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this will all finally hopefully end early this friday morning, june 10th, 2010. 10th, 2011. from cbs news, it's "the early show" with erica hill and from cbs news, it's "the early show" with erica hill and chris wragge. captioning funded by cbs welcome welcome to "the early show" here on a friday morning, june 10th. i'm chris wragge. >> i'm erica hill. nice to have you with us. a lot to get to. we are beginning with breaking news this morning. that government crackdown in syria. troops are going after pro-democracy demonstrators in a northern town, sending thousands of people fleeing across the border into turkey. cbs news correspondent, elizabeth palmer is on the turkey/syria border with the latest for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing about ten minutes from the syrian border inside turkey. it's a very pretty rural area, pine forests and farms. the refugees are coming mostly on foot this way this is an area

simply not prepared for any kind of humanitarian crisis. yet that does seem to be what's shaping up as groups of refugees, a lot of them women and children, head this way. more than 2000 fridayened people have arrived with base inning belongings at the yayada refugee camp set up in the ground of an old cigarette factory. they're being picked up on the border roads by turkish police and bussed into the camp. and this is what they're fleeing, just 15 miles away. clandestined cell phone video shows the syrian army surrounding the town with heavy armor. more pictures show the town's center, now deserted. today, syrian state television has announced the military will start an operation to liberate the town from what it calls criminal gangs who murdered 120 police and soldiers over the weekend. that's not true, say residents. the dead men were shot by fellow soldiers after they refused to fire on anti-government

protesters. the truth of what really happened is still murky. it is clear that anti-government demonstrations that have erupted across syria continue to grow. as does the number of dead and wounded. the syrian government seems determined to crush any movement for political change with ruthless violence. now, the turkish police are not allowing us to talk to the refugees yet, but we did manage to slip into a hospital this morning. there's no question that hospitals do have syrian men patients who have gunshot wounds. we talked to one badly injured man this morning who says that he was shot by syrian forces from a helicopter as he was attending the funeral of a protester. erica? >> that's just awful. elizabeth palmer in turkey for us this morning. in our next hour, we'll take a closer look at the situation in syria as we continue our arab summer series. now here's chris. now the latest on the battle for libya.

as u.s. officials are now opel openly suggesting that moammar gadhafi is looking for a way out after 42 years in power. allen pizzey is in libya's capital with the latest this morning for us. allen, good morning. >> reporter: arab governments have pledged more than $1 billion to libya's rebels as part of the effort to force colonel moammar gadhafi to leave. but he has another idea. in spite of air strikes that continue to rock the libyan capital overnight, gadhafi's plan "a" seems to be to hang on until nato grows too weary to keep up the pace or the alliance fractures. it may not look like much of a plan but it isn't without a reasonable basis. eight countries are bearing the brunt of the airborne operation. nato officials including robert gates are warning that the strains will begin to tell if others don't step up soon. the libyan leader continues to insist he will die here rather than leave. and a source with close ties to the libyan inner circle said gadhafi remains confident he can outlast his enemies.

but rebels fighting their way towards the capital tripoli from the western mountains have captured another town from loyalist forces, and are pushing ever closer to cutting off the main road to neighboring tunisia that is gadhafi's only remaining supply route. the chances of the rebels knocking on the gates of tripoli any time soon seem remote at best, which brings it all down to a test of wills and stamina between gadhafi and nato, which continues to insist he is not a direct target. chris? >> cbs's allen pizzey for us in tripoli this morning. allen, thank you. this morning, as well, u.s. defense secretary robert gates is leaving his european allies with a blunt message. nato must get serious about its mission or it is doomed. he went on to say the future of the u.s./nato alliance is dim if not dismal. what does this mean for our troops and security? david marty continue is at the pentagon with more.

what got into secretary gates here? >> well, he spent the last four and a half years begging members of nato to contribute their fair share of forces to afghanistan. and now that he's only got three weeks left as secretary of defense, he's just speaking his mind, and he unloaded on what is perhaps the most ven herbal military alliance in history. >> okay. you say he is now speaking his mind with just three weeks left. what are his specific complaints? >> well, in afghanistan, his complaint is that troops who contribute forces often put restrictions on actually what they can do in combat. and then they pull them out on their own schedule without any regard for the effect it has on the overall war effort. and then in libya, he said you have the spectacle of the world's mightiest military alliance after only 11 weeks of combat against a third-rate power starting to run out of mu nigss. guess who makes up the difference? the u.s. >> what does he say is going to happen if nato doesn't do

something about this, some of the things, the concerns he is raising. >> he has a very interesting point, which is that most american officials these days and politicians including the president of the united states are not old enough to remember the glory days of nato when it was protecting europe against a soviet invasion so they look at what nato has become and have to wonder, what's in it for the u.s.? >> all right. cbs david martin at the pentagon for us. thank you. here is erica. turning now to politics in this country, newt gingrich scrambling to get his presidential campaign back on track after his entire senior staff resigned on thursday. that move is also fueling speculation we could see a new candidate join the race soon. cbs news political correspondent, jan crawford, is in washington this morning with the very latest. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. this was more than a few disaffected staffers leaving this campaign. it was a mass exodus and it leaves the gingrich campaign all but dead in the water. >> i'm newt gingrich. >> reporter: the 67-year-old

candidate lost his campaign manager, senior adviser, and long-time press aide. also quitting, key staffers in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. despite it, gingrich vowed to fight on telling followers on facebook, i am committed to running the substantive, solution-oriented campaign i set out to run earlier this spring. the campaign begins anew sunday in los angeles. many said gingrich lacked the discipline and commitment needed to win. former press aide, rick tyler, released this statement. there was a path to victory. newt had a different pag. when that happens, the people who work for the campaign have to leave. recently, gingrich and wife, calista, left the campaign for a two-week mediterranean cruz and then the matter of a steep bill at tiffanys. >> it's very odd to me that someone would run up a half million dollar bill at a jewelry store.

>> go talk to tiffany's. >> reporter: the campaign has been plagued from the start. gingrich angered many for attacking the congressional republican plan to overhaul medicare. >> what you did to paul ryan is unforgivable. >> i didn't do anything. >> yes, you did. you are an embarrassment to our party. >> now, a former gingrich aide said last night his campaign was coming to a quick and merciful end and he added it's like watching a really great prize fighter come back for one last fight that he never should have. erica? >> is this officially the end of the road despite his pledge to restart in l.a.? >> reporter: yeah. he says he is restarting his campaign at a speech in beverly hills. last time i checked, that's not a key primary state for republicans at this point. listen, the problem for gingrich is money. when he started talking about the republican medicare plan and calling it right-wing, social engineering, if you can believe that, his financial backers started backing away. and now i think it's going to be all but impossible for him to

get them back. he may be at the debate. he says he will be at the debate monday night in new hampshire. but my sources tell me they will be surprised if newt gingrich lasts until the next debate. >> wow. was there something more behind the scenes that happened here? there was that discussion of the path and him taking a different path. >> reporter: yes, there was. there was a lot going on behind the scenes. my sources tell me what primarily was happening, though, was a conflict between gingrich's top aides, long-time, loyal aides and his wife, calista. and the final straw was the cruz through the greek islands. they urged him to cancel that cruise. they assumed he would. you know, once they spelled out, look, you can't do this, this is a bad idea, we're in a bad economy, voters aren't going to like this. he went anyway. >> jan crawford in washington, thanks. chris? in eastern arizona this morning, fire officials are finally starting to get some help from the weather to control a giant wildfire that's burned dozens of homes and threatens hundreds more. cbs news correspondent, bill whittaker is in springerville, arizona with the latest for us

this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. firefighters are describing the last 24 hours as the best the in their fight against monstrous fire. why? because the winds died down a bit giving them a chance to fight this fire from the air. at this point, firefighters are not just battling the fire but windy weather too as walls of flame and smoke continue to eat up the eastern arizona landscape. consuming homes along with it, displacing thousands of people. >> there was embers coming down on our house. >> reporter: sherry counts and her husband secured their important papers an fled to this trailer park. packed to capacity with evacuees. there, they wait for any word on the fate of their homes. the good news, firefighters were able to contain 5% of the blaze yesterday with assistance from the air. >> we had a pretty good day. there's some new color on the map. it's called black. it means containment. >> reporter: but the optimism is

tempered. the fire has claimed 525 square miles. strong winds are predicted for the weekend and are likely to spread more of the blinding smoke which combined with the approaching flames, forced sherry counts from her tiny town of eager right in the line of fire. >> you could see the trees in town were already turning colors. it was like it was sucking all the moisture that you put on your trees. >> reporter: she is still among the lucky ones. yesterday, firefighters were able to enter the nearby town of greer only to find that 22 homes and even more outbuildings were destroyed. >> so you're putting on a brave face. >> they are going to save our house. we are going to have everything. we may have a little smoke damage. i think everything is still going to be there when i go home. >> reporter: i am hoping you are right. while this fire continues to threaten communities on the new mexico side of the border, here on the arizona side of the border, a bit of good news firefighters say if the wints

remain calm, residents of two communities, eager and springerville might, just might, be able to return to their homes on saturday. bill whitacre, cbs news. moving now from the fire into the frying pan, a scorching heat wave covering more than half the u.s. has now taken at least eight lives in five states. cbs news correspondent michelle miller is in new york city with the latest this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. people in the eastern half of the nation finally got some relief as thunderstorms moved into the area late last night. but for some, relief didn't come soon enough. as tens of millions did their best to cool off, schools without air-conditioning closed and hospitals throughout the northeast were on high alert. >> people come in because they fainted. they are dizzy, fatigued. >> reporter: in waldorf, maryland, a school outing to a baseball game almost turned deadly. 82 students were rushed to the

emergency room for heat exhaustion. >> i started to have a headache. >> reporter: and you told the teacher? >> and a belly ache. >> reporter: parts of downtown detroit are still without electricity this morning. high demand caused the city's power system to fail yesterday. forcing the evacuation to detroit's municipal center, federal buildings, and some schools. >> too hot. it is too hot. >> pretty hot, pretty unbearable when you are outside. >> reporter: in battle creek, michigan, highways buckled under the blaring sun wreaking havoc for drivers. the blistering heat shattered previous records in newark, philadelphia, baltimore and washington, with some cities seeing the mercury soar well into the triple digits. >> it's blazing. it's too hot, way too hot. >> reporter: the reason, an unusually large jet stream that for wet weather in the northwest and exceptionally dry conditions in the south and northeast. >> a lot of this comes down to the chaos in the atmosphere. there are -- there are so many things going on, and we just don't have the tools to measure every single one of them. >> reporter: the first heatwave of 2011 now behind us.

meteorologists are looking ahead. and they're not sure if or when the next la nina effect may strike again. chris, as we said, eight people dead. it's been a lot. >> cbs's michelle miller, thank you very much. we want to check in with jeff glor at the news desk for the rest of the headline. good morning. good morning to you at home. health officials in germany are now saying the contaminated vegetable sprouts caused a deadly e. coli outbreak. the german disease center points to locally grown sprouts. they were ruled out earlier this week but now apparently are back in. germany had a difficult time determining the cause of this. 29 people died in the e-coli outbreak, 2,900 sickened. a warning against eating cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce has been lifted. a former u.s. spy official accused of espionage is due in court today after accepting a late plea bargain. thomas drake blew the whistle on what he considered mismanagement

and waste at the national seb kurt agency where he said taxpayer dollars were being wasted. after leaking information to a reporter, drake was charged under a rarely used espionage act. he told scott pelley on "60 minutes" that he never passed on classified information. today, drake is scheduled to plead guilty to unauthorized use of a government computer. he is not expected to spend time behind bars. new york congressman anthony weiner insists he is not resigning. weiner was working yesterday and says he'll keep doing that, even after he admitted to sending sexually explicit photos and messages over the internet to multiple women. we will hear from congressman weiner in our next hour. this morning, weiner's wife, huma abedin, left the united arab emirates with secretary of state, hillary clinton, her boss. they are headed for meetings in zambia today. he says he has been

as we take a lookout side mostly cloudy sky conditions also some patchy fog working over the region. conditions trending over the average. postally clear skies, later today, fairfield, 78, concord 77, liver more a high of 77, here is a look at your seven- day forecast temperatures will warm up by monday.

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we have a lot more work to do. half past the half past the hour. beautiful blue sky out there. hopefully, you can get outside a little bit. not too scorching where you are. welcome back to the early show at half past the hour. an update for you on the two american hikers still being held in iran. the news, however, not great. according to sarah shourd, who is of course arrested with them nearly two years ago. she was released. she is now talking out about how the men were beaten. she says no one will tell them when they will go on trial for spying charges, charges u.s. officials say are bogus. we'll speak with schara in a moment. but, first, congress held its first hearings monday on the gun walker skanl dal that cbs

news uncovered in february. officials at the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms encouraged gun shops to sell thousands of assault rifles and other weapons destined for mexican drug cartels. investigative correspondent sharyl attkinson is in orlando with the story she first broke. sharyl, good morning. >> good morning, chris. the idea was to let the little fish go to catch the big fish. but insiders say in the process many lives were needlessly put in danger. >> reporter: last june, about nine months into the atf operation known as "fast and furious," suspects had purchased 1,608 firearms for over $1 million in cash transactions at various phoenix area gun shops. according to internal documents obtained by cbs news, atf already knew that 179 of those very weapons had turned up at crime scenes in mexico and 130 in the u.s. yet atf allowed some of the same suspects accused of being middlemen from mexican drug cartels to continue to buy and

transfer assault weapons. sometimes agents say they videotaped the buys. >> he has got a whole bunch of -- >> reporter: but didn't interdict the guns. documents indicate intentions were good. the idea was to allow the transfer of firearms to pinpoint big cartel crooks rather than the small-time traffickers supplies them. >> they want to change the dynamic and truly go after the king pin, so give the king pin something they can't resist. this flow of weapons, over 15 months. and then track them, find them, and take them down. >> reporter: but several atf agents strongly objected to letting any guns walk. darren gil was atf's lead official in mexico during fast and furious. >> we are in the business of interdicting weapons, not putting weapons out there for criminals to use. that's what happened in this case. >> reporter: sources say putting electronic trackers on the guns usually wasn't possible. and the number of weapons let on to the street in "fast and furious" grew to more than 2500. one suspect allegedly purchased

20, even 40 weapons at a time, at least 220 over the course of about a year. that included 178 ak-47 type assault rifles, and three barrett 50-caliber rifles. using our sources and reviewing documents provided to us over the past four months, we have been able to piece together a disturbing picture of where "fast and furious" guns have turned up so far. at a dozen seizures and crime scenes along the u.s. border and in mexico. most notably, two turned up last december at the murder of border patrol agent, brian terry, in arizona. documents obtained by cbs news indicate some of the weapons were recently found at a drug cartel shooting of a mexican drug helicopter. insider appeared awed by the scale. six months into the investigate, a senior atf attorney commented,

every time i read this case, i'm amazed at the amount of firearms we're talking about. acting atf director kenneth melson and hoover were said to be briefed weekly on the investigation. special agent john doddson worried about all those guns hitting the streets. >> i don't think anybody really fathoms how long we're going to be dealing with this. i mean, the gun is not going to go away. it's not a one-time use. >> reporter: doddson and two other atf agents will testify at a hearing next wednesday. monday's hearing will explore whether the justice department obstructed justice in withholding information from congressional investigators. that agency says it is cooperating with the inspector general's probe. chris? >> the atf policy of clipping the little guy in order to land your big fish has translated to way too many guns according to your report. is there any proof this worked in any instances? >> reporter: not yet. the idea was to take down a major cartel. that didn't happen. insiders say they still hope that evidence that they have gleaned from some of this

operation that went on over 15 months may eventually help do that. so far, it has not done that. and the argument on the other side from the insiders who did not approve of the strategy said you never let one gun walk. it's too dangerous. even if you're trying to get the big fish. >> all right. cbs's cheryl atkinson in orlando. >> we want to check in with jeff glor who has another look at your headlines. at 35 minutes past the hour. >> good morning again. erica, good morning to you. this morning, the situation in syria appears to be getting worse. troops move on anti-government protesters near the turkish border. 3,000 residents fled the fighting, making their way across the border from syria into turkey. the syrian government claims 120 soldiers and police were killed by armed gangs. witnesses say soldiers fired on other soldiers who refused to shoot the demonstrators. a blunt warning this morning about the future of nato from outgoing defense secretary robert gates. speaking in busls today, gates said that nato faces a future that's dim, if not dismal. gates claims lack of financial and logistical support from

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this mornin this morning, american sarah shourd says guards in an iranian prison beat her fiance, shane bauer, and her friend, josh fattal. the three were arrested nearly two years ago on a hiking trip to northern iraq after crossing into iran. shored was released last year. we will sfeek with her in just a moment. first, a look back at her story. in july, 2009, three americans, sarah shourd, shane bauer and josh fattal were vacationing in iraq, close to the iranian border. while hiking, they unknowing lystraed across that border into iran, with are they were picked up by iranian forces, charged

with espionage. with little communication from within the prison walls, the case proved frustrating for family members and friends of the detainees. after 13 months of intense negotiations, a breakthrough. she was released on $500,000 bail and returned to the u.s. >> this is not the time to celebrate. my disappointment in not sharing this with shane and josh was crushing. and i stand before you today only one-third free. >> reporter: her fiancee, shane bauer, the two got engaged while detained and friend, josh fattal, remain behind bars in the emfamiliar must prison. >> i have never had any contact with u.s. intelligence services. >> reporter: after a preliminary court appearance in february, their trial was set to begin last month. but the defendants were never brought to the courtroom. iranian officials have refused to give any explanation. and joining us now is sarah shourd. >> good to have you with us. >> good to be here.

>> you're talking about the abuses you say shane and josh suffered. why mention that now? >> our fear for their safety has reached an all-time high. after the court session on may 11th was cancelled and the only reason that the court gave us was that shane and josh didn't appear. we have been -- our expectations have been building for this date for a really long time. we had hoped and prayed that an end to this nightmare was in sight. and now we have absolutely no information. so i felt it was important to let the public know exactly what our concerns are, and know that there is a precedent for it. >> what happened to them? in those beatings? >> yeah. well, it -- it was a normal day in prison. shane and josh were walking back to their cell. a guard just went crazy. and tore us apart. threw us -- we were all screaming. and they pushed josh down the stairs and shane back into his cell and me back in my cell. and then a guard came into shane's cell and just started slamming him against the wall. he kept saying, where is josh?

where is my friend? it's terrifying when you're separated from each other. especially when you are always together. the guard kept slamming him against the wall. the back of his head was bloody. >> were you ever beaten? >> no, i wasn't. >> after that happened, did the treatment of the three of you change at all? >> no. they promised us that that guard would be kept away from us but he was still -- he would still bring food and, you know, regularly come to shane and josh's cell. i just -- prison is not -- prison is a very scary place. you don't know what's going to happen on a day-to-day basis. now that i'm on the outside, i constantly worry that that or something worse could happen to them. >> understandably, especially since you were there and you know what it's like on the inside. are you concerned at all, though, in speaking out about these abuses that it could have a negative impact on them, and on their time there? >> no. i mean, there is absolutely no transparency. our lawyer has done everything he can within iranian law to

defend shane and josh. and we don't understand why they haven't been given a fair trial after 20, nearly 23 months. no evidence has been presented gns them. they have never been allowed to meet with their lawyer. many iranian authorities have made statements, positive statements, leading us to believe there will be a resolution to this. and -- but we have seen no progress. >> you have also -- you have very limited communication with them, i know. especially since you left. there's been, what, maybe three times you have been able to speak with them since you left? >> no. i haven't spoken with them at all. >> you haven't at all? >> they have made two phone calls, a total of three phone calls in almost two years. the last phone call i missed, shane was able to talk to his mother. i got a voice message, which, of course, was incredible relief. but it's not enough. >> what about you? how are you handling this? i had read that you're suffering from some ptsd, which probably a lot of people would not be shocked to hear that. >> yeah. well, my post-traumatic stress makes me so much more worried about shane and josh.

they have been there so much longer, and even though i was kept in solitary confinement, they are in extreme isolation. they have very little information about the outside world. every letter they get is precious to them. the last phone call we got, shane and josh revealed they had been on hunger strike for 17 days. now, i went on hunger strike once in a prison for six days and i could hardly walk across the room without having to sit down, because my heart was just pounding in my chest. i don't understand how 17 days is even possible. but it explains why on february 6th when they were last seen, when they were actually brought to a court session and they were allowed to defend their innocence, they looked pale and thin and really not themselves. >> obvious concerns for their health and well-being and their safety. sarah, thanks for coming in this morning. we will continue to follow it. we will be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience

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and welcome back to "the early show" here on a friday morning, june 10th. i'm chris wragge along with erica hill. blue skies here in the northeast, finally the haze is gone. >> the haze and the heat. >> it's only going to be in the mid-80s, around here at least. >> feel like a nice, cool day. there is this morning the beginning of a refugee crisis on the border of turkey and syria. all this week, our series "the arab summer" has us taking a look at how a number of countries have seen such change over just six months. elizabeth palmer is near the

border of turkey and syria where many people are trying to flee to safety. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing about ten minutes inside turkey, ten minutes from the border with syria. there's been a trickle of refugees all week. yesterday, it swelled to a gush. and now there are about 2,000 people here as refugees. you can probably see the white tents behind me, the turkish government set up a refugee camp here. and people have been coming any way they can where they're collected up and brought to this camp. over the last couple of months, there are -- there's well-documented evidence that syrian security forces and army have been firing on anti-government protesters killing unarmed civilians. these people are fleeing military offenses in particular which apparently is going on right now as we speak just over the border. no telling how many more refugees are on the way.

but perhaps in a sign, the turkish government is now starting to build a second refugee camp. erica? >> liz, thanks. an estimated 1,300 people in syria have been killed since a crackdown on anti-government protests began in march. foreign journalists are banned from syria. martin fletcher managed to sneak in as a tourist and travel for six days before being caught,. >> what i found was a city that was extraordinarily tense and under military occupation. there were soldiers, men in civilian clothes with guns or sticks. the main intersections, there were tanks. there are very few people on the streets. most of the shops were closed. on the northern edge of the city, there were at least 100 tanks parts and all around the edge of the city, there were checkpoints.

i foolishly managed to drive into one of those. they looked at my passport. they saw that i had been to both libya and egypt this year. so understandably they were suspicious. and i was taken down into a windowless basement and when i got there, i was put in a corridor. beyond that was a steel door. my taxi driver was taken from me. they put him inside. i saw dozens of young men sitting on the floor huddled together. more young men were brought in. some came in almost wimp himper with fear. others would defy it. some had clearly been hit or beaten. there was one guy with a very swollen eye. the single defining characteristic was that they were young, they were

able-bodied and they were a threat to the regime. after about five or six hours, i was taken upstairs about two floors to another world. it was a plush, air-conditioned office where a man they called the general was sitting. and he said to me, i'm very sorry we took you in but you have to understand the situation in this country. there are troublemakers trying to unseat our government. syria's not libya. it's not egypt. there isn't the universal visceral hatred that there was of mubarak and others. and the opposition is pretty fragmented. it's scattered around the country. it's strong in some towns, almost nonexistent in others. there wasn't a bonfire waiting to ignite in the way that egypt or libya were. it's like a slow ignite. it is like a slow burning found

of grass that may or may not owke off. >> joining us now is former new exico governor, bill richardson. he met with syrian president. good morning to good morning to you. egime that's o >> this looks like a regime that is on the brink. how strong a power does he n power y have? does president assad have right now? >> unfortunately he still has a lot of power there. but what is evident is those freak streaks of moderation anze reasonableness that we saw a few years ago have vanished. he's striking protesters with full force, he's defying the international community. and i think the time has come to turn on the heat on this guy because this is a very important strategic part of the world that is important to middle east peace, the future of democracy

in the region, the arab/israeli situation, the future of lebanon. so i just think we need to change tactics a little bit. >> thousands of syrians are fleeing across the border. is this a problem other countries in the region like turkey need to do, need to step in to help solve this problem? >> yes. turkey, germany has a lot of interest there. i like what secretary of state clinton has said, siding us with the protesters. but i think you have to look at other options, you mentioned other nations. we need to start some economic sanctions on syria. i think we need to start talking about criminal court proceedings against the assad family. i think we need to look at freezing some of the assets of the family. we need to also, i believe, go to the united nations and try to get more than just a toothless resolution. russia and china won't be with us. but this is not a libya.

this is an area that's very important to american interest. and we have to be careful because another issue, chris, is do we want a regime there instead of assad that is worse than assad, that is more tied to iran, to hezbollah, to hamas? so you have to be very careful. i think the administration is being very careful. but now with these huge, huge refugee outbursts with the violence, with a continued repression, with the fact that assad is snubbing his nose at us and the international community, i think we need to turn on the heat and push some new policies. >> any specifics that you're thinking of? president obama issued an executive order to freeze u.s.-based assets of president assad. but sort of military intervention, you talk about what other countries can do. what can this country do? >> well, i think we can continue some -- expand those freezing of assets of the family. i think we can lead an effort like we did against libya for

economic sanctions, persuading countries like germany and others surrounding libya. we can go to the international criminal court. that always strikes fear in the eyes of dictators as to what's happened in sudan and libya. we can, i believe also ratchet up the rhetoric a bit to show the protesters that we're behind them. maybe we can help with social media and internet to some of the syrian protesters as we've done effectively with tunisia and egypt and libya. there are just a lot of little steps. ting administration is proceduring rightly so cautiously. but now, assad looks like he's just saying, no matter what, i'm going to stay in power, i'm going to kill my people, i'm going to repress. and the international community has to respond. and here's where i think the united states needs to take the lead. >> governor bill richardson, thank you for joining us this morning. good to talk with you. >> thank you. want to check in with jeff glor who has a look at the rest

of the morning's headlines. >> good morning. >> this morning the massive wild fire in arizona is 5% contained but still growing we are told. we are told that winds driving that fire have calmed down a bit. defense secretary gates was speaking in brussels this morning. he said the reluctance of nato's european members to spend money to prevent wally spe wally spel of the united states support. >> this was gate's last trip abroad as defense secretary. he leaves the pentagon in three weeks. >> cbs news correspondent is on capitol hill with the latest. good morning tow. >> at least ten house democrats

have now called on congressman weiner to resign. >> the pressure to resign may be mounting, but he is stand iing s ground. >> you are not planning on resigning? >> i'm not. >> the new york post caught up with him outside his office. >> i betrayed a lot of people and i know it. i'm trying to make amends of course. >> the lawmakers on capital hill won't say so on the record. the growing number of members who don't, aren't mincing words. >> the behave was disgrateful and unacceptable. if there are sanctions that come out of that, i will be supporting those immediately. >> i think what we are seeing right now distracting from the issues that we are looking at.

he admitted that he exchanged lewd photographs and e-mails with women on facebook and twitter. some while married to his wife who is expecting their first child. she is traveling with hillary clinton and has not addressed the scandal publicly. s >> new poll finds 56% think he should stay in office while 33% think he should step down. jeff? >> nancy, thanks. >> good morning. nearly every thoroughbred horse in nearly every thoroughbred hours in america is injected with performance enhancing drugs. we will take a look at that

tonight on, "the cbs evening news". >> and marysol is here with another check on the weather. >> we continue to see low pressure and dry conditions in the dez aert southwest. the west coast clears up nicely. you do have a little bit of june

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>> reporter: one of karen's earliest memories, one sealed in america's collective consciousness made her all-time list not because of art industry, but because of association. bugs on tv. >> i didn't care about the beatles as far as the band. >> reporter: association, researchers have learned, is how the brain categorizes and tags our many memories. it all happens in the prefrontal cortex, which processes experiences using sensory input from your eyes, ears, nose and mouth. >> it's stronger, the memory is, then the quicker it is to access. >> reporter: neurologist debby treats patients with disorders, like alzheimer's. breakthroughs in her field are unlocking how the brain processes what you remember. >> you remember happy moments, sad moments. and you generally tend to remember what your parents told you. >> i was a month short of 4

years old. >> reporter: helen bauch remembers the day her uncle died in world war ii. >> he would say to her, it's okay, there's nothing you can do about it. >> reporter: when a memory is formed, the brain searches for fragments, and puts them together like a jigsaw puzzle. some fragments connect with others, which is why one old memory leads to another. >> i remember the packages. >> reporter: in elaine's case, the memory of her uncle's death leads to another memory of her mom. >> i had never seen her cry before. >> there are many different kinds of memories. memories for things you see, memories for things you hear. >> reporter: for kathryn kline -- >> my first memory was probably when i went to disney for the -- for the first time. ♪ >> reporter: the war of fireworks sealed her moment in time. >> it was really cool. >> i have a little bit of a different memory. >> reporter: what's your memory of that?

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welcome back to "the early show." we're never going to forget the miracle on the hudson. today, the fuselage arrives in a museum in charlotte, north carolina, where the plane was supposed to land 2 1/2 years ago. passengers talk about how it changed their lives forever. welcome back to "the early show." i'm chris wragge. a big night for the duke and duchess of cambridge. you know them as prince william and kate. we're going to tell you about last night's charity event. and we'll catch up with neil patrick harris ahead of the tony awards. he gave us a backstage look.

he's also performing in sunday's big event and has to worry about hugh jackman. we'll tell you about that ahead. but first, go to erica. it's been a wild week in politics beginning with the sexting scandal of congressman anthony weiner. and yesterday newt gingrich lost his entire senior campaign staff. kevin madden joins us and bill burton as well. kevin, i want to start with newt gingrich, the headline this morning really painting a rough road ahead for newt gingrich. can he salvage this campaign? >> i think it's going to be a difference between whether he's going to be a factor in the campaign and whether he's going to win. i think it is very, very hard for him right now. it's going to be a very long back to winning the nomination. but newt gingrich is somebody who has never really relied much on staff. he's relied on newt gingrich. he's relied on ideas and he's always tried to force a debate

about the world view that we're going to have in politics and policy. so i think that -- i wouldn't count him out. i think there's going to be a chance where he can get his campaign back on track to the point where he will be a factor in the race but in order to win that nomination, he's going to have to have infrastructure and money. and it seems like he's out of both. >> he can't do it alone. though when you look at this, he does like to force debate. do you think this is more of a vanity campaign? >> if you look back at what happened to newt gingrich's campaign, it all started to fall apart him when he said that paul ryan's budget, the republican plan was right wing social engineering and that it was radical. i think from that point on, everything started to unravel for him. his campaign is essentially over. he was fun to have around on the campaign trail and see what he had to say. but i think that now it's on to other candidates who have a better chance. >> this may be going out on a ledge but i would say even if he's not going to be running, we'll probably still hear a little bit from him.

>> bill burt season going to make sure you hear about him all the time. >> let's talk about anthony weiner at this point. as a democratic strategist, if you were talking to congressman weiner this morning, would you tell him to resign? >> i would tell him to listen to the people he needs to talk to to make that decision. it includes his family and his voters. apparently his voters think he should stick it out. but it's the morality outrage that you hear from the right. eric cantor say he should resign and other republicans say he should resign. so many others have never resigned. neither party has a monopoly on idiocy. anthony weiner did a dumb thing. but when people look at the scandal and they see all those republicans lining up against him, it just feels like washington as usual. unfortunately we're not talking about the issues that actually matter in people's lives. >> but there are a number of democrats speaking out as well

saying they want him to step down, that this is not good for them. >> kevin, what do you think on this one? >> what bill won't tell you is that his biggest problem with this is that it has taken the democrats off message. right now, they don't have an opportunity to go out there and press some of the things they want to. i think there are two things that are missing here for anthony weiner that he needs to survive. pillars of support within his own conference and a media scrutiny that's going to go away. given the fact that he's a new york congressman, this is like trying to use a magnifying glass to burn ants on the hottest day of the year if you couple it with the fact that the washington press corps is all over this. the only thing that makes me think he will stay in office is he has been so defiant throughout this entire process. >> and he maintains that, as we just heard from him. let's talk a little bit about 2012, new cbs poll, we're looking at some of the numbers. president obama's approval

rating, back below 50% at 48%. his handling of the economy, 37%. how much focus is there on these polls as we head into the election for the obama camp? >> i think a lot of people are paying attention to the poll. but that's not guiding what the president is doing. he's done a lot of tough things, made a lot of hard decisions that were often politically unpopular but what he thought was the right thing to do. even though people might not agree with every decision he makes, he's doing bold things to get this economy back on track. as we move forward, people will see he created 2 million jobs and put the economy back on a path of growth. but the election is going to be about who's got a better plan for the future, president obama or the republican who emerges from this nomination process. >> kevin, you want to respond to that? >> the polls are merely snapshots in time. i think the important thing you look at with the polls that we've seen -- about eight of them have come out over the last

ten days -- is the trend line of the president. he's dropped 25 years relating to his leadership on the economy. the public right now is judging him very harshly because of his dismal record on putting america back to work. >> kevin madden, bill burton, good to have both of you with us. jeff glor is standing by at the news desk. 36 minutes past the hour for a final look at the friday headlines. >> >> good friday morning to you as well. that massive fire in eastern arizona is only 5% contained now. winds that have been driving the fire have calmed down a bit which is good news. the fire destroyed 22 homes in the small town of greer and has burned more than 600 square miles. lawyers for a man living in chicago convicted of helping pakistani terrorists. lawyers say he was cleared of taking part on the plot itself.

>> this morning the casey anthony trial resumes. anthony said she felt sick so the judge recessed early. after a presentation of disturbs eviden evidence. prosecutors showed crime scene photos of the skull of her daughter. >> suspects were caught on video here robbing a store a bystander blocked the glass door on the outside to keep the suspects

>> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now over to chris. thank you as much. u.s. airways flight 1549 will finally land in charlotte, north carolina, today. that plane made a miracle

landing on the hudson river two years ago. now its fuselage is about to finish a week-long journey by road. we talk with sully sullenberger and passengers about how it still affects their lives. >> i was convinced that myself and my fellow passengers were dead that day. >> he lost all engines. >> what i remember most about january 15th, 2009, is just the surrealness of everything. >> he's going into the hudson. >> it's surreal, but at the same time, it's the most real feeling i've ever had. planes don't land in rivers. ours did. my name is steve o'brien and i was in seat 15c on flight 1549. >> what's interesting is the passengers identify each other of where they were seated on the airplane. that determined what their experience was like that day. >> i was seated in seat 26c.

>> mark hood, 2a. >> 26c. >> we were on our ascent out of laguardia. and i just remember this bang. >> so i was looking around. and one of the passengers that was sitting in the window seat in my row said, we're on fire. and i thought, oh, my goodness. >> i really, truly did not realize how severe things were until the captain said, brace for impact. >> it was mentally sad. i have two kids and i was mentally sad that i wasn't going to see them get older. >> i am on this plane and i'm going to die alone. >> when we first hit the water, i figured that there was no way we would hold together. then we bounced and hit a second time. we bled off so much speed, i thought, you know, we might have a chance here, we really might have a chance to live through this. >> i look at the pictures and i can't believe i was on that

plane and i got out. >> there's life before 1549. a slightly different life after 1549. >> it's a good check to think back and say, okay, in your last moments, what really was important? it wasn't how you were spectacular and you did a great job in that last meeting or any of that. it was, i wish i could call my family or see my family and tell them that i love them. >> so every day from that point forward that i live, it's like commission and bonus. it's that added extra plus that we get. and it started that minute with my family when i put my arms around them. >> to see my kids for the first ti time, i don't know any parent that wouldn't react the way i did. yeah. >> i don't think there's a day goes by that somehow i don't think about what happened.

>> it will be wonderful to see aircraft 106 again. it did its job that day, too. and i'm very happy it's going to be displayed to the public. and especially that it's going to be displayed. >> everything moved ahead of me. >> i think my boarding pass is still somewhere on it. i'm hoping as i go through the artifacts, that might be something i get back. >> the last time i touched physically that plane, i was jumping out of it with a seat cushion. so it's going to be wild to touch it again. >> i think about those things. and what it would be like to sit in 17d again. >> it's a part of history, a part of a very good story. i'm glad people will have a chance to see it up close and personally. >> just a truly remarkable, remarkable story. flight 1549's new home is the carolina aviation museum in charlotte.

at a reception tomorrow, passengers and crew will see the plane for the first time since the miracle on the hudson. the royal knewlyweds literally stopped traffic last night in listened as the duke and duchess of cambridge, known better as will and kate. they made their first official appearance as a royal couple. our report ser in london with the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. six weeks to the day since the wedding, if you can believe it. they're back in the limelight and apparently loving it. the papers have been gushing about their appearance, particularly kate. one called her the duchess of dazzle. the newly titled duchess of cambridge sparkled on her first official day on the job. kate and prince william broke their honeymoon hibernation to be the guests of honor at a black-tie dinner for children's charity. 900 of the very rich and not-so-famous forked over $16,000 a plate for the privilege.

organizers of the event at kensington palace say it raised lots of money for the children. >> i've had a great education, a supportive home. so many young people, however, do not have these advantages. >> reporter: it's the royal couple's first official engagement since their wedding. their meet and greet with president obama and the first lady at buckingham palace last month was more a matter of politeness than protocol. the newlyweds have been keeping a low profile retu. they did find time to pick out a little london love nest, an apartment in kensington palace. william lived there as a child. although the royal couple won't be on display much this summer, kate's wedding down will be.

it will be center stage when buckingham palace opens its doors to the public in july. last night, dinner kicked off the days of festivities. prince philip's 90th birthday and prince william takes on his brother prince harry in a polo match on sunday. they're also planning their first official state visit to canada next month. they're going to swing down to california for a few months. kate has never been to the united states and she is said to be beyond excited about it. erica. >> a lot of people here excited for her arrival as well. charlie, thanks. the last time here on "the early show" we were all in california, we went to in-and-down burger. california, we went to in-and-dow[ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card

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the host of the tony awards this sunday. the star of cbs's "how i met your mother" gave us a preview of the feed in new york, this year's home of the tony's. >> so this is the theater. >> not a big theater. >> it feels kind of big. look up. >> it's an intimate setting. i'm not saying -- i love the beacon theater, but i'm saying this is a total departure. >> to me, it feels like a big show. al pacino coming with alec baldwin, a dream duet. >> he may run for mayor of new york city. >> i heard that. equals pro baldwin. i would vote for him. >> a star-studded room. >> kathryn zeta jones, first public appearance. we know how to get them here at the tony's. harry connick jr., he's great. this guy. >> hugh jackman. >> never heard of him. >> just don't like him, do you? >> not so much. >> he said he might heckel you a little bit. >> really? is that right? what, does he think he's going to outhost me? run up on stage?

>> one never knows. you know how he likes the spotlight, too. >> that's true. >> what do you have special planned? you said it's tough to do a big opening number because of the limited space, but now that they're playing your song -- >> reporter: this is neil patrick harris's second time hosting the tonies. he has been called the natural, the go-to guy. ♪ the tony's were tonight >> it's is not something you go to school for. baby steps that happen. >> but you do have to do -- >> it went well, and then cbs had the emmys, i think. ♪ put down the remote >> i love doing it. you know. i love game nights at my house with 15 people. and i do the same thing as i do here. i say all right, everybody. gather round. the next game is this, here's the rules. ♪ in living color >> reporter: the tony's celebrate broadway's best. this year includes "catch me if

it you can." "sister act." ♪ >> reporter: "how to succeed in business without really trying." ♪ >> reporter: and the season's break-out hit "the book of mormon." although the much delayed "spiderman" is inn eligible this year, they will be performing and neil and i got a preview of the stars rehearsing ♪ >> reporter: i notice where they're singing from, it's only about eight to ten feet above the stage, not too high. >> yes, not too high. >> want to be careful, of course. >> having to rein myself in with all of the "spiderman" jokes. >> you won't be in any type of harnesses? >> i have 11 hours of "spiderman" material. it's only a three-hour show. what's going to happen? i have to be nice to bono. he's presentsing. >> good plan. >> i know. i have to be super nice, pro-spiderman, which actually i

am. ♪ >> besides his hosting talent, neil is also a broadway veteran. he'll showcase his singing and dancing skills with a performance from the musical, "company," joining an all-star cast, including monday night sitcom star jon cryer. >> this started out as just a benefit for the new york phil harmonic. and then it got this insane cast, neil patrick harris, and it steamrolled out of control. and now it's going to be in movie theatres. so it's turned out to be this amazing, amazing thing to be a part. >> so it's an intimate setting and you have pa chino. >> can i show you something, jon cryer, al pacino right there. so what's great is, i'm going to spends most of the show poking him in the back and saying, okay, you know, in "scar face" when you said, "say hello to my little friend," that was awesome. >> you have a hugely successful television show and there's a

lot that goes into that every week. now you're a father. how are you able to work it all in, and give each the time that it so richly needs? >> we spend so much of our time as actors desperate for work. and so when you're on a run and it's going well and work's begetting more work, you try to find a would i to make it work out. and i have great support around me, and you slot it in. it's been busier than normal. i do find myself with my iphone looking at my schedule going, what's happening now? all right. i'll be right there. >> there he is, your host. don't forget, you can catch the tony awards sunday night, 8:00, 7:00 central here on cbs. >> love us some mph. >> he's taken right now. the go-to host. >> this is actually one of my favorite award shows to watch, because it's so much fun. the performances, really fantastic. >> wherever you are across the country, if you haven't seen some of these shows, this say great window, i'd like to see that if i get to new york.

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firefighters from around the state will honor t time for some news headlines i am frank mallicoat. thousands of firefighters from around the state will honor two of their own killed in the line of duty funeral services start for vincente perez and anthony valleiao at 12:30. we will start covering at noon and you can watch ate cbssf.com. the future for meheserle, he will likely be slapped with a civil lawsuit from grant's family, seeking millions upon his release. three men are recovering from stabbing attacks in san jose witnesses say last night a crowd started to gather at a mcdonald's parking lot downtown, it swelled to over

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to get sluggish out of milpitas, 8 minutes from 880, towards 101. heavy traffic, an earlier stall has been cleared for awhile but it backed up traffic extends to the mcarthur maze. so much for friday light bay bridge. >> south bay looking good out of downtown san jose no issues towards cupertino sluggish northbound lanes of 101 once you get past the expressway that is your traffic for your forecast here is erica. >> as we take a look at the bay bridge, conditions cloudy for the most part that will be clearing out as that sun starts to peek on out and dry up the moisture in the upper levels or mid-and lower levels. here is what to expect today santa rosa 74, napa 73, fairfield 78 and extended forecast looks good we do have a dry weekend on tap, cooler than average, monday 82 trending in the 80s through

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