good morning. photo fiasco as a new batch of suggestive pictures emerge. reports indicate congressman anthony weiner is considering resigning this as pressure mounts within his own party to put an end to the sexting scandal that rocked capitol hill. giffords revealed, new pictures of ashz airs congressman gabrielle giffords offering fresh insight into her recovery five months after being shot. this morning new details about her progress. and kings of the court, the dallas mavericks crowned nba champs as they defeat lebron james and the star-studded heat to win their first title and hometown fans fill the street to celebrate "early" this morning, monday june 13th, 2011.

captioning funded by cbs >> and good monday morning to you. i'm erica hill. >> and good morning, i'm chris wragge here in new york. erica good morning to you. it is a big day for president obama as he travels to the battleground state of north carolina today to discuss ways to boost jobs, a very important issue for americans, both jobs and the economy top issue for both parties these days which is exactly why you are in washington this morning, erica. >> indeed. we're on the set of "face the nation"s awe prepare for our latest town hall meeting. last month president obama took your questions on the economy. this time top republican leaders will answer your questions, airing tomorrow. bob schieffer and i will be moderating. we want to begin this morning with the scandal engulfing new york congressman anthony weiner. the affairs got worse over the weekend with another batch of

embarrassing photos. nancy cordes has the latest on his struggle to keep his job as members on his own party are calling on him to resign. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. there are reports out of new york this morning that congressman weaner is now exploring at least the possibility of stepping down, this after that new batch of photos came out over the weekend and democratic leaders said publicly for the first time that he should go. the new photos released by the website tmz show the congressman in various stages of undress at a gym on capitol hill reserved only for house members. over the weekend the married new york congressman said he was taking a short leave of absence from congress to "get evaluated and map out a course of treatment to make himself well" at an unidentified facility. if weiner hoped his decision to seek help would quell the call for him to step down, it didn't. >> we got to get this behind us because it's a distraction.

yes he should resign. i don't take pleasure in saying that. this is a distraction. >> reporter: democratic leaders in the house of representatives finally broke their silence, urging him to resign in a series of coordinated statements. they called his actions sordid and indefensible. >> this is bizarre, unacceptable behavior. >> reporter: the number two house democrat, steny hoyer told "face the nation's" bob schieffer that weiner, who has refused to go, should reconsider. >> seems to me extraordinarily difficult that he can proceed to representative his contistituen in an effective way with the bizarre way. >> reporter: this was speaker john bainer in a commencement address at ohio's university this weekend. >> my name looks like beaner, bonner, boner. thank god it's not weiner. >> reporter: it may be funny for

republicans, but democrats feel that this scandal is completely overshadowing their agenda and that's why they're asking him to go now, when they're coming back into session after a week-long break. erica? >> nancy stay with us for a minute. we want to check in with you for a second. we're joined by host of "face the nation" bob schieffer as well as cbs news political correspondent jan crawford. good to talk with both of you in person. bob, as nancy mentioned there are reports out of new york, congressman weiner is from new york, he represents new york he may finally be considering resignation. based on everything we've seen, how much longer realistically could he hold on? >> well, i mean they can put machinery in motion to try to force him out. they can do a lot of things to bring pressure on him. the easiest thing for everybody, and you know from democratic leaders, the head of the democratic party, everyone from top to bottom he has said he would go voluntarily. they have got to get this over

with. i mean, this is beyond just a sex scandal here. this is an electronic version of a flasher. these latest pictures are disgusting and despicable. nobody wants to go into the next election saying they are somehow or other protected someone like this. is he sick? doctors will decide that, but democrats need to get him on the road and out of there. this is -- paul ryan, republican and a very moderate of a guy who actually is a friend of mr. weiner said yesterday, "this is reflecting now on the entire institution. they need to get this wound up." >> we heard in nancy's piece a ridiculous distraction. jan this is a distraction on all sides at this point to any sort of political process here. >> yeah, i mean, congressman ryan said on bob's show yesterday, reflecting now on the institution. this is not -- i mean, boehner making jokes about this. this is not funny. i don't think the american people find this funny.

congress approval ratings at the lowest ever. listen to what we're talking about here and what this guy has admitted doing. only in washington would this kind of thing play out like it has. if anthony weiner worked for a private employer, like every other american in this country he would have been fired immediately or suspended while they did some internal investigation under what was happening. think about what he's admitted doing. he sent photographs to women he didn't know, took pictures of himself in the workplace and now it's come out he's been e-mailing privately with a high school girl that he met on a field trip. i mean that is serious -- if he were working like all the rest of us, he would have been out the door two weeks ago. >> erica if this were a high school student who got caught doing what he did he would have been expelled before dark on the day he did it. >> why does it take so long in washington? americans are so fed up with lawmakers as it is, why should

anyone in washington be allowed to continue? >> there are processes that you have to go through but the other part is, when it first happened, people in his own party were hoping it would go away. that's what always happens in washington. >> sure, he lied about it. >> and he lied to the leaders about it. so that's part of what happened here, but they should have gotten on this before they did. >> and could i just say, too, the problem for washington is, if he'd been working for anyone like we all work and for our employers he would have been gone but here there is no liability. anthony weiner worked for the people and yet there's no liability. >> nancy one of the things a lot of people have been increasingly talking about is of course what his constituents have to say. in terms of forcing him to step down, nancy, could it happen that he's forced out? >> reporter: well that would be very difficult, erica. all of the members would have to vote that he should go and that's pretty unlikely. what senior aides to democratic leaders told us over the weekend, the reason they waited

so long is behind the scenes quietly they were urging him to leave. typically when members of congress do in the situations often they do it very quickly after just a day or two because they can't stand the heat but he was standing firm, then he announced he was going to seek treatment, he may have thought that would push them off a bit and a few hours after he said he was going to seek treatment they announced they wanted him to leave all together. >> nancy, thanks, nancy cordes, bob schieffer and jan crawford, good to be with all of you in washington. chris we send it back to you in new york. >> erica thank you very much. president obama travels to inning income to talk about jobs. north carolina was the key to mr. obama's election three years ago, a state he won by a razor thin margin. the sluggish economy may be turning off voters there. chip reid is in durham, north carolina. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. when president obama won north

carolina back in 2008 he did it in large part by winning over independent voters with a message of hope and change. well now those voters have lost a lot of that hope and still waiting for the change. when anna bunya graduated from north carolina's elan law school last year her job prospects seemed bright. >> i thought this should be okay. >> reporter: with the north carolina unemployment rate stuck at 9.1%, more than a year later, she's still looking for work as a lawyer. >> we have all these new graduates who are going to college, going to grad school, going to law school because they think it's going to help them in the job market and it really doesn't. >> i know this, north carolina, the time for change has come. >> reporter: during law school in 2008, she became swept up in the excitement of the presidential campaign of candidate barack obama. >> when you're in law school and you hear this guy talking about how he's going to create jobs and he's going to make a change, you can't help but be hopeful.

>> reporter: mr. obama won north carolina in a squeaker by just over 14,000 votes out of more than 4.2 million cast. north carolina republicans are seizing on those kinds of job anxieties targeting the president with a hard-hitting new tv ad. >> in 2008 we fell for his hope in change, but all we got were broken promises. >> reporter: the state is so vital to the president's re-election that he chose charlotte, north carolina as the site of next year's democratic convention. the president today is expected to urge patience as he did this weekend. >> but the truth is, we didn't get into this mess overnight. >> reporter: but anna bounya says she's tired of being patient. >> i think he did a lot of promising and i don't know if he fulfilled them all. >> we're going to change the world. thank you. >> reporter: the president spoke at this same clean energy company in 2008. back then he could put all the blame for the economy on president bush. now republicans are giving president obama some of his own

medicine. chris? >> cbs's chip reid for you. we go to rocky, north carolina, where the jobless rate is 12.5%, the highest in the state. mayor david w. combs joins us now. mayor good morning to you. >> good morning, chris. how are you doing? >> good. president obama is talking about jobs. do you expect to hear anything from the president today that will give the people of your town any type of hope? >> i would hope so. we are certainly dealing with unemployment and a lot of people are struggling right now so i think we are looking for that hope that something's going to be done to move this economy forward. >> anything in the economic recovery plan that has done anything to help your people over the last couple of years? >> you know, we've had some projects here locally that spun into the city, and projects finishing up hopefully as the recovery continues we'll be able to take advantage of it but in terms of long-term sustainability i'm not sure that

it's helped as much as we thought it was going to help our local economy. >> your unemployment rate hovering around 12.5% like i mentioned, the national rate 9.1%. a quick background, why is it so much higher in your city than it is around the nation? >> well and again if you look at cities that have 10%, 11%, 12%, they're not having any parties here. it's tough for all of the cities to have high unemployment. i started back in the mid to late '90s, when we lost textiles that went offshore, closed plants and those jobs are never coming back. with the recent economy downturn we've had some other plants that have closed, gone offshore because they just couldn't sustain their businesses, and when those added jobs were added to the textile jobs that we had already lost it put us in a position that we've been struggling, we've done some things through carolina's gateway partnership, which is economic development arm of both counties and the city of rocky mountain and the private sector and without that initiative i'm

not sure where we would be right now. >> the state of north carolina during the last election, we saw in chip's piece they wanted change like a number of states in the country, there was that wave of excitement that chip had mentioned. do the people of north carolina and more specifically the people in your town, they feel as though they were a little bit let down? >> i think everybody is hopeful that at the same time if you're somebody out there that's unemployed and looking for a job for an extended length of time it's tough. i think that what happens is the longer this economy is downturned and struggling like it is right now, those people are really becoming pessimistic about the long-term recovery and what their future might look like. >> they need to hear some news that's going to give them a little optimism to offset that pessimism. mayor combs, thank you for the time to give us background on your city. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much, chris. here's jeff glor at the news desk with the check of today's

other headlines. a new round of earthquakes in christchurch, new zealand this morning. five significant quakes shook the city, the largest with a magnitude 6.0. some buildings already damaged by february's devastating quake collapsed there. injuries have been reported but so far no deaths. the first debate of the republican 2012 campaign is tonight in new hampshire. future beginninewt gingrich wil present. he spoke last night los angeles. he joked about his staffers quitting. >> i know full well the rigors of campaigning for public office. in fact, i've had some recent reminders. >> gingrich vows to press on with his campaign, despite the defections. in sports this morning the dallas mavericks are the new nba champions. the mavs outplayed a seemingly

lost miami heat team. game six a 105-95 victory and in cleveland, fans celebrated happy to see defeat for lebron james who left them for miami. last night lebron james had words for them. >> a lot of people rooting to are me to fail, they wake up today they have the same life they had before they woke up today, same personal problems they had today, and i'm going to continue to live the way i want to live and continue to do the things i want to do. >> oh, good, insult them, smart. the mavs dirk nowitski struggled, scoring 21 points but named series mvp. the celebration in dallas, the mavs first ever championship. few arrests there but police reported no major

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early show" the remarkable recovery of gabrielle giffords. no one knew what to expect but five months after the arizona congresswoman was shot pint blank in the head, the first pictures are really amazing. she could be out of the rehab center where she's been recovering by the end of the month. >> incredible to see the pictures after the treatment will continue on an outpatient basis. a lot of folks are calling the recovery more than impressive. we'll take a closer look at that in the next half hour. we'll be back with more. you're watching "the early show." this portion of "the early show" sponsored by big lots. think extreme value, big lots. k9 advantix ii. not only kills fleas and ticks, it repels most ticks before they can attach and snack on us. frontline plus kills but doesn't repel.

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[ people cheering ] [ girl ] whoo hoo! let's start off troubles in the north bay, reports of a accident blocking the roadway. if you work your way to the bay bridge delays here most in the cash lanes, meter lights are on and a back up to at least the grand. giana, wasn't looking great. sunshine around the bay area, couple patches of fog, mount vacca looking good. see that all day long as we watch temperatures warming up nicely outside 70s and 80s warmest spots inland 60s with a patch of fog out towards the coastline. next few days, could see 90- degree temperatures, warmest spots inland cooling off latter part of the week ,,,,,,,,

welcome back to "the early show" here on a monday morning. firefighters finally gaining ground on that enormous blaze that's burned nearly 700 square miles. officials say they're hoping to have more of it contained. we're going to go live to springerville in arizona where some evacuees have now actually been told they can return home. we'll get you you an update in a couple of minutes. welcome back to "the early show." i'm chris wragge here in new york. >> i'm erica hill in washington. wall street has been in a sour mood for a month and a half now. the dow opens at its lowest point since march 18th. we'll look at the six-week slide and what may lie ahead for twst and main street. that's what's ahead this half hour. >> thank you.

first five months after she was shot in the head and nearly killed, inspiring photo of a recovering gabrielle giffords have been released. and her spokesperson says the arizona congresswoman could be leaving her houston rehab clinic by month's end. don teague has this report. >> reporter: in both pictures gabrielle giffords appears smiling and happy. in one picture she's alone and the other with her mother, gloria. the only difference is her short hair and slight indentation on the left side of her head. >> in terms of where she's at five months into her recovery she's really passed a lot of the medical and neurological complications that may creep up. it would be unlikely at this point she would suffer any setbacks. >> reporter: the pictures posted on giffords' facebook page were taken in houston last month and give the public their first close-up view of giffords since the tra joining shooting rampage outside a tucson grocery store that nearly killed her. reports on giffords progress

have been sporadic, prompting concerns about her recovery. just last week giffords' spokesperson told the "arizona republic" giffords' speech hasn't fully returned and still using facial expressions as a way to express >> she certainly knows the words but it's getting those words from where they're stored in the brain to the tip of her tongue. >> reporter: the last time giffords was captured on camera was in april, when she was seen boarding a plane to florida for mark kelly's shuttle launch that was then canceled. the congresswoman's progress has been nothing short of inspirational. >> we're so proud of her. she's got a long way to go but you can see how beautiful she is. >> reporter: as these pictures seem to show her recover ray from a horrible brain injury really is something to smile about. don teague, cbs news, dallas. now here's jeff glor at the news desk with another check of today's headlines. good morning.

>> chris good morning to you. this morning new york congressman anthony weiner is considering quitting after more embarrassing pictures turned up. weiner insisted he would not step down but the "new york daily news" says weiner is considering stepping aside. also the fbi is giving its agents major new search powers. the "new york times" says the agents may search computer data bases even in cases where there's no firm evidence of terrorist activity. it will relax restrictions on searching household trash and giving lie det

some hopeful signs of progress this morning in arizona, where that huge wildfire has been burning for more than two weeks now, destroying more than 400,000 acres. bill whitaker is in springerville, arizona with the latest on the situation for us.

bill, good morning. >> good morning, chris. this wildfire now is about 10% contained. the fact that i'm standing here in the center of springerville, arizona is a good sign. this is one of several towns that were right in the path of the fire. thousands of people were evacuated, now many of them are starting to come home. >> that's great. >> no fire? >> no fire, no smoke. >> reporter: sherri had been forced out of her house for a week. >> i've seen tornadoes and this is the scariest thing i've ever seen, like it's a living, breathing thing. >> reporter: so the relief in knowing all is well. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: is palpable. fire officials feel it, too. >> we feel a lot more confident than we did two days ago. >> reporter: it's now been 16 days since the wallow fire first exploded into the monster that's become arizona's second worst fire ever. the winds picked up again this past weekend as feared but

instead of spreading the flames, the winds pushed the fire back onto itself. >> we don't like to say this kind of stuff but we turned a corner. >> reporter: for the wiltbank family, it is safe. the family took pictures, on saturday billy wiltbank found five cabins destroyed, built by his father and grandfather. >> you can't rebuild history but we can make new history. >> reporter: esther wilt bank found everything intact and the 50 horses they left behind all safe. >> they protected us. >> reporter: it was close, they said, much too close. >> i was quite surprised actually to see how close the fire came, three or four feet from some of the buildings. the spoke was intense throughout, permeated everything. >> reporter: what remains here is a thick layer of smoke and

very poor air quality. even though the evacuation order has been lifted, authorities are warning people to take precautions and if anyone has a respiratory illness, don't even think about coming back just yet. chris? >> bill, quick question for you. a lot of good news to report but the number only 10% contained, to the layman doesn't sound like a lot but i'm assuming this is great news for fire officials. have they said how much more ground they expect to gain to get to full containment? >> reporter: they were saying since the winds actually turned out to be beneficial this weekend, that you could start to see the containment levels rising pretty rapidly starting today but they still say it will take at least another two weeks to get this contained and get it mopped up so we're still looking at a little while here. >> cbs's bill whitaker in springerville, arizona, thank you. coming up next, another senior al qaeda leader has been killed and secretary clinton

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another top al qaeda terrorist is dead, killed more than a dozen years after his most notorious crime. abdul mohammad killed 224 people including 12 americans. the terrorist mastermind was high on the fbi's most wanted list but he managed to elude authorities until this weekend and he accidentally ran into a checkpoint in somalia and was killed in a gun battle. mohammad's identity was confirmed through dna. joining us, juan zarate also on the federal prosecution team assigned to the embassy bombing case in the late '90s so this holds a special significance to you. >> he's a figure well-known to those involved in the case. >> give us a sense of his significance within the organization here. was he still significant enough that this death is a game changer? >> i think this is a game changer in east africa. he was a key field general for

al qaeda in east africa, one of the few remaining with deep ties to bin laden and al qaeda central and so his removal from the battlefield takes away somebody who was not only well-known in the broader network but had the ability to train people, to fund the operations and to link what was happening in east africa to other elements of the global movement. >> so we're seeing his killing now which in essence was a little bit of dumb luck but still a good thing to take him off of the roster of course following the death of osama bin laden, it seems like things are speeding up almost, a pace and a more aggressive nature. >> absolutely. we did get lucky, sometimes better to be lucky than good. you have u.s. officials in particular and the counterterrorism community trying to use the momentum of the killing of bin laden to break the back of senior al qaeda leadership and not just the leadership in pakistan and afghanistan but regional affiliates in trubz liibes like

fazul in east africa to keep it on its heels. >> do you think al qaeda is kept on its heels with the chatter? >> absolutely. they've gone underground, they know they're being hunted and i think they've seen the pressure that the u.s. has been applying. >> lastly quickly, how close are all of the different organizations still connected in places like yemen, in places like somalia? >> a lot of them have senior al qaeda leaders from the old soviet mujahadin, the sight against the soviets. you have nasr al waeshi in yemen, along with anwar al awlaki in yemen. if you remove them you start to

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after such significant pickup. >> so then this would not be a sign of panic. >> it isn't a sign of panic. what you see in the market there's a gauge for panic in the market, called the volatility index and that index or fear gauge right now is muted. it's not showing signs of fear. what it's showing is that we are seeing and witnessing this downdraft in light of much stronger market over the last year and a half. >> should there still be concern? >> the concern right now is based on the fundamentals. we talk about the jobs market, the weakening there potentially. we talk about prices, gasoline, grocery prices going up and then there's the debt, the ballooning debt in the country, $14.3 trillion, all the credit rating agencies that look the at the overall health of our country are staying this debt is a significant problem. at the end of the year that debt will be larger than the gdp of the country. to put it into real terms every taxpayer in the country at the $14.3 trillion number is shouldering $130,000 in debt.

imagine if you had $130,000 extra in debt >> so many households would love to have the extra $130,000. we are watching the markets so much more closely. what are some of the factors weighing in that analysts and investors will look at? >> that is always in the backdrop until congress deals with it, august 2nd is the deadline everyone watches this week. you have job numbers, you also have inflation numbers so how are gas and groceries playing into everything and what is happening in the manufacturing sector. that's important. >> we know you'll keep an eye on it for us, thanks. stay with us. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

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former bart police officer johannes mehserler is now out of prison. time for news headlines from cbs 5 i am grace lee. johannes meheserle is out of prison. he was released this morning in los angeles after serving one year of a two year sentence he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 shooting death of oscar grant a man detained by bart police. meheserle contended he meant to reach for a taser, rather than his gun. the family of a missing bay area nursing student is not giving up hope today, even though police believe michelle lee was murdered. lee's friends and relatives were searching for clues in hayward yesterday in the neighbourhood where her car was found the night she disappeared she was last seen may 27th, kaiser permanent, hayward

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bart, ace, muni no troubles. northbound, 280, now cleared out of the roadway, you can see damage is done, 280 slow and go, as you head downtown san jose northbound 101 slow and go as well. bay bridge toll plaza, very quiet metering lights remain on delays nonexistent nice ride nice forecast as well here is lawrence. weather looking good. decent weather outside, coyt tower, blue and green, more as we are expecting warmer temperatures, numbers, very comfortable, 70s inside the bay in many spots, 80s interior valleys up towards the coast a couple patches of fog but that will disappear overnight tonight as we see an offshore wind kicking if clearing out skies warmer temperatures by tomorrow afternoon cooling off the latter part of the week

a beautiful shot. there you have it. washington, a gorgeous day here in the nation's capital as we welcome you back the top of the hour to "the early show." >> good morning. looks great down there. get back to you in a moment. president obama traveled to north carolina today to discuss jobs. he'll visit a company that makes light bulbs that hope to illuminate some positive job growth in the economy with a 9.1 unemployment rate right now. good news. white house correspondent chip reid is there now with a story of some people desperately searching for work. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning. here in the affluent research triangle area there is positive economic news. but go north, south, east or

west of here, and you'll have no trouble finding people who simply can't find a job. 90 minutes west of where president obama will visit today lies what remains of north carolina's once thriving textile and manufacturing industry. >> it's been well over a year, going on two years. >> reporter: 55-year-old steven douglas has been looking for work ever since dell computers closed its doors. >> it was a nice facility. 750,000 square feet. it could have really been something, but they didn't last five years. >> reporter: the unemployment rate in north carolina is 9.1%, right at the national average. 30 miles down the road in east bend, robin is also one of those out of work. >> i was working for hanes brands incorporated in winston-salem. >> reporter: she spent nearly 18 years making tights for hanes until last july when her job was

shipped overseas. she was forced to borrow from her 401(k) for basics like groceries and gas. she says is jobs are just not there. >> you get to the point where you don't want to go look. what's the point in going? when you're going to get shoved right back out the door. >> reporter: that was the reality for the nearly 2,500 people who showed up at a jobs fair last week in winston-salem. caterpillar is set to open a new plant next year. they're expecting a total of 4,000 applicants for just under 400 jobs. steven douglas was one of those in attendance. >> if you can live till next year in 2012 when the building's built, then maybe you might gate job, but 90% of the people going over there is not going to get the job. we want to work, but it seems like the only people working is politicians. >> reporter: douglas says he's not giving up. he's going back to school to get a degree in business administration, but the truth is in this economy, even with that

degree, there's no guarantee he'll find a job. >> chip reid for us this morning. thank you. also in durham this morning, austan goolsbee who chairs the president's council of economic advisers. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> in a few hours you'll be joining the president to discuss ways to stimulate job growth. take me inside that meeting. what are you going to say to the president that hasn't been said already? >> well, it's his jobs council which is a collection of 25 or so outside business, labor, economists, et cetera. it is not partisan and it is not within the administration. they have been working on private sector overview jobs plan of where do they, from the private sector, see areas of potential growth and what can the government do to help the private sector to stand up and start creating jobs? i mean, but last six months

we've added 1 million jobs in the private sector. we've got a long way to go. clearly we've got to get the hires rate up. >> i guess that's what i mean. is something going to be discussed today that -- i mean, you guys are brilliant men. you probably searched high and low of where jobs are and where they can be created. will you glean anything from today's meeting that you haven't been on to already? >> i hope so. as i say, this is coming from a somewhat different perspective than the government itself since these are ceos and business leaders and folks like that. they've identified a lot of different industries, some being manufacturing, some being the u.s. travel and tourism industry. they've identified some things in health care and other industries where they say that if the government can help facilitate the private sector to be doing the growing, if you start looking around as we're coming out of the worst downturn since 1929, there are a number of companies that have started

making some profits again and are actually starting to expand. so we're here at this -- and the president will be speaking at this plant where they're manufacturing these advanced light bulbs that both save energy and they've announced an expansive hiring effort. >> you talk about record profits from certain company, but i guess one of the big problems -- and you know this better than anybody -- that a lot of those companies are learning to do more with less and they're not bringing a lot of those jobs back. the president talked about recovery taking time. i know this has been stressed time and time again over the years. with the unemployment rate at 9.1% right now, people's patience -- you heard in chip reid's report, have people just lost patience at this point? >> you know, i think a lot of people are frustrated, there's no question. but i think it's the result of the worst downturn in most of our lifetimes.

so i think we're -- we are making progress. over the last 15 minutes, the private sector added 2 million jobs, but this is never going to be easy. and we got to get going. we've got to accelerate the hiring. the president is the first one to say that. >> you only have 15 seconds. i want to get this in real quick. you'll be leaving your post to go back to the university of chicago at the end of the year. do you feel that the economy is moving in the right direction? >> well, it's definitely moved in the right direction from when we were losing 750,000 jobs a moncht i know, but you feel -- >> we have a long way to go. >> you feel confident right now, yes or no, that it is going in the right direction, people should feel good? >> conditions are tough. so i don't -- i think it's heading the right direction, but we got a long way to go. >> thanks for taking the time this morning. appreciate it. >> great to see you. >> now back to erica in washington. >> jobs not the only concern here in washington.

the debate over raising the debt ceiling is creating some major concern as well. now, for most folks carrying such a large load of debt, your credit rating would be shot. the same thing could happen for the united states. we're going to talk about that and when congress will actually do something about the debt ceiling with host of "face the nation" bob schieffer who is posting outside his set. it is critical to the u.s. economy, to the standing of this country around the world. why then is it taking lawmakers so long to make something happen? >> because for members of congress this is not about the country and its well-being. it's about their own political survival. polls show that most people say we shouldn't raise the debt limit, yet when you talk to any expert, anybody familiar with this, the government is running out of money. we've got to find some way, if we don't raise the debt limit, the government is going to begin to default on treasury bills.

when you start talking about the full faith and credit of the united states, when we can no longer guarantee that we can pay our obligations, you talk about sending things into a turmoil, not just in this country but around the world. but members of congress are trying to find some way to get this done without casting a vote that's going to cost them to get beat in the next election. what's happened here, erica, is we've reached the point where we're either going to have to make drastic cuts in very popular programs -- nobody in congress wants to vote for that -- or consider the possibility of raising taxes. nobody wants to do that. so it's going to go right down to the wire. in the end, i think, they will do it, but again it's congress trying to save its own skin, not trying to do what needs to be done. >> no concern of how this affects the american people or the economy. it seems that americans have started to wake up to the idea. we've known for years that they're not exactly happy with congress.

61% have an unfavorable view of lawmakers. 52% of democrats. do they not see that writing on the wall? >> look, nobody likes these people. congress' approval rating is down to 18%. when richard nixon had to leave office, his approval rating was 20%. congress' approval rating is down below what richard nixon's was. the reason people are frustrated is because the congress is doing nothing. it's been in session since january is doing nothing. the whole purpose of government is to improve the live of citizens. >> it is because it's become so partisan that they're not getting anything done? >> because we're in this mess financially and members of congress are trying to find ways to move around this that they don't have to take a vote that can get them beat in the next election. that's what we're in the middle of right now. people understand that, people say that. they don't like the congress.

the congress is trying to find some way around it. they don't know a way around it either. when this country was founded, the people that signed the declaration of independence pledged their lives, fo fortunes and their sacred honor. that meant they expected they'd probably be hanged if this didn't work. right now we have a congress that is afraid to step up there and at least put their political life on the line here. until we find some courage in the people that we elect to these offices to -- i'm not saying they would know they would get the death penalty when they vote, but they've got to face up to the problems facing this country right now. they're not doing that. >> it may not be a full measure but some consolation that you do consider to hold their feet to the fire on sunday mornings. >> oh wonderful. >> we'll be doing a little duty for the town hall which cbs is hosting. last month we did a town hall on the economy with president obama.

now the republicans' turn. maybe we'll get answers from them this afternoon. tom coburn, paul west and nikki hayley. everything from gas prices to home values to the future of the country. these are all questions coming from you folks who submitted them online and those who submitted them in our studio audience. that's all tomorrow here on "the early show." if you do have a question submit it. and now we're going to check in with jeff glor sitting by at the newsdesk, and my first chance to say good morning to you. >> good morning to you, erica and everyone at home. we do lead with breaking news in jordan. there are conflicting reportses of a rock and bottle attack on a motorcade carrying king abdullah in a southern city in jordan. officials in amman say the king was not harmed. a remarkable chapter in u.s.

history goes online today. the government is officially declassifying the pentagon papers. four decades ago "the new york times" began publishing the documents which showed how the johnson administration badly misled americans about the vietnam war. the price of gasoline is dropping. the price is now $3.70. that is down 7 sent cents justk ago. the tony awards got off to a quick start last night. ♪ we've got swarms of mormons showgirls sailors ♪ ♪ dancing boys and nuns >> the big winner last night was "the book of mormon" which won nine tonys, best musical, it was created by the team behind "south park." and frances mcdormand and john larroquette for "how to succeed in business without really trying." 12 minutes after the hour. scott pelley with a preview of

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get me david duchovney online. a wreckage was taken back to the mysterious area 51 military base in the nevada desert. those questions are explored in a serious new book that comes to some startling conclusions, we'll tell you about them coming up in a moment or maybe we won't. >> oh? >> welcome back to "the early show." i'm chris wragge in new york. erica hill is in washington this morning. good morning again. >> nice reference there, my friend. we're in washington getting ready for our town hall on the economy. this time you'll be getting answers from the republican point of view. last month we did a town hall on

president obama. our guests are senator toem coburn, allen west and paul ryan and nikki hailey. we've submitted questions to them from folks at home. >> we'll get back to you in a moment. rebels have been staging large protests. 6,000 refugees have been fleeing into turkey. elizabeth palmer is on the border in turkey with more for us this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, chris. i'm standing in front of one of the refugee camps which is absolutely chock-full. across the border on sunday morning the syrian troops launched this huge offensive on a town chauld al chabur. it appears they burned the surrounding field. some of the few reliable

pictures available show syrian troops celebrating, their operation complete. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> reporter: state television says a mass grave found inside the town contain the mutilated bodies of syrian soldiers killed last week by armed gangs. it was to crush the gangs that the army was sent in. but the residents of the area now refugees in turkey tell a different story. the dead soldiers, they say, were shot by their own side when they refused to fire on demonstrators. whatever the truth, 6,000 terrified syrians have arrived in hastily built refugee camps. many of the men are badly wounded, proof that civilians in the area have come under sporadic attack by security forces for weeks. hundreds, possibly thousands more frightened civilians remain camped on the syrian side, close enough to make a dash to safety in turkey if they have to, but hoping instead the army will withdraw so they can go home.

among the refugees here in turkey, there are syrians turning up who say there are soldiers who deserted because they refuse to commit the atrocities asked of them. if they are determined to fight on against the assad government this could signal the beginning of a civil war. chris? >> cbs's elizabeth palmer in turkey thank you. there are new clashes in libya between rebels and forces loyal to moammar gadhafi. the nato launch another round of air strikes in the capital. allen pizzey is in tripoli this morning. good morning. >> reporter: troops are tightening on the military, where the rebels have stepped up attacks. rebel forces trying to push out of misrata claim to have beaten back loyalist troops but suffered some of the heaviest casualties to date.

commanders see a lack of nato support in the form of air strikes they say they need to push further. to the west of the capital tripoli a small rebel force managed to push their way through the town of zawiyah, about 30 miles from tripoli. if the rebels manage to take that town they would cut off moammar gadhafi's main and perhaps only supply route out of the country, the road to tunisia. the libyan leader showed up on state television playing chess with the head of the russian chess federation who claims to have traveled with aliens. a serious russian envoy is on his way on a peace mission in the next few days but the message he is carrying is that gadhafi should go. as far as officials here are concerned, that is already a state of check mate. >> the safety vows of this country is gadhafi. if gadhafi is no longer around expect a iraq or somalia or any other country plagued by civil

war. >> reporter: the official line continues to be that the libyan government is in control of almost all of the country, and that every nato air strike solidifies support behind gadhafi. that seems unlikely but impossible to prove either way. >> cbs's allen pizzey in tripoli for us, thank you very much. now back to erica in washington for thus morning. >> thanks. taking a closer look at 2012 now, the top seven contenders for the republican presidential nomination gather tonight in new hampshire for their first debate. they will surely bash president owe pa ma and his handling of the economy but you can also expect to see them take plenty of jabs at one another. jan crawford is here with a preview and it feels like, jan, over the weekend the gloves started to come off, i don't know if it's because of the debates or they all reached the point, tim pawlenty coming out against mitt romney. >> the former minnesota governor seen as ironically the nice guy, out of the box first but you're right they've been running these

candidates almost as a group against president obama very aggressive and attacking the president's economic policy saying he failed america but you've got to have someone who is going to break out of the pack and win the nomination, so that's what now we're starting to see. they're trying to define themselves and why they're different and why they would be better. tim pawlenty gave the, you know, strongest shot yesterday when he went after mitt romney the presumptive front-runner, hitting him on an issue where romney is most vulnerable and that of course would be health care. remember you know romney supported a health care reform when he was governor of massachusetts. his critics say that is way too much like president obama's health care plan. so pawlenty now went after romney yesterday and he even, erica, made up his own word, obamneycare, suggested that president obama's plan is modelled after romney's plan. >> you don't have to take my

word for it, president obama said he designed obamacare after romneycare and made it obamneccare. we have the same features essentially the same feature, president's own words he patterned in large measure obamacare after what happened in massachusetts. >> so i mean i'm not sure if that word obamneycare but you'll hear a lot about obamneycare from tim pawlenty. >> it's been tweeted and retweeted so the sound bite is getting a lot of attention. i have a lot of feeling we'll hear about more of it out. lawmakers are accused of running on one platform, getting into office and not following through. >> santorum at this point the strongest social conservative in the bunch so what he's trying to do is create a wedge and say these other guys aren't real conservatives, i'm the true social conservative.

you should back me. whether or not that will work i don't know and whether his campaign will ever take off i think is anyone's guess. >> quickly, newt gingrich of course the implosion last week we talked about, will be in new hampshire tonight. >> that's right. gingrich now at this point is almost like that guest that you invited to the dinner party a long time ago, comes around and you're like oh, why did we invite him. he's going to try desperately to keep his campaign going. he's got to have a huge performance tonight. i think the interesting thing will be if anyone pays attention to him or the other six are just going to say you know, just go on over to the kids table, we really don't want to listen to you at this point. >> somehow i don't think newt gingrich will take to that kindly. jan, you're off to new hampshire so we'll let you grab your flight. jeff glor standing by at the news desk with a look at the rest of the day's headlines. good morning again. >> good morning to everyone at home as well. firefighters in eastern arizona are making progress against that huge wildfire there. the fires burned nearly 700

square miles but now about 10% contained and 7,000 evacuees have been allowed to return home. a hearing on capitol hill about the dangers of what some reincarnated bus companies. this hearing comes days after investigators found workers for a charlotte bus company were repainting the buses and selling tickets online. the company had been closed down after a crash that killed four people. a former transit officer who killed an unarmed black man in oakland, california, was released from jail this morning. the 2009 killing prompted violent protests and johannes mehserle's trial was moved to los angeles, convicted to involuntary manslaughter, served 11 months of a two-year sentence. bruce springsteen's long time saxophone's player clarence clemons player had a stroke, he

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thanks so much. that's your latest weather. over to erica. if you're looking to get the word out about your new business these days. better learn how to embrace social media. it could be one of the most effective ways to reach your customers. rebecca jarvis is here with a look at one restaurant that has seen a big boost from doing just that. >> not only cheap but also cheap, i should say, not only effective but also cheap, that is right. luke holden wanted to bring high quality lobster to new york at reasonable prices. so to expand his business, luke's lobster he turned to a social networking site called foursquare. >> we opened our first place october of 2009, this is the

first place. >> what are you doing there? >> put the roll on the butter wheel. the recession, 27-year-old luke holden took a risk, opened a lobster sandwich shop in new york city. >> a young hard-working team that has never had a whole lot of resources and we like doing things with our own hands. there you go. enabled us to grow during the hard times. >> reporter: to make it work holden held on to his day job at a bank and spent nights and weekends serving $14 lobster rolls from a less than 300 square foot storefront. >> i love doing this. we've got a great team around us. >> reporter: a few months later, he put luke's lobsters campaign online. holden teamed up with a tech startup called four square. if i never heard of twitter, never heard of a mobile application is confused what a smartphone is how would you describe what you're doing? >> forget about paper and

carrying coupons around and loyalty card booklet. we're trying to make it more digital and virtual, like digital wallet you carry around, it's rewarding. >> reporter: four square is a mobile application allows its 10 million users to check in from their smartphone when they visit a local business like luke's. the information is then shared with everyone in the individual's social network. >> word of mouth from your friends, stronger than i think any other form of advertisement. >> reporter: the information is also shared with the business, >> we're also helping local merchants connect with the people most likely to become really great customers and through that we're allowing businesses to offer discounts and specials to a lot of the local merchants. >> reporter: luke's lobster capitalized offering specials and discounts to those who check in through four square. the most frequent customer is

rewarded with an extra discount and the title of mayor. you just checked in to luke's. >> yes. >> reporter: and how many times have you been here this week? >> probably twice this week but according to four square i think i made like 107 visits now. >> reporter: 107 and how much time? >> over, a bit over a year. >> reporter: virtual customer loyalty with a very real impact on businesses like luke's. do you think it's possible to do business as an entrepreneur now without using these social tools, social media? >> i think it's possible but i don't think it's smart. someone takes the time to do some type of action outside or inside of your restaurant that doesn't involve buying food at the counter, that action should be recognized. >> how many advibusinesses are this? >> 250,000 businesses right now. you think about the 10 million users, they are spread across the united states and even throughout the world, about 40% of the four square users are

people who are living outside of the united states. bigger cities of course services like these bigger cities attract more people to the service. like luke said it's free and he learns who his customers are, what time they're frequenting the store and what things they're interested in. >> helps him better tailor the offering to make more money. >> exactly. >> rebecca jarvis thanks. a new book claims a flying object did crash in roswell, new mexico. it wasn't from mars, and it wasn't a ufo. so what was it? those details when we return.,,,

since the late 1940s, means have been fascinated by a mysterious region in nevada known as area 51 as well as the much talked about ufo crash in

new mexico. a new book attempts to separate fact from fiction as molly wood from cnet reports. >> -- desert of western nevada. >> reporter: some 80 miles northwest of las vegas lies the most talked about top secret military base in north america, area 51. for six decades it operated in total secrecy. even the government denied its existence. but it became home to conspiracy theories involving aliens, flying saucers and high level coverups. newly declassified documents finally give a glimpse into this mysterious place and its essential role in the space race and the cold war. >> area 51 was set up to push military science and technology faster and further than any other nation. >> reporter: journalist annie jacobsen wrote "area 5" it chronicles what happened on the base in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. she spent years interviewing those who worked there. >> they're a fraternity of

formerly secret spies and scientists and spy pilots and engineers all of whom know one another. >> reporter: they spent most of their lives hiding what they did at work every day. now these veterans are finally able to talk about what went on inside the base. >> we went with code names. i was thunder. we were dealing with navy, air force, tactical air command, we had one common goal, we had an urgency of doing our job because lives in our military depended on what we were doing there. >> reporter: on this dry lakebed, the cia and later the air force developed ground-breaking technologies for espionage and warfare, still used by the military today. >> when you look at the drones that fight the war on terror, you can see the lineage goes directly back to the early spy platforms at area 51, the u2 was developed there, the a12 oxcart has developed there. >> reporter: scientists from the

base were involved in the u.s. nuclear weapons program. >> there was over 100 atmospheric atomic bomb tests at area 51est nearest neighbor starting in 1950s. many of the men in my book worked on the bomb tests. >> reporter: to most of the world area 51 is famously known for the alien conspiracy theory that involves a ufo that crashed in roswell, new mexico. jacobsen cites an anonymous source who gave her a surprising explanation. >> a flying disc really did crash in new mexico and then it did wind up at area 51. it did not come from mars. it came from russia. >> reporter: and jacobsen's source claims there were pilots in that flying disc, not aliens but russians. >> this is the information that came to me from the source who i absolutely believe, i stand by, i've spoken with him since the book has been published. and what he said was that the child-size aviators were the by-product of this horrific

human experimentation program by staalin in collaboration with the doctor from auschwitz. we chose to do the same thing eventually, and that upset a lot of people this idea that the united states government could have experimented on humans. >> reporter: the cia hasn't commented on the allegations but for those who worked on the military base, they can't conceive of it happening. >> we don't know. we can't, you know, it's just personal opinion. everybody sets their own opinion about certain things. >> i just can't picture it, because i would then be forced to say i don't want to be part of it. >> reporter: for now these men are the only link we have to what truly went on inside area 51. with their stories and declassified documents, we're learning more about what really happened beyond the gates. but most of it will always remain a mystery. molly wood, cnet for cbs news.

>> all right, molly wood thank you. for nor on area 51 go to earlyshow.cbsnews.com. we'll show you how to get to area 51 yourself or at least get close. it's a good book, worth a browse. >> i told you i'm mildly obsessed with it. >> you mentioned that. with the russians and aliens. >> can you be mildly obsessed? >> i can be mildly obsessed with anything i want. i'm mildly obsessed with erica. >> i'm mildly obsessed with you mary, obsessed with all of you. >> the mildly obsessions continue. >> i am fully obsessed with the economy, though, as so many americans are. that's why we're here in washington. the cbs news town hall and the economy, the republican view will air tomorrow at 8:00 a.m., right here on "the early show," taping that a little bit later this afternoon. so very much looking forward to that and looking forward to some of the answers we're getting to

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johannes mehse i am grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines johannes meheserle walked out of jail this morning in l.a. he is now on parole after serving part of his sentence for manslaughter for killing oscar grant the third on new years day 2009. six suspects are said to be arraigned in connection with the death of a german tourist shot in san francisco. she was caught in the cross fire of a gun battle between gang members in union square. >> several people are making a point at crown beach in alameda showing how a suicidal man who went into the water could have been rescued after the drowning on memorial day, the fire department said it was not trained for water rescues, but

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good morning, new report northbound 101 at highway 1 a couple cars tangled up the left

lane is blocked. not too bad it is in the non- commute direction southbound is where you will see those delays as you work your way. no major snags across the span into san francisco mass transit delays, j mac ferry out of service, use 220 instead. bay bridge toll plaza not too bad. lawrence with your forecast. >> low clouds breaking up around the bay area. sunshine many spots inland and more to come as we head throughout the daisy a couple patches of fog over the bay that will turn up mostly sunny skies outside the bay other temperatures looking nice, 60s and 70s low 80s. up towards the coastline, mainly 60s. next couple day, spectacular wind will switch directions become more offshore overnight that will allow for warmer temperatures around the bay area could crack 90 some of the warmest spots tomorrow

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