bad guy. >> wonderful story there. we begin with the latest unemployment numbers from the

labor department released this morning. job growth in may hit an eight month low and the jobless rate went up again. cbs business correspondent rebecca jarvis more. depressing numbers. >> yes, this was a very bad report. the most significant report analysts watch to get a read on how the economy is faring and it shows things are getting worse, not better. while companies are hiring, it isn't fast enough to keep up with high demand for jobs. today's jobs report shows the economy added just 54,000 jobs in may, almost 200,000 jobs short of gains made last month. >> we have seen a little deceleration in the labor market. you see a lot of signs pointing to that. >> unemployment inched up from 9 to 9.1% as more were looking for jobs and fewer were available for 14 million americans out of work. analysts say the slowing trend

may continue due to sluggish job growth. high gas prices and double dip in the housing market. >> recovery has slowed. it is not creating enough jobs to help unemployment and in kang dangser of a double dip recession. >> consumers are reluctant to spend money and companies are not hiring. rates dropped significantly. the economy would have to add 300 to 400,000 jobs a month for the next couple months. that's a prospect that seems less and less certain. >> let me ask you, because winter and early spring numbers were so good, why are they now falling off? >> we're seeing the impact of rising prices from gasoline to groceries. americans are just paying more and more, and that's having impact on other things we buy. in a word, we're not buying them as much, not buying as many clothes or electronics or cars.

that has an impact on jobs. when we don't by that, they don't manufacturer it, they can't sell it, we cut back on spending. we as consumers motivate the economy. 70% of the economy relies on us. >> they are in pull back mode. we talked about the double dip with the housing market. is that something we see as a whole? >> red flags are raising. people will watch for more signs of that weakness. >> any silver lining? >> we are seeing job creation in tech and healthcare and also in accounting and bookkeeping and business services. those are all areas that did hire in may. >> we're just going to have to keep looking at numbers month by month. hope for good news. cbs's rebecca jarvis, good to see you. with that job report, the president goes to a chrysler factory kept open by the auto industry bailout and the treasury prepares to sell out its last shares of the automaker. dean reynolds is outside that

plant. >> reporter: good morning, chris. well, saddled as he is with the sluggish economy, it is no wonder the president is looking for perceived success stories to highlight, and that's why he's coming to toledo. with the national unemployment rate hovering around 9%, mr. obama has to look hard for examples that his economic policies helped improve job prospects. >> whether it is the economy or the oil crisis or the japan tragedy, all of these things are preventing a full blown recovery. >> reporter: the president is coming to this jeep assembly plant. his policies have direct affected. it was closed after chrysler declared bankruptcy and the company's future as a whole was in serious dou. but two years after the government road to the rescue with taxpayer dollars, chrysler is humming along, boasting 10% increase in sales in may, upgrading facilities, and returning people to work. indeed, gm, ford, and chrysler

all returned to profitability and are gaining market share for the first time in 15 years, according to an administration report released wednesday. >> i was just there opening day. >> reporter: james assembles jeeps in toledo. was laid off in 2009, but called back late last year. >> i wonder where would i be at in life now had not my president been able to help the american people and the auto industry. >> reporter: he declined a $100,000 buyout from chrysler because he believed he and the company had a future together. >> i stand here today blessed and thankful at where i'm at. >> reporter: the national economic council the president put together said the government will lose less than 20% of the 80 billion it used to bailout the car industry, and while that's $14 billion, it's a lot better than the $48 billion the treasury first thought the government would lose.

>> dean reynolds in toledo, ohio. thank you. we turn to the latest on campaign 2012. mitt romney having a town hall meeting in new hampshire this morning, one day after the former massachusetts governor announced he is running for president. jan crawford has the latest from washington. good morning. >> good morning. romney has been planning for the past two years for a presidential run. now he finally made it official. >> i refuse to believe that america is just another place on the map with a flag. we stand for freedom and opportunity and hope. >> reporter: the race for president kicked into high gear with mitt romney formally announcing his candidacy and taking direct aim at barack obama. >> barack obama has failed america. [ applause ] >> when he took office, the

economy was in recession. and he made it worse. and he made it last longer. >> reporter: at a farm in the pivotal state of new hampshire, romney talked of restoring the american dream. >> we look at our country and we know in our hearts that things aren't right and that they're not getting better. >> reporter: he said his experience is business, and as governor of massachusetts, could turn the economy around. in his 2008 campaign, he ran as a social conservative, despite taking moderate positions as governor. he was called a flip flopper and lost the republican nomination to john mccain. thursday, he briefly mentioned support for universal healthcare in massachusetts, considered a liability with conservatives and an issue opponents can run with. sarah palin said he owed voters more explanation, chose to visit new hampshire the day of his announcement. she denied she was trying to steal his thunder in a state analysts say he must win. >> i will say hi to him and best

of luck to him. >> reporter: still, her bus tour has stolen some of the spotlight, as has the focus on some of the other noncandidates and expected contenders, like jon huntsman who will be in new hampshire this weekend. with polls showing most republican voters aren't happy with the current crop of candidates, that focus on someone else is likely to continue, despite romney's entry into the race. >> jan, thanks. we will speak with mitt romney in the next hour on the early show. before we speak with him, we want to speak with host of "face the nation" bob schieffer. nice to have you back with us this morning. >> thank you. >> there's a lot of dissatisfaction with republicans with the field. mitt romney at this point seems to be the frontrunner. what does he have to do to solidify that position? >> what mitt romney has going for him is name recognition and he is also able to raise money,

but what his challenge is going to be, erica, is this. in american politics, you get one epiphany. you can move from the right to the left or move from the left to the right. mitt romney was a conservative. he ran for governor of massachusetts and sort of moved to the left. he passed that universal healthcare law up there that a lot of people say is the model for what republicans call obamacare. now he is trying to move back to the right. you say no, no, no, no, i'm really a conservative after all. that's going to be his problem with republican voters, to prove that he is a conservative. and it's going to take some doing because a lot of republicans will not forgive him for that healthcare law that he passed up there in massachusetts. >> one of the other big issues for any candidate at this point is also sarah palin, who is proving to be a distraction, may be her mo, it is not clear. how much impact is she having

and could she have? >> i am not clear what sarah palin is doing right now. is she just playing hide and seek with the press, having a little fun? is she trying to lay ground work for a presidential campaign? i really don't know. i mean, she does continue to get an enormous amount of press. we put her picture on television this morning. is she going to run? i wish i could answer. i'm sure someone around here could, but i don't know. >> big question. many republicans, too, because they seem dissatisfied with the folks that are out there, declared or undeclared, there has been talk about pushing new jersey governor chris christie to run. >> so far he says he wants nothing to do with it. he would probably be as strong a candidate as anybody in the republican field now, but you hit the nail on the head, erica. republicans are not pleased with the list of candidates so far. a recent pugh research poll was

devastating. it said that nearly 40% of republican voters felt negative about the field so far. only 20% said they were satisfied with the field so far. so republicans are still looking. but the pool out there is getting thin. we are at the shallow end of the pool now, about who would it be if it's not chris christie that would come out and join this field? mike huckabee says he is not running, haley barbour has taken himself out of the race. i don't know who the green candidate would be now, but clearly if the polls are any indicator, republicans are not satisfied with their list of candidates thus far. >> bob schieffer, always good to have you with us. thanks again. >> thanks, erica. >> tune into "face the nation" when his guest is haley barbour. and a programming note. you may have seen the cbs news town hall on the economy with president obama. we aired it on the early show.

we have another one coming up june 14th. this time we're sitting down with a number of republican lawmakers for their point of view. bob schieffer and i will be moderating. several gop leaders as we mentioned will be there, answering questions from the studio audience, and also, just like last time, we want them to get questions from you at home. you see the number of ways to contact us. get the information at our website. how to submit your questions online, and catch that cbs news town hall on the economy, the republican view, right here tuesday, june 14th, 8:00 a.m. on the early show. >> or send us a letter. >> you have. >> like old school. let's go to the news desk for a check of the other headlines. good morning. >> good morning. good morning to everyone at home. war crimes fugitive has been arraigned at the war crimes tribunal. he told the judge he is a gravely ill man. the former general is charged

with genocide for the massacre of 8,000 muslims during the boss knee and war and war crimes. he called the charges obnoxious and refused to enter a plea, saying he was defending his people and country. his next scheduled court date is july 4th. in yemen, opposition fighters attacked the presidential palace, punding several government officials. cbs news correspondent charlie d'agata has more. >> reporter: the capital came under shelling. the president was there at the time of the attack. government officials say the president is alive, in good condition. there are reports he was slightly wounded. shelling was in retaliation after saleh's forces leveled the home of a tribal leader. there have been widespread protests in the capital and uprising to overthrow the press. they put pressure on saleh to

resign after three decades of power. yemen is a country where al qaeda is active, plotting and directing recent terror attacks against the united states. >> charlie d'agata in london, thanks very much. dr. jack kevorkian who created huge debate over assisted suicide in the 1990s died in a suburban detroit hospital this morning. he had been a patient there several weeks. served eight weeks in prison for secondary murder. he claims to have helped 130 people end their lives. dr. jack kevorkian, known by some as dr. death died this morning in michigan. former democratic presidential candidate john edwards was indicted today. a north carolina grand jury indicting him on charges of using campaign funds to hide an affair. charges come after a two year investigation. and this year's national spelling bee came down to one

word. cymotrichous. >> c-y-m-o-t-r-i-c-h-o-u-s. >> that's what happens when you read the dictionary multiple times. yesterday, 14-year-old sukanya roy of pennsylvania won the bee spelling sicymotrichous. she gets that engraved trophy. one of the best events of the year. >> i love it. >> so great. >> just kept going. past the allotted time. >> never so nervous as when i competed in that when younger.

>> thanks so much. later on in the show i'llell >> thanks so much. later on, i'll tell you where it is cooler than normal for this time of year. erica and chris. still ahead this morning, the latest on the recovery efforts in springfield, massachusetts, which was blind sided by tornados wednesday, including the story of a woman that saved her young daughter's life, paid the ultimate price in doing so. and a dramatic turn in casey anthony murder trial. police catch her on tape with a string of lies. more when we come back on the early show. working with today's va i can use my license anywhere in the u.s. in the city or the wide open spaces it's amazing how you can grow as a doctor a nurse a pharmacist you grow as a person it's the quality of care our veterans deserve this is what i'm called to do.

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live pictures for you this morning from wes from west springfield, massachusetts, where a rare deadly tornado touched down wednesday. thousands of residents understandably still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that a tornado touched down on their home in massachusetts. in a moment, we go to the damage for an update on how folks are doing and recovering, cleanup efforts are happening this morning. that's ahead as we continue. welcome back. also ahead, more dramatic testimony in casey anthony's murder trial. jurors heard a detective on tape pleading for anthony to tell the truth about what happened to her daughter. we're going to have the latest on that all coming up in the next couple minutes. first, jeff glor is at the news desk with the top

headlines. >> good morning to you and everyone at home. labor department is out with the highly anticipated unemployment report for may today. the report says only 54,000 new jobs were created in may, the fewest in eight months. and unemployment rate in may rose to 9.1%.

nearly 20 different comm nearly 20 different communities are cleaning up this morning after tornados tore through central and western massachusetts, killing at least three people, injuring 200 others. whit johnson is in west springfield, massachusetts with

the latest. whit, good morning. >> reporter: erica, good morning. on this one city block, you have homes that were left standing, people who barely survived as their homes collapsed around them, and people who did not survive. a range of tragedy and recovery has just begun. beneath the flattened homes, overturned buses and uprooted trees. >> i heard wrus egg sounds, opened the shade and saw it. >> reporter: there were stories of survival. >> i was sitting in my car here. >> reporter: this is your car here? >> yeah. >> reporter: he was nearly crushed in his car when his neighbor's house collapsed on top of him. but once he realized he was safe, he had a different problem. >> the kids were crying, the father was yelling to get help, to just get the kids out. >> reporter: he had to rescue three young children and their father, pulling them from the rubble after they suffered painful but minor injuries. >> he got hurt most of all.

>> reporter: your dad got hurt protecting you. how does that make you feel? >> i am so happy, i love my dad. >> reporter: as it his a dozen communities in western and central massachusetts, some weren't so lucky. >> she always used to say i would die for either one of you. >> reporter: her mother was killed in the tornado's fury, while protecting her younger sister. the mother sheltered the girl in the bathtub as the home crumbled around them. >> she said she was stuck under there for two hours, and she was saying daddy help me, and then she was like mom's not talking. >> reporter: all this tragedy and destruction in a place more accustomed to blinding snowstorms than twisters. >> try to get federal assistance. >> reporter: senator scott brown toured the devastation in disbelief. >> ever seen anything quite like this? >> not at all. >> how about a tornado? >> who would have thought in

springfield. i guess it can happen anywhere. just shows the power of mother nature. >> reporter: and those three people who lost their lives brings the tornado related death toll for the year to 522, making this the deadliest year for tornados since 1950. erica? >> whit johnson in west springfield, massachusetts this morning. thanks. up next, casey anthony jury hears police officers catching her in a series of lies. the latest from orlando in the murder trial. this is "the early show" on cbs. called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding.

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in casey anthony's murder in casey anthony's murder trial thursday, jurors listened to the defendant's own words as prosecutors argue the woman accused of killing her young daughter is a liar whose words mean nothing. cbs news correspondent mark strassmann has this report. >> reporter: casey anthony's prosecutors thursday played the jury hours of taped jail house conversations between casey and her family. >> hi. we've been watching you for so long. >> reporter: through it all, there was no admission that two-year-old caylee died in the family swimming pool, which the defense is now claiming.

instead, casey anthony maintained her story that her daughter had been taken by a baby-sitter named zanny, which even casey's mother seemed to question. >> everybody is looking for her. are we going to be able to find her, do you think? >> i hope we can, mom. >> reporter: on the stand, the detective testified casey claimed she worked at universal studios which turned out to be a lie. police confronted her in an hour-long recorded meeting. >> i know and everybody knows everything you told me is a lie. >> not everything i told you. >> pretty much everything you told me, including where caylee is now. >> that, i still don't know where she is. >> sure you do. >> reporter: he told police they checked the address for zanny, the baby-sitter, discovered the apartment had been empty for months and they could not find zanny. >> if you hid caylee and don't want anyone to find out or something happened to caylee, she's buried in a trash can somewhere and you had somewhere

to do with it. >> reporter: the defense team admits casey lied to investigators. a pattern of behavior she learned after years of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, george anthony. he denied that allegation. joining us now from the courthouse in orlando, former prosecutor, beth karas, correspondent for tru tv's in session. good morning. >> good morning. >> dramatic testimony as jurors heard the tapes for hours. can you describe what you think the impact was of the tapes on the jury? >> i was in the courtroom watching. the jurors looked at monitors in front of them in the jury box. they stared at the monitors, transfixed, not taking notes, and barely looking up at casey anthony, who was seated directly across the courtroom from them in front of them. lie after lie, chris, was told by this woman who the defense says knew at the time that her baby was dead, yet she kept telling her parents and her brother that her main concern

was finding her daughter. she gave her mother a message to give to the media, because her mother was speaking to the media at the time. people were out searching for this little girl, that all she wanted back was her baby. please tell zanny to give her back. and all along she knew she was dead, either at her own hands or an accidental drowning. it was very intense in the courtroom, and i don't know how to describe it, but jurors just didn't move as they looked at the series of lie after lie after lie, she gave no clue whatsoever to where the baby could be. >> how big an obstacle for the defense? even they admitted their client is a liar and lied to investigators, from what we see by all accounts, whether the baby-sitter, where she worked, the woman doesn't tell the truth. how do you get by that if you try to defend this woman? >> exactly. they are admitting all of this. and now i don't see any way they can really prove this defense of sexual abuse without putting her

on the stand. but that's a danger, too, because prosecutors will say this woman has lead a life of deceit analyze to people, and she's doing it to you, too. there's zero evidence of sexual abuse except for what we think will come from the mouth of casey anthony. it is a huge hurdle for the defense. but in a death penalty case, you're going to do whatever you can to save the life of your client. >> do you honestly believe with your experience that they will put her on the stand? >> i don't see, chris, how they can avoid it, because any evidence of sexual abuse is considered self serving, meaning it cannot come in unless she says it first. she needs to be cross-examined on it first before anyone else can talk about it. george anthony denied it, and there apparently isn't anyone else that knew about it. >> beth, thanks for your input. we'll check back in with you. good to see you this morning. >> my pleasure. >> beth karas from orlando. up next, the latest on the

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strains of the bacteria ever discovered. so far scientists are baffled about how it entered the food supply. >> it's hard to know what the point of contamination was in this case. that's what the investigation is going to have to determine. >> reporter: but scientists believe the e. coli somehow ended up contaminating lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers and are advising people in northern germany to avoid these foods. >> the toxin can damage the intestine causing diarrhea or it can spread into the bloodstream damaging the kidneys or even sometimes the brain. >> reporter: at least two americans have been hospitalized with kidney failure after returning here from germany. now the food and drug administration is stepping up inspections of produce from europe to try and prevent the outbreak from spreading to the u.s. >> it's important to learn just how this contamination occurred. so we can be sure that it doesn't happen here. >> so, jen, how exactly does this strain cause such serious illness or even death?

>> well, what you have to remember, erica, just like there are storm trackers, there are disease detectives and right now what they're looking at in europe and this country is they're trying to pinpoint how this is spreading, the pace of the spread. they're obviously trying to identify where the contamination came from and medically they're looking at the course that this illness is producing in human beings. now, when you talk about this particular strain of e. coli, never seen before in this country and only sporadically in europe there's really composite components, a toxin released by the bacteria and a glue that causes that bacteria to stick to the wall of the intestine making us sick. again, it's producing gast gastrointestinal illness, nausea, vomiting, fever, in some cases severe kidney failure. >> you mentioned the strain is not in the u.s. but how serious of a threat in general is e. coli in the u.s. >> we see about 170,000 cases or more likely in this country every single year in terms of death, however, we see about 20. they've already matched that in

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well, imagine this, you're out with your kids and suddenly a man shows up to a bank with a gun. so what do you do? look in the background as this bank robber waves his gun around. you see a man putting chairs in front of his kids to protect him and then after the bandit threatened his son the dad runs after him and eventually caught him. the hero's name is army staff sergeant eddie peoples. he'll be here to tell us about this wild scene in sarasota, florida. welcome back to "the early show." i'm chris wragge along with erica hill. this guy has been a hero ever since he enlisted and probably before that on display -- >> if i'm ever in a situation like that i want sergeant peoples around.

the pyramids in egypt have lasted for thousands of years but the u.s. government's food pyramid only making it for about 20. nutrition eating guidelines. asking kids if the plate is easier to figure out than the old pyramid. first republican mitt romney began his presidential campaign on thursday with a scathing attack on president obama's handling of the economy. saying "barack obama has failed america." sir, good to have you with us. >> thanks, erica. >> you want to take on president obama in this race. there are a number of other republicans who would like to do that as well. you need to get past them. your party didn't choose you in 2008. what makes you think it's going to be different in 2012 and that you are the right nominee for the republican party? >> back in 2008, the issue that really motivated our voters at

the primary time was iraq, whether the surge would work and john mccain very wisely made that the centerpiece of his campaign. that was in his wheelhouse. he did a great job. but this year, this time the american people recognize what's happening in the economy is the most important thing that america faces. we've got 16 million people without work or have stopped looking for work. we have home values continuing to decline, record levels of foreclosure. the president said if he let him borrow over $700 million, he would reduce the percentage rate of the unemployment rate. >> in 2008, you said, quote, we should let detroit go bankrupt. today the industry is clearly on the rebound. 115,000 jobs added. money is being paid back. the president is in ohio today highlighting chrysler. you also accused the president

yesterday of making the rescission worse. based on what we've seen in the auto industry, were you wrong in this case? wasn't it right for both the auto industry and for the american economy to help that industry? >> yeah, i think you're misunderstooding the word bankrupt. bankrupt is not liquidation of an enterprise. it's allowing them to go through the bankruptcy courts and come out stronger. when i wrote that piece, the auto industry was asking for a bailout. we were unwise to send billions of dollars. instead finally the president recognized i was right. >> you're saying the president took your -- >> the company went through a managed bankruptcy, came out of bankruptcy and now is recovering. the right process for an enterprise in trouble is not to be begin free money from the taxpayers for the bailout. it's instead to go through a bankruptcy process, reorganize their debts, reduce their costs and come out stronger.

>> but the company's had to go through bankruptcy before that bailout. >> that's exactly what i said. the headline you read which said, let detroit go bankrupt, points out those companies needed to go through bankruptcy to shed those costs. and the federal government put in, i think, $17 billion into those companies before they finally recognize, yeah, they needing to bankrupt, go through that process. >> just to be clear, are you saying the president took your plan? i'm trying to follow here. because they did go through bankruptcy in 2009. it's turned out fairly positive, a lot of folks would say, especially in detroit. >> erica, i think you're misunderstanding. what i wrote early on was absolutely right. i said these companies shouldn't be given money upfront by the federal government, like they were both by president bush and by president obama. instead, they should go through a bankruptcy process and if they

did, they could come out stronger and well. and that's precisely what ultimately happened. i'm very proud of the fact that we called it like it was. these banks needed to go through the bankruptcy process, come out of bankruptcy, get back to work and create jobs for people. by the way, we could have saved billions of dollars had we moved to bankruptcy from the very beginning. >> let's talk about jobs specifically because you've also said the country needs a president who first and foremost knows how to create jobs. many americans want to see job creation. can you give me a specific sector where as president you would have a plan to go in and in fact show job creation? let's say 1,000 jobs. how and where would you make that happen? >> well, throughout the entire economy. what government does, it either makes it easier for entrepreneurs and employers to grow and hire people or it makes it harder. what this president has done on almost every dimension, has made it less likely for entrepreneurs

to be able to grow jobs. here's what i do. bring down our employer and corporate tax rates to be competitive with the world. make our regulatory bureaucratic burden lower. number three, adjust our trade policies so that trade is favorable to the u.s., not just to the people who sell goods here. number four, make sure that we become energy independent sending half a trillion dollars outside of our economy makes no sense at all. number five, get our schools to be world class. number six, get the federal government to stop spending more money than it takes in. that kills the value long term of our dollar. people won't invest and create job ifs they think the dollar won't be worth anything down the road. that's the kind of model we have to have to get back to work. i spent my life in the private sector. 25 years. i know how we compete globally. i know when we're losing and right now, this president has put us on a road of economic decline. just look at the numbers. look what's happening to --

>> governor, we're going to have to leave it there. we appreciate your time this morning. we'll be talking again over the next few months. >> thanks, erica. >> here's chris. joining us for the democratic perspective on the race is the chair of the democratic nationa congresswoman, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> you heard the republican front-runner mitt romney speaking with erica and earlier in the broadcast said president obama has failed america and there he was just going off on a tangent of the president putting america on the road to ruin. what are your thoughts and response. >> mr. romney seems to have a puzzling definition of failure. if you look at the track record bleeding

750,000 jobs a month before he took office. because of the recovery act, because of the investment that is we made in the auto industry, we're going through some revisionist history. it was the investments we made and the bankruptcy combined. i think the auto industry executives would say they couldn't have gotten through to the other side and been profitable without both. so i'm not really sure why we need governor romney. we've got president obama. we continue to move the economy in the right direction. i think the american people are going to continue to be responsive to that and the collection of republicans that are on the other side really aren't necessary because president obama's doing a fantastic job. >> 2 1/2 years into his first term, is this president obama's

economy in both good and bad terms? you mentioned the last 14 months of seeing all this growth, and i know the party line for the number of months is, we inherited this, the bush administration doing this. is the bush administration off the books and can you say this is the responsibility of this president, both good and bad? >> there's no question that president obama inherited the worst economic disaster of any president in generations. but his policies have continued -- literally have helped the economy do a 180. now we have continued for 14 straight months to create private sector jobs. we continue to be on the right track and we need to make sure that we focus on deficit reduction and cutting spending but do it in a way -- make sure that people engage in shared sacrifice so that we're not slashing and burning education, so that we're not limiting our ability to outeducate and outinnovate and outbuild our competitors. so we make sure we can have prosperity for the long term. what the republicans want to do is end medicare as we know it,

which governor romney supports. pile all the hurt on the back of the people who can least afford it in the middle class and continue to give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. >> let me ask you this, governor romney's argument is, this is what the people of my state needed for the time. but now he feels that's not necessarily the best case for the nation. what's wrong with that? what's wrong with it being good for one state but not being good for the entire country? >> mitt romney needs to have a debate with himself on where he is on any issue. particularly health care. he supported an individual mandate, pushed through a smart plan for his own state that has made sure that people have access to coverage. that was a model for the rest of the country. he supported it.

it is absolutely imperative that we make sure the american people have a president who knows where he stands, who stands consistently on principles, who doesn't flip-flop all over the place. mitt romney has done that time and again on the auto industry bailout, on the affordable care act and health care reform, on whether she's pro-choice or not. he really can't decide where he wants to be. he sticks his finger in the wind and is wherever he needs to be at that particular time. >> his record will be under the microscope along with all the other candidates. you were born in queens which is the home district of congressman anthony weiner who's embroiled in quite the controversy right now. do you think your colleague has done enough to explain himself? >> i think anthony weiner is dealing with a personal matter. >> do you think he's done enough to explain himself? >> i think that's a personal matter and that's where it should be left. >> it's a public matter, too. thank you very much for taking the time. good to speak with you this

morning. >> you, too. marysol castro is standing by now with another check of the

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in this morning's "healthwatch" thursday the government ditched the old pyramid for healthy eating. taryn weren't brill is here with more on the big switch. hope it's not too confusing. >> well, it's called the my plate and it's been in the works for two years. the new circular model aims to show that healthy eating doesn't have to be complicated. can you teal me what this is? >> the food pyramid. >> the food pyramid. >> the food pyramid. >> at willard elementary school in ridgewood, new jersey, almost every kid knows the old standard food pyramid. >> it says the categories of different foods. >> grains, vegetables. >> fruit, milk. >> and meat and beans. >> reporter: but do they understand what its colors and shapes mean? how do you know how much to put on your plate? >> really i don't know. >> reporter: this version of the

more classic food pyramid was the latest in a long list of national nutritional propaganda. >> the government has been playing a role in what americans eat ever since there was a government. >> reporter: in the 1930s the emphasis was on eating enough calories to battle malnutrition. these days it's aimed at the exact opposite. >> we wanted to end this country's epidemic of childhood obesity. >> reporter: to help ensure children are eating healthier the usda released myplate. >> when it comes to eating, what's more useful than a plate? what's more simple than a plate? >> reporter: so we decided to put the new symbol to the test and see if our elementary schoolkids thought it was, well, elementary. this is the new pyramid. what do you think of it? >> i think it's cool. easier to read. >> i think it's a lot easier to understand. >> it shows you more how much of

each category of foods you need to put on your plate. >> reporter: and because it's easier to read, they claimed they'd make healthier choices. looking at this you think to yourself you do or you do want to eat more vegetables. >> i do. >> reporter: so what are you guys going to have for dinner tonight. >> i don't know. >> reporter: which vegetables. >> broccoli. >> all right. >> i love salad. >> reporter: but will the latest guidelines really entice kids to switch out sweets for fruits and vegg veggies. raise your hand if you want to eat more fruits and vegetables at dinner tonight. all right. good job. high-five. >> cute kids. well, incidentally the usda spent $2 million to develop this. critics say it looks key information such as what specific kinds of proteins and grains we should have on the plate. even the kids we spoke with said they miss seeing the actual

pictures. very perceptive. >> it is easier to read and you looked right at home sitting there with those kids. >> thank you. i'll take that as a compliment. >> nice job, high-five. for more on nutritious meals for your family go to our partner in health, webmd and search healthy plate. we'll be right back. this is "the early show" on cbs. cbsletwatch brought to you by fiber choice. visit fiberchoice.com to learn more. [ female announcer ] you do so much... to stay healthy. but did you know fiber choice can help support your overall well-being? every tasty tablet has prebiotic fiber from fruits and veggies... that lets your good bacteria thrive and helps support your immune system. fiber choice. an easy way to defend your health everyday. learn more about prebiotics and get a free sample at fiberchoice.com.

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today, melissa and joan rivers. >> just like kelly and me without the british accent but i think joan and i have had the same amount of work done. my belly button is at the top of my head. >> the talk today on cbs. welcome back to "the early show." half past the hour. >> country western half hour here. >> saddle on up. here we go. >> giddyap. just ahead, the story may sound like it's out of a movie. u.s. soldier is home on leave in florida.

says, kids, i'm going to take you fishing. but he says, we have to stop by the bank first. stops by the bank. turns out basically walking into an armed robbery. the robber points the gun at the kids. dad is having none of this. chases the guy down. he's going to be here to share the whole story with us and tell us how he managed to stop the guy from running off, how he confronted him and protected not only his children but everyone in the bank as well. >> if you're a bank robber out there, don't go after the kids. also ahead this morning, some news stories are pure comedy gold. this week's saga of congressman anthony weiner is one of such. it's been on on the tabloids and the talk shows. we're going to show you some of the funniest comments. >> everyone joins the story. first, though, two years

ago, chrysler was about to collapse when it got a massive government bailout. chrysler not only survived but repaid that loan six years early. president obama is marking that achievement today at a chrysler plant in toledo, ohio. cbs news national correspondent dean reynolds is there with more this morning. dean, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. when the president gets here to toledo, he's going to be meeting with some of the workers who have been called back to their jobs building chrysler cars and trucks. people like sheila and beverly holmes. sheila holmes has assembled jeeps for chrysler since 1994. her sister beverly has worked on dodge trucks since 1999. to say the least, it's been a rough ride. >> maybe every month for a year we were laid off like at least two weeks. >> reporter: they both look back fondly at the good times. but in recent years, neither they nor any other chrysler

worker knew whether the company was going down a drain or climbing out of a hole. >> i have four children. a single parent. it was financially very difficult and then it was more difficult squus not knowing if you were even going to have a job, period. >> a seesaw. riding a seesaw where someone's on the other end and you go up and you go down. you go up, and you go down. >> reporter: sheila nearly lost her home. beverly filed for bankruptcy. >> i cried a lot of days. i would go in my room and just ball up and cry like, what am i going to do? >> we were hurting pretty bad, hurting pretty bad. >> reporter: but something made beverly and sheila hold on. decline a buyout from the company and stick with chrysler. today with the company back on its feet, the sisters take issue with critics who say the

government's bailout of chrysler was misguided. >> i don't look at it as a bailout. it was a loan to chrysler that is currently paid in full, thank god, with interest in less than two years. >> reporter: sheila says the good days are back. >> morale a very high, it's very good. the camaraderie inside the plant, it's almost like a playground. >> reporter: almost like a playground, she says. in fact, the sisters say they enjoy their jobs more today than they ever have before. and they call that an awesome feeling. erica? >> dean, thanks. now here's chris. the president's visit to that chrysler plant may be overshadowed by disappointing new economic numbers this morning. the labor department says the unemployment rate rose last month to 9.1% as employers added just 54,000 jobs in may.

cbs news chief white house correspondent chip reid has more on that for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the numbers are disappointing, even worse than most economists were expecting. it's bad news not only for the economy but for president obama's reelection campaign. with the economic recovery hitting the brakes, the president will put his foot on the gas today as he tries to shift the focus to economic progress since he's been in office. when he visited that toledo auto plant, he'll repeat arguments he's made before. >> there are a lot of folks who were ready to write off the american auto industry, who thought we should just have walked away from it. some still think that today. but you know what? that's not how you build a better future. >> reporter: he'll take credit for turning around chrysler and gm with government bailouts and for bringing the economy back from the brink of depression. but with unemployment so stubbornly high and republicans

blocking the president's plans to stimulate growth with new investments, the economy is a dark cloud over the president's reelection campaign. >> there are several candidates who could easily beat obama if the economy is bad enough. >> reporter: no president since roosevelt has won ree election when the unemployment was higher than 7%. perhaps another example is the first president bush. his approval rating was sky high, 88%. but just 16 months later, that rating plummeted to 31% after the unemployment rate soared to 7.5%. he lost the election to bill clinton. ronald reagan won the election even though unemployment was over 7%. >> if the economy is going downhill, the incumbent

president almost always loses. if the economy is improving, the incumbent president almost always wins. >> reporter: most economists believe that unemployment rate is still going to be painfully high on election day next year. the key for president obama will be whether it's moving in the right direction. chris? >> chip reid at the white house this morning, chip, thanks. jeff glor is over at the news desk with one last look at your headlines on this friday morning. >> good morning. a fresh outbreak of violence in yemen this morning. in the presidential palace was hit by artillery shells wounding four top officials. in sanaa, a government says president saleh was slightly injured. dr. jack kevorkian died in michigan this morning. he spent eight years in prison for second-degree murder. he claims he helped at least 130

people kill themselves. his lawyer says kevorkian died peacefully this morning in a michigan hospital he died in a michigan hospital. he had been sick for a number of weeks, he was 83 years old. new jersey governor has written a check to the state to pay for his use of a police helicopter. he was widely criticized for using the helicopter to fly to his son's sports game. >> he is going to leave for college in a few years and then those things are going to be gone. it is not a good excuse for me to say well, i was governor. >> he is reimbursing the state for the helicopter trip. he said it has become too much of a distraction. back over to m aarysol with a

check of the weather. good morning, everyone. interesting news to report. yesterday was the first day since may 16th that

>> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now over to erica with some special guests. >> special guests indeed. a remarkable act of bravery. while everyone else ducked for cover, this hero saved the day. army staff sergeant eddie peoples is an iraq vet home on leave. on tuesday he was in this bank in sarasota, florida, with his young sons. surveillance video shows a robber entering the bank waving a gun. sergeant peoples is in the background standing with his 4

and 6-year-old boys. the suspect demanded money, threatened to kill anyone who didn't get on the ground. watch as sergeant peoples directs his kids to get down and moves chairs in front of them, all the way standing there guarding the boys. just before the suspect fled with a bag of cash, he turned and pointed his gun at the 6-year-old and made a threat. >> he pointed the weapon at my son. and the exact words i'm not sure but it was something of the nature of, don't try anything or else the kiddie will get it. >> with that, sergeant peoples chased the suspect out into the parking lot. watch closely, you'll see him slamming into the suspect's getaway car. what happened next wasn't caught by surveillance cameras. the suspect got out of his car and pressed the gun against the sergeant's forehead. >> when he put that gun in my face, i did a wristlock on him.

took the weapon away from him. got him in a clinch around the back of the neck. >> the sheriff honored him for his bravery. and joining us this morning, saf sergeant eddie peeples and his sons. good to have all of you with us this morning. >> thank you, erica. >> quite a story. this must have been a lot for you. you're there as a dad. >> yes, it was a new variable for me. i've never been in a situation where my children have been in danger. after i got over that part, i went into action. >> you go into action. he says don't move and you move because you're going into action as a dad. >> i didn't care because my first instincts were to get my children out of the line of fire. once i did that, i moved up and edged away from them in case he wanted to make an example, he would hit me. they would be okay. he actually said something to the effect of -- threatened your

children. >> he didn't say it to me. he said it to the whole bank. but he pointed the weapon at my 6-year-old here because he could see him at the end of the sofa. and he said something to the effect of, don't move or the kiddies will get it. and i couldn't believe it. and after that, i guess he looked at my face because i was really upset then. and he said, you, the big, black guy, don't try anything. then he left. >> he left. you follow him out in the parking lot. there are things that happen that we don't see. tell us what happened in that parking lot. >> i took him to war basically. i came after him hard and aggressive. i put my vehicle behind his vehicle. we had a battle between who was going to go. he was reversing, tires spinning out. i was driving forward. my tires are keeping him there. he got out of the vehicle pointing the weapon at me. i fully expected to take two

shots through the windshield. when that didn't happen, he came around to the driver's side and tried to open the back door to get in. the way the van works, if you touch the door too much, it will close back. he's very frustrated at this point. he's banging on the window. i knew i had to do something because i was worried about him starting shooting. as soon as i opened the door i was greeted with his handgun right to my forehead. >> he put it to your forehead? >> smack in the middle. it's time to get the bullet project pr trajectory out of my forehead. with the wristlock, it's made to put that barrel to where if it fires off, it discharges harmlessly. once i did that, i stripped the weapon and it was nothing but for him to go down to the ground. >> you realize at that point it wasn't real. >> my course of action was to take that weapon, once you take it away from them, you can

actually use it to hit them with. a split second, you realize, this is no good. it's a toy. >> you're doing all this to keep him there so the police have time -- >> give them a little bit of time. >> your boys are still inside the bank. to be there in the bank with him, what was that like for you, bud? >> i don't really know. >> were you scared? >> no. >> no? >> because you knew daddy would protect you, huh? >> i know he's in the army. the bad guys -- he's just a normal bad guy. >> just a normal bad guy. when you come back into the bank and having saw this guy and you seay see your boys, i'm sure the first thing you do is grab them and give them a big hug.

>> well, actually he ran up to me. i always tell them when i'm in deployment, daddy's going to fight the bad guys. and i walk into the bank and he walks up and he goes "daddy," loud voice. "daddy, did you get that bad guy." and i said, yeah, daddy got him. and there were three dozen people clapping in there. i gave them all hugs. >> so many people happy that you were there. i know you came home because people close to you are not doing so well. thanks for coming by. you have a beautiful family. >> thank you. this is half of us. >> this is just half of you. >> yes, my wife's out there. and i have the other two back in florida. >> and we have cousins. >> you have a full big family. you're lucky to have such a great dad. thanks for everything you do. pleasure to have you guys here.

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well, it has been a week to forget for new york congressman anthony weiner who had to face uncomfortable questions after a suggestive photo was sent on his twitter account but for the media and especially the late night comics it was the picture that launched a thousand jokes. >> as a newsman, it's my duty to keep you informed about the swelling controversy that has cast a lengthy shadow over new york congressman anthony weiner. >> eye not going to talk about this anymore. >> i didn't send that picture out. >> did not send it to that woman. >> i didn't send the picture. i don't know who did or what they were intending to do. >> the congressman and the coed, the twooet, the talk. the questions. >> there's really no way to cover the wiener story in a n nonadolescent fashion.

let's get -- okay, fine. >> let's take a look at the new york tabloids. you can't make it up "the daily news" "the new york post." >> that would be reasonable. that would be reasonable, you do the questions, i do the answers and this jackass interrupts me. >> is this you? >> but you can't definitively say whether it's you or not. >> you know, i can't say with certitude. >> you realize everybody thinks the photo is you. >> certainly doesn't look familiar to me. >> in real life my memory is this cat had a lot less anthony and a lot more wiener. >> they demanded the congressman release the long form wiener. >> he should be involved because national security is involved. >> yes, this is an issue of national security. i meaning this could be the chinese. well, maybe not the chinese, but -- >> anthony weiner and this gentleman here, appear to have in common is that they both lean

hard to the extreme left. boom! boom! >> and that is your headline. >> you know what probably the best part is everything that just couldn't make air. >> yeah, and the sad truth is -- >> i think pretty much everything has made air. >> i don't know. >> stewart summed it up it's hard to cover the story in a n nonadolescent way. perfect storm of tabloid. >> good lord, it is. yeah. >> i'm going to stop there. >> right. >> i think as mothers of young boys, look what we have to look forward to, erica. >> oh, my goodness, what are we in for? right now we're in for a weekend. enjoy your weekend. be careful what you're tweeting. see you here monday. stay tuned tomorrow. >> keep it "g" rated. have a good weekend. ñh

headlines... o fire time for news headlines from cbs 5. san francisco fire department is grieving after the death of lieutenant vincent perez, he was killed fighting a fire yesterday. a second firefighter was critically injured, he is in intense intensive care. the family of a nursing student will hold a vigil near the spot where she was seen a week cooing. michelle lee disappeared after leaving a class at keizer medical center. her phone was transmitting signals until midday saturday. police say a man who aimed a gun at a police officer is in custody. after the man pulled out the gun the officer fired a shot, a

4-hour search ensued with the suspect running through yards and hopping over fences. police arrested him after midnight. traffic and a look at the weather. rain is coming our way, stay with us. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

good morning, live to 586-80, seeing extra volume, westbound, closed through the altamonte pass. if you are headed along 280 northbound, it's friday, things cleared up a bit. northbound, we have slight delays, trouble spot reported 101. that's traffic, let's get your weekend forecast. >> as we take a look outside, over the bay bridge, we can see those clouds are working in to the region. conditions are going to be wet, expect the showers between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. here is a good look at the leading edge of the moisture. we do have a wet weekend on tap. here is a look at the seven-day forecast. showers lingering through saturday and sunday, possibly through monday clearing up by tuesday. warmer, by thursday. ,,,,,,,,