good morning to our viewers in the west. it is tuesday, february 21st 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. europe agrees overnight to a $170 billion bailout deal for greece. will it prevent a financial collapse from reaching the united states? also we'll ask newt gingrich why he says president obama is a threat to national security. i'm gayle king. pat buchanan talks with us about the new book that cost him his job. when i see you at 8:00 dr. maya angelou shares the advice that she would give her younger self. i'm erica hill. jury selection gets underway in the high profile case of a college student accused of spying on his gay roommate. that roommate then killed

himself. plus a controversial diet drug that could cause you to lose more than weight. first as we do every morning we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> defeating barack obama becomes in fact a duty of national security. gop contenders set their sights on president obama. >> the president has a radical environmental ideology and a theology. >> president santorum's energy policy will be based on the bible. you want an alternative fuel? how about a burning bush? a growing issue in the race is the rising price of gasoline. >> economic concerns and international tensions push oil and gas to new highs. >> iran's big power play. the new threats, the new fears, how they could dramatically change the cost to you. >> significant progress has been made. >> europe agrees on a second bailout package from greece to save it from the sbring of

default. >> outrage in afghanistan. the ump s. desecration of the muslim holy books. >> when we learned about this we immediately intervened. >> oklahoma deals with damage from severe storms and that weather has turned deadly. >> a big question today, will the dow hit that milestone. 13,000? >> it is mardi gras in the big easy. revellers are enjoying that. >> all that? >> the girls? >> this is an image i could do without. >> they have a time-out. they don't use it for the win. >> and all that matters. >> that honey badger don't care. >> on "cbs this morning." >> have you actually braced the whole thing with great enthusiasm? >> it's much much petter to be rich and famous. captioning funded by cbs

welcome to "cbs this morning." we begin with two major financial news stories. european countries agreed overnight to $170 billion bailout of greece. >> they are hoping that will stop europe's he debt crisis from spreading to the u.s. and other countries. meantime, rising gas prices here at home are becoming a major issue. >> business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis is here. >> good morning. >> is this going to work this time? >> well, it's going to work in the near term in terms of creating a little less fear and a little less uncertainty in the overall market and the economy. greece gets $172 billion. that keeps it from defaulting on its debt in march. that was the big concern in the market. you do see the dow now poised closer to that 13,000 level. however, in the longer run greece still has a massive debt on its books. on top of that it needs to grow. balancing those two characteristics, cutting costs,

imposing austerity measures and at the same time growing is a very difficult task. we felt it here in the united states. the world has really felt that problem. greece is symbolic of it. you've seen protests in the streets as its people hate to impose these austerity measures. >> when we look at what's happening here at home major concern when it comes to gas prices for americans. how high are prices expected to rise in the near term and what is driving those prices to go upwards? >> analysts think prices could go up as many as 60 cents in the next couple of months. right now national average you're paying $3.57 a gallon but people in california already know what it's like to be paying above $4 a gallon. so whereas the rest of the country may see above $4 soon california's already feeling it now. the big issue is iran, the tensions there the fact that the strait of hormuz remains a threat. you're seeing oil prices above $100 a barrel. as those geo politics play into

the question going forward, that's what will continue to push prices higher because people pay attention to those headlines. >> pay attention. the international market that sets the prices here at home. >> very much so. it is a globalized market. >> becky, thanks. just one week from today michigan republicans will vote in their presidential primary. favorite son mitt romney will have to come from behind to win. several michigan polls show him trailing rick santorum but the race seems to be getting tight again. national correspondent dean reynolds is in grand rapids this morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica, and everyone in the west. you know this may look like it's boiling down to a two-person race, but i hesitate to call it that because if this competition has taught us anything it's that it could change by the day and even by the hour. >> this has been quite a roller coaster ride for us. >> reporter: for rick santorum that's a serious understatement. barely registering in the polls a few short weeks ago, he's now leading mitt romney here in michigan where romney grew up as

well as nationally. his front-runner status he spent much of monday in ohio and michigan attacking president obama. >> this president's doing everything he can to shut down the manufacturing sector of this economy, both in an environmental, energy regulatory, tax position. he alienates every one of our allies. he's trying to appease and negotiate with every one of our enemies. >> reporter: scrambling to stay competitive romney attacked santorum as a phony. >> one of the people i'm running against, senator santorum goes to washington call himself a budget hawk then after he's been there a while he says he's no longer a budget hawk. i am a budget hawk. i don't want to spend more money han we take in. >> reporter: the romney/santorum battle has left newt gingrich on the outside looking in. on monday in oklahoma a southern state he's counting on for a much-needed win next month, gingrich sought to remain relevant by reminding voters they are facing a stark choice.

>> barack obama is the most dangerous president in modern american history. so defeating barack obama becomes, in fact a duty of national security. because the fact is he is incapable of defending the united states. >> reporter: the good news for gingrich is that the super pac, which supports him, raised $11 million last month. the bad news is that it spent just about $10 million and that most of that money comes from a single donor, las vegas casino owner, sheldon adelson. charlie, erica? >> dean thank you very much. newt gingrich is with us now from oklahoma city. good morning mr. speaker. >> good morning. how are you, charlie? >> we want to talk not only about what you said about president obama but also some other issues here. where do you see this race today and if santorum wins in michigan, what does that mean? >> i think if santorum wins in michigan it's a big step up for

him. it's an enormous defeat for mitt romney who put $40 million of his own money in has run for six years, has outspent all the rest of us combined by better than 3 to 1. i think his super pac has outspent us by 5 or 6 to 1. this is romney's home turf. he was supposed to have carried it easily. the very fact that it's so close means it's a wide open race. i've been in the lead twice. santorum's now in the lead. so were governor perry, tim pawlenty at one point had a good chance, so did michele bachmann so did herman cain. this has really been the wildest nominating process i can remember. what separates you from rick santorum in terms of the message you have for voters? >> i think the biggest thing that separates us is the degree to which i'm prepared to make large change whether it is a national energy policy to get

the price of gasoline below $2.50 or is it a personal social security savings account for young people so they can have a buildup of money they control, that they're in charge of that no politician can touch, or it's going to zero capital gains and 100% expensing for all new equipment so that you really have a dramatic rebirth of the american economy. there are a number of areas where i think i'm probably much bolder than senator scrum, but in a sense we both represent a much more conservative wing of the party than does governor romney who represents a kind of northeastern modernism. >> that brings us to president obama. you believe he wants to see more expensive gas you have said? >> of course he does. come on, charlie. you know that. he has said it himself. chu, his secretary of energy in 2008 said they wanted gasoline prices to get to the european level, which is 9 or $10 a gallon. last year the president said people shouldn't complain about higher gas prices they ought to buy more efficient cars. the president himself said he

wants to get there, he just wants it to be gradual. his policy has been outrageously anti-american energy. the high price of gasoline is a direct result of obama. we paid $1.13 a gallon when i was speaker. his policies are anti-american energy. they exist in a fantasy world where we're all going to end up buying an electric car for which his new budget puts in $10,000 subsidy per car. think about what you could do for average working americans if you were going to hand them a $10,000 check. the average person has $170,000 annual income. president obama in effect is getting income redistribution to the wealthy in pursuit of his own fantasy which is an electric car which will liberate us from saudi arabia. i want american drilling oil, natural gas, use of coal nuclear power. i want american energy which is practical and available now to liberate us from saudi arabia

and it's a matter of national security. >> i'm happy you said national security. what did you mean when you said it i the duty to defeat president obama because of america's national security? because one would assume that if, in fact president obama was a risk to america's national security, that people like bob gates and secretary clinton and lots of other people would not have been serving in that administration. >> unless they agree with his world view. ask secretary clinton why would she hold a meeting with the organization of islamic countries at the state department to talk about sensoring anti-islamic talk? why is it that when a more rock can man is picked up trying to bomb the u.s. capital the obama administration can't describe him. it is against the rules of the federal government to talk accurately. >> you obviously know what president obama would say and has said before. this administration proudly claims not only that it killed

osama bin laden but it has killed more al qaeda people than any previous administration and that their anti-terror campaign anti-al qaeda has been very effective and there at the heart of radical fundamentalist islam. >> right. and my answer to that is it's been so effective they barely got a guy on saturday who was trying to blow up the u.s. capital. been so effective we have no idea in pakistan who is hiding bin laden. the pakistanis have arrested a pakistani for having helped the americans. it's been so effective that the muslim brotherhood is the dominant party in egypt and is openly talking about getting an egyptian nuclear weapon and breaking the treaty with israel. i don't think that's very effective. it's dangerous to america. they have no energy policy -- >> what would you have done if you had been president with respect to mu bar rack and the

fall and coming to whatever democratic election takes place there both poor the parliament and the future election of the president. >> quote former secretary of state george schultz who was secretary of state under ronald regan. when somebody's been your ally for 30 years, you may want to quietly help them leave but you don't cut and run and throw them into the world because it tells everybody else in the world you're not a very good ally. i would suggest to you this is an administration that no country really trusts. that's the reason the saudis have now signed a nuclear treaty with the chinese, not with the americans. it's the reason the canadians are looking to build a pipeline with the chinese, not through the united states. the president vetoes the keystone pipeline. he is slowing down the flow of energy into the united states and driving canada into a partnership with china. >> let me just -- >> these things are all bad for american security. >> let me come to one final question. you seem to be by saying 2459 president of the united states is running over the constitutions he a violating the core and the intent of the united states, you seem to be saying that the president is not

patriotic. you seem to be questioning the patriotism of the president of the united states. >> the president of the united states is patriotic in a world view that involves the writing of sololinsqy and a radical re-interpret tags. clearly his recess appointments when there was no recess was unconstitutional. the use of the u.s. attorney in north dakota is unconstitutional. again and again this is a president who routinely only obeys those laws he personally deems fit. i think that his attack on the catholic church is unconstitutional. it's a violation of the first amendment. i think that's an important debate for us to have as a country. >> and that's why we're having an election. thank you so much speaker gingrich. >> thank you. there are violent protests in afghanistan this morning after u.s. troops destroy copies of the koran. more than 2,000 afghans joined at bagram air field where the

koran was burned in the trash. some of the demonstrators shouted die, die foreigners. the top general apologized and said it was not intentional and will never happen again. in syria government forces are gathering for a possible attack on rebels in the city of homs. meantime, iran is warning the u.s. not to try to send weapons to the rebels. there are new questions about a pair a warships from iran that just left sar yeah after a two-day visit. cbs foreign correspondent is back. independent reporters are not welcome. clarissa, good morning. >> good morning. >> we begin with the question of whether there will be a way for people as senator mccain suggested, providing arms for those rebels in syria. . and what will happen if they do not get those kinds of -- that kind of support. >> reporter: well, i think the first question you have to ask yourself is how do you identify the opposition? who are you giving those weapons to? and how are you getting them to

them? the group that we were with calls themselves the syrian liberation army but there are many other armed groups out there. the free syrian army being the most famous of them all. it's very difficult at this point with no clear sense of unity within the opposition to know how one would even go about arming them. >> so therefore, what happens? >> reporter: well that's a very tough question to answer at the moment. it's impossible to see how the opposition can continue to sustain itself at this rate with no outside support, with no outside supply lines, with no money. of course, this is all against a back drop of a humanitarian crisis which is getting worse and worse by the day. >> so being inside and talking to people that you talk to how do you measure how far the assad administration in syria will go to put down all of the rebels especially what they're doing in homs? >> the rebels who i was with in

the northern city of idlib have no doubt the city like idlib and ham ma to the north of the city of homs which is being bombarded are next on the list of the crackdown, that they have no doubt that the assad forces are going out of their way to try to stomp out any last vestiges of resilience against those rebel fighters. they're willing to use any tactics to get there, to achieve that goal. we've seen relentless bomb bartments. activist groups saying 24 people have been killed. >> clarissa we've said several times how reporters are not welcome yet you managed to get in and get out. it was not easy. give us a sense of how you were able to do that. >> reporter: well we had to go into the country illegally relying on activists and also smugglers. the border crossing is incredibly dangerous. it's also physically demanding. there are several ways to do it. our entry was fairly straightforward but our exit was much more complex. it had been raining all week and there was severe flooding in the

fields across that border. we were trudging through thick mud, waiting through canals for about three miles. this was all in the dead of night with no real cover. >> clarissa thank you very much. it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. a white house spelling mistake made headlines in the new york post. vice president joe biden will be campaigning in rhode island. a press release spelled it rode island. >> "the wall street journal" reports afghanistan's government has a plan to spy on its own soldiers to keep them in line. there have been several recent attacks on western troops. >> the houston chronicle says houston is america's fattest city. that's according to men's fitness magazine. one reason houston has 1,000 more fast food places than any other city in america. and in england the telegraph reports a mathematician who broke nazi germany's secret code also stole another mystery.

he tried to explain how the leopard got its spots. it had to do with two different chemicals. scientists have confirmed he was right all along. oklahoma is cleaning up the damage from a powerful line of thunderstorms. monday's storms were brief but severe with winds of more than 60 miles per hour. a trailer park about 15 miles southeast of oklahoma city was hit especially hard. at least one person a lot of fog down below, high clouds up above but we are going to see some gorgeous weather as we head throughout... ♪ [ music ]♪ >> ... numbers are expected to move up from the 40s and 50s right now to some 50s and 60s, even 70s later on today so some gorgeous weather coming our way. much warm near wednesday and thursday. cooling off as we head into friday and the weekend. >> announc this national weather report

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in northern italy this morning it's the battle of the oranges. it's traditional spectacle. it's supposed to represent the fighttyranny. 500 tons of oranges were brought in. jury selection is under way. college student tyler clementi killed himself after his roommate spied on his encounter with another man. the roommate faces several charges including a hate crime. >> and that hate crime could get him ten years if convicted.

we'll ask erin moriarity of "48 hours myster frank mallicoat ... hayward police are looking for a domestic violence su good morning. it's 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines on this tuesday. hayward police are looking for a domestic violence suspect who was released by mistake. they say 32-year-old jose hernandez had sutures in his neck from cutting his own throat. he was freed after he was treated instead of being turned over to police. they are looking for him now. san jose police have a 16- year-old robbery suspect after his mother turned him in. before that happened, officers spent hours searching for him near los gatos creek trail and bascomb avenue. livermore police want help in finding whoever is launching river rocks at homes on saturday night. one of the rocks went through a window and put a hole in the wall near a baby crib. nobody was hurt. they want to find the culprit. we'll have your traffic and

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good morning. we have a traffic alert just issued in benicia now. the eastbound lanes of 780 are shut down for a stretch from military west towards southampton road. a tractor-trailer engulfed. fire crews on scene. the area is shut down. westbound 780 traffic isn't impacted but the eastbound lanes traffic is being diverted off the freeway there by military west. at the bay bridge, still backed up to the maze. metering lights are on. so far kind of sluggish as well up the incline towards san francisco. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> patchy fog outside around the bay area to the coast. we are seeing delays at sfo of an hour for arrivals, so yeah, the thick fog is going to slowing give way to plenty of sunshine today. 40s and 50s right now. by the afternoon highs into the 60s and here come a few 70s in the valleys. the beginning of some much warmer weather on the way even warmer on wednesday and thursday, cooling off this weekend.

♪ hi. how you been? before we start the broadcast tonight, i just want to address my recent absence from the national conversation as the hub around which the republic turns. i can understand why the machinery of this great nation ground to a halt last week when you were denied this. oh one more thing. evidently having 11 children makes you tough as nails. confidential to a lovely lady. >> welcome back. stephen colbert, the lovely lady he was referring to was his mom. he missed two shows last week

because she was ill. we welcome him back and welcome you back to "cbs this morning." >> jury selection starts today in it the trial of the student accused of spying on his roommate, tyler clementi with a web cam. clementi committed suicide in 2010. robb by is charged with invasion of privacy, witness and evidence tampering, and bias intimidation, a hate crime calling for ten years in prison. "48 hours" correspondent erin moriarty takes a look at the case. >> reporter: like so many teenagers, he communicated incessantly online. now those tweets and text messages he sent are likely to be used against him as prosecutors try to prove he harassed tyler clementi because he thought he was gay. robbie chatted to a friend "f my life, he's gay." later, he twice focused his

computer camera at clementi's bed when he had a man in the room, the second time posting on the social media site twitter, "yep, it's happening again." clementi took a train to new york city. at 8:42 p.m. that evening, he left this message on facebook. jumping off the george washington bridge. sorry. clementi's body was discovered in the hudson river a week later. the tragic outcome says this law professor may be a reason he's facing unusually harsh charges. >> even though the suicide is technically not anywhere in the charges, but when you talk to people on the street or go on the web, it's still often perceived as robbie did something that caused clementi to kill himself. >> reporter: ironically, the digital record may help his defense. his attorneys are expected to use clementi's own online

postings to prove he didn't feel intimidated. doesn't seem so bad, laugh out loud, he chatted to a friend after he realized he had been spied on. the night clementi took a train to new york robbie sent him a text that read in part i've known you were gay, and i have no problem with it. i don't want your freshman year to be ruined because of a petty misunderstanding. tyler clementi most likely never got a chance to read it. >> erin moriarty is with us now in studio 57. seems that social media is becoming increasingly port when it comes to cases. >> oh this is a sign of the times. we're going to see this more and more. it's not just to prove in pen for basic charges. what's worrisome is prosecutors are using this electronic evidence to actually bring for serious charges. robbie would have just been charged win vags of privacy. because of his tweets and texts, they charged him with bias intimidation which is a hate

crime, which covers a much heavier sentence. you know the yeardley love case. the young woman who was allegedly killed at uva by her boyfriend. his defense is he didn't mean to do it and he might have been facing manslaughter charges. i think he sent an e-mail two days earlier saying i should have killed you. boom. first-degree charges. >> it's interesting you bring this up a at the end of your piece as well about how he apparently reached out after tyler was, perhaps, may have already passed or was on his way into new york. do we know anything more about the relationship between these two? did they talk to each other online or via text even if they didn't talk in person? >> no the picture i was given -- and this is so sad. here you had two young men who did more talking on the internet and online to other people about each other and did very little talking to each other at all. you keep wondering, could this whole thing have been avoided if they had talked out their differences? it's incredibly sad. i want to point out also, there

was an amazing letter that james clementi put in "out" magazine. >> tyler's brother. >> yeah, his brother. it's an open letter to his brother. it was just done this month. i think it's significant. a lot of people blame robbie. they say he somehow caused tyler clementi's death. i noticed in that letter that james never mentioned robbie's name. it's ahearted break heartbreaking letter. he wrote, i wish it didn't take you dying for your soul to know peace. i wish you could read the hundreds of letters we got, hear the thousands who rallied and marched for you, know the millions who formllowed your story on the 6:00 news. you were never alone, it just felt like it. it was so heartbreaking. >> erin, nice to have you with us. >> great being here. pat buchanan always has an opinion about politics. now he's out of a job after critics called his new book sexist and antisemiitsic.

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. good morning to our friends in boston there this morning. a look at the city. political pundit and former presidential candidate pat buchanan was fired by msnbc after ten years as a contributor to the news site because of his book. >> they said the ideas in the book aren't really appropriate for national dialogue. pat buchanan is at the white house to talk about that. let me begin. newt gingrich has said in the last 24 hours it's the duty of america to defeat barack obama because of national security that he's writing over the constitution. how do you assess those remarks?

>> well, i do agree that the president of the united states has used obama care really to ride rough shot over the prerogatives of the roman catholic church when you order the church and its institutions to engage in activities that that church has taught for centuries to be morally wrong. and i think the president ishas partially backed off of that and i think he should back off entirely, charlie. >> what about the race so far in terms of president obama and his inability to defend the national security of the united states also part of speaker gingrich's remarks? >> i think the president's done a good job on the war of terror and i disagree with some of my republican colleagues. i think we have to move out of iraq and move out of afghanistan. so i don't fault the president that much in terms of what he's done on foreign policy as i do domestic policy charlie. >> all right. let me begin by talking about this book. tell us what it is that you want

us to understand. the title of the book is "will america survive to 2025:suicide of a super power." and in the preface you sail a con clievs period we're in the indian summer of our civilization. it's written suicides die by murder. unlike the prodigal sun we can't go back home. what do you want us to understand? >> i want the folks to read that book and understand is it western civilization in its indian summer? it's on in my judgment much on its last legs and i'm not sure it will survive this century. if you look at europe, not a single european nation has a birth rate which will enable to survive in its present form. we do know about the economic crisis over there, but there is also an ethno-national crisis.

cameron says the same in britain. sarkozy says so in france. we saw all the riots in london last summer where first ethnic groups rose up and then the londoners rode along with them. what i'm worrying about is the united states of america that's shifting to become a multi--national, multi-ethic, multi-lingual, there's nothing to hold us together if we lose our common larngs common moral consensus, which we are losing. >> so you're not saying the nation has to be white and christian which some of your critics are saying. >> the critics should read the book instead of trying to black list and censor the book charlie. in 1960 because of the melting pot we had all come

together, irish and germans and english and polish and jewish and czech and greek into one nation under god, but the culture and all the things that have held us together, we have thrown out. the public schools which introduced us to english literature, american history and heroes and holidays, that's thrown out. we're becoming a tower of babel and i don't think we'll survive. >> i thought what the statue of liberty meant if we welcome everybody to our shores that that is what has made us strong because people have come from outside the united states to make giant contributions in war and peace to make us the strong country that we are, and that is what our essential power -- that is what has given us enormous strides in technology, in science, in health and, yes, in fighting the wars that we felt were necessary for our national security. >> charlie what is the motto of

the united states? out of many one. it is not just a diversity that makes america strong. it is the unity we finally had in the depression and world war ii in the 1950s. we were one people united under god, indivisible in one nation. what is happening now is that the elites in this country have taken the melting pot and thrown it out. they're saying to people come to america, keep your culture, keep your separate religion keep your separate different beliefs. america has become a nation of nations. >> how are they saying keep your beliefs but not at the same time accept the values and the constitution of the country that you have come to? it's one thing to understand your own roots but another to accept the principles of the constitution and the united states. >> charlie, let me ask you about the constitution of the united states. what does the ninth amendment say with regard to the killing of the unborn or pro-choice?ivided

over what the constitution says. what does the 14th amendment say about affirmative action which is discriminatory over white folks. we disagree over the first amendment, freedom of religion. president obama thinks it means you go into the catholic church and tell them to start distributing condoms and start doing abortions. >> you know the president has changed that. he has changed that -- >> can i tell you a story, charlie? my foreran an accounting firm in d.c. it was the largest of the small firms firms, not the big eight. he was a defoult catholic. under obama's rule he would still be required fro provide health care which meant distribution of condoms, stirlizations and things like that. he would engage in civil disobedience rather than do that. the government of the united states has got enormous power

and it's growing in power and it has driven christianity out of the public schools and out of the public square. now it is encroaching on the realm of the church itself. i do believe that. look. these catholic bishops, they're not natural born fighters say, like pat buchanan. they don't want to fight with president obama. >> well, they did speak out -- obviously we're up against the clock here pat. thank you for joining us. >> sure. thank you, charlie. it is

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b-s five... i'm grace lee. a bounty hunter says convicted (sher-man-tyne) has good morning. 7:56. i'm grace lee. a bounty hunter says convicted killer wesley shermantine has described the location of a third well where he claims a body can be found. shermantine is the surviving member of the duo known as the "speed freak" killers. the first well in san joaquin county contained hundreds of human bones. crews are expected to resume the search for the second well based on hand drawn maps that were made by shermantine. a state assemblyman has a new target in the ongoing battle against childhood obesity. he is now aiming at food trucks. democrat bill mooning of carmen proposes a state law that would ban food trucks from selling within 500 yards of schools and that ban would be in effect for school days from breakfast until dinnertime. we'll have your traffic and weather coming right up.

high 4 is more backed up than usual. check the long line of red sensors. westbound 4 through antioch then another accident by railroad. an earlier problem near willow pass so yeah, it is going to be a lot of brake lights across that stretch. out to benicia now, eastbound 780 is shut down between military west and south hampton road. a tractor-trailer fire. so chp warns drivers not to use 780 to cut to 680. they are detouring traffic off the freeway at military west. a lot of fog around the bay area right now. high clouds drifting overhead, too. we are expecting a beautiful day ahead though. so once the fog begins to lift in the next couple of hours, what a day it's going to be. temperatures in the 60s and low 70s by the afternoon. even warmer through wednesday

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♪ it's 8:00. most of the people you see walking the streets have been up all night. that's because they're celebrating mardi gras in new orleans. it's fat tuesday today. one of the greatest parties in the world ends tonight around midnight. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> so why are we here? >> i don't know. i've never been to march deedi gras. >> me either. >> it's charlie rose with erica hill. it's been 13 years since the fda approved a new prescription diet pill. >> the agency rejected it in 2010 due to safety concerns. what's changed now? nice to have you with us in had the studio. i misspoke earlier. i said you prescribe it.

you don't. you have prescribed to your patients essentially the same combination of drugs. why? what is so effective about it that you would prescribe it? >> right. so it's a combination of two different drugs. it is very effective together to produce weight loss. they've been around for decades. >> when you say very effective, what does that mean? is there a number? >> well there have been a number of studies. the most recent study lasted for a little over a year. the person who takes the higher dose and sticks with the treatment may be expected to lose about 14% of body weight. so if you're 200 pounds that would be about 28%. having said that though, that's an average weight loss. a third of the patients lost even more weight than that.

then there are some people who don't respond that well. >> look i know we are a nation of fatty mcfat but i sit before you on jenny craig ready to bite your arm at this particular moment. i'm thinking, great, when there's a drug we can possibly take, why all the controversy? >> well, i think weight loss drugs have had a very checkered past. you know, as you say, causing heart problems and lung problems. so, you know we need to definitely proceed with caution and make sure that the benefits of the drug outweigh the risks, which i think has definitely been shown to be the case. >> well, has it really? the question the fda will have to address is whether the reason that it did not approve it before have been overcome. have the risks gone away? the central question. >> well the question about the risks were really based on cardiovascular outcomes. so will people taking this drug have a greater chance of dying

of a heart attack? no, that necessarily hasn't been addressed. you would need a very long study. >> you would think that would have to be addressed if that was a reason they cited for not approving it before. somebody would have to satisfy the fda that they've taken new tests and it's no longer a risk would you not? >> you also have to use reason. the risk of obesity is already known. obesity definitely causes heart disease and stroke. >> so are you saying that risk of obesity overrides any other risk from using this drug? >> yeah from the information we have now. and one has to realize that this is not necessarily a new drug in the way that phendermine, which poses more of a risk has been out for decades. that's still out there. if this it was a true risk we would know. we would know that. >> i always wondered if a pill can really help you.

isn't it a question of eat less move more for most people? isn't that really the reality of the situation? because those of us who struggle with weight always know that you have to find what works for you, but isn't the bottom line eat less less, move more, or are you talking about a different kind of person who's really really overweight? >> no, i'm talking about the pretty much garden variety of overweight people. and you're right. you know eat less move more. but most of the time you can't do that. you know eat less, you lose weight, and you regangin the weight. >> do you expect the fda will approve this? >> my crystal ball is in the room backstage. >> pretend it's with you now. what are you thinking? you looked at it before you came on. what do you think?

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♪ ja wow. that wow, that is grammy award-winning violinist joshua bell from his latest c doctor.

his 36th. it went right to number one on billboard's classical traditional chart. joshua bell is with us in studio 57. nice to have you here this morning. >> thanks. thanks for having me her this morning. >> it's not what you expect when you think of a violinist. >> there's so much energy. >> that's the misconception about classical music. this particular album "french impressions" has some of that. it also has, i think, the music of the french repertoire. it has some of the most beautiful music. there's plenty of excitement. >> it's more to me than excitement. i've had the pleasure of seeing you perform twice live. i have to say, joshua, i had no idea playing the violin could be so strenuous. >> it snies when i was watching you, you actually did work up a sweat. >> oh, yeah.

>> i don't know if that's just your style or if that's what happens to everybody because it was like watching you -- you are so fast and so strong and so vigorous, i had no idea that you guys sweat when you're playing, i really didn't. you see it as -- i normally see it as a -- and it's very civilized. i've never seen anybody like you do this before. >> no. it's -- i mean civilized, no definitely not. >> is anybody as strenuous as you? >> to play great music that's so full of emotion, of course, it takes a lot of emotional and physical energy. it is sort of athletic. >> athletic. that's the word. >> the white tie and tails used to be customary. it's unfortunate. because the music -- i think it conjures of classical music as being very formal. the music itself is absolutely not. >> people who know you know that you started the when you were a child, 3, 4 years old, that you

were immediately drawn to it. your parents obviously encouraged it a lot. but they probably don't know other things about you. you mentioned this is athletic. you were a big tennis player. >> yes. i was competitive in sports. i loved bachblt i'm from indiana. basketball was the thing to do. my parents wanted me to do all that stuff. they didn't lock me in a room and say practice practice. i think that's why i probably enjoyed it so much because i wasn't forced to do that. >> do you find that people come to you now after your shows and say what can i do how can i encourage my child? is that what you tell them? encourage them in any way you can? >> it depends. because i feel like i'm often giving two sets of advice. in general to parents, get them into music advocate for them get them good teachers. there are others i say leave them alone, don't make them practice, let them be normal kids. it depends who i'm talking to.

music is so important for kids. when i'm not playing, i go to schools, make sure it's in the schools. unfortunately it gets dropped from schools left and right and music does so much for kids and self-is self-esteem. it's important for kids do. >> it's fun, josh. i love the shot of you as a little boy. how old were you? they use the word "prodigy" to describe you. that's huge. >> i think i heard that term once in a while. >> how old were you? >> at that point, 13. i looked about 7, but i was 13. i can't remember not having music, so i just grew up with it. >> but loving it, when you knew, oh, my gosh i love this. >> i think i pretty much always loved it. i didn't want to always practice, don't get me wrong.

my mom often had to yell at me to practice, but i always loved music. as i got older, i realized it's an incredible way of expressing yourself. when i got older, i thought, wow, this is a real outlet. >> this is a big deal not only for you in your career, but you're the only other person who has held this position. >> sir neville was the director for 50 years and they named me the new director. new venture doing phonic repertoiring. and as an artist you have to keep challenging yourself. to me it's a challenge because it's uncharted territory for me. but you can't get stuck doing what you do all the time. >> one quick question. of all the grammy nominees this year, is there one you really liked? contemporary art itist? >> you know what? i wasn't nominated the year so i haven't watched.

i've been to the grammys many times and i do like all kinds of music. >> it's all right. >> listening to whitney houston, i have to say i had forgotten howl beautiful a voice she had. you get so absorbed in what you do. in the last ten years i hadn't listened to her music. and it's like wow, it's something that i lielz she was one of the greats. >> well, may i just say this joshua bell. you were fun to watch, even better to listen to. thank you so much for coming. it is a crime that lives in infamy. the manson family brutal murder of actress sharon tachlt her niece will show us why her family is fighting for justice 43 years later. you're watching "cbs this morning." stay with us. your local news is next.

hayward police are searching for a domestic violence suspect they good morning. :25. in the headline at 8:25, hayward police searching for a domestic violence suspect they believe may be very dangerous. police say jose hernandez slashed his own throat, stabbed himself in the chest before they detained him on saturday. but after treatment at a psychiatric evaluation facility, he was released from the hospital by mistake. berkeley police are defending their response in the berkeley hills saturday night. they say they rushed to the scene after getting a second call about an assault that turned deadly. daniel jordan dewitt from alameda was arrested near the murder scene. police say he beat a man to death with a flower pot. and a new claim from "speed freak" killer wesley shermantine. he is telling a bounty hunter there is a third well where a body can be found there as well. it's supposed to be within a mile of a well in san joaquin

county where searchers have found hundreds of human bone fragments. we'll have your traffic and weather coming right up.

good morning. well, we still have this traffic alert in benicia. now, within the last 20 minutes they were able to get one lane open of eastbound 780 by military west. they are still asking drivers to avoid eastbound lanes of 780. there was an earlier tractor- trailer fire. the fire is now out. but they are still clearing up

the scene so again, there are lanes blocked still eastbound 780 by military west, highway 4 a good alternate except for in the antioch area still slow. we have that accident there by railroad. so it's even sluggish past antioch into pittsburg into concord. bay bridge, the usual back-to- work tuesday commute here. jammed solid through the macarthur maze for a 20-minute wait. that is traffic, for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> plenty of fog around the bay area this morning. a lot of sunshine though toward the afternoon. going to be a beautiful day. difficult to see the bay bridge this morning because of the fog. temperatures in the 40s and 50s. this afternoon, plenty of sunshine, 60s and low 70s in some of the valleys. next couple of days even warmer on wednesday and thursday. cooling off a tad on friday. much cooler temperatures expected over the weekend.

@÷wxw who would your dream co-host be? there's catherine, the one-time kate middleton out and about. the duchess of cambridge is visiting a couple of schools in oxford, part of her duties. welcome back to "cbs this morning" at 8:30. do you remember the name sharon tate? it was a huge huge story back in 1969. this beautiful young actress was married to director ro e man

polanski, was about to give birth to their very first child and she and four other people were murdered in her home by followers of manson. now for the first time the tate family has opened a collection of letters memoirs in the case. they're in a new book called "restless souls." the authors are in the studio with us this morning. brie tate is sharon's niece. brie, these are things that happened before you were born. things that happened in your family and collected. why put as these documents together and put this book out? >> for me it was really just about finishing something that everyone in my family had started, you know. my mom tried to write an auto biography and my grandmother tried and my papa tried and nothing was ever published so this is kiemgd of my way of honoring them and fin ericishing what

they started. >> part of the book is called "crusade for justice." what is the justice you're seeking. >> keeping these people behind bars. that's what my nana did. >> when she saw there was a chance they could be paroled she started speaking up. in part because of the work that your grandmother did, we now have victim impact statements, true? >> true. she was one of the first to do so. victims were -- before were not allowed to go to parole hearings and give impact statements. now the victims can go or the families of the victim. >> how much was this talked about in your family growing up? >> you know the murder itself was never really talked about too much per se but sharon was definitely talked about very much. she was a big part of my life. photos were all around the house of sharon. >> at the time of the murder she was eight months' preg

najts, which also added to the attraction of the story. but at the time i vaguely remember there were so many misconception misconceptions, alisa, and that's why you decided to write the book. for example i remember it was a big drug-filled house, yoregy-filled house and activity in and out of the house and you're saying none of this was true. >> absolutely. >> you were friends. >> the headline that lived with me is "live freaky, die freaky" as if they had brought these murders on themselves. that was a horrible horrible headline to see every day. as if to say their daughter that none of that was true and people in a way were blaming her for these murders and it was crazy. it was horrible. >> they were truly just innocent people. >> insoenlt in their own home you know in for the night,

expecting to wake up to another day. >> some of the things which are coming out along with this book there were recordings that were kept by the family. we have one of them we want to play because i'm sure no one's really heard it before. >> roman will be here in two weeks. he's doing a film out of a book called "rosemary's baby," which you should read. it's a fantastic book. oh, yeah. by the way roman just like you. he smokes cigars. he's very sensitive and stubborn. he's very -- he makes decisions and nothing changes them. >> sharon talking about roman powe polanski. this is a recording she made for her father. he played a really sig can't role in the investigation of the murders it turns out. tell us about that. he had been a military intelligence officer, correct? >> correct. at night he would go and stake out the house where sharon was living. he's go on the cul-de-sac and watch below. what happened after months and

months of watching, two bikers showed up and sharon's house was hard to find and they seemed to know the house really well and at the gate and taunted the dogs to a frenzy. he followed them back to what turned out to be the ranch where manson was hiding out. >> and was instrumental in helping the police. that's something they don't know either, the role your grandfather played. i think this is a gruesome detail too that people don't think about. when a horrible crime occurs somebody has to go and clean it up. somebody has to take care of it. and as it turns out it with us your grandfather that took care of that. it turns out that sharon tate was renting the house and then your family was sued for damages to the house. >> exactly. >> so your grandfather had to go clean up the mess that was left and then your family was later sued. i just thought that was a cruel and unkind thing. >> you know, it's the absolute

worst thing that can happen to a victim's family and the callousness with which the owner of the house did that, to blame the -- he basically blamed the victims and filing a $250,000 lawsuit for damages sustained during the murders. i don't think it gets any worse in that. and the vision of a father on his hands and niece skribing his daughter's blood is really horrible. he continued that lawsuit well after the manson crime. he never let it go. >> the one thing you wanted to accomplish, we know the names. we know sharon tate and manson. we don't know any of the other people involved. we don't want to forget the other victims. >> i think people remember the crimes and they certainly remember the manson family but certainly the victims have been overshadowed in this case for many, many years. >> all right brie tate and alisa statman thanks so much.

"restless souls" is now available in your bookstores or online. this morning mitt romney

>> robin keggen was krejtsly described by the watchboat as his favorite adviser because the president gave a thumbs up to an essay that kagan wrote for the magazine. it didn't seem to bother mr. obama that this senior fellow at the brook igs institute is a fellow adviser of mitt romney. i'm pleased to have robin kagan join us. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> did you have anything? >> no, i talked to tom donilin

and others on the white house staff about various foreign policy issues but i never talked to them about this. >> as you know tom came on my late night program and talked about the fact that the president had been influenced by your views. >> so i hear. i'm very pleased that the president found what i was writing was useful. >> what are you saying about america's decline? >> i'm stating it's tremendously overstated and it's premature. you know economically and militarily and in terms of its overall influence is as strong as it's ever been. with very a mythical view of the past. people seem to think we were able to do whatever we wanted and tell people what to do and we can no longer do it. the fact is we've always had difficulties and been in a struggle but i think the united states is still in a strong position. >> there is this fact. there has been a transfer of

economic power from the east to the west. >> although most of that transfer has not actually come at the expense of the united states. if you look at the global share of gross domestic product that the united states has, it's remained remarkably steady for the last 40 years, about a quarter of overall world gdp. china's been rising mostly at the expense of europe and japan. now, of course the chinese rise is significant, it's going to mean a different kind of future but i'm not sure it's a challenge that the united states can't meet and reallily will necessarily change the united states of the world. >> as you know it's called a rise to the rest by some people. the point is there's got to be in this kind of circumstance a different sharing of power. do you reject that idea? >> i don't reject that. it's going to be different players involved. if you think about, again, the cold war, there was a significant rise of the west during the cold war. germany and japan came out from nothing, became economic

powerhouses. you may remember not so many years ago we worried about japan taking over the world economically. the rise of those powers aided the united states. it made united states stronger in its competition with the soviet union. if you look at the current situation, if our leading competitor is going to be china in the decades to come the rise of india is going to be an advantage to the united states. >> so what role will we play today as china rises and we see this move management of economic power that's different from the role we have played when there were only two super powers? >> well, we do face a more diverse -- die fuse kind of power in the world. we have some strategic vanchs in dealing with china. thing china's going to be economically powerful, but strategically it faces powerful allies of the united states around its periphery from japan all the way around to india. we have to manage those alliances well. we have to engage both including our european allies.

i think that those alliance structures remain the core of american influence in the world. >> okay. but you look at egypt and you could have a different kind of government that's not as interested in having a relationship with the united states as the previous mubarak government was. >> no. there's no question. you're not going to be able to pick up the phone and get mubarak on the line and ideally get him what you want him to do. we're going to have to deal with the egyptian democracy and the fact that the islamic brotherhood is going to be powerful and this is going to be a set back for american interests on some issues. my view is overall it's going to benefit the united states. i think back on the fall of marcos in the philippines in the 1980s and several years after that the united states was thrown out of key bases in the philippines, but we've recovered and i think we are benefiting today from philippine democracy despite those strategic effects.

>> nor do we have the domino effect comes in from vietnam. >> no, we don't. i think the united states despite the phrase "leading from behind" has actually shown a lot of leadership in libya and has been working diplomatically with the arab league and turkey and othering in the region to try to move things in a positive direction. i don't see any weakness in the united states in these dealings. >> but that's. >> that's not at what your candidate is saying. you seem to be praising president obama's foreign policy leadership, notwithstanding the fact that you're advising mitt romney. >> well, think that there are things that the united states is still capable of doing. i have plenty of criticisms of the obama administration. i believe what they're doing on the defense budget is very dangerous and could, in fact lead to american decline over time. there are certainly areas in relationship with israel where i think they have not managed that well, and i'm obviously in full agreement with governor mitt romney on those issues. my point is a larger point, i

have to say. it's an apolitical point. it's no longer as powerful as it once was an therefore, we ought to manage our decline. my argument is the united states is capable of carrying out significant activities both and having influence in the middle east and elsewhere. >> robin kagan thank you. >> thank you. >> what would you say to yourself if you could go back in time? we'll whaer dr. maya angelou's note to herself is when we come back. you're watching "cbs this morning." in addition to the two hundred plus facilities that the university of phoenix has

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if you could offer insight and advice to your younger sefrl, what would you say to him or her? that's a concept for a new series we're starting this morning called "note to self." we're delighted to start with noted author civil rights activist dr. maya angelou. >> this is a letter to myself when i was about 15. today i'm 83 years old. dear me. first, i know that you know how to listen. when i was 8 years old, became a mute and was a mute until i was 13 and i thought of my whole body as an ear so i could go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all the sound.

that talent or ability has lasted and served me until today today. once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses the sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting. you learn to respect all the sense senses. find a beautiful piece of art. if you have fallen in long with van gogh or maltese or john killan or if you've fallen in love with the music of cold train, the music of aretha franklin the music of chopin, find some beautiful art and admire it and realize that that was created by a human being,

just like you. no more human, no less. the person may have keener eyesight or better ears. the person might have a more live body and can dance, but the person cannot be more human than you. that is very important because that ensures you that you are a human being, and nothing human can be alien to you. you will be able to go around the world, learning languages, speaking for everybody, because no one can be more human than you, nor can they be less human. they can be meaner or crueller or sweeter or prettier or younger or richer, but they can't be more human than you. remember that. >> talking to her really is like listening to liquid poetry.

every conversation i want to sit there with a note and a pad. >> right every word down. you must have interviewed her many times. >> many times. she's one beautiful woman, ads you can see. >> what would be your advice to an 8-year-old. >> to an 8-year-old or younger self. it's so interesting. you learn so much as you get older. nobody can tell you. you're relaxed. you're not as smart as you think you are. >> what do you mean? >> you're not as smart as you think you are. tony, you're not as smart as you think you are. >> tony would be appropriate. what would be your note to your younger self? >> i love that no one is more human than anyone else. just remind people that you love them. we talked about this the other day when viola davis was here from "the help." in the movie the little girl said you are kind you are

smart, you are important. tell somebody else that every day. >> bill gates and his wife melinda, one life is as important as any other life. mine would be hone your curiosity, constantly educate yourself and find your passion. that's what i would say. >> always good advice. >> you know jeremiah also said every step toward success is a step toward liberation, which i think is so good. the more successful you become the more liberated you become because you can create your own destiny. >> and the more you learn the more you can consider your alternatives that. does it for us. stay tuned for your local news. we'll see you tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning."

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an alameda county firefighter is heat exhaust good morning. it's 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs 5 headlines. an alameda county firefighter is in the hospital suffering from heat exhaustion after battling a fire this morning in the castro valley. the fire burned a garage that housed two african tortoises. the animals got out safely. a heating pad for them and an extension cord are thought to have started the fire. we are getting our first look at some of the damage from rocks hurled at homes inlivermore. they were thrown by a launching device, possibly like a water balloon launcher that looks like a giant slingshot. there were nine attacks saturday night. hayward police are trying to find this man, a domestic violence suspect who was released from a hospital by mistake. 32-year-old jose hernandez was detained on saturday outside his ex-girlfriend's home.

he was treated for self- inflicted stab wounds and given a psychiatric evaluation, then set free by mistake. they are looking for him now. here's lawrence with the forecast. >> it's going to be very introduces. patchy fog still around the bay area and high clouds overhead. it's going to be very nice, what an afternoon it's going to be as we expect mostly sunny skies to return to the bay area and temperatures are going to soar. plan on some 60s at the beaches today. you get inside the bay you will find upper 60s, maybe low 70s into san jose and low 70s in many of the valleys. this is just the beginning of a warming trend as we are going to see high pressure strengthen offshore winds likely to kick in overnight and into tomorrow clearing out your skies to the coast. that means mid-60s at the beaches by tomorrow. mid-70s in the valleys. that nice weather holding through thursday. then we begin to cool down a bit on friday. but much more cooling expected as we head throughout the weekend. we'll check out your "timesaver traffic" coming up next.

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