good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday, april 13th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. north korea's failed rocket launch also sets off an international firestorm as the united states calls it a provocative act. we'll talk with pulitzer prize winning author tom friedman. >> a pundit apologizes under pressure by saying mitt romney's wife, a mother of five, never worked a day in her life. new jersey mayor cory booker rushes into a burning home to save his neighbor. it happened late last night. he's here to talk with us.

we begin with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> this has been a tragedy in the state of new hampshire this evening. >> a sleepy new england town is rocked after an armed standoff turned deadly. the city's police chief has been killed. four other officers were injured in that shootout. two are in intensive care. >> wonderful chief. eight days away from retirement. it's not fair. >> north korea's long-range missile test ends in failure. >> moments after launch the missile crashed into the ceyell sea. >> in is the new leader of north korea. i'm concerned that the fate of the world could rest in north korea's chaz bono. hilary rosen apologizing after saying the wife of mitt romney had "never worked a day in her life." >> my career choice was to be a mother. we need to respect choices that women make. >> my own mom, a single mother raising me and my sister, that's

work. >> joe biden is serious. he said making stupid comments that hurt the president, that's my job. she has no right. >> in modesto, california, police were serving an eviction notice when gunfire broke out. the apartment building where the suspect is hiding burst into flames. >> a judge has ruled that there is enough evidence to hold george zimmerman on charges he murdered trayvon martin. >> all that -- >> mayor cory booker put his life at risk to save a neighbor from a burning building. >> a small car. what seems to be a rather large problem. how hard can that be? >> and all that matters. >> look how cute that dog is. where was i? >> that's above and beyond the call of duty for a tour caddie. >> on "cbs this morning." >> 54 years old today. >> congratulations. you look great. >> i'm 65. i just don't count the 11 years i was at nbc.

captioning funded by cbs >> welcome to "cbs this morning." north korea's latest missile test only lasted about a minute and a half but the repercussions will go on far longer. >> north korea ignored warnings from the u.s. and other countries in launching that long-range rocket that they could some day carry a nuclear warhead. david martin is at the pentagon with the latest. david, good morning. >> this is both a setback from north korea's missile program and an embarrassment to its leaders. the question now becomes what will the north do in an attempt to recoup the damage done to its already battered image? this is the rocket north korea launched about 15 hours ago early on their friday morning. the much anticipated launch turned out to be a dismal failure. three stage rocket was supposed to follow a path that would take it due south but it broke apart 90 seconds after liftoff falling

into the yellow sea 100 miles west of seoul, south korea. it was tracked by u.s. ships, satellites and radars and officials say it was never a threat. and no debris fell on land. north korea says this earth observation satellite was on board. the launch was supposed to put it into orbit to monitor crops and forests. the launch occurred in midst of celebration marking the formal ascension into power of kim jong-un. secretary of state hillary clinton said the launch admitted to a test of a missile that could carry a nuclear warhead. even after the failure, the white house called the launch a provocative act that violates international law. north korean state television has acknowledged the failure but so far offered no explanation for what went wrong. a statement issued by the white house says north korea is wasting its money on weapons and

propaganda while its people go hungry. >> david martin, thank you very much. now to u.s. politics during the past week the presidential race has become a battle for the women's vote. >> it is a fight that has been heating up considerably especially since thursday when president obama had to call out one of his supporters for going too far. norah o'donnell is at the white house this morning. norah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the so-called war on women has now turned into the mommy wars. it started when democratic strategist hilary rosen said that ann romney, who raised five boys, has never worked a day in her life. the democrats had to do some quick cleanup on that or risk offending stay-at-home moms and losing the women's vote. the war on women became a war over words. so politically dangerous the administration distanced itself from rosen immediately. there was the president. >> there's no tougher job than being a mom. anyone who would argue otherwise

i think probably needs to rethink their statement. >> reporter: and the vice president. >> it's an outrageous assertion. >> reporter: even a tweet from the first lady saying every mother works hard but hilary rosen, not part of the obama campaign, seemed to question whether ann romney, a wealthy woman, has worked hard as a mother. >> his wife has never worked a day in her life. >> reporter: ann romney said raising five boys was hard. >> reporter: under pressure rosen apologized writing in a statement gender equality is not a talking point for me. it's an issue i live every day. i apologize to ann romney and anyone else who was offended. >> reporter: rosen says it's about much more. >> it's not about whether ann romney or i or other women of means can afford to make a choice to stay home and raise

kids. most women in america, let's face it, don't have that choice. >> i know what it's like to struggle. if maybe i haven't struggled as much financially as some people have, i can tell you and promise you that i have had struggles in my life. >> reporter: the political debate about women and the workplace is not new. remember these comments from hillary clinton 20 years ago? >> you know, i suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies but what i decided to do was to fulfill my profession. >> reporter: this debate is far from over, women make up 53% of the voting electre ining electo. they are a key voting block. it's not just a gender gap. it's a gender canyon. president obama is leading mitt romney by 19 points among women. >> thank you very much. stay with us. we'll talk now to thomas friedman, bestselling author, pulitzer prize winning author for "the new york times." you watch american politics

closely. how do you size up what this is and what it says about the campaign and the way american politics work? >> this is the latest example of oh, my god, what did hilary rosen say today about women? i think what you see here is not that it wasn't an important point but when you have a close race like this that is so close, you need every vote particularly if you are in romney's case, 19 points behind on women. you're going to seize on anything. i think everyone knows the point hilary rosen was trying to make. this was a chance to jump on it. use it as a wedge issue. get more votes. it will be like this every day. >> you see this as an important race but a close race. >> hugely important but it's the way it's being fought. both guys are looking for 50.0001%. nobody is going big here. this is about the little issues unfortunately. >> let me turn to north korea. so what does north korea do now

first of all and secondly, is the united states forced to simply deny the food and aid? >> you know, north korea -- how long are they going to go with this gig, charlie? looking for dignity in all of the wrong places. looking for dignity by trying to build a nuclear delivery system and look what happens. the thing winds up in the ocean. at some point they have to stop the blackmail. i'll hold my breath until you turn blue. we're not going to turn blue. you're going to turn blue. you're people are starving. how long is this gig going to go on? we're in the third generation and i think -- >> grandson. >> right. at some point you just hope that ther will be a discussion where they grow up, knock it off and start relating to the world and their own people in a realistic way. >> do you expect the white house to react further to this and take measures because the north koreans defied what the united states and everybody else urged

them not to do? >> reporter: publicly they are calling this certainly a provocative act and watching this closely. internally administration officials i talked to said this will probably have ramifications internally how embarrassing to invite high profile media people in for this celebration and have this rocket explode just after a second and a and a half. certainly embarrassing for the new leader and another administration official said, look, this is also going to have ramifications as they try to sell their military wares internationally. customers will think twice about buying these things from north korea. it will be interesting to see what happened in north korea. i saw a senior administration official this morning. i said what happens next? how long does this regime last? this official said i won't speculate but the fact this was embarrassing couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people. tongue in cheek. so many people are starving in north korea. >> tom, two questions for you. number one, realistically, does north korea even have this

capability? >> they certainly -- >> for success i should say? >> absolutely. just look at south korea. what that tells you is with a different kind of government and more open system, all of the human talent is there. they should make microwaves and not rockets. >> it is there. they are just misfiring literally. and then in terms of what norah was talking about in terms of these deals that were made for food for the millions of people who are starving, there's been criticism too about this latest deal between the u.s. and north korea. talk to us a little bit about that. people are saying, you knew it would never work in the first place. >> they do have us over this barrel basically, which is, you know, if you don't give us food, we're going to launch a rocket. we're going to starve our people. it's only going to make us more unstable. the key player here is china. it's not us. this ends when china says to north korea, knock it off. >> does that ever happen? >> the chinese love korea so

much, erica, they want there to be two of them. that's our problem, okay? >> let me turn this back to the campaign and foreign policy. >> they don't want a united korea on their border. >> turn it back to the campaign. the big issue is going to be jobs, gas price, the economy. foreign policy, what could and what should we watch at because it might explode and change the dynamics of the campaign? >> there's one issue i think that stands above all others and that's iran. iran has potential to dramatically increase oil and therefore gasoline prices and therefore really feed into the campaign. and so i think what you're seeing by the president for both political and strategic reasons is can we get a negotiated solution to iran's nuclear ambitions because that has enormous domestic -- >> do you believe iranians are willing to negotiate? >> i think they're prepared to negotiate forever. the question is are they prepared to make a decision? there is even a deeper question.

can they make a decision? is this leadership in iran so divided that if charlie says yes and erica says no and if charlie says no, erica says yes. that is what's going on in tehran right now. the scary question is can they say yes to a deal that's in their national interest. >> thank you, tom. thank you, norah. >> thanks so much. a small new hampshire town is in mourn after the police chief was shot and killed. >> it happened last night after a drug raid in new hampshire. the standoff lasted through the night. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you both and to our viewers in the west. new hampshire drug task force and local police were executing a warrant at a home in greenland. when they arrived, a gun fight broke out. he was a husband, father, and

grandfather. >> he's a wonderful chief. he's eight days away from retirement. it's just not fair. he was a working chief. he didn't shirk back and let anyone else do the work that he wouldn't do himself. >> reporter: as for the other four police officers, two are in critical condition. two others were treated and released. at 2:00 in the morning, police burst into that home. they went in with a robot. fund two dead bodies. one of the suspected gunman. the other of an unidentified woman. the investigation will continue. in the meantime, flags will fly at half-staff across the state of new hampshire today. charlie? erica? >> thank you very much. george zimmerman's next court date is a bond hearing. it's scheduled for a week from today. he is still in custody this morning facing murder charges for the shooting of trayvon martin. zimmerman said almost nothing yesterday in a brief court appearance. mark strassmann is in sanford, florida, this morning. >> reporter: george zimmerman's new lawyer will argue that his

client is not a flight risk. if he wanted to run, he would be long gone by now. there's another issue. would zimmerman be safer behind bars? >> mr. zimmerman -- >> reporter: george zimmerman's first court hearing was procedural and lasted less than three minutes. for his jail house protection, the second-degree murder defendant is staying alone in a cell designed for two inmates. inside jail or out, zimmerman's safety worries his lawyer, mark o'mara. >> what would surprise many of george's critics the most about him? >> that he truly isn't the monster, i think, that some people have made him out to be. certainly this was a tragic intersection of two young men's lives with enormously tragic consequences to one of them. >> factual evidence -- >> reporter: special prosecutor angela corey outlined her case in a court affidavit. it claims zimmerman disregarded the police dispatcher when he instructed zimmerman not to

follow the teenage. zimmerman followed martin who tried to run home. it also says sybrina fulton identified screams heard in the background as her sons. george zimmerman claims it was in self-defense. his arrest relieved many people in sanford, florida. >> i'm not going to lie to you, i wanted to do a black flip. it's about time. it took them long enough. >> we feel that's the first step toward justice in this particular case but not only do we want justice for trayvon martin and his family, we also want justice for george zimmerman. let's just say that he's proven innocent. we want justice. >> reporter: zimmerman is yet to give plea in this case. that will happen in about seven weeks at his formal arraignment on may 29th. by then he hopes to be free on bond. >> thank you. mark strassmann in sanford, florida. for college students this is the time to get ready for final

exams and maybe find a summer job. but university of pittsburgh students have something else to worry about. bomb threats. >> there have been dozens of them over the past few weeks and security has been stepped up. jim axelrod is on the pitt campus. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this college campus at the university of pittsburgh is unlike any other college campus in america. in the last eight weeks, they've had 85 bomb threats but so far no bombs. being a student at the university of pittsburgh these days means security checks to get into lecture halls and midnight evacuations from your dormitory. >> i think most people are just incredibly frustrated. you are evacuated from classes. you don't know if you can do your laundry or sleep a whole night in your dorm. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say the threats are the work of a prankster and not a real terror plot but the school has no choice but to treat them all the same. >> we take every threat

seriously and this dangerous world in which we are living, we can't know with any one threat whether it's real or whether it's a hoax. >> reporter: so with each threat, out come the police dogs and search crews leaving students frustrated and parents on edge. >> my parents are a little freaked out. i do get calls from my mom that are saying things like are you sure you feel safe? you don't want to come home? they are concerned. they are also proud of us for sticking it out. >> reporter: one man was arrested before being let go. several other suspects have been questioned but not charged. meanwhile, the threats continue to come each night and with them the evacuations. >> if he's willing to disrupt these times now, finals and graduation would be prime targets in my opinion. >> reporter: between 5:30 and 6:00 this morning, the five latest threats. they all targeted academic buildings and not dormitories and all five threats have been

cleared. while the university certainly wants to guard against complacency, there is a feeling they don't want to have any business as usual while bomb threats are going on, there is a feeling that life does go on and that is because as law enforcement sources tell cbs news, there's a sense that this is the work of a prankster opposed to a terror plot as opposed to anything more sinister.

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>> the green in new haven there. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> the mayor of newark, new jersey, cory booker went above and beyond the call of duty last night. he had just gotten home when he saw the house next door on fire. a woman trapped inside. >> the mayor and his security team didn't waste any time. they rushed in and found his neighbor in her bed in the back of the building. they got her out alive and mayor booker was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. he is okay and here he is in our studio along with new york police detective alex rodriguez. welcome. also joining me for this

conversation is gayle king. >> let me in for this. >> i'm okay. >> truth is you wouldn't have been here without her call. >> this is the thing, cory. i don't know whether to hug you or say what are you thinking? >> first of all, my security detail, detective rodriguez, santos, duran, they were incredible. they got everybody out of the house. when i arrived we were pulling the last people out and the mother was screaming her daughter was still up there. >> it's flames and fully engulfed. >> it was touch and go. when we climbed the stairs, something exploded and at that point he started doing his job which was to grab me and try to drag me out of there. we had a little bit of a fight. >> you won? >> what was the conversation? >> i can't let you in. he basically told me this woman is going to die if we don't help her. what can i say to that? i let him go.

without thinking twice he just ran into the flames and rescued this young lady. >> most people in circumstances like this always say i wasn't thinking about the danger. i was thinking about the mission. >> well, you know, my first instinct when i jumped through the kitchen which was in flames, i actually wasn't thinking. when i got there and i couldn't find her in all of the smoke, looked behind me and saw the kitchen erupting with flames all over the cereiling, i got a cle thought that i wouldn't get out. i got religious. she yelled out to me and i found her through the smoke. i grabbed her. that's where i got burned. she got burns on her back. >> you picked her out of the bed? >> i was not gentle. i threw her over my shoulder and dragged her through the kitchen. that was my fear. i didn't think we would get out through that kitchen and that was the only way out. i hoped there would be a window on front and that's when i had

clear thoughts about how to get out. i punched through the kitchen and flames. i saw detective rodriguez. he grabbed her as well and we got her down the stairs and we collapsed outside of the building. >> how did you know there was somebody in? hadn't you gotten other people out? >> i was waiting out front waiting for the mayor to arrive. i just happened to look up and i saw through a side window that the apartment was engulfed in flames. i started banging on the door to try to get the residents' attention. they finally opened the door and they had no idea that there was a fire going on in the house. >> there weren't even fire trucks there. you let them know their apartment was on fire. >> that's correct. >> they told you somebody else is still in there? >> i rolled up. they wouldn't answer the door. who is banging on the door. i'm the police. your house is on fire. and at that point everybody is coming downstairs. when i arrived, we helped ms. williams, the last elderly woman out, saying her daughter was

still trapped upstairs. >> what did you mean when you said you had religious thoughts? >> the come to jesus moment. >> i'm coming, jesus. >> i mean, it was a feeling of being trapped and i couldn't see anything but the flames coming out of the kitchen. i really had this moment where i thought, okay, i think i'm trapped. i think we can't get out. >> what's the smoke inhalation feeling? >> i got out. i just couldn't breathe. i kept coughing. taking deep breaths was really hard. that's why today i have a new profound -- incredible feeling -- yesterday all of my problems were really big to me. today things feel a lot more clear. i have a lot more respect for firefighters. >> how's your hand? >> it's going to be fine. >> what about the woman? >> she was very disorientated. we ended up at different hospitals. she had second-degree burns on her back. i think where i was holding her. she barely had a shirt on. she had a lot of exposed skin.

i came home and didn't realize how badly burned my clothing was. so i got that on my clothes. she got that on her body. >> did you tell your mother or is she hearing about it on the news? i was wondering if you told her. it would be like cory to say i meant to call you. >> you have scolded me so many times for not informing people. >> scold is a good word. >> that's the right word. i was supposed to be with her this morning to help take care of my dad. i called her last night. she was in the same mode as you were. i don't know whether to yell you or thank you but i'll thank god right now. i feel really blessed. as a fire director told us, anything could have happened. they ignite quickly. we were lucky to get out of there. >> what would you say if someone said to you there was someone in a burning building you might have a chance to rescue but you might also not and end up burning alive? >> i think your imagination is always that you would do the

right thing. i tell you, it was different for me when i left -- when i got him to let go of me and went through the flames, it's a very, very scary thing. i would like to say at that point i was feeling so courageous but honestly it was terrifying. to look back you can see nothing but flames and see in front of you nothing but blackness. i have a profound respect for firefighters. as my chief of staff said i'm ill equipped to do firefighter negotiations because i'll give them everything. people do this every day. i feel like we have a country full of heroes we just don't recognize. >> a reminder of people who put themselves on the line for us every day. >> thank you detective, a-rod. my favorite, mayor booker. we're glad that everybody is okay. if you are scrambling to file your taxes, you hear that clock ticking, we have a scam to watch out for. very important stuff. it's a cbs news investigation

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st. paul, nn st. paul, minnesota. the mississippi river. with the tax deadline approaching, suppose you try to file a tax form but the irs says a company has already done it for you and then the company refuses to send you your refund until you pay a huge fee. >> sounds like a nightmare scenario. sharyl attkisson has more. it turns out it's been happening to people across the country and that company is now facing federal charges of tax fraud. >> reporter: like a lot of americans, lashondra nash and her family have had rough times. >> i'm a single mother struggling through some mishaps last year. i lost everything. so i am in process of trying to rebuild. >> reporter: pretty much all she had left to rebuild with was her job in customer service in baltimore and the promise of a tax refund.

>> my main goal at the time was to get this money and help pay some bills and do things for me and my two girls. >> reporter: lashondra went to a company called instant tax service which offers quick and easy cash loans in advance of income tax refunds. she applied for a loan and signed a stack of papers. instant tax service started in 2000 was a top run black company. many are in low income areas where needy customers are attracted by promises of fast cash. as it happens, instant tax turned down nash's loan request so she told them not to file her taxes. a few weeks later she learned instant tax filed her taxes electronically and instructed the irs to send them the refund check. the check they kept unless she coughed up $800 in fees. a third of her refund. >> they used information i put in for my loan. >> they didn't have your w-2 form?

>> no. i think this can't be. i know i said it more than one time. i know you were clear on it. her words to me were, yeah, you did tell me not to. so why are they filed if i told you not to? >> reporter: it turns out instant tax included a tax form in the stack of loan papers that lashondra signed which she admits she didn't real carefully and the irs doesn't require a w-2 form for e-filing. there were similar complaints about instant tax in houston. >> exit the premises. >> in no way, shape or form was i ever advised they were going to file my taxes for me. >> reporter: in charlotte, north carolina. >> getting the runaround. >> reporter: a mob of angry instant tax customers. >> they filed taxes for her two days ago without her permission or her w-2 form. >> reporter: the better business bureau told us it's received more than 800 complaints about instant tax service nationwide

since 2009. jody thomas represents the greater maryland bbb. how bad is this as par as consumers being allegedly victimized? >> consumers are alleging that their taxes are being filed without their consent. that's very serious. consumers are alleging that the amount of fees that they are being charged was not fully disclosed. fees are doubled and tripled what they were quoted. >> reporter: we decided to pay a visit to the instant tax office in baltimore that filed lashondra's taxes. the employee on site locked the door and wouldn't answer. ma'am, can i ask you a couple questions? can i ask you a few questions. we watched through the window as she made calls and eventually turned out the lights and sat in the dark. they're not answering the door. not opening the door. not going to talk to us today. instant tax service founder fez ogbazion wouldn't agree to an interview. in an e-mail he said we're not a

fly by night company. we have prepared 500,000 tax returns in the past three years. as for taxes being filed without permission, he says it's an honest mistake and blames a switch in software companies. he says that it is disheartening not allowed to have a year of adversities and obstacles for the first time ever. you may ask how it goes on under the nose of the irs. they wouldn't talk to us about any of it and customers who called the irs say they were told they're out of luck since taxes had already been filed even if it was without their permission. for lashondra, the final insult was a call she got from a woman from instant tax service corporate claims. >> i understand that you are mad but you can't be mad at anybody but yourself because you signed the papers. >> i didn't pay as much attention as i would have if i wasn't in such a hurry for it. i do take that blame. at no point should it be acceptable for business to take

advantage. i was vulnerable but i'm not stupid. >> sharyl attkisson is here. what happened to instant tax? >> since we shot that story, the justice department has filed a complaint against instant tax and the fez ogbazion founder they say basically what we said in the story the company was targeting low income customers with false and deceptive means and filing taxes without knowledge or permission and they estimate in five cities alone, five major cities, the fraud amounts to $16 million. >> lashondra nash. >> she had to cough up $800 in fees for filing she didn't even ask for. she went home with $1,600. she's trying to get her $800 back in small claims court. >> and irs wouldn't talk to the,

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me? >> why are you so reluctant? >> i have no intention of leaving until you tell me what's on your mind. >> i want to read you some things. >> she lost her virginity that day. why would she say that about you if it were not so? >> what is this? >> this is "60 minutes." >> wow. >> contemptible. i'd like to you get out of here. >> they must be ashamed of something. >> look. look. look. come on. come on. come on. >> it's nice to see that. doesn't that bring back memories?

the highlight this week was the three of you talking about him. >> yeah. remarkable man. you can see it there, which as remarkable as you can capture and remember all those moments over all those years and those trademark lines. come on. >> musting hiding something. it's 8:00. welcome back to cbs "this morning." i'm gayle king. a look back at mike wallace's life. a special this sunday night at 7:00, 6:00 central here on cbs. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. tomorrow night the bizarre story of an arizona woman who simply vanished two years ago. it took ten weeks for friends and family to figure out she was missing. >> meantime, as erin moriarity reports, her boyfriend was leading a double life. >> when she met her boyfriend in 2007, she thought she found the

perfect boyfriend. bryan had a diploma from the university of michigan and shared her passion for college football. >> she had a really good smile. got enthusiastic about football games. >> closest friends saw no warning signs. >> jamie looked content. >> two years later, jamie disappeared and bryan was the last person who see her. when is the last time you saw jamie? >> physically saw her? 3:15 a.m. march 18, 2010. >> i immediately felt something was wrong. people have heard background and stature don't come up missing for ten weeks and nobody hears from them. >> bryan told detectives jamie took a job in another state. >> she hates everything about this state. she wanted out. >> reporter: when police searched bryan's condo this story took a chilling turn. you're not really bryan stewart at all, are you? >> to me i am. >> reporter: but not legally, are you? >> legally, i'm not anything.

>> reporter: actually, legally, bryan's real name is red wayne valentini. in 2001 he created an entirely new identity. >> there is no smoking gun in this case, but there is a lot of burning matchsticks. >> jamie's lost. we don't know where she is and it's really sad. >> erin joints us now. hello, erin. >> good morning. this story surprised me because this is the post 9/11 world. the idea that somebody could so totally hide a secret identity. he got a lot of ideas from this book. i hate to bring it here today. it's called "the modern identity changer." but he didn't read chapter 9 obviously. the one thing they say, if you're going to change your identity, don't get caught in a traffic violation. he got one and that's really how they ended up getting him. >> he has the driver's license

in his real name. they ran a check. >> the only reason they could do -- he would have gotten away with all this, but they got a warrant because of this traffic violation and they could go in and search his apartment. otherwise, you know, we would not know anything. this would just be a big mystery. and be over. >> such an unbelievable story. it's because there are so many different elements to it, but they knew each other. they lived together, right? for what, two years? were there ever any warning signs? >> she was a very cautious young woman. she met him at the university of michigan alum club. she did not go online to meet guys. she was very careful. yes, he did get arrested on a burglary charge. she actually hired -- >> that's a little clue. >> that is a red flag. >> i don't want to date somebody who's been arrested for any damn thing. charlie introduced you and said bizarre story. it struck me she was missing ten weeks and that made me sad it was ten weeks before anybody knew.

>> an odd way we talk about facebook, we are all so connected, but we are really not. she had people who cared about her, but she moved to phoenix. everyone is separated

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>> this morning john miller reports a republican senator is now calling for action. >> jay palmer, a principal consultant for the global tech firm accused his own company of bringing in foreign workers to the u.s. illegally. senator charles grassley is pressing for a thorough investigation by the departments of state and homeland security of the b-1 visa program. the b-1 visa allowed foreign companies to send employees here for meetings, but jay palmer says infosys was sending hem here for jobs. >> if you're bringing them here to work full-time and maybe cheaper labor, it's not only against the law, it's immoral and unjustified. and unethical. >> palmer says the practice displaced american workers qualified for the same jobs, but he charges, it increased

profits. >> for example, if i'm going pay you $15,000 a year, why would you pay an american or a legal worker $65,000 a year? it's economics. >> reporter: ron hera says the problem is bigger than just one company. >> a number of companies very profitable, large companies that are expanding very rapidly, are exploiting loopholes that should be closed. >> reporter: palmer says after he blew the whistle, infosys retaliated against him. now he is suing the company. infosys denies the allegations saying they will address the facts in court. >> can grassley, being the powerful senator he is, get some action here? >> he is on a judiciary committee which does have oversight over immigration policies. they are going to listen to him. when he wrote his letter a couple of months ago on this, the state department acknowledged that this is a

program that needs more oversight because of potential fraud. in 2011 the company in this story, and there are others, applied for 4,700 more of these worker visas on the idea they needed 5,000 people they had skills so specialized no american computer worker could do them? >> did he see your piece and say get john miller on the phone? when i saw the piece about yesterday, i'm curious about how the indian workers are allowed to live here. >> and how they live here. jay palmer, who helped us break this story yesterday, and marty harrington, both said theyer when appalled by the conditions these people came in on specialized worker visas or you're allowed to come for a meeting and not supposed to work. they were stacked three in a motel room, in tiny apartments. jay palmer went out with his own money and bought air mattresses for them to sleep on.

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in today's healthwatch, gene therapy for parkinson's disease, a new british study describes a potentially ground breaking treatment. >> so far 15 patients have received it, including this woman, who has had parkinson's for 17 years. she says her severe tremors and balance problems are starting to go away. with husband dr. michael kaplitt who pioneered gene therapy on patients and surgeon at cornell medical center. welcome. >> thanks, charlie. >> tell us how successful this is, the idea of gene therapy. i know so many people and

friends who have parkinson's. >> well, the idea of gene therapy has been around a long time and has held great promise. the problem is with a lot of positive cases, patients who have done well in isolation, there's also been sort of stopping points where things never really got past the initial promise. >> didn't realize potential, everybody realized what happened after we began to understand more about all the genes. >> the real excitement in the field in the last year or two, we've gotten past many of those points. the example of this woman in this study going on and many others going on show this is more than experimental idea or promise that it's really starting to help real people and we're overcoming hurdles. >> can you remind and bring us up to date about what gene therapy is? can you describe it in a couple of sentences, how it works. >> genes are the fundamental building blocks of life. they give our body instructions on how to work.

what we're doing with gene therapy is really providing a new set of instructions to tell different parts of our body how to work better in specific disease situations. >> go ahead, charlie. >> across the board, where might gene therapy have consequences and results, say, in the next 10 years. >> obviously parkinson's has led to doing this over time. in the brain we're excited about the ability to go into particular circuits that affect all kinds of complex diseases, depression, all these things of specific brain circuits. we may have major impacts where traditional drugs can't do as well. >> following up on her question, exactly what will you do. you go into the brain, localize where the parkinson's is and do what? >> so what we do is we have these sort of molecular packages that deliver the genes. have you billions of these packages and a dropless, one

droplet of liquid. we go in with this very fine tube through a little hole in the skull and we deliver, literally inject it into a particular spot in one of these circuits that in this case influences parkinson's disease. >> fifteen seems like a small number to me. is that enough to be encouraged? >> it's not to be encouraged for one particular approach. again, one has to get past that. we attend patients in our first study. last year we reported on 40 patients and patients who did better than placebos. these kinds of progress can really help make these things real for real patients. >> all right. i know a lot of people suffering -- not a lot but i have some friends dealing with parkinson's and this is very encouraging. >> thank you, doctor. >> thank you, dr. kaplitt. we have unbelievable adventures, they are calling him the smack man. you really need to know this guy. he's got some serious admirers. we'll explain in long story

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time for her 25th wedding anniversary. answer add few question, and it's back. >> that's good. story from the "huffington post" will make you smile. a coca-cola machine in singapore said, hug me. they are. spreading cheer. hug me, a free can of coke. >> is that what you get when you say special mommy? >> right. special mommy hug. and bargain hunters, miami airport holding an annual lost and found auction this weekend. iteming up for sale left behind by passengers include jewelry, laptops even a meat slicer. also up for auction, hundreds of pieces of unopened luggage. who knows what you'll find? >> i love this story and love this guy. the "new york times" says the latest on snackman. a new superhero here in new york. charles sonder caught on camera breaking up a fight on his subway train, stepped in, kept munching on cheddar pringles. the video is viral. one of the top searches on yahoo!. snackman even got his own

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is extra light this morning. we still have a wind advisory in effect for the golden gate, bay bridge and richmond san rafael bridge. there have been issues across crow canyon road with an accident and mudslide and they still have an alert in effect. >> the heaviest rain has moved by and the skies are trying to break up although we are seeing plenty of showers outside. some reports of stormy weather coming across the bridge a few minutes ago. it gretchen says they had hail so watch out for that. it looks like things will stay unsettled drop the day as we have a possibility of thunderstorms. maybe even a couple of lightning strikes around the bay area today. temperatures remaining on the cool side. hig,,,,,,,,

are you hungry? women tend to eat less when men are around. >> do you have any vegetable broth? >> today we are grilling with chef guy fieri. now, that's the way to start a segment with bruce springsteen. welcome back to cbs "this morning." 100 years after the "titanic" met its tragic end, we still cannot stop talking about it. >> this obsession to get to the bottom of the obsession about the "titanic."

>> on april 15, 1912, at 2:20 a.m., about 700 people in lifeboats watched the unthinkable happen to the unsupposedly unthinkable. "rms titanic" slid beneath the ocean surface. legend has it a survivor in lifeboat 13 described the scene saying, that's the last of her. really, that seemed to be just the beginning. the beginning of a century-long fascination that can rightly be called an obsession. there are "titanic" themed cruises. a half-scale replica of the ship in tennessee. even the promise of owning a piece of the ocean liner for only $19.99. >> containing authentic coal recovered from the "titanic." >> by some estimates, the number of books written about the "titanic" is surpassed only about those written about the

civil war and jesus. other passenger ships have gone down with terrible losses of life. three years later over 1,000 died aboard the "lusitania." why do we care so much about this disaster? katherine howe is the author of a new book about, you guessed it, the "titanic." >> it's like the collision of all possible symbols available to you in 1912. the way engineering can fail, the wealth, the poverty -- all these things come together on one night. >> we've always been fascinated with class. aboard the "titanic" the division between the haves and have-nots was in dramatically stark relief. down in third class were immigrants heading to america in search of a better life. dreaming perhaps of life in first class. upstairs, it was the very picture of how we imagined life in the gilded age. the parlors were occupied by some of the richest people in the world.

back then, to be rich was to be famous. >> the "titanic" was carrying on it people as famous and well known as the equivalent would be the most exclusive oscar party, if everyone on that party was on the boat together. >> a "vanity fair" oscar porty? >> exactly that went down. >> their version of george clooney was john jacob astor iv? >> or ben gugenheim. when he figured out what was going on, he and his valet disappeared and reappeared in evening clothes, determined to go down in style. >> the stage was set for a harrowing drama. one reason the story grips us, it took two hours 40 minutes for the "titanic" to sink. enough time for real-life heroes and villains to emerge. no wonder it was made into a tony-winning broadway musical. 2:40 is enough time for people

to make more or less dig neighed decisions. >> i think that's true. we like to go into detail how women and children were loaded first, which was mostly true, although somes what not true. we like the idea of the band continuing to play even as the ship is listing out from under their feet. >> for every generation since the "titanic" went down, there's been a movie to commemorate it. first silently. then black and white. and then in 1997 -- james cameron brought our fantasies of "titanic's" voyage to life. for three hours we felt like we were onboard to witness all the romance and all the drama. in the end, more than 1,500 died that cold april night 100 years ago. hopefully, if there is one good thing to come from our

obsession, it's that we're keeping their memories alive. >> i think that time that it took to go down, 2:40 is really the central reason it grips us or one of them, i suppose. if we can imagine ourselves, what would we have done. it's interesting because the "lusitania" a huge number of people died three years later and we don't talk about it because it only took 18 minutes to go down. there was a mad rush. it was survival of the fittest. a larger proportion of young men lived and older, rich people died. there wasn't the time for that to play out. >> i have to confess to having a little bit of the obsession. i went to see it in 3-d. james cameron was here at the table with charlie and erica. i might be all "titanic" out. i loved your piece. why are we so fascinated? because it was a result of human

error? >> i think so. it never billed itself as unsinkable, but other people described it that way. it's just all these superlatives, the richest people, the biggest boat. >> i think it's because of people having time to think about dying. >> yeah. >> as you said two hours. i think of that movie "perfect storm" with george clooney. he says as they're going down, this is what it's going to be like. >> and first reported in realtime because of wireless technology, because of the distress calls. it was being reported as it happened and that was a big deal. >> that makes it more real to people, too. >> and it made "the new york times." it helped the new york times become the paper it is. >> i will only do this once, thank you, maurice. a pleasure to see you again. >> of course. >> because we found out what his name was. >> yes, you did. >> gayle asked, you wouldn't

tell her. there is your back story. >> got it. we'll see you again soon. millions of shoppers looking for luxury and bargains couldn't live without gilt.com. the founders of

♪ here in new york, many designers have sample sales offering marked down items to a select group of women. five years ago, alexis and alexandra took that concept to the internet with gilt group. now the company does more e-business than anyone but amazon. now the gilt girls have written a memoir called "by invitation only." they answered our invitation to join us in studio 57.

for people who don't know what gilt is, tell us exactly what this is. >> gilt.com offers access online to luxury products, designer goods, items for the home, services, in an exciting format and prices from 60% to 70% off. that's the key. >> it's like a sample sale online. >> not everyone knows what a sample sale is. >> you set it up so people feel exclusive when they're doing it. just by what erica said by invitation only. my daughter 25 raves about gilt because number one, you have flash sales. you give us a time when you go on at noon and you only have x amount of time to get these deals. was that part of the fun making us want something we thought, okay, i really want to get it and i only have an x amount of time to get it? >> what was different about shopping online when we started nearly five years ago was the fact we were changing out our virtual store every single day. we have 20 new sales that go live every day. you can never come to our store twice and find the same inventory. it's fresh always.

>> you never restock, which can be frustrating to some people, but it is that exclusivity that people really like. as you're getting so big, you have how many shoppers now? >> over 5 million members. >> is it hard to keep that feeling exclusivity for people? >> most of our membership comes in through invitation from a friend. you can request one directly at our website. what we really invested in a lot is anticipating what each customer will want to see. what brands will most entrust them so we are pairing that up directly when they come into the site. >> i was fascinated by the story of the two "as." alexandra is the go-getter and alexis is the detail. people say you shouldn't work with your friends. >> it depends on the friend. it depends on the context of the friendship. we met in college. >> college, harvard business school. go ahead. please continue. >> we met there undergrads and

in business school we became really best of friends. we were both interested in business and finance. alexis had a technology background. what is always really interested in retail and luxury. we joined forces with our co-founders. >> not all friends should work together. what's important to keep in mind is not just that skillset balance but personality balance between the two of you. if one sees the big picture and not all the details, make sure the other can do what you cannot do. >> you have a checklist. a lot of checklists in the book. it's almost like premarriage counseling. you need to go through before you decide if you're going to do business together. >> are you surprised it worked out as well? you look at the numbers and the numbers are staggering how well gilt groupe is doing. >> we have nearly 1,000 employees in a couple of different countries. we partner with over 6,000 brands across our business. this happened in a handful of years. there would be quarters where we were hiring more new people than

already were at the company and managing that hypergrowth is challenging. >> now you're both mothers and mom. you're now married, both of you. >> we are balancing it all. marriages, children and of course, the job we love. i think it would be tough to do the work if you didn't love what you do professionally. >> if you didn't have a good partner at home and at work. you're valued at over $1 billion. any chance, especially having spent time in silicon valley, any chance of going public? >> there is always the possibility. we'll look at it in 2013. >> i'm going to take that as a yes. what that be okay, alexis? >> sure. we are considering it. >> okay. congratulations. >> thank you for having us. >> job well done. >> jill gaffigan calls himself the laziest man on earth. he will be with us to tell why it is so different. you're watching cbs "this morning." you're watching "cbs this morning". ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

must have poor body image, whales. can you imagine part of your body called a blow hole on top of your head. you know as they get older they have less control over their blow hole. in the middle of a conversation and -- you and i grab some plankton. excuse me. >> jim gaffigan following an unusual path with his new comedy special mr. universe. you cannot buy it in stores or watch it on television. it is only available online to stream or download. >> can i just say it's hilarious. he's a very successful comedian

taking a break from his 50-city tour this morning. he's taking a couple of minutes to stay with us. hey, jim gaffigan. >> i'm honored to be here with the gang. >> the gang. i like that. with the gang. >> we are a gang. >> i was sitting there watching cracking up because you find humor in such relatable things, taking your four kids to disney world, going to the gym. you just do a thing about looking in the mirror looking at myself. >> there is the whole thing. the mirrors, i don't necessarily understand. the last thing i want to do is see myself in a mirror. that's why i'm going to a gym. obviously there's some people who do want that. if i'm going to be working on myself i like to look at myself. maybe i'll do a recording of myself so i can listen to myself while i work on myself while i look at myself while i leaf through my "self-"magazine. narcissism of our culture taking over. how can we serve ourselves. >> you find a lot of humor with

four children. you do a thing nobody applauds when you say you have four children. >> they essentially like you're amish. they are very polite. well, that's one way to live your life. >> we've heard about people like you but not really sure. >> supposed to be nice to you. >> can you build us one of those wood fireplaces. that would be great. i love having four kids. when people ask what it's like to have a fourth, i say it's like drowning and somebody hands you a baby. >> you do humor without swearing, which is really nice. >> well, thank you. it's not as if i don't curse in every day life. it's just kind of how i write. i write everything with my wife. some of the topics we write on are four kids. i can't imagine throwing in an f bomb in there. >> you sit down at a table and start writing? >> it usually involves getting the kids in bed and there's always one awake and it's midnight and we turn around and

sit down and maybe have a glass of wine and try and make each other laugh. >> put kids to bed and let's write. >> it's usually fun. it's a great relationship we have. it seems to be working. >> you guys did this special together. you produced it, you finance it. it's just you two doing it. why did you decide to release it? it seems like where we're headed? >> the alternative or old model, which is a broadcast version and dvds or cds, essentially there's such a level of corporate beaurocracy, what i would make releasing it myself versus what i would get from, you know, going with comedy central is virtually identical. there's some risk. this way i can keep the price low and make it very easy to buy. through that i can also donate $1 just to make it so people that like my comedy, this is not about me making a lot of money. we're going to be helping

veterans. bob woodruff foundation. >> control and freedom, do what you want to do? >> yes. >> good to have you. jim gaffigan. that does it for us. as we look back at the past week, we want to show you the names of the people who brought you this broadcast and we want to wish you a great weekend. we'll see you monday. >> take it easy. blan . is what we have been fighting for for 44 days.

>> i felt a little bit at ease that he wouldn't be able to take another 17-year-old's life. >> we will suspend our campaign effective today. >> no! rick! >> that's rick perry, michele bachmann, herman cain and now rick santorum. it's going to be a great next season of "celebrity apprentice." tell you that. >> and people will rally around mitt romney. the goal is to win the presidency. >> oh, what a shot! bubba watson is wearing a green jacket at augusta, and this time his name is bubba. >> when you see that, what do you think? >> craziness. >> awesomeness. welcome back to cbs "this morning." >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. >> you two are my favorite people. >> who's he talking to? >> good morning, former busboy.

♪ earth move under my feet >> i know the words. >> and comedy in the water, in britain. >> i've got the attention span of a toddler. >> he needs a minute to practice. >> no guy is relationship expert. you want to have hit it and quit it relationships, then knock it down to nine days. >> down to one. >> from the hospital last night saying, i'm okay. >> a wild and crazy person. >> you need to understand -- >> i went to go see the movie yesterday, "titanic" in 3d. >> the ship still sinks. >> you go to the wrong person. >> mr. president called me, i said, hey, buddy, how you doing? >> it's like, a -- celebrate being on television. >> you were awake. >> what does smoke inhalation feel like? >> take it out of context, anything would look kind of silly. >> interesting for charlie, it appears we're out of time. >> sorry. >> shows erica -- >> you go ahead. do it. >> should i go ahead? >> do it. come on, please.

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>> good morning everyone. a police officer in san jose wants cameras to be placed on officers' uniforms. the purpose is to help document what happens during minor traffic and pedestrian stops. the auditor is concerned that they may be forcing minorities to sit on street curbs more often than other people. a fire at an oil refinery is contained in a health advisory is no longer in effect. it broke out at the comical philips will refinery just after 1:00 this morning. crews reported no chemicals after testing the ear. we're just a few hours away from the san francisco giants' home opener. fans are hoping to rain will pass in time for the first pitch. the giants are hosting the

pittsburgh pirates and we will have more before the game on cbs five news at noon. >> we still have a chance of a few showers if your headed out the ball park today. blue skies over the coit tower but that could change as we have seen a few showers coming through. there is a possibility we could see some lightning strikes but the brunt of the system has moved by. still a chance of showers off and on today. if you're headed out, make sure you grab a jacket. high pressure starts to move in saturday sunday looking drive a partly cloudy. warmer weather on monday and tuesday and probably some temperatures in the low seventies but cooling off next wednesday.

>> just getting word of an emergency ramp closure. southdown 101 to 380, apparently there is flooding in that runway. it will close it until 1:00 and we are starting to see some backups. heads up if you're traveling southbound 101 towards sfo. we also have the traffic alert and affect castro valley crow canyon road where they have reports of an accident and mudslide but outside, some areas

are definitely starting to clear including the golden gate bridge.