guy. >> but she's right. we are expecting only a chance of showers. >> we're out of time. see you at noon. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com captioning funded by cbs good morning to our viewers in the west. it's about it is wednesday, february 15th. iran's nuclear program raises tension with the west and israel. new poll numbers are a bust with president obama as he hits the campaign trail today. we'll talk with top campaign strategist david axelrod. i'm gayle king. as whitney houston's family prepares for her funeral, we'll look at her estate. her music could earn millions in the years ahead. at 8:00 viola davis of ""the help"," is here.

erica hill, millions of people have sinus trouble especially at this time of the year. research says antibiotics are not the answer. plus we'll show you why the world is lynnsane over an nba star. first, your world in 90 seconds. iran announces more nuclear progress. >> tehran is fueling its century fublgs with nuclear fuel. >> three bombing attacks in two days. israel says iran is behind them all. >> incompetent creasing concerns that it might spread to more countries. >> the payroll tax is going to pass. >> congressional negotiators reach a tentative deal without paying for it. >> i have some grave concerns about this. >> i think we missed the mark entirely. >> you can't take anything for & granted until my signature is actually on it. >> president obama met with the man who's set to take control of china. >> it is critically important

that the united states and china develop a strong working relationship. >> that's what happens when you get behind in your rent. the landlord shows up, starts looking around. >> fans of the late whitney houston have created a memorial to her on the fence around her home church in newark, new jersey. >> the guy eyes the watch left behind, grabs it, walks away with it like he did nothing wrong. >> i heard that earlier tonight, trumps hair won top prize at westminster dog show. >> the dog tonight really turned me on. >> best in show is the pekingese. >> all that. >> martha stewart-haas been to prison and has a dog named geng gas can. when did she become a held's angel. >> and all that matters. >> the nba lin der fella story continues. >> jeremy lin from downtown. >> can you believe this is hapening to you? >> on "cbs this morning." >> no.

welcome to "cbs this morning" where we begin with breaking news. iran is announcing plans to upgrade its nuclear program and is loading fuel into one of its reactors for the first time this morning. >> a move that is sure to increase tensions between iran and the u.s. charlie is following the story from london. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the iranian tv has been showing two new developments in iran's nuclear program, new centrifuges and domestically made fuel rods. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad watched as they were lowered into a research reactor. at the same time iranian tv showed what they were referring to as fourth generation centrifuges capable of enriching uranium and increasing capacity. they cast doubt on those explains and iran has exaggerated its nuclear capabilities before. the fear shared by israel is

that iran could be capable of producing enough uranium to build a bomb without the world knowing. this morning israeli prime minister blamed iran for explosions this week aimed at israeli diplomats. he says iran's terror operations are now exposed for all to see. iran is undermining the world's stability and harms innocent diplomats. world countries must condemn iran's terror attacks and draw a red line. next week representatives of the nuclear watchdog the iaea travel to iran. the big question is whether negotiations are able to break an international stalemate or escalate tensions. >> charlie, thank you so much. let's bring in cbs news analyst from washington. juan, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what do experts make of why the iranians are making this announcement at this time? >> well, it's not clear why they're making this announcement now, but i think they want to signal clearly to the world that

they are continuing to march toward a nuclear capability. this is an important message, not just externally for the iranian regime, but also internally, charlie. this is a unifying issue for many in iran. declaring a continued march in the face of sabotage and sanctions becomes an important message for the iranian regime itself. i think that's why you will see continuous announcements. whether or not they're believable the experts have to examine that, but that's why i think you're seeing continuous announcements, especially in the face of pressure. >> and do american and israeli and other experts have a time in which they think that the iranians will have enough enriched uranium to make a bomb? is it six months? is it a year? is it longer, shorter? >> charlie, this is the grand debate. experts say the clock is ticking but how slowly is still an issue of debate. the israelis have always said that the time line is shorter. they've looked to a year, maybe

two years to have iran at a point where they have nuclear weapons capability. we've heard secretary panetta talk about a year to two years as well. no doubt the program has been slowed and hampered by external sanctions in the sabotage efforts we've seen such as the virus that affected the computers in iran, but they are clearly making progress and it's outside the gaze of the nuclear watchdog, the u.n.iaea. >> what do you make of the charges by the israeli prime minister that these attacks were carried out by iran or, in fact, its agents? >> i find it wholly believable and this forms part of a pattern and practice of iranian terrorism using hez bow la and other operatives around the world. the history of two decades of doing this. you look at the attacks in argentina, attacks on kobar towers in saudi arabia and kuwait. there's a history and pattern. no doubt there is a proxy war

underway. these recent attacks in georgia and india are just the latest manifestations of that. >> juan, what about the threat to the united states and americans around the world? >> i know counter terrorism officials are looking at precisely that. they're worried that this is the signal, perhaps the harbinger of attacks to come. no doubt iran wants to signal to the united states that this is the kind of thing that iran could do if they are attacked or pressured further and so u.s. counter terrorism officials are looking at hez bow la in the country as well as those that might be looking at u.s. interests around the world. >> thank you for joining us this morning. president obama here in the united states begins a three-day campaign trail today riding on good news from the latest cbs times "new york times" poll. >> according to that survey, voters prefer the president over all of his potential republican rivalries in november. senior white house correspondent bill plante is with us this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. his republican rivalries are

continuing their lawn, drawn out battle, much to the delight of the president's campaign folks. the president today heads out to do a little fundraising. this comes just a week after his campaign reversed course and said that it would encourage those large unlimited donations to a super pac. >> reporter: this campaign trip will take the president first to wisconsin, an important swing state, where he'll showcase jobs returning to the u.s. from overseas. then a series of fundraisers in california and an appearance in seattle at bowing, which has just announced a $22 billion airplane order. the trip finds mr. obama better positioned than he expected at this point. his approval rating in the new cbs news "new york times" poll is 50%. his highest point since the death of osama bin laden. more good news, smooth sailing on capitol hill for the president's proposed payroll tax cut which just days ago had seemed destined for a fight with house republicans.

that had the president warlly optimistic. >> you can't take anything for granted here in washington until my signature is actually on it. >> reporter: even though more americans still disa promiscuous prove than approve of the president's handling of the economy, his numbers have moved steadily upward since november. the republican considered most likely to be his opponent in november now trails in a head-to-head match-up by six percentage points of registered voters. independents who will be crucial to victory in november now break for the president over governor romney by nine points. just one month ago romney was up eight. a 17 point swing. >> reporter: however, it is way too soon for the white house to pop the champagne corks. the economy is still the biggest issue by far for voters. three-quarters of them say that it's in bad condition. charlie, erica? >> bill, thanks. we go to chicago and talk with david axelrod, the obama

campaign senior strategist. good morning, david. >> good morning, charlie. >> these are welcome economic news and fits into what the president intends to run on? >> well, obviously the economy is paramount in people's minds. we're going to keep working at it every single day to move this economy forward and build an economy that will last and where the middle class is growing and not shrinking. people can work hard and expect to get ahead. that's what the president's been doing. i think it's paying off. we have a long way to go. we don't get exhill ler rated by good poll numbers. we're not devastated by bad poll numbers. we keep our -- we stick to our knitting and keep going forward. >> do you consider as many political observers do that the most accurate poll to watch is right direction, wrong direction and that's what measures the country's feeling about the incumbent? >> you know, i think that this is -- electing a president is a complicated thing. obviously that's important. i think people are feeling a little bit better about the

direction of the country now than they had been at the peak of the recession when we took office, but there are other measures as well, measures like does the president understand my concerns and my problems and things that i'm struggling with in my life? the president did well in your poll on that. governor romney in contrast less than 1/3 of people said that related well to him. so, you know, there are a lot of measures that i look at. >> you're the political man for the president. let's look at the republican race for a moment. most people expected for a while, including you and your strategists, that romney would be the nominee. santorum looks stronger now. he's from pennsylvania, a key state. he is leading romney in michigan. does he provide a different and more damaging and more dangerous opponent for you? >> well, i don't know about that. the truth is that when it comes to the economy, all of the republicans are largely in the same basket. they all say we're returning to the policies that we saw in the last decade.

that really favored a few at the expense of the country as a whole and i don't think people want to return to that, but he's obviously -- governor romney has problems. he has problems for three reasons. one is he's taken multiple positions. go ahead. >> i want to come back to where we are, not how you see romney. the question today about santorum is this notion about who can in this election appeal to blue collar voters, which is many people say santorum's strength along with the seemingly rise of social issues. put that in your own context. >> well, first of all, i would say that as i said just a second ago, i think when people really examine his economic policies, i don't think that the average working person in this country is going to look at his policies and say, yeah, that's the ticket for me. that offers great hope for me. secondly, i think that many of the positions he's taken on social issues are quite divisive, not widely shared.

i think your poll reflects some of that. so, you know, people don't really know senator santorum particularly well, and when they do, we'll get a better sense of where he stands. >> did the contraceptive issue and the question of catholic charities hurt your campaign? did it give the president an opportunity to have to say, wait a minute, we may have been out too fast on this? >> look, i think that a vast majority of americans, that's also reflected in your poll, support the notion that women should have -- all women should have access to basic preventive care, including contraception. so, you know, i think that there's strong support for that. i think the president handled it in a sensitive way taking into consideration those concerns that were raised by the leaders of the catholic church. so, you know, we were not looking to create divisions, we were looking to advance the cause of women's health. i think we've done that and we've done it in the appropriate

way. >> david, it's erica. good morning. i want to ask you a quick question about the payroll taxes. as you know cbs reported that the most recent payroll tax extension was paid for in part by adding a fee onto the mortgages for new homeowners. how will this latest extension be paid for? is that something homeowners have to be worried about? >> i think the most important thing is to extend the payroll tax cut. the proposal as i understand it is not funded as previous extensions have not been because they're meant to stimulate the economy in the short run and we've seen the effect of it in part in the economic numbers that we've had. you know, this is incorporated in our deficit plan looking down the line and will ameliorate the impact of it. it's so important for people today not to be hit with a thousand dollar tax increase when our economy is just coming out of the recession and when we need to accelerate our growth.

>> can i just clarify one thing you said? you made it sound like you thought that having these new homeowners pay for it in their mortgage was not going to help stimulate the economy. it made it sound like you didn't think that was a good way to do things. >> the fee that we've asked for is to help pay for a plan that would allow homeowners to refinance their -- to refinance their mortgages. i think that is appropriate given the role that the financial sector played in the problem in the first place. >> david, one last question about super pacs. you guys in the obama campaign have now said that you have to go to super pacs as well. are we looking to one of the most highest financed and also bloodiest campaigns ahead in this general election because of the amount of money that will be spent on negative campaigning? >> well, what caused us to act, charlie, was two things. one is some of the intelligence coming out of the super pac community on the republican side that suggest they'll spend maybe $700 million to try and defeat

the president. if you look at what the super pacs have done in the republican primaries, virtually every ad they've run has been negative. there's a concern about that. i hope that that's not the case. i think one of the reasons why you've seen dispirting among republicans is that there's so much negativism on that side. i don't think that's what people are looking for. they want to know how we're going to move this country forward. >> thank you so much. david axelrod from chicago. changing here to the question of whitney houston's fans who want to say good-bye this weekend. they may feel a little bit left out. there will be no public memorial service for the 48-year-old singer who died on saturday. >> michelle miller is in newark, new jersey, this morning where an invitation only funeral will be held on saturday. >> reporter: good morning. this is where she got her start in music. on saturday at noon it's where family and friends alone will

say good-bye. ♪ the greatest love of all ♪ >> reporter: whitney houston lived much of her life in public. on saturday they'll remember her in private. an intimate service is being planned where houston first showcased her singing talents as a child. >> they have shared her for 30 some years with the city, with the state, with the world. this is their time now for their farewell. >> reporter: grieving fans had hoped for a public memorial but instead were left to pay tribute with flowers, balloons, messages. >> it brought tears to my eyes because when you grow up hearing someone like that you wouldn't never have expected she would have been gospel. >> reporter: the family requests any donations to be sent to the whitney houston academy of creative and performing arts. the east orange elementary school she attended. it was renamed in 1998 to give inspiration to a new generation. >> i always said to myself, i want to be just like her. you know, and i just want her to

rest. >> reporter: the investigation into houston's death at the beverly hilton continues. it's been reported the 48-year-old was discovered underwater in the bathtub of her hotel room. police also found several prescription drugs in the room. >> reporter: houston's god mother, aretha franklin, offered this week at a concert in north carolina. she's expected to attend the fuel ran on saturday. ♪ i'll always love you ♪ >> reporter: new jersey's governor has ordered allstate flags to fly at half staff on saturday. in th meantime, investigators have requested all of houston's medical records. they want to know why those prescription drugs w

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the town. that last second shot last night giving the knicks their sickth straight win. you'll hear from armen keteyian and james brown when we come back. you' frank mallicoat ... pride of palo alto high, jeremy lin. 6:26. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines on this wednesday. this weekend scheduled closure of the bay bridge could be rained out. officials will make the call today. the plan is to close it from friday night until tuesday morning weather permitting. digs will continue in the search for human replans in san joaquin county. there's been no digging the last few days. dirt excavated over the last few days is being filtered by authorities. bruin officials will explain restitution for victims of the deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno from 2010. san francisco is suing a federal agency for failing to help prevent that deadly pipeline explosion in san bruno in 2010. we'll have an update on your traffic and weather coming right up.

busy at the bay bridge. we had an earlier accident no serious injuries. it's cleared. but now a new stall reported before treasure island. we still have the high wind advisory in effect issued by chp overnight so we are left with a good sized wait at least 20 minutes to get on the span. metering lights are on. we have high winds for the san mateo bridge and dumbarton bridge, advisories in place. no major delays there. we have a lot of brake lights still for your altamont pass commute. still almost 45 minutes because of this earlier accident now cleared at airway boulevard. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> fast-moving storm system moving overnight. skies clearing out nicely. grab a jacket. it is cool out there. likely to be breezy throughout the day. temperatures 30s and 40s. by the afternoon, highs will be in the 50s and 60s although it will feel cooler. then looks like a nice day of the week coming tomorrow. cooling off toward the weekend. showers on monday.

we're so excited to be here! >> so excited. do you know any maroon five? can can we hear a little? >>. ♪ ♪ i got the moves like jagger i've got the moves like jagger ♪ >> yeah! they're on assignment for the ellen show at the grammys. you take talent where you can get it. welcome back to cbs this

morning. the biggest story in sports right now is a young basketball player named jeremy lin. out of nowhere, he's bringing fans to their feet and outplaying nba legends like kobe bryant. >> talk about talent. he's generating so much excitement, a lot of people are comparing him to tim tebow. last night as armen keteyian reports, lin added another chapter to his legend. >> lin puts it up, fires! jeremy lin -- >> the jeremy lin-sanity tour continued its ride in toronto last night. the newest sensation draining the game winning three-pointer. a full house watched the once overlooked, now overnight star continue to set the sports world ablaze. >> he drives. puts it in. >> for those living on another planet the last ten days, he's the 6'3", 200 pound point guard for the new york knicks. an american asian by way of harvard. until late last week he rarely left the bench and lived on the

couch at his brother's apartment. with his team struggling the undrafted largely unwanted lin got a shot and went on a transcendent tear. >> lin drives again. >> averaging 27 points and nine assists over a six-game stretch. all nick wins. ending up on the cover of the sprorts illustrated. that's just the start. it was once $20, now $1500 plus for his autograph. he's now the fastest growing athletic brand. $14 million and counting. >> can you believe this is happening to you? >> no. >> lin grew up in northern california. the son of engineers born in taiwan. despite leading his team to a state championship in high school, he was shunned by top college programs. so he enrolled at harvard leading the crimson in scoring his senior year. only to be ignored again come nba draft day. cut by two nba teams, he was on

the verge of being released in new york when head coach mike d'antoni made a desperate move. once that since turned madison square garden into the theater of the absurd. >> you watch him and you're in awe. >> the 23-year-old arrived at the perfect time into a post super bowl void and a social media world captivated by his unlikely rise. his last name an open invitation to lynne-credible, joyful plays on word from the famous. >> i've got a raging case of lin-sanity. >> the others simply sharing in his lin-spiring success he is. >> lynne diesel. >> he's lin credible. >> i didn't know you could turn lin into so many things. there's no telling how long this show will last. how long a poster boy for underdogs of every age and race will shine. but for now, quite frankly, it's a beautiful lin to see.

>> the story continues. armen keteyian is with us now. along with james brown. j.b. of cbs sports. he's in our washington newsroom. we take note that j.b. played basketball for the very same harvard college, good morning, it's good to talk about this phenomenon. it is the real thing. >> i think so right now. six games, what can you ask for. i mean, he's going to fall to earth sometime, charm i. but right now, i mean this is a fairytale come true. it's new york, it's a new york media market. but very, very few feel-good stories like this that i've seen in a long long time. >> how do you explain it? >> i mean, you explain it in the sense he was overlooked. he didn't look like the classic basketball player, athleticwise and sort of that perfect body. but he's one of those guys who just understands the game and has a great feel for the sport. when he got an opportunity and he got out on the biggest stage in the world, he's made the most of it. >> j.b. everybody at harvard must be very, very proud.

>> including yours truly. i'm sitting down here in bob schieffer territory, if he can be proud of tcu, i can be proud of harvard. arm en worded it perfectly, the kid what's got game. he can play. we ought to be applauding what this kid has done and what he represents. >> where does he go from here, armen? if he can keep up the momentum, it's one thing. but how does he fit in going forward. >> they're going to game plan against him now. he's to the level where coaches have to deal with him on the court. it's part of a maturation process and an evolvement as a player. he's got all the kind of ingredients that you need for greatness on the court. he can shoot, he makes better -- people better around him. he can go to the basket. he can play the pick and roll with d'antoni. frankly, i haven't seen -- obviously, asian american, harvard, there's a whole social phenomena that's come up around

him. i love all the sayings, lin-sane. >> this is also a new york story. >> absolutely. >> it he the perfect person at this time to bring the knicks to where we want him to be? he is the kind of point guard that we need. >> you say that as a man who suffered through this team for quite a long time. you know, you have stoudemire and carmello who are coming back and playing with jeremy. it's -- the garden when it's right and it's right, right now, there's nothing like it in the world of sports. i think, you know, can he hold on? we'll see. but boy, these are six spectacular games in a row. >> we mentioned that some people are comparing him to tebow because there's an interest in his story. how important is that? you guys are sports guys. armen and j.b., for normal people like, say, me, how important is it to get more people invested in the nba especially after the debacle that got us back to some sort of

a season. >> i think it's important erica. if you peel back the layers, it's an excellent story. he's a deep guy if you will. he's got the requisite skills to do well on the basketball court. hard work and perseverance are at the core here in terms of what he's taking advantage of. here's a guy who is ready at the right time and he's capitalized on it fully. look, i like the old muhammad ali expression. i got this from the harvard basketball coach. ali used to say i've done all the roadwork, now i can dance in the light. and the light of new york is the brightest in in country and he, jeremy lin, has taken full advantage of it. >> j.b., we're pleased to know that harvard, when it wanted to get a good basketball program went to duke to get a coach. take note of that. i also -- >> oh, my god. >> i want you to take note and look at these photos. this is you in your glory days. >> if erica wanted to know why they're cheering him versus 200 years ago when i was there, look

at that picture. charlie, erica and arm yen isn't it nice that i'm wearing a teeny weenie aft weenie afro as to opposed back that. >> if he could support tcu, you could do the same. he wears purple socks. are you getting crimson footwear. >> just a little bit. but i'm so proud of what they're doing up there at harvard and jeremy lin, as armen said, harvard is not the gateway to the nba. yes, the kid is the first asian american, but he's flat-out a basketball player. we have a small sample size, only six games, but a phenomenal sample size and when stoudemire and anthony carmello are back together, his numbers may come down only because lin is smart enough to know get the ball to the big and he has enough to create game himself. thank you both. >> you're welcome. prosecutors asking a

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air force security. you know the drill, right? pick up your things. oh, but wait. this passenger is a fort lauderdale airport caught on camera picking up something else. a $6500 rolex from someone else's plastic bin. they're still looking for that guy. >> in virginia, the prosecution is expected to rest today in george huguely's murder trial. on tuesday, doctors gave graphic testimony on how yeardley love died two years ago. >> whit johnson is at the courthouse in charlottesville,

virginia. whit, good morning. >> erica, charlie, good morning to you. one medical expert revealed in the courtroom for the very first time that following yeardley love's brutal beating, had george huguely or anyone else called for help, she might have survived. in a tortured day of expert testimony, jurors learned that star uva lacrosse player yeardley love died slowly over the course of two hours face down on her bed. the prosecution claims on that night, nearly two years ago, george huguely barged into love's apartment in a drunken rampage, slamming her head repeatedly against the wall. in court tuesday, huguely's defense faced an uphill climb. through extensive show and tell, medical experts seem to agree that love's death was a result of her head whipping violently. one neuropathologist who examined her said her brain twisted one way, then the other way with sudden acceleration and deceleration.

but under cross-examination by the defense, none of the witnesses could pinpoint whether that snapping of love's head came from a punch, a fall, a shake or something else. >> you can see that the defense is trying to poke little holes in several different places. the question is, will it really matter very much? >> huguely's attorneys argue that perhaps love died, in part, due to a combination

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now, i understand that someone here today wants to propose. who is it? oh, my god. you've seen the mass wedding. now it's the mass proposal. all of those men getting down on one knee. very sweet. >> everybody wants to get married. what's happening here? >> we hope that they said yes since it was on national tv.

>> nothing better than to see a man at your knees on national tell vig. >> no comment, charlie. we'll be back with b-s five... i'm grace lee. authorities will provide an on the good morning. 7:56. i'm grace lee with your cbs 5 headlines. authorities will provide an update later today on the search for human remains in san joaquin valley. two men known as the speed freak killers are believed to have dumped the remains of nearly two dozen murder victims near linden. so far, searchers have recovered more than 1,000 bone fragments. caltrans has just confirmed that the westbound lanes of the bay bridge will close this weekend as scheduled. there was some speculation that the construction might be delayed because of the weather. but that's not the case. again, the bay bridge will be closed between friday evening at 8 p.m. and early tuesday morning next week in the westbound lanes. so plan for that. going to have a big effect on

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good morning. well, it is still a very slow ride heading towards the pay gates at the bay bridge toll plaza. it is still backed up to the maze a good 20-minute wait to get on the span. drive time down the eastshore freeway in the red now. 40 minutes from the carquinez bridge to westbound 80. southbound 101 by silver avenue accident blocking the slow lane. it is wet but it's still slick on the roads from overnight rains and pretty windy, as well. wind advisories in effect for several bridges and you can see how breezy it is in our 880 camera, slow as you past the coliseum. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> fast moving cold front bringing showers. now clearing out. beautiful from our mount vaca cam. sun coming up on what looks like a gorgeous day, windy and cooler. 30s and 40s. latter part of the day 50s and 60s for highs. next couple of days probably the nicest days of the week

tomorrow, cooling off toward the weekend with more clouds coming our way.

happy valentine's ♪ >> happy valentine's day. oh, yeah. it's so exciting. everyone on the campaign trail is celebrating with their sweetheart. rick santorum and his wife karen, newt gingrich and his wife. mitt romney and his swiss bank account. >> picture that. thank you, jimmy fallon. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose with erica hill. this morning, iran claims it is upgrading its ability to make uranium for its nuclear program. it's also cutting oil exports to six european countries. >> it's the latest sign of trouble for u.s./iran relations. with us to talk about that is

"new york times" columnist thomas friedman. his most recent back is "that used to be us." good to have you with us. i think we probably want to start with iran and the latest on iran this morning. what do you make of what we're hearing? >> well, you know, it almost seems like the iranian leader is begging someone to take military action to stop iran's program. it's probably a sign, also, though, that the sanctions that president obama's organized really are starting to bite the iranian currency has sharply devalued. there's been a lot of unemployment. they're clearly hurting. that's obvious. but you sort of wonder why he would be, again, taking these kind of provocative actions and announcing expansion of the nuclear program and punishing the europeans. >> how long do you think israelis would be likely to allow sanctions to work before

they would feel that they had to act? >> well, i think they're operating on multiple clocks, charlie. one, obviously, is the clock of the iranian program itself. there's a lot of, as you know, dispute about that, when iran will actually will be able to do so. i think they're also looking at the political clock. they're probably weighing if they were to undertake military action against iran during the presidential campaign, likely president obama would have less capacity, you know, to discipline them or prevent such actions. i think they're weighing both those things. >> let me turn to syria, the subject of your column today. you talk about when you were a reporter there in 1982. assad's father levelled the town. you wrote about it and went there. it is different today. tell me what you think the options are for the west and for the arab world.

>> i think they're limited, charlie. it's highly unlikely that the united states is going to do another iraq and iran, go in and decapitate the regime, or even nato a la libya. i think the most important things are the follow. you have to look at the two things holding assad up. what do we want in syria? we want a peaceful transition. we want assad to leave and hand over to some kind of national unity government that would organize elections. what are the two things holding assad up now? one is his foreign support. iran, russia, and china. the more we can peel that off, get the chinese and russians at least to be shamed by the fact they're supporting a kind of murderous dictatorship, that would have a huge effect on him. the second issue, charlie, is even more important. it's one only the syrian opposition reque opposition can do. can they, one, get united, and two, sent a message to assad supporters, particularly from

his own community and muslims in the town that have been beneficial to his regime. they see syria as having an inclusive future in which the interest of these minorities will be taken care of. those are really the two props to his regime. unless we attack those, he's going to be there probably for a while. >> tom friedman, the thing that's so great about you, is you can talk about so many different topics. can we turn to china for a second? the chinese vice president is in town. he's in washington. there's a luncheon today. i know that yesterday at the white house they said they want to build on u.s./chinese relations. what is the status of the relations we need to build on? >> i'm a big believer that life is about leverage. when i've got leverage on my side, i love to negotiate with you. as long as the table is like this and i'm looking down on you, i will negotiate all day. now, the problem is with china right now, all the leverage is

if you've been taking antibiotics for sinus infections, it may be time to stop that. we'll take a look at new research that changes the way doctors treat that problem that affects millions of americans. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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in today's "healthwatch," antibiotics and sinus infections. a lot of folks beg their doctor for a prescription to stop that throbbing when you're dealing with a sinus infection. >> but the new research shows that aents by attics are not the answer. medical contributor dr. holly phillips is here to show us why. hello and good morning. >> good morning. >> i was surprised to hear this because i have a couple friends that suffer from sinuses. i know it's extremely painful. their whole thing is give me my z-pack. >> they're like so many of my

patients. this is something i deal with day in and day out. patients come in. they've been feeling terrible with sinus infection. they're begging for antibiotics. the numbers show many doctors give in. one in had five antibiotic prescriptions are actually for sinuses, but this study is showing they're not making a difference, and they don't need to be given. >> so what are the specifics? you say this is a study that you really like because you feel like it's very well done. >> it really is. it's considered a gold standard study in scientific terms. it's placebo controlled, double controlled study. ultimately, they took a group of patients. all of them had sinus problems. they gave half of them antibiotics. half of them got placebos. after ten days, 90% of people felt better whether or not they took antibiotics or not. >> psychological then? >> it really could be that. many of my patients will say, can you please just give me an antibiotic? i won't take it, but

psychologically i feel better. >> holly, i think they're taking it. >> do we just ask for the dummy pills? do we do other things? >> i can't really write those out on my prescription pad, but there are things we can do. i recommend people take hot showers or hot baths with steam to help loosen up those sinuses. there are prescription steroid nasal sprays, which make a big difference. just aspirin and ib pro fen. a lot of people like netty pots. >> oh, god. what you have to do. you have to stick it in your nose and have it run out. i hear they're great. >> i don't really like it. so many of my patients do. >> all right, dr. holly. thanks. whitney houston's music sales have skyrocketed in the wake of her death. does that mean her estate is now making a big profit? turns out not as much as you might think. we'll ask an industry insider about houston's future earning power.

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♪ ♪ may sound inappropriate even insensitive, but sources say that sony music executives will meet this week to decide how to market the whitney houston catalog. >> the late singer's nine albums and other recordings have suddenly become big sellers again. correspondent ben tracy looks at what it could mean for houston's estate. ♪ >> whitney houston's extraordinary voice sold 200 million albums and singles making her one of the most successful singers of all-time.

yet, just before her death, tabloids declared houston was flat broke and asking friends for handouts. houston's representatives deny she had blown her fortune. after all, the singer had signed a $100 million record deal in 2001. >> we know that whitney houston mate a boatload of money while alive. she made a quarter of a billion dollars on recorded music alone. whether or not she actually died broke still is being sorted out. >> houston's new jersey estate was nearly kwoer foreclosed on in 2006 when she failed to pay her property taxes. she admitted to spending lavishly on drugs and partying in the past decade. >> sex, drugs, rock'n'roll. you know. my friends, we have a good time. ♪ >> after houston died saturday, her songs were suddenly everywhere. her greatest hits album shot to

number one on amazon and on eye tunes, the top download was her most famous song. ♪ and i will always love you whitney houston's estate is expected to take in about $10 million this year. that's far less than who are will make. that's because whitney houston did not write or own any of her songs. the bulk of the royalties go to the songwriter and the publisher. in fact they get eight cents every time one of the songs is played on the radio. ♪ i will always love you >> dolly parton wrote that song in 1973 and has made a fortune on it ever since. >> the late michael jackson co-wrote and owned most of his music. just last year, hess estate took in $170 million.

>> whitney houston's estate is not going to approach michael jackson's estate. she didn't accumulate the kind of assets that michael jackson did. >> before her death, whitney houston did produce and star in the remake of the upcoming film sparkle. we recorded two songs for the film which will now be her final performances and a new source of revenue. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. mark roseler is chairman and ceo of cmg worldwide. his company represents and protects the images of hundreds of legend from babe ruth to marilyn monroe. he joins us from las vegas. mark, hello to you. >> hello. nice to be with you. >> we're glad you're here. i want to start with the numbers. i'm fascinated by the range. i heard her estate is worth zero to $115 million. i've heard right now her record sales are $10 million. where do all the figures come from and how do we really know what is true at this point? >> well, it's very difficult to

value her estate at this moment. i think listening to the last piece, what we do know is that she doesn't have the same type of arrangement on her music. she's only going to be receiving artist royalties for her performance because she didn't write and compose and publish the various songs that she sang. but that's just one aspect of what her earning potential is in the future. whitney houston is one of the most recognized faces in the world. certainly probably the most recognized face at the moment in the world. and i think what you're going to see for future generations, let's take a james dean or a marilyn monroe or people like that, those personalities have been deceased for a quarter of a century to 50-plus years and you still -- you still see the interest in these personalities around the world. >> you know, there is something -- it's been four days

and it's still hard for myself and many people to digest that whitney houston is no longer with us. it's also troubling to me that you can earn more dead than you are alive. that is the way it dps in the music business, does it not? >> well, what you have an interesting phenomena and that is her music is going to live on. people are not going to forget about her. the definition of a career today is much different than what the definition of a career was a generation ago. the types of immediate kra that are -- media that are out there, from print to television to the internet, has the ability to keep some of these personalities alive for future generations. at the end of the day, it's the interest that these people around the world have in people like michael jackson to elvis presley to marilyn monroe to james dean. in the interest in these people does not wane with their

passing. sometimes the untimely and tragic nature of the way they passed only contributes to the interest and the ability of these personalities and their respective estates to earn significant sums of money. >> mark, good morning. erica hill here with gayle. a lot of people concerned understandably about her daughter bobbi kristina. what happens with the pos hume us earnings, do they automatically did go to her or whoever is named in the will? >> not necessarily. it would automatically go to whoever is actually named in the will. we don't know at this time what that will says. >> future earnings would go to whoever she designates for her estate? >> yes. we do understand that there is a will. so that will would take into account what we're talking about here is a very valuable set of intellectual property right and these intellectual property rights as opposed to being

tangible assets, might be cars and homes and things. >> mark, i have to cut you there. the satellite will. a lot of lawyers will be

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it is still slick in spots and still obviously windy. check this camera rock and rolling there at 880 the nimitz through oakland. very slow still in the northbound lanes as you pass the coliseum up towards the downtown oakland exit. at the bay bridge, we had a stall, we had a very early- morning fender-bender on the upper deck. and ever since then it's been backed up to the maze, 20 minutes just to get on the span. all lanes are open. a high wind advisory still in effect. with more on the forecast, here's lawrence. >> all right, lots of sunshine now. we have some showers overnight. but things clearing out all around the bay area. let's get you outside right now overlooking russian hill. and looking good all of the way to the coastline right now. it will be breezy though throughout the day today. and we're seeing some of the gusts now up to 30-plus miles per hour in the fairfield area. they are look at 47 degrees right now. 30s and 40s elsewhere. by the afternoon, highs in the 50s out at the coast, a lot of 60s, plenty of sunshine in the valleys. tomorrow probably the nicest day of the week with some offshore winds. cooling off on friday and into the weekend. partly cloudy skies on the weekend.

you should always listen to those in-flight announcements. a passenger on this flight from portugal to italy got the cab increw to announce hiss marriage proposal. guess what she said? yes. they all landed happily ever after. i love a good love story. welcome back to "cbs this

morning." just yesterday, new york magazine described viola davis as glowing like a beacon of majesty at a fashion event. wow. >> she glows in a different way in "the help"ment she plays a maid in the segregated south. >> i know it's scary. >> they set my cousin car on fire. >> a book like this never been written before. >> there's a reason. do this i might as well burn my own house down. >> i promise we'll be careful. >> it's more than being careful. already won a screen ak dors guild award for that role and oscar nominee for best actress. we're pleased to have you here. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. >> you say this is your most fully realized role although you had some reservations about it?

>> i did. i didn't feel people would perceive it as a fleshed out role. that they would just see the maid in 1963 in mississippi with a dialect. i wanted them to see the human being behind the uniform. >> mission accomplished. >> thank you very much. >> mission accomplished. >> you did see that, didn't you? >> yes, we did. >> you're always aware as a woman of color, as an artist of color, of the stigma involved in stereotypes and the maid absolutely is an image that has been visited time and time again in film. 72 years ago hattie mcdaniel won an award for ma'am i in gone with the wind and such a stigma involved with that image. i just, once again, i wanted her to be humanized.

i feel like that's the most revolutionary thing you can do. >> your mom and your grandmother, you talked about were maids. what do they think of the role? >> my grandmother passed away 13 years ago. and my mother has yet to see the movie. >> no way, viola. >> you know -- >> why? >> at first i thought, oh, okay, she's having health challenges with her hip. problems walking. but i think it's just because -- i think it's painful. i think -- >> i could see that. >> you have a generation of women who don't want to be reminded of the past. >> did you ever talk to her about it or about the experiences that your grandmother had in preparing for the role? >> i did. and she only gives information in little spurts. she just said that my grandmother was treated very cruelly by her employers. my grandmother had 18 children, 11 survived. and she would work from sunup to sundown in the homes taking care of the white children and cleaning the house.

i mean, you know as a mother, listen, when i take care of my daughter, i can't clean. i can't clean and cook. she did it all as well as having all the children at home. and she got paid $25 a week. and then my mom always stops there. she never gives you the details. i think it's a generation that's used to sucking it in. which is i loved abilene. to me, she represented most people in that time period who just had to suck it in and their whole lives, dreams, hopes, everything just took place in their spirits. >> you talk so candidly about your childhood, about being bullied and teased, being called ugly. that you were a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood. i'm wondering if you've heard from any of those people now, looking at you going hello viola. >> couple of them. a couple of them. although i don't think they have any memory of the names that

they called. i don't -- i'm past that. so i don't feel like i should remind them of that. but yes, i have heard from them. >> what do they say? >> viola, i always knew you would make it. >> they always do say that. >> it's amazing. >> you look so beautiful now. >> you do. >> back to your mom. how does she feel about all this extraordinary talent that you have shown us so often? >> she said, after i won the s.a.g. award, she cried and she said, that's my baby. that's my baby. but i just think that my mom, who has eight grade education and it's like someone said, i said, you know, i don't even know what her dreams were. i can't really get that out of her. but it's like someone said, her dreams were -- it's me. my sister. we were her dreams. >> yeah. >> i think that that's what's going on now. that she's seeing her dreams come to fruition through us. >> you now have a daughter,

19-month-old daughter. i'm sure you're starting too. it's amazing how things change when you're a parent. >> you sure do. >> does she know you're viola davis? >> she doesn't know, nor does she care. she points to my head, wig, mama, wig. don't say that in public. >> some thing we deep keep in the home. >> and don't rip my eyelashes off in public. >> speaking of your hair, i saw beautiful shot of you l.a. times magazine. your daughter would say you took off your wig and showed your natural hair. uh-huh. >> you look so beautiful in the shot. was this hard for you to do, especially because women are particular about our hair. so the thought of going au natural in a short way, was that hard for you to make that decision? i'm telling you, you look stunning. >> thank you very much. it was not hard to make that decision. i felt like i was channeling another character in that picture. which was me, i guess. >> could we see that maybe in a

film trail, you might be coming to do? >> maybe. maybe i have something planned. >> i just know that you're in full flight. how does that feel to be where you are now and get the kind of recognition that you have long deserved sh. >> you know what, i always think of this quote. what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. i always think of that lately because of what's happened through the course of me kind of justifying my choice to do this role, i kind of found my own voice. i've suffered from years of low self-esteem, shyness and now i really feel like now is a time to step into all of who i am. you know, more so than ever. there's no kind of room to hold back and through that, i feel really confident about myself lately. i've never really felt that before. >> never? >> no. >> i love what you said,

charlie, in full flight. that's such a great way to describe you. i've met your husband, you've got a great husband, you've got a wonderful little girl. >> you always mention my husband, gayle. >> because -- >> what's going on here? >> do i have to take my wig off? no, no. no you don't. you don't have to take off your earrings either. i don't play married men ever. you know that. >> it's a joke. >> i know it's a joke. >> it's a joke. >> you and julius have a beautiful daughter. your career seems to be as charlie said in full flight. do you pinch yourself and say wow, it's great to be me now. how do you take all that in? >> i enjoy it for what it is right now. and i appreciate it and i understand that it's not -- it's only that way because i put the work into it. i have a good marriage because i put the work into it. i have a good relationship with my daughter because i put the

work into it. it didn't just happen. so in order for it to continue, i have to continue to feed it. >> and probably it will enable you to go to new heights in your own acting too. the more confident you are, the more things you can command. >> absolutely. especially at this time in my life. i feel like i'm entering a new stage of kind of being more behind the scenes. >> can i say, i love it's a girlie moment. i loved your dress at the golden globes. >> we were talking about it -- i mean the s.a.g. awards. >> what are you wearing to the oscars? >> i can't tell you, gayle. >> we will be watching. >> i didn't think you would tell me. >> you know i love you, gayle. >> thank you, viola. i feel the same. >> thanks for coming by. if you missed the eye-opener, dial star star am from your smartphone. we're back. i was so busy talking to

vio viola, we're going to take a look at your local

we're in the midst of fashion week right here in new york. top designers and models showing off their latest designs. but a long-time model named sara is the face of a different kind of campaign highlighting the problems that models have on the job. >> she's the founder of model alliance. a new group advocating for models' rights in the workplace. sara is with us along with scafidi. nice to have you with us. >> thank for having us. >> we should say off the top, people think models, they have beautiful glamorous life, they travel the world, they look fantastic. that's on the surface. behind the scenes it's a very

different story, you say. >> right. i've worked as a model since i was 14 years old. so very, very young. i've been very fortunate in my career. but in that time, i've also seen how the industry disregards child labor laws. it's not really financially transparent. eating disorders are sometimes encouraged and there's even -- >> encouraged as we would think it's a great thing if you could become anorexic right now? >> it came over the wires, the model who was holland's next top model lost her contract and her job and was stripped of the title because her inches went from 35 -- her hips went from 35.5 inches to two sent miters bigger, just over 36 inches on a six foot woman. >> you talk too about the sexual abuse. you started at 14 sara, you were very young. that's how it starts a lot of times. they're young girls given promises and asked to do certain

things. >> what a lot of people don't realize is that the industry relies on the labor force of children. because designers love skinny girls and so they really go for that adolescent physique. so that means that kids are working in a very grown-up business. often they're unchaperoned, miles away from home. they're put in situations that can be compromising and so the model alliance is really working to give models basic rights and protections that any other performer has. you look at dancers or musicians or actors, and they rely on the support of unions. models don't have anything like that. >> they have absolutely no legal rights right now as an employee in. >> they're not employees, erica. that's the problem. models as independent contractors are not employees. they're not protected by many of the same sexual harassment laws in particular. never mind the financial transparency that employees

have. >> i had heard one time, sara, you described what's the difference between modeling for yourself and being a stripper? what did you mean by that, number one? were there times that you felt conflicted about what you were doing? >> i did. again, i was lucky to work with a lot of wonderful ee, creative talented people. for example, there's no policy of informed consent for jobs involving nudity. and when you think that you have 15, 16-year-old kids who are sometimes being put on the spot to take photos that are not age appropriate, i mean, it's really -- it's really bad. i don't think anyone wakes up in the morning and says, i want to exploit some 15-year-old latvians today. but the fact is that if you don't have any standards, then people -- >> what's the reaction from the industry? i'd be thinking sara ziff is talking. stop talking sara ziff. what are you hearing? >> i've been so encouraged by

the support we've gotten from the industry. we had our launch event recently and tons of models showed up to support this. shah loan harlow was there, cocoa roesh a. >> what about the fashion designers, i expect the models to say go sara go. i'm talking about the people in the industry. what are you hearing from them, any backlash for you? >> one thing we've done is tried to make this an inclusive effort. we don't want to seem adversarial. we have a common interest in improving the industry. we've gotten the support the agents, designers, photographers, all different stakeholders in the industry. >> they've endorsed the model alliances backstage privacy policy. you don't want the cell phones back there when you're changing. who knows where the pictures are going. actors equity and the american guild of musical artists are insisting on a reporting system

for sexual harassment. >> it's getting the conversation going. i would like you the model, why don't they smile when they walk down? why do they seem irritated? are you told do not smile when you walk down the runway? i'm very curious. >> in my experience, you're walking in very, very high heels. sometimes they don't fit very well. we're trying to make sure we make it to the end and back. >> okay. >> fashion road show. thank you for coming. >> pleasure. >> fashion week and then the super bowl of the dogs. we're going to show you the winner of the westminster kennel club dog shoe -- dog show. you can imagine the competition was, wait for it, ruff. uh-huh, i said it. you're watching "cbs this ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices.

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with your c-b-s five headlines... authorities will continue digging for human remains today in san joaquin county. sion from a good morning. 8:55. i'm grace lee. authorities will continue digging for human remains today in san joaquin county. that's after a confession from a convicted serial killer in the so-called speed freak killings. detectives in vallejo are serving search warrants after a gunfight in a nailon the the monday night shooting -- nail salon. the monday night shooting left five people shot including a 2- year-old girl. the victims are in serious or stable condition. the 49ers are heading south sooner than expected. santa clara has given the green light on building the team's new stadium calling for a 2014 opening date. here's a raiders fan, lawrence with the forecast. >> that's right.

you know, things clearing out around the bay area now. we had some storm clouds moving through overnight and some showers too, but looking good headed out the door. still, it is cool. likely to be breezy on and off throughout the day today and gusty winds developing behind the cold front. still, temperatures by the afternoon not bad. 50s and some 60s as high as 61 in san jose today. 63 in santa rosa. breezy in pacifica. offshore winds tomorrow, high clouds, otherwise the nicest day of the week tomorrow. by friday the sea breeze kicks in and temperatures cool down. there is a slight chance late friday night and into saturday morning that we could see a couple of scattered showers here in the bay area but partly cloudy and much cooler throughout the weekend. and then on president's day another chance of rain making a return to the bay area. all right. we'll check your "timesaver traffic" coming up next.

good morning. well, long line of slow traffic a lot of slow sensors on southbound 880 from hayward all the way towards san leandro. it looks like we have a couple of different incidents out there, one at marina another one at tennyson. 880 through oakland you see how windy it is out there still and those northbound lanes of the nimitz as you pass the coliseum, backed up. your drive time 35 minutes between 238 and the maze. so really slow as you make your way towards downtown oakland. looks like they are moving this camera now up towards the incline section of the bay bridge where you can see it is still a slow crawl up that

incline and backed up to the maze. metering lights are on.