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"the early show" is next. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com herman cain goes on the offensive against those accusing him of being a serial sexual harasser. >> the accusations i absolutely reject, they simply didn't happen. >> this is yet another woman who alleges inappropriate behavior on his part comes forward publicly. we'll tell you how the cain controversy could impact tonight's republican debate. >> we won't go! a late-night rally in support of penn state joe paterno, but the pressure continues to grow on him to step down in the wake of the sex scandal engulfing penn state football. could he be forced to resign by the end of the week? we have the latest on the
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investigation and we'll also speak with one of paterno's former stars. and there's a royal uproar in england this morning after a private eye reveals he was paid to spy on prince william, prince harry and dozens of other high-profile figures. what the latest scandal to rock rupert am murdoch's tabloid empire early this november 9th, rupert am murdoch's tabloid empire early this november 9th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning, welcome to "early show" here on a wednesday morning. not a bad day to start the day right there. >> beautiful shot. >> hi, everybody, i'm chris wragge. >> i'm here cahill. we begin with herman cain who is not backing down. >> on tuesday the republican presidential essentially called his latest accuser a liar. political correspondent jan crawford has more this morning from washington. jan, good morning. >> good morning, erica.
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cain categorically denied all the allegations of harassment and he said he would take a lie detector test to prove he's telling the truth. confronted with allegations he groped a chicago woman in 1997, herman cain's denial was forceful. >> the charges and the accusations i absolutely reject. they simply didn't happen. >> reporter: cain described watching bialek's monday's press conference and having no idea who she was. >> as they got to the microphone, my first response in my mind and reaction was, i don't even know who this woman is. >> reporter: bialek's accusations were specific. >> he also grabbed my head and brought it towards -- >> reporter: comes as another woman, karen kraushaar filed a
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complaint with national restaurant association alleging cain in 1999. she had told cbs news, "the whole situation is so volatile right now, i just don't want to say any more." cain said her allegations are also false. >> when she made her accusations, they were found to be baseless and she could not find anyone to corroborate her story. >> reporter: the restaurant association has confirmed it reached an agreement with kraushaar without any admission of liability. cain's campaign is mounting an aggressive defense e-mailing to reporters a list of sharon bialek's past legal and financial difficulties. cain has also hired lyin wood, e represented a number of high-profile people who are falsely accused of wrongdoing, including john and patsy ramsey, the parents of jonbenet ramsey and gary condit who was wrongly
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implicated in the murder of chandra levy. >> herman cain finds himself over the course of the last several days now on trial in the court of public opinion falsely accused. >> now karen kraushaar's attorney told me last night that both women have agreed to hold a joint press conference detailing their allegations against cain and inviting other women who made allegations against him to join them. now, they can expect some scrutiny of their own. for example, the associated press is reporting this morning that kraushaar found another complaint against her supervisor at her next job. >> jan crawford in washington, thanks. republican strategist leslie sanchez and amy holmes for "the blaze." good to have both of you with us this morning. leslie, as a strategist you're looking at this and looking at the way herman cain handled the situation since it first broke
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ten days ago or so. would you advise him to handle it in the way that he has? >> absolutely not. i would have said to go the other direction. he had to change the narrative yesterday. people were looking for him to clarify some of this gray area and yesterday's press conference was not only reckless, but really amateurish in the sense that it created more speculation and it kind of challenged not only the media, but some of these women to clarify their side of the story. >> could he get a handle on it at this point? >> i think it's extremely difficult. not only was the oppressor of these women's press conferences devastating from a political experience but he had an opportunity and that was a missed opportunity yesterday. >> does he now change the narrative because like leslie said, yesterday looks like, for all intents and purposes was a big misstep. >> it was a big misstep and very difficult for him to do that and, clearly, in the republican debate, all eyes would be on him looking for any kind of policy stumbles now, even more scrutiny. it won't be considered sort of
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refreshing, candid, nonpolitician speak and i think he also closing the door on the story opened a can of worms when he said he would be willing to take that lie detector test. even last night gloria allred insisting that he go before a senate committee under oath and say this is his truthful statement. >> the lie detector test is like now you're the culpable until you take the lie detector test. you kind of walked into that. wasn't thinking the steps all the way through and this absolute denial. flow gray area. never met them, never saw her, never did it. if there is a receipt anywhere, anyone saw them together, there is a picture, it casts additional doubt. >> what does this mean because there words that these two were seen, almost to the effect that they didn't know each other from some prior experience, if anything should come out, what does this then do huerman cain f he said, i never met this woman and she claims totally different? >> we've been down this road
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deny, deny, deny until there's a picture. this is exactly the kind of situation we're in right now. one situation one or two women coming forward could be plausible, it's a political campai campaign. it's hard to say. you get three, four, it lookz like a pattern. this is a very difficult thing as sexual harassment for women to be a footnote in history and put their name for the rest of history next to a presidential candidate. it is a very tough decision, we have to take it seriously. >> we're hearing from jan now with more women coming forward and saying, okay, this is who i am. how does that then change the dialogue for him? >> well, we're already seeing a change of the dialogue. reuters has a poll out that after the press conference of sharon bialek that 39% of gopers, they believed her and we're seeing that his flaverability is slipping. he was at 56 last week and 57 now, actually behind mitt romney. as more women come out, this just lends credibility to the allegations, gains momentum and, again, time is precious on a campaign and he's spending a
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whole lot of time on this issue. >> what is the thinking within the republican party at this point? other candidates have been, which you would probably advise your candidate to do. were you advising any other republican presidential candidates, but within the party, is there talk about how he is handling this and how it goes? >> he was the anti-establishment candidate but we are seeing, we saw governor haley barbour saying he needs to come out and clarify and make a statement and remember haley barbour was formally the chairman of the republican governor's association. so, this is someone who could pick up the phone and talk to party leaders about this person. >> all right, leslie sanchez, amy holmes, good to talk to you both. also this morning, penn state head football coach joe paterno has decided that he season. his 46th in charge of the nittany lions. >> a ninth person has come forward alleging sandusky abused
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him as a ball and growing calls for paterno to step down along with penn state's president. >> with the school he helped build into national powerhouse reeling from scandal, joe paterno came out of his house tuesday night to greet jubulent supporters. >> it's hard to tell you how much this means to me. >> reporter: after thanking the students, paterno addressed the issue that has put his job and legacy in jeopardy. >> the kids were victims and we ought to say a prayer for them. tough life. when people do certain things to you, but, anyway, you've been great. >> we love you, joe. >> we love you! >> reporter: but the prep rally won't drown out the critics both here in happy valley and across the country. calls are mounting for university president graham spanier to resign and the
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84-year-old paterno to step aside. the school's board of trustees will meet to discuss potential options. the board said it was outraged by the scandal. our hearts go out to all of those impacted by these terrible events, especially the tragedies involving chirb and their families. we want to assure all of you that the board will take swift, decisive action. paterno's son, scott, said his father is focused on saturday's game. >> there's been no contact with the university about anything other than coaching football. >> tell us how he's feeling? >> he's getting ready for a football game. >> reporter: many question if paterno should have done more. should have alerted the police. with when told in 2002 of the alleged sexual assault of jerry sandusky of a 10-year-old boy. >> what is the meaning of these games at this point? >> reporte >> i think everybody who knew something morally had a duty to do so. >> reporter: matt millen, an
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all-pro turned broadcaster broke down discussing the impact of the scandal. >> it's pretty disturbing. it makes you sick. to see that this could happen and if we can't protect our kids, we, as a society, are a fake. >> now, earlier this morning i spoke with former penn state all american o.j. mcduffy. he played for paterno 20 years ago and i asked him if he believed that paterno could stay on as head coach. >> it is a terrible situation and it's going to be tough for coach to retain his job. i mean, it's just very ugly and this means nothing compared to what is going on at the university right now. and, you know, joe legally, obviously, did the right thing. morally, who knows. if joe had the chance to do it all over again, he would do it
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differently. >> is that your belief that he's not necessarily at fault here, but he could have done more when he first found out about these allegations? >> yeah. i think, you know, i think everybody, you know, looking back would do things a little different. i think joe would have little different and, obviously, the other guys. but let's keep it real, the real situation is what jerry has done. jerry is a guy that put a lot of these guys and especially these poor, innocent little boys as victims. he's the one that is put in the situation. the fact that the other guys didn't do much about it. let's really look at what jerry's done with an iwitneeyew account. it's just a bad situation he put everybody in. the guys thought long and hard about what to do. if they had to do it again, they would go to authorities. >> as far as your reaction to how the school has handled this overall and how they're reacting with damage control right now, what would you say? >> well, they handled the situation, obviously, very
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terrible. when there are allegations in '98 and then something else happened in 2002, we could have avoided, the university could have avoided other young men being preyed on by this guy. and i think going forward now, you know, i think they're trying to do the right thing and getting joe prepared to depart the university. you know, i think they've tried to get him out a number of different ways now and i think this is going to be the final straw. i think the fact is, this all happened on joe's watch and it is going to tarnish what he's already built and it's probably going to be the end of his career at penn state. >> can the school recover from something like this, do you think? >> you know what, i talked about it with a lot of my friends and as a former player, i would rather we have ncaa violations, rules violations, tattoos, hanging out with a booster than something like this, this is absolutely appalling what is happening at our university and it's going to be a long time for
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us to come back from this. i am very proud of the fact that i went to penn state and i know joe is just a great man and i hope that, you know, he's able to recover from this and i hope the university eventually does. but the most important thing, obviously, the boys that were affected in this situation. >> if joe is this figure and all of college football, not just in state college, how disappointed are you in your former head coach? >> well, you know what, i love him to death. i mean, he's a great man. he's molded a lot of young men like myself to football players but trying to be the best men in men and fathers and family members we can be. joe is a great guy. i feel like, you know, if he could do it again, he would go to the authorities. it's just bad that nobody, absolutely nobody went to the authority in the timely manner. >> thank you for taking the time and speaking with us this morning. we do appreciate it. >> thank you, thank you for having me.
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>> in summation reports this morning that joe paterno will step down and retire at the end of this football season, which i think is going to cause some to raise an eyebrow maybe more appropriate -- why not now? >> this is not about a football season. this is not about football, this is about children and this is about the safety of our children and as you heard from o.j. there, a lot of people, i think, would agree. should have reresposponded in a different way. it's too late for those kids now and that's, that's no solace to them or their families. >> sadly the issue you have here is whether joe paterno is to blame or not. some think he's more culpable than others. he is the one that, when you think of penn state football, you think of joe paterno. he is going to be tied to this and this will damage in his legacy in some way, shape or form, that's for sure. jeff is over at the news desk with a check of your headlines. >> debate over what he leaves is not over yet. >> i think you're probably right. a promise from italian prime minister silvio berlusconi to resign over the european debt
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crisis. here's a live look at the numbers on wall street where stocks fell sharply as the markets opened this morning now, now down 260. stocks in britain, france and germany are also down while interest rates rose in italy making a bailout more likely. a large protests on the streets of london this morning. thousands of students protesting cuts in education and increased tuition fees. they are marching to the financial district right now. 4,000 police officers are there monitoring. it was election day yesterday and there were some closely watched issues on the ballots. in ohio, voters handed union worker
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still to come this morning on "early show," could be a short stay in jail for michael jackson's doctor. we're now learning house arrest may be a possibility. the parent of a murdered border patrol agent speak out in an exclusive interview. they're still waiting for answers in the controversial fast and furious gun walking case. we'll have those stories when we come back right here on "early show" on cbs. more colorful. ♪ and putting all our helpers to work? so we can build on our favorite traditions by adding a few new ones. we've all got garlands and budgets to stretch. and this year, we can keep them both evergreen. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. here's a bright idea. trade in any light string and get up to 5 bucks off the latest christmas led's.
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ds the race for san good morning, everyone. 7:25 is your time. let's get you caught up on some of the headlines here in the bay area on this wednesday. ed lee leads the pack for san francisco mayor. but he has less than 50% of the vote. so the ranked choice system will determine the winner possibly by this afternoon. it could be days, though. the san francisco d.a. and sheriff's races will also go to the rank choice voting. you can get all the bay area election results online at cbssf.com. oakland police have called off training exercises that were scheduled this week. the "san francisco chronicle" reports that could mean a new move to remove "occupy" campers from frank ogawa plaza. and brentwood police are looking for a man who broke into a police officer's home. the off-duty cop was home when two men broke in yesterday. the officer shot and wounded on
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behind it. there is one lane blocked. even slow past the accident scene as you get closer into pittsburg and concord. at the bay bridge it is now fully stacked up to the macarthur maze, at least a 20- minute wait to get you on the span. but coming out of the south bay out of downtown san jose, starting to get a little crowded in the northbound labors of 280. your drive time is now 21 minutes between 101 and cupertino. let's get an update of your forecast. here's lawrence. >> it is chilly out there this morning, elizabeth, temperatures down to freezing in the inland valleys. toward the afternoon, we'll enjoy plenty of sunshine. out at the coastline looking good right now. nice clear skies there, again it is chilly toward the beaches with those temperatures in the 40s. by the afternoon, we are looking at the nicest numbers of the week. a lot of 60s, maybe even some low 70s by the afternoon. and then things begin to change as we look toward tomorrow. storm clouds begin to gather, doesn't look like it's going to be a rainout for tomorrow. but by thursday night we could see showers developing. showers expected on friday. ,,,,,,,,,,
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welcome back. start of a beautiful day here. this is "the early show." i'm chris wragge, along with erica hill. >> good morning again. >> good morning again. let's get to the latest on michael jackson's doctor p. dr. conrad murray will spend the next three weeks behind bars before he is sentenced for causing jackson's death. where he goes after that and for how long is anyone's guess. as national correspondent ben tracy reports. >> reporter: after dr. conrad murray was led away in handcuffs in the courtroom, he was taken here to the twin towers of the county jail in downtown los angeles. this will be murray's home until his sentencing on november 29th. reportedly kept alone in his own cell similar to this one. >> conrad murray is considered to be what is called a keep-away inmate.
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he will be kept away from the general population. he won't eat with them, he won't visit with them. he won't spend any time on the yard with them. conrad murray will be kept in virtual isolation really for his own safety. >> reporter: l.a. county jail spokesperson says no truth to earlier reports that murray has been placed on a suicide watch. he will likely lose his medical license. and he is facing up to four years in prison. but many legal experts say he'll likely serve far less and probably in a jail because california's prisons are so overcrowded. >> it's overcrowded on the state level and the local level and on the state level, they can't just release you to the streets so they release you to the l.a. county facilities and because the l.a. county facilities can't house you, they release you to house arrest, electronic monitoring and in some instances where it's a low level crime releases you even to beach cleanup. ♪ reaching out >> reporter: sxdespite list rol in a pop icon. >> it will be very difficult to
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achieve an appropriate sentence of incarceration for dr. conrad murray. >> reporter: however, the judge could go for the maximum sentence. he already shows he will be tough on murray by immediately sending him to jail. >> this is where the end result is the death of a human being. that factor demonstrates rather dramatically the public should be protected. >> reporter: while murray's lawyers plan to appeal the guilty verdict, he also faces civil suits for medical malpractice and wrongful death. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> turning now to britain where this morning, another royal pain for rupert murdoch's newspapers. >> the tabloid at the heart of britain's phone hacking scandal is accused of spying on public figures, among them is prince william and prince harry. charlie d'agata joins us from london, england with more. >> reporter: we called the palace this morning, and there is no comment and they don't plan to comment. one incident goes back to 2006 when a detective said he tailed
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prince william and kate middleton to prince harry's house under the nose of protection officers. even away from the prince's many public appearanceses private eye derrick webb was watching and roaredi i recording their every move. >> i would write down what they were wearing at the time, what car they were in, who they met. the location medict. the times were very important. >> reporter: he would then report back to news of the world newspaper and it went on from three until murdoch shut it down in july. prince william and prince harry topped the list of more than a hundred celebrities the former policeman said he kept tabs on. others including angelina jolie and daniel radcliffe and paul
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mccartney. webb says he is not ashamed and nothing he did qa illegal so why come forward now in money, mostly. while some "news of the world" staffers got the huge payouts when the paper closed, he got nothing. now, instead of a paycheck he is getting some payback. >> it's appeared in the paper, scoops and even if it's appear unds.
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new parents have to face a once in a lifetime choice. whether or not to save their baby's yum bill cal cord blood which holds stem cells that could help treat serious injuries. >> this could come in handy later. we are learning some blood banks maybe be unreliable and potentially putting the opportunity to safe a life at risk. ginger allen of ktvh has one family's story. >> i never dreamed i would need it. it was just if, it was an if is
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what it was. >> reporter: crystal didn't want to take any chances when her son was born so she decided to save his cord blood and paid bile bank usa more than $2,000 to save it. she didn't give it a second thought until her second child was born. >> this was the first day we came home from the hospital with my daughter. >> reporter: this is trinity. directors believe she may have a he is seriously illness. they are still running medical tests, but depending upon the diagnosis, her brother's cord blood could hold the cure. >> i have cried and cried over my daughter. i have prayed and prayed for a miracle. >> reporter: this summer crystal prince tried to contact bile bank usa in monterey, california. calling e-mails and calling all hours of the day and got no answer. >> all of these questions run through your mind. is my cord blood there? has the business gone under? is the cord blood missing j
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prince lives in sunset, texas. 1,600 miles away from the blood bank, so she turned to us for help. we traveled to california looking for answers and found a company in trouble. hello? this is bile bank usa where parents across the country may still think they are storing their children's life-saving core blood. there is nothing left here but this sign. the food and drug administration is charged with regulating companies that store cord blood but we checked the records and found it had been two years since the fda had done an inspection here. the department of health admitted to us there hadn't been a medical doctor here since last october and, for that reason, it should have been shut down and all of the blood should have been transported last year. after cbs 11 started investigating why regulators hadn't stepped in sooner, the state of california automatically revoked the company's license for failinging
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to maintaining records and not monitoring the temperature of storage devices all while continuing to collect money from customers. the state eventually transported the blood to this facility in los angeles called family cord. that is where we located the tank. this is your newest tank? >> newest tank around the corner, the newest member of our family. august 1st we took possession of this tank of biobanc. the cord blood cannot be tested unless it's thawed but once it's thawed it can't be stored and must be used mmedly. in a sense, a person never really knows until it may be time or too late? >> exactly. no way to have complete insurance without ruining it. >> reporter: one person who probably does know how well the tank is maintained is robert haner, the owner of biobanc usa. we tried to find him at his pebble beach home.
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his wife admitted it was a tough two years and insisted her husband would return our call. we never heard from him. we have learned that he filed bankruptcy earlier this year and owes up to $10 million. >> i am very angry for the fact that somebody might have just taken something that could have saved my daughter's life but what will hurt me the worse is losing my child because somebody might have been too careless. >> reporter: that new cord blood bank in los angeles is now taking inventory of the tank and testing some control samples that are kept inside these tanks. and i can tell you i did speak to the company last night and a representative there tells me they should be able to let parents know by the end of the year the results of those control samples and the good news for parents out there this morning, they tell me they do believe so far those samples may be viable which is an indication the rest of the tank is okay. >> that could be a good sign. when you look at the private
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companies going out of bounds gives people paws if they are considering this. i know is there a public option where you donate the cord blood but then do you have access to it after? >> reporter: you do have access to it afterwards. we have that here in texas and about 20 other states have it. the good news is it is free. the downside to it, unfortunately, is you're not guaranteed you get your own blood, but as we were talking, erica, some doctors tell us someone else's blood may actually be better for you rather than your own blood, depending on your diagnosis. just another option for parents out there who are worried or cannot afford some of these private companies. >> it costs upwards of $2,000. ginger allen, thank you for being with us. the head of the ahead will tell us about this when we come back on "the early show." where? it's really good. do you see it? it's called hope. hope? yeah, hope.
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a surprise. we talk about life that seems to happen online these days and yet a third of americans still don't have access to high speed internet service at home. >> it makes it harder for kids to do school work and adults to apply for jobs. now the government has a plan to lower the cost barrier. julius gan a kou senachowski is more. >> cost is a barrier. digital literacy is a barrier. a lot of people don't know how to use computers. a lot of people don't appreciate the value. here is what this is about. we heard from high school girl in florida who is getting homework assignments that require her to use the internet. that is kid. we want our kids to learn new technology to get jobs in our economy. her family can't afford
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broadband at home. she goes to the library to use the wi-fi so she can do the homework and that doesn't make any sense and what we are trying tackle that. >> it's a two-year deal for families in this country to bet broadband internet access for $10 a month? >> that's right. a number of companies and community groups have stepped up, heard the challenge and said, listen. this is something we need to tackle as a country and we need to be part of the solution. we are going to make it easier for low income people, particularly low income families with children on school lunch, to get online. >> you've asked companies to step forward and help out. this is coming at no cost to the taxpayers. how were you able to manage this? >> this is a win/win for the country, for all of the companies involved. if we can close that adoption gap, if we can go from 67% to a hundred percent, we will double the size of the online market in the united states. we will get more kids educated
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on new technologies. we will help people find jobs. one point. if you're looking for a job today and you don't have online access, you're in trouble because all of the job postings are online. >> i know part of the initiative is low cost pcs for $150 made available to families who qualify for free or reduced lunches and help them get online. was this the -- some of the companies needed this to bring access to the people? that is one of the problems in rural areas. broadband may not have been available. >> there are two challenges. one is 20 million people who live in rural america and don't have broadband flninfrastructur where they live. two weeks ago we are updating telephone programs to broadband programs. today focusing on the adoption initiative with low cost broadband access and low cost computers. >> great to have you here with us. still more to come. stay with us. this is "the early show" on cbs. [ male announcer ] and now so can you.
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san jose-based adobe systems is cutting 750 jobs, or seven percent of its workforce. good morning, 7:55 i'm grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. adobe systems is cutting 750 jobs, about 7% of its workforce. it's still not clear how many of those cuts will be at the company's downtown headquarters. the software maker says that those cuts are because of a shift in their focus. they want new products to help create digital content. the san jose city council has approved a plan to give the oakland as exclusive rights to buy some city-owned downtown property. now, the intent is to use that land for a new ballpark. but baseball big-wigs have still made no decision on whether to allow it. the san francisco giants are claiming territorial rights trying to prevent the as from moving to san jose. on to some election news. incumbent ed lee is leading the
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race for mayor of san francisco. but it could be a while, maybe even a week, before anyone's declared a winner because of the new rank choice runoff system. they are still counting the ballots. and we'll get an update on your traffic and weather on this wednesday morning. it's coming right up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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backed up to the maze at least 20 minutes or so to get on the span. and westbound highway 4 at love ridge that accident is still there blocking one lane. you can see speeds are very slow behind it. then things improve past the accident scene and a picture- perfect morning across the golden gate bridge. with more on this forecast, here's lawrence. >> does look good out there but it's chilly, folks. some of those temperatures still down in the 30s and the 40s outside so grab a jacket if you are headed out the door. looking good all the way over russian hill toward the golden gate bridge. we have had a couple of patches of fog out there but mostly sunny skies as we head in toward the afternoon. that's going to allow these numbers to warm up quite nicely into the 60s maybe even some low 70s by the latter part of the day. even at the coastline you will find plenty of sunshine and temperatures there into the 60s. next couple of days, though, things begin to change. looks like high pressure gets out of the way and we have a storm system dragging off the coastline. that will increase the clouds as we head in toward tomorrow. looks like a dry day for
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♪ top of the hour. welcome back to "the early show." i'm erica hill, along with chris wragge. children have parents who have gone off to war understandably, it's tough for those kids to say good-bye to their parent, tough to live with it and tough to even talk about it. you'll meet some of them this morning. we will show you how the army is
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helping these kids and their families learn how to get through that strain. speaking of kids. a new recommendation says we should talk to them about skin cancer and the risky things that can lead to it like indoor tanning. >> the hit will be don't hit them with a health angle. >> all it takes is a bad burn. it stays with you the rest of your days. the controversy surrounding republican front-runner herman cain the gop candidates holding another debate tonight in michigan and the unemployment rate there is higher by two points than the national average. dean reynolds joins us with a preview this morning. >> reporter: tonight's debate is supposed to be about the economy. so theoretical the candidates will have something to talk about besides herman cain's troubles. because of the impact on cain's campaign, obviously, they will be in the background. and, besides, cain can't seem to stop talking about them. >> we are not going to allow washington or politics to deny me the opportunity to represent
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this great nation. and as far as these accusations causing me to back off and maybe withdrawal from this presidential primary race, ain't going to happen. >> reporter: now, his republican foes vary in their reaction to this. some of them calling this an unwanted distraction. others asking for fuller disclosure. mitt romney has called the accusations disturbing. you are sure to hear calls for economic renewal for repealing the national health care law or freezing or lowering taxes and cutting spending. all of these candidates have their own economic plan.
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romney's has 59 points to it. and it's interesting that while we have been concentrating on herman cain, the white house and the democratic national committee has been concentrating very much on mitt romney, suggesting they believe that he will be the eventual nominee. take a look at the full-page ads by the dnc in the papers today attacking romney for the opposition of the bailout of chrysler and gm which, incidentally, just posted a $1.7 billion profit in the third quarter. they are attacking romney. they are saying that mitt romney's plan for michigan's automobile industry let detroit
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go bankruptcy. so he may have to explain that, but at least he'll be able to talk about something other than herman cain's problems. as former utah governor jon huntsman said of the cain saga, it takes all of the oxygen out of the room and we are not able to have legitimate conversations about where this country goes. we get consumed, he said, by the scandal of the moment. erica. >> dean reynolds for us in rochester, michigan, this morning, thanks. on tuesday, a senate committee investigating the gunwalking scandal spent hours questioning the attorney general who testified operation fast and furious that is tied to the murder of a border agent should never happen again. >> sharyl attkisson is in washington with the latest for us this morning. >> reporter: border patrol agent brian terry was gunned down in arizona near the mexican border 11 months ago. two assault rifles atf allegedly let walk into the hands of mexican drug cartels in an operation called fast and furious were found at the scene. terry's family say they have they watched the senate hearing yesterday with attorney general eric holder hoping to find some answers. >> would you like to apologize
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today for this program that went so wrong, that took the life of a united states law enforcement agent? >> i certainly regret what happened to agent brian terry. it is not fair, however, to assume the mistakes that happened in fast and furious directly led to the death of agent terry. >> reporter: nobody watched attorney general holder's testimony with greater than interest brian terry's father kent and his mother josie. >> i thought he was very evasive. i thought that this is the second time around and i still didn't get nothing out of it at all. it seemed like all of the questions that he was asked, he was evading or throwing someone else underneath the bus.
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>> well, we heard five different stories and every time we hear one, it's different. we never got a straight answer. >> reporter: for the first time, brian's parents, who were divorced, spoke at length about saying good-bye to their son, a former marine and their long search for answers. >> the last time brian was home, we were just talking about something and he says, you know, mom, he said something bad is going to happen. he said i just had that feeling. he said somebody -- somebody is going to get hurt. >> reporter: brian's mom watches videos of him on the computer. his dad says he finds it hard to visit his son's grave site. >> it's rough. i could answer, it's been pure hell is what it's been. >> i just remember things he said and -- i don't know. i can't explain it. always looked out for me and i miss that. >> reporter: both say they are still waiting for some official to take responsibility for the gunwalking operation that
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trafficked the weapons found at the murder scene. >> i couldn't believe that something like that would happen. i just couldn't believe that they would let those guns go over the border and all of them other innocent people in mexico getting killed with the same guns. >> my mom used to tell me that lies is going to catch up with you and that is what is going to happen to them. it's going to catch up with them. >> i think that they know they did wrong. and if it wasn't for brian's death, i don't think this would -- i think it would still be going on. >> i think he wants justice and i think he wants justice for them guns going over the border. it's not right. and i think that our politicians who was involved in it should pay. pay the price. >> brian loved his country. brian was a true marine. he was a true american. when brian was a marine, he used to always say, you never leave a man behind. and i think they are leaving my son behind. that's what i think.
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and i know that would be a disgrace to him. >> reporter: the terry family says they are at such a loss for information, they are planning to file a wrongful death claim against the federal government to shake the tree and try to bring some details and closure their way. chris? >> sharyl attkisson in washington for us, thank you. we want to check in with jeff glor at the news desk with other headlines. >> good wednesday morning. victory for labor unions in ohio. they rejected a law that would have limited collective bargaining rights for 350,000 workers. the vote was a blow to ohio
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in thorngs in this morning's "healthwatch," warning kids about skin cancer. doctors are saying we should tell children as young as 10 about getting too much sun. >> more than 2 million new cases of skin cancer diagnosed each year in the united states. dr. holly phillips is here with more on this. they are changing the recommendations. as young as 10. why don't you tell them from the very beginning, but what else do they recommend? >> this is coming from the u.s. preventive task force. they are advisers to the government and they reviewed the data. they found you can make the most impact by telling people between the ages of 10 and 24 to avoid the sun and educating them about skin cancer. the reason they don't recommend it for people over 24 isn't because the sun isn't harmful but most of the damage is done
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when we are kids. >> they have these great new ways to present the information to kids so it really sinks in. what are these new ways, except telling them this can kill you. >> even though the message is about skin cancer the approach is about beauty. their research showed for kids between 10 and 12, if you tell them that the sun causes wrinkles they are more likely to avoid it than telling them that the sun causes cancer. my grandmother said it's not how you feel, it's how you look. i think she was on to something way ahead of her time. >> in terms of protecting yourself from the sun, even in the winter, we need to do this. >> absolutely. it's the basics. use spf has uva and uvb protection even in the winter. if you don't wear sunscreen or if you do it's a good idea to cover up, wear a hat and long sleeves. avoid the sun during the most
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powerful times of the day, which is between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and no tanning beds. california just banned them for people under the age of 18. despite what they say on the jersey shore, avoid the tanning beds. >> the kids on the jersey shore are going to tanning beds? >> it comes as a shock from a guy who is from there. >> i will side for the pro sun lobby here for just a second. we talk about vitamin d deficiencies and how it's not terrible for you to be out in the sun a little bit. >> it doesn't take much sun to get the vitamin d that we need. even just five minutes, say, walking from your car to work, you're absorbing enough just through your face and your hands to get most of the vitamin d you need. also you can get vitamin d from milk, from fish, from orange juice and fortified products. there are other sources and we can't use that an excuse for tanning. >> do you think this will get through to kids this time around?
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>> i'm hoping so. i think we can make an impact really young just by saying, the sun is something to think about. it's not just about laying out and getting tan and it's not just about beauty but it can have a long-term effect on your health or how you look overall. >> i would say you could say there is no reason you can't tell your kids under 10 either. my 5-year-old knows he needs sunscreen when he goes outside. >> i think a good idea is the smoking ads you see before and after. just do the before and after with sun damage. >> it just may work. >> for more tips on avoiding the risk of too much sun, go to webmd.com and search sun exposure. announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by osteobiflex. helps improve joint comfort in just seven days. just seven days. flex for several years now. i really can't see myself not taking it. osteo bi-flex is a great product. i can go back and do gardening with comfort. [ male announcer ] osteo bi-flex,
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hardships involved in overseas duty. you have an idea of it but being in it is a different thing. >> we tend to overlook the sacrifice of many military families especially the children. correspondent michelle miller spoke with some of our country's military kids to see just how they are doing. >> 1-2-3. >> go! >> reporter: the hardest part of sergeant dirk santaniello's before going to afghanistan next month is making sure his daughter molly is ready too. >> mean my mom will try to stay calm about this because more we got like the more sad we get, the more harder it's going to be for him to get focused while he's away because he'll be thinking about us. >> reporter: with 214,000 american service members currently deployed in afghanistan, iraq, and supporting missions, 194,000 kids have been left behind on the home front. a reality of war that 6-year-old molly is beginning to grasp.
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how does your mom or dad explain that to you? it would be so hard. >> well, we do it little by little, so my mom explains some stuff. one day, then she explains the other stuff another day. >> i got to log out, honey. >> reporter: chad sherman says nothing could have completed prepared him. >> you just feel really proud that they are not only helping themselves and their family, they are helping everybody. >> reporter: if you could change it, though, would you? >> i feel it's necessary, but, at the same time, you always feel like why my mom? and it's just kind of somebody has to do it and you feel good that they are the ones doing it. >> reporter: scrapbooking, photography, art. anything that gets a child to reflect on what they are going through and compose themselves, it's like a deposit in their emotional bank. >> my daddy. >> reporter: pam martin is part of operation military kids, a u.s. army program to support
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children of deployed service members to build skills and help them cope. >> any way we can bring activities that build resilience in military youth. >> reporter: resilience? >> resilience. >> reporter: why is that necessary? >> because children bend, don't break. >> reporter: katie callahan say she may have blended in with hir kids at school but her grades suffered while her father was in iraq. >> why m am i sitting here in school when i saw a helicopter pilot got shot down and my dad is a helicopter pilot. things you shouldn't worry about in fifth grade. >> reporter: today they are celebrating but two lengthy missions in iraq hasn't been easy for the 9-year-old. what do you think about when you think about your dad when he was away? >> i just think about that i miss him so much, that i want to cry. >> reporter: he's home now and
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you still -- you still think about that. >> you can't understand until you're in our position and you can go to as many training sessions as you want. you don't know until you're dad leaves for a year or more. >> reporter: acknowledging that is half the battle for these kids. and it's only one when their parents return home safe and sound. >> it makes me kind of sad, scared, and proud of him at the same time. but i know he's with a lot of people that he trusts and they have been through training and he won't get hurt. >> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, cranston, rhode island. >> amazing to hear through the mouths of babes. you lose the sight of the fact it's not just two-week or two-month employmedeployment. for adults it's a long time and
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ed lee leads the race for san has good morning. 8257 your time. let's get you caught up on some of the news headlines here in the bay area. ed lee leads the race for san francisco mayor. but he has less than 50% of the vote. so the ranked choice system will determine the winner, possibly by as early as this afternoon. could take longer, though. the san francisco d.a. and the sheriff's races will also go that ranked choice voting. you can get all the bay area re- election results online at cbssf.com. oakland police have called off training exercises that were scheduled this week. "san francisco chronicle" reports that could mean a new move to remove "occupy" campers from the frank ogawa plaza for a second time. and an armed convoy carrying a very important of piece of cargo is heading to washington, d.c. and a bay area trucker leading the way.
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duane brousseau is hauling a 63- foot sierra white fir from california to the u.s. capital building. a friend turned down the gig, so the 65-year-old retired trucker jumped in for a chance to volunteer and bring that tree to the east coast. got your traffic and your weather coming up right after this. ,,,,,,,,,,
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right by lawrence expressway. and so that is not helping matters. your drive time almost a half hour between 101 and highway 85. also the nimitz has been a problem for about a half hour. there is another stall reported near northbound 880 at 23rd. there was an earlier accident also northbound 880 at a street. so your drive time is now almost 40 minutes between 238 and the maze. southbound traffic gets by okay. at the bay bridge we're still backed up to the maze. that's traffic. here's lawrence with a last check of the forecast. >> elizabeth, we have some cold weather around the bay area right now. some patchy fog in the valleys but looking good from mount vaca as we have a lot of sunshine on the horizon. more of that to come as we head in toward the afternoon. so a cool start to the day, but by the afternoon, numbers up in the 60s even out near the coastline. even some low 70s a possibility inland so probably the nicest day of the week today. after that, things begin to change. clouds begin to move in as we head through the better part of thursday, although it looks fairly dry. looking at rain on friday.
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the movie "j. edgar" has oscar written all over it. today, we have got one of the stars dermot maroney on the day of the big premier. >> and plus a diva performs. >> and okay. >> it is all live on cbs. welcome back to the "early show" i'm chris ragland with erica hill. not bad. >> not bad. good to see you. >> good to be here with you. >> coming up a guide to "unbanking," and we have told you how hundreds of thousands of people have transferred their money to credit unions and other places, but some people are even
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giving up on banks altogether, and even going to walmart. >> and anything they don't have in we will look at the banking trendb that may work for you. carmen is here with that. and you know the people on facebook who may have 100,000 friends, and of all of those how many would you trust with a secret? >> only a few. >> well, you are in the minority, because the number of friends that people say they have is shrinking. and it turns out that social media may not be helping. >> i don't agree with that. just kidding. and first the anti-wall street protesters around the country are under pressure to go home. many people are saying they are a nuisance. >> here in new york city, demonstrators say they are in it for the long haul and yes with the winter coming and we have
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correspondent elaine quijano with what we have in store for the protesterts. >> reporter: they started eight weeks ago, hundreds of people with no single leader, no money, and no specific plans for the future, but since then the occupy wall street movement says it has raised half a million dollars and its voices have not faded away. >> they want it all. >> reporter: the occupiers as they have called themselves have attracted celebrities like folk singers david crosby and graham nash. they performed an acoustic set at zuccotti park where the movement began. ♪ don't ever ask them why >> reporter: one of the rules at the occupation is no microphones. ♪ look at them and sigh >> reporter: the movement is getting the reality television treatment. mtv rekrntly filmed two wall street occupiers as part of the real life series.
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>> occupy wall street! >> reporter: in reality the portrait of the protesters is complex, and it changes each day. this knitting circle is p preparing for the coming winter. >> i felt sorry for them, so i designed these occupy wall street mittens. it is a peaceful way to protest. >> reporter: head knitter marcia spencer left for a few hours in the rare october snowstorm, but the weather did not shut down the protest. >> if we can make it through a horrendous day like that, we can do anything. but i think i knew that before, that we were able to stick it out, but that proved it. >> i think that the movement obviously has a potential to be something that is a once in a time. >> reporter: for those like jeff smith who have been here since the beginning, the point of the protest is dialogue. >> what i think that americans want to talk about are jobs and health care and education and the fact that nobody has a living wage in the country anymore and that is what is
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resonating. >> reporter: one item they are talking about sending the bush administration tax cut extended in the obama administration. today a group of occupy wall street protesters will leave the march to go to washington. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. ♪ and know they love you >> those marchers plan to arrive in the capital two weeks from today and the deadline for the congressional committee to decide whether or not to keep the bush era tax cuts. >> we want to have a final check of the headlines on this ens withday morning. >> thanks for checking in. good morning guys. a large protest on the streets of london this morning. thousands of students are gathered to protest cuts in education and increase in tuition fees. they are marching through the financial district. big news from state college penn state joe paterno will
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announce his retirement later today. paterno supporters rallied outside of his home and critics say that he should have done more when he was alleged sexual assault by former assistant coach jerry sandusky. >> and praying for the kids who are victims, say a prayer for them. it is a tough life when certain people do certain things to you. but anyway, you have been great. it really has been great. >> and the penn state board of directors say they are opening up an investigation and the board meets again today. the iran's president said the country will not retreat from the nuclear program. ahmadinejad was responding to a new u.n. program saying they were on the brink of developing a warhead, and he say has the report is based on false into formation from washington. and now a scandal from the dover military base mortuary who says they mishandled the remains of two of america's war dead. the pentagon is launching an
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investigation and david martin has the details. >> what we want to talk about is tough stuff. >> reporter: the air force chief of staff is talking about caskets coming home from iraq and afghanistan. a federal investigation has found gross mismanagement at the dover air force base mortuary in delaware. the first stop of the fallen on their final journey home. >> we found a pattern of wrongdoing, and the air force has refused to admit culpability. >> reporter: karen learner's office of special counsel investigated whistle-blower complaints and found two cases in which body parts of a soldier and a pilot were lost or misplace and in another case a arm bone was sawed off in order to fit a marine who was killed by a roadside bomb to fit into the dres uniform. the investigation covers years 2008 to 2010, but general schwartz acknowledged that he does not know whether there have been other instances. >> i cannot certify with certainty that prior performance
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was, met our standard of perfecti perfection. >> reporter: the families were not told what happened to the loved ones until this past weekend. >> they should have informed the family members the minute they knew there was a problem, and they chose not to. it was the threat of our report going to the president and to congress that made them tell the family members. >> reporter: learner says that those involved were treated with kit gloves.
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in the past month, more than 500,000 people have taken their money out of their traditional bank and put it somewhere else. hopefully not under the mattress. >> now financial contributor carmen ulrich is here with a look at what people are calling unbanking. good morning. >> good morning. >> so we are talking about some of these nonbanking establishments now. well, what are they providing for customers that the banks are not and why are people so attracted to it?
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here is the biggest one of the bunch. walmart and they have a money center. you can see it online. they cannot save your money and they are not an actual bank but provide banking services such as everything from paying your bills to krasheds credit cards. all of these things you can do at walmart. the most popular thing is check cashing. they offer competitive prices. a store front takes a percentage of your money. they charge a flat $3 for checks up for $1,000 and $6 for checks up to $6,000. >> fdic insured? >> that is for savings. that is something they can't do. they did -- walmart did file for a banking charter several years ago so they could provide full bank is services but did not get that charter but it's reported they have it in canada and mexico so i have a feeling they will be back because this is big
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business. >> yesterday, i got my mail and my husband got a thing from target saying, hey, we have a new debit card. i didn't open it up. i put it in the recycling. other places are heading in this direction. give us an idea and what they are offering. >> what unbanking means is offering services of a bank but not being the bank. other places doing this whenever you're going to have a need, you got customers upset. you have high prices. someone is going to come in and take advantage online. so there is a website called simply.com and they used to be called bank simply.net. it's a bunch of tech guys and engineers who got together and built a store front by partnering with credit unions so they actually have full banking services online but through credit yoounions but they are t tech to get through no fees, no checking fees, no monthly maintenance fee or i don't --
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overdraft charges. >> it is tech guys taking your money. >> exactly. >> when we talk about these stories, we say you can go to a credit union. how many people are really switching over? >> quite a bit. the credit union national association has reported in the past month, 650,000 americans have moved their money into credit unions and in terms of bank transfer day, this past saturday, some local branches had 700 new customers in one day. >> wow! >> it's a lot. you think of your local credit union or community bank they must be lining up in the streets, absolutely. >> if banks haven't taken notice already, when will they start to take notice of this? this is a mass exodus. >> repeal the debit card fees they were testing. any time have you a market where people are just fed up and they need other options, now we have the technology and we have the other services that can come in and folks can come in and take advantage of it and offer us better deals. i will be here to tell you about them. >> we look forward to that and nice for people to actually feel
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like they do have that voice that it's being heard and it clearly it. >> unbanking and what banks don't want to hear. one thing we need besides money is friendship. >> you can't buy a good friend. >>book says the average user has 130 friends and some brag they have thousands. >> chris wragge. >> i don't brag. >> what about the nonfacebook? it is reported some of us have two people in our lives we consider to be a true friend. with those numbers, we thought let's ask the rest of the people out there what they have to say. >> the amount of friends i have onbook is roughly 1,113. >> onbook, i have about i think 196 friends. >> i have 400 friends onbook. >> out of those, 2,500 friends that i have, i would consider probably -- oh, probably about a couple of hundred of them close friends. >> i wouldn't, you know, actually share secrets or lend
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money to any of them. >> if hi to count people i sort of view as best friends, people i could rely on to be there for me when i need them, i'd say about five. >> you're probably right. four or five. you know, really close friends that i share things with. >> out of the 200 friends i have on facebook, i would say maybe five would be the people i would tell secrets to. >> gives a whole new meaning to the word "friend." joining us is psychology dr. michelle callahan, a contributor to "women's health" magazine. friends does not have the same connotation it used to now it's a verb. you "friend" someone. 48% say they have one close friend and 29% say two or more. are you surprised by that number? d does is seem low to you? >> it doesn't. i think people get the false impression because we have these sosh netwo social networking that people are our friends and we know they are not. who could you depend on to loan
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you a significant amount of money or who could you live with when you needed help. when you're asking about that kind of friendship that will narrow the number significantly! >> i solicit my facebook friends for money all the time. i'm kidding! no reaction from anyone at the table! i'm kidding! place things like facebook and social network is that one of the reasons we see the numbers like that people say they have got two or fewer friends or possibly three, this has provided a whole new outlet for people. >> it has and bringing people closer together in terms of being in contact with each other. most of the relationships are just acquaintances. people are not necessarily getting closer to each other and building a more intimate relationship. they have more connections with more people. >> we are just nosier. >> i think love of it is that. >> absolutely. i readily admit that. i never post anything on facebook. i look at what everybody is do. it's terrible. >> they don't e-mail you or they want to see what you're doing and look at your pictures. >> given that aspect to it as
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well do you think we are starting to close in that intercircle that we have because we realize how precious those true type relationships are? >> i do think social networkizing helping people to see that and showing how quickly information travels. because you're connected to so many other people you want to make really certain that the people you are talking and sharing information with are keeping it to themselves because one quick post, they can text everyone in their phone and send it out to all of their facebook friends so be selective who you're sharing with because we have seen the pitfalls of having information spread too fast. >> do you it's a decent job of drawing the line who you are close to and your social networking friends and made you apressure your real friends more because you know how valuable they are? >> i hope that is the effect it is having on people. it is important to have close friends and people you can talk to have positive health implications when you have positive social support and you can share information with and give you good advice or let you vent or get your feelings out. that is a helpful thing health
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wise. >> more to having that of circle of people. is it more of this discussion group idea that is out there that u.s. have, you know, maybe not the close friends but a small group of people you can bounce ideas off of? >> it's an excellent point and it's valuable for people to have that because it connects back to helping them relief stress and giving them positive information that can help them make positive changes in their lives. >> thanks for being here. the 20 bucks that i lented y yo want it back. >> i love my facebook friends. up next, miami is known for cuban cooking but this chef is headaching up the menu. >> how,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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italian food. >> early show contributor katie lee went to check it out for us to see what is happening in chef michael d'andrea's kitchen. >> what are we making? >> staten island clam sauce. >> sounds great. >> only in miami, huh? >> reporter: for michael d'andr d'andrea, italian fook cooking is in his blood. his family owned an italian restaurant in staten island. 2 12 years ago, mi 12 years ago, michael took those recipes and open you wanted a restaurant called macaluso. >> i want to show people how easy it is to make this at home. the first thing we start off with is boiling water. you need a lot of water. what is most important is to add the salt when the water is boiling. if you add the salt before it kind of ruins the pot. i use a sea salt. then we add the pasta.
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you want to take your linguini and stir it a little bit in the hot water. it helps soften the lyinguinlin >> he uses a good product to start with, a special linguini. >> when you make this at home, cook the pasta first. this is going to take you about ten minutes. and this other preparation that you can do while this is cooking. keep it in the palm of your hand. you twist it. >> reporter: michael shucks his own clams and collects the juices so nothing goes to waist and he gets the fresh flavor. >> here are the clams. they have been opened, shucked, we saved the juice and took out the sand. you really don't want to have that. >> reporter: to make the sauce michael starts with a really good olive oil. >> you want to just coat the bottom. you don't want to put too much. >> reporter: then to that, he adds fresh garlic. i like some heat. crushed red pepper. >> we do a pinch.
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>> reporter: and more spices and it infuses the olive oil. >> keep an eye on the garlic because you don't want the garlic to brown. >> reporter: is this a dish that your family would of had on a sunday night? >> this is a dish that we had always for the holidays. when we had christmas, we had linguini white clam sauce. it was something we ate at least once a week. >> reporter: after the garlic and spices have been cooking in the olive oil, michael adds a dry white wine and it really causes a big flame. woo! >> you're going to get a really, you know,, obviously, a nice flame. >> reporter: wow! >> you don't want to burn your curtains or anything in your kitchen. once you see it is boiling, the clams start to plumpen up. you don't want to overcook the clams. >> reporter: smell that! wow! this looks amazing. >> ladies first. >> reporter: linguini with white
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clam sauce was amazing and so delicious. there is no elegant way to do this. >> this is why you eat linguini at home! >> reporter: it really had the flavors of the briny clams with the garlic and hint of spice from the red crushed pepper! it was a song in my mouth! i tell you, miami is lucky to have staten island italian cuisine here. >> it's great to do what you love and make money from it. thank you, babe. >> we will see more of katie's culinary tour this friday. 5000 degrees in miami will serve up some roasted porkchops. now i'm hungry! >> i think what we may to do is maybe bring the show down to south beach. we have done that before and do it again. >> i like it. i like it. >> incorporate the chefs into the program and south beach culinary special. >> in the meantime, i say we order some lunch. it's 9:00 and time for lunch! >> that idea is not going to
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ed lee leads the race for san fr good morning, 8:55. i'm grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. ed lee is leading the race for san francisco mayor, but has less than 50% of the vote. the race to the system will determine the winner by this afternoon, possibly longer, we're not sure yet. san francisco's da will also go to rank choice voting. get all the bay area election results on cbssf.com. redwood police are looking for a man who broke into a police officer's home. the off duty officer was inside when two men broke in yesterday. the officer shot and wounded one suspect, the other got away. san jose-based adobe systems is cutting 750 jobs. it's not clear how many of the cuts will be at the company's downtown headquarters. the cuts are the result of a
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second one reported near high street. your drive time is still about 42 minutes between 238 and the macarthur maze. an accident on the shoulder, northbound 280 near the guadeloupe parkway. much better news for the bay bridge. down for a while, backed up to the maze, not the case anymore. only slight delays there before the pay gates. commuter lights remain on. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> a lot more sunshine around the bay area today. looking like a gorgeous day all the way to the coastline. little cool in spots. starting out at the freezing mark in parts of the bay area early on. temperatures trying to warm up. they will so under mostly sunny skies. all the way to the beaches today, 60s and low 70s in toward the afternoon. probably the best day of the week. by tomorrow, we're going to begin to see clouds rolling into our skies. not a bad day, just clouds and temperatures fairly similar. chance of rain overnight thursday into friday.
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