good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, march 14th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. more trouble for mitt romney. rick santorum pulls off two big wins in mississippi and alabama. so what does this mean for the fight for the gop nomination? also this morning we'll go to afghanistan where defense secretary leon panetta has just arrived amidst new violence. i'm erica hill the dow soares along with temperatures. plus we'll talk to george clooney as he prepares to testify before congress. and i'm gayle king. prince harry tells us how the work of his mother, princess diana, influenced his own humanitarian efforts. when i see you at 8:00 jason

segel stopping by. today we'll begin with today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> we did it again. >> rick santorum sweeps the south. >> we are going to win this nomination before that convention. >> this heir of inevitability that romney has been projecting has been an abject failure. >> if you're the front-runner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a front-runner. >> i'm the one guy in this race that can beat barack obama. >> from my perspective he has to get rid of those stupid blue jeans. >> mitt romney doesn't know how to wear jeans. >> everybody turn around. >> a transformer fire plunges boston's back bay and tens of thousands into darkness. >> chaos in the city. >> the blaze forced a nearby hilton and businesses to evacuate. >> the darkest i've ever seen with the most amount of people i've ever seen. this is really crazy.

>> there's breaking news for you. a magnitude 6.8 earthquake has occurred in northeastern japan. people near the kois are advised to immediately ee vehicle kuwait to higher ground. >> defense secretary leon panetta is in afghanistan this morning in the wake of the shooting of 16 afghan civilians. >> 28 people including 22 children have been killed in a bus crash in switzerland. >> a market first today. the dow closing above the key 13,000 level. the nasdaq closing above the key 3,000 mark. >> a class action lawsuit says apple should be sorry about siri. >> encyclopedia britannica after 244 years of publishing will now be available online only. >> we have a winner in the eye dit at that rod race. >> all that. >> foul ball. >> that's a great play. >> all that matters. >> he'll help me fill out my bracket.

>> he's going to teach me cricket. >> he's going to teach me cricket. >> on "cbs this morning." captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." rick santorum is waking up after celebrating dual victories in the south. the former pennsylvania senator won both the alabama and mississippi primaries tuesday night. mitt romney came in third in both states. >> a closer look at those numbers for you. in alabama santorum took 35% of the vote. newt gingrich finished second with 29%, just a hair above mitt romney's 29%. in mississippi santorum had 33% of the vote. gingrich took 31 while romney had 30%. romney did pull out a victory in the hawaii caucus however. jan crawford is in birmingham, alabama. >> good morning, erica and good morning to the west.

rick santorum has been strongly suggesting for a while now that gingrich should get out of this race so he can be the only one to take on romney. now with this southern sweep last night, those arguments are going to be even stronger. >> we did it again. >> reporter: santorum had just claimed victory in alabama when he found out he had also won mississippi. >> we did? >> reporter: two big wins tuesday night. santorum made it clear to gingrich he should get out of the race and let him take on romney. >> i think it's a two-person race. when we're done the conservative will win. >> reporter: gingrich went all out in two states that he predicted he would win and were seen as crucial to continuing his campaign. the pressure on him to drop out now will be enormous. last night he was resolute saying the media decided too soon that romney was the nominee and that he's staying in until the convention in tampa. >> i emphasize going to tampa because one of the things tonight proved is that the elite

media's effort to convince the nation that mitt romney is inevitable just collapsed. >> reporter: in his speech last night, gingrich hammered romney and suggested his motivation was to keep romney from getting the nomination. >> i do not believe that a massachusetts who had der rate who created romney care as the forerunner of obama care is going to be in a position to win any debates this fall. >> reporter: but the road is now unclear for gingrich who admits he must retool his strategy and figure out where to campaign next. romney continues to pile up the delegates. he'll get a share from alabama and mississippi and overnight he won two more victories in american samoa and hawaii. he now heads to the midwest focusing his energy on the missouri caucus this saturday. >> somebody here call it missouri as opposed to missouri. okay. how many say missouri like i do? >> reporter: now you hear romney there sounding confident, but gingrich is defiant. it almost sounds personal with

gingrich last night at his rally we heard him talking, he congratulated santorum but he repeatedly slammed romney saying he was the so-called front-runner. very dismissive. he is going to find the thing to the end. overnight he send out an e-mail to his supporters seeking donations saying he was staying in the race. the challenge is going to be for him whether he can withstand the pressure to drop out and make this a two-man race, santorum and romney. >> jan, thank you very much. john dickerson is in washington. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. >> we have here sort of momentum, think santorum. we have delegate mass, think mitt romney. which is more important? >> it's a whole lot more fun to have momentum. everybody cheers, they yell for you. they want to talk to you and be seen with you. that's what rick santorum has, but the math is what's going to determine things at the end, and that's the one hopeful sort of a

cold hope but it's the most helpful thing that mitt romney can hold on to. he did win those other primaries, those other contests in hawaii and american samoa. at the end of this, even though rick santorum had the big night, the actual numbers, delegates, mitt romney will get more than rick santorum. >> so how much pressure and who will bring the pressure on newt gingrich, if they do, to have him withdraw from the race? >> there will be a lot of pressure from conservatives. they've been pushing on gingrich for a while. the question is whether he runs out of money. that's usually what stops the campaign. so if he -- his big backer, sheldon adelson, decides not to write anymore checks for his super pac, that might put a little bit of pressure on him, but it's a question of who would be the committee to go to gingrich and tell him to stop. he's a pretty proud figure. he's not going to listen to anybody telling him to go sit down and sit aside. his argument is that he can beat barack obama in a debate in the fall. no one else can do that. and he's going to make that

argument to the delegates at the convention in tampa. >> his hope is that there will be some kind of brokered convention where he'll still have a chance? >> yes. it's a long shot for him. the idea would be that he'd be able to convince a whole number of delegates and say, look, i know you've gone to mitt romney. mitt romney will have more delegates going into the convention than anybody else, that's almost a certainty. so gingrich will say, yes, i know you went for romney before, but i'm the one who can beat barack obama. >> so, john, you talked about math momentum. how important is the message? even if he may have the numbers behind him, his message is still apparently getting lost. >> it is getting lost. he needs an opportunity to come out and have a momentum moment. his best hope is in illinois. he needs to be able to say there are some people in the party who do like my message and they do cheer when i talk and i do have supporters because right now all of the image, all the story line is behind rick santorum. he's got the noisy and excited part of the party behind him at the moment.

>> john dickerson, thank you so much. >> sure, charlie. it is still winter for another week, but you wouldn't know it from a thermometer. temperatures are anywhere from 20 to 35 degrees above normal for mid march. lonnie quinn is with us to tell us just how hot it's actually going to get. lonnie, no complaints from my end. >> when it comes to the warm temperatures, all over the country, i mean over 80% of us are above average. the picture you're looking at right here, this would be the arch in st. louis. st. louis today gets up to about 83 degrees. if you take a look, i put a big map up here for you with a good portion of the u.s. of a. 83 tow peek car, look at little rock, hot spot on the map at 85 degrees. 79 in d.c., 70 for new york city. if your town is lit up in the bright red color, they will be record setters today. we have set over 300 warm weather records over the last three days that will be more of the same today. i'm not talking about just barely getting above average.

we're talking every single number on this map will be between 20 and up to 32 degrees warmer than average. if you like this kind of heat, it's going to continue right through the weekend. that's it for weather. thank you. defense secretary leon panetta arrived in afghanistan this morning on an unannounced visit. that trip comes just days after an american soldier allegedly went on a shooting rampage that killed 16 afghan civilians. >> the investigation into that shooting continues as we learn new details about the alleged gunman. national security correspondent david martin reports there may have been alcohol involved. cbs's mandy clark is in kabul this morning. >> reporter: today panetta addressed afghan and u.s. troops in helmand province. relations between america and afghanistan are at a low point after the shooting rampage. panetta emphasized the need to continue to work together telling the crowd the primary u.s. mission is to make the

transition to afghan security and control so the taliban can never make afghanistan a strong hold again. panetta will also be holding meetings with several high ranking officials, including afghan president hamid karzai. the hope is he can revive the troubled partnership. yesterday a delegation that included two of karzai's brothers came under attack while visiting the site of the rampage. the ambush is seen as taliban retaliation for the killings by the american soldier and today that same delegation came under attack in kandahar city. this time from a motorcycle bomb that exploded around 600 yards away. it killed an afghan intelligence officer and wounded two others. for "cbs this morning", this is mandy clark in kabul. >> 28 people, 22 of them children were killed when a bus crashed in the swiss alps. the bus slammed into the side of a tunnel on tuesday night. it was bringing belgium students

52 people were on board. the driver was also killed. it is unclear what caused the crash. this morning, several powerful earthquakes rocked japan. the first quakes were centered off japan's northernmost island, one with a magnitude 6.9. there were two aftershocks and then another strong quake hit east of tokyo. last year, of course, a 9.0 quake triggered a massive tsunami and nuclear crisis leaving as many as 20,000 dead. now to wall street which is coming off a very strong day on two. the nasdaq closed above 3,000 for the first time in over 11 years. >> pretty impressive. among the factors, solid retail sales in february and positive news from the fed on unemployment and bank stress tests. senior writer roben farzad is here to break it down for us. there's a lot of talk about these stress tests. for most of us that gets lost. what's the important take away for people at home this morning

and how it relates to the average person? >> the banks, as led by banker in chief jpmorgan, ceo jamie diamond said we've gotten our groove back. they thumbed their nose at bernanke and the federal reserve and said you're not the boss of me anymore. i can do what i want with my excess cash. >> significance of the stress test is? passing the stress test? because citigroup did not pass. >> yeah, that's right. but this was really a draconian scenario where you took something like unemployment at 13%, home prices falling another 20%, the stock market falling 50%. the fed really learned its lesson after taking things for granted so much in 2006 and 2007. what if we embedded these worst case scenarios? have you repaired your balance sheets? have you gotten religion in a way that you can survive another hellish recession scenario. the good news is most of them can. >> what's happening in the markets, is that more a reflection of the stress test in

what's happening with the financial sector or is it more reflection of an economic recovery, what the fed has said and the fact that retail sales are up? >> the markets like to price in what's going to happen in the next six to 12 to 18 months to two years. there are green shoots of an economic recovery. we have seen jobless claims fall. we have seen employment kind of eke up. the important thing is that it's not new that companies are sitting on record amounts of cash. i think wall street's vindicated that yesterday. >> what's driving up the prices in the stock market? >> well, look, interest rates are extremely low. you're not getting anything on a bank account. real estate as an asset class is still in the dumps. people see that corporations husbanding this. >> if banks are doing well, will they lend more money. >> that is the $65 trillion question. yesterday what they were signaling was telegraphing that we don't have to lend more

money. this is not like 2008 where we have to sign on the dotted line that if we take your t.a.r.p. money we'll go out and plau this back into the economy. we can do what we want with that cash. that's great if you're a bank shareholder. it's great if you are a company, if you're a wall street person who was wanting to be gainfully employed. it's not great if you're on the outside looking in, someone who can't get a loan or someone saying i was on my best behavior and i bailed these institutions out and they're not cutting me a check. >> thank you. crews are working to restore power in downtown boston. an electrical transformer fire left more than 20,000 people without electricity. it disrupted travel and forced evacuations. jim axelrod is in boston this morning. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and eric erica and our viewers in the west. the fire was first reported about 6:30 last night. it started behind the hilton hotel in a part of boston that's known as back bay.

>> reporter: thick black smoke covered over downtown boston tuesday night after an electrical fire broke out leaving a large section of the city in the dark. >> our condo lost power completely so i went on the roof deck. i looked over and i saw just massive black plumes of smoke. >> reporter: the fire erupted in a substation behind the back bay hilton hotel and then spread to a second substation triggering the massive blackout. at first officials feared the smoke could be toxic. >> everybody turn around. let's go. >> reporter: hundreds of hotel guests were evacuated and later moved to a nearby sheraton. >> we're stopped right here. we can't go downtown. >> reporter: no serious injuries were reported. there were no rortsz of looting either, but police shut down surrounding streets as a precaution. >> this is a massive outage. we've activated a large number of officers so that there will be visibility throughout the affected area. >> reporter: firefighters cut their way into the substation to gain control of the fire. utility company n star began assessing the damage promising

to bring in large generators to help get things back up and running. >> we're all working hard on this. we want to make sure we're all back on line as quickly as possible. >> the n star, local power company said overnight they restored power to 8,000 customers and hope to have the lights on for everyone sometime later today. >> jim, thank you very much. time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. if you plan to fly this summer, expect sky high ticket prices. ticket prices have jumped twice already this year. "usa today" reports, airlines will

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while broad spectrum spf 30 helps prevent future damage. and i believe the new segment, we're on to something. we're officially out of news. >> here's what we're working on first after 4:00. why victoria beckham says she's just like every other mother and could tight clothes be harming your health. we'll have a new report and the surprising number of people in

one country who admit to sleeping with a teddy bear. >> i think we're officially out of news. >> oh, david letterman. laugh if you must. but confession, charlie if you're the "cbs this morning" -- two out of those three stories were actually done on this show. >> we're never out of news. >> we are never out of news. i know you push hard for the victoria beckham story but we couldn't fit it in. >> another time for victoria. we have more of our special conversation with prince harry, take that. with our seth doane. our final installment. he talks about his mother and a charity dedicated to her. this morning president obama it weighing. >> we're watching this close at the white house. >> the economy is still the biggest issue by far.

>> tell me where you think this race is now. >> original reporting a man shot by police in oakd is in morning. the sho good morning. it's 7:26. get you caught up on some of the bay area headlines on this wednesday. a wet wednesday it is. a man shot by police in oakland in stable condition this morning. the shooting happened last night after police were called to 90th avenue and birch street about a man with a shotgun. no officers were injured. san francisco police department and muni have a campaign aimed at cutting the growing number of violent electronic thefts on their buses. that suggests you keep your smartphone and other devices out of sight when you are in the public. and this morning's wet and windy weather causing some delays at sfo. some arriving flights nearly three hours late. so call ahead if you are picking up somebody and if you're flying out, call ahead, as well. got your traffic and the latest on that wet forecast coming up right after this. ,,,,,,,,

good morning. we are dealing with a wet windy commute. be extra careful on the roads. we have seen numerous incidents. they keep coming in. we have had a couple of accidents in the east bay that are just cleared. northbound 880 by the 980 interchange, we had another one westbound 580 in oakland by keller. that is now out of lanes. this is a live look at the nimitz though, busy past the coliseum. south bay everyone where you see the red tabs that's a different accident reported in the south bay. and a quick look at the bay bridge where it is stacked up into the maze. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> all right. still showers showing up around the bay area. if you are headed outside it's going to be a soaker in most spots today. clouds moving in a mess on the golden gate bridge right now. the rain moderate amounts showing up around the bay area at this time. taking you for a closer look now, you can see those showers picking up right in through the central bay and through san

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look at that. >> hands waving in the air. he is your iditarod champion. >> as you just heard shall the iditarod champ, he's 25. the youngest ever winner of the race. he and his nine dogs crossed the finish line in nome, alaska, on tuesday. something i've always wanted to see in person. welcome back to "cbs this morning." prince harry's successful tour of the caribbean may have come to an end but many think his role as a diplomat is just beginning. seth doane is here with a final look at his interview with the prince that you'll only see on "cbs this morning." good morning again. >> good morning, charlie. wherever the prince goes, the cameras follow. when i sat down with him in brazil, he made it clear that he

intends to use all that attention for good causes, specifically to raise money for a charity he holds close to his heart. combining his two greatest passions, sport and his charity sent balance, he picked up his mallet on sunday. the prince co-founded his charity, which works for the african nation in 2006. he dedicated it in part to his mother, princess diana. >> she loved africa. you know, i felt as though it was fitting to have an african charity. though, when it all kicked off, it wasn't really based around her, it was more based around the fact that i had this connection to the children. that's really as simple as it was. >> that connection was sparked when the prince was just 19. he traveled to the tiny landlocked country during his gap year from school. with roughly a quarter of its population suffering from

hiv/aids, prince harry was shocked to learn of the hundreds of thousands of aids orphans and the so-called herd boys sent off to work as shepherds to support their families. some as young as five. so with the money he and his charity have raised, they've established schools for the herd boys where life lessons and vocational training are provided. he's able to help and also to be almost anonymous. >> is that refreshing? >> of course it is. it's very refreshing. you know, each kid has qualities and kids in africa, kids outside home as such and have so much to offer. and the smallest of things and they're grateful for it. just being there and spending time with them, talking to them and playing with them, they -- that goes so far. the tact that when you've been -- take some time out of your busy schedule wherever you

are to spend time with them means the world to them. >> members of the royal family rarely open up to reporters. but the prince wanted to discuss his charity. throughout his ten-day tour, we saw how this 27-year-old was a master at manipulating the media. he balanced expectations of royal behavior, desires to the throngs of people assembled sog real. >> you got to give something back. obviously, knowing all the cameras are there, it's not what i'm doing. i'm fully aware of the shots that they want. usain bolt for instance. >> was at that planned? >> it wasn't planned at all. i knew he would ask me to do it. i didn't really want to do it. it's not my kind of thing. i knew -- they were going to want it. let's give it to them. >> sure enough. it becomes a bigger story than it might have been otherwise. >> after sunday's charity polo

match, a reporter was more interested in the shoes he sported on his trip. asking if he had taken fashion advice from his sister-in-law kate. >> she's not giving me tips as of yet. i was fighting to bring them out sooner. knowing i was going to -- >> the prince's full-time job is not all public appearances and raising money. but working as an apache helicopter pilot in the british army. he's been deployed to afghanistan before. he admits that he wants to go back. >> i've been there once to serve my country. i enjoyed it because i was with my friends and everyone has a part to play. all these people talking stories of he's been trained as apache pilot. he's never going to see action or get to the frontlines. these people live in a ridiculous world to even think that. i mean, we can't -- especially our army nowadays, you can't train people and then not put

them into the position they need, the role they need to play. me personally, as i said, i want to serve my country. i've done it once. i feeley should get the opportunity to do it again. >> helicopters repeatedly interrupted our interview. but not ones carrying military personnel but charity supporters with deep pockets. >> that one is landing right here. >> it's the sound of engines in the background. i asked about his own high-profile childhood. >> you grew up in a family where both your mother and father were active in charity. as a kid, do you remember dinner table conversations about that? did that motivate you in any way. >> probably not. dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me. you can imagine the dinner party i had to go to at a young age. >> what were they like? >> pretty dull. i mean, yes, conversations with my mother, father, grandparents

as i've known grown up has driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible. my brother and myself, we're all -- i can only speak for myself. auto we're privileged in the position we are. but with privilege comes responsibility is what they say. it's amazing what the -- what effect that can have on a country, on a charity or whatever. slowly coming to terms with an and accepting the fact that the name can make a huge difference. therefore, you've got to use it. >> again, an interesting conversation. ms. hill was saying what a grateful man. >> mr. rose is saying how grateful -- he says he's grateful. i agree. is this in some way that we're seeing a bit of princess diana and what she showed under pressure so many different times. >> i think you saw that so many times in the ten days as we followed him. remember the pictures of him in that hospital. he seemed to try to connect with

the kids. he touched them, he leaned into their cribs, into their hospital beds and really seemed to try to find ways to really connect. >> in a genuine way, too. which is what diana was noted for. >> when he came to us, he was rushing from other things. this program is so carefully timed. we had a few minutes with him. after this, i said what will he be doing? he said he'll go here, there will be a glass of water on this table. he's going to drink from a glass of water, and go to this room. he's managing a lot. >> he clearly likes the military. he gets to fly the apache helicopters. >> it's funny what we pick up in america compared to london where they follow every move much more carefully. some expect that what he said today might get traction tomorrow in london. we, of course, sat down with him before that terrible incident in afghanistan over the weekend. but there's clearly a frustration that he has. he says i want to be on the frontlines. i'm not just doing this to kind of tick this box.

>> the only reason they worry, somehow he might be the target of kidnapping or attacks? >> of course. absolutely. speaking of things that were in our interview yesterday, did you see the headline there -- >> in london, it's all the talk about, harry can't find a girl. >> what did he mean by that? >> it's interesting. >> a lot of people don't believe it, like erica hill. >> you don't either, charlie. come on. >> the prince, the third in line. >> he doesn't believe it's a hard thing for him. >> he's not in a tough spot. when you lead that kind of existence. but i don't think he has a difficult time getting a date. that i don't think. >> our executive producer says please. who are we kidding? >> it must be somewhere deep down inside. i didn't even ask about his love life. i actually asked does your life live up to the fairytale. >> a better question. >> he said no. he went into the direction of how difficult it is to find a woman who will take on this whole responsibility. not just to fall in love with this person but have the

responsibilities of the royal family. >> you made us all proud my young man. >> thanks very much, charlie. >> nice stuff. seth, thank u. david cameron, meantime is here in the united states visiting president obama and he got a taste of something very american especially during this month. bill plante takes a look at the special bond the u.s. has with england. and tomorrow, comedian will ferrell talks about his new movie that's all in spanish. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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it has been called the mother of all ipo's, the facebook public offering. as it gets closer to reality, it's having a huge effect on real estate prices in silicon valley. >> as john blackstone reports, the houses are selling like expensive hotcakes. >> as potential buyers flock to an open house in silicon valley,

they're met at the door with the bad news. someone else beat them to it. >> welcome. to let you know, the house sold already. you're welcome to come in and have ayala day. >> when people -- the battle between buyers is driving up prices. >> definitely seen the prices go up. i did not expect the prices to go up so much so fast in such a short period of time. >> the master has a pretty spectacular window out to the park. >> patricia hee has been house hunting for months. she's made several offers at hundreds of thousands above the asking price i. >> so far we haven't gotten anything. >> there are plenty of other disappointed buyers in silicon valley. there were 38 offers on this house listed at almost $1.2 $1.6 million. almost 40% over asking. 20 offers listed a the just over

a million and sold for more than $1.5 million. this one at $1.4 million and sold for almost $2 million. >> home prices are appreciating so rapidly. i feel bad for my clients. >> ken deleon a real estate agent says it's partly the promise that facebook will produce a new crop of millionaires when it starts selling shares to the public. >> literally, february 1st when facebook filed for the ipo is when things started jumping. >> it's not just facebook, much of the tech industry here is thriving says realtor marcy moyer. we have google,

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. good morning. it's 7:56. i'm grace lee with the news headlines n. late winter storm is bringing a lot of snow to the sierra. chains are required right now on interstate 80. and south shore chains are required on highway 50. take note if you're heading up the mountains. it's now officially a done deal. the santa clara city council has given final approval to all the financing involving the 49ers' new football stadium. added features have increased the overall cost of the stadium near great america but the extra costs will not fall on city taxpayers. if all goes as planned, the 2013 season will be the 49ers' last here in san francisco. and it is a mess out in traffic. we've got wet weather. we'll get an update on both of those things coming up. ,,,,,,,,

good morning. we have a long line of very red traffic centers, meaning a lot of brake lights across the stretch from san rafael all the way down. so a lot of slowing. north and southbound 101. and this live look. obviously it is very slick and also pretty windy outside as well. northbound 280 we have an accident blocking one lane and check out the conditions on the nimitz. north and southbound past the coliseum it's slow going. that's traffic. plenty of rainfall around the bay area. over five inches in some of the mountains in santa cruz and still more to come. doppler showing you more rainfall spreading on shore. some of that pretty good as we head right insides the bay. moderate amounts of rainfall in through san francisco, oakland and into berkley. more rain expected on and off throughout the day. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. more storms on the horizon. ,,,,,,,,

the card that they play at their last resort. it is the ultimate sign of cower did he say. if i said i'm not just a columnist, i'm a comedian. put a clown nose on, they hide under the helmet of oh, i'm a comedian so i can get away with that. >> okay. first of all, comedians don't wear helmets. i don't know where you're going to see comedy. but it's not a helmeted art form. >> not all comedians wear helmets? >> well, we can say that will ferrell will be here tomorrow. don't know if he's wearing the

helmet. we'll see. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rosa long with erica hill. the white house is seeing the latest british invasion. president obama hosted a lavish welcoming ceremony for british prime minister david cameron. >> they spent downtime in dayton, ohio yesterday. to watch the ncaa tournament between mississippi valley state and western kentucky. the u.s. and the uk have, of course, enjoyed a special relationship throughout the years. senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on that story. a relationship not necessarily built on bask way. and as you just mentioned, that

wasn't all. prime minister cameron had scarcely touched down in washington when the president whisked him away to dayton, ohio a few hours later to see something uniquely american. march madness. >> was our president helping you follow the game. >> he's giving me tips and help me fill out my bracket. >> he's going to teach me cricket. >> not every foreign leader shares a ride on air force one and a hot dog on their casual night out with the president. >> it's reflective of the kind of relationship we have with the united kingdom and the previous presidents had with previous prime ministers. >> they call it the special relationship. a bond between the u.s. and britain that goes beyond mutual interest. >> we have shared ideals, a shared vision, but more than anything else, we have a shared outlook of the heart. >> the special relationship goes back decades. franklin roosevelt and winston churchill were so close that churchill stayed in the white house for weeks after pearl

harbor. ronald reagan and margaret thatcher shared the same principles and dance moves. when saddam hussein invaded kuwait, she was close enough to president bush that he said look george, it's no time to go wobbly. >> i'm sick of it because he's seven years younger than i am and has no gray hair. >> blair remained close to the second president bush who invited the blairs to camp david to get to know one another and find out what they had in common. >> we both use coal gait toothpaste. >> blair stood by george w. bush as he invaded iraq, even as some in britain mocked blair as --? the comedy love actually. >> no one -- i would be prepared to be much stronger and the president should be prepared for that. >> the special relationship has had its share of up as and downs. >> in 1812, it was a british who burned the capital who burned

the white house. >> forgiven them for burning the white house? >> almost. >> well, the torching of the white house won't be on the agenda today. but there are a number of major issues for the u.s. and britain. iran, syria, the pace of troop withdrawal from afghanistan, trade. it will be kwut a day. charlie, erica, gayle? >> you got us all. thank you bill. george clooney is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. oil, genocide and civil war is -- >> george is back from the sudan testifying today for the senate foreign relations committee. first he's with us in washington along with his colleague john prendergast, co-founder of the project. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell me what you're going to tell the president. what you'll tell the secretary of state and what you will tell the foreign relations committee this morning about the urgency in the sudan. >> there is an urgency.

particularly in the nuba mountains where there seems to be the same signs that we saw in the beginning of darfur, which is government bombing innocent civilians. we were there and saw it firsthand. so we're going to talk about the urgency of some form of involvement. that doesn't mean military and it doesn't mean money necessarily. what it means is good, strong robust diplomacy hopefully with china. >> you two just returned from the sudan. nice to see you again as well. >> ha did you see in the sudan. we heard about rocket shelling. how close were you to danger? >> well, we saw the signs of war that -- we experienced for a few days what the people in sudan are experiencing on a daily basis. they have airplanes dropping bombs out of the sky.

they have rockets shot by the main towns controlled by the government. they're being starved in a policy of denial of humanitarian access. systematic abduction of civilians for -- by the sudan army. >> it's all the same things that we saw in darfur happening again in the nuba mountains. >> what do you hope to accomplish today in washing fon? what do you hope, george is the outcome? the definition of success is what? >> there are a couple of things going on. the house is starting a bill an the senate is putting one together that we hope is as robust. and the beginnings are this. we want to try to choke off this government of sudan. we want to chase where their money is. they're not buying the weapons is sudanese pounds. they have off shore. we'd like to chase the money, like with terrorists, make it impossible for them to spend it. number one. we'd like to go to china on a humanitarian level, but the fact is china has a $20 billion oil

infrastructure in the sudan. they get 6% of their oil import from sudan and the sudan cut that off right now. we think that gives us a unique opportunity to work with the chinese to say, listen, let's all work on cross-border problems with the north together. and i think that we have an opportunity now a window of an opportunity to do that. >> john, both of you have people that you know in the administration. you'll be speaking to the president, as i said and the secretary of state and members of congress. is there any resistance to what you want them to do? are you satisfied with the obama administration so far? >> their direction is perfectly correct. the president is very interested in this issue and he's noted the detail. all we're going to do is reinforce the direction and say there are a few more tools that can be used, like sanctions enforcement, like a deeper strategic partnership with china that we can -- that the united states can undertake. this is a far away crisis with

lots of competition around the world. so we're not overly ambitious. there are a few things the united states can do. if we do them well, it increases the chance for peace in the sudan. >> george, what's the likelihood of civil war? >> there's a chance. there's always a chance. that's the unfortunate thing constantly there. there is a chance of a civil war. but what we're looking at right now is, we also have a window of an opportunity to avoid it. so our job is to try to point everything in that direction. we don't know if we can succeed. we don't know what the outcome will be. but we have to make that effort. >> george, i know you're testifying today. are you ready? it's hard to think of george clooney getting nervous about anything. are you feeling a little nervous, butterflies as you go on capitol hill today? >> well, i mean, you're always -- the funny thing is i think every time we do anything, give a speech or do anything, you're actually a little bit nervous. you would be unhealthy if you

weren't. >> true. >> it will be interesting to speak in front of the senate. senator kerry invited us to do it. i'm anxious to do it because there are sympathetic ears there. i think that's an important time to do this. >> i'm nervous for him. >> he's nervous for me. i mean, in fairness, understand this. when these people are bombing the way they are, committing rape, again as a form of war shall these are ar crimes. these are on innocent victims. the geneva convention is very clear about this. these are war crime. our job now is to try to put a stop to the war crimes. >> george, i can't help but notice a little bit of a beard there. is that for a role or your ongoing effort to look cuter than you already do? >> it's my ongoing effort, you know that. gayle. >> that's what i thought. what makes charlie rose such a good friend before we go? what is it, george clooney? let me count the ways.

>> let me tell you this about, charlie. oh, no, don't. please don't. >> what you don't know is i played basketball with charlie. he was a duke. i'm the kentucky guy. and he -- in his basketball game, he cheats. he fouls. >> and you foul. >> i play like a good kentucky guy. >> let me make the point here. i was playing

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as we looked around the web this morning, we found a few reasons to make a long story short. the youngest contestant ever in the scripps national spelling bee is a 6-year-old girl. her name is lori ann madison. according to the "vancouver sun" she beat out elementary and middle school rivals in virginia last week. her winning world series bacano. theic encyclopedia bri tanya

published its last print version after 244 years. from the look of this commercial 20 years ago you may understand why. remember this one? >> i mean, hey, everybody knows this is the greatest encyclopedia in the world. helped me get a b plus. >> why not an a? >> too long. i found so much great information i put it all on. >> they will focus on their online edition. >> thank you. a missing letter is causing some embarramen embarrassment f santorum's campaign. he meant to send out his public schedule. you can probably guess where this is going, not in a good place. instead they sent out his pubic schedule. moving along, ben and jerry the ice cream guys believe everybody has the right to get married. they have decided to change the name of their oh, my, apple pie to apple-y ever after in efforts

to legalize same-sex marriage. our friends at kmeg say a mother let her 11-year-old daughter drive her pickup truck. the mom and her two friends were out drinking and the young girl was their designated driver. police pulled them over tuesday morning at 3:00 a.m. after seeing the truck swerving across the road. the mom is now in jail charged with child abuse. her little girl is in protective custody and that's long story short. that's one of those things where you go thanks, mom. >> and what's crazy is we were talking about this on the break, this isn't the first time we've seen a story like this. there was a girl that was 9 and -- >> it was her dad, yes. >> parents behaving badly. >> good to have a designated driver, not your child. you may remember jason segel from "freaks and geeks" but he is firmly on comedy's a-list. he is with us this morning to talk about his busy career in both tv and movies and maybe a

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when he's not busy being one of the stars of the hit cbs comedy show, how i met your mother, jason segel is making movies. >> his new one is about a geyser chg for meaning of life. i'd called jeff, who lives at home. we'll talk to him about that. also, what it's like to work with the muppets. maybe a few more things. >> jeff is 30, erica. >> living at home with his mother. >> yeah. >> you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is next. ,,,,,,,,

a late winter storm flooded roads and knocked down treen the ked a freeway on good morning. it's 8:25. i'm grace lee with your headlines. this tree blocked a freeway on ramp to 580 in oakland t has since been cleared, but the storm has knocked out power to nearly 900 customers in the san pablo-richmond area. the san mateo county coroner has identified the pedestrian hit and killed on the southbound lanes of 101 this morning. the victim was 22-year-old jose munesques. one or two cars struck and killed the san mateo resident this morning. the investigation had the freeway closed for about three hours. san franciscoans want sheriff ross mirkarimi to go. an exclusive poll finds a solid majority, 61% want mirkarimi to resign. less than a third want him to

stay in office. mayor ed lee is expected to decide on whether to suspend mirkarimi after his sentencing scheduled for next monday. and it's wet and windy. we'll give you an update of your traffic and weather, coming up after this. ,,,,,,,,,,

. good morning. well, it has been a very rough morning commute. chp is following about 50 different incidents across the bay area right now. just about all of our traffic cameras are picking up slower speeds. live look near the coliseum,

north, southbound 880 superslow. at the bay bridge, stocked up well. notice all the approaches are pretty backed up, especially westbound 24. down the east shore freeway, a multivehicle crash near hercules, westbound 80, right there by willow, speeds superslow all the way back, coming to walnut creek, an accident there, southbound 680. and we're just getting word of bart delays heading into fran about 15 minutes. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lauren. continuing to see showers right now, moderate amounts of rain push ago cross parts of the bay area. looks like that will continue to be the case throughout the day. 5 inches of rain in the santa cruz mountains. san jose, only a few one hundredths inch of rain. seeing pretty good rainfall, temperatures this afternoon in the 50s and the 60s. next few days, more rain on the way.

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what do you do in the basement? you're not cleepg it. >> you're right. i don't. did you get the wood glue? >> what are you talking about? >> i left a note on the kitchen counter. >> i haven't been upstairs. >> one of the shutters is broken on the pantry. >> i'm busy. >> all i want for my birthday is for you to get off that couch, go to the -- you come home, fix the shutter. before i get home or you're going to find someplace else to live. >> fine. >> fine. >> good. you got it? do you understand? >> yes, mom. okay. >> i love you. >> okay. love you bye. >> we know and love jason segel in the sitcom, how i met your mother, he's back on big screen in jeff, who lives at home.

>> he says he does some acting. one man's search for the meaning of life on his way to buy a tube of glue. jason segel joins us this morning. >> good to see you both again. always a pleasure. >> i'm asking on erica's behalf. not that she can't speak for herself. i saw for getting sarah marshall. i know you don't mind a little nudity. will you be removing your clothes? >> as soon as they -- >> i got nothing, honey after that. >> you're welcome. i love the title of your movie. jeff, who lives at home. >> it's a guy who really does believe in signs. i believe in signs too. i believe everything happens for a reason, sometimes you see something and if you're not paying attention you'll miss it. >> jeff clearly believes in signs in his life. >> he does. unfortunately, he used it as an excuse to wait. which is not the best strategy. i had that period from 21 to 25. i was out of work. the sign was for me to be cast in something. >> were you living in your mom's

basement? >> no a one-bedroom apartment. not unlike jeff, though. it wasn't until i decided to start writing that i took the bull by the horns and my life changed. jeff is not the same. he's content to sit there and live unhealthily and wait for the universe to present itself. >> i don't know if you can say that on daytime tv. >> a little -- we don't want to give too much away. >> it's fiction. >> it's a really lovely movie. unexpected. before i put the dvd in, i didn't read anything. i wanted to be surprised. >> me too, erica. >> jason segel is funny. we love him. i was waiting for you to be funny. >> when you see me and ed helms on a poster, you assume it's a hangover type mash hp up. no. it's a movie by tone. if you're not familiar, they have a movie called cyrus and other smaller films. >> jonah hill.

>> capturing slices of life and bring out the best performances this their actors. it's an honest tone. the tone of life. >> it's beautiful. it's beautiful at the end. i was saying to gayle at the end. the movie finished nice. i had a smile on my face that hey, this really works. >> thanks. >> i felt that too. >> we like the movie, jason. >> i'm glad. it is a very sweet movie. you know, there's a lot of themes running through. one is waiting for your destiny. the other thing is when you're young, you're bound to your siblings by blood, you live in the same household. when you become old oar, you have a choice as to whether or not you're going to be friends. you could not be friend with your siblings. this is a day of reckoning between two brothers of whether or not they want to be in each other's lives. it's also the day in a mundane family's life where it goes down. this is the day where it all happens. >> for all of them.

for susan sarandon, ed helms who plays your brother. it's a bad day for all of them. in the end of the movie, you walk -- turn off the tape -- we got a screener, you feel good about what you saw. i have to say, i've been mitt smitten with you for a long time. >> likewise. >> have you really? >> of course. >> how so? >> you look amazing by the way. >> thank you, jason. let's talk about the muppets. this is the thing. i went with another adult to see the muppets because he wanted to see it. it was so entertaining and then i -- regardless of your age, then i was reading that you've liked the muppets forever a long time. you had muppets at your house. still? >> more so now. >> should i be concerned? >> probably. everyone else seems to be. they were my first comic influence. i think as a young comedian, they're monty python and saturday night live for a kid. it taught me -- when you're

young, he's tom hanks, he's jimmy stewart. he's the every man. it's who i wanted to be as an actor. it seemed to me unjust that the kids of this generation didn't have the muppets that we grew up with. i set out to bring them back. >> as a mother of two little boys, i thank you. thanks. >> i have fond memories of the muppets. you're also, of course, known for your work, your lovely relationship with jed app to you. >> yes. he was my first real mentor. he said something profound to me. and not necessarily so nice. but he said listen, you're kind of a weird dude. so the only way you're going to make it is if you start writing your own material. it was the best advice i could have gotten. >> did you think you were a weird dude? what did he mean by that? i i'm sure it was affectionately. >> i've been 6'4" since i was 12. there was a period where i'm like 22 years old and i'm way too tall to play a kid anymore. i'm too young to play a lawyer or a doctor.

i was sort of stuck in this middle ground as this awkward guy. then he pointed out, like albert brooks and people like that, they wrote their own films. that's how they got to where they wanted to be. it really changed everything. i wrote sarah marshall. >> that's how we got that. its so cool. you've already lived three of your dreams. you wanted to be on letterman. wanted to host saturday night live. >> and i wanted to work with the muppets. i did them all in one week. >> that happened all in one week? >> yeah. >> i didn't know that part. >> i had already done the muppet movie, but that week i did all three of those things, was on letterman, hosted snl with the muppets. >> how do you follow that up? >> you follow it up with jeffrey lives at home. potentially the greatest film ever made. >> i like it. >> if you do say so yourself. i also read that he used to wear a superman cape under his clothes from the time -- >> just in case there was

danger. there's another running theme in jeffry lives at home. which is amazing. you'll appreciate. it's shot in new orleans which has the best food. >> i don't know why you didn't gain 300 pounds. >> i did gain quite a bit of weight. it takes place over one day, the movie. we shot chronologically. it's a heartwarming story about a guy who gains 40 pounds slowly over one day. >> what could be better if you could tell us how to lose 40 pounds in one day, you would be on to something. >> believe me, if i could, i'd have a different career. >> if you figure it out, let us know. >> come back any time. >> thank you. i look forward to it. >> continued success. >> jeffly lives at home opens in theaters this friday. we did mean it. come back any time. it's a compelling story of a slum in a shadow of luxury hotel. pulitzer prize winning journalist katherine boo is here to tell us about the lives of dignity in the midst of poverty,

india is a country of increasing wealth and power. one-third of the poor people live there. katherine boo spent three years there in makeshift slum at the edge of mumbai's airport. >> her best selling book, "behind the beautiful forevers lies death and hope in a mumbai undercity" tells a hopeful and heartbreaking story to the people she met along the way. katherine boo, we welcome you. this is her first book. winner of the pulitzer prize. go, you. >> they give it to anybody these days. >> i think not. where did the idea come from, from this story? >> i met my husband in 2001. he was born in delhi. so i was working on -- in the united states about how people get out of poverty. i finished my work in cutoff of louisiana or texas and go

running to india. here was this country, it was prospering but 60% of the people lived in slums. how do you get out of poverty when you're born in the slums? that's a question that obsessed me. so suddenly i started reporting. >> i was thinking, even the word slum doesn't really do it justice. about how the people you write about are living when you describe it. >> people are living on top of or inside these homes that they've built themselves. it all sits on a vast lake of sewage and petrochemicals. people get malaria, nonetheless they get up every morning and do their best to make their way into the middle class. they know that the wealth of a country is out there. the slum is surrounded by luxury hotels. they're desperate to figure out how to cross that barrier and become part of it. >> you know what she does, she finds people.

she finds characters. >> real people, yeah. >> tell us who you met. >> the book begins with a boy named abdul hussein. abdul is -- he makes his living buying and selling the things that richer people throw away. recyclable garbage. you got your snarled cassette tape, empty water bottles. the stuff that's thrown away is his way. he's been doing this since he was six years old. and he's become a sorting machine and lifted a family of 11 out of poverty when the book begins. then he's falsely accused in a terrible tragedy. >> a cued of a terrible thing. >> terrible tragedy of beating and set on fire a disabled woman. >> you want us to come out of reading this book with an understanding of how people survive. >> and not just survive. how people reinvent themselves and use their imaginations to get around obstacles that you might think were insurmountable. when you're talking about in country or in india, you're

talking about corruption or you're talking about government indifference. that's not the end of the story. that's the beginning of the story. every day people are working their way around and trying to live with dignity. even in conditions that might seem absolutely horrific. >> how did you get them to trust you? because you've gotta mazing stories with the people that you met. i think it's very difficult to build up trust. do you speak their language? >> no i worked with an amazing woman who was a translator. she's incredible. how do you get anybody to trust you? people in the slums, like people everywhere, they make their own judgments. who knows what they said about me behind my back. >> you know what they knew, they knew you listened to them. >> i think that's true. that i would say. i think one of the best reporting tools we have is silence. shutting our mouths and watching and getting out of the way. >> don't be afraid of silence. you come out of this with these characters an and the drama of a

terrible crime and intimidation that takes place. you want us to understand also the dignity. what's the dignity? >> i mean, that people -- i think that's so much of writing about poverty tends to make you want to pity people. people don't want pity. people want to be respected for their capacities. for their -- whether it's moral or intellectual. people want to be seen as the complex people that they are. i think that that's at least what i try to do is to give the reader -- to introduce the reader to people who are not just suffering but they're thinking, they're deciding. >> does this experience change you? this experience of being there, knowing them, does it change your politics? does it change your sense of urgency about the world? >> i think, i mean, i think that almost every story i do, i come away with this urgent feeling

that we squander so much moral and intellectual capability in our communities. what a difference, how much better the world would be if we could husband some of that enormous power instead of throwing it away. >> i congratulate you. you went to the country, you fell in love with a man, you fell in love with a country and a people. what does your husband say about the book? >> he's proud. >> he should be. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, katherine boo. thanks. behind the beautiful forevers is available in bookstores and also online. she wants to play big time college football very, very badly. we'll meet the determined homecoming queen with quite a kick when "cbs this morning" continues. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

the white house decked out this morning for ceremonies to welcome british prime minister david cameron. big event this evening. an important dinner, our own charlie rose will be attending as well. look forward to your full report. >> david cameron, samantha cameron at the white house. >> all kinds of good stuff. you can ask him about his tennis match. >> george clooney i think. >> george weinstein. >> you better come back with some information. we need that. >> we'll see charlie later on. >> can't imagine why i'm coming. but i'll be there. >> charlie is always a good addition to any event. a rome coming queen turned football plafr player. for mo ison, its her bg dream. >> as mark strassmann reports,

she's doing all she can to make it a reality. >> mo ison wants to play big time college football. at lsu people watch her kick and wonder what she wonders. can she do it? >> i have the skill, i have this ability. but can i produce consistently at the highest level possible with only one year of training under my belt? that's the real challenge. >> it's not as though you're trying to make a rinky dink college football program. this is as big as it gets. >> i'm trying to make the football team the number one football team in the nation. >> mo knows kicking. the greatst goalie in history for lsu women's soccer. as an all-american freshman, she booted this goal and made espn's top ten plays of the week. she has 30 career shutouts and was crowned lsu's homecoming queen. but her success is only part of what drives her. >> my life personally has been a

roller coaster. a lot of ups and downs. >> she lost her father in her sophomore year. >> how important was your dad to you? >> my dad is my best friend. my hero. >> but her father had financial troubles and other demons. >> january 3rd, 2009, my dad put a gun to his heart and pulled the trigger. so he just gave up. it really broke me. >> then you went from a broken heart to a broken body. >> right. >> nine months after losing her dad, she almost lost her life. >> driving home to atlanta, lose control of my vehicle, flip it three times, wrap it around a tree. i was broken. i broke my neck, i broke the ribs down the left side of my body. i was able to pull through. they were great motivating factors in what i'm doing now. >> she started practicing a year ago hoping to become the team's

backup kicker and she says it's no publicity stunt. >> what are the risks? >> certainly i think the first thing that comes to people's mind is the risk of injury. i'm a big girl, 6'1", 190 pounds. that's not typical for a female. so i think that it might hurt. but i can take a hit and get right back up and continue to compete. >> to her shall the reward was trying. >> this is a pursuit, a passionate pursuit. the thing that's most important to me and has been so amazing so far in this process are the people that see that and are inspired by this it. >> her leg is a cannon. but her technique needs work. head coach les miles tells her she won't be on the spring squad. >> i said she could not make the team. she said do i get another opportunity if i get better. i said sure. >> i am not giving up. i will continue to train in, working out with the guys in the

facility. continuing to train on my own and through the summer. i'll give it another go in august and we'll see from there. >> football is a game of perseverance through adversity and mo isom knows about that. for "cbs this morning," mark strassmann in baton rouge, louisiana. >> i don't know how good her kick is, but she's got one big heart, huh? >> what an incredible life story too. she seems like such a strong person even as she talks about her father taking his life and everything else she's faced. >> been through so much and we're pulling for her. can we say what a nice guy jason segel is. when he was leaving, we said are we going to find out the end to how i met your mother? he said he's hoping that's coming. we're talking about how great he is. his mother told him years ago, be careful when you go out in public because how you behave is a reflection on me. isn't that good advice. >> he always thinks approximate that. good guy. >> george clooney tonight, john

prendergast. >> charlie rose is all right too. >> thank you very much. the news is next. ♪

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with your c-b-s five headlines... . good wednesday morning. it's 8:55. i'm greece lee with your cbs 5 headlines. one man is recovering today, following an officer-involved shooting in oakland. police were responding to reports of a man with a shotgun last night. at some point, officers opened fire and shot the man. no officers were injured, though. the new head of california's high speed rail project is promising improvements and believes it will cost less than recent estimates of $98 billion. dan richards says costs can be reduced by making better use of existing tracks and speeding up the construction schedule. a late winter storm is causing delays at san francisco international today. some arriving flights to sfo are nearly 3 hours late. be sure to check if you're heading to that area. wet and windy weather, and it's all in the bay area. lawrence has the latest on this. >> lot of showers showing up

right now. rain continuing on and off throughout the day. you'll see moderate amounts of rainfall pushing through. high-def doppler showing the rain sliding by. amazing amounts in the santa cruz mountains, 5 inches there. some ports of the north bay, 3 to 5 inches. san jose, just a few one hundredths of inch of rainfall. 50s and 60s in the afternoon. we are not done with the rain just yet. more likely seeing showers into thursday. another storm moves in on friday. cold storm moves in over the weekend, bringing with it at least a chance of thunderstorms. snow level down to about 2000 feet. showers could continue into monday. we'll check out your traffic, coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,

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