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students. can you really trust those college rankings? the fallout that one top school cheated the system for years. first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye opener" your world in 90 seconds. >> mr. president, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow. now it's tomb for you to git out of the way. mitt romney wins big in florida, but newt gingrich vows to fight on. >> we are going to contest every place and we are going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. he is vowing to stay in the race until the end. hey, when newt gingrich takes a vow, he sticks with it. >> 2012 will be a critical year. >> this is a very sensitive issue right now. u.s. intelligence officials warn iran may be planning terror attacks on american soil. >> the willingness depends on

how much of a threat they perceive the u.s. to be. >> an elementary school teacher is under arrest, accused of heinous crimes against his students. the case so horrifying even veteran police detectives are shocked and disgusted. >> get out of the cash. >> despite the fire, they managed to wrench out an unconscious 57-year-old man. >> they're over there at cbs. >> that right? >> oh, yeah. oh, yeah. >> he's aging but he's gorgeous. >> what i needed in high school. >> dad. >> all that. >> indianapolis will always be a part of me. >> and all that matters. >> good for you. >> i don't know. >> on "cbs this morning." >> "cbs this morning" is killing it, pal. welcome to "cbs this

morning." there is one, one clear front-runner in the race for the republican presidential nomination. mitt romney won the florida primary on tuesday. the biggest election so far. he beat newt gingrich by 14 points. rick santorum and ron paul finished far behind. >> 62% of voters said the economy is the single most important issue in this campaign. florida, of course, was hit especially hard by the recession and by the housing slump. as the results came in both candidates were looking ahead predicting they will win in the end. >> when we gather back here in tampa seven months from now for our convention -- [ applause ] >> ours will be a united party with a winning ticket for america. >> we are going to contest every place and we are going to win and we will be in tampa as the no, ma'am me in august. >> and fresh from last night's victory mitt romney is with us now from tampa. good morning.

>> good morning, charlie. >> was it you a more confident, aggressive candidate, wa it is the debates, campaigns, or newt gingrich wasn't vgs a good campaign? >> well, i think the debates had the biggest impact. if you look at the response of people here in florida over the last ten days, the debates really changed the discourse here. people are very, very concerned about the economy as your report indicated. i spent my life outside the political world. never really lived in washington. i understand how the economy works. i think they want someone to go to washington to fix it, pull it back in, get it out of our lives and get the economy going. >> let me ask this question. is the nomination yours now to lose or as eric erickson said, the fat lady hasn't sung but she's warming up? >> well, you know, i have a good path ahead. i think if i can continue to connect with people describing my message to get this country

working again and to take it back from the big government folks, then i think i become the nominee. but nothing is certain in politics. you just can't predict precisely what's going to happen, but i'm in a much better spot than i was ten days ago. >> the central question is can you win over conservatives and the tea party. how do you plan to do that in the coming months? >> well, we want to make sure that we win, and we want to get america back on track and so when you look here in florida at people who call themselves tea partiers or people who said they were conservatives, i won both groups. so i want to make sure and continue to have the support of those parts of our party but also i want to make sure that we reach out to hispanic voters and to independent voters and get the votes we need to replace barack obama. so a good, strong conservative base like we have in this party plus reaching out across the aisle to some of those inpen dents is probably what's going to get us back to the white house. >> has a campaign with newt gingrich made you a tougher candidate and, therefore, better

prepared to be the nominee? >> yeah, i think so. the attacks that have come from him have probably toughened us up and helped us learn how to respond. clearly what barack obama comes with will be a lot more money, even more vitreolic than what we've faced so far. we're prepared. i know the president's going to want to talk about me and somehow disqualifying me. i want to talk about his record. the truth is he has not done the job he was elected to do and that's why i think he's in so much trouble. >> when you look at the economy and you look at what you have to offer, how is it different from what president obama will offer and what newt gingrich is offering in this campaign battle? >> well, it was interesting, in the president's state of the union address he laid out the things he thought were necessary to improve the economy, and they were lowering corporate taxes, but he's raised them. lowering the level of regulation, but he's increased it. opening up all sources of energy, but he's shut down our major sources of energy. cracking down on china but he's

laid over and let china run all over us. he laid out the very things that need to be done, and he's done just the opposite. there are more things we have to do as well, but this president does not understand how this economy works and i do because i spent my life in the economy. i'll open up markets for our goods, get energy, get regulation right, and get taxation right. >> negative campaigning has been part. negative ads by super pacs. do you think they have contributed to this debate or do you believe that they may very well hurt you as you reach out for independents if you are the nominee? >> you know, i think the negative ads so far have paled in comparison to what's going to come in the general election, and i really think that what's happened here in florida is people not paying attention to ads so much as they have been to the debates and the big rallies that have been heard and to the ideas of the various candidates. i'm talking about the economy, getting america working again. i think that's been a message that's connected well here in florida. >> you have not received a

congratulatory phone call, not last night or not in previous campaigns, say, in new hampshire from the former speaker. does that bother you? do you consider it an insult to you? do you understand why he hasn't done that? >> i don't worry about that, i've got to be honest with you. i'm very pleased that ron paul and rick santorum and i have spoken after each race. frankly, i called the speaker after the race in south carolina congratulated him. he welcomed that congratulations, but he hasn't chosen to call me on any of the three of the prior contests. so, you know, that's something you have to ask him. >> he also will make the argument in the campaign ahead that he is the candidate of the grassroots and that you are the candidate of the republican establishment, that you are in fact a moderate from massachusetts, as he says, and that he is the reagan conservative and if they'll

consolidate behind them, they'll have a real contest. >> the argument that he is somehow a reagan conservative doesn't square with the facts. this is a guy who was arguing for cap and trade legislation by sitting on the sofa with nancy pelosi. this is a fellow who called paul ryan's bold plan for saving medicare. he called it right wing social engineering. his big, bold idea here in florida has been to build a space station or a colony on the moon and making it the 51st state. these are that conservative ideas. they're big, expensive ideas. i think that he has had a very difficult time convincing people that he really is the conservative leader in our party. my record is one of balancing the budget in my state, putting in place a rainy day fund, cutting taxes 19 times. i've got the conservative record he wishes he had. >> do you not want to be called a moderate? >> i want to be called what i am. i'm a conservative business person who was lucky enough to become the governor of massachusetts and bring conservative principles to that state and if i'm president of

the united states, i'll make conservatism, if you will, i'll make the constitution, the blueprint i'll follow, and that's a conservative document. >> governor no, thank you very much for joining us. i hope to see you again soon. >> thanks, charlie. good to be with you. we bring in the chief washington correspondent, host of "face the nation." bob schieffer is joining us. >> good morning, charlie. >> you listened to governor romney. tell us how you saw florida and where we go from here? >> reporter: the first thing i would say is governor romney is saying that he thought people didn't really pay attention to the negative advertising. if that's the case, then he wasted -- he and his super pac wasted $16 million on negative advertising. i mean, they dumped a load of negative ads on newt gingrich and 92% of those ads were negative. now gingrich tried to do the same thing. he ran a negative campaign, too, but he had only $4 million to

spend. so i think negative advertising works as much as people say they don't like it, and i think it worked very effectively here. the other part, charlie, and to give governor romney his due, he became a much better candidate down here. not only in the debates but also in the way that he really carried the campaign and the fight directly to gingrich. >> and he also, bob, as you heard, he actually told you, charlie, when you asked him, he did feel that newt gingrich made him a better candidate in this race. newt gingrich last night laying out fairly concrete ideas. i want to take a quick listen and get your take on it, bob. >> i will ask them to immediately pass the repeal of obama care, to immediately pass the repeal of the dodd-frank bill. i will ask them to pass the repeal of sarbanes obviously, the very first executive order

will abolish all of the white house zars at that moment. >> bob, obviously his ideal ageda there, what is different about what we're hearing from newt gingrich last night in that speech and what he was saying as opposed to what we heard in the last contest? >> reporter: well, it was a much different contest in south carolina. gingrich came out swinging there. he clearly won the debates there. romney had a very bad time in south carolina. a lot of his own doing, but he hired himself a debate coach who managed to turn these debates around. i wouldn't be surprised if mitt romney wouldn't agree with everything that newt gingrich said in that statement there. certainly he's talking about doing away with the president's health care plan and some of that other stuff, but, you know, just saying i'm going to ask the congress to do that is one thing. he'd have to have a republican congress to be able to do any of that. he couldn't do it by himself

because, you know, there are just not the votes to do that. >> bob, any reason to believe that newt gingrich can't take this all the way to the convention? the signs behind him said four down, 46 to go. >> reporter: he may not get all the way to convention, but he's going to stay in it for a while, charlie. the reason why is when you add up the votes last night, more people voted for somebody else than voted for mitt romney although this was a huge win for him, there is still a number of people out there that are not satisfied with mitt romney. i think there's been 1/3 of the people that we surveyed last night said they'd just as soon see somebody else as their candidate. romney still has to find a way to bridge this gap between the far right and the left of his party. 's going to need all of them if he's going to take on barack obama and win come november. this is going to be a very close race. it's going to have to be a

united party. right now with all this negativity i don't think you can say that it is. there are a lot of people who think that this really hurt the republicans when this got so nasty, but we'll see what happens as we go down the line. >> bob, thank you very much. a very fine looking tie there, my friend. >> reporter: thank you, sir. >> this sunday bob will have the results from this weekend's nevada caucuses on cbs. taliban intelligence officials had a message. they said iran is willing to launch attacks on u.s. soil as pressure rises. national security correspondent said the alarming assessment makes a tense situation all the more serious. >> reporter: the briefing by the nation's top intelligence officers added another ominous development to the looming showdown with iran. in his written statement director of national intelligence, james clapper said last year's aborted plot to a

sas sinead saudi arabia's ambassador in washington said they've changed their calculus and are more willing to conduct an attack in the united states. the chair woman of the senate intelligence committee said the showdown could come to a head this year. >> 2012 will be a critical year for convincing or preventing iran's development of a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: some u.s. officials believe israel could launch a strike to destroy iran's nuclear facilities as soon as this year. the head of israel's intelligence agent visited the u.s. last week. the u.s. is counting on economic sanctions to pressure iran into giving up its nuclear ambitions before israel feels compelled to strike. so far it's not working. >> the sanctions as imposed so far have not caused them to change their behavior or their policy. >> reporter: but new sanctions, including a ban on iranian oil sales to europe, are just now

taking effect. >> the sanctions have been biting much, much more literally in recent weeks. >> reporter: petraeus said it will be months before the sanctions take full effect. israeli officials say they can only afford to wait about six to nine months before they have to strike. for "cbs this morning" this is david martin at the pentagon. >> with us now, senior con spore dent, john miller. former fbi counter in telly against official. you know the officials who are doing this testimony before congress. they are taking seriously the idea that iran might launch an attack against the united states with provocation? >> that's right. and this is not the first time these indicators have come up. going back, i mean, if you just take new york city going back to 2002, 2003, 2004, you've got instances, two cases involving the fbi, a third case involving the nypd where they got iranian

security officials taking pictures, doing diagrams, collecting intelligence on sensitive locations, on landmarks, and in each one of those cases you see people say, well, i'm a security officer at the iran mission to the u.n. i'm just a tourist. each one of those cases those people were expelled from the united states, but the nypd intelligence division very aware of this. we've seen that heightened activity at u.s. facilities in south america, anywhere around the try-boarder area. what they're doing is collecting target folders so if they decide to launch an attack, it will be something they can pull off the shelf. >> and they have every reason to believe that the

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update on the hazing scandal. the university canceled summer band camp and shut down recruiting of clubs after a student drum major died in an alleged hazing incident. in miami x occupy protest shut down by police last night. the miami herald says dozens of demonstrators were ordered out after more than three and a half months. the san francisco chronicle headlines a brain experiment at the university of california. scientists say it could be the first step towards an artificial voice for patients unable to speak on their own. the new york times reports from a tiny village in spain where almost everyone is sharing the first prize in spain's annual christmas lottery. only one household was left out because they didn't buy a ticket. for years a clerk had a terrible secret. police say she was stealing church funds and using that money to go on extravagant shopping sprees. we'll show you what she bought.

you're watching "cbs this morning." stay with us. your local news is next. saint ignatius prep school in san francisco is closed for a good cleaning today. dozens hi, everybody. it's 7:26. in the headlines on this wednesday, saint ignatius prep the school in san francisco closed today for a cleansing. dozens of students came down with a stomach virus yesterday. school set to reopen tomorrow. a 14-year-old santa rosa girl who died during a sleepover at her home overdosed on a date rape drug. officials say it was ghb and not alcohol poisoning that killed that girl last summer. and more than 100 jobs will be lost under oakland's revised budget plan that was approved last night. the city council voted to cut millions in spending but fairyland and oakland zoo were not part of the cuts. we have traffic and weather coming up.

good morning. we have a new stall reported on the upper deck of the bay bridge right there on the incline so it is causing some slower speeds from the incline towards treasure island. behind the pay gates, metering lights are on, as well. so it is starting to get backed up at least to the macarthur maze. and growing. once you get past treasure island, then speeds improve on the upper deck into san francisco. better news now for all lanes open southbound 880 at stevenson boulevard. we had an accident there. for a while blocking up to two lanes but as you can see a slow ride on southbound 880. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> plenty of clouds around our skies now drizzle out the door, a bit slick on the roads as we have seen a weak cold front slide through overnight tonight. and it looks like it is just going to begin to move out of town into the afternoon so some partial clearing, temperatures up into the 50s coastside some 60s into the valleys and then a return to some very mild weather. the next couple of days high pressure building in, temperatures running above the average.

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>> to her neighbors, anita collins was a devout catholic who attended mass daily. >> she seems nice. she does. she seems like a hard working woman, believe me. >> but manhattan's district attorney says the 67-year-old was a thief who stole at least $1.2 million from the archdiocese of new york. her attorney howard simmons says his client is sorry. >> she's incredibly remorseful and ashamed. i'm told at the arraignment that she has made a full confession. >> collins worked as a clerk for the archdiocese for nearly eight years. she allegedly wrote over 450 checks and placed them in her son's account. each check was under $2500, which meant she didn't have to get approval from church officials. the spokesman for the church. >> she was very careful in how she did this. as the d.a. said, this was a sophisticated fraud. >> collins lived a modest life,

sharing this apartment in the bronx with her daughter. but police removed paintings and boxes of collectible dolls, aldly bought with the money. prosecutors say spee shent $37,000 on clothing from barney's and brooks brothers and money on furniture and $19,000 in an irish gift shop, all while earning less than $50,000 a year. collins had been convicted of theft twice before in 1986 and again in 1999 for stealing at least $46,000 from a temporary employment agency. she was hired by the archdiocese in 2003. >> she applied and was hired before we instituted our criminal background check policy. >> collins, who remains behind bars, has been charged with grand larceny and falsifying business records. a conviction could send the former church clerk to prison for more than 25 years. for "cbs this morning," michelle

miller, new york. faith and religion contributor father edward beck is with us now. as you were watching this, you said unbelievable. i have two questions. number one, how could she think she could get away with it and number two, is a church going to be for giving about this? a forgiving church in the christian tradition? >> you know what, the charlie, i. the church is for giving. but it doesn't mean you excuse this kind of behavior. i mean, in woman stole from the institution, but also its donors. you have to realize that people give money to the church for certain ministries that the church carries out. so they have an obligation to be good stewards of that money. this woman stole from an institution, namely, the education fund, where catholic schools in the archdiocese were closing and she knew that. you can forgive but that doesn't mean she doesn't have to be prosecuted and do penance. >> you mentioned the responsibility that the church has. is the church too trusting? >> sometimes i think the church

is too trusting and a little naive. i was in a retreat in florida in a rectory. this wasn't a parish i was associated with. a mound of money on a table.with she looked up and was fine about it. i closed the door. i went to the pastor and i said, you know, what was that? and he said well she's counting the collections from sunday. i said, alone in a room counting all of that money? i mean, any accountant will tell you, two people in a room. don't do that even to the worker. i mean, that is very naive. i think now when something like this happens, the church says ah, what are our controls, what do we need to do to get our house in order. >> you're saying that will change? >> it already has changed. there is now background checks that are done. i think, as far as the archdiocese, we're seeing they have the controls now in place. there will be more controls in place. >> nice to see t the super bowl

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what a difference a year makes. remember when winter used to look like this? this is february 1st, 2011. video from that day. this is oklahoma. you remember last year the country blanketed with snowstorms. this is a live look this morning at times square in new york city where it's currently 49 degrees. last check it was going to get up to probably 60 today, which is what it was yesterday. which is lovely but a little strange on the first of february where we really feel like we're we're waiting for winter to begin here. turns out the weather has been pretty abnormal all across the country over the past year. texas suffered through one of the worst droughts ever on

record. no town had ever completely run and when the lake dries up, the wells do too. the water level in this part of lake travis has dropped to a near record low, which means the groundwater supplies that feed local wells are down too. the well that provides water to spice wood beach residents like connie heller has nearly run dry. >> i never dreamed it would ever be this way. i thought we always had a good well. >> the well's water level dropped over a foot in just a day. so water is now being trucked in several times a day to fill the

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as football fans focus on indianapolis and on super bowl xlvi, there's another serious game happening off the field. it involves the questions or the future of indy star quarterback peyton manning. what exactly the future is. >> at the same time, his younger brother is taking some of the spotlight away from him. cindy bowers is in indianapolis. good morning. >> good morning. the mannings are certainly no stranger to the spotlight, but here in indianapolis, you would think the focus will be on the stars actually playing the game. instead, it's on the growing rivalry between hometown hero peyton manning and little brother eli that's become the talk of the town. >> we're under way. >> if the super bowl is sport's greatest stage, this tale of two brothers is from shakespeare. there's little brother, eli manning, the star quarterback of the new york giants, preparing to lead his team in sunday's big game. finding himself here in indianapolis sharing the stage not so much with his rival

quarterback, tom brady, but with his own brother, peyton. >> if you get concerned with other things, it takes your focus off what your job has to be for this coming sunday. >> in this case, the other thing is the football future of 35-year-old peyton manning. he's been the face, arm and heart of the hometown indianapolis colts since he was the number one draft pick 14 years ago. >> i played a long time. i'm grateful for the time that i've played so far. i have nothing to complain about. you know, how much longer we'll see. >> there's a twist of irony in that his city is hosting its first ever super bowl in a $720 million state-of-the-art stadium built in large part due to peyton's success. the colts were hoping for a great year and a real chance to be the first team to play a hometown super bowl. but peyton did play at all this season due to a serious neck injury and the colts fell apart. a league worst two wins and 14

losses. with his future still in discrepancy di, the colts face a $28 million decision. keep an aging great and pay him a multimillion dollar bonus. >> i've been blessed with all the things that he's done for the franchise through the years. >> or let him go and put their money and their team in the hands of an untested rookie. stanford quarterback, andrew luck is expected to be the number one draft pick this year and the last place colts pick if they give up on peyton. >> we're all kind of wondering, once that game is oaf, the big story is going to be where he plays and if he ends up playing in 2012. >> the speculation comes at a tender time for the tight knit manning brothers. peyton has long been considered not only the more talented brother but one of the greatest quarterbacks ever. come sunday, little brother eli has a chance to pass him if he wins his second super bowl ring, twice as many as peyton has. instead of playing on the

world's biggest stage, peyton find himself playing cheerleader to eli. exactly what manning's father arch archie, a star quarterback has come to expect from his older son. >> i'm proud of the way peyton handled this. it's a brother thing. he's proud of his little brother. e. going to pull hard for him. here we have a tale of two quarterbacks. peyton manning will he play next year. eli, can he pass his older brother and i think there's another quarterback playing in in game. he's playing for the other team, tom brady, playing for the patriot. he's no slouch. he's going for his fourth super bowl win. speaking of tom brady, you want to be with us tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning." you'll get an unprecedented look and listen to patriots coach bill belichick talk to armen keteyian for a much longer time than he normally talks to folks. arm en will bring us all of this, how belichick prepares his

strategy for game day. everything he looks at ahead of time. at that will come tomorrow on "cbs this morning." still ahead today, we'll ask the editor of u.s. news and world report if we can trust its college rankings after a top rated school turns out lied for years about s.a.t. scores. you're watching "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning," sponsored by levemir flex pen. ask about the benefits of levemir flex pen today. and me... discovering once-daily levemir flexpen. flexpen is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days. no drawing from a vial. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a button.

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ziefrnl. gayle king has a look at what's coming up. a school with a top ranking is at the center of a cheating scandal. it's not the students. it's the administrators. an elementary school teacher in l.a. is under arrest accused of disgusting acts against the students. parents want to know why it took authorities so long to reveal what was going on. was it a cover-up. john miller is on the case. his life sound like a hollywood movie. he was discovered walking down the street. channing tatum is here to talk

about his latest movie, the vow. >> david letterman celebrates 30 nights of late night tv. he may the oakland city council has passed mayor jean quan's new budget proposal, which cal i'm grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. the oakland city council has passed mayor jean quan's new budget proposal which calls for a drastic cut. the budget slashes millions of dollars in spending and eliminates more than 100 jobs. city leaders were able to protect funding for the oakland zoo as well as children's fairyland. a high school in san francisco is closed today because of a stomach flu outbreak that affected about 200 students at saint ignatius college prep. and some sad news out of the entertainment world this morning. don cornelius, creator and long- time host of tv's "soul train" was found dead this morning in his los angeles county home. his cause of death was a self-

inflicted gunshot wound. he was 75. we'll have an update on your traffic and weather coming right up.

good morning. no major accidents out there but we did have some earlier problems now causing some delays across the bay area. so here's a live look at milpitas able to 880/237. looks okay in the westbound lanes in the silicon valley ride. rain on the camera lens across the golden gate bridge. so far things look okay out of marin. southbound 880 we had a couple of accidents including in hayward so it's a slow ride down towards highway 92. but across the san mateo bridge itself, everything looks great both directions. lawrence has the forecast. >> elizabeth, another weak cold front sliding through the bay area been the story all winter long a lot of clouds out there now, fog and drizzle this morning and even a couple of light sprinkles but that will clear out toward the afternoon. partial clearing with temperatures in the 50s and 60s.

me and charlie rose, erica hill. just think of the three of us together. >> it's a good combo. >> i think it's a good combo. >> he seems like a night owl to me too, though. isn't the show on at like 2:00 in the morning? >> yeah, but you see charlie live and in color. it's the three of us. it's a threesome over there at cbs. >> is that right? >> it's a freak show. >> eat your heart out, jimmy fallon. >> i don't know if i was supposed to tell on national tv we're a threesome. where does everybody think you're there at 2:00 a.m.? >> i don't know. the show is at 11:00. >> i keep telling people, no he's always here. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica

hill. we begin with the story of a top college in california that admits sending exaggerated s.a.t. scores to college ranking services. >> that's raising serious questions about how much we can trust those rankings. ben tracy says the rankings are extremely important for not only schools but many students. >> reporter: when she was considering applying to a college near los angeles, she definitely looked at this. the u.s. news and world report rankings. >> when you're comparing schools with your friends, it's sort of like all about rankings. >> reporter: claremont is ranked the ninth best liberal arts college in the nation, but it now admits it cheats. for five years, a school official falsely inflated the s.a.t. scores of incoming students by 10 to 30 points. enough to potentially move up in the coveted rankings. >> it's all a game. i'm sure every school is manipulating their numbers in some ways. >> reporter: the raitings race is so fierce that arizona state university promised a $50,000

bonus to its president if he improved the school's u.s. ranking. >> rankings are a recruitment tool. >> reporter: barmak nassirian says schools are too focused on rankings. >> the higher the ranking, the more press tijs you look, the more selective you look, the more desirable you look at a destination point. >> reporter: turns out schools may care more about these rankings than the students do. here at the university of california, they did a nationwide survey. on a list of the 22 most important factors on determining where to go to college, students ranked the rankings number 11. katherine cohen runs a strategy business in new york. she says students and parents needs to go way beyond these lists. >> we tell students, it's very important to do as much as research as they can on each of the colleges that they'll eventually apply to. they want to find courses they want to take, professors they want to study with, what current research is going on, what kind

of extracurricular activities are they going to engage in. >> reporter: because one school may be a far better fit regardless of its rank. for cbs this morning, ben tracy, los angeles. >> thank you, ben. brian kelly is the editor of the u.s. news and world report. one of the publications that claremont mckenna lied to. good morning, brian. how was this discovered, and do you think it was an isolated incident? >> well, it was really one person. it wasn't the whole institution. they seem to have taken swift action. they brought in a law firm. they're doing the right thing. we don't know all the details yet. we've sasked them for more information. we don't think it's a unique situation. it's pretty rare. we've been doing this for 25 years. we've had thousands of schools we've ranked over the time. we've had three or four incidents like this. but any time it happens, it's a concern. we're certainly very disturbed and looking at this very

closely. >> perhaps you shouldn't have been taking these numbers on faith. >> well, you know, charlie, the numbers are -- it's not just us. these are numbers they're reporting to the federal government. they're numbers they report to the bond ratings services. they've got some real legal obligations here. we're just one consumer of these numbers. we crunch them in a formula that we have that pulls a lot of other numbers in. we do check them. we do vet them as best we can. if people are going to cheat, you know, people cheat on their taxes. we don't have subpoena power. we are limited. but we work very hard to get the numbers right. >> so brian, are you saying that the owe us in is solely on claremont mckenna, that you bear no responsibility because there's nothing better you could do to verify the information? >> well, we're still looking into it. again, we are responsible for the things we print. we'll explain to readers what we know about this in great detail. but looking through our own process so far, i don't know any other way we could have found these numbers. if somebody really puts their mind on cheating, which is what

really seems to have happened here, there's not much we can do about that. >> so any plans to change how you rank the schools now? >> i don't think so. i think our methodology is pretty sound. it's stood up over the years. we get 99.999% of the numbers right.

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in this morning's "healthwatch," a closer look at partial mastectomies. more than 200,000 women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer in the united states. most of them choose a lumpectomy to remove the tumor. >> a new study finds nearly one out of four of those patients went back for additional surgery, sometimes more than once. dr. rasha simmons join us us this morning. nice to have you with us.

almost one in four women need repeat surgery. is that a high number? it feels like it is. >> well, i think it is a high number. i think it depends upon whose surgery you're evaluating. if you look at people that do only breast surgery and a lot of breast surgery, the numbers are going to be lower. certainly, my numbers are much lower than that. >> so you're saying it depends on who does it. any other reason why it's so high? >> i think it's a matter of judgment as far as, number one, how much tissue to take, to make sure that you do achieve negative margins but not taking too much tissue to compromise the cosmetic result. it's also judgment as far as who is appropriate for a lumpectomy and deciding that up front and talking to the patient about whether or not she's an appropriate candidate for a lumpectomy. >> yesterday was the first time i even heard the term partial mastectomy. >> it's a term insurance companies use. it's a very bad term, i think.

it confuses and frightens patients. >> it really does. so a partial mastectomy just means a lumpectomy. >> correct. >> you know what i also think was really disturbing is that it depends on the doctor you go to and the facility you go to because you could go different places and get different diagnoses. is there any way we can get a handle on what's the right thing to do? >> i think it's important that patients ask their surgeon, number one, am i a candidate for a lumpectomy? >> who is a candidate? >> they're generally small tumors, although it depends upon the size of the tumor relative to the size of the breast. we also often get mris prior to lumpectomies. that lets us tell if there's more cancer than we would see on mammograms or ultra sounds. also, if there are multiple tumors, the patient may not be a candidate for a lumpectomy. >> sounds like it's one of these

things, it always comes down to asking your doctor. it's okay to get a second opinion. >> absolutely. >> it's friegghtening when you to get the mammogram. we want to take another picture. we want to get another look. those are frightening moments. what scared me is should we go ahead and instead of having a parti partial, should we just do it all at once? so you dpoeon't have to be a ret customer. >> there are bpatients better served with a mastectomy. you can tell up front by the mri. then the patient is better served having one operation. >> dr. simmons, appreciate you coming in this morning. thank you. this morning, there is talk of a major coverup in los angeles where a teacher is accused of sexual abusing young students. parents say this should have come out a year ago. john miller has new information for us. you're watching "cbs this morning." multi

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this morning a an elementary schoolteacher faces a judge in los angeles. he's accused of abusing his students for years. we should warn you some of the details are very disturbing. >> it took months for the sheriff and district attorney to finish the investigation. there are now charges of a major coverup. >> reporter: in south l.a., parents were incensed this was the first they'd heard of a year long investigation into third grade teacher mark berndt. the popular teacher at school 30 years has been charged with lewd acts against almost two dozen students. >> it's an outrage for something

like this to go on in our schools undetected. >> reporter: berndt's alleged crime involved girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 10 and happened right here in his classroom. they might never have come to light if it were not for an employee at a local photography shop. the film processer grew concerned and alerted authorities to berndt's photos. childr photos of children blindfolded with tape over their mouths. >> maybe they were playing some type of game of hide and seek. to a trained detective in child abuse cases, there was more. >> reporter: when they searched berndt's classroom, investigators found dna evidence that linked him to a sexual crime against at least 23 children. school officials immediately removed him from the classroom back in march. he was put under surveillance to keep him from children as police built their case. >> you don't know what kind of diseases this man has.

you don't know any history about this man. you're taking our innocent babies and tainting them. >> reporter: berndt is to be arraigned today. if convicted, he faces life in prison. >> john miller joins us now. he's a former lapd official among his wide and varied experiences. why did this take so long? >> you know, this is the most unusual case because the teach who was doing this really disguised this activity as a game. if you look at the 400 pictures involved, it looks like everybody, including the kids, are having a great time at it. i mean, they are tied to a chair, blindfolded with a cloth. there's scotch tape over their mouth. but because he constructed it as a game -- you know, when they came home and their parents said, what happened in school today, well, we played a game.

>> i read too the teacher was considered very popular. he was often invited to the kids' parties. nobody was suspicious. as a parent at that school, i would be really irritated to have been kept in the dark for so long about something that really is so disgusting and so serious. is that common to do to parents? >> i think from an investigative standpoint, if you were dan scott and the sheriff's team on this, the parents of the children involved were kept in the dark because those children were all questioned. it's the rest of the parents who weren't involved in the case. but remember, the teacher was suspended the day the sheriff got to the school. they even had him under surveillance. the other parents are the parents of children who weren't involved. >> there's also this california law that requires film proces r processors -- that's crucial here. >> that's the actual key. it was not reported by a child, not reported by a parent, not reported by a teacher. it was a film developer at the local cvs drugstore.

california is one of 11 states that has that law. if you see potential child abuse, you're required to report it. i don't know if that kid knew about the law, but he reported it. >> special hug to that guy. the police official said it looked like they were playing a game. but there was something on the film that made him think, we better take this to a whole other level. how often does that happen? >> that's very interesting because i remember from my fbi experience, we got a lot of our alleged child pornography cases from film developers who gave us the heads up. or if you look at fort dix terrorist plot, that film developer saw the evidence on the photos. >> what's next in this case? >> next, you have a judicial process. you have a difficult process where if there's not a guilty plea, you're going to have witnesses who are now 7 and 8

and 9 years old as the principal witnesses. >> thank you, john. always good to see you. when we come back, the number one reason -- we're not doing a top ten list -- but the number one reason to stay with us. here's a clue. we're looking back at david letterman's remarkable 30 years on late night tv. go, dave. dave doesn't want to talk about it, but everybody else does and wants to say congrats to you, david letterman. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is coming up next. sweetheart. we need to talk.

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good morning. we have a new accident now in the macarthur maze. westbound 24 right before 580 it is blocking lanes and it is causing some slower speeds through oakland. so watch out for that. the metering lights are on at the bay bridge so it is stacked up to the maze about a 20- minute wait. it is also slow and go coming out of downtown san jose. check out that drive time right now up to 21 minutes out of downtown heading towards highway 85 in cupertino.

we have a lot of brake lights down the nimitz freeway especially new york 880 past the coliseum. things don't improve closer towards the downtown oakland exit. bart might be a good option today, a little foggy and misty today. all trains on time including those heading into san francisco. that is traffic. for more on your weather, here's lawrence. >> a weak cold front sliding through the bay area. a lot of clouds, drizzle and light sprinkles out there this morning and some fog too. overlooking coit tower now, some leftover clouds. we are going to watch the skies part toward the afternoon. and it looks like we'll start to dry things out in the coming days. still, a weak system sliding through the bay area yet again not leaving much rainfall behind just enough to wet the roads this morning. by the afternoon we dry out with some partly cloudy skies. 61 degrees in san jose. about 61 in livermore. about 61 degrees in santa rosa and 58 degrees in san francisco. next couple of days return to dry weather. high pressure building in. temperatures headed well above the average. staying dry right on in through the weekend.

happy 30th dave. wow, what a successful career you've had. i'm proud of you. i'm happy for you. but, dave, i'm so lonely. i don't have a show anymore. call me, please, dave. once in a while for god's sakes. don't leave me like this. but have a happy anniversary. >> awe regis. waiting by the phone. >> we think regis is okay, don't we? >> i think so. he's going to be as the kids a all right. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a new congressional report is out accusing tanning salons of lying to customers just to get their business. >> nancy cordes is on capitol

hill this morning. what exactly is in this report? >> it's pretty eye opening. investigators found that often tanning salons aren't just downplaying the risks but promoting benefits that don't exist to a young clientele that might not know better. >> 28 million people use tanning beds every year and young women, age 16 to 29 are the backbone of the $2.6 billion industry. they're targeted with student specials, homecoming specials, even deals for the prom. but when congressional investigators contacted 300 tanning salons identifying themselves at fair-skinned teenage girls, they were routinely sold bad information about the risks involved. a full 90% of the salons told them indoor tanning posed no health dangers. 78% claimed that indoor tanning would actually improve health, preventing diseases ranging from arthritis to lupus.

and 51% denied that it increased the risk of cancer. dermatologists say nothing could be more misleading. >> it is so false. we know that skin cancer, especially melanoma, is on the rise, especially in women in their 20s, because they went to tanning salons during their teenage years. >> studies show the risk of melanoma goes up 75% when tanning bed use begins before the age of 30. four months ago, california became the first state to ban the use of indoor tanning devices for anyone under 18. 31 more states placed restrictions on teen tanning such as requiring parents to accompany their kids. now, some house democrats are urging the fda to consider reclassifying tanning beds as unsafe for minors. >> we've got to start regulating these industries that are trying to target, especially girls. to come in and get a tan in a

tanning salon and not reveal the risks involved when young people use these tanning salons. >> that was congressman henry waxman of california who commissioned this study. melanoma is the most common form of cancer among white women between the ages of 15 and 29 and the rate of melanoma in this anyone group has grown by 50% since the 1980s as tanning beds have proliferated. >> nancy, do you expect there will be congressional action? >> well, there's not that much that congress can do aside from urging the fda to reclassify tanning beds as harmful to regulate them more strictly and that's really what this investigation was all about was sending a message that often tanning salons aren't policing themselves and are giving bad information to teens, charlie. >> nancy, thanks. it is a very important day here at cbs. david letterman is marking a major tv milestone. 30 years as a late night host. >> that's a long time.

we're told that any celebration will be low key. we look at howler man has done so well for so long. >> here's the one and only bill murray everybody. >> when actor and funny man bill murray appeared on the late show with david letterman last night, it was a nod in history. >> i love this. can we do this? >> no, we can't. >> letterman's very first sketch, late night television as the talk show host took his initial steps on a 30-year journey. >> you had to think of what talk shows were like when letterman started in 1982. johnny carson was very funny. but the tonight show was something that your parents watched. younger people were not the audience. dave changed all that. >> we're going to pause here for station identification. >> changed it with an off the cuff dare to be different style. for more than a decade, letterman worked the 12:30 time slot at nbc. under study to his mentor,

johnny carson, whose standard setting tonight show aired the 11:30. dave was the heir apparent, he was given the slot behind johnny. when carson announced his retirement in 1992, nbc executives tapped jay leno as his successor. a crushing blow to letterman who sat down with cbs news back in 1994. i was used goods, i was damaged property. i was yesterday's real estate. i was last night's dinner. >> letterman's loss was cbs' gain. >> we hadn't had a late night for a long time. we were the orphans of late night. >> sir howard stringer was president of cbs at the time. it was his job to woo letterman to the network. >> i went through alan alda and mary tyler moore and all the great stars of cbs and i said, this is a classy place. you belong here. >> the pitch worked. helped out shirley but a $14 million contract.

>> i would like to thank them for their generosity. >> letterman had his 11:30 time slot. cbs had its star. in august of 1993, david letterman stepped on to the stage of the same ed sullivan theater and the late show was born. >> this is not cats. this is my tv show. >> i'm in the wrong theater. >> oh. the zany antics and shtick that defined letterman's comedy. >> and the number one other newt gingrich big idea. open marriages for people named newt. >> is that a roach? >> you're talking approximate my hair? >> what is that, a swim cap? what are you wearing? >> his interviews which turn into verbal sparring matches are just as memorable. >> we love you paris. >> love you too.

>> somebody you met in prison? >> because david letterman approached the talk show format with such a reverence, that's emboldened many of the guests to do things they wouldn't think of doing on television before. so many things over the years have happened on the show that are totally unpredictable. >> this is where he went. he's closing in on me. >> regis philbin is letterman's long time friend and at times a favorite punch line. >> you're a [ muted ]. >> he's the best guy. i knew them all. knew them well. the best late night host we ever had on television. >> letterman gained the respect of hollywood stars with a cantankerous, yet candid approach. >> how many times you been married? >> a couple. >> dry sense of humor. i think he's smart and funny.

as a woman you feel appreciated by david letterman. >> he's terrific. love dave. always have. >> it's those endearing moments like the triumphant return to television after heart surgery. >> wait until you hear what happened to me. >> it made a lasting impression on generations of viewers. at 64 at the late show host is just three years younger than carson was when he retired. >> who knows what can happen in late night. who knows what changes could make. but we thought we had a keeper. history has proved us right. he's a permanent player. he can stay as long as he wants to. >> for the moment, dave shows no sign that he's ready to walk away. for "cbs this morning," i'm seth doen in new york. you know, he's not only great revolutionary in terms of bringing new things to television, he's just a fantastic broadcaster as regis is. >> i love how julianna says smart and funny. you know what else, i think of

bad as, everybody is trying to get an interview, including us. he says he says what he has to say on his so. >> it's a great show. >> guess who is on tonight for the 30th anniversary? >> howard stern. he's been on more than anybody else. >> the king of all medium. >> must-see tv. congratulations, david letterman. channing tatum is one of the busiest actors around. but the star of the vow has been

so we come down here at night and look at the lake? >> that's not exactly what we do. >> um, i'm not -- >> not that. we said that we would go in one april month every month and we

haven't done april yet. we started in july. >> what are necessity going to do? in the new movie the vow, channing tatum plays a husband struggling to win back his wife after she loses all memory of him in a car accident. >> lucky us, channing tatum is here in studio 57. >> lucky us is right. >> will you be removing your shirt during this interview? i'm asking for erica, not for me. >> i was too shy to ask. >> it was your job once, though, wasn't it? >> it was actually at 19 years old in a crazy part of my life, yes, for six months. >> think about your life. 19 years old. you were an exotic dancer. fast forward to 12 years later. you're opening five, six movies the beginning of the year. do you look back on those days and say how do you like me now? or do you say that was then, this is now? >> i think i probably do both to be fully honest. we went back to tampa. i made a film about it with

steven soderbergh. you're walking the same street, i was living in government housing at the time. you're looking around and did this really happen? is this some weird sort of trip that i'm on? it is. it is a really strange road that i've sort of gotten here on. it's been fun. >> so when did you decide, you know, i would really like to be an actor? when did that happen to you? >> it fell in my lap. i moved to miami by myself to get out of tampa. i thought it was more metropolis and i could get a better job and work my way up. i didn't have a college degree or anything. and then someone just actually saw me on the street. this guy said do you have representation? i was like, for what? i was like, i don't know what you mean. that got me interested. i walked in and then i -- all around the world modeling. did that for two and a half years and got a pepsi commercial. really just fell in love with acting. >> the vow, i read that you wanted to work with rachel mcadams and learn from her.

>> yeah. >> what did you want to learn? >> she has this enigma. she has a light that you don't understand where it comes from. i wanted to get around that -- i've watched her for so long. then to get to work with her, i think i have this thing in the way that i sort of approach my characters. i try to do it honestly. i don't know if i would say that. it doesn't feel honest. she has the opposite. she puts herself into these characters, even the things that don't feel natural. she'll find a way to wiggle into them. i admire that hugely. >> you know what's so great about the movie. i watch it with a group of people, male and female. you may call it cheesy but it's likeable and not filled with a lot of cliche. as you're watching it, you think it's going to end one way and maybe it doesn't go the way you planned it. when you looked at the script, you said i could do this. i know what i want to do with this guy. >> absolutely.

i'm married myself. >> you're married? >> you're breaking hearts. >> jenna. >> how long have you been married? >> two and a half years and together for about seven. >> nice. okayment. >> the first pages gets into the relationship so beautifully with all the tiny little moments in their life that i could harken back on my own relationship and imagine if i lost those moments. and they're gone but not to me. to her. i don't know. so sort of shock and i don't know. i really wanted to explore what that would be like. how they get back to it is a really interesting journey. it's not very fairytalesque. i can safely say that. >> what is it like for your wife jenna when you go on screen? i'm not kidding. several women were drooling. i was taking notes because i knew i was interviewing you. several women were drooling. calm down, erica. >> come on gayle. >> i mean the women. it's no question that women see you, you're a very good looking guy. people like watching you on the

screen. how does your wife deal with that. >> she's beautiful herself. she doesn't think about it. i think she's pretty secure like knowing what she's got to offer. >> do you ever talk approximate it? >> how about beautiful she is? >> every single day. every single turn. i say look how beautiful you are. >> nicely done. >> you have a dog. this is the thing, erica. you got to love a guy that loves his wife and his dog lieu lieu. >> i got a fluffy one as well. mica. will y lu lu is my soul dog. we have a connection. >> very nice, channing tatum. the movie is "the vow." >> the vow hit theaters next friday, february 10th. >> not named for someone else. just in case you're wondering. i was. why is florida so important in presidential politic. author carl hiaasen says it's a one of a kind place. he gives us a special look at

his home state coming up. you're watching "cbs this morning."

♪ a florida primary is over. but this very important swing state will get lots of attention during the rest of the campaign. national correspondent chip reid talked to one observer who says expect a bumpy ride ahead. >> if the state of florida decided to elect a writer in chief, carl hiaasen might be the only name on the ballot. >> it's not south carolina. it's not ohio. it's not new hampshire. it's more like the rest of the country except of course more twisted and bizarre. >> this comes out in their books. florida is a strange, twisted, bizarre place. why is that? >> you have a mix like i don't think any other and it's just a

weird collision of cultures. the result is wonderful if you're a novel he's or a journal i. the material is so rich. if you're a normal human being trying to get by. some days are pretty hairy. >> hiaasen is at work an his 24th book. for 27 years he's had a column in the miami herald. most of his writing skewers the state where he was born, so loves and about which he is deeply concerned. >> how would you sum up the political landscape in florida right now? >> well, i mean, i think there's a certain amount of chaos and that doesn't necessarily mean that it's unhealthy chaos. i just think you've got so many constituencie constituencies, there's going to be a different pitch in the panhandle. it really is much more like southern alabama, southern georgia. miami and the keys is a whole different thing. immigration is going to be much more contentious issue in miami than it is up in gadsden county. you can't make the same speech there as you make in dade

county. can't do it. >> are you suggesting that politicians have to speak out of both sides of their mouths? >> i'm suggesting they're going to need more than two sides of their mouth if to win florida. talking like charlie mccarthy on acid. >> does it concern you that florida is playing this out-sized role in determining who the republican nominee is and in the fall, determining who the president is when so much of the economic hardships started here in florida? >> it's ironic and terrifying at the same time. we have ghost towns of subdivisions in this state now that were built for people who maybe six, seven, eight years before those are occupied. the state of exploitation, of resources from the very beginning. not democratic, not republican. >> hiaasen still loves florida and has no plans to move anywhere else. for a writer would likes to

lampoon everybody from politicians to developers, he says there's too much good material to leave. for "cbs this morning," chip reid, hair he will beach, florida. >> another great journalist who became a great novelist and writer. >> he's written over 20-plus books. i heard florida loves him. i had a new york moment yesterday. walking down the street there was a crowd gathering. i'm a nosy rosie. i said what's everybody looking at. i pulled up my phone and took a picture of this. this on the street. a regal looking. >> very regal and polite and well-groomed. this reminded me of you. his name is charlie. >> the name reminded you. nothing else in. >> polite, well-groomed and scary smart. >> oh, no. scary smart. >> thank you, my dear. >> that's to you, charlie rose. there was a dentist along the street. i i said, hey, doctor, can i take a picture of you and your dog. >> i went to see the peacocks at

the zoo with my kids. up next, your local news. see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning."

headlines... state regulators are expected to vote today on an "op good morning. it's 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat with the bay area headlines. state regulators are expected to vote today on an "opt out" man for smartmeters. some customers are concerned about the high-tech meters regarding accuracy, the potential for hacking and the electromagnetic radiation. it's going to cost a couple of bucks though. a new budget plan for oakland calls for 100 lost jobs. the city council voted to cut millions in spending. and the city of pleasanton has reached a tentative agreement with its police officers union all in a deal to -- aimed at controlling the city's rising pension costs. it calls for the officers to contribute more to the retirement plan per month. it needs approval from the city council. lawrence has a check on the weather forecast.

>> weak cold front in the bay area today bringing plenty of clouds. we have seen some light showers, even some drizzle out there this morning and plenty of fog and that's going to slowly clear as we head throughout the morning. we are going to sneak in a little sunshine by the afternoon but yet another dying cold front headed through the bay area, very much what we have seen all winter long so not much in the way of rainfall left behind. and by the afternoon, we're dry. plan on 50s into san francisco, 60s in toward the san jose area and about 61 degrees in livermore. by tomorrow, offshore winds kick in around the bay area as high pressure builds in. temperatures warming up above the average staying dry through saturday and sunday. next best chance of showers comes next tuesday. we'll check your "timesaver traffic" camera coming up next.

good morning. obviously a lot of fog, low clouds making it a little difficult to see our 880 shot. near the coliseum. brake lights especially in the northbound lanes past the coliseum. it improves closer to the downtown oakland exit. another accident in oakland westbound 580 by highway 13. there are lanes blocked. and you can see our sensors are changing colors. there is some backup behind it. chp is on scene. back outside live look at the san mateo bridge, this is the commute direction westbound 92, 17 minutes out of hayward toward 101 foster city and the peninsula and stop and go out of downtown san jose right now on 280 but bart in fact all mass transit is on time. have a great day.