>> looking good. >> yeah. that weekend is primo vera. >> what are we going to do? >> we should go on a field trip. >> good hiking weather, walking weather. >> shall we leave them with a buhl shot of mount vaca? >> let's do that. >> caption colorado, llc c comments@captioncolorado.com & %f0 ning is next. have a great day. great day. captioning funded by cbs -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning to our viewers in the west. i'm charlie rose. navy seals rescued two hostages in somalia. also we'll get state of the union reaction from vice president joe biden and house republican leader, eric cantor. >> i'm gayle king. demi moore is rushed to a hospital in los angeles and doctors, are they ordering too many medical tests? >> i'm erica hill. big changes for air linings. you'll see a snowmobiler saved from an after lan much.

>> first as we do every morning, we'll have a look at today's "eye opener" your look at the world in 90 seconds. >> it's time to have the same rules. >> president obama uses his state of the union address to make his case for economic reform and re-election. >> you can call this class warfare all you want, but asking a bill air to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? most americans would call that common sense. >> that's my drinking game. every time he says middle class i'm having a beer. >> if you are playing the state of the union drinking game, you're probably an alcoholic. >> a daring nighttime raid by u.s. special forces rescues two hostages held in somalia. >> american jessica buchanan and paul haggan were freed after being held for three months. no u.s. casualties are reported. >> congratulations from president obama to his defense sent. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> that time the raid had not been made public. >> if you add up all the taxes

i've paid, you range between about 32 and 42%. >> my boy mitt pays only 15%. >> people power beats money power every time. >> you could come back here next january or next february with a president gingrich. >> let me just say this, that will never happen. >> actress demi moore is in a treatment facility reportedly dealing with stress and exhaustion. >> all that. >> you've got his head. shovel. >> and all that matters. >> where the wild things are 2, still wild. >> on "cbs this morning." welcome to "cbs this morning." all eyes last night were on president obama as he gave his

state of the union address, but he was thinking of something else. a u.s. special operations mission in somalia. >> some sharp eyed observers noticed the acknowledgment he made to defense secretary leon panetta before he addressed the nation. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> this morning president obama is praising the troops for the daring rescue of two hostages, including one american, from somali pirates. national security correspondent david martin is at the pentagon. david, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. you'll have to excuse my voice. it went awol overnight. >> david, i have been there so i understand. >> reporter: okay. >> let's speak -- >> reporter: what we know at this moment is that u.s. navy seals, apparently members of that same seal team 6 which carried out the bin laden raid carried out a daring nighttime raid into somalia to rescue a young american woman and an older danish relief worker. they rescued them. they are in good health.

they were taken to the country of jabuti. the seals suffered no casualties. now what was particularly daring about this operation is that they parachuted into this operation in the middle of the night and so they hit the ground coming straight out of aircraft overhead. and then helicopters came in once the raid was in progress, helicopters came in to pick them up and carry them out. so this was not your average nighttime raid. >> this also is high risk as you suggest, but the president had to give his approval before they made the mission? >> reporter: and we understand he gave it sometime yesterday morning. this obviously had been in the works for some time before that and there was a degree of urgency here because the danish relief worker was in ill health. the operation itself was carried out in the early evening and had obviously been completed and

completed successfully by the time the president walked into the chamber of the house of representatives to give his state of the union address so he could as he went to the podium, he congratulated defense secretary leon panetta. and then after the speech he called the father of jessica buchanan, the young american aid worker, and told him that she was in good shape. so just another day at the office for the president. >> thank you, david. get well. >> in his state of the union address president obama set forth his election year agenda with a special appeal to the middle class. senior white house correspond kent bill plant has those details this morning. good morning. >> reporter: morning. by calling this a make or break moment for the middle class and by calling for legislation that really hasn't a prayer of passing in this congress, the president was, in effect, making the opening argument of his campaign. he said that the state of the

union is getting stronger but he declared that the american dream is in danger. >> the defining issue of our time is how to keep that promise is alive. >> reporter: for the first time the president put a number on what he calls the buffet rule. billionaire investor warren buffet's belief that his secretary, who was seated in the first lady's box, shouldn't be paying a higher tax rate than he does. >> tax reform should follow the buffet rule. if you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30% in taxes. now you can call this class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? most americans would call that common sense. >> reporter: that call could come up often on the campaign trail, particularly if the president's opponent is multi-millionaire mitt romney who's just revealed tax returns show him paying an effective tax rate of about 14%. >> it's time to apply the same rules from top to bottom.

no bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts. >> reporter: as the president called for an agenda to help innovation, lorene jobs, widow of steve jobs, watched from the first lady's box. mr. obama also proposed help for refinancing mortgages, encouraging energy exploration, repairing the nation's infrastructure, and rewarding good teachers. he asked for changes in the way washington does business. >> i've talked tonight about the deficit of trust between main street and wall street, but the divide between this city and the rest of the country is at least as bad. and it seems to get worse every year. >> reporter: but one thing on which the president and all members of congress could agree, the performance of the nation's armed forces. >> for the first time in two decades osama bin laden is not a threat to this country. >> reporter: in an unusually tender moment before the speech the president embraced injured congresswoman gabby giffords who resigns her seat today to focus on healing.

her husband, mark kelley, looked down from the first lady's box. mitch daniels, the governor of indiana who many republicans hoped would run for president gave his party's response to president obama's speech. >> no feature of the obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some americans by castigating others. if we fail to shift to a proeconomic policy, there will never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have. >> reporter: this morning the president is headed west. he's on his way to iowa and arizona. he is going to talk about american manufacturing, and these are just the first two stops on a three-day post state of the union tour in which he'll reinforce the message of his speech, helping the middle class, and he'll do it in five states that are part of his re-election campaign plan. >> bill plante at the white

house in washington. thank you, bill. with us now the vice president of the united states, joe biden. good morning, mr. vice president. >> good to see you, charlie. >> what can you add to what we have heard about this very successful raid, rescue raid in somalia? >> nothing much other than to say that it was in the works for some time. we followed, as we always do, the advice of the special operators when they should move. this was incredibly daring as your man pointed out. these guys are absolutely mind blowingly effective as what they do, and just before i left the white house last night to head up to the hill it was going on in the situation room. we knew what was happening. and it's a happy day for -- everyone should know. all those pirates, terrorists should know, we will find you. we will find you and we will take care of america's interests. and these guys are amazing. >> let me turn now to the state

of the union address and the upcoming campaign. many looked at that state of the union address and said it was an address to the state of the union but it also was the opening of the political campaign and that it was almost a campaign message of which the center element was fairness. >> well, that's been the essence of what we've been talking about from the beginning, charlie. when we ran we talked about this being about the middle class. look, the barring gains have been broken in the middle class. i know governor daniels and others have talked about class look, bottom line is simple. the middle class has been hammered. they've been hammered. we think that we should be focusing on what's fair is to give them a shot. that's why we're focused on manufacturing. there's good jobs there. they're coming home. that's why we focused on education. that's part of the middle class. that's part of the middle class dream that you can have a kid go on to college, go on to school after high school. that's why we focused on the whole notion to go out there and make sure that middle class people get a fair shot.

and it's not about bad guys or good guys, it's about without the middle class growing, nothing happens good in this country. nothing happens that's positive. they've not been growing. they deserve a piece of the growth. >> at the essence of this speech was the military metaphor. the president brought it up at the beginning, he brought it up at the end. the military, he said, works together. does the administration also bear some responsibility for the paralysis in washington in which two sides are not working together? >> look, charlie, i don't think so. this president came in with open arms. he said, look, i'm ready to talk with anybody. i'm ready to sit down. by the way, we did on major, major issues sit down with republican leadership. in fairness with them, we made deals. i shook hands with a couple of the leaders saying, okay, we can do that. they called back and said, joe, i can't deliver that. i can't get it done. what happened was that the election 2010 elected a group of

republicans that are a minority but seem to be the tail that's wagging the dog. so the president has reached out in every way. when i hear this stuff, we don't talk to them, my lord, i spent over 40 hours sitting down with the republican leadership, me, personally, in a room, no press, trying to work out issues. we constantly have done that, but some of them have basically just been honest with us and said, look, we can't get much done, joe. we can't get it done. our guys won't -- look, charlie, you saw it in the whole debate about the payroll tax. what happened finally? it wasn't that we convinced the republicans that they had to be reasonable? the whole world came down on them from the "wall street journal" to their own people. >> there's also accountability and taking some accountability for the past three years, and many point out that the president did not mention simple son bow which was a bipartisan effort to come together. >> no, there's not a single republican out there that pushed simpson bowels. that called for a significant increase in taxes.

we called for the fact that it should be 2/3, 1/36789 did you hear any republican say that was a good idea? we had the essence that simpson bowles was in there. we worngd on medicare, medicaid, social security. they walked away from it. so this idea of simple son-bowls is a holy grail that we walked away from. the elements calls for significant cuts in the defense department, it called for significant increase in revenues. have you heard a single republican say they're for that, charlie? >> but i didn't hear the president endorse it either. >> oh, yeah, the president did. he didn't endorse that per se, but he endorsed the same principles. someone said last night it was absolutely true, if we had endorsed simpson-bowls, it would have become obama-biden. that would have had no shot of anything happening. when we talked with the gang of six, i mean, this was a constant

round robin of trying to deal with these big issues. at the end of the day, at the end of the day i kept being told there's 86 folks in the house who will not be for anything that has one penny in revenue or does anything about defense. >> on the republican side there seems to be some kind of surge for former speaker newt gingrich. you have been in the congress for a long time. you were there. how do you see the prospect of speaker gingrich becoming republican nominee gingrich? >> well, charlie, i couldn't figure out the democratic primary. i would have joined the president early on. i'm not very good at this. but, look, newt gingrich is a talented guy. you know, the guy is really good. he's a great debater. the bottom line here is there's no fundamental difference between newt gingrich and governor romney on the things we care about. on the whole issue of how we deal with foreign policy, on how we deal with the domestic

policy. this republican fight, substandtivelily i don't see any fundamental difference. >> are you worried about what's going to happen in iran? many people are saying that the present tension there is the very thing that joe biden has been talking about for a long time, the possibility of three different sides engaging in a very, very difficult struggle that may become civil war? >> well, the truth is i'm not worried about it becoming a civil war in iraq. the fact is, charlie, we have 160,000 troops out of there. i'm almost in daily contact with the major players, the sunnis, the shy a, the kerds. the one thing that's still going on, charlie, is every time they come to the brink they decide it's better to resolve it politically. it's going to be two steps forward, one back, but i think it's going to remain stable. i think the deal is going to hold. these are the painful, painful groanings of emerging democracy.

>> mr. vice president, thank you. pleasure to have you on the program. >> thank you. we are hearing a different reaction from the other side of the aisle as expected. republican speaker of the house dismissed the president's address as a campaign speech even before the president opened his mouth. >> he spent the last four months doing nothing but campaigning. he hasn't been engaged in the process. if the president wants us to work together, it takes two to tango. >> achieve that goal. >> reporter: but we did see speaker boehner and eric cantor applauding. congressman cantore, good morning to you. >> good morning, charlie. >> as you listened to the president talk about the military, the military has the idea where there was cooperation and sense of mission and where people didn't care about the differences as much as they thought about common ground. did that resonate with you? does that call you to come to the table and provide some kind of agreement with the

administration? >> well, certainly support for our armed forces, our men and women in uniform is one thing we can all unite behind here in washington. we've got challenges as far as how we're going to continue to support them, and that's one of the things that'll be at issue this year. i think you'll see many of us on the republican side of the aisle insist that now is not the time for us to reduce the spending to support our men and women in uniform, but there's no doubt that there is a bipartisan support for our military and, you know, i think that the president's use of the military as the model is certainly a valid one but, again, i think there are a lot of serious issues that unfortunately the white house and we see things very differently on, and that has a lot to do with the frustration there out across the country. >> the vice president made a very clear point that he thinks that tax reform and fairness that's at the center of this campaign and that the buffet

rule in which anybody makes more than $1 million will pay 30%, is that fairness or do you consider that class warfare? >> well, you know, the president brought warren buffet's secretary to the state of the union last night, and, you know, i care about warren buffet's secretary. i want her to do well. i want her to do better just as i think that everybody in this country should have an opportunity to achieve and pursue their dreams. >> should she be paying a higher percentage than mr. buffet should be paying? >> i don't think anyone wants to pay higher taxes, and i think the reality is the reason why warren buffet's secretary and so many millions of other americans are frustrated is they see policies that have been promoted for the last three years by this white house that frankly don't work. and what do most people do when you reach a point and see that things aren't working? you try something new. and that's what we are here trying to advocate to say, look,

we've got a very bold vision for this country in how to focus on a growth oriented, small business perspective. let's get out of the mindset of saying that washington's got to start this program and initiate some other new project because that's not what america's built on. the backbone of america has to do with the aspirational sense of small business in this country. that's where jobs come from. that's what people want to see. so hopefully we can come together on that simple notion that it is small business that's the backbone of america and we've got to provide the actual vision and the policies that can allow them to start up again and grow. >> eric, one quick question for you about the race for 2012. there's a poll out this morning of republican voters in florida which essentially shows newt gingrich and mitt romney now tied in that state. you said over the weekend it behooves us all as a country to have sort of the choice laid out as early as possible. does this concern you at all that there is not a clear choice right now for your party?

>> i think all of us want to go and make sure we can coalesce around our nominee because there is a very stark difference between the candidates on our side and the vision that they have to bring this country forward and that espoused by the president last night in the state of the union address, but clearly i think it's reflective, the debate going on in our presidential primary process, it's reflective of a party with robust ideas and bold visions for the future. that's what we're going to be about. we're going to be about a vision that is very much focused on the

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top oakland officials meet this good morning. everybody. it's 7:26. get you caught:with some of the bay area headlines. i'm frank mallicoat. top oakland officials meet this morning to talk about the police department there. a federal judge says the opd failed to make reforms ordered years ago. drug-sniffing dogs will check pleasanton's three high school districts. the school board was unanimous in approving police searches when students are not on campus. and the oakland raiders decided on a new head coach. here's your guy. he's 39-year-old dennis allen, the defensive coordinator for the denver broncos last year. he has never been a head coach at any level but he is taking over the oakland raiders.

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good morning from the traffic center. fatal accident continues to cause delays along the eastshore freeway, westbound near carlson. here's some video we shot moments ago for the accident. it's involving an overturned vehicle. the two left lanes are still blocked because of this accident and traffic is really backed up in the area. so use an alternate if you can. richmond parkway to east 80 to west 80 or san pablo. you're backed up at least to highway 4 at this point. of course, it is easing congestion towards the bay bridge. they never turned the metering lights on. elizabeth? >> thanks, gianna. yeah, kind of a gray start to the morning right now. a lot of low clouds out there. now, it's keeping a blanket over the bay area, so temperatures are milder. mostly in the 50s and the upper 40s across the bay area. by this afternoon, we are going to climb those temperatures up to the low 60s in many spots.

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late monday a spokesperson for demi moore said that it had finally taken a toll. because of the stresses in her life now, a statement read, demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her pexhaustion and improve her overall health. melanie bromley of us weekly magazine thas that's a stark contrast. >> she has the iman of a healthy individual. always walking around carrying juices, she's slim. this proves how difficult the past few months have been for her. >> adding to the worry, tmz reports the actress was rushed to a los angeles hospital monday night and underwent treatment for substance abuse. despite her private struggles, she has a lot to be publicly proud of. >> we've gotten ourselves quite exposed here, haven't we? >> her most recent film, margin call, got an oscar nod. her performance was critically acclaimed. for now, it's friends and family

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>> john blackstone reports he was pulled to safety just in time. >> the snowmobilers in washington's cascade range had cut a fresh path across the hillside. one of them, john swanson, was off his machine and walking. he didn't see the avalanche cascading down behind him. then burying him. swanson needed help fast. >> the reality is that i was getting suffocated face first into the snow. >> others on the hill raced toward the place he disappeared. but swanson couldn't help them.

>> i couldn't move anything. i couldn't my legs, my toes, my arms, anything. >> can you breathe? >> and it's always said to try to get your hand up so somebody knows where to search for you. there was no physical way. >> several of swanson's friends, including rick joe bli ski were digging frantically. i could hear him where the voice was. >> get his helmet off. >> under the snow, swanson wasn't sure what happened. >> i could hear them yelling. where are you at? i knew they were close. >> we got you, buddy. >> we got you, you're good. >> you got his head. >> there was a happy ending because the snowmobilers were wearing safety equipment, including helmet we got to see it all because on one helmet there was a camera. >> shovels. shovels. >> what the camera did not capture was the final rescue. >> we dug a hole down to his

shoulders and then two guys just grabbed him and pulled him right up out of the ground. everybody is hugging him and wow, wow, that's so cool. >> they were probably more shaken up by it than i was. they pulled me out of the snow. i got back on the snowmobile and rode some more. >> this was later that his predicament sunk in. still, he intends to be back on his snowmobile this weekend. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, san francisco. >> it really is. to have it captured on video like that. >> power camera. >> ready to get back out. a storm is making a spectacular light show. we'll look at the trouble it's causing. beautiful, except when it starts to throw off sat rights, force planes off their routes. could be an issue. you're watching krb this morning. "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by macy's. ♪ that aroma calls to you

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♪ i think we have for you, here it is. this is at an ice rink in slovakia where the roof fell in on sunday. keep watching this.

look at that roof collapsing. too much ice and snow. obviously the weight of it on top. the roof collapses. just a short time before that, the hockey players, including a former nfl player, had just been skating below. talk about getting out in time. charlie rose has left me. he's had it with me. he's gone to join gayle king where apparently it's more fun in the green room as you look at what's coming up. >> you got it, erica. i'm with gayle in the green room. i'm jealous, she gets to talk to the guests beforehand including ken auletta. >> he pointed out he looks different today because. >> he wears a tie for you and never worn a tie in more than 100 appearances on another program. >> i like that. ken auletta will be joining us. >> i'm not sure the tie matches the shirt. >> he's doing okay. we're doing a story today about oscar nominations and does it affect the box office. that's why ken auletta is here. is it distracting during a presidential debate. one candidate may not participate if the audience is

asked to keep quiet. applause is better than boo'ing. we have the courageous story, i'm walking to lee woodruff, she has the story of how one woman peeled her husband and her marriage. i felt for this woman. >> imagine if one day your husband didn't remember anything about your marriage, about you, about loving you or what it meant to be a husband. that's what we're going to talk about. >> we had a good life together, we did. this story has a good ending. we are talking approximate that. thank you, lee. she was nominated at the age of 18. now she's enjoying her shameless success. that's a good play on words. the name of her show is "shameless "requesting. emmy rossum is here today. your local news is next. we'll leave you with ken aule a auletta's tie. does it match?

accident has shut down good wednesday mornings. 7 of 56. i'm grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. a fatal accident has shut down three lanes of westbound interstate 80 in richmond. now only two lanes are closed. chp says that a person died after a van flipped just west of carlson boulevard. we'll check in with gianna to see how traffic is shaping up, but again that's westbound 80 in richmond. and santa clara city council has rejected a measure last night to rescind the new 49ers stadium. supporters of the measure claim voters didn't agree to the rising price for the project. this issue may still go to the courts to be settled. and san francisco mayor ed lee is planning to pay his debt

to new york mayor michael bloomberg. as part of a bet that lee lost when the giants would be the game on sunday, he has to decorate a cable car in the giants' blue and red colors on super bowl sunday. we'll have your traffic and weather coming right up.

good morning. let's get you updated on that trouble spot along the eastshore freeway. as grace mentioned, two lanes are still shut down west 80 near carlson due to a fatal accident. traffic still backed up at least to highway 4, slow off the richmond/san rafael bridge, as well. use an alternate if you can. you can see traffic though not too bad once you hit the bay bridge. but hour-long delays-plus, coming out of the carquinez bridge towards the maze. alameda new accident posey tube lanes are blocked so heads up there. elizabeth? >> okay. thank you, gianna. well, it's a gray day, a lot of overcast skies, low clouds to start off with and then we should see sunshine by later on this afternoon the temperatures out the door mostly in the 40s and 50s.

52 in san francisco. by this afternoon, temperatures are going to be slightly above average, mostly in the low 60s. 65 is your forecasted high in fairfield, one of our warmer spots. looks like we are staying dry the rest of the week. clouds on monday.

the candidates did not even attack each other thanks to saturday night live host and part-time news anchor brian williams. >> our invited guests here this evening to withhold their applause, any verbal reactions. >> way to go, admiral fun stomp. the applause and the cheering is how you know who won. debates should be like a wet t-shirt contest. by the way, newt gingrich would totally win a wet t-shirt contest. >> that could be the only thing

the candidates have not done to get our attention. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. i assure you, no wet t-shirt contest here. >> no, we are happy to announce that this morning. >> and we know who would win. i'm charlie rose. >> the applause can make a difference at any level of politics. >> reporter: applause during the state of the union address comes to seem as often as a period at the end of each sentence. [ applause ] there were roughly 80 applause breaks in president obama's speech, and those audible outbursts can be a vital tool. [ cheers and applause ] just ask newt gingrich, whose success in harnessing the power of the audience helped fuel his surge in south carolina last week. >> and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that.

[ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and the debate before that when the crowd turned on the questioner. >> you saw some of this reaction during your visit to -- [ booing ] >> reporter: so when the rules at monday's debate forbade that kind of audience participation -- >> we've asked our invited guests here this evening to withhold their applause -- >> reporter: it changed the dynamic. >> i think it matters to the television audience at home, which is what really matters in this discussion because people sitting in their living rooms get an emotional charge from how the audience in the whole is reacting. >> reporter: tuesday, newt gingrich complained about monday night's rules. >> we're going to serve notice on future debates. we're just not going to allow that to happen. that's wrong. the media doesn't control free speech. people ought to be allowed to applaud if they want to. it was silly. >> reporter: rival mitt romney felt different. his campaign sent around an old 1996 cover of the "new york daily news" calling the former speaker a cry baby.

general election debates are also applause free. so should gingrich go that far? he'll have to draw his energy from somewhere else. >> let's talk more about the power of applause with chief washington correspondent and host of "face the nation" bob sheiver. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. >> weigh in on this. >> reporter: well, of course it makes a difference. i would point to the latest example of that. look at last night where you have barack obama out there with people cheering and hollering and stomping and getting up and down. then you switch to the rebuttal by the republicans. there you have poor mitch daniels, governor of indiana, who made a nice little speech. but he makes it in an empty room. there's no way that can compare to what you have just seen whether you're a republican or democrat on either side.

i mean, it's just no way that the person in the empty room can really compete. people have been trying in these rebuttal speeches for years now to figure out how to overcome that. so it's true. i mean, it does make a difference, whether that ought to be what presidential or primary debates are about, who gets the most applause, that's another question. i kind of think it ought to be about what the candidates are saying. but there's no question. there's no question. >> then there's that too. so what do you think, bob, about newt gingrich's tactic or threat that if the audience can't react, i'm not going to go? do you think he'll follow through on that? >> reporter: newt gingrich is the master of this sort of thing. look at what he did. this is really playing to his wheel house. when you can take the kind of stuff that they dumped on him in south carolina and dump it and turn it upside down and make it come out as some sort of a plot by the liberal media to protect

barack obama, of course he wants to do that. and of course romney does not want to do it that way because he knows that's not his strong suit. i mean, it's all part of the game here. >> do you think he'll follow through and not participate if the audience can't participate? >> reporter: no. >> that's why we like you. >> only take it so far. bob, looking at what happened in the state of the union last night, obviously making this case for the country to work together. john boehner told scott pelley last night that tax cuts could be a place, quote, the president and i ought to come together. realistically, especially watching the applause last night in the chamber, is that an option, that this could be one thing where we see democrats and republicans come together in an election year? >> reporter: i really think it's going to be very hard to do any kind of a major haul on anything, especially on taxes. i mean, this is what the campaign is going to be about. i mean, the republican case is that lower taxes helped the economy, and this is the way we

get the economy growing. the democratic case is, look, republicans have stacked the deck against you. it's not a level playing field. we're going to change that because you're being unfairly treated. i think, you know, depending on the election and how it comes out, that is how you're going to have tax reform or not. i don't think it will happen before we get to the election. >> when you look at that, the center of this debate about taxes and fairness on the part of the democrats, where is the referendum on what we have done or not done over the past three years, bob? >> reporter: well, that's going to be the republican case. this campaign and the line was drawn last night. this campaign is about the democrats will say, folks, you're being unfairly treated. rich people are putting a lot of money in their pockets. they're playing by the rules, but the rules are stacked against you. look, barack obama didn't just

get to town last night. he's been there for three years, and he's failed to fix a bad economy. that's what this election is going to be about, charlie. >> was last night the first time we heard the $1 million figure? in the past i've always heard anybody making over $250,000 is considered wealthy in this country. 250 is different in charlotte, north carolina, than it is in new york in terms of your status of living. for the first time last night, i heard the $1 million figur

from bone scans to pap smears. we get a lot of medical tests when you're a girl. when we come back, find out if you're wasting time and money and maybe putting ourselves at risk. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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♪ in today's "healthwatch," medical tests you may not need. in 1980, americans spent $253

billion on health care. in 2010, we spent more than $2.5 trillion in part because of unnecessary tests. >> medical contributor dr. holly phillips and cbs this morning contributor lee woodruff are here to help us rethink some of the exams. we're learning there's an extensive list of tests that we get done unnecessarily. >> that's right. the american college of physicians just contributed to an article that found that there were 37 unnecessary tests. they're calling these tests we use too much. some of the top ones are pap smea smears looking for cervical cancer. this is generally done yearly. they're suggesting they could be done every three years instead for low-risk patients. >> i always thought you had to get it once every year. we all know how much fun they are. it would be great if we could only have to get it every three years. >> right. >> i always thought -- i was

raised you have to get it every year, every year, every year. >> sure. and most people are still doing that. new research is showing that basically even it we get it every three years as a bottom line as a population, we won't necessarily see more cervical cancer than otherwise. the same thing goes with the bone scans. big study out. most bone scans start at age 65. these look for osteoporosis. women get them every two years. the new study says if your first bone scan is normal, you nay not need another for 15 years. so it's really looking at things that are over used in people who are at low risk. >> but aren't we getting the tests because the doctor recommends it? i had a bone scan test at the age of 40 because my doctor suggested it. i never say, could i be tested for anything, because i'm so afraid of needles. don't we get the tests because the doctor recommend it? >> very much so. we get the tests because the doctor recommends it. as a doctor, i don't do this

unilaterally. these are recommendations that come out of the national cancer institute and the u.s. preventive services task force. other things guide us in the direction we should be going with testing. this recent research is saying maybe we're doing too much. of course, until the recommendations change, i'm not going to change in my practice either. >> i think, too, as an advocate for yourself. my mother is from the era where doctors were gods. anything that they said to do, you would do. as a woman today, because we are faced with, you know, sitting here at 50 i've got bone scans, pap smear, mammo, what's right, what's not. that's where you need to get in with your doctor and become a partner. holly, you're my advocate with me. what's my family history? >> very much so. i love for my patients to be educated. i love for my patients to come in and said, i read this on the internet. i'm interested. is this something i need? then we can sit down and figure out what screening tests they need for them as individuals.

>> how often do your patients question a test? >> it depends on gender. women love to be screened. men hate it. >> really? >> women pretty much say, test for everything. send me everywhere. i want to know. men are just like, can i leave yet? >> and why am i here? my wife made the appointment. >> bottom line is we should check about the tests. really make sure it's something that you need. i'm still thrown by the pap smear thing that, we don't have to do it every year. i hate going. >> ask your doctor what you need and why you need it. >> okay. all right. thank you, dr. phillips. when we return, lee is going to be back with us with an incredible story of one couple who's now rebuilding their marriage after one of them literally forgot everything. >> wow. also ahead, a look at solar flares that can trigger incredible light shows and cause trouble here on earth. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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♪ nice picture there. the biggest solar storm in eight years just hit earth giving canada and scandinavia a beautiful show. experts worry about a serious impact. >> shedding light on a geomagnetic blast that could knock out power and satellites. serious stuff. >> that big cloud. >> while scientists were keeping a watchful eye on the most powerful solar storm in years, people lucky must have to live in northern lat tuds were able to watch the storm blow by. the spectacular northern lights all around the top of the earth. solar particles colliding with

the earth's magnetic field created an aurora borealis out of this world. while the northern lights were visible with the naked eye, scientists within the beginning of the storm with satellites. this massive solar flare that erupted sunday from the sun's surface spewed a vast cloud of protons, electrons and atomic particles, a billion tons of charged particles hurdling toward earth at millions miles per hour. >> when we see four million miles per hour, we take in the. >> he's monitoring the storm from the space weather prediction center in boulder, colorado. >> this is the largest radiation storm we've seen since october of 2003. >> it forced some utilities to boost power to compensate for electrical interference. it interfered with some satellite transmissions and forced some planes to reroute because of radio interference near the north pole.

>> there's a big cloud that this radiation storm is long lasting. these effects don't come around often, but had they do, you have to live with them for several days. >> probably not a problem for northern sky watchers who just might get one more night of this. bill whittaker, cbs news, los angeles. it certainly doesn't get old watch those pictures. >> extraordinary. >> it really is. speaking of a little flair, emmy rossum is lighting up the green room. she stars in "shameless." she'll be with us at the table just ahead. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is next.

lanes of i-80 in richmond are a fatal good morning, everybody. it's 8:25. time for some news headlines here at cbs 5 you. the westbound lanes of i-80 in richmond are finally open again following a fatal crash near carlson boulevard. we have a live camera thanks to our friends up at kovr in sacramento. they are heading westbound and they aren't moving a lot so it's a mess there. but the lanes are open. that's where a van flipped over this morning as i mentioned. it was a fatal. gianna franco will have the very latest on the traffic situation coming up in just a few minutes. a public forum tonight is aimed at helping people in oakland understand the recall process. volunteers currently collecting signatures on a petition to

recall their mayor, jean quan t runs from 6:00 to 8:00 tonight at nile hall in oakland's preservation park. and state democratic leaders are suing the controller over withholding their pay. you may remember this last summer. john chiang docked paychecks last summer after democrats presented an unbalanced budget after a deadline. voters approved the penalty in 2010. the democrats dispute the controller's authority to take money out of their paychecks. stay tuned. traffic and weather, coming up right after this.

good morning. a trouble spot on 80. we'll show you some video we took earlier this morning of the fatal accident 80 in richmond. again, as frank said, all lanes are now open. but as we show you a live shot of traffic conditions right now, we have our friends from kovr stuck in the backup. this is traffic coming away from san pablo so very slow and go. the damage is done as a result of the accident even though the lanes are open. now, over on our maps you can see various slow speeds pretty much 18 miles per hour past 580 at this point, as well. so give yourself some extra time. looks good once you hit the bay bridge. a new wreck blocking lanes west 92 at 101. it's a gray overcast start. by this afternoon, we should see some peeks of sunshine reaching partly cloudy skies. so yeah, low clouds to start you off with this morning. temperatures mostly in the 40s and low 50s across the bay area. 52 in san francisco and 50 in

oakland. so by this afternoon, temperatures soaring to the low 60s across many areas. these temperatures are about 3 to 4 degrees above average. we're staying dry through the workweek. above average temperatures on the weekend. ,,,,

it's official. rob's a hit! today, rob snyder is back. repeat after me. [ speaking spanish ] >> give me a cardo! >> plus -- >> that's all next on cbs. welcome back to "cbs this morning." last night on capitol hill, we all saw it. an emotional standing ovation for congresswoman gabrielle giffords

>> she will officially resign her seat today to continue the difficult recovery from her brain injury. >> it is a long journey for the patient and the patient's spouse. this morning, we have a story of another special couple. >> ran fast too. here comes the other goat. >> reporter: the romance of joan and scott was all american. a football player and a gymnast, they fell in love as teenagers. college sweethearts. >> at 18, he was a big man on campus. it was kind of fun to be with this big secure guy, and he was a lot of fun, with me. i just appreciated his humor and strength. and courage. >> reporter: after college, scott played in the nfl. married joan. and they welcomed two children, grant and taylor. he worked as a pilot, and started an aviation company providing the family with a comfortable lifestyle. but three years ago, a freak fall in a workplace bathroom erased his entire lifetime of memories. his football career, his family, and his 25-year marriage.

trauma to scott's head caused retro grade amnesia. do you remember meeting joan? >> in the hospital. >> but not when you first met her in college? >> no. >> reporter: do you remember your wedding day? >> no. >> reporter: do you remember when grant was born? >> no. >> reporter: scott lost the meaning of simple words. joan lost the man she'd married. you don't have that mate who's always had your back, who's always championed you. >> right. >> reporter: what does that feel like inside as his wife? >> lonely. lonely. because i didn't have my best friend to turn to. i didn't have someone that shared those feelings of loss. >> now she's dealing with the death of a husband, but yet i'm sitting right next to her. she could have very easily left. >> reporter: the struggle to regain a life together was often painful but not without humor. a friend even joked about joan's chance to reprogram her husband. >> tell him you go to the spa every friday. tell him that you never clean

your house and that he cleans the house and he does all the cooking and everything. so, you know, we're laughing. she kind of just out of the blue just said, what if he doesn't fall in love with you again? and it just stopped me in my tracks. i was so caught up in the care taking and the juggling the kids that i never thought that he wouldn't -- that there's a possibility that he could say, i want to date again. >> reporter: so when you're driving your husband around, teaching him what life is like in a marriage, how hard is it to be sexy, to feel sexy? >> it's tough, because it's almost last on the list. and even though i'm exhausted, i wanted to cuddle up with my husband and have him put his arms around me and comfort me. and it wasn't there. >> reporter: does it matter if he loves you the same? >> somedays. somedays it's still -- it hurts because that history isn't there.

and we've been through so much that it's hard that he doesn't know those times. sorry. i've got to take a second. >> reporter: scott may never get his old memories back, but he and joan are making new ones and falling in love all over again. >> the first time she went to work and when i realized that i was in love. when she left, i didn't know what to do. the dog sat at the back door, and so did i, waiting for her to come home because i was lost. >> reporter: how do you describe what joan did for you? >> pretty much everything i am now is a result of joan. that without her, i know i wouldn't have been here. right now. no way. >> lee woodruff is back with us. this is amazing, and it's something i had no idea. you call it complicated grief.

>> complicated grief. it's something that so many americans deal with when they have a loved one with a degenerative issue or a brain injury or spouses of veterans who have returned home, because your husband is there physically, so people will say, but he's here. and you say to yourself, but he's not the same or he's diminished or different. so joan almost feels like she doesn't have a right to grieve. >> so does the quality of the relationship have to change? >> it has to -- >> i loved the question, how do you feel sexy? and she said it's last on the list, because you're a caregiver, a life. >> and a teacher. because he doesn't remember anything, doesn't understand the meaning of the word "wife." she had a really cute anecdote where she would put him in front of the television and have him watch "sopranos" and "king of queens" and say this is what an almale is. here's what i want to you be. and he would come back with his

insomnia at night and say, i saw a lot of attractive brunettes. will you dye your hair? and she dyed her hair. she became a brunette to see if that would spark some stuff. >> was this a hard story for you to do, lee, because of bob, your husband, who almost lost his life covering the news, covering the war for abc? you two have been through something similar. was this hard for you to do? >> it wasn't hard, it was really easy, because i could understand where joan was coming from on so many levels in. that first year when bob was recovering, and he has had such an amazing recovery, i felt all of those things. one of the first things i asked the doctor when bob woke up, forget that he was a journalist and all of those things, will he love me? what if he wakes up after five weeks in a coma and doesn't love me anymore? that is what was going to kill me. he did, though, by the way. i think he still does now. >> he does. >> ok. >> charlie, you know him well. >> do you have advice on how caregivers can cope briefly? >> find networks. talk to people. you're not alone.

it's one of the most isolating jobs out there. 45 million americans are caregivers in some way. >> lee, such a great story. so powerful. >> they are an amazing couple. >> they are. >> talk about an inspiration. shifting gears a little bit, emmy rossum will join us in just a moment. she may be beautiful. she has an incredible voice. she has a kind of

everybody deserves friends. emmy rossum starting her second season on the show "shameless."

hey, emmy rossum. good to see you. >> nice to see you too. >> i think the title of the show is so appropriate for what you guys do. i watched it last season, and started again this season. and my mouth falls open with some of the stuff you guys do. >> it's a little outrageous. we have fun. >> your character fiona, for people who haven't seen it, give us a sense of who she is. >> fiona is basically raising her whole family. she is the oldest sibling. she has five youngest -- younger siblings. her dad is an alcoholic. he is m.i.a., and mom has had enough of the whole family. they are working class. working hard to make ends meet. so fiona has the responsibility of being father to everyone, including her father, played by william h. macy. >> he is such a great actor. his character is out there but very endearing at the same time. >> he hits an all-time low every single episode. you think i can't believe he's actually going to murder that woan. or, you know -- >> and then he does.

>> yeah. and yet he thinks he's really doing it for the best reasons, and his family takes the brunt of all of his misbehaving. it's definitely rough on the family. >> everybody on a hit show always says, oh, we're like family. we get along so great. everything is so wonderful. but i really do feel something about you guys that it's really true, because i read that every sunday night, the whole cast gets together at -- >> at bill's house. bill macy and felicity huffman, his wife. she makes a roast chicken, and we watch together. if the kids are there, we cover their eyes during the naked naughty bits. we're a cable show, so we do that stuff. at the beginning of the show when we were rehearsing, i'm an only child. so the producer kind of gave me $80, and said here's a mini van. take all of these kids to putt putt. feed them, change them, deal with them. and also deal with bill macy. so it was that kind of idea. and i kind of got thrown into it pretty quickly. >> i am always fascinated by only children. charlie rose, by the way, is an

only child. was it hard for you to play nicely with others, number one? and number two, did you grow up or sister? >> i always wished i had an older brother. >> me too. >> every christmas, i would ask my mom for an older brother, which she said would be a little tricky. but i always wished i had a bigger family. coming into this show, i immediately bonded with everyone because i think i have really craved that. >> it's just got to be for you too such a departure, think only that you're clearly not an only child in this series but the character that you play, but it's so different from what people really associate you with. your incredible singing voice. phantom of the opera. all of those things. what do you love about this role? >> i really had to fight are the role. i definitely wasn't an obvious choice, you know to play fiona gallagher. so it was really so much fun to get the role. and then to fight for it. and she is so gritty and so fun. so as an actor, it really takes all the dplamor out of it. and when you want to be an actor, you want to tell stories. >> and you want to stretch yourself a little bit too.

>> of course. >> when fiona sings, they wouldn't let you use your voice, right? >> she was wrapped in a human pretzel in her underwear. >> which was impressive. >> they don't want you to sing and they don't you to dance because you can do both. i remember you as christine in "phantom of the opera," nominated for a golden globe at 18. how old are you now, by the way? >> 25. >> you're still a baby. when you look back at 18, being nominated for a golden globe, does that seem like an out of body experience that night? >> it was. the whole thing was overwhelming. and glamorous. and exciting. but i don't think i could really connect to the enormity of the situation for me. i was very overwhelmed. and i think i had mono during the golden globes. i was very overwhelmed. >> that makes for a fun night. >> yes. i was very overwhelmed. but this show is so gritty, and so much more. i'm just in my body playing the character. and it feels really good. it's fun. >> i'm curious about your

background. here you are 25 in hollywood. a lot of people haven't survived very well. we never hear about stories of you getting out of the car. you always wear your panties, apparently. we never hear drug stories about emmy rossum. never hear about abuse. how were you able to -- >> well, you just don't hear about it. >> yes, emmy. i know. >> no. my mom was really strict growing up. it was always like, be careful who you surround yourself with and was very protective. i guess i always kind of gravitated towards -- i'm just a home body. >> what does she think of you playing "shameless," fiona? >> she likes it. she knows it's the character. if fiona doesn't wear underwear, it's ok. it's not emmy. >> really nice to have you. come back and see us again. >> thank you so much. catch "shameless" on showtime. most of the oscar nominees are not box office hits. of course, that could change now that they are nominees. we'll look at how a nomination

and of course a win can translate into major dollars and cents for the studios. stay with us. this is "cbs this morning."

face me. i need to see you square on the whole time. i got to come up with the questions too? >> the help is one of the nine oscar nominees for best picture. as a nominations were announced yesterday, we were wondering, how much money is an oscar really worth to the studios? >> media critic ken auletta

knows a lot about the movie business. good morning, sir. >> bless you. >> bless you, sir. >> bless you. >> nice to have you. we hope you'll be coming here very often. >> too early, charlie. >> you cynic, aren't you? there is this. studios capitalize on oscars. what does it mean for them financially and how do they use their own money to get the results they want? >> well, you look at the papers this morning. every movie that's been nominated has an ad saying nominated for fifa academy awards. so they use it as a marketing tool. it's a good one. studies show that after a nomination, a movie on average will get a jump from 22% in the box office. approximate it wins the oscar, it gets a jump of 15%. lots of movies got no jump at all. hurt locker won several years ago. it cost them $15 million to make the movie. it generated only $17 million at

the box off. >> isn't that a bit of a cost with getting a nomination. studios spend an incredible amount of money making sure there's plenty of attention on that movie. >> it's a marketing ploy but bragging rights. it's not unlike journalists. if you win the pulitzer prize. you don't see it. if you read the bios of actors and actresses and directors, they say nominated for four academy awards. it becomes a thing to boast. >> i was thinking about slum dog millionaire. i had no desire to see it, but it got so much buzz, i had to see it. was glad i did. yesterday for me, ken, it was hugo which leads the pack with 11 nominations. you know, i like martin scorsese very much, but i had been reading about it. i don't think it sounds for me. after the no, ma'am nags yesterday and 11 of them, now i'm thinking i should go. >> are you recommending it? >> i have haven't seen it. but i am going to see it. i actually am seeing it out of sympathy. >> what do you mean?

>> i admire his work. the movie cost over $100 million. i'd made much less than that. probably will not recoup its costs. so i want to -- >> buy a ticket to cut the costs. >> there is also this. the master at this of being able to sell because he knows the benefit of that. >> not just the benefit. but he knows how to sell. one of the things harvey does and he has two movies this year that are nominated for -- >> artist and marilyn monroe. >> he puts them out in the fourth quarter, so it's fresh in people's minds. if you think back, when he put out shakespeare in love and it triumphed over private ryan which was a better movie. >> many people still think -- >> chris licht -- >> harvey weinstein and his brother are like founders of companies. they love and passionately care about movies. they make them out of passion. they also make horror movies

that make them a lot of movie. they're also as good as it comes at marketing. >> here's what i don't understand about that. they've been doing this for years. why hasn't anybody else learned the game they know? >> people don't want to spend the kind of money they're willing to spend. >> you heard it's a huge payoff. >> it may not be. >> hurt locker is more of an exception than a rule. >> crash. crash won an academy award and it didn't get much for -- >> you talk about the fourth quarter placement and when it comes out. is the studio doing itself a disservice by releasing a movie earlier in the year it may not get the buzz or the nomination and ultimately the money in the eyeball. >> it might be. but one of the things you do a movie is ready. this movie should be placed this weekend up against this other movie because it's in distinction. it's a distinctive compared to the other movie coming out that weekend. you basically schedule based on

what other are doing as well. >> ken, don't you marvel. i never paid attention to the box office. i went to the movie. now even as a layperson, i hear people say how much did it make, did it clear $100 million. if it didn't, it's not a success. i'm amazed at how in the psyche it is even for regular people just going to the movies. >> the way the press covers it. >> that's true. >> every monday has with the box office. one of the misnomers here is that when it says the movie cleared $100 million. the movie studio didn't earn that much. that's the box office total. 50% of that goes to the movie theater and distributor. >> the other is promotion. >> right. so it's a movie that costs $70 million to make. then you have to add 30, $40 million in marketing costs. >> what movie did you like best this year? >> i haven't seen all nine that were nominated for best picture. i love "moneyball."

>> too many movies. don't you wish it was back to five for best picture. >> it's about commerce. >> they're trying to get more -- >> commerce? >> all comes down to money. thanks to the great ken auletta. that does it for us. we'l

good morning, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. the traffic mess this morning, but traffic is moving again on the westbound lane every i-80. this is richmond following a fatal crash, a van flipped over this morning near carlson boulevard. one person did die at the scene. crews closed down three lanes of the freeway to clean up that accident. it is moving now, but it is a little slow there. top oakland officials meet to talk about the police department. a federal judge says they have failed to make -- order years ago. and watch out where you light up in mountain view now. the city is moving closer to expanding its smoking

ordinance. the proposal creates a 25-foot buffer zone nor second alejandro smoke. the enougher tough new rules about in effect 90 days after the second reading, set for valentine's day next month. how about your weather? i think you'll love it. here's elizabeth. >> a lot of clouds to start us off with but i promise by this afternoon we should see partly cloudy skies. peeks of sunshine in the clouds. so temperatures later on this afternoon, mostly reach the low 60s across the bay area. few mid-60s. check out the highs in livermore, fairfield, concord. other-wise 57 in pacifica and 61 in san francisco. so your 7-day forecast looks like this. staying dry, not a raindrop in the forecast. temperatures should be above average today through the weekend, with mostly sunny skies on saturday and then a little cooler on monday. your time save traffic is next.

good morning from the traffic center. look out for an accident south 880 as you approach 92. couple lanes blocked there, traffic backed up in the area. north 880 slow it out of hayward headed towards oakland. if you're crosses is the san mateo bridge this morning, looking good here. 14 minutes between 880 and 101. once you get across, look out for an accident coming off 92, approaching 101. looks like it was blockingth left lane. it's not over to the right shoulder but little slow and go through there. 101 slow as well in both

directions, and a little bit better coming off the eastshore freeway. that fatal accident now cleared. still whacked up to highway 4 at this point, slow and go, pretty much into the maze. not too bad once you hit the bay bridge toll plaza. driverdrive safe.