up after the fight. >> have a great valentine's day. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com captioning funded by cbs good morning to our viewers in the west. it is tuesday, february 14th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. a cbs news poll out this morning shows rick santorum is now ahead of mitt romney in the gop presidential race. bob schieffer weighs in on that, plus we'll go to the white house for a look at that big meeting between president obama and china's next president. i'm gayle king. whitney houston's body is brought back home to new jersey. her family is planning what could be a massive public funeral. and when i see you at 8:00, why is being single, why does that cost you more than being married? i'm erica hill. did the government disregard warnings about dangerous

cigarette lighters? we have a cbs news investigation, plus the inside story behind jackie kennedy's legendary white house tour broadcast 50 years ago today. but first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> why don't you get out there and vote. >> i'm still here and we're going to come back again. mitt romney and newt gingrich try to slow rick santorum's surge. >> you know who's the hot republican candidate right now? rick santorum. >> is this guy the front-runner? oh, man. from homs and it's safe to say government forces have renewed their assault on the city. >> end the killing immediately. we have heard the call of the syrian people for help. >> she was very well loved. i just felt like i needed to be here. whitney houston's body is returned to new jersey as california continues its investigation.

>> until we run a tox and see the level and what's in the system, we're not going to speculate. >> we're going to find out what was in her system. i'd like to find out who, if anyone, put it in her system or gave it to her. >> it's signed! >> washington became the seventh state to legalize same sex marriages. >> my friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow. >> justbreyer was robbed last week. >> he always has a plan on valentine's. >> a new baby sha thoots arrows isn't a holiday, that's a who are row film. >> all that matters. >> there we go. >> on cbs this morning. >> they told me there were ten women out there. i would have worn my bikini. >> oh, did you bring one? >> no.

welcome to "cbs this morning." the republican presidential race has been full of surprises, and there are more of them this morning in the latest cbs news, "new york times" poll. it shows rick santorum in first place now leading mitt romney 30% to 27%. santorum's support has doubled since our last poll five weeks ago. the new poll shows ron paul in third place ahead of newt gingrich. >> but the poll also finds 60% of gop primary voters say it is still too early to decide who they'll vote for with most of the big states holding their primaries in several weeks. >> let's look at those numbers and more with chief washington correspondent and host of face the nation, bob schieffer. >> good morning, charlie. >> looking at these numbers, what do they say to you about this race for the republican nomination? >> reporter: you know, i was just sitting here this morning thinking, what is the phrase that i've used more than any other phrase during this campaign season? i guess it is, well, here we go again. i mean, you don't have to be

very old to remember when herman cain was the front-runner here, and now you have newt gingrich. i think it's underlining, charlie, that this field is still very volatile and that mitt romney has still not sealed the deal with conservatives, a very large part of his party. they just don't believe he's a conservative. they're finding, searching for their own champion, and this week it happens to be rick santorum. >> and so when the national review, a magazine founded by bill buckley says to newt gingrich, get out, does that have any impact and will it be followed by other conservatives urging gingrich to step aside so they can focus and get behind rick santorum? >> reporter: well, you're not going to hear me say that newt gingrich is done. i've pronounced him dead twice here in this campaign, and i've learned my lesson on this. but i think that is a serious blow to newt gingrich. what's hurting gingrich right now, charlie, is you have no debates going on, and his whole

campaign has been built around getting on television and debating these other candidates. we haven't had any. we won't have any until toward the end of february so he has somehow got to figure out how to just hang in there until you come to these next primaries and the next debate. right now gingrich is riding low. >> what impresses me about santorum coming from pennsylvania is the fact that he is a blue collar candidate in his own words and he's ahead in michigan, which is mitt romney's stomping grounds. >> reporter: and where he grew up. it's beyond just where he lived, it's where he grew up. it is very interesting to watch this santorum campaign unfold. santorum, his wheel house has always been with conservatives, social issues. he has been the one who has been strongly against gay marriage. he's the one who's been strongly against abortion. you're already seeing where he's

trying to shift away from that and talk about economic issues. again, we keep talking about the republican establishment and who is the republican establishment for. this is a very different republican establishment than it was even four years ago. certainly it's a very different republican establishment than it was when mitt romney's father was the governor of michigan. this is a party that has moved to the right, and it appears to me that a larger segment of it is more conservative than it used to be just four years ago than we may have even thought. and the underlined evidence of that, it seems to me, is that rick santorum is now leading. he may actually win michigan, and what does that do to the romney campaign? it's hard to say, but it's not good. >> it definitely would give us plenty to talk about. we talked about rick santorum

being conservative when it comes to social issues. as he tries to focus more on the economy, does he have a message there and a track record that will resonate with voters beyond that social conservative record? >> reporter: well, it's hard to know that, erica. he's for low taxes. he's for pretty much all the things that the other conservative republicans are about. throughout his career that has not been what he talked about. the other question is what is romney going to do now? my guess is he'll go back to the one thing that seems to work for him in this campaign, and that is negative advertising. let's not forget that at the beginning of all of this way back there in iowa there was a time when newt gingrich was leading this pack, and then the next thing you know romney and his super pac dumped just a load of negative advertising on newt. he went down. he did not really come back until south carolina. he has run some negative advertising against santorum, but my guess is that's going to be the next thing we're going to

see is a whole lot of negative advertising aimed at rick santorum. >> and we did just see the super pac backing money to buy a bunch of air time. there's a big meeting at the white house today between president obama and the man who will soon become china's next president. vice president joe biden greeted xi jinping as he arrived in washington yesterday. >> but not everyone is putting out the welcome mat as we hear from senior white house correspondent bill plante. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, charlie. a year from now xi jinping is expected to be china's new leader. his visit here is meant to showcase the economic upside of the u.s./china relationship. it comes at a time of severe tension between the two countries on trade and human rights. >> reporter: shee is one of the most important figures in china. in line to become the head of china's communist party this year and china's president in 2013. he could rule there for the next ten years. his trip to the u.s. is a trade

mission but is also meant to bolster china's image because in washington his country is often accused of not playing by the rules. >> it's not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours only because they're heavily subsidized. >> reporter: that's just the beginning. the administration has also accused china of currency manipulation, protectionism and intellectual property theft, all of which are seen as giving the chinese an unfair advantage potentially taking away american jobs. >> we try to set up rules that are universal that everybody can follow and then we play by those rules and then we compete fiercely. but we don't try to game the system. >> reporter: republicans running for president used china as a foil, too. at times seeming to one up each other on who can be the toughest on china. >> i will designate china as a currency manipulator. >> i think we're going to have to find ways to dramatically

raise the pain level for the chinese cheating. >> reporter: but the head of a group working to grow u.s./china business ties says the health of our economy is more closely linked to china's success than we might think. >> it's probably a $200 billion market for u.s. companies now. that's why china's important to us. it's enormously important to our economy, directly or indirectly. >> reporter: as xi jinping is going to iowa and california, he'll get a much more bigger welcome in iowa. the emphasis is on trade. >> bill, he is a he going to iowa because he lived there briefly. tell us more about him. a very interesting man who americans will be getting to know for the first time. >> reporter: well, that's right. he's a bit less formal than most chinese leaders that we've seen before. in 1985 he went to iowa to study leaner pork technology and corn. he stayed with a family there who he will see again when he's here. you know what else, his wife, who is not with him on this

trip, is a very big deal in china. she is a pop star. but that's not all. she's also a major general in the people's liberation army. by the way, his name, according to our man in hong con, jinping means peace. there are new developments on both coasts in the death of whitney houston. last night her body was brought from los angeles to newark, new jersey, where she was born 48 years ago. police are tight-lipped about their investigation. there are still some new details coming out. john blackstone is in beverly hills where the singer died in her hotel room on saturday. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. good morning across the west. whitney houston's death remains under active investigation here at the beverly hills police department. her body has been released to her family. they're making plans for a funeral at the end of this week

back in new jersey. >> reporter: houston's journey back home began in a van carrying her body from the los angeles county morgue. then it was put on a private jet for a flight back to new jersey where she grew up singing in a choir. back in los angeles there remain many unanswered questions as beverly hills police insist they are treating houston as they would any unexpected fatality in this privileged community. >> it's deemed to be a death investigation. it's not prompted by her celebrity or notoriety. >> reporter: but her celebrity is leading to plenty of rumors. the website tmz obtained photos of the remains of a room service meal said to be houston's last. it included both beer and champagne along with a burger and a turkey sandwich. law enforcement sources have confirmed to cbs news that prescription drugs were found in the room creating speculation that a mixture of drugs and alcohol could have contributed to her death.

kevin frazier "the insider" said she had an interview scheduled when they became worried that she was in the bathtub. >> just before the 911 call went out they were banging on the door trying to get in to get to whitney. >> reporter: she was found unconscious by a hairdresser and body guard. >> the hairdresser and a body guard pulled her out of the bathtub, put her in the room, and she told her niece and her niece immediately tweeted it out. >> reporter: that message on twitter said my aunt who works for whitney houston just found whitney houston dead in the tub. it was the first the world would hear of houston's death and came just 20 minutes after paramedics gave up trying to revive her. late monday evening houston's body arrived at a new jersey funeral home where many of her fans came out to say good-bye. >> reporter: houston's family is said to be considering the prudential center in newark as

the site for a huge funeral at the end of this week. that arena can hold some 18,000 people. >> john blackstone in beverly hills this morning. thank you. just up the coast, washington state is now the seventh state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage. governor chris gregoire made it official yesterday. >> it is signed. ♪ hold your hand ♪ i want to hold your hand ♪ the law takes effect in june. opponents that were already challenging it. supporters say they are ready for the battle but they want to celebrate first. >> my friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow. >> yesterday the new jersey state senate passed a same-sex marriage bill. governor chris christie though says he will veto it if it does reach his desk. overseas the situation is deteriorating once again. this morning government troops resume their assault on rebel

forces. the city of homs has been under attack for ten straight days. activists there say hundreds have been killed since saturday. the u.n. warns syria is on the brink of civil war. the united states says it would consider an arab league call for international peace keepers. this morning a robbery involving supreme court justice stephen breyer is raising serious questions about security. they were held up last week in a vacation home in the caribbean. >> officials say an intruder with a machete took about $1,000 in cash. no one was hurt. so eni don't remember correspondent john miller is here. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what's going on here? >> well, this is either a burglary gone bad. he came into a house that happened to be owned by justice breyer with a group of three other men, the principal robber wooelding a ma shety, or it was a straight up home invasion. no one can tell. it has stirred that question

about when the justices travel overseas on personal business or vacation, do they need protection? >> and what's likely to happen? >> well, i think, you know, this is a divided job. the court, they are protected by the u.s. supreme court police when they make public appearances they're guarded by united states mash shals, but when they travel on their own on vacation, they generally travel on their own if it's not on court business. so i think they will have to look at this. you have two or three supreme court justices who have been robbed or mugged in the past, only one that was ever attacked in anything that had to do with his job back in 1982. >> so in today's world that would make them -- i mean, they may very well be targets. >> well, and that's what they're talking about. the key indication here is there's no indicator that the robber actually no who he was robbing other than that they watched that house, they saw activity and thought there might be a score there. but the fbi has dispatched a legal attache who's assigned to

the embassy in barbados. he's working with the local police to try and identify these robbers, bring them in, and learn the answers to those questions. and if he needs more help, he can call the miami field office and they'll send the cavalry. >> what's interesting about this is the kind of situation is once an incident happens you say, why haven't we thought about this before? >> and they have thought about it before. there's a push and pum here. the u.s. marshalls would be glad to provide that protection but the justices when they go on vacation don't want to be traveling around with four burly guys standing in flowered shirts in the corner when they can be with themselves and their families and be low key. >> it might change now? >> it might. now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe, "usa today" reports that apple stock hits $500 a share monday for the first time ever. at the same time apple says an independent group is checking its factories in china where working conditions have been heavily criticized. according to the "new york times" the owners of the empire state building are filing for an

ipo to create a new company. they're selling stock in the historic skyscraper. in colorado "the denver post" reports on the first violent incident at columbine high school. police say 14-year-old girl hit two of the students with a hammer on monday. in ft. lauderdale an investigation by "the sun sentinel oi oi newspaper says police officers caught speeding rarely gets a ticket even when there was an accident that was caused by speeding. >> britain's "guardian" newspaper has a town outside of paris. people don't like a new statute because it looks like a french first lady, carla broouny sarcozy. >> if they tell you the boss is in a meeting, they're probably telling the truth. a new study headlined by "the wall street journal" finds ceos spend 1/3 of their working hours in meetings. that adds up to

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in one week this unknown asian american with a degree in economics from harvard put up lebron james-like numbers. >> he came out of nowhere. >> he came out of nowhere which is my name name for harvard. now, you know things are rough when a harvard economics grad has an easier time getting a job as an nba point guard than a wall street bond trader. >> how great is that? >> and the job he found seems to be working out pretty well for him. >> i think the new contract will be coming soon. >> yes. >> perhaps more than a wall street trader. >> yes. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> 50 years ago today first lady jackie kennedy captured america for one night on television. 80 million people watched her give a tour of the restored

white house. >> now her papers are revealing more. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." a young girl is in critcal t stable condition caught in a good morning. it's 7:26. happy valentine's day. i'm frank mallicoat with your bay area news. a young girl is in critical but stable condition after being caught in a shootout. this happened in vallejo. four other people were also wounded at tina's nail salon. one suspect under aremember, the motive unknown. -- one suspect under arrest. the motive unknown. a long-term care facility in burlingame is seismically unsafe. several groups would like to keep it open today. the board of supervisors will meet about it today. tony bennett celebrating valentine's day at san francisco city hall. at noontime he will lead a sing- along of his signature song i left my heart in san francisco. he recorded it 50 years ago last month. and it's as good as it ever was.

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good morning westbound 24 before the caldecott tunnel through orinda a problem near fish ranch road. sounds like it's a big rig and it's stuck and blocking two right lanes. so there is a backup now heading out of orinda towards the oakland area. otherwise, heading towards the bay bridge toll plaza, it is stacked up to the maze now for a good 20 minutes wait or so. we're also watching this accident southbound 880 at 84. two lanes are blocked. no injuries reported. it is backed up here's lawrence. >> all right, elizabeth. happy valentine's day. bundle up. it's chilly early on. how about that, mount hamilton snow from yesterday's storm. a gorgeous sight if you are in the south bay. check that out today. temperatures chilly 30s and 40s around the bay area right now. patchy fog inland. this afternoon 50s and 60s.

all right. now can we reveal it? get ready, girls. by the way, there really are no losers here tonight, do you understand that? >> any time. and we're going to see -- there we go. >> that was our gierks david letterman, revealing the lucky cover gill on this year's "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition coming to a mailbox near you. welcome back to "cbs this morning.." >> what a valentine's day gift to so many men. >> so many, so many. we're hearing surprising

details of jackie kennedy this morning. >> they've just released some of her personal papers including her notes from a famous tv tour of the white house that aired 50 years ago today. chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell is with us with more on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. what perhaps is most interesting about these new papers from jackie kennedy is they include her own personal handwriting, notes about how she was intimately involved including sketches of draperies, even notes about this very popular tour, this tour that was actually seen around the world and actually earned her an emmy nomination. >> well, it's the room that people see first when they come to the white house. >> reporter: on valentine's day in 1962 first lady jacqueline kennedy gave cbs news correspondent charles callingwood and america the

first tour of the white house. >> they are pretty. they're rather interesting because they're american as is all the furniture in this room. >> reporter: mrs. kennedy is seen at ease while show casing a $2 million renovation that she launched to restore the home with an eye to returning to its historic roots. i thought it would be interesting for you to see what a room is like when we're starting to do it. >> reporter: the scripted broadcast helped drive the perception that the kennedy white house was different from its predecessors, one of grace and elegance, and it was the public's most extended view of the first lady. >> it introduced jacqueline kennedy to the american people in a way they hadn't seen her. she wanted to show people the entire process she had worked through in the entire year she had been first lady. >> reporter: now 50 years after that historic broadcast, some of mrs. kennedy's personal papers are being made public, among

them, her own changes to the original script, changing indicating that the notice of camelot was hers from the very start. >> camelot was not simply a myth but rather it was an image that the kennedys began before the president's death and before mrs. kennedy ever applied that label, camelot. >> reporter: known for her meticulous attention to detail, mrs. kennedy made sure individual donors were publicly acknowledged. and also made sure to recognize the contribution of past administrations. >> mrs. eisenhower brought all this superb furniture into the room. we added the wallpaper. >> reporter: the papers contain a proposed hairstyle to mrs. kennedy to unveil on that famous 1961 trip to paris. >> i'm the man who accompanied jacqueline kennedy to paris and i've enjoyed it. >> reporter: all proving that half a century later, fascination with that glamorous

first family continues to live on. and you know what's interesting? this white house tour also marks in some ways a turning point in television history. this was seen as the first prime time documentary special that was marketed toward a female audience, and, of course, it helped make jackie kennedy a star not just here at home, but also around the world. >> norah, thank you so much. joining us now from austin, texas, consultant douglas brinkley. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what are we learning about jacqueline kennedy? >> well, that 50 years ago on valentine's day she became america's sweet hare and 50 years later she still is. people love to listen to her, listen to her diction, watch her poise, try to understand what's going through her mind. that charles callingwood white house tour was just very important in tv history, not

just because we're tracking a female audience and because it was 80 million viewers but it was syndicated all over the world. people saw it in russia, china. and it made the white house, particularly the kennedy white house very in and very chic. we've never had the word "chic" applied to the white house until this interesting tour. >> what's interesting to me is we've had some of the audiotapes of interviews with her, and she comes through with a much stronger personality with opinions about politics that she said she got from her husband but opinions of other people as well. she was not in any way a shrinking violet. >> no. this white house tour, what this new release is showing, just how she orchestrated this. she won an emmy statuette for this performance, really. they had a hollywood director watching it.

callingwood would interview her and interview her on the side and have her talking. she purposely picked out which objects -- you know, the white house was. treated as a national monument before jacqueline kennedy. it was a place with furniture. she pulled in things for the white house. the recent document came out. you can see she saw how things were done in monticello or jefferson's house or mt. vernon's home. >> you could have touched on this as well. she also reviewed the role of first lady and modernized that. >> tv really is a game-changer. we're going to be coming into the convention season late this summer. in 1952 it was television cameras brought into the conventions that changed things.

in 1960, kennedy/nixon debate. tv plays a big role. it coincides this white house tour with callingwood that made them crazy. a week later john glenn orbited the earth. and it becomes 1962, the year of camelot and kennedy. in 1962 she -- her son john jr. was born in 1960. she took the trip to yuch. jackie and jacqueline kennedy, the family didn't have that great a year in '61. bay pigs, and the fighting. it ended in the cuban missile crisis with kennedy outfoxing most historians feel the soviets by '36, that wasn't grail she was pregnant, jackie kennedy,

and she lost him. many people don't realize. patrick only lived a few days and died. >> always greats to have you with us. we're lucky. in the situation like this, we can turn to you, charlie and get some great observations. you were telling us this morning about your relationship with jacqueline kennedy and how you came to know her. >> it wasn't a relationship much but she called me because she was a book publisher. i had begun a television program that i still continue to do. she wanted to meet and talk about the program and have lunch and in other circumstances talk how she saw it. i remembered

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cancer drug shortage we've been reporting on how hospitals and patients are finding it harder to get some medications because drug companies have stopped make them. >> medical correspondent dr. jon lapook says one shortage could put thousands of children's lives at risk. >> we didn't choose this battle, but here we are. we need to win it. >> reporter: when mark schoenve schoenveld's daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, the family was devastated but still hopeful. >> they gave her a decent prognosis. the fact of the matter is it's curable. so in regards to leukemia, we see it in a weird way as lucky as its is curable. >> reporter: but it depends on a cocktail of chemotherapy drugs

and meth oh treks eight is rushing out. elena is being treated at the philadelphia hospital where dr. john maris is chief of oncology. >> children will die because children cannot get methotrexate. it's a live-saving drug. >> reporter: dr. maris's hospital has only a two-month supply of the medication which children usually take for three years, but the shortage doesn't stop there. 28 cancer drugs taken by more than half a million patients are in short supply. there are several reasons. one problem, a smaller profit margin because many of these drugs have become generic. there are fewer suppliers. the largest manufacturer of methotrexate shut down its plant last fall. >> it's a real, real crisis. unless something dramatic changes in the next few weeks, myself and other physicians and

nurses on this unit are going to need to look parents in the eye and say we don't have mets oh treks yat. we're going do something else that's not as good and i'm sorry. >> reporter: it's the last thing elena's parents want to hear. >> it's tough but they'll find a way. the drug is known. everyone knows,000 make it. make it. >> so dr. jon lapook is with us now. what's the reaction, and are you surprised at the anger? >> the reaction has been absolutely outrage on the part of my colleagues, especially the oncologists. these are people who are normally very strish and calm. they're outraged because this is not a new problem. in fact, it's been known for years. over the past five years, the number of drugs that are in short supply has tripled and yet there's this problem for a disease that has about a 90% cure rate. >> at the end of the day, this

is all about money. >> i think it is all about money. thing at the root of this is the fact that these drugs have become generic so there's not a big margin for them. you can't point to one thing, manufacturing problems, problems with raw materials, problems with, again, the profit margin here, but there is a solution, okay? the solution -- at least one solution is that the fda -- it's a perfect role for them to be the orchestrater, the conductor here and say, you know something? if we just get a heads up, we can predict which companies are going to be at a shortage and try to prevent it. in the last two years they've prevented more than 200 of these shortages, but the problem is there are three bills in congress right now to address this and they have not been brought to the floor to vote. >> maybe this will bring some attention there. john, thanks. rue put murdock is facing a revolt. he's expected in london this week. we'll take a closer look at this

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good morning. we have a long line of brake lights on southbound 880 through the east bay. we're following a new accident southbound 880 at tennyson and hayward but check the slow speeds all the way down into fremont. there was an earlier accident southbound 880 near highway 84. it is still there but cleared to the right shoulder so now out of lanes. unfortunately it's just brake lights central from hayward to fremont. once you get past there towards milpitas then speeds improve but westbound 237 a slow ride for silicon valley commuters. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> lots of sunshine on this valentine's day coming our way as temperatures going to heat up very nicely outside. couple of patches of fog down below. mount vaca cam showing high clouds up above but through the day these temperatures in the 30s and 40s now going to warm up nicely. highs running up into the 60s and low 60s by the afternoon. looks like a couple of more clouds our way overnight tonight with a slight chance of showers and more sunshine on thursday.

white castle was offering candle-lit dinner service for valentine's day tomorrow. yeah, candle lit dinner. it's the perfect way to tell your partner, i'm hungry, and i don't love you that much. >> so true, conan. so true. happy valentine's day to you. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and happy valentine's day to you, and happy valentine's day to you. >> before we go, what did you get us? the thing you got us last year, but a different color? a different tie? >> it's in the mail. >> okay, charlie. you still have time. >> all right. i'm charlie rose with erica hill. rupert murdoch is heading to london this week to face another

crisis in his media empire. >> there are rumors he may shut down his paper "the sun" after the arrest of several thof sevel top journalists. charlie d'agata is in london. >> reporter: the arrests came over the weekend, and the tipoff came from murdoch's own people raising angry accusations they're taking the fall an being hung out to dry. rupert murdoch is expected to return to london this week in a desperate attempt to contain a crisis that won't go away. in fact, it just got even worse. now he's facing a showdown at newsroom of the crown jewel of his british empire, "the sun" newspaper, after a series of arrests. it triggered pre-dawn raids and a heavy-handed witch hunt. >> if we accept this is disproportionate and a sense of proportion needs to be restored, then you wind down some of the activities. why do you need 20 police

officers to raid the home of the a single journalist? >> reporter: murdoch may be coming to reassure "sun" employees and avoid mutiny. the last time one of his newspapers was in had this much trouble "the news of the world," he shut it down. but there are those who used to work for him that say he has a reputation for surviving a crisis. >> this is a man who's been battling for the last 60-plus years. he's had other crises to face in the past. he's been sued by the queen. he's had to write a check for a million pounds to elton john. >> reporter: however, many wonder what murdoch can do. last july, he said his priority was saving the skin of rebecca brooke, then chief of "news international." within days, she was gone, forced to resign. the construction probe is running alongside the ongoing hacking investigation that has seen murdoch eat humble pie. and later take a pie in the face. it would have been a direct hit,

too, if not for the efforts of his wife wendy. murdoch's son james has come under fire too. they're not just fighting for survival of the murdoch empire, but the legacy of the man who built it. roou better murdoch's main priority here is damage limitation. british lawmakers said the trouble at murdoch's papers haven't come from a few bad apples, but the whole orchard. >> so what is he expected to do? it's been quoted that the sun has turned against rupert murdoch. he has put in place things he cannot stop. "the sun" was closest to his heart. he won't be welcomed. they believe he has launched a witch hunt to protect himself. so where could this go? >> reporter: well, he's going to face a showdown, charlie, when he arrives here. he's expected to arrive thursday or friday. he has to walk through that

newsroom at "the sun" knowing that the people -- and these are senior figures. these are names that are known here, the ones who have essentially been ratted out for an investigation within murdoch's own organization. so we hear that journalists at t "the sun" who have been using these practices that have been relatively widely accented, are now scrambling for their own lawyers and defending themselves. this is the crown jewel of murdoch's empire. it's something he built his empire from 30, 40 years ago. will be a showdown. we'll look to see what happens thursday or friday when he's expected to arrive. >> he used "the sun" to pay for the "the times" and other publicaions he had. some people ask the question not about london but about whether this investigation might come to the united states, where the news corp. is headquartered. any sense of where that is? >> that's the biggest concern for news international

executives. although we've had the hacking scandal that's been going on for years, this idea of bribery, including bribing foreign officials, is the issue that could have blowback in the united states. it is a crime in the united states. it carries heavy fines in the u.s. if he's found guilty -- or if his organization is found guilty of breaching those allegations, it will mean trouble in the u.s.

we know her as one of america's legendary sex symbols. raquel welch still looks fantastic. but that isn't all she does. she'll be here to look at her long career. and her latest tv project, it's a mystery. you're watching "cbs this morning." so we made ocean spray cranberry juice cocktail with a splash of lime. it's so refreshing, your taste buds will thank you. mm... oh, you're welcome. what? my taste buds -- they're thanking me. uh-huh. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... ...could mean living with joint damage. help stop the damage before it stops you...

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♪ st. paul there this morning. more than 2 million disposable lighters are sold every day in the u.s., which is a staggering number. many of them are imported from china, and we're learning they could have dangerous flaws. >> it's true. our investigative correspondent has a story of a texas family paying the price for one bad lighter. >> did he call you first? >> reporter: one spring evening in 2008, ricky clemmer got a frantic call from his brother bill and rushed to bill's work at a nearby machine shop. >> from his waist up, he was just burnt up. i mean, black.

he said, my cigarette lighter blew up. >> reporter: those were the last words the brothers ever exchanged. bill was rushed to the hospital, where he died 28 days later. his family left to piece together what went wrong. >> billy had set himself on fire over here and ran over there and put himself out. then come back and called me. you know, how he managed to do that, you know, just -- i haven't a clue how he managed to do that. >> reporter: the clemmers hired experts to deconstruct bill's accidents. they concluded flaws in the lighter caused it to fail. after bill lit his cigarette, the lighter should have shut off. instead, a small flame continued to burn. fuel leaked out, evaporated into bill's clothes, heated, and caught fire. >> i can feel some of the unburned liquid on my hands. >> reporter: one engineer hired by the clemmers provided us his

research video. it shows disposable lighters malfunctioning. watch the flame continue to burn after it's supposed to go out. >> some after burn. still not out. still not out. >> reporter: 1 billion cheap disposable lighters are sold in the u.s. each year. most, like bill's, come from china. all those lighters, yet the u.s. has no mandatory safety standards as they do in canada. here, they're vol tire, met by u.s. companies but not necessarily the foreign competition. but there's something that makes bill's story more difficult. it turns out the very government agency that oversees lighter safety knew of the problem years before bill ever put the lighter in his pocket. in 2006, a consumer product safety commission concluded 70% of chinese lighters failed to live up to u.s. voluntary standards. lighter malfunctions caused over 900 injuries each year. yet, bogged down by bureaucratic

hurdles and dangers it saw as more urgent, the safety commission took no action. ricky didn't know about any of that until we told him. >> the consumer product safety commission took up this issue two years before your brother's accident. >> well, see, this is -- i hadn't heard about that. >> reporter: we showed him the report. >> they had all the information and they just ignored it. yeah, ignored it. >> reporter: nobody from the consumer product safety commission would agree to an interview. they told us lighter safety is important, yet at this time, our hard working staff is actively enzbajed in efforts to save lives. for now, unregulated lighters just like bill's remain on store shelves. they were recently found on sale in the houston area. >> a lot of people buy these?

>> what would you like to say to the folks at the consumer product safety commission? >> do your job. if you're going to make regulations and protect people, make the regulations to protect people and don't be halfhearted about it. you can't pay me for what happened to my brother. i'll have nightmares for the rest of my life thinking about this. >> reporter: for cbs this morning, sheryl atkisson, houston. >> after cbs contacted the consumer product safety commission, the agency announced an investigation into the chinese firm that made the lighter. the family sued that company and won, but because no one from the company responded to the lawsuit, the clemmers have no way to collect. it is an important day for the duchess of cambridge. catherine is visiting royal charities on her own. we'll take a look at her big plans with queen elizabeth. getting a lot of buzz. and there's someone who's getting people talking.

she's a hollywood icon. raquel welch. look at her. she's in our green room, which can only mean one thing. she'll be sitting at the table when we come back. you're watching "cbs this morning." back. you're watching "cbs this morning." hi raquel. this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by turbotax software. turbotax, cheeoose easy.

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miss welch, i do need to talk do you about a little problem regarding your performance? >> what kind of problem? >> well, it seems that due to the vagaries of the production parameters, vis-a-vis, the fragmenting of the audience due to cable television, carnivals -- >> out with it. >> you're out because you don't use your arms and you tap dance like a gorilla. >> that classic "seinfeld"

moment featured raquel welch. >> she starred in more than 30 films, appeared on tv shows and appeared on broadway and bake a best-selling author. i read that book. she will star on "csi miami." charlie was hoping you'd wear the bikini today. do you have it in your purse? >> this is a woman whose fantasy goes way wide. >> charlie, what's happened with that costume, for an fyi is in the wings of the smith sohn onwaiting to be hung. >> when you walked in the room, you still had that raquel aura. when did you know you had that va va voom? when did you know, i'm serious. >> at 7. >> tony on our floor -- where's tony. he became a drooling man.

oh, yes, i remember raquel. >> that's why i wore a suit, i wanted to talk. >> when did you know? >> i wanted to be an actress and when puberty arrived, i started getting equipment and realized this could be helpful. >> the len con center of film society, what are they doing over there? >> i have no idea. i've been over there the last couple of days. there are two more days of it. the film society of lincoln center is doing a retrospective tribute to me and all my movies, not all my movies but a number of my movies. >> and among those movies, which was the one that you cherished the most? >> "three musketeers," i won the golden globe. that's, of course, very dear to my heart. and a lot of people i worked in the movie with, faye dunaway and oliver read, god bless him. he's not with us anymore.

and dick west. i loved working with him. >> it couldn't be dub in one afternoon. i think that says something about the work that you do. >> it's so funny because when i first heard they were going to do this, i kind of thought, have they lost their mind? i mean what have i -- my movies? at lincoln center? for real. it turns out there were some very nice moves. "three musketeers," "last of tschida," "hunter rivals. we're already out of time. >> no, no, no. you donated -- your companies donate $5 million worth of wigs. i think that's huge. >> 15. >> i'm sorry. >> it's now built out over a period of years we made a dedication to the american

cancer society. it's come out to $15 million worth of wigs given to the women at american cancer society who have suffered from hair loss because of the treatments and the chemotherapy. >> i had no idea it was a wig. >> yes. well this one is a wig, yes. this one i'm wearing a wig. i wear them quite often. >> yeah, you look great. >> when you look like you do and look like you did as well, was it -- >> it's okay. it's okay. >> charlie, can you speak? >> was it hard to convince them you were, a, a serious act tress, that you wanted to perform in supported roles? was that an argument you had to constantly make with these studio heads? >> yes, in a way. i tell a story in the q and a at the lincoln center about "three musketeers." one of the first days on set i with end to the director and

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critical condition after beg hit by gunfire at a nail san in vallejo. police say a man good morning. it is 8:25. in the headlines, a toddler is in critical condition after being hit by gunfire at nail salon in vallejo. police say a man walk into the salon around 7:15 has night and just opened fire. it's not clear who he was targeting. the shootout ensued. five people in all were wounded. police say they have made one arrest. a uc-berkeley police officer did not break the law when injured a protestor on campus. that's what a federal jury in san francisco has decided. back in 2009, the officer ordered the protestor to take her hand off a barricade. he broke her pinky finger with his baton when she put her hand back on the barricade. state officials are looking more closely at pg&e's pipeline

safety practices. the new scrutiny comes after two welders claim defective welds in some of the lines there. the state puc says it has already checked earlier claims of pipeline leaks but found no problems. we'll have an update on your traffic and weather coming right up. so stay with us.

georgia. out towards the east -- good morning. out towards the east bay, 880 a problem spot. look at this live look at northbound traffic on 880 past the coliseum. it is really slow all the way

towards the downtown oakland exit. if you are commuting southbound 880, we had a serious of different accidents. it looks like everything is cleared to the right shoulder where you see the question marks. but there was an accident hayward and another one in fremont. so speeds are just still super slow from hayward down towards highway 84. at the bay bridge, we are still backed you want t maze, 20 minutes to get on the span. but looks like the sun is coming out. >> yes. beautiful. beautiful on this valentine's day. if you are head toward the beach right now we have a little sunshine coming there, a couple of hazy conditions and some fog showing up in some of the valleys right now. but we are looking at a beautiful valentine's day outside. 30s and 40s right now. by the afternoon, these temperatures warming up nicely into the 50s and also the low 60s. so a beautiful afternoon compared to yesterday when those highs were only in the 50s and brisk wind. late tonight into tomorrow morning partly cloudy skies, weak storm system moves on by to bring a slight chance of showers. thursday offshore winds, temperatures warming up, partly cloudy, cooler into the weekend.

i love this story, just in time for valentine's day. u.s. olympic swimmer won a gold medal on safrmtd his girlfriend gave him a kiss and she was about to walk away. he dropped to his knee, he pulls out an engagement ring and asked

her to marry him and what does she say, yes. >> don't you love the reaction? >> yes. this is a story, regardless whether you're a boy or a girl, you go, ah. i love the idea of love. speaking of valentine's day, it is today. all you couples when you say happy valentine's day, you might want to say, and thanks for the tax break it's so romanic. it's not that the taxes are lower but married people pay less than single people for a lot of things. carmen wong ulrich is here. >> doesn't sound fair. >> here's the big deal. we're turning into a single nation. for the first time, half of american adults are single. this is a huge tremendous thing. this is not just young people. these are people that are divorced. >> of all ages? of all ages that are single. in 2010, 48% they were single.

in 1950, 29%. >> we can see the day when it's reverse. >> we're within that in a couple of years. if you look at younger generations, they're just not as interested in being married. it ooh's big shift. >> but there's -- even if we're moving toward that, where specifically are they sort of getting the short end of the stick? >> here's the thing. it's the real cost of being married or sing. especially when it comes to insurance, life insurance, auto insurance, you can pay anywhere from fro 10% to 50% more if you're single. this is because the act ware, they crunch the numbers. if there is a big income

disparity, they get huge discounts. 50% of married couples pay a lot less in taxes. >> they think it's kwequals sta ability. what's interesting in the workplace, when i was single, i did not thing it was fair that i was asked to work longer hours, give up micah vags for the married people and when i was married with kids i said why don't you ask erica to do it. it's interesting how your perspective changes. >> it does change. it changes a lot. actually research was done that shows it's pretty drastic especially when it comes to renting. we know the history of renting discrimination in this country. here's the thing. overwhelmingly landlords prefir to rent to folks who are married. 80%. even singles who are cohabitating. and in the workplace, on

average, married men controlling for education control, controlling for experience level, make around 29% more than single men. >> okay. so it is valentine's day. for anybody who may not have valentine or be single. >> here. >> give us a positive. the new normal is being single, whether it's divorce or whatever it may be. >> all these discounts -- you know,ite goengs to have to catch up. as the demographics are changing in terms of the managements and consumer angle, it's got to change. are those actuarial tables going to hold? probably not. we're going to see in the next 10, 15 years a majority of the america. when it comes to the workplace, that's going to have to change too. it's just going to have to. >> carmen has spoken. >> yeah, you got it. >> the ex-leader of china visits the white house later today.

we'll ask former national security

as president's jimmy carter's security adviser brzezinski offer as view of the role in america today as the power shifts from the west to the east. welcome. >> good to be with you. >> good to see you. >> tell me what the vision is that you see today and whether america is truly in decline in its power in the world. >> america's not itself in decline in the sense that many aspects of america are changing positively, although we have some overwhelmingly complex issues to confront. the problem is that others are rising more rapidly than we. >> the rise of the rested.

>> exactly. there's a relative decline. that's how power changes over time. that's challenge the we have to face. but we have to recognize the fact that unlike the recent past, we now live in the age come plexty, of no power being capable of being dominant totally. we have to have foreign policy that competes and at the same time cop fronts the issues. >> are you at odds when the president addressed in his state of the union address, anyone who thinks america is in a state of decline is overthinking? >> the fact of america is there are many aspects of american life of our sort of society that is stagnating. >> there is, some say, a decline in trust between the united states and china and that china got some of the american

higher-up when it exercised its veto with the security council about a resolution having to do with syria. >> well, yes. i think on both sides there are growing resentments. on the chinese side there is a little bit of this sense of gratification, that we have domestic problems and that relative to us, they're rising and expect to surpass us. on our side there is some resentment of that, and also some inclination in my judgment, perhaps misguided, to line up with some asian pours that view china as a rival or as a threat. and to do so in a slightly column city way and therefore convince the chinese that we're already ganging up against them. so we both have to be careful. >> if you were the national security adviser today, what would you be advising president obama to do about syria. >> when he says assad must go, he'd bet very a policy to force

him out. first of all, don't make statement use cannot follow up on. secondly, in this particular case, we have to follow the advice and work closely with the turks and the saudis. these are the two countries with the biggest direct interest and with the possibility of doing something. and that's work with them and through them, but not taking the lead and certainly not just verbally. >> if the world is not able to stop the violence in syria, will the history judge it badly? >> that depends entirely on the outcome and we don't know yet what the outcome's going to be. >> it gets worse day by day. >> we have no way of predicting. look at libya. we were very happy to get rid of gadhafi. do we have democracy? stability? >> no. we have competing forces trying to take power. >> exactly. there are two powers that are indirectly competing against each other within syria but indirectly, iran and israel.

>> let me move to iran. will sanctions work both in terms of oil and in terms of financial transactions? >> they work already to an extent. they weaken iran and they make stability more difficult for the iranian leadership to maintain. i don't think they will work in a kind of decisive fashion if our objective is to deprive the iranians entirely of their nuclear program and to humiliate them to boot. >> the president has said it's unacceptable for iran to have nuclear weapons or the capability to make nuclear weapons. do you believe it's unacceptable? >> we have north korea already possessing nuclear weapons and delivery systems and we find that unacceptable. so the word "unacceptable" is again one of these words that means a lot. at the sam time, sometimes nothing. >> what would you vietz if he comes to the oval office and the

prime minister is coming to the oval office within the next month and says we have to go because bebelieve time is not ott our side with respect to doing something about iran. they're developing an immunity from attack. >> what i would say to them is this. first of all, we deterred the soviet union which was much more threatening than iran ever will be. we deterred china. we're deterring north korea. we will deter i rap. second, we will proclaim from the united states that any threat from iran ininvolving nuclear weapons or other kinds of weapons against any country in the middle east, arab or israel will with viewed by the united states as a threat against the united states. >> but as you know, the problem is not just iran having nuclear weapons, being able to con tame them. is that it will be nuclear proliferation in the middle east. >> not at all. >> that's what they say. >> i don't care what they say. you know, you have to have much

more than just the possibility of weapons jouchl to have delivery systems that are tried and tested and capable of delivering nuclear weapons. you have to have a lot of other systems to make it operative. i think a guarantee from the united states of complete protection which has satisfied the japanese and koreans, which has protected europeans under much more threatened conditions can work in the middle east, but we have to be firm and credible about it and we have to say a conflict is not in our interest because we know there's a conflict, we'll be hit by the iranians. do you want another war in that part of the world? do you want the oil to go up? do you want our troops threatened? i don't know how this isn't in anyone's interest. >> to see iran bombed. >> exactly. what evidence is there except anxiety and fear that they're

going do it. >> so the sum total that you believe about it is we can live with a nuclear iran. >> look. i don't want to live with a nuclear iran. i would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it. i would like to promote internal change in iran, which is more likely we don't fuse iranian national lichl with iranian fundamentalism. >> you list a number of things that are at steak. financial stability, national debt, winding inequality, deindication infrastructure, but you want to add specifically american ignorance about the word. >> yes. thing that's a fundamental problem. we can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an ill tell subsequent public. look at the democracy. look at the attack in 20i 3. the public basically supported it. we have set impossible goals for

ourselves in afghanistan. we had to go in but the goals we set are extreme. we don't have a public that really understands the world anymore and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult. >> this dialogue in this book will help the public understand and i thank you for coming in. >> charlie, as always, thank you. in britain this morning catherine is getting more attention than usual. find out why. her date with the queen in a few weeks is being called a ground brake moment. you're watching "cbs this morning." bay area !

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that's very unusual. victoria arbiter is here with all the news from the palace. it's good to see you. it's like kate is the queen's woman. >> i like that. >> usually it's prince philip or a member of her family. i think it's quite an honor that she says, kate, i want to go with you. >> it's a big deal. she wants to go and attend an events with the queen and camilla. there's not a big public scene of approval from the queen. ultimately what it comes down to is prince philip has his own set of plans. they're going to the department store. he was quite happy to leave. she geengs to be out with her family. >> is it the diamond jubilee? i haven't heard. >> i haven't mentioned that several times. >> yes, i had. heard. >> that's not all she's got going on. there's this gala in a few weeks stepping out with the queen and

camilla. she also has these things going on today cl are garnering a lot of attention because she's doing them by herself. >> yes. this week this morning she was aet the bring which is the alcohol-free bar in liverpool. it was set up by action on addiction. really the goal is to give people who are recovering alcoholics and addicts somewhere to go in a social arena where they don't have to worry about environments that could lead to their undoing. she's going to the ronald mcdonald house and then to the children's hospital which is the one of the biggest busiest hospitals in europe dedicated to the welfare of children. >> do you know if she gets any preparation? i ask this because i got in impression from sara ferguson that she was totally unprepared for this life in this world. okay, you're going to do this, this is how you behave? is she getting any preparation, do you know? >> things have definitely

changed. she's gotten guidance. they've been married almost a year. yes, she's getting a lot of help, doing her own research. there's been a lot of support. >> what happens now as you move forward to the diamond jubilee because gayle's excited, know that. >> i know charlie can't contain himself. >> i see that. >> what would a week be without victoria on the set? >> and you mentioned that, didn't you, charlie? >> i did say that. >> i'm very excited for the diamond jubilee. i have to say i caught full royal fever covering the wedding last year. there's a lot of interesting stuff going on. >> and it's not till june. >> a girl has to prepare. what are we going to wear? we have to start thinking about it. >> the barbie doll that celebrates -- >> i can see that radiating off you. >> let's stop for a minute. stop for a minute. charlie rose just said, you know what i'm exciting about, the

barbie doll. and i have to say, you said it with a straight face. >> i did. >> explain the barbie doll. >> last year there was a dearth of royal souvenirs. barbie dolls being released as william and kate in their full wedding garb. they're joining so many others. they're being released for collectors. i'm sure they'll be very excited. >> i have to say, all kidding aside, i was smitten with the royals and kate and william in particular. i think it's great she's been so well received. clearly the queen likes her. the fact that she's so embraced is a rt good thing. >> it really is a good thing. the queen sees kate is the future of the monarchy. that's why i like that she's doing this with camilla and kate. she's sharing the experience with them. in terms of the jubilee because

i know you're a huge music fan, gayle, it's a massive concert. it's going to be the biggest gig in front of buckingham coming. >> who's coming. >> elton john, tom jones and many others. they're utsing in requests. >> i like it. >> we didn't get an opinion what the queen thinks about -- >> it's valentine's day, charlie? did you get a rose or rose petal from charlie? >> your local news coming up. see you tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning."

on person is under arrest after a good morning. it's 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs 5 headlines at this hour. one person under arrest five wounded after a shootout at a nail salon in vallejo yesterday. police say a man walked in last night opened fire and someone shot back. the gunfight continued outside. one of the wounded is a toddler. she is in critical condition but is expected to survive. the search picks up again this morning near linden where two serial killers may have buried as many as 30 victims. so far investigators in the san joaquin and calaveras counties have unearthed 300 bone fragments. a map drawn by a death row inmate led to the discoveries. bart is implementing major changes in his policing policy. the transit agency will now

have more officers on trains at stations and in the parking lot. the bay citizen reports it's part of a push to get to know the local people and some of the local problems around those bart stations. how about some weather on this valentine's day? let's kick it over to lawrence and find out what's cooking. patchy fog in the interior valleys. live look right now, and yeah, some of that fog continuing in toward pleasanton. looking toward mount diablo, that's going to break up shortly and as we look toward the afternoon hours, the temperatures very nice as we'll see 50s and 60s. so really some seasonal numbers, much warmer than yesterday and not having the brisk wind blowing either. next couple of days there is one system that drops in tonight and early tomorrow morning bringing us partly cloudy skies and slight chance of showers. after that thursday lots of sunshine, some of those temperatures near 70 degrees by the afternoon. partly cloudy and cooler over the weekend. all right. let's check your "timesaver traffic" camera coming up next. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors...

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good morning. starting off with a look in the south bay. northbound 101 towards de la cruz there is an accident there in the median. a long line of slow traffic. a lot of brake lights across that stretch. what actually looks better is 280 in san jose coming out of downtown. so might be a better option. it is obviously still slow but not as bad as 101 right now. elsewhere, westbound 237 we have an accident reported at zanker road.

that accident is still blocking one lane and we thinned out a bit. 10 to 15 minutes at the bay bridge.