>> mitchell: tonight, test of strength at the iowa straw poll. republican voters make their picks from a long list of candidates, but texas governor rick perry tries to steal the show by announcing his bid for the white house. norah o'donnell has the latest. cold a gang crackdown in philadelphia serve as a model for riot-shocked london? elaine quijano reports in what british bobbies could learn from american police. tiger woods goes through a humiliating rough patch of the p&j championship. tony guida looks at the superstar's fall from brace. and how young is too young? bill whitaker weighs the pros and cons of toddlers in traini training. captioning sponsored by cbs

this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. the results of today's iowa straw poll are in, and winners and losers alike are scrambling to put their own spin on the outcome. let's take a look. michele bachmann finished first, followed closely by ron paul. minnesota governor tim pawlenty placed a distant third. the others trade behind with write-in rick perry narrowly outpolling mitt romney and while not in iowa, perry was doing his best today to crash the party. norah o'donnell is in ames, iowa, watching the rapidly shifted republican field. noragood evening. >> reporter: good evening to you. this was the second highest turnout ever for the straw poll. the results were expected, but it was governor rick perry with the, monument in sout announcemh carolina who stole the show. after longs of speculation the governor of the loan star state

threw his hat into an already-crowded ring. >> the renewed nation needs a new president. ( applause ) it is time to get america working again, and that's why with the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of america, i declare to you today as a candidate for president of the united states ( applause ) >> reporter: he offered a stinging indictment of president obama's leadership on the economy. >> nearly three years president obama has been downgrading american jobs, he's been downgrading our standing in the world. he's been downgrading our financial stability. he's been downgrading our confidence, and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children. >> reporter: the texas governor was not even on the ballot in today's straw poll. where iowa republicans enjoyed a carnival-like atmosphere, complete with candidates

singing, heartland cuisine, and last-minute moves to garner support. >> we're going to take it back in 2012. >> reporter: iowa-born michelle bachman hoped her roots would lead her to a first-place finish. >> from one iowan to another, iowa will be the pace car, if you will, to set the tone and set the pace for bringing this country back to its greatness that it was intended for and that it was meant for. >> reporter: former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has said a poor showing here would cause him to reevaluate his campaign. >> so stand before you as a candidate who stakes-- claims to iowa and his claim in this race here today in large part on the fact that i don't just talk about it. we get the job done for minnesota and for america. >> i declare to you today as a candidate for president of the united states ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: but as candidates lobbied, attentive voters

watched rick perry steal the spotlight from south carolina and in iowa, where candidates lavish personal attention on residents, that didn't sit well with poll participants like stephanie wells. >> the straw poll is a great way to get to know them and learn what they're all about so it would have been a great chance for him to let iowans be who he is and what he stands for. >> reporter: governor perry travels here to iowa on sunday and will spend three days in the state, which still holds the first-in-the-nation caucuses. but this time, governor perry will have to share the spotlight with president obama who is embarking on his own midwest bus tour and who will also be here in iowa on monday. russ. >> mitchell: norah o'donnell in ames, iwashings thanks a lot. for more analysis of the iowa straw poll and rick perry's announcement, we're joined by john dickerson who is also in ames. good evening. >> hey, russ. >> mitchell: what do you think

this victory does for michele bachmann and who else should be celebrating tonight? >> what it does for bachmann is it shows she's a contender, not just that she's popular, that she can organize voters, get them to do what she needs them to do and that's an important second step but it also shows she can survive after taking a pretty strong set of hits from tim pawlenty. now she has to turn and show she can play in other states. >> mitchell: as you look at the board tonight, who should not be happy about these results? >> it was a bad night for tim pawlenty. his argument to the people he needs to write checks to keep his campaign going was that "i can focus on the voters in iowa, make the connection with them. if i can connect in iowa, i'll be able to connect in the country." he wasn't able to do that. it was a disappointing third-place finish. it will be hard for him to raise money now. >> mitchell: rick perry comes in sixth place, a write-in candidate, he didn't participate in the process this time around. what does his entry into this race do to the entire field. >> it shakes the race up completely. rick perry will compete now

against michele bachmann, but also against mitt romney, and he is a strong candidate, both because he can raise a lot of money. also he has tea party fans and there are a lot of establishment figures in a state like new hampshire, which you might not think a texas governor would have roots there, who are anxious for him to get into the race. he shakes it all up but now he has a lot of things he has to face ahead of him, including three debates in september so now it's a real race for this nomination. >> mitchell: john dickerson in ames, iwashings thank you. here's what else is happening. an american was abducted from his home inula horr, pakistan, this morning. seth doane joins us from kabul in neighboring afghanistan with the latest on what we know. seth, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ. at this time,us officials in pakistan will only confirm the name of the man who hab abducted, warren weinstein. they will not give us any other information on the record which

is quite common in a kidnapping case like this. there is a warren weinstein who calls his home lahore, pakistan, on a social networking site which also says he's the country director for a virginia-based consulting firm called j.e. austin associates, which, incidentally, elderlier today removed a list of employees from its witness. it would also not reply to repeated requests for comment from cbs news. according to pack stapy officials, mr. weinstein was removed from his home, abducted around 3:30 early saturday morning by at least six heavily armed assailants. >> mitchell: seth, what can you tell bus the area are this happened? >> this was an area called model town, an affluent suburb of lahore, and lahore is a city actually known as the cultural capital of pakistan, but more recently it's taken on a much more violent reputation. in 2009, i team was ambushed exposing poor security in the city and a year later around 100 people were killed in a violent

attack on two mosques. just earlier this week, the state department released a travel warning for any americans trafficking to pakistan. and right now, no group has claimed responsibility for this, leaving open a question-- was this a political kidnapping or was this done by a criminal group simply to extract money? russ. >> mitchell: seth doane in kabul, afghanistan, take care. and thank you. later, tiger woods out of the running at the p&j championship. the other side of china's economic boom-- skyrocketing wages and prices. and athletics at an early age. how early is too early? those stories when the cbs evening news continues.

>> mitchell: british police

have reported more than 2200 arrests following this week's riots, arson attacks and widespread looting in london and other major cities. the british government under fire over the police response to the urban violence may have something to learn from american methods. elaine quijano explains. >> reporter: in philadelphia, officials are cracking down after a recent rash of mob attacks targeting people and property. >> we are not joking around. >> reporter: police flooded parts of the city last night and arrested about 50 teenagers for violating a newly enforced curfew. police commissioner charles ramsey makes no apologies for the tactic. >> we're talking about 14, 15, 16-year-old youngsters. they're old enough to know write from whereon and they know what they're doing is wrong and they'll suffer the consequences. >> reporter: so far the curfews have worked in preventing further incidents and they're one tool police in the u.s. are using. in the wake of riots in his

country, david cameron is turning to the u.s. for help in curbing mob violence there. >> we have been discussing how we go further getting to grips with gang with people like bill bratton. >> reporter: bill bratton is widely regarded as one of the nation's most effective crime fighters. he says community policing is key. >> community policing where crime is securing, that's where you want to put your police, but you don't want your police there just making arrests. we want them networking, building relationships. >> reporter: bratton also says he'd be open to a controversial idea floated by prime minister cameron, to restrict social media to head off violence, though he said britain's parliament would have to have clear rules for doing so. >> i think it's quite clear the issue of social media that has been so much of the issue in london's riots recently is going to have to be explored much more closely by government, media, the public, that if it's found that it's really contributing to the spread of violence.

>> reporter: bratton's ub paid consulting work for cameron, set to begin in september, isn't sitting well with everyone, including a leader of a group that represents british police. >> it's a slap in the face by the prime minister, being told that he wants to bring in bill bratton. >> the idea that bill bratton is coming over. i'm not coming over as an invasion force. i'm coming over to share information. that's what policing is all about. >> reporter: bratton says american law enforcement has dealt with gangs and mob violence for decades, experience he believes will prove invaluable for police in the u.k. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: in stone county, arkansas, authorities have made what they say is their biggest bust in about 20 years. sheriff's deputies seized at least 30,000 marijuana plants, potentially worth millions of dollars on the street. the pot plantation was spotted in a routine fly-over by the national guard.

a bus crash disrupted traffic for hours. as many as 25 people were hurt when the greyhound bus flipped on its side en route from philadelphia to pittsburgh. later, will higher wages in china mean higher prices for shoppers here at home? that story is next.

>> mitchell: vice president biden begins an overseas trip next week that will take him to three far eastern countries, including china. china is feeling some economic strain of its own at late. aas ceila hatton tells us that could impact prices consumers pay during the upcoming christmas shopping season. >> reporter: the employees at this sportswear supplier outside shanghai are rushing to fill an order for 15,000 bike shirts, but at least they're getting

paid more for their efforts than ever before. liu ling, who traction inventory at the factory, has seen her paycheck grow from $130 a month in 2007 to $320 a month now. >> ( translated ): if you work in a factory, you can make a bit of money and cover your basic expenses." >> reporter: a shortage of skilled work sers driving up demand. employee wanteddades, like these in beijing, now regularly promise benefits like free housing and health insurance. but liu and her husband are still living month to month, her salary eaten up by record-high food prices and ballooning housing costs. even for this simple home liu shares with her husband which has a television but no running water. >> ( translated ): the price of everything has increased a lot compared to before for clothing, vegetables and meat. >> reporter: the government says it's trying to help workers cope by forcing employers to hand out bigger salaries, but

it's a tricky balancing act. if wages escalate too much, manufacturers might leave china in search of cheaper labor elsewhere. liliu ling's boss tries to attrt loyal employees with free meals and bonus pay but he worries he'll eventually be squeezed out of the country once known as the world's factory. >> long-term, i'm lookingality possibly thinking of production in another third world country. >> reporter: in the short term, rising salary costs will be passed on to customers. >> the orders from america and u.k. are very price conscious. they're very, very price conscious. so i have to reconsider my prices. >> reporter: toys "r" us is just one retailer warning its prices will be higher this christmas because of china's rising wages. but there is one possible bright spot for the u.s. economy. if china's surging inflation levels off and higher wages

hold, millions of chinese workers might have that extra money to buy american. ceila hatton, cbs news, beijing. >> mitchell: a somber ceremony in berlin today marked the 50th anniversary of the start of construction of the berlin wall. the communist eastern german government built the wall to halt the flow of refugees to the noncomanist western half of the city. at least 136 people trying to escape to the west were killed by east german border guard over the next 28 years. the wall came down in 1989 and the two germanys were reunited one year later. ahead, missing the cut-- what's behind tiger woods' collapse at the p&j championship?

>> mitchell: in sports, the p&j went on today without a

slumping tiger woods. for the first time in his career, woods missed the cut p/e p.g.a. championship where he has won fortimes perfect. woods' comeback remains stuck in a sand trap as we hear from tony guida. >> reporter: watching tiger woods spray golf balls to all corners of a championship course is like watching your high school sweetheart marry another man-- you see it but you don't quite believe it. >> these are uncharted waters for tyinger and he doesn't have a map. >> reporter: what map could have plotted tiger's shipwreck, missing the cut at the pga for the first time in his career. five double bogeys-- he's never done that before, either. the winner of 14 major titles, once thought to be a lock to topple jack nicklaus' record of 18, now faces the prospect of being ranked outside the world's top 50 golfers when he next competes. >> i thought i could come in here and play the last couple of weeks and get it done somehow, but i need some work.

>> it would take him two years. >> reporter: william larkin is a former golf pro who met woods as a junior champion. larkin saw a serious, focused young man. he doesn't see that now. >> two years to really get back to the point where he's a threat on the golf course. right now, he's a player on the field. >> reporter: it was playing the field outside his marriage that began woods' public decline and fall. 18 months ago, he apologized for infidelities against his wife, elin, and took time off from golf. he returned to great acclaim at the 2010 masters where he finished fourth. he hasn't done nearly that well since. >> he's got so much distractions. >> reporter: justin kotzin has been following tiring's career from the first shot. he said woods needs to clear his mind. >> he used to be the most mentally tough player in the world-- clearly. and now, i think he's lost it. >> psychologically, physically, professionally, spiritually-- the guy right now is-- i mean, if that's the grand slam of

golf, he's missing the cut on all four. >> reporter: since he was a teenager, people have been saying tiger would be the greatest golfer ever. now, debilitated by injury and poor personal choices, tiger is looking for a compass to lead himself out of the woods. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: ahead, baby athletes in training. why some critics say it's too much, too soon. that story is next.

>> mitchell: finally this saturday, no pain, no gain has long been a mantra for aspiring athletes but is a full speed ahead training philosophy good for the very, very young? some parents seem to think so as we hear from bill whitaker. ( cheers ). >> reporter: steffi graf picked up a tennis racket around the age of three. tiger woods was swinging clubs by two. >> go, go, go! >> reporter: these days, they might be considered late

bloomers. now, it seems, it's never too early to be a tyke in training. >> we're training our muscles and creating muscle memory. >> reporter: the push is on from slick videos urging parents to get infants into the swing of things like baby baseball to soccer training for toddlers. >> who are we playing? >> reporter: instructors say they're toning tiny muscles, developing coordination, and instiling a lifelong love of physical activity and sports. they insist they're not trying to create future superstars. >> the really idea is for them to have fub and for them to have a positive experience with sports. >> do you think you can be a soccer player when you grow up? >> reporter: but parents can always hope. >> many parents think their kids are super-sports and they're going to take off and go professional. >> reporter: it's a good bet many parents think they're giving their kids a leg up when it comes to sports, but starting early is no guarantee that your baby will grow to become the

next babe ruth. in fact, it may hurt their chances. >> early enrollment in too focused an area sometimes actually doesn't make your child a better athlete. it actually hinders him in becoming the full athletic abilities that they might have. >> reporter: dr. adler says baby exercise is a good thing, but focusing on a specific sport? >> you want to make sure that you're not pushing the child because of your own competitiveness. >> we're very noncom pettative. >> very good! >> reporter: pull-ups means something completely different for most at this my gym fitness center. just like baby einstein videos didn't produce a generation of geniuses, baby athletics probable won't produce champions. so at my gym-- >> we're focused on the fun. >> reporter: and everyone knows fun produces winning smiles. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: and that cbs evening news. i'm russ mitchell in new york. good night.

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