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for 1.4 $5 million is available. ♪ ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is tuesday, april 10, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. erica hill is off this morning. the mother of trayvon martin speaks out for the first time since a florida prosecutor decides against taking the case to a grand jury. >> i'm gayle king. what has about a dozen employees and $1 billion? we'll meet facebook's newest friends and magic johnson, he's a friend, we think. we'll talk baseball on broadway with the new owners of the dodgers. we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. the biggest fire i've seen in my life. >> mother nature wreaks havoc across the country with wildfires up and down the east
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coast. on eastern long island, covering some 2,000 acres and severe storms in the southern plains. >> it's rotating right around. >> clouds blew across western oklahoma. >> and along with that threat, hail the size of grapefruit. >> it is our expectation he will not be charged as filed. >> the trayvon martin falls into legal limbo. >> the special prosecutor has decided not to take the case to a grand jury. >> as a shooter appeals to the public. >> zimmerman has set up a website. >> i've been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer and ultimately, my entire life. students are being called heroes this morninging after jumping into action to save their bus driver who suffered an apparent heart attack. >> i didn't want to crash. >> lottery officials say the winners are -- no, not that mcdonald's lady, but three public school employees. >> facebook has a new friend. the social networking giant bought instagram for $1 billion.
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president obama is showing off his basketball chops. it didn't go too well. from the carribean island of st. martin. watch the woman in the red top, off she goes and head first into the curb. >> all that matters. president obama presided over the 134th annual easter egg roll. >> on "cbs this morning." the only problem was first lady michelle obama was put in charge of the snacks which is, like -- that's like putting rick santorum in charge of a rave. you don't. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." welcome to "cbs this morning." there is dangerous weather to report in several parts of the country. severe storms in oklahoma injured at least two people on monday.
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>> there was hail, heavy rain and tornadoes. firefighters are fighting a string of wildfires after a week of unusual lear warm and dry weather. forecasters say 2012 has started warmer than any other year on record. all 50 states set at least one record this morning. fires are burning from new hampshire to florida where it is already wildfire awareness week. terrell brown is on the eastern long island in brook haven, new york, where a large fire has burned through the night. terrell, good morning to you. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning to you and good morning to our viewers on the west coast. this is the worst fire on burn in a decade and it is still not under control. winds are expected to kick back up at high speeds again later this afternoon. wildfires broke out up and down
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the east coast monday, fueled by whipping winds and dry conditions. >> keep the blowing and it pushes it farther and farther. >> reporter: on new york's long island hundreds of firefighters fight to keep the flames from a nuclear facility. destroying two homes and sendinging three firefighters to the hospital. >> this fire is as serious as it gets. it is not yet under control. >> reporter: neil coleman's son shot this video of the fire as it crept dangerously close to their home. >> the fire was over 100 feet tall. it was unbelievable. it was like you see in the movies and on tv. until you're there, you're, like, wow, i think i'm in trouble. >> reporter: in new jersey another inferno which officials are calling suspicious is on track to burn through 1,000 acres. yesterday it came within a few feet of some homes. >> it was very horrifying. it was too close for comfort. it was literally behind our home. >> reporter: the dry, windy
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weather helped feed flames in pennsylvania and connecticut where a brushfire lined a railroad track. nearby homes and businesses were evacuated. >> i was very nervous. i thought i could possibly be losing my home at that point. >> the national weather service issued fire warnings throughout the mid atlantic region along with parts of the midwest and south. in virginia dumped water from above to try to douse the flames. the wildfire outbreak stretched all of the way down to miami where a fast-moving fire caught residents by surprise. >> it's the biggest fire i've ever seen in my life definitely. >> reporter: back on long island. officials say the fire is 50% contained and the homes here are still in jeopardy. it's this dry grass and brush like this that you can hear it snap and pop, that's how dry it is that's adding fuel to the flames. even the national guard on standby and as the winds pick up this afternoon, no word on when that fire will be brought under control.
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charlie? gayle? >> terrell brown, thank you very much. there are big developments in the trayvon martin case. special prosecutor has decided not to send it to a grand jury. she will bring charges against george zimmerman who shot the teenager. >> zimmerman is speaking out online and asking for help from his supporters. john miller joins us now. >> good morning, gayle. >> what does her decision mean and does it signal anything in your opinion? >> i think it's not a substantive decision. if angela corey wants to arrest george zimmerman she can draw up an information this morning and go do that. it's a strategic decision. if she puts it in a grand jury, what occurs in the grand jury is occurring under secret and no one is allowed to discuss it with the rare exception of the witnesses themselves. it will be my call. i'm going to take the heat from
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one side of this argument or another no matter what i decide. i will not say the 23 people decided in secret because of the way it was presented and i think that's how she's going here. >> we'll talk to trayvon martin's mother in just a few minutes here, but back to this decision, what do we know about this prosecutor angela corey and how she handles cases like this? >> well, i mean, this is not reporting. this is anal sis, but i think if we're reading the prosecutorial tea leaves by eliminating the you're from the process. she has a history with the stand your ground cases, that's the florida law that says you don't have an obligation to back down in the confrontation and that's the heart of the legal question here. she has a history of taking those cases on and going after people who she feels are using the stand your ground claim falsely. on march 16th, so that's not a long time ago, she did a case involving a traffic dispute, a road rage incident where one guy said he felt threatened by the
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other guy and shot him several times and killed him. in that case the shooter is white. the victim is black. he claimed self-defense and she's prosecuting him anyway and that is not the only time she's done this. so i think what we're seeing here is a prosecutor who has a reputation for being independent, for making controversial calls and for taking on this law. >> all right, stay with us, john. we'll go to martin's mother, sybrina fulton. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> thank you for joining us. how do you feel about this prosecutor's decision not to go to the grand jury? >> i just feel that it's going to give the -- miss corey's office the chance to do a thorough investigation and it will be in her hands. >> do you have confidence in her?
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>> what we believe is by her not sending it to a grand jury, charlie, that she has enough evidence to make an arrest of george zimmerman, the killer of trayvon martin. we've always believed there have been enough evidence and in the last 43 days we think it's gotten more compelling that he at least needs to be arrested. he'll have his day in court that sybrina and tracy have said, they just want justice. >> when you ask why has he not been arrested, what do they tell you? >> they basically say that they're still having ongoing investigations and that it's still ongoing. they haven't really given us any answers and we feel, you know, in search of what happened, really. >> sybrina fulton, the court of public opinion clearly appears to be on your side at this time, and we talked to zimmerman's attorneys any they said, listen. everybody needs to be calm because there are two sides to every story and their contention
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is that trayvon martin attacked zimmerman and he was defending himself. what do you have to say about that claim? >> i just have to say that my son was in fear for his life. my son was running away from george zimmerman. my son was not running toward him. >> all of the evidence points to that. all of the evidence points, when you think of the objective fact of hearing that 911 call and all of the other people and then you hear of the phone logs, everybody points to him running away. don't take our word. it's objective evidence. it's clearly there. america and the world are judging this for themselves and they're saying this needs to be a public trial and it needs to be transparent where everybody can see all of this evidence and all of the defenses, i think it was the shaken baby syndrome that a full-grown man is the
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ba shaken baby syndrome and there needs to be a trial and an arrest needs to happen immediately and we believe miss corey will do that now she got rid of the grand jury. >> have you talked to miss cory? have you had conversations with her? >> she is keeping the family abreast of the investigation and she spent time with the family, 30 minutes before the announcement not to have a grand jury. she's been trying to communicate in a very responsible manner. >> does she lead you to believe that an arrest is close in this case? >> well, what she said -- >> well, she just actually said that they're going to be wrapping up the investigation soon. she never said whether she was going arrest him or not. she just assured us that she would do a thorough investigation and we just truly believe that after the investigation is completed that he will be arrested. we just have faith that he will be arrested. >> john -- john miller is with us here this morning, as well.
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>> i think that one of the things we've seen in this case by skipping the grand jury process. a grand jury generally sits two times a week. i think what the parents are saying here is they seem to be getting very close to that decision, whatever it is. another element here, of course, is how do they do that investigation? and that is they take the police investigation and they go over everything that the police did initially, but then she has retraced those steps, recanvassing for witnesses, reinterviewing where the witnesses were found in the first place and looking for that forensic evidence and sending it out to independent experts. i'm sure you're aware that george zimmerman has set up a website and speaking online. what is your reaction to that? >> i will simply say this, you know, he says that he experienced a life-altering event. well, trayvon martin expensed a
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life-ending event and sybrina and tracy are having to live with losing their son who was unarmed. he was unarmed, didn't have a gun and george zimmerman is trying to have us believe that his life is so terrible now. we believe trayvon martin would have been in jail had he been the person who killed george zimmerman. >> my understanding of what you both are saying and what you've been saying all along is you want mr. zimmerman arrested, but in addition to that you want to hear everything and have everything come out, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> we want everybody to have their day in court and god bless sybrina and tracy. they have led by example. they have faith and they want it to be a fair process for everybody, but he needs to be arrested. >> sybrina fulton, thank you very much for joining us. john miller, thank you very much. in syria this morning the government says it is obeying the u.n. brokered cease-fire,
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but pro-democracy activists say government troops attacked at least two towns today. on monday syrian forces opened fire across the borders into turkey and lebanon. clarissa, tell us what you're seeing and what's happening. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. good morning, gayle. we are here at this refugee camp near the turkish border with syria. just moments ago former u.n. secretary-general kofi annan arrived here. you can hear the refugees, they're playing drums, singing and chanting slogans and kofi annan will be meeting with some of them and also talking with members of turkey's leadership, but he is here fighting for the survival of his peace plan, his six-point peace plan which was supposed to be implemented today with syrian troops and tanks pulling back from major civilian-populated areas. so far, charlie, no signs of that is happening and we are hearing reports of ongoing
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violence inside the country. >> there are also reports that the russians seem to be putting more pressure on the syrian government to listen to and to try to engage in a cease-fire. do you have any sense of that where you are? >> reporter: well, we know that syria's foreign minister is in moscow. he gave a press conference earlier today with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. he said perhaps the peace plan wasn't implemented as quickly o he stopped short of criticizing the regime. there can't be an end, a full cease to the violence until monitors are in place. he also said the syrian regime would like to choose who those monitors will be. what we are seeing is the syrian regime trying to renegotiate the terms of the peace plan on the very day they're supposed to be implementing it. >> clarissa, thank you so much.
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clarissa ward. the owners of a small tech company this morning are waking up $1 billion richer than they were yesterday. >> oh, what a feeling for that team. that's how much facebook is paying for instagram. have you heard of it? rebecca jarvis is here. rebecca, what is it, exactly, and why is it worth so much money? >> first of all, this is a mobile photo sharing application. it's an application that lets you take a picture with your iphone or android and share it online on facebook and twitter. just a week ago it was valued at $500 million. this week facebook comes along and offers $1 billion. it has 30 million users and that puts it in a category that makes it more valuable right now than "the new york times," barnes & noble and some of these companies, callaway golf and names that we know and facebook sees a lot of value in it. >> why is it they see a lot of
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value in it? why do they want it and does it simply signal one more step in the battle for mobile technology? >> this is not only about how we access facebook, but also what we're doing when we go online now. about a fifth of our time on facebook is spent accessing online pictures, and if you think about what we're doing on facebook and what we're actually spending our time doing, 250 million photos a day are shared on facebook. so you can see why they find value in an application like instagram. >> rebecca jarvis, thank you so much. >> thanks. police in tulsa, oklahoma, tell cbs' ana werner that two suspects charged of a shooting rampage have now confessed. they are charged on murdering three people on good friday and wounding two others. all of the victims are african-americans. both men are being held on $9 million bond.
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they're not charged with a hate crime. time now to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. "the baltimore sun" reports one of the winners of the mega million jackpot worth $650 million has come forward in maryland. the winner wants to remain anonymous. he or she'll take home a check of $157 million after taxes. >> not too bad. "usa today" has a story on the database to from prevent cell phones from being used again. cell phone thefts made up 30% of the robberies last year. the database is expected to be online within 18 months. "the pittsburgh post gazette" reports the bomb threats are putting pittsburgh into turmoil. professors are being asked to be flexible with student attendance for the last few weeks of the spring semester. "the miami herald" fines manager ozzie guillen.
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do not, i repeat, do not try this at home or on vacation. a tourist on st. maarten stood too close to a jetblue plane that was taking off. she was knocked off her neat and suffered cuts to her head. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> we want to say she's okay. i'm wanting to say even in my wildest and craziest days would you have ever tried something like that? >> never. >> where you could be hurt? i would pass. i would pass. in seattle, south of washington, bill whitaker reporting a middle school student was on a bus yesterday when he and a classmate saved
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the day. >> reporter: you can see from the surveillance it was a normal bus ride. faces have been blurred for privacy reasons. suddenly the driver sluchs back in his seat and releases the wheel. jeremy wuitschick is a few seats back. >> he's flailing and his eyeing are bullblinging and he's makes noises with his mouth. >> reporter: he apparently suffered a heart attack. the bus was careening out of control, heading straight for a church. jeremy says he acted on instinct. >> so i take action. i grab the wheel, turn it right, get it to the right side of the road, and take the keys out of the ignition and the engine starts shutting off, slowing down. >> reporter: seventh grader johnny wood leapt into action too. he had studied cpr. >> i ran up and tried doing chest compressions but his eyes were rolling back and i could
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tell it was getting harder for him to breathe. >> reporter: as the bus roll and stopped other students called 911. >> i was thinking i want to stop the truck because i don't want to crash and i don't want to know what it feels like, so, yeah. i don't want to die. yeah, that's bad thing. >> reporter: jeremy said he remember add superhero book he read in which a man stopped a runaway busby turning off the ignition. everyone got off the bus alive sniet was scary and exhilarating. i mean you want to know if he's okay, but, then, again, it's just happening so fast, your heard is pumping. it's breath-taking and breath-giving. >> reporter: yesterday they probably called themselves two normal seventh grade boys. this morning they're being called heroes. for "cbs this morning" i'm bill whitaker, los angeles. >> this is extraordinary. >> i thought so too, charlie. first he said is exhilarating. i thought does he know what it
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means, and clearly he said it was brikt-taking and breath-giving. >> and they went up there and instinctively knew what to do and the other boy said let's do cpr. >> and dying is a bad thing. i like that. that's the best line. you go to the dentist to keep your teeth clean and healthy but a new study shows skbras might lead to bigger problems. >> and tomorrow we speak to masters' champion bubba watson. you're watching "cbs this morning." there he is. pull on those gardening gloves. grab the nearest spade. and let's see how colorful an afternoon can be. with certified advise to help us expand our palette... ...and prices that give us more spring per dollar... ...we can mix the right soil with the right ideas.
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there is concern this morning over a possible link between dental x-rays and a certain type of brain tumor. a new study found that patients who had extras at least once a
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year on their entire mouth were more than twice as likely to develop a tumor. >> doctor is a director at the research science. good morning. >> good morning. >> the question you ask is should i have x-rays at the dentist's office. >> the answer is yes and no. >> how do you know when it's yes and how do you know when it's no. >> everything in moderation. it's the same recommendation. the point is if you need an x-ray, if you have symptoms, if you have pain in your teeth and the dentist is concerned and is concerned you have a cavity, you need an x-ray. that's the point. >> do most dentists agree with this study and will they act in accordance with the results of this study? >> i don't know. the study was just released and sow how dentists react is with their own bias and own individual patients. if you have dentists who are intelligent, i won't think most
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of them are, you have to take the studies for what they are, in general it would make sense to do x-rays less frequently because we know not just based on this study but any study that's ever been out there, x-rays are not a good thing for your face or teeth or brain and it goes along with a that. >> it's so frightening to me. guess where i was on saturday? i was at the dentist and guess what i had on saturday, an skprar x-ray, and it was a bite wing. the study was pointing out bite wing. they say normally if it happens it's a benign tumor bus it doesn't make me feel better. >> well, it should make you feel batter. >> but just the fact of having a tumor your honor brain that could possibly be caused by a brain. >> everything is location. if you have a benign tumor can be worse, depending on the location, than a malignant tumor. i think getting one x-ray on your teeth is not going to necessarily, you know, bring
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your -- it's not a threshold of risk that i would not worry about not getting x-ray. on the other hand, i think, the way you lead your life, you don't want to get multiple films if they're not necessary. in the end the frequency of risks has to be mitigating against your benefit. >> the thing is most people don't know how much is enough. >> the dentists have to know it. the dentists know, i'm sure. they don't want to give patients tumors. this will be discussed in their literature. on the other hand, there's not a 100% guarantee. >> the american dental association is already racing some criticisms. >> right, which i think is appropriate. when you do studies that are large like this or you go back and call people, you say, do you remember having an x-ray when you were a child, oh, yeah, i remember. well, that's great, but the trouble is when you start doing very rigid statistical measurements to memory, you can run into some problems. >> you don't seem overly
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concerned, doctor. so your bottom line is? >> my bottom line is -- it's another going to prevent me from getting an x-ray if i go to the dentist, per se, but if i'm not having symptoms, i don't think you should as willy nilly -- it's not one x-ray that's the problem. it's the repet tifb nature of the x-ray. it's like using cell phones or coffee. do these cause a problem? it's not going to stop me from drinking coffee or use
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you know, a big part of it for us is that there isn't anything on the schedule. mitt romney's family is trying hard to make mitt seem like a regular guy. that's the strategy now. yeah, in a new interview that she just gave, ann romney said her husband mitt is mischievous. yeah, for example, she said his favorite prank is to ring someone's doorbell, run away, and then buy the house. >> the tobacco companies are going to court this morning. the graphic cigarette warnings
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intended to scare away cigarette smokers. >> chip reid is with us from washington with the story. hello, chip. >> good morning, gayle and charlie. later today in the courthouse the obama administration and big tobacco will swear off in a hig high-stakes battle. we should warn you some of the images you're about to see are quite graphic. the images are intended to be shocking. a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his windpipe, a pair of deceased lungs next to a healthy pair. the sewn up body of a man who died of lung cancer. if they're hard to look at, that's exactly the gold when the food & drug agency ordered the companies to place these graphics on their cigarette paths to encourage americans, especially children and teens not to smoke. >> it's been proorch in study
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after study these images deter young people from starting to smoke. >> reporter: but in february a federal judge ruled that forcing tobacco companies violates the right to freedom of speech. today the cigarette companies are going to argue that the government cannot force them to display disturbing images that are even more prominent than their own label. >> the supreme court said government cannot manipulate speech in this way, to try to put the thumb on the scales to get people to do what they want, not, you know, be making their own choices in the marketplace. >> i'm mary. >> reporter: but antismoking m companies -- >> it's time to have counter-advertising right on the sides of the cigarette packages
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to give consumers a voice and to give some balance to the glamorous -- glam orization of tobacco. >> reporter: many other countries including brazil include labels that are even more graphic. here in the united states the images were supposed to start appearing on cigarette packs in september, but this is a case that could go all the way to the supreme court. that's only a few blocks from here, but it could take a year or more to get there, and even if the tobacco companies lose in the end, the delay could save them millions. charlie and gayle? >> all right. thank you, chip. i often wonder, charlie, if these are effective on people addicted to smoking. i think about my mom. when we showed her graphic thing, all that did was tick her off. i wonder. does it make a difference to someone who's hooking on smoking? i was never a smoker, so i don't know. >> if this would do it -- >> -- more power to it. were you ever a smoker?
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i would bet no. >> why would you say that? >> i don't know. i would -- >> no, i wouldn't. >> well, then. >> i don't want to be so easy to understand, you see? i don't want to be so transparent. >> you don't want to be predictable. >> charlie, you've never boring. >> we're marking the history of the titanic and where it set sail a hundred years ago today. you're watching "cbs this morning." for months, i had this deep pain all over my body. it just wouldn't go away. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain.
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yesterday, osk of course, was easter which along with eefrt commemorates the death of jesus. >> in just about a half hour they're going to start the 134th white house annual easter egg roll. these are some of our friends, chipmunk, penguins.
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>> great holiday for people who gave up lsd for lent. actually this scene is true. i remember these characters from the last supper. if i'm not mistaken. one of you will betray me. alvin! >> jon stewart always has a very unique way of putting things together. think that's what we do here too. a very unique way of putting people together. we've at tasty slam dunk in studio 57. you're the legendary -- what's your name? >> magic johnson. i bought you a dodgers fan. i know you might not be a fan, but here's one for charlie. >> wow, look at this. and signed. do you see that? >> magic johnson comes bearing gifts. anthony bore dangerous you come bearing what? johnny and i like presents? >> let me call out for some food. >> tell us where we should go for great food.
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a look at the golden gate bridge we're starting to see some slight services out there is to be careful this morning as you work your way out of the grand county still an uphill ride sat down 11 from richmond down to the golden gate bridge toll plaza broken-down vehicles reported on the northbound 101 is to work the way to san francisco it looks like is blocking the as their pre busy anyway both directions looks like to 86 in his well north and southbound do this city and was down 380 near el camino with a multi vehicle accident blocking lanes traffic is sluggish december are long on a one that struck because elizabeth. the airwaves with a wet morning commuter enhance get on and off showers dropped course the day have doppler radar has been very busy since early this morning so you can see all the green and yellow yellow is moderate rain falling into line toward the south bay in a falling over milpitas also por,,,,,,,,
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♪ it's a perfect, perfect jipt for our guest today. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> i'm charlie rose. >> wait. i didn't say my name. >> i thought you said gayle king. >> i didn't. could we start over, please? >> rewind. i e-maam gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose. erica hill is off this morning. mack image johnson is leading a group of investors who's buying the l.a. dodgers for -- get this -- $2 billion. >> with a "b."
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mack injohns earvin "magic" johnson is with us. welcome, earvin. >> you're two of my favorite people. >> keep talking. i told you i saw the documentary when you first announced. we'll talk about that. but in that documentary, you said, you know, i want to be a businessman. >> right that and now you are a businessman. >> a businessman? i mean this is a big businessman. >> you are jginormous. i'm thinking things are going very well for you,er v earvin "magic" johnson, these days. >> who knew. >> did you like baseball?
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i grew up watching the detroit tigers. that was my home team. i loved the dodgers. i always went to their games and supported them. it's going to be great. we don't actually take over till may but what a great opportunity for myself and my parter? >> isn't it great? if you like something, you just buy it. but a $2 billion price tag. did you put this together with the guggenheim partners? >> exactly. and stancast and peter gruber. so all of us came together. i was a part of kemp and carkershaw, our great cy young picture. >> did you see "moneyball?"
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>> i did. >> it was great sni. >> it was. >> what made you do that? you have restaurants and so many things around the country. >> so many athletes are broke around the country. what do you know? >> number one, i took my ego out of it, had great mentors, and i formed great partnerships. when you think of howard schultz and starbucks and guggenheim and walters. great partnerships. they were able to help me understand business in terms of the ceos who ran those businesses, and then i just took that model and took that over to urban america and it made me successful. >> speaking of partnerships, tell us about you and larry bird and where it exactly began because it was an intense competition going back to college? >> charlie, you're absolutely
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right. when he played for indiana state and me for michigan state, you talk about like the celtics. they were already rivals before larry and i came into the nba. so we got a chance to play against each other again. we hated each other. >> you hated each other. and i thought of the marriage bird. i thoutd of the intensity you had. it was really a hate for each other. >> i choose the word dis-like. we were fighting for something. when you're fighting for a championship and also you're trying to fw the best of the nba as an individual, you're going have a dislike. and what happens, his mom -- i shot a commercial at his house. >> converse. >> converse commercial. >> yeah. >> and at the -- at the lunch break, i thought i was going to my trailer to have lunch. he said, no, my mom has prepared
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this great lunch for us and you've got to go up to the house. i'm sitting there thinking, wait a minute, i've got to go his house and break bread? >> i didn't ask for this. >> i get up there, and as soon as i walked through the door, his mom just hugged me. >> hugged you. >> and that was it. that disarmed me, that made me relax, and then she was telling me how, you know she loved me. >> mom liked you. >> she was a big magic fan. >> exactly. it was the beginning of our friendship. we talked like two little boys. we found out we were much alike, him from indiana, me from michigan. grew up poor, hard-working families in the midwest. >> i have to say i highly recommend the documentary. i got so choked up. lar are bird was one of the people you called before you made the announcement you had
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the hiv virus. >> exactly. i wanted him to know from me. his support not just then 20 years ago but for the last 20 years have been unbelievable. you find out who your friends are really when something like this happens to you, and that man, larry bird, has been supporting me from day one. and then we turn around, right? so fran and tony call me about this play, right? so i said, okay, sounds good. let me go see lombardi because they produced "lombardi." i say, cool, it was grail i picked up the phone and called lar are and said we've got a chance of a lifetime. they want to do a show about our lives. >> he's so talk aive. what did he say? >> he said, are you kidding me? a hick from indiana and black kid from lansing. why do they want to do a show
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about our lives. but the play is unbelievable. >> what did you say about him? he was the one basketball player who was white and you could take to the neighborhood and they would accept him immediately. >> exactly. larry bird can really, really play basketball and he can play with any group of people. it doesn't matter if you're black, white, whatever, because he's so smart at the game. larry bird was the smartest player. michael jordan was the greatest and was the best. but larry bird is the smartest player i've ever played against, and this man, just like michael, made his teammates better. >> your rival can make you better, don't you think? >> all the time. >> make you better in all things. >> make you better as an tleept a athlete and a person. i'm glad to have been blessed with this man in my life for the last 30 years or so. >> before we go, how's your health? how are you doing?
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>> i'm fine. everything is good. i dropped 25 pounds. i cut down my snacking, increased my cardio. and gayle said, i can't get my arms around you. when she said that, i thought, that's it. >> special shout-out to cookie. hasn't
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the story of the titanic has fascinated many. we'll take you where the voyage began 100 years ago today. guess what 100 women would trade their iq for? okay. i'll tell you in a second. we'll make that long story short. you're watching "cbs this morning." it was like a "what if"-- like we got money back, but i just never-- i've always felt there should have been more. [ announcer ] at h&r block, we guarantee you won't leave money on the table. don't risk your refund. call 1-800-hrblock or visit hrblock.com... and never settle for less.
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as we looked around the web, we found a few reasons to make long stories short. she may have worked with him not once but on another movie. do you remember that movie? >> no. >> don't worry. no one does. he had a cameo on the eddie murphy mega flop. smart move. the ultimate post-party bus we're told is about to hit las vegas. it's called hangover heaven.
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finds that breast size does matter for women. the poll shows one-third of women would lower their iq if they had bigger breasts. the reason, i would make them feel happier. jeff glor, do you want to comment or do you not speak english? >> i want to wrap this up. >> i would definitely vote for being smarter. >> good vote. more than a century ago, the titanic sank. we're going to look at new thooegs coming up. you're watching "this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by levemir flex pen. ask your doctor about the benefits of levemir flex pen today. me... thinking my only option was the vial and syringe dad used. and me... discovering once-daily levemir flexpen. flexpen is prefilled. doesn't need refrigeration for up to 42 days.
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we all know the titanic sank
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a century ago after hitting an iceberg, but that may not be the entire story. two new tlooers blame the weather for the accident. >> one says mirages may have made imimpossible. villem marx is there. vill vill villem, good morning to you. >> thousands of south hampton residents have launched to launch the biggest, fastest, most luxurious cruise ship in the world. if live fast and die young is the key to an enduring legacy, five days was all it took for titanic to become one of the most iconic images of the new age. >> rummaging through records that are only now becoming a available, i think the story of
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the titanic is going to continue well into the future. >> but rms titanic was a celebrity even before she sank. built she wasit was it was the largest floating vessel of the day when in 1912 she set sail in new england, a city ravaged by the disaster that followed. no single community was more devastated than south hampton. local memorial 1 lunn years on still keen to commemorate residents who lost their lives. look at the hundreds of faces here, a lot of them in red from south hampton. how many of the men here and women, i suppose, would have died? >> 715 crew from south hampton went on the ship. 156 returned.
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>> titanic sailed out of south hampton and right into history. movies like "a night to remember," tell the story of sinking the unsinkable. and james cameron updated the story. "titanic" redefined the term blockbuster. the band played on. in less than three hours, titanic was gone. >> do not let go of my hand! >> reporter: of other 2,200 passengers on board less than a third made it onboard. it was 17 years before we saw titanic again, 1985. american explorer dr. robert
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ballard reveals the watery grave. >> the one for me was the signature image that told us we found the titanic. >> reporter: his discovery breathing new life into her story and the stories that perished bubbled to the surface. >> up fortunately died, but the clock stopped at exactly the time he hit the water and subsequently his body was found by crew members, and his stop watch was recovered. >> reporter: these murky waters where the titanic rests tell the story of time and could last another 100 years. and the story keeps on coming. the other theory is the sun and moon in alignment. >> thank you very much. i never saw the original movie, charlie. >> "a night to remember?"
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5-hour energy...when you gotta get stuff done. >> police are trying to identify a pedestrian that was struck and killed by car in mountain view. investigators say the driver remained on the scene along north shoreline boulevard. the victim did not have any form of identification. crews spent most of the morning cleaning up a small fire at a san lorenzo strip mall. flames damaged the roof of a store on hesperian boulevard. no one was injured. but believe the flames were started by thieves working poor copper wiring. the crew retracing the titanic's maiden voyage ran into trouble of its own yesterday after a strong wind and rough seas off the coast of ireland.
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>> we're dealing with some wet surfaces out there this morning so slow and go in a lot of the busy commute areas. extra busy as you work toward the maze. southbound is not too bad, brake lights near hayward. once you cross the san mateo bridge things are looking pretty good.
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signal lights are out along california ave. you can see along the side of 101, both directions not doing too badly. still an easy ride from 580 to the golden gate bridge. not a lot of delays. things look pretty good into san francisco. southbound 280 has been a struggle. there is an accident by 3d over towards the shoulder. wind >> we have not off hour rainfall totals of little bit, only a half-inch or so with rainshowers coming down but is a wet start to the morning commute and you will need your umbrella. coming down but is a wet start to the morning commute and you will need your umbrella. temperatures
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it's a small price to pay. a proper greasy cheeseburger. enduring symbol. >> deeply satisfying. onions. it's really filling.
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so now, the dream. >> let's dream. >> only one person would say that at this table. welcome back to "cbs this morning." that would be you, anthony bourdain. one celebrity chef who will never teach you how to make a perfect hollins days sauce. >> where was that place in kansas city? >> it's called town topic. it's of a beloved greasy spoon, open late night for the post-bar rush. >> tell us about this woman. 85 years old. she did this review, and you saw it and loved it. >> mallen hagerty wrote from the north fork -- i'm sorry -- grand forks, north dakota, press. wrote a small article, a review of the new olive garden opening up in her neighborhood. and, of course, it became an medial viral sensation.
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people put it up as a hill literature yaus and moxable review. and, of course, that was my instinct as a new yorker, somebody who's eaten all over the world to sneer. and her reaction was kind of so dignified and -- >> genuine. >> genuine. the review itself was so heartfelt and this is a woman who's been reporting iffer the paper, five columns for 30 years. i thought, wow, she's making us all look bad. this is the way much of america eats and i just thought actually this body of work, these 30 years of reviews of dining in north dakota is in a sense a history of dining in america and i thought, i want to publish this person. in fact,ly be doing just that. >> so you guys are going to work together on a book deal. >> yes. i'm meeting with her later today. >> very nice. but "time" magazine once called you one of the most honest people in media, and i'm wondering where that comes from because you really have a no
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holds barred opinion about anything you talk about wlrks it's about politics or food. a as a little kid, were you always the type of person who always spoke exactly what you were thinking? >> yeah. i was a bit of a showboat. i was a rotten kid with a vocabulary and i used it to get into trouble, out of trouble. i see it as a personal failing honestly. i would change if i can. >> would you change if you could? everybody always says a person can change. >> i don't -- not me, but -- i don't know. >> because it's working for you sniet would be an easier -- i would like to be more diplomatic honestly if i could. >> the interesting thing about him is he turned the life of chef, which he's talked about, into this phenomenal new career, traveling around the world, finding things he likes. >> i was standing next to a deep fryer. yeah, overnight everything changed for me and now i have the best job in the world.
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>> i think you do, too, because i, too, often love food. i would love your job but i'm not as brave as you rchlt to me you're fearless in your culinary paillet pala palate. is there anything you wouldn't? >> shark fins. in order to have a great deal use have to be open to the possibility you're going to have a bad one. you're never going to get the magical confluence where everything comings together and it's an experience that you're going to remember for the rest of your life if you're not willing to get a little backlash from a meal. >> what have you learned from all this? >> that the world is a somewhat nicer place than i would have thought. that it is much bigger.
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that people with very little or often who have very little in their lives and very little access to expensive ingredients are often the most generous and cook the best. it's nice at my age to get to learn stuff on a regular basis, and this job keeps me learning. >> what is your age? >> i'll be 56 in june. >> oh, you're a baby. >> you're a little less cynical? >> i'd like to think so. it's hard go to a place to be the recipient of random acts of kindness again and again and again from people with very little. you can't come out of that without being unchanged. >> there are hard-working dignified people out there day by day with no particular -- no particular ambition in sight. >> or agendagenda. >> who have a good life. >> what stuns me again and again is we don't have time to cook and we don't have a lot of money
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to make good foorksd this is why we eat cheap, bad processed food. you know, rice farmers in vietnam and traditional farmers in france, they had no time, no money, no good ingredients. somehow people find a way to cook with pride and cook well. >> with your woshld traveling, what have you learned that we're doing right in this country when it comes to food and what have you learned we're not doing so great? >> i'm pretty hopeful. people are more concerned about what they're eating. they're more conditioned about what's going in, who's cooking it. they're more open to thing. it's a good time in america. tlink are more and more good times to be eating in america. >> with all this happiness you're asking, would you like to open a restaurant again? >> if i learned anything in business, i would never. i've had enough. >> great to see you. >> always good to see you,
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anthony bourdain. his show is "no reservation." she's the only woman to earn nominations for drama and comedy. there's
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cooper, i'm -- >> no. >> he basically said that he never liked my hair, and my eyes got hot and i ran in here. what is going on? so now i'm going to feel something? >> we like your hair. four-time emmy winner edie falco is starting her fourth season of the no-nonsense bad-behaving nurse jackie. >> she is bad-behaving. she goes to place she's never been before, but first this morning she's in a place she
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neefrs been before. studio 57. we're so excited you're here, edie falco. >> so excited to be here. >> jeff is right. you look fantastic. >> thank you. >> do you feel as good as you look? i'm being very serious. >> i'm happy. >> there's a glow. i don't know what it is. >> i'm happy. i'm legitimately a happy person. >> because? >> because life is good. i don't know. you wish for yourself certain things when you're little and you get more than that, that's kind of where i'm at. >> what did you wish for when you were lit snl. >> to make enough money to support myself. when i started to do this, it became more far-reaching. i have a great family and a great life and a beautiful place to live. i document know. >> and you've got two great kids. we were talking with anthony bourdain. are you a mom who cooks for your children? my children will have no fond memories. i'm not good and i won't do it. >> mom used to take out and it
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was my thing and i'm embarrassed to admit that in front of people. >> no, we're a big sisterhood. >> part of manhattan. you walk out your door and it's right out there and it's so much better than i could make. >> are you cooking at home, jeff? >> no. are you kidding me? cereal? maybe some toast. i do toast very, very well. >> i had cereal for dinner last night. let's talk about "nurse jackie." i watched the premiere episode. i was thinking she's getting more cuckoo for cocoa puffs. is that going to happen? >> it's going to happen. things are going to go a little hay wire. >> is this is san when she's finally being held accountable. it appears she is. you heard the krit sechl for the first three seasons that she was just getting away with everything and you continued. >> right, right. >> she won't. >> no, not if i personally have
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anything to say about it but the point being she's an addict and people can go for long periods of time hiding that kind of behavior, covering their tracks, but it will end. it will end one way or the other. it will end hopefully as well but not always. >> why was that important for you? >> addiction is a subject close to my heart and it's not funny at all and it's ruped lives around me. i don't want them to say, look, she's courting. it's fun for a period of time, but after a while it's got to come and roost. >> did you draw from those experiences? did you think about it, edie? >> you don't think about it consciously. i know itz's there. the nature of it that's so complicated and ragtsal. for me, i totally get it. >> so you talk about some of these things going right, career-wise at least. i assume you're tacking about
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the sopranos. even more so with nurse jackie. >> mm-hmm. >> "vanity fair" did a thing. >> mm-hmm. >> that got a lot of attention. >> i know. i'm surprised how many people have seen it. >> we heard gandolfini's end of the year. you. >> i did. i didn't understand it. >> that's what i didn't like about it. >> i know it's good when i didn't get it. i know it's smarter than i am and that makes more very happy. >> i sat there watching with my mouth open going, they can't possibly end it this way. >> that's what was so great. jason who wrote it was going to please half the people and they would be angry or -- he pleased nobody. >> it's interesting.
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stevey van zandt was here and he said it was great. he said, how would you want it to end? i don't know. >> did you want them to get killed. >> >> no. >> so them people say what really happened? >> you don't know. >> it was cut and we all went home. >> this is what was so cool about you. you were carmela for so long and then you went into "nurse jac e jackie." i know it's called acting but you do it so well. >> thank you. >> do you miss her? >> i miss the experience, my buddies, being with my buddies. i miss it a lot. everything i have here is entirely different. every job gets a little more
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challenging and satisfying on different levels. >> the fact that you were able to transition -- >> they played a million different parts in their life and it just so happens that they have seen these, but many architects have done many, many, many, many, many. >> you do it well, edie, ,,,,,,,,
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this morning one of the favorite things we do, our "note to self" series where we ask
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people to write letters to their younger sefls. he's overcome a an enormous obstacles, a condition that left him mostly paralyzed more than 20 years aefrmgt here now, chuck close's notes to self. >> this is a note to myself at age 14. i was in the eighth grade and was told not to even think about going to college. i couldn't add or subtract, never could memorize multiplication tables, was advised against taking geometry, physics, it set rachlt because i was good with my hands i was advised to enter trade skoochlt never lehtonen define what you're capable by using parameters that don't apply to you. i applied to a junior college in
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my hometown with open enrollment, got in, and embarked on a career in individual arts. virtually everything i've done is influenced by my learning disabilities. i think i was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. i have faced blindness, and once a face is flattened out, i can remember it much better. inspiration is for amateurs. the rest of us just show up and get to work. every great idea i've ever had grew out of work itself. sign onto a process and see where it takes you.
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you don't have to invent the wheel every day. today you'll do what you did yesterday. tomorrow you'll do what you did today. eventually you'll get somewhere. no one gets anywhere without help. mentors, including your parents, can make you feel special, even when you are failing in other areas. everyone needs to feel special. my father died when i was 11, and that was the tragedy of my life. a horrible thing to happen when you're so young. oddly enough, there was a gift in this tragedy. i learned very early in life that the absolute worst thing can happen to you and you will get past it and you will be happy again. losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when i became a
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quadriplegic. ful you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into many bite-size pieces. quadriplegics don't envy the able bodied. we envy the paraplegics. we think they've got a much better row to hoe. there's always someone worse off than you. i'm confident that no artist has more pleasure day in and day out from what he or she does than i do. chuck close.
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this is one of the things i'm enormously proud of, seeing this kind of way of presenting remarkable people in their own words. >> or in the "notes to self." a special shout-out to paige. she always does then so beautifully. what i like about chuck close, to be written off in eighth grade where they say, you can't do, you can't do, you can't do, to turn that around, i think is very special. >> taking things that held him back that pushed him forward. >> he says parents can make you feel special even when you're falg but everybody needs to feel special at some point in their life. that is so true. i don't care who you are. >> do you feel special? >> most of the time. >> i feel special too. >> absolutely. thank you very much. >> we all feel special. up next, your local news. we'll see you tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning." >> take it easy.
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>> good morning. the teenage driver accused of killing two bicyclist in concord could be freed as early as tonight. by lot juvenile suspects should be released ship chiles are not charged with in two business days. police a driver remained at the scene after hitting a man on north shoreline boulevard. the victim did not have any form of identification. thousands of recently laid off yahoo! employees are being courted by detroit businesses. it website is encouraging them to submit their resumes online. several companies hope to develop the motor city for a new tech center. >> we have a rainy forecasts, mostly white rain falling.
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we will see it throughout the course of today into the evening commute and we do have a have your cell moving over parts of the east bay. temperature's only into the low 60s. upper 50s across the bay area. and we have another system heading our way thursday and friday before we drive out for the weekend.
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>> still pretty busy out there, lots of wet surfaces so be careful as you work your way through the morning commute. northbound 101 at willow, a couple of cars tangled up in an accident. once you get asked that you will tap the brake lights towards sfo. southbound at the golden gate bridge, extra ballot volume as you work your way south. once you get over to city streets in san francisco, not too bad. the san mateo bridge is ok. as you work your way along the bay bridge, metering lights remain on. if you're headed into san francisco, extra volume northbound 101. have a great day.
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