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cable network shuts down one of its high profile series after another horse dies. but first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >> we owe it to them to stick to this mission an get it finished. >> defense secretary leon panetta meets with afghan president. >> mr. karzai has asked for them to leave all afghan villages and remote areas. >> in the wake of the shootsing massacre. a suspected gunman was flown out of afghanistan heading to another defense facility. >> this is the story. >> a goldman sachs executive goes out with a bang blasting the firm as toxic and destructive in an op ed resignation. >> p.r. nightmare for goldman sachs. >> the chairman of goldman said the allegations do not reflect our values. >> the outgoing exec writing, i have seen five different managing directors refer to their clients as muppets.

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test to screen for cervical cancer are the right ones will ones? ha good morning let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines on this thursday driver has survived running into a train in oakland this morning was killed by a second collision on the highway the first driver has, of his car and was killed by a pickup truck when he hit the tree and it went airborne. one firefighter was burned on the hand is and as a apartmen complex this morning the firefighter actually fell to the roof while he was fighting the fire into a burning attic 17 people were displaced by the fire but is now being blamed on the burning candle. california golden bears already finished in march madness one and done. they lost their opening round game to south florida who were all over

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today where he'll start serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. welcome back to "cbs this morning." charlie is in washington today. he'll be with us in a moment. but we begin this half hour with hbo running out of luck. the cable giant dropped its new horse racing drama on wednesday after three horses died during production. as national correspondent ben tracy reports, "luck" had just begun shooting a new season. >> reporter: luck tells the story of this seedier side of professional horse racing.

the sleek beauty of the animals on the track was matched by the skill of a-list actors, dustin hoffman and nick nolte. >> i still know a peach when i see one. >> now these thorough beds were -- the show was canceled in the wake of three horses dying on the set. two were put down last season. in a statement hbo said while we maintain the highest safety standards possible, accidents unfortunately happen. it is impossible to guarantee they won't in the future. hbo may contend that these were accidents but the animal rights group peta said they were accidents waiting to happen. they say during the first season they were contacted by whistle blowers but the mistreatment of animals went nowhere even after the death of the first two horses. >> we got the necropsy reports and what we found was shocking.

one of the horses had been pumped full of pain killing drugs. the other one was old and arthritic. >> doctors said peta is misreading the death report. >> hbo did everything they can to ensure the safety of those horses. >> the series was gaining ground and was shooting episodes for season 2. yet the ratings, just half a million viewers, were disappointing. john wiseman of variety wonders if the rating race is the real reason the show was pulled. >> there's going to be a lot of speculation that that's what happened. they used this for cover to get from a show that they didn't want to be involved with long-term. >> ending the run for these magnificent horses and their trainers who find themselves unemployed. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. peta has called for a criminal investigation of the latest horse death. the american humane association, which monitors animals on tv and

movie sets says canceling the series is arguably the best decision hbo could make. from television to the movies. a brutally honest documentary about bullying is getting a screening tonight here in washington. the movie is the focus of controversial foul language. >> the documentary follows five students brutalized by classmates over the course of a year. a story familiar to katy butler who came out as a lesbian in the seventh grade. >> they pushed me into lockers or waums. one day they ended up slamming my hand in my locker and broke my finger. >> inspired by the film's message, the michigan high school student launched an

internet petition to change its rating to pg-13. making it more accessible. >> no one who is 13 wants to see a movie with their mom or dad. >> collecting 300,000 signatures in only two weeks, butler has support from celebrities like ellen degeneres, meryl streep, justin bieber and 20 members of congress. >> that's like no time at all. it's amazing. it's taken off. >> despite the petition and an appeal by the film's mega hollywood distributor harvey weinstein, the rating stands. the motion picture association of america defended its decision saying in a statement, the r-rating is not a judgment on the value of any movie. parents will decide if they want their children to see it. >> the association has found unlikely allies in parents groups who usually think the ratings are too weak. >> do you think this film is unfit for kids? >> no. >> why is the r rating a good thing? >> it's merely to inform about

contents, there's brutal violence. >> the kind of abuse katy butler experienced firsthand. >> i felt so alone and so uncared for. >> a feeling she hopes others won't have to endure. for "cbs this morning," whit johnson, washington. that mega hollywood producer joins us now. harvey weinstein with us fresh from last night's state dinner. some say it's not because the prime minister was being honored, not the queen. they could have fooled me. >> pretty nice. fabulous evening. >> tell me about this. why do you think it's important to have a pg-13 rating and so much so that you have appealed and you are waging this campaign? >> charlie, kids at 13 years old, their mom and dad take them to the theater. they're not going to think it's cool. they're going to think it's medicine. this problem has been going on too long. when kids see the movie by

themselves, they react in a way that all of a sudden it's uncool to be a bully. it rile starts with the girls. girls go see the movie and then they tell the guys, hey, man, this is really bad news. i'm not going to associate with you. and this social thing happens. the kids who are bullied were the real ones who told us to do that. we had alex libby, one of the kids bullied appeal to the mpaa. i'm supposedly this really tough guy. i keep reading about that. i was crying in his appeal. i'm looking at these -- we lost by one vote. they just took it too legalistically. there have been other movies where there were uses of the f word and they overturned it because it was about the iraq war. you it's not about the brutal violence. it's the use of the f-word. if we got rid of that, the movie would be a pg-13.

>> editing is not an option to consider? >> no. the kids don't want to consider it because it's the true. the kids use. f-word to bully the kitds. it's part of the movie. it's not like they haven't seen it. there's so many anecdotal of kids watching and people watching, telling me they watch it with their 12-year-old and 13-year-old and it's so important that they see it and so important that they go to the theaters. >> some will say not that you're a tough guy, you understand the bottom line and that you can get a better rating, you'll get more money on the bottom line. >> if people think i'm doing bully for money, you know, then they have another thing coming. >> they haven't looked at it. i have a brad pitt movie coming up. those are movies that we make. nothing to do with that. >> i want to stick with that. there's a kind of redemption. it's like harvey is back. what do you think happened to

you and how did you come back to where you are now with this extraordinary oscar success with the artist and others? >> i kind of waded away from movies for a while. avid a breakup with disney. >> lost your focus. >> lost my focus. and decided that i was going to do all these other things. charlie, i was terrible at all of them. i always loved movies. it was my passion. i was michael jordan playing baseball, not as good as michael jordan in basketball. but that's the analogy. >> i heard you say last night to someone that you're more humbled. is humbled you. is that fair? >> true. >> someone else said i'll see it when i believe it. what's the evidence of new more humble harvey? >> i'm on your show whenever you ask. normally i would sleep in and refused you. call me and i'm there. >> i'll take a more humble harvey. the knicks coach is gone. are you pleased by that

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in today's "healthwatch," new guidelines for cervical cancer screening. on wednesday, a government task force and other health groups recommended women, ages 21 to 65, should get a pap smear every three years instead of every year. women 30 to 65 get a pap smear and a test for hpv, they can wait up to five years between tests. dr. elizabeth poyner is a gynecologist, surgeon and cancer specialist. she joins us here in studio 57. >> thank you for having me. >> five years sound like a long time. >> it is a long time. but we better understand the biology or the activity of

precancerous changes of the cervix. we also now better understand the harms of overtreating early changes or early precancerous changes in the cervix which may be clinically insignificant and not progress into cancer. five years is a long time. however, we're better understanding the biology of the precancerous lesions. >> some are seeing we've seen such a decline because of the testing. if we're testing less often, could we see cancer rates rise? >> i think that's going to be reflected in when we look at that data later on. that's a big concern actually. recently, acog relaxed their screening guidelines to looking at pap smears every two years in women under the age of 30 and stretching out those intervals up to three years in women over the age of 30. i'd like to see how that's going to impact on cancer morbidity and mortality before we stretch out the screening intervals even longer. but the recommendations are based on solid and sound data, of course. >> still, for a lot of women,

you go with what you're comfortable with. some women are -- will insurance still cover it if there are different guidelines or recommendations? >> currently, insurance companies are. in my practice actually covering pap smears every year when necessary. we haven't seen -- >> you say when necessary. that's a big difference between i'd like to have one. >> however, that may be a problem in the future. that will be up to the insurance companies in the future. >> what will you tell your patients? >> i will counsel my patients and look at their health history individual individually. alternatives to more frequent screening versus less frequent. i think it's important that women understand that they still need to have their yearly annual consultation with their gynecologist to go over general health issues and other cancer screenings along with looking at their personal health history and to make those decisions based on their personal health history. >> if you're not getting a test every year, you won't go at all.

>> you need to educate women. >> thank you, dr. poyner. you may remember the case of andrea yates. she was accused of killing her five children. her lawyer is with us. he believes now that she is ready to return to society. why? we'll ask him. you're watching "cbs this morning." cbs "healthwatch" sponsored by neutrogena cosmetic. recommended most by dermatologists. even after you take it off. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% saw improved skin. does your makeup do that? neutrogena® cosmetics.

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taken out of the film. that's from our friend at mental floss. thanks for that. gayle, i had no idea. gayle king is in the control room, i think, with a look at the next hour. or are you behind me in the green room? there you are in charge in the green room. >> i have to say i had no idea either. andrea yates made headlines and enraged people after she drowned all five of her children. ten years after her conviction, her attorney believes she's ready to join society again. he's here to explain why. will ferrell's newest movie opens in theaters tomorrow. if you don't speak spanish, i hope you're ready to read the uld that be?

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casein is a fire fire is being treated this morning for a burn injuries to his teens, he got them while battling a blaze in the west side apartment complex in san jose. the firefighter fell to the roof this morning into a burning attic 17 people have been displaced by this fire is on under word under would drive. a candle may have sparked those flames. any stretch of highway 13 in oakland just reopened a few moments ago. it was closed earlier after driver crashed into a tree and then got out of his car only to be struck and killed by the i get that then hit the tree. a lot of data traffic and weather coming up after this.

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it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." who is that man in the tuxedo at the white house? dashing, isn't he? that would be the one and only charlie rose who was there for president obama's -- wait, i'm not done. he was at the state dinner honoring david cameron and his wife. charlie, you looked dapper, but i'm thinking erica and i were drooling over amanda's dress. she looked lovely. >> she looked stunning. there she is. i love that dress. >> did you tell her she looked lovely? >> of course i did. of course i did. she'll be pleased to know. let me tell you this about this, you have been there, it is just extraordinary to be in that

house. you look on the wall, first of all, and there's lincoln and fdr with his portrait. you look out at the rose garden and look around you and see people that you have been knowing for a long time, warren buffett and a lot of people part of politics in washington are there. people you have interviewed in britain there, whether it is the foreign minister, william haag or others, so it is really coming together. in here what i like to think of the people's house. the president lives there but it is the people's house. and it is where we have our history and it's where we come to put politics aside and talk about how we relate to the rest of the world. and you heard, not only really interesting comments by the prime minister and the president, but you also heard wonderful music. there was a real sense of celebration and comradery, because i think the relationship between the united states and britain is a very special relationship. >> now i totally agree with you,

charlie. i have such great rev reference for the white house. i know the first lady calls it the people's house when you are there. i have great respect for the office of the presidency, but was it a fun night for you, that's what i want to know. was it fun? >> did charlie dance, that's what we want to know. >> i did not dance, but i had a great time. the first lady said to say hello to both of you going through the receiving line. so she's watching, we hope. the president came by at the table i was at, he did come by because i was sitting with jay carney, just to say something about basketball knowing i love it and he likes my home state, north carolina, in fact. it was a great evening. and when we come back later here we'll talk to -- because we are in washington with the israeli ambassador, we'll look forward to that. >> don't forget to come back. we'll see you tomorrow live and in color. thank you, charlie. thank you very much. ten years ago this week

andrea yates was convicted of the most horrible crimes imaginable. you may recall the story, she drowned her five children in her hereston home. >> they was mentally ill suffering from postpartum psychosis. she could be let out of custody later this year. >> reporter: family home videos show no apparent hint of turmoil within the yates' home. andrea was a loving mother of five who home schooled her children. but after the firth of her fourth children in 1999 she began to show signs of depression. twice she tried to kill herself. yates was treated for postpartum depression. initially, medication seemed to help, but after the birth of her fifth child, mary n 2000, the anxiety appeared to increase. on june 20th, 2001, yates summoned her children into the bathroom where she drowned them in the tub.

four boys, one 6-month-old girl. in a december 2001 interview with "60 minutes" her then husband rusty said i mental illness drove andrea yates to murder their five children. >> a person drowning their children, it is not andrea. if your brain is sick, then you can think thing that is are not real. >> andrea yates guilty of capital murder. >> reporter: during her first trial in 2002 she was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but the verdict was overturned due to one witness who gave false testimony. yates was eventually found not guilty by reason of insanity at a 2006 retrial. and since then has been confined to two different mental hospitals. >> an attorney george parnham has been her defense lawyer since the case began. really good to see you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> when i told people we were going to interview you today,

everybody said, has it been ten years? i couldn't believe it has been ten years. you were there from the beginning. >> i was very much surprised as i was told it was ten years ago that the verdict came back, the first verdict came back with the conviction. >> and we listened to the details of the case again. it bring it all back, about how disturbing, how troubling, how horrific it was, and then when i see that she was mentally ill, this is what i need your help in understanding. if she understood right from wrong, how can you be mentally ill? in my definition, you think mentally ill, they have no idea what they are doing. help me understand that, in her case. >> sure. her awareness of the wrongfulness of her acts was a surface awareness, much like a child who reads and understands and memorizes a poem, not necessarily knowing what the poem means, but able to recite.

andrea believed that her children were going to parish and burn forever in the fires of hell. she believed that satan forbid her and certainly she was aware of what she was doing, but her belief system because of the chemical imbalance was living within the illusion and that the illusion was as real to her as i am to you today. so when she acted on what she did and believed was the thing, the best thing for her kids. >> you paint a picture of a very unstable woman, a woman who clearly needs help. and yet you believe that now she should reenter society. why? why has changed? >> i base it on reports from the doctors. and that's basically all we can do is listen to the

recommendations of the physicians that have treated her over the past ten years. >> but what do you -- you've said before you feel you actually crossed the line professionally with her. you have a very close relationship with her. so what do you see as a person who must know her well now after ten years, do you see any change? >> oh, immensely. she's -- she's not the same person that she was ten years ago when i first -- or 11 years ago the day after i found her kids. >> is she remorseful? >> very much so. she's -- she's very -- she grieves for her children. the days and birthdays she grieves for her kids. obviously, on the date, the anniversary, i hate that word, but the date o

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new tsa procedures begin monday in chicago, denver sh orlando and portland, oregon. in all goes as planned, senior citizens won't have to remove their shoes or light jackets. and there will be no patdowns. family feud in australia over billions of dollars. the international harold tribune reports georgia rineheart is being sued by her kids for a giant trustfund. she calls her kids slackers and said they need to find real jobs. ouch. >> come on, mom. oh, baby. an adorable bubble video is going viral. i think that's hilarious. bugspeed.com posted this clip. it's a magical moment when the baby sees bubbles for the first time, and the baby is excited.

say it with me now, aww. in new jersey the star ledger says a man has been ordered to share millions in lottery winnings with his coworkers. a jury decided yesterday america lopez cheated the lottery officials when he kept the $24 million lottery himself. now he must split the cash with five former colleagues. they will each get $2 million after taxes. and that's a long story short. >> it does sound like he tried to pull a fast one because he was in the pool cashing in the ticket and said, no, that's the ticket i bought. not good. >> not good. president obama is warning iran it must take nuclear negotiations seriously. charlie will ask israel's ambassador what will happen if iran does not back off. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by party city. nobody has more st. patrick's day for less. nobody has more st. patrick's

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as a news conference wednesday, president obama warned iran about the nuclear program saying "the window to -- former head of israeli mossad agency said that would be the craziest idea he's heard. lesley stahl asked dagan about iran. >> the regime in iran is a rational regime. >> do you think ahmadinejad is rational? >> the answer is yes. but exactly how rational, but i think that he's rational. >> you think they're rational enough that they are capable of backing down from this? >> no doubt that the iranian regime maybe not exactly rational based on what i call western thinking. but no doubt that they are considering all the implications of direction.

>> other people think they're not going to stop until they have this capability. >> they have to pay dearly in all the consequences for it and i think at this point in time, they're going very careful. they're not running. >> if they're that rational as you suggest, that logical, then why can't you, israel and the world live with a nuclear iran? in the israeli case, they say they want to destroy israel. >> here is israel's ambassador to the united states. welcome. >> good morning, charlie. >> what do you disagree with what meir dagan said. >> he's been -- i of course have the highest regard for meir dagan. he's given his life to israel's security. other people have given their lives to israeli security who think differently than he does. >> he was in the inner councils

of making important decisions. >> there are other people in the israeli intelligence who have a different opinion. at the end of the day shall the person who make the decisions are the democratically elected leaders of israel. as in the you state. when president obama had to make that tough call about bin laden, there were some high ranking intelligence officials who said don't do it. he had to make that decision. similarly, israel is democratically elected leaders have to make that tough call. >> also jeffrey goldberg suggested in an article, not just the interview with president obama suggesting that there is a kind of good cop, bad cop thing going on between the president and the prime minister. and that the prime minister is in fact, in part, bullying because he want to make sure that the west and other countries go forward with a more aggressive way in using sanctions to squeeze iran and the rationality that meir dagan spoke about.

>> there was an important article. the president said things he hadn't said before. he said that iran was not just an israeli issue, not even a middle eastern issue, it was an american vital -- he recognizes that israel has the right to defend itself by itself against any middle eastern threat. israel is a sovereign country, only they can make the decision to -- >> contain is not an option. >> it's not an option. >> the option -- he said all that. >> and he had said that one of america's option was a military option. extremely important. >> you consider that an important meeting. you have also said to me in the past that the security cooperation between this government, president obama, and the israeli government, prime minister netanyahu has never been better. >> all-time high. it's definitely superb. but in many different areas. we're fightingter tore. iranian backeder r terrorists

out of gaza fired -- many taken down by an anti-rocket system developed with the you staut and israel. >> here's a central question. you know it well. suppose israel decides that sanctions are not good enough and that the approaching day that iran will have the capability has come? >> israel, sovereign country, has not just the right but the duty and the ability to defend itself. >> is that day near? how long do you give sanctions to work? >> you know, america, big country, a big kin dough. looks out to window, sees the middle east far away. israel looks out the window oopd we see iran in our backyard. prime minister netanyahu said the other day, we're not talking about years or days and weeks either. >> thank you ambassador oren. we'll be right back with will ferrell talking about his new movie.

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>> let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. in san jose firefighter falls through a roof and straight into the flames. he suffered significant burn injuries following the apartment fire. it left 17 people homeless. investigators say the fire may have been started by a candle. highway 13 now open following a deadly crash this morning. a tree fell in the roadway near park boulevard. the first driver had gotten out of the car and was killed by a pickup truck that hit the street and then went airborne. crews are hoping that the san lorenzo river does not do any more damage to the santa cruz boardwalk.

the river is swollen from nearly 1 ft. of rain that is coming out of the santa cruz mountains and along the edge of the attractions site. crews have piled up rocks and sand bags to try to keep the water out. we have your traffic and weather coming up right after this.

>> it is still slippery across the bay area. there are so many accidents coming in. nothing right now that is seriously blocking lanes but

look at the back up. overall we see slower speeds. this is a live look at the nimitz freeway. 880 very slow and the bay bridge is stacked up for a good 25 minute wait just to get you on the bridge. in the red this morning on westbound 80, almost 40 minutes. it looks like we see some improvement for silicon valley commuters. stop and go from 882 mount seger wrote. >> a lot of clouds around the bay area now. we will see on and off throughout the day. most of showers are just like activity but some of these cells will come down for quite a bit. there are many more showers to time as we had throughout the day today. temperatures running in the '50s and the mid '60s but over the next few days we have another strong storm coming in late tomorrow bringing heavy

rainfall overnight into saturday morning. showers on and off through the weekend.

♪ you know that song. that's mumford and sons nominated for best artist last year. a bunch of grammys this year. you're listening to them on tape but charlie rose got to hear them live and in color. >> a new big family here, charlie. >> yes. thank you so much. it was great fun. bill plante knows a lot about the kinds of wines they serve and stuff like that. we'll hear all that of from mr. plante and talk about the other people there from warren buffett to george clooney to lots of people who helped the president in his campaigns were there as well. some brits too. >> did you have a highlight, charlie? is it hard to pick a highlight

from last night? >> for me, to have the president stop by and talk basketball was a highlight. >> he's picking the tar heels. north carolina. >> are you picking -- >> i understand why. as my krzyzewski said, they have a better team so far this year. senior white house correspondent bill plante is at the white house this morning. he was not on the guest list, but we want to know what happened last night and don't you wish you were there? >> well, charlie, maybe they thought i wouldn't behave well enough or it got lost in the mail. >> or you would have a judgment about their wine. >> yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute. these guest lists are always carefully selected mix of celebrities and dignitaries from the country being honored o. one much america's oldest and closest allies was who it was. >> toasting the relationship that's being tested by world events, president obama and british prime minister david

cameron told a star studded audience the connection between the united kingdom and the united states is as strong as ever. >> in times of plenty and times of hardship, we stand tall and proud and strong together. >> i'm proud of our essential relationship and much britain's strong national bond with the united states of america. i feel it in my bones. with the recent shooting rampage by an american soldier in afghanistan threatening u.s. and british involvement there and with the looming possibility of a nuclear iran, both leaders wanted prime minister cameron's first official visit here to send a message about the solidarity of the u.s./british alliance. earlier in the day, mr. obama joked about the british setting fire to the white house 200 years ago. >> they made quite an impression. [ laughter ] they really lit up the place. >> the theme of cooperation

carried into the state dinner. the first one for a british prime minister in 14 years. and the biggest party ever thrown by the obamas. all of which made this one of the most coveted invitations in washington. >> mr. george clooney. >> mr. justice scalia. >> mr. charlie rose. >> because this is an election year, no surprise, many of the guests included some of the president's top fundraisers. the menu included a kind of cross-cultural main course. bison wellington. which they call a take on a beloved dish. mumford and sons topped off the evening. >> i'll bet the music was great, charlie. wish i had been there for that. they were great. >> they didn't tell you what the wines were, though, did they? >> they did not. when they came by to pour the wine, i didn't think it was appropriate for me to say what

are we drinking here? i hear you found out. >> i did. they call themselves the most transparent administration in history and they're hide the wines they serve. hello. the wines are always the best in america. until last year, they were always listed. now the white house has wimped out last night's wines were very good wines. one of the great chardonnays. cabernet from washington state. retail prices are relatively high. then the wine at the end from iron horse, not so high. all of those wines are wines that california and america and washington state can be proud of. but the white house is worried about the optics. they're afraid that they'll be accused of being extravagant. of course, it's an election year. it's too bad because the winemakers get to credit except that we just gave them one. >> i'm not surprised that you found out though, bill. >> wine is one of my passions. >> i know so thank you so much

my friend. it's good to be here in washington where you are and where you roam. we look forward to many trips to talk. >> come back. >> then there is will ferrell. i am not sure he'll get a state dinner. but america celebrated his comic talents for years. he goes south of the bored ,,,,,

come again? [ barking ] >> you know i don't speak spanish. in english, please. >> you popped in the refrigerator. >> will ferrell may have spoken spanish as ron burgundy in anchor man. but as armando alvarez in his new movie, it is all he speaks. >> i'll say. fairly plays a hapless -- that word -- mex

>> he sounds good, right? will ferrell is with us in studio 57. hello, will ferrell. >> it was very dramatic. >> i thought so too. i read nothing about your movie. i was excited to see it. so i get the screener, i put it in and call the office and said somebody sent me will's movie in spanish. may i please have the english version. this is after i spent five minutes trying to figure out how to get the english.

how did i get these sub tight ms. lo and behold, you've taken your high school spanish and turned it into a movie. >> my high school spanish teachers are going to be so proud of me. >> they will be. >> i deserve an oscar just for effort, okay? >> i like that you're putting it out there now. it has time to brew the next few months. start the campaign. >> best foreign language film. i don't know. >> it's nice when your mom encourages you and said will, you're doing good, keep going. >> which i never heard from my mother, by the way. she never encouraged me. >> i know you get lots of encouragement. she's making up for it now. i would never think will ferrell, spanish speaking movie. you did speak spanish the whole movie. >> everybody did. >> wasn't just you. >> no. this is just a crazy i had for the longest time of -- i think from watching telenouvel as and -- >> do you watch them? rewind to that.

>> i'll stop if i'm cruising the channels. >> do you ever stop on -- >> erica, say that again. >> really? you want to say it. >> it's amazing when it's on. saab dough. >> when did you know that you were a funny kid? >> i think when i was three days old. yeah. >> what happened after that time in your life actually? >> that's all i remember from my childhood. up until nine years, it's all a blur. but at three days old -- >> you had something there. >> something clicked. >> you have three boys of your own. i love their news. magnus, axle and mat yus. >> my three sons. >> that could be a show. >> we know you you're a funny guy on screen. then there's the real will ferrell. you're very normal. what's it like with you and three boys are 8, 5 and 2

horsing around the house? >> i'm a screamer. >> is there a lot of wrestling sm. >> there's a lot of wrestling. you know how it is with boys. they love each other -- >> i can't imagine three of them. i have two. >> it's what i call blissful chaos. >> that's nice. >> my wife and i will go to bed at night laughing over what the heck just happened today? so we're -- you just always kind of covering everyone's needs. >> listening to them at night. they're trying to fall asleep. >> hilarious conversations. in fact, my middle boy, mateus is the most precocious. i was talking to him the other day, talking about oh -- i was getting changed or something, you know what, papa is a little fat. no you not. you just got a little extra around the middle. that's all. that's all. >> he's five.

>> he's well-trained. >> do they know what you do? have they seen your movies? >> do they understand that you're will ferrell and people know you? >> yes and no. i think they think it's just a job i do. and they of they've seen so much stuff but not a lot. they're still pretty little. i think they think it's cool but otherwise i'm just their dad. >> i come from a family, i always am curious approximate this. i came from a family of four girls. i'm the oldest. aren't you the oldest? >> i'm the oldest of two. >> that still counts. i come from a family of four girls. i used to say to my dad, don't you wish you had a son. oh, no, no, i love having girls. is there a part of you that wishes you had a little girl. you have a lovely wife >> i'm an anti-feminist. i'm super macho and i love my boys. yeah. >> nice. i am glad that nothing -- >> could i just say in closing

that you look handsome today. i saw you on david letterman the other day. in your top ten, you said do i look handsome. may i just say you look handsome when you're not in the grocery store picking up women. >> care to elaborate? >> i was telling a story of -- >> i thought it was funny. >> a young woman who was saying hello to me. >> you're thinking ah. >> i've been married for 12 years, happily so. >> happily. >> i love my wife very much. it was kind of nice that this female was saying hey, how are you? >> clearly checking you out. >> i saw her later walking down sunset boulevard and put it all together that she was -- >> i think she was a working girl. >> a working girl. >> lady of the night. >> you still got it. >> i still got it. >> you can bring it back here to the table in studio 57 any time. >> the movie opens in theaters tomorrow. unless you want to stay that in

spanish. [ speaking spanish ] >> manana. >> bueno. when you think harvard. you may not think sports top of mind. but this year, of course, the crimson is part of march madness and jeremy lin giving them a shout out. we have a preview from our own ,,,,,,

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ready to shed its underdog status. >> you mngs mention the name harvard, it moves you. i think that's something that is echoed across the globe with a lot of folks. >> in a school a sus comed to high achievement, tommy amaker accomplished something unique at harvard. led a once moribund basketball team to the ncaa tournament for the first time since 1946. what took so long? >> listen, as we know, these things aren't easy. to be able to make something happen at a school like harvard or ivy league program, you know, it takes work. >> amaker inherited a team that won eight games five years ago. this season the crimson won 26 games and set a new school record. >> this dream, a dream that was attainable. we definitely are living it now. >> success is not lost on this

traditionally stoke student body. >> there are very things that unite the harvard student body but this is becoming one of them. >> junior martin kessler covers sports for the newspaper which is finally featuring the basketball team on the front page. >> you wouldn't expect to see the statue being painted or toilet paper around the buildings or anything like that? not at harvard. >> it's funny. it's becoming sort of a sports school. but not anything too crazy. people aren't skipping out on studying to come to games necessarily. people are definitely getting really excited about it. >> for a school whose name might denote, connote, elite, exclusive, does the basketball theme sent send a different message. >> i think if you learn about our school and truly dig in, try to get engaged with it, i'm not sure that -- those words would resonate throughout. we want well-rounded, want

interesting game changing folks that we're seeing in every way, including men's basketball. >> the team of 1946 notwithstanding, previous squads also showed promise through the years. including the team i played for in the early 1970s. but truex seemt for men's basketball at harvard began when jeremy lin played point guard here before moving on to his recent success in the nba. >> so happy for his success. harvard basketball and they can see that there's an nba player doing exceptional things on that level. we love that. >> this is the trophy that harvard is going after. >> for coach amaker, the team's recent success is no fluke. the program has continued to grow. >> mcnally. >> talked about from day one to be an upstart.

to become a contender and champion, we hope we can build a dynasty one day. >> dynasty, strong language in any sport is a part of amaker's dna. he was an all america point guard at duke before becoming an assistant to coach mike krzyzewski. the team won back-to-back ncaa tournaments in 1991 and '92. >> it's been 20 years since you tasted a championship with duke in the ncaa tournaments. what do you tell the guys about the hunger and the passion associated with that? >> well, it's -- what an experience that was, first of all, to be a part of my alma mater to help that program as an assistant coach. >> need to focus on what's in front of us. you know what, the crazier things have happened as we've seen. >> joining erica and gayle from

new york with me here in washington is james brown. j.b. of cbs sports. welcome. >> good to be talking to a duke guy. >> we know something about the toilet paper things. i can see, my theory is the smarter they are, the crazier they are. >> you know what, they are. the crazy mess is that the players and the students want to widen their library after a big victory. >> i liked that afro. >> the ladies told me at radcliffe -- that was a long time ago, a different james brown. >> i've seen that on an existing president too. >> is that right? >> go ahead. >> what's going on in harvard? >> it's a good thing. i'm enjoying the fact that the basketball team is enjoying this kind of success rallying the student body. tommy amaker worded it the best. greatness is everywhere at harvard. it's not a big thing. i think at its core, people love to see their sports teams do well because it's a unifier if you will. >> james, how far do you think

they'll go -- i think it's going to be hard for a harvard guy to hear harvard described as underdog in anything. so how far do you think they'll go? >> gayle, be clear, it will be an uphill battle against vanderbilt form. they have a big frontline, they shoot the ball well. it will be a tall order. you know what, it was a tall order to get harvard to the point that folks are talking about it after 66 years. >> tommy amaker is the head coach. >> excellent guy. >> as you pointed out in that piece at duke by the way. >> got to get that one. go ahead. >> the president said it's going to be you usc. >> i think kentucky. >> amaker is loved at harvard. >> yes. and the professorial staff loves him. there's a once a month meeting that he has with a number,,

>> good morning everybody. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. we begin with crews that are monitoring the san lorenzo river next to the santa cruz boardwalk. the river has fallen from nearly 1 ft. of rain coming out of the mountains. the sentinel reports that flooding has already done thousands of dollars of damages. san jose apartment fire injured one firefighter this morning and felt through the roof into the burning attic. 17 people were displaced by the fire that is blamed on a candle. driving conditions on the sierra highways are hazardous today because of the snow. some resorts got as much as 27 in. from tuesday into wednesday. ski resorts expect to be busy over the weekend and some

people hope for another 3 ft. of snow by saturday morning. >> march madness continues outside, wet and rainy weather around the bay area will continue on and off today. some fog is also showing up over the bridge. high-definition radar picks up some scattered showers, most of them white. not heavy rainfall like the past few days but we will see on and off when weather throughout the day. it will stay cloudy and a little bit wet. tomorrow, a better chance of rain moving in. heavy rainfall friday night into saturday. thunderstorms into saturday. traffic is coming up.

>> it is still slippery and wet and windy across the bay area so there is all lot of slow traffic. southbound 680, an earlier accident but it still remains lower walnut creek. at the bay bridge, we're still stacked up for a 20 minute wait just to get you under the bridge. still very stop and go out towards the downtown oakland exit's. have a great day! have a great day! ,,,,,,,,,,