there is some accidents there. a delays toward ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. it is monday, may 21st, 2012. i'm charlie rose. protests turn violent in chicago where nato leaders are meeting. we will talk about a leading senator who just returned from a visit in afghanistan with president karzai. i'm erica hill. run year ago this week, joplin, missouri, was practically destroyed by the worst tornado in 60 years. this morning we take you back to a community slowly getting back on its feet. >> i'm gayle king. we look back at the musical life and legacy live of robin gibb

and alex trebek will stop by studio 57. ewestboundin go a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. police battle protesters in chicago. >> 45 arrests and seven protesters hurt. spending $2 billion a week killing people far away. we really haven't done anything for us. >> nato leaders debate an exit strategy in afghanistan. >> there will be hard days ahead, but the world is behind this strategy that we have laid out. the world has lost another disco icon. >> robin gibb has died at the age of 62. >> gibb and his brothers selling 2 million. >> his legend will live on forever. emergency shelters set up for thousands after an earthquake in northern italy.

at least seven people died. a rare solar eclipse dazzling star-gazers what is known as a ring of fire. today is sentencing day for the former rutgers student for a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate with a web cam. that guy might be better than the real dagger. >> he is falling' sleep at the microphone. >> i'm half monster. >> all that matters. >> facebook founder mark zuckerberg changed his status to married after a surprising wedding on saturday. >> there has to be a cheaper way to find out if your ex-girlfriend got fat. there really has to be. captioning funded by cbs welcome. as the nato summit in chicago wraps up today, the city is bracing for one final day of

protests. dozens of protesters clash with police on sunday. >> this morning, world leaders are said to approve a timetable for nato forces to withdraw from afghanistan by the end of 2014. bill plante is in chicago. good morning. >> good morning and goochl in the west. before the nato summit ends here later today, more protests are expected. chicago police clash with demonstrators on sunday when several thousands of them tried to march to the center where the meetings are held. a small group fought with police and 45 were arrested. at the nato meeting, it's not exactly mission accomplished when it comes to afghanistan. the biggest question facing the president and the nato leaders here is how to get out of the war in afghanistan sooner than planned. >> over the next two days, we will meet. first is allies and then with president karzai and our international partners to chart the next phase of the transition in afghanistan. >> reporter: the date to make it

clear, americans want out of the ten-year sacrifice of blood and treasure in afghanistan. and in this election year, president obama also wants to move more quickly to get nearly 100,000 u.s. troops home but he has admitted in a meeting with afghan president karzai getting out won't be easy. >> the loss of life continues in afghanistan. there will be hard days ahead. but we're confident that we are on the right track and what this nato summit reflects is that the world is behind the strategy that we have laid out. >> reporter: nato wants its troops to end combat operations one year sooner than planned but the challenges to withdrawing from afghanistan without giving up the gains that have been made are substantial. >> taliban have been unambiguous and they tend to take advantage of the removal of the surge forces. >> reporter: the u.s. is looking for money from its nato allies to support the afghan military

when the coalition forces leave. an estimated cost of $4.1 billion a year. u.s. has already spent almost $400 billion in the war. afghan president karzai made it a point to say thank you for that contribution. >> mr. president, i'm bringing to you and to the people of the united states the gratitude of the afghan people for the support your taxpayer people have brought to afghanistan the past decade. >> pakistan's president was at a meeting with secretary of state clinton but not president obama. the two sides are arguing about the price pakistan wants to charge for each of the thousands of vehicles that cross the border every year. it's a weekend of serious business but there were some light moments at camp david. the g-8 leaders watched the european equivalent of the super bowl. david cameron elated when chelsea won in the champions league final.

so not all serious business. >> bill plante, thank you. with us now is rhode island senator jack reed. a former army ranger and west point graduate and returned from afghanistan. good morning, senator reed. >> good morning, charlie. >> let me begin with your assessment of how things are in afghanistan today and whether you're satisfied with what the president and nato intends to do in terms of withdrawal. >> i just completed my 13th trip to afghanistan. i've been there on a regular basis and, frankly, this is the first time we have seen a major increase in afghan forces in the field both police and army. we are beginning to see the results over the last several years of training and i think the key point of this strategy going forward is the gradual assumption of command, control,

and operations by the afghan forces and they are beginning to do that now and beginning to do it in a way that suggests that they can mature to an effective force. >> so you believe that by 2014 they will be able to hold off the taliban, or make some kind of negotiation that will not leave the taliban in full control? >> i believe by 2014 the afghan forces will be with international support, trainers, some logistical support and be able to supply stability in the country. i think the afghan leaders and the international community has to look for a political settlement, but the security forces will provide the foundation for the stability that is absolutely necessary as our troops withdraw and they will withdraw. >> what do you think we have learned from afghanistan? >> well, i think, first of all, don't take your eye off the ball. back in 2003 and 2004, there

were was a much more positive environment. we defeated the taliban and then strategically, i think we made a mistake by shifting our focus to iraq. that allows for years in much afghanistan was a second or third priority. back in 2009, the president refocus refocused, got the training issues in much better order in terms of support for the afghani national army and police and i think the other lesson, besides not losing sight of the principal objective, is the notion that ultimately this has to be the decision of afghani people, that we can't impose systems. they have to be congruent with their values and their culture, but we can provide for it and i think we are on the right strategy now. >> quickly, senator, you met with president karzai a few

weeks ago. do you believe he is a reliable partner moving forward? >> president karzai is someone who has been capable, at tiles, to rally his people and, other times, they seem to be distracted or more concerned with issues that are not essential, in my view, to the mute wall efforts. he is leading in 2014. he cannot run again. one of the challenges is providing a successor that can carry on effectively. president karzai's record is, a at best mixed. one at times a great leadership and, other times, not shown as effective as he should. we made that point quite clear to him. at this juncture, his meeting with the president in kabul a few weeks ago when they signed this strategic agreement and statement this weekend suggests he is much more focused and much more in tune with the overall strategy. >> senator reed, thank you very much for joining us this

morning. >> thanks, carly. aftershocks felt this morning in northern italy after a deadly earthquake. a 6.0 quake struck sunday morning just north of bologna. one said it's the strongest it to hit the region since 1300. many buildings were damaged or destroyed anterior chinese human rights activist at the center of a recent political firestorm is settling down in new york city. >> as jeff glor reports he left china with his family three weeks after leaving the u.s. embassy in beijing. good morning, jeff. >> good morning to you. >> reporter: the improbable journey continues for guangcheng. now that he is here, what comes next? a rare moment of peace and quiet for gauchen.

his hero's welcome ater that day in new york city. for the past seven years, he said, i've never had a day's rest. so i've come here for a bit of recuperation in body and in spirit. since 2006, chen has been in prison and under house arrest for speaking out against forced abortions in his home country, until his daring escape. but his one diplomatic crisis ends, new challenges begin. there is learning english for one. as chen begins to study law at new york university. far more imposing, though, a history that shows his ability to affect change will not be the same. >> dissidents who have come out from china in the past have pretty much lost their impact on china. they have tried to use the internet and publications and the telephone and so on to maintain networks in china but they are not really in the game in china. >> reporter: chen has said he wants to return to his homeland but it is challenging to imagine that ever happening. china, it is not a stretch to say, has no interest in repeating this embarrassing

episode all over again. >> where are we in the story that got so much attention, caused so much conflict between the united states and china? >> he's in a tough spot. they are not invited back willingly to china and those who go back and sneak had nare rearrested. the other issue is that chen's immediate family is safe with him. but there is the question of what kind of shape his ek tended family is going to be in in china, those left behind and right now, we don't know. >> a point that erica was making as we were talking before, his impact in china is, obviously, less -- >> it's blunted now. no question. he cannot break from inside the country. those who operate here and as we mentioned try to set up web sites and whatever else. so far it's not been as effective. >> jeff glor, thank you. >> sure. the jury in the john edwards corruption case begins day two of deliberations. outside the courthouse in

greensboro, north, is anna werner. what has the jury been examining so far as far as we know? >> good morning. >> reporter: trying to figure out what a jury is going to do is always a bit like reading the tea leaves but here is what we know. the jury is charged with trying to figure out whether the money that came from two wealthy backers of edwards the donations that came from them were gifts as edwards claims, or campaign contributions, as the prosecution contends. now, on friday, the jury asked to see evidence relating to the first two of those six felony counts they have to consider. that is evidence relating to the first of those donors. rachel bunny melon. they have to see checks and notes from her. was that just to answer a few last questions and now they will take a vote? or will they move on next to the exhibits relating to the second donor, one of his other backers fred barron. if they do it may take them quite some time to come to a verdict here. we will be monitoring today to

see what the next request is from the jury and see if we can figure out what they are going to do here. >> anna, thank you so much. the pop music world has lost another giant figure. robin gibb of bee gees died on sunday after a long battle with cancer. >> it happened a few days after the death of donna summer. elaine quijano reports. ♪ here i am playing for this moment tonight ♪ >> reporter: from 1967 to 1979, the bee gees were responsible for five platinum albums, more than 20 hit songs, and are still the only musicians to place five songs in the top ten at one time. ♪ you don't know what it's like ♪ >> reporter: in 2009, robin gibb celebrated song writer and founding member reunited with his eldest brother barry at the miami recording studio where they once carved out a new sound

and some of the most recognizable hits of the 1970s. >> reporter: were you consciously trying to reinvent yourself? >> i don't know if we thought of it as reinventing ourselves. it was just about writing something that got us excited recording something that got us excited. >> being inspired. ♪ love somebody >> reporter: cbs news anthony mason witnessed one of the final performances of the surviving gibb brothers and months before robin was rushed to the hospital in which he received emergency surgery on his intestines for the same condition that led to the sudden death of his twin brother maurice in 2003. after losing their youngest brother andy in 1988 to alcohol abuse, the passing of maurice nearly split the two remaining brothers. >> you said you were afraid of him? >> i was afraid because i knew where barry was emotionally and i knew that his huge way of expressing himself was by not

going forth, by not being a bee gee. >> i wanted to keep the bee gees, the three of us. ♪ staying alive >> reporter: the gee bees sold more than 200 million records and 40 million copies of "saturday night fever" alone but when fans turned on disco, the brothers gibb became the favorite target. >> we can't wear things out. other people can, but we can't. >> reporter: their influence on popular culture never waned. in 1997 the bee gees were inducted into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> we thank you very much for this honor. >> reporter: in january of this year robin gibb revealed he had been battling clone ining kol l liver cancer. robin gibb was 62 years old.

for "cbs this morning," elaine quijano, new york. >> mark zuckerberg's facebook status is now married. he ties the knot on saturday with his girlfriend of nine years in a surprise ceremony in their palo alto, california, backyard. some say the time is a smart financial move saying after the facebook ipo means zuckerberg's millions will be a protected asset if there is a divorce. "usa today" reports united states is selling 15 million dollars worth of military hardware to iraq that includes drones and f-16 fighter jets and m-1 tanks. iraq's government says it will use the drones to keep an eye on its oil facilities. the only man convicted of lockerbie bombing will be buried today. megrahi tidied on sunday. he was expected to be dead after his release from a prison but lived for years.

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joplin following up on some of the people he met last year. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is up next. >> good morning, let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. facebook stock taking a tumble at of the gates this morning. shares are now below the ipo price of friday. chp wants to hear from witnesses to an accident in belmont when a 19 year-old was attacked by bikers after he hit two motorcyclists. he was cited for driving while distracted from videotaping the bikers when he ran into them. in santa clara they're pouring the first new concrete for the 49ers stadium. the,,,,,,,,

>> we're following a couple of accidents out there, westbound highway 4 we have an accident and it is slow from antioch. southbound 101, an accident blocking one lane. the bay bridge traffic is very light. only backed up to getting close to the end of the parking lot. >> some sunshine showing up in some of the valleys. a lot of fog out there and even some reports of drizzle towards the beaches. as we head throughout the day will try to break things up and bring a little bit more sunshine. temperatures right now in,,,,,,

♪ let's like to take a minute just sit right there and tell you how i became the prince of a town called bel air ♪ >> that is will smith entertaining a crowd on the bbc's grahame norton show n, you were one of the first people on the ground there last year. does it look very different this

morning? >> reporter: it sure does, erica. when we left here last year, there was so much debris everywhere in in city. you wondered how they would clean it all up. you look down the streets in joplin and this is what you see. you see new houses going up almost everywhere. this rebuilding effort in overdrive but this has been a very, very tough year for a lot of people here. the f-5 tornado that reached down from the missouri sky was more than half a mile wide and tore a path 13 miles long. the wound it left was deep. more than 7,000 homes damaged or destroyed. 161 lives lost. today you can still see the scar that stretches across joplin. you can also hear the healing as new homes are being built. can you believe it's been a year already? >> no. it seems like yesterday. >> mary hazelbaker was at church when the storm came to town.

she thanks god for that because the tornado drove right down her street. she's 84, has no children and has lived in five different places this year. >> this has also been a very long year for you. >> yes, this has. it's been a lonesome and lost year. i've lost all my friends. i don't know where some of them are. i wished i knew about some of them. i don't know what i'm going to do. >> i know. >> reporter: we first met mary just after the tornado hit. her house of 50 years and nearly everything in it was gone. >> my stuff. that's my stuff. >> reporter: do you miss all of that or have you realized you didn't need all of it? >> i realized i didn't need all of it. i can live with just a roof over my head. >> reporter: she found help one day at this thrift store where i saw dana. >> i saw an elderly lady, trying

to carry a large bag out the door. i thought, wow, i don't see anybody helping her. >> reporter: dana is a salvation army case manager and found a charity that would help mary be built because she has no insurance. that new house will be next to where her old one once stood. she'll have the very same address. >> west 26th street, joplin, missouri. >> reporter: the place you've always lived. >> yes. >> reporter: her new home will be much more secure. >> these homes are really built to last a lifetime. >> reporter: george van heusen is building mary's house and 17 other storm-resistant homes in joplin. the walls are filled with 6 inches of concrete, designed to handle 250-mile-an-hour winds. so, you're not living in a bunker but the next best thing. >> yeah. that's the idea. the idea is all the exterior walls are -- are places you can shelter yourself from debris.

>> reporter: throughout joplin you also see tornado shelters. they're designed to hold up to 34 people and withstand winds of up to 250 miles per hour. all of this gives mary has hazelbaker a peace of mind. . the cross from the church is still there. that's a nice sign. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: now, mary expects to move into her new house on her birthday at the end of next month. meanwhile, president obama will be here in joplin later today. he'll be speaking to the graduates at joplin high school. erica? >> ben, thank you very much. charlie here. how personal toll is always the thing that seems to come out of this. ad how people find out they're stronger than they are, but on the financial side, how much is all this costing and where is the money coming from? >> reporter: a lot of money. $2.8 billion is the damage estimate, which makes this the costliest tornado to hit the

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do that in years. >> reporter: exactly. >> and that's in this season. >> reporter: lee is sort of the mayor of the staples center. he presses the public like running for re-election but he might be accused of being a bit of a flip-flopper. staples center has morphed from ice to hardwood back to ice back to hardwood back to ice again six different times in just 80 hours. >> this is unprecedented. i like to call it the perfect storm. this will never happen in any arena anywhere in this country. >> i need the pattern to go like this. >> reporter: it's a frantic race against the clock and the man in charge of it all is a coach in his own right. >> i need help. we need to start getting stuff out. >> reporter: he lead a team of 35 workers who are like master puzzle solvers but on a grand scale. >> no one else in the country is under this kind of pressure. >> it's fantastic. >> reporter: is it really? >> it absolutely is. >> just put them down. >> reporter: with four games back to back this weekend and a narrow window, switching from

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♪ today is mr. t's 60th birthday. in 1983 the tough guy actor played santa at the white house alongside nancy reagan. that is a picture for the ages. fun fact from our friend at mental floss. >> gayle is in the control room with how accents come to be the same thing. >> what kind of accent is that, charlie rose? no matter where you go in the world, you always know a new yorker is a new yorker, or is that somebody from the south because of the way they speak? hello to you, charlie rose.

mo rocca is here to tell us why some ak seccents are disappeari. you can find chuck le a. vell on his ranch and the answer, the host of america's favorite quiz show, just walked in the room. and if you said -- >> who's alex trebek? >> you do know how to play the game. i love that. you know how when you see some people and you say they're doing exactly what they're meant to be doing for a living, that's what i think when i see andy cohen. i adore this man. no surprise he was voted most talkative in high school. you even have a book to prove it. >> who is most talkative? >> erin more aiarty is here. >> he was my intern. >> i was his intern at "cbs this morning". >> and we have video to prove you were an intern here at cbs. boy, have times have changed. it could be blackmail material,

my friend. >> great. let's put it on national tv. >> let's do that. you're watching "cbs this morning." remember, you can catch us on facebook, twitter and google plus. we try to make it very easy for >> time for the news headlines from cbs five. it is a slow start out of the gate for facebook. friday its stock closed only slightly higher than its initial ipo of $30. today, it is stumbling currently below $34 per share, more than an 11% drop. a final voyage of the uss iowa has been delayed because of a storm approaching the west coast. it was supposed to leave yesterday for l.a.. when it arrives it will be dedicated,,,,,,,,

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this is the pursuit of perfection. . it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this mornin morning". i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. dharun ravi is being sentenced today, the former rutgers student convicted of multiple charges including a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate. >> rav vi arrived at the courthouse in new jersey this morning. michele miller is there as well where we've been hearing victim impact testimony. michele, good morning. >> good morning. and sentencing is happening live here in new brunswick, new jersey, as we join you in the 8:00 hour pacific time. right now, the victims in this case, both friends and family of 18-year-old tyler clementi are reading how his death and the

media and at legal attention that was drawn from this case, how it affected them. among them, the man who was seen kissing clementi on a web cam set up by dharun ravi and the father of tyler clementi saying ravi should face the consequences, that he has attempted to blame everyone but himself in pushing tyler clementi to the edge of committing suicide. >> mr. vav ravi's criminal act got to tyler in a difficult time frame. it may have deprived us of the chance that tyler could have moved through this difficult stage in his life. nobody other than tyler understood how vulnerable he was, yet the fact is, that he was very vulnerable. and he was shaken by the cold criminal actions of his roommate. >> reporter: and that was joseph

clementi's, tyler's father, the words affected tyler's mother to the form of tears. she wept in the courtroom and i had a chance to speak with both the mother and father a few months back. the one thing they said they wanted from this case, they wanted to set a precedent, to show people around this country that bullying, not just gay teen, but bullying of any kind should not be tolerated. erica? gayle, charlie? back to you. >> michele miller at the courthouse, thank you. and we were listening to some of that sitting here as we were waiting to go on the air and listening to him speak and he said this is about justice and accountability for this family not about revenge. >> it's heartbreaking to hear because the sentence has to be fair, punishment should not be too harsh but harsh enough to send a message you cannot do this. it will be interesting to see what the judge has to say. >> he underlined he didn't feel there had been any remorse. >> everybody keeps saying that

including the man known as m.b., the man who sort of attacked me without knowing anything at all about me and said he should be sentenced but didn't want it to be too harsh as well. >> right. >> we'll follow that and looking for that sentencing throughout the day. stay with us here at cbs news and cbsnews.com for that. on wall street this morning, anyone hoping to make a quick profit on their facebook stock may be disappointed. at the opening bell the price fell below the $38 mark from friday's ipo. >> as terell brown facebook's ceo is set for life in more ways than one. terell, hello to you. >> good morning to you both. it may have been the best week of mark zuckerberg's life, 28th birthday, company went public in one of the most anticipated moves in wall street history, his long-time girlfriend graduated from medical school and then a total surprise saturday, he got married. mark zuckerberg made it official, where else, but on facebook. updating his timeline to married priscilla chan.

the two exchanged vows saturday in an intimate backyard ceremony at their palo alto home. their "i dos" came one day after the youngest billionaire in the world took his empire public. >> let's do this. >> reporter: just a few days earlier he celebrated his 28th birthday, the same day chan graduated from medical school. saturday, guests thought they were attending a graduation party for chan. only to find out it was a wedding. for the ceremony, zuckerberg ditched his trademark hoodie for a dark blue suit and gave his bride a simple ruby ring he designed himself. fewer than 100 guests dined family style on dishes from the couple's two favorite restaurants. for dessert, chilts mousse, the same the two had on their first date. they met as students at harvard before zuckerberg started facebook in his dorm room. zuckerberg's new status has gotten more than 900,000 likes with people sending well wishes and advice. plea up in?

just sayin', wrote one user. still no word yet on whether the two signed an agreement, but that's an update we likely won't get any time soon. for "cbs this morning," terell brown, new york. and with or without a prenup, california divorce lawyers say zuckerberg's post

something gets a whole lot better when you go on vacation. what could that be? we'll make that long story short with our special guest andy cohen who's going to join us. there he is. you're watching cbs. he looks ready. you're watching "cbs this morning." ♪ dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? it's so slow! i'm calling dave. [ telephone rings ] [ male announcer ] in a small business, technology is all you. that's why you've got us. at the staples pc savings event,

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♪ you're a rich girl and you're gone too far ♪ >> as we looked around the web nd aound a few good reasons to make some long stories short with andy cohen. >> hey, gayle. g initting in the charlie rose 'sair. e> i like charlie's chair. >> feels good, right? >> feels good! i feel smarter. s if that was possible. t's ee.s see. let's see. >> okay. people whuffington post" reports people who buy organic foods seem to be kind of snobby. rese researchers divided 60 into onesic, comfort food and nonorganic and the one in the organic food group tended to be ookingudgmental and selfish. maybe they were look for a new

th r. food. do you uy organic? orgaometimes. begs the question, who is paying money to do these studies. >> that is a good question. >> right. we'll ker i'm not seeing the oh, thank we'll keep going. >> great. >> the quiz. wow. >> round two. yeah.s. op three first date no nos. talking about your ex, number date,aving sex on the first date, women especially believe the, the number one deal breaker having your phone out and texting. s true. that is true. i'll give you number four. is?hat? bread breath. yes.s. >> that's in my book. everyone needs to monitor their breath 24/7, best tip of the best t day. datehat's on any date, first, second, third, bad breath. >> absolutely. >> sex on the first date no no? t it depends. some people can handle it, some people can't. so >> i say no, no, no. the chicago ton times, a wedding a toohe right place but a wrong --e. mes art is a good answer.

>> elizabeth pots and chris sunday atepped out of church sunday after saying their vows nto the middle of an occupy chicago protest of the nato mmmmit. the bride didn't look so happy about that but they did manage e weddin handful of nice pictures with the wedding party. at snd a great story that s talkiny is talking about. >> fantastic story. she wasn't laughing then, she will be at some point. me poe journal courier in indiana asks do you have nomeaphobia. out fear without being without your cell phone. 66% of 66% of people have it, up 13% from four years ago. ng having -- i have a feeling you may be one of those people. >> i kind of am. ithink we all -- i have a little exercise that i do with myself where i'm going to dinner tonight and leaving my phone at tonigh conceo i can concentrate on the e personhat i'm with. >> do you leave it at home? >> i try to do that. >> how successful are you? >> if i say i'm going to leave >> how i'mt home i leave it at home. it's hard for me. it's difficult. >> i never leave home without

home w >> gayle, cell phone -- you have a yellow blackberry? >> mine is too. >> andy's favorite color too. >> britain's "daily mail" looks vacation reason to go on vacation. they say the sex is better. survey finds almost three say srs of americans ages 18 to fromy sex is better when you're away from home. not all the wine and roses. 38% of couples worry they'll get get they're other's nerves when so, 're on vacation. 38%. tot do you think, andy? 18 to 49, you're in the 18 to 49 group. >> yes. sex is better on vacation. >> why is that? >> why? because you're free of all the hassles of day to day. >> that makes a lot of sense to me. p. 18 to 49, you're in the am, p. ex better am, gayle. >> is sex better on vacation? >> erica hill is going, i don't glisk english. like will plead the fifth. >> i like it. rvey,w do they do that survey, by the way? id theyink you just did people.

and to the beaches? o are onnk you just talk to people on vacation. >> sandals, beaches is more for families. d youce. >> you might expect a kid who spent a 900 mile car trip r bking into a hair brush, would sion.p on television and the answer in the form of a question is, who is andy cohen? he's going to stick around and tell us about his surprising tv iturney. watch good one. you're watching "cbs this morning." the be right back. more with andy cohen right after the break. this portion of "cbs this .orning" sponsored by purina, your pet, our passion. [ girl ] when i started playing soccer, i wasn't so good. [ barks ] so me and sadie started practicing. we practiced a lot. now i've got some moves! [ crowd cheering ] spin kick! whoo-hoo! [ giggling ] [ announcer ] we know how important your dog is to your whole family. so help keep him strong and healthy with purina dog chow.

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hey, everybody, welcome to "watch what happens live" i'm andy cohen and i gave myself this show. i hope you're all hungry because i'm a cutie pie.

as a reminder, the show is live so anything can happen, but don't worry, nothing will. >> a few years ago before andy cohen was a target for "saturday night live," the bravo tv executive was right here at cbs news. >> it's funny if it's not you. charlie, if they do you, you won't be cracking up the way he was cracking up. wasn't he cracking up? >> he thought that was hilarious. >> they've done me and i thought, that's really funny. andy tells us what happens -- did you think it was funny when they did it? >> yes. >> you did? okay. i was like. >> you don't like satire? >> i do. >> he tells us in a memoir "most atta talkative." welcome back. the title is appropriate. my favorite story in the book, andy cohen as a little boy doing

a road trip with your family and you decide to do a running commentary of the road trip in the hair brush. >> into a hair brush, talking, talking, talking. i think it's so charming. we pull over for lunch at a ruby tuesday in georgia and my aunt judy dumps a pitcher of iced tea all over me. in my mind, quite unprovoking. i was being so entertaining. >> i'm just giving you -- i'm entertaining you all in the car. >> exactly. i'm working my butt off to make this car trip interesting. >> so unappreciative. >> yes. >> but you were not deterred because years later you're still talking. andy cohen used to do "cbs this morning." the walls did not fall down when you walked in because you're doing something very different. >> yes. i started as an intern in '9, erin moriarty's intern. there i am. i guess that would be called a computer. there i am with harry and paula. i was at cbs news for ten years, eight spent in the morning. in the book i share some really

funny things, i think, that happened while i was a producer. it was -- i was so happy at cbs news. it was so fun and hilarious. and i share that. >> you wanted to be on the air? >> i did. when i was an intern, erin said, you have a wandering eye. >> i don't get it. >> i do have a wonky eye but it's going to keep you from being on the air so you should think about not being on the air. i said, it wouldn't be so bad if i just moved to new york and got a job behind the scenes. >> did that hurt your feelings? >> yeah, it did at the time. i'm a resilient guy, a very positive person. i just picked myself up and moved to new york. and it wasn't until 18 years later that i wound up on the air in a very organic kind of cool way, which i talk about in the book as well. >> it all started from the real housewives franchise, which i never watch, by the way. >> yeah, right. >> i will just say i love

carolyn manzzo, but i never watch that show. are there times when you say, i can't believe it is really gone to this place? are there ever parts you go, maybe we crossed the line. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, look, the interesting thing for me is i look back on my life so far is that i always loved soap operas. i was obsessed with susan lucci and i think what the housewives have become is a reality soap opera. >> do you have some great talent instinct? >> no. >> let me finish. for picking talent? >> i think we have a great group that i work with at bravo where we know somebody that looks and sounds interesting and it's like, wow, that person -- that person is interesting. >> and you can't even really put your finger on it and you just know it when you see it.

>> i think that's true. >> i was nuts about your mom, andy. you talk about your mom a lot in the book. your mom, evelyn, says she reads your blog, watches your show, weighs in because it's a way of keeping up with you without >> yes. into your life. she has a big -- she pretends she doesn't butt into my life, but she does. yeah, she'll see on twitter that i'm somewhere doing something and so it's her way. she enjoys that. she sends me a text every night after my show at around 11:29. and says, too dirty. not my demographic. are you drunk? get some sleep. i loved it. you know, every night. >> she really is one of the best characters in the book. you were a producer at "cbs this morning" a long time ago. you had long hair. >> yes! >> and then you had a makeover. >> i did. i had my ponytail cut off on the morning show. i begged my executive producer,

i said, please let me do a makeover. my hair was so '90s. >> we're going to be,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,

>> good morning everyone. let's get you caught up with some bay area headlines. the final voyage of the uss iowa has been delayed because of a pacific storm. the battleship was supposed to go to l.a. but rough seas have put that on hold. when it finally gets to l.a. and the ship will be rededicated as an interactive naval museum. occupy activist arrested in the city is due in court charged with five felonies including assault with a deadly weapon. he is accused of throwing bricks from the roof of an occupied building. one of the bricks hit a protester. a new deal to help yahoo! bottom line.

the chronicle reports yahoo! has agreed to sell half its stake in a chinese group called allie baba. the deal was announced yesterday. the cash will help with the yahoo! turnaround for money,, ,,,

>> it is a great commute at the bay bridge toll plaza. we had a couple of early morning accident but nothing too bad. only about a five minute wait

to get on to the bridge. the 80 through oakland is a little bit stop and go as you make your way past the coliseum. 21 minutes between 238 and the macarthur maze but it is very slow right now westbound 580 heading out of the altamont pass. all lot of slow speeds through livermore >> some low clouds and fog stretching out across the bay right now. it will clear out inmost thoughts and temperatures will be cooler as we head out to the afternoon. by the afternoon, temperatures running in the '40's and '50's and by the afternoon we will plan on '70s, cooler than yesterday but still very pleasant. breezy towards the coastline, the next couple of days the temperatures will continue to cool off. we will warm things back up ne,,,,,,,,

we agreed to get married as soon as you won your first case. meanwhile, ten years later, my niece, the daughter of my sister, is getting married. my biological clock is ticking like this and the way this case is going, i ain't never getting married! >> and we all remember that. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i thought she was going to tick and tick and tick. that's the scene with marisa

tomei in "my cousin vinny." accents played a pivotal role in that movie and they add a lot of flavor in real life. >> many language experts believe regional accents are disappearing. mo rocca went out to see if americans are really starting to sound alike. >> nobody's got accents anymore, unless you're from europe, but you don't get any new york accents. >> reporter: if anyone knows about the disappearance of the new york city accent, it's this man, the guy with the new york city accent. >> marty took it from me. >> reporter: he's a new yorker featured in "this they could ta talk," a documentary about the stigmas attached to the dialect. >> people ee it as gruf and angry kind of voice. >> what about that bald dome of yours? >> and also quite charming and endearing. >> you saved my life. in a lot of ways. >> you've been there for me,

too, you know. >> reporter: accentings reflect the diversity of this country, from boston to new york in the northeast to minnesota and chicago in the midwest. >> i mean, that's dead land. >> reporter: from the mountain speak of appalachia to the southern twang. >> you thought that was good to break my poor country girl heart. >> reporter: they both differentia differentiate. why do accents matter? >> people want to be connected to places, to traditions. accents are the strongest indicator of that. >> we're seeing continuous tradition, lang wanl. >> reporter: walt wolfram has been studying dialect. >> no state has a richer tradition. >> reporter: to learn more about that rich tradition, we ferried to ocracoke island, a tiny stretch of sand along north carolina's outer banks.

>> reporter: we need to subtitle that. we met three long-time residents who speak with what's known as the ocracoke rogue. >> five years ago in london, england, two or three people asked me over there, did i have an australian accent. >> reporter: they grew up here and like generations before them, speak with the brogue. has it changed a lot? >> it has. it's changed very much so, yeah. i mean, it's still a quaint survived by tourism, to be quite honest. >> reporter: the influx of tourism has changed the way many people here speak. do you think your accent has diminished a little bit as you've gotten older? >> yes, i think -- i think so, yeah. >> reporter: james, if the ocracoke brogue disappeared in

the next 20 or 30 years, would that sadden you? >> to a certain extent it would. every generation now is losing it. and probably -- probably by another generation or so, you won't even notice it. >> reporter: are we losing our accents? >> here in ocracoke, the dialect is fading away and being replaced about a more standard mainstream dialect. >> reporter: that's kind of sad. >> i think it's sad because historically this dialect has been so tied up with sort of the culture that it's one mark of the traditional culture that is no longer around to identify. >> reporter: many people all over the country are trying to lose their accents, often because of negative associations. >> my career has been devoted trying to neutralize some of the negative stereotypes of dialect. >> they learn their english when

they came into contact with the lost colony. >> reporter: using education and film. >> new york accent is a little more dicey. >> reporter: they are trying to honor the history of accents while they're still around to be heard. >> we make a big deal in america, especially about the death of mom and pop stores. the accent is just as integral to that part of america that needs to stick around. and i hope that it does stick around. i hope it's not something we lose ultimately. >> i agree with her, mo. i hope it's not something we lose either. what's your sense? >> well, i hope it doesn't happen. i love difference. who doesn't love difference? >> me, too. >> according to walt wolfram, what's happening is microaccents, say o the outer banks or consolidating. there used to be a difference between hatteras or ocracoke accen accents. homogenization is louse. >> it's boring.

>> did you ever try to lose yours, charlie? you have an accent. >> i still have. i say words that remind people where i came from. >> naked. >> naked is one of them. >> ornate t nato. >> but did you try to lose it? >> no. >> north carolina is dialect heaven, i will always remember. >> is that right that asheville is a different country? >> oh, yes. some of those islands are affected in terms of the dialects by where people came from, the immigration pattern. >> can people lose if they want to? >> some people are trying to, because of what wolfram calls accent profiling. you call for a job and someone tells you because of your accent that job is filled. which does happen apparently a lot. there's some debate as to whether the new york accent is being lost. another professor said it's a class issue. if you go where people who don't make as much money they have the classic accent but in manhattan, the upper east side, it's gone. >> thank you, mo.

some people say canadians have distinct accents and we all know the sound of "jeopardy!'s" alex trebek, who, by the way, is now a u.s. citizen. we'll have a question for the man with all the answers after ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

this is "jeopardy!." >> in long-time anchor of the "cbs evening news" became a upi correspondent in 1939. >> who's walter cronkite. >> correct. >> cbs. christopher? >> what is columbus broadcasting system. >> correct. >> everything's coming up roses for 200. >> trained as a lawyer, he's been hosting a late night pbs interview show since september of 1991. james? >> who is charlie rose? >> correct. >> i knew the answer to that one. i knew the answer to that one. the answer is, he's the emmy award winning host of tv's top quiz show, seen by 25 million viewers every week. >> this is really too easy, who

is alex trebek. he's here in new york to receive the prestigious peabody award today for "jeopardy!." welcome and congratulations. >> thank you. >> doesn't get any better than that. >> well, you know, we've won so many emmys, more emmys than any other quiz or game show on television. and yet there seems to be more excitement about the peabody. i did not realize how press tpr but 33 others receiving the peabody award also today. so, i haven't gotten too excited about it yet, butly lat i will >> i know you've been asked this before, but is there anything you can tell us about the people who do really well on "jeopardy!." >> people who read a great deal tend to do better than others. tend to do well. again, because they read a great deal. >> journalists? >> journalists also. we discovered that in our power players tournament in washington last week.

but people who used to thinking on their feet have to -- have to come back with correct responses to people who quiz them on the spur of the moment. >> people who have watched the game and understand the game, you get the rhythm of what "jeopardy!" is about. >> there is definitely a rhythm. a lot of people worry about that signaling device. i tell them, as soon as you come up with a correct response, you gain in confidence. if you get the next correct response in that category, you own that category. >> yes. >> and the other people, your two opponents, suddenly back off a little and say, oh, darn. >> i'm going to let them have that category. >> that's his category, yeah. >> after watching you for years and years, i think the assumption is you're a very smart guy because you seem to -- >> uh-huh. >> yep. that you're a very smart guy. >> me? >> i heard you say you would never play the game. i'm wondering, were you a smart

student? are you a smart guy? >> i used to be. >> and then? >> as the years went by and, unfortunately, for me my two children discovered some of my old -- not diplomas but school results -- >> your report cards. >> report cards. as years went on through college, my grades kept going down. i was just too tired. i was working to par for my college education. >> that's how it started. >> yeah. i didn't want to be in school. and i needed the job. you know, tuition in those days was $500 a year. for a college education. now that doesn't get you anything. >> you have said you'd like to host a political debate. >> i would. i have mentioned that in the past. because -- and the danger of mentioning something -- i've been in broadcasting for 50 years, host of "jeopardy!" for 28 years. a reporter asked me, have you ever thought about retiring? i mentioned, yes, i've thought

about it. all of a sudden everybody's out there saying, trebek is retiring. >> since you put it out there that you're interested, any takers? has anybody called you up and said, hey, let's talk about that? >> no, but i wish they would. i suspect i have to make a very big cash donation to a certain organization to -- >> why would you want to do it? why would you want to? >> because what bothers me about some of the political debatings that i have seen that are hosted by people in the news, reporters, commentators, is that it's all so predictable. the contestants, the candidates, know where you're going. i want somebody from left field to come in and say, hey, you know, what's your vision for america? nobody talks about that anymore. they just say, i want to lower taxes. i want to do this. well, yeah, but what kind of a society do we really want in this country? is this a capitalist society? well, i don't think so. we have a lot of socialist programs going on. so, what do you see in our future?

and i would hope that somebody -- they get the man off the street, and some of the debates in the republican primaries were doing that. they would get people sending in tweets, asking from all over the country, you know, the ordinary man. >> a lot of people watch "jeopardy!." who are they? >> i think everybody watches "jeopardy!" all kinds of people, because americans are very competitive. they want to know how they compare to the bright contestants we have on the program. and they can play in the safety of their homes. there's no danger for you. if you miss something, who knows? well, gayle knows because she was sitting next to me when we were playing but that's all. >> and you hope you learn something. >> yeah, you learn a lot of trivia and that won't do you any good in life, but you will, i hope, be curious to explore some categories that have come up on the program. i didn't know that. we were talking during the

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"saturday night live" over the weekend. he and rolling stones have worked together for half a century. band members are keeping busy with some other interests. we visited chuck leavell who's made his second career to protect the environment. >> reporter: for fans of the rolling stones, the classics never get old. even after 50 years. turns out, it's the same for the so-called sixth member of the band. >> on the keyboards, chuck leavell. >> chuck's thrilled to be up there working with those guys. >> reporter: is there ever a day when you pinch yourself and go, this is really worked out pretty well? >> every day. i'll do it right now. but i think the real joy of my career has been that i've been able to work with so many different artists. ♪ >> reporter: chuck leavell's career began with the almen

brothers. he was barely 20 years old. ten years later he joined the stones. over the last few decades his talents have made leavell one of the most soughtafter musicians in the business. >> you always learn something from one artist that you can apply to another. that has really been the great experience of my career, is having this diversity and always learning something and being in different settings. ♪ >> reporter: but music, he'll tell you, is only one of his three passions. there's his family, his wife of 38 years, rose lane, their daughters and grandsons and his beloved home, charlane plantation. 3,000 sprawling acres in rural georgia, which have been in his wife's family for generations. >> in 1981er are grandmother passed on, leaving her this plot of land and this house we're in now. and it became our responsibility

to carry on this generational heritage stewardship of the lands. >> reporter: what leavell thought might be an adventure as a gentleman farmer quickly became a calling to foresty and conservation. now he's an honorary forest ranger. >> i've got the hat and everything. >> reporter: can you call smokey the bear? >> very tight, very tight. >> reporter: kidding aside, there's no denying his dedication. >> you can see, very healthy, growing. so far blight resistant. >> reporter: among his efforts, helping restore the american chestnut population. they were nearly wiped out in the 1900s. four right here? >> four. >> reporter: you're on our your way. in 200 leavell took on another project. >> our functionality is working out again. >> reporter: as co-founder of the mother nature network, now the number one visited environmental website. >> we're getting over 5 million

hits a month now, which is just remarkable. it's nice to talk about the success but for me, more importantly, it says that people do care about these issues. >> reporter: leavell says mother nature network doesn't practice politics, but you will find him in washington. ♪ here we go >> reporter: sometimes to play like he did last week for the 150th anniversary of the department of agriculture. the more he's there to spur lawmakers into action. do you feel you get any sort of a reaction from them? >> they seem genuinely interested, but, you know, when it comes time to pass a law, the laws aren't getting passed. you know, we don't have an energy policy in this country right now. why don't we have an energy policy? ♪ >> reporter: leavell's latest solo album "back to the woods," a tribute to the blues, was also

inspired by his conservation efforts and the undeniable harmony he found here among the trees. >> i reminded myself where that marvelous thing called a piano comes from. from the resource of wood and so many other musical instruments. so, you know, that piano has given me my career, my lively hood and so much joy. ♪ ♪ honky honky tonk women ♪ they give me they give me honky tonk blues ♪ yeah! >> nice. >> and, you know, i should say, they're probably watching right now because they watch our hoe in the morning. they like it very much. so we're thankful for that. probably one of the most humble people i've met. they were so warm. making sure there was food for everybody, fresh baked cookies,

things laid out for the crew. >> i liked that she liked watching him play after so many years. up ne,,,,

>> good morning everyone. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. there is still lot of talk that the old state warriors will be moving across the bay to san francisco. statement from their owner says they're not prepared to make any announcement at this time but a bay area news group and espn says the team is planning an arena on pierced 30 and 32. it would be privately funded. another milestone for the 49ers move to santa clara. they're pouring the first concrete for the new stadium. dozens of trucks are delivering the concrete for the foundation. it is scheduled to open for the 2014 season. millions of people watched as

the ring of fire eclipse in the sky. this is a time lapse. it has been 18 years since the last annular eclipse when the moon passes right in front of the sun. you watched it with a welder's masks? >> that is the safe way to do it. around the bay area we will manage to squeeze in a little bit more sunshine after the patchy fog breaks up. temperatures will be cooler and the breeze will be blowing towards the coast line. high pressure is headed east. that will help bring down the temperatures. seasonal numbers for today. '60s and '70s around the bay and '50s and '60s at the coast. the next few days the temperatures will continue to tumble. warming up for the weekend.

>> along the peninsula, southbound 101 still very slow. there is an accident in the southbound lane approaching highway 84. 280 will be much better alternate. we see a lot of improvement up

the nimitz through oakland.