enjoy your weekend and have a good one. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the west. it is friday, may 25th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. 33 years to the day since etan patz disappeared and became a symbol for missing children. a suspect will be charged in his murder. john miller has been covering the story from that very day and he'll tell us how it unfolded. growing outrage in washington after a doctor who helped find osama bin laden is sent to prison in pakistan. we'll take you to alaska where tons of tsunami debris washing up onshore. i'm gayle king. we'll hear from a young football star who was cleared after spending years in prison for a rape that never happened. and when i see you at 8:00,

britain's queen reveals her own version of victoria's secrets. we begin as we do every morning with a look at your eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> hernandez told a family member that he had "done a bad thing and killed a child in new york." >> police make an arrest in a decades long mystery. >> 6-year-old etan patz vanished on his way to the school bus 33 years ago today. >> mr. hernandez let him into the basement where he was choked. >> he confessed to putting remains in plastic bag and placing that bag in the trash. >> a long beach man is starting a new life after spending years behind bars for a rape he didn't commit. >> his name was cleared thursday after his accuser admitted she lied. >> my only dream in the world was to just be free. >> 5 trillion in new tax cuts. that is like trying to put out a

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your body is way too big for skinny jeans. captioning funded by cbs >> welcome to "cbs this morning." a man who was working nearby when etan patz disappeared 33 years ago today is headed to court this afternoon. he will be charged with murdering the 6-year-old boy. >> his name is pedro hernandez. he was 18 years old at the time. today he is 51. police say he confessed to the crime. john miller has covered this story since day one. i wonder if you slept at all last night. i know you have been constantly talking to people. >> just a little bit. it's been a big story. it was this day may 25th, exactly 33 years ago, and like today in 1979, may 25th was a friday. it was the day that a boy walking to a school bus stop alone for the very first time no more than a single block seemed

to vanish into thin air. police began their investigation here at the patz's soho loft. they would follow leads in israel, columbus, ohio, even the pennsylvania woods. on the eve of the 33rd anniversary we learn that the answer to the mystery had been no further than the corner store. >> he lured young etan from the school bus stop with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the basement, choked him there, and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. >> reporter: 51-year-old pedro hernandez worked at this neighborhood grocery store. the patz family knew it well. it was another clue. a dead end lead that forced the truth out of hiding. last month when investigators dug up the basement of a building down the street, stories of the mystery of etan patz were back in the news and triggered the conscious of someone who had been carrying a

dark secret for too long. it was a relative of pedro hernandez that culled polialled. >> hernandez told family and others that he "done a bad thing and killed a child in new york." >> reporter: new york city police detectives came to this small new jersey house. within hours they say hernandez had confessed and then allowed police to follow him as he retraced his steps at the scene of the crime. lisa cohen has written the most authori authoratitive book on this case. >> i think it's a time when people remember. >> reporter: two years ago the manhattan district attorney reopened the case. the nypd and the fbi worked on a list of top ten possible

suspects and pedro hernandez was not on it. for etan patz' parents, stan and julie patz, it's been a long way for answers. lisa cohen. the patz family, what do you think they're doing and thinking? >> in is the latest in a very long line of big breaks in the case. i think they certainly are taking the wait and see approach. >> john miller joins us here on set. this is a working press card from 1979. you covered this case from the beginning. you've been on that street and you've been looking for evidence for a long, long time. both as a reporter and as someone who is curious about it. are police 100% certain that this is the guy? is the confession enough? >> a lawyer might tell you a confession is not enough. a jury wants to see evidence beyond that especially if the defendant's lawyer is going to challenge that confession saying my client is mentally ill. he made it up. he was tricked into it. but for police, this was a detailed confession.

he had means, motive and opportunity meaning he was in the neighborhood back in '79. he worked on the corner. he knew etan patz. his story is very compelling. >> what's the motive? >> he said -- the police said they didn't know. when they asked him why he said i don't know. i think, charlie, and we may never learn this, he left something out of his story. if he were sitting here with an fbi profiler and you were talking about offender characteristics, they would say this was not an organized crime carefully planned out over time and executed not to get caught. this was a disorganized crime. something that occurred on the spur of the moment and usually in a case like this, nobody lures a little boy into the basement for the sole purpose of strangling him. there would be a sexual assault involved. whatever the driver was, he wasn't admitting to it yesterday. >> any tension or differences between the d.a. and the police department going forward at this time? >> there certainly was yesterday. the phone lines were burning up between police headquarters and the d.a.'s office. the d.a.'s office being

prosecutors, being lawyers, wanted more. they said all we have is a confession here. let's not do this press conference. let's not bring this charge. let's slow this down. the police department saying we're not in a position to let this guy go. let's take our confession and we'll do a probable cause arrest whether you authorize it or not and he's going to show up at the arraignment today and wee s'll what the d.a.'s position is. >> does that tell you from the people that you have spoken to that -- you said they're confident enough to do this. did they tell you there's nothing else on the horizon and this could in fact be the end for this family? >> i think this is as close to the end as they have ever been. there have been confessions before but not confessions that stood up under questioning or when challenged by the facts and there's never been an arrest. >> is there any significant with the date that you heard of in terms of this happening now? >> i think there is and i think there isn't. i mean, the date will always bring the story back and when

someone is carrying a dark secret, a profiler will tell you that's a stressor. it's one of the things that brings the story back especially to someone that feels guilt. not the defendant here but the person he disclosed it to says i can't carry this secret anymore. really it was the dig that happened a month ago where the story was on every television station and radio station and every internet site and it went on for five days continuously. those follow-ups. and that, i believe, is the stressor that gnawed at this person who after the dig made their first call for the missing person squad of nypd and said there's nothing i need to hell you. >> who was the person that called? >> it was a relative of pedro hernandez who called and said he had said these things before and that he had this dark secret and that he had killed a child. >> that's the question. why didn't they then do something when he told them i

did this terrible thing and i killed a child? >> why didn't the relative? >> yes. >> we would have to ask them about that. it wasn't one. he told more than one relative that over a period of years. >> among all the stories you covered, this is high up on the priority list. >> i would say. this is the most haunting story i covered. and one i think i stayed with the longest than any other. >> thank you, john. john miller. now to presidential politics. on thursday democrats opened a new attack on mitt romney focusing on one term as governor of massachusetts nearly ten years ago. >> as we reported, new polls show romney gaining ground on president obama. so what do those polls mean with fve more months of this campaign to go? jan crawford has answers for us. jan, good morning. >> good morning erica and to our viewers in the west. polls don't predict things. they just reflect where people are on the day they're taken. we have recent polls and they look promising for mitt romney but president obama is out there and he's working hard to change

that. campaigning last night in iowa, president obama continued to hammer mitt romney for his time as head of a successful private equity firm. >> there may be value for that kind of experience but it's not in the white house. >> reporter: romney's campaign events in west philadelphia focused on education and what he called a civil rights issue of our time. going into the summer, polls have the candidates in a statistical dead heat but as any previous candidate will tell you, polls in may don't mean nuch in november. in may 2004, george w. bush was losing by eight points to john kerry. but after a tough campaign on national security and growing economic confidence, bush won. by contrast, his father was the incumbent in 1992 and in may of that year he was leading bill clinton but over the summer americans confidence in the economy dropped and george h.w. bush lost his lead and the white house. >> anything that hurts the u.s.

economy right now does not help the president. >> reporter: according to gallup, the economic and political climate today is similar to years when incumbent presidents lost than when they won. >> seeking re-election, president obama is weaker than jimmy carter who lost, stronger than george herbert walker bush that lost. they were all about 50% approval. the president is not. he's around 46%. that's a danger zone. >> reporter: there are other troubling signs for the president. for 20 years voters asked gallup whether they are satisfied with the way things in the country are going. today only 24% say they're satisfied. that's close to the 20% low in may 1992 and george h.w. bush's only term. now for winning presidents like george w. bush and bill clinton, those numbers were higher. more americans were satisfied with how things in the country were going. there is some good news out there for the president.

voters say they like president obama. he seems more likable and seems to care more about average americans. so we've got these strengths and we have weaknesses and all of this makes this race going into the summer a tossup. >> jan crawford, thank you very much. also in washington, cbs news political director john dickerson. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> it looks like this is a situation where president obama fears most the thing he cannot control, which is the economy. >> that's exactly right. the lesson of history is that if voters blame me for economic troubles, you're not going to have a second inauguration. for the last three incumbent presidents, ford, carter and bush in 1992, the unemployment rate was at about 7.6. it's at 8.1 today. no president has won re-election with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. >> does that mean that the obama forces and obama campaign have to tear down the romney narrative more than build up their own? >> that's right. they have to do two things.

one, try to convince voters to stop looking at the present and think about the future. voters are sunnier about the future. other thing they have to do is what you focus on which is disqualify mitt romney as an alternative and that's part of what george w. bush did in his re-election campaign which is disqualify john mccain on the national security question. what the problem and difference for president obama is george w. bush had pretty good ratings on question of who can handle the question of terror which was top of mind. president obama's ratings on economy, top of mind issue for voters, are quite bad. >> when it comes to that narrative that they are trying to paint of mitt romney with bain capital, there's been talk about the response that mitt romney has had to that. is he going to change that narrative to try to focus on the positives for him? >> well, mitt romney is going to do two things on the bain question. one, he's going to chase the topic. he's going to say i had 25 years in business and then move on and go back to the president's record. the romney campaign wants one

thing. this election to be a referendum of thumbs up or thumbs down on president obama's stewardship of the economy and the other thing mitt romney will do is talk about bain to say i have special knowledge about the economy. i turned companies around. i turned the olympics around. i turned massachusetts around. and pitch himself as a turnaround expert in the time when the economy needs turning around. >> one thing different this year seems to be that the romney campaign responds immediately to attacks while john kerry did not. >> that's right. although they do respond quickly and in different ways. they have candidate do it sometimes and they have put out videos on others. what they want to do is basically have romney stick on the economy so sometimes the response will com from other corners. >> thank you. anger is growing against a pakistani over the jailing of a doctor who helped the cia find osama bin laden. >> on thursday secretary of

state hillary clinton called it unjust and unwarranted to send dr. afridi to prison. nancy cordes has more. >> reporter: the outrage over this is bipartisan. the senate appropriations committee voted unanimously 30-0 to cut pakistan aid by $33 million. that's one million for every year in dr. afridi's sentence. secretary clinton condemned the sentencing thursday saying he didn't betray pakistan in any way. >> his help after all was instrumental in taking down one of the world's most notorious murderers. >> reporter: pakistani authorities charged afridi with treason for setting up a fake vaccination program designed to collect dna evidence from obama's compound before last year's aid. on capitol hill, senators lashed out on pakistan. >> to somehow allege that under

any country's law that this doctor violated any law is of course just beyond ludicrous. it's outrageous. >> reporter: the 33 million in foreign aid senators voted to cut is a tiny fraction of the $1 billion pakistan is set to get from the u.s. in 2013. but even that $1 billion is less than half of what president obama had asked for. now the senate armed services committee is proposing to withhold funds from pakistan until the country proves it is not supporting militant extremists groups and reopens nato supply routes to neighboring afghanistan. pakistan's nuclear capacity and strategic location make it an important if unreliable ally. not only was bin laden found there, but his deputy was suspected hiding out there too. >> we need to work through some of the tensions that have arisen

after ten years of our military presence in that region. >> reporter: senators were less diplomatic yesterday. they accuse pakistan of mafia like extortion for trying to charge nato $5,000 per truck to use its supply routes when last year the rate was $250 per truck. >> nancy, thank you. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe "the new york times" reports on kichinese economy losing stream. they blame falling real estate prices, smaller export and lower consumer confidence. an ad on dish network spa sparking lawsuits. cbs, fox and nbc universal are suing. dish is suing back saying auto hop breaks no laws. "the wall street journal"

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brian banks served a six-year prison term for rape. it took a judge less than a minute to set him free because >> i may not ever get the answer as to why i was supposed to go through what i went through, but i know that i'm here today and i remain unbroken. >> he'll talk with us about the case and how he still dreams of a pro football career. and queen elizabeth honors her only ancestor to reign longer than she has. we'll show you the diaries of queen victoria now online. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by "snow white"snow white & the hu

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>> time for the news headlines. the body of a san jose soldier will be returned to the bay area today. 25 year-old second lieutenant kravis murata was killed by an explosive wednesday in afghanistan. vallejo police shot and killed a man overnight, two officers fired a total of five shots after the man appeared to point a gun at them turned out to be a pellet gun. the dumbarton bridge will be closed from 10:00 tonight until 5:00 tuesday morning. ,,,,,,,,

>> so far so good as traffic conditions are very light at the golden gate bridge right now. a live look across the span, a little bit windy but so far is quite into san francisco. no delays at the bay bridge and they never turned on the metering lights. the southbound of the great highway is closed to skyway boulevard. >> things are whipping up around the bay area, some clouds are likely to come in and there is a chance of a few showers outside and may be an isolated thunderstorm. not a lot of moisture with this system but things will look to be a little bit unsettled especially in the afternoon. a lot of 60s inside the day but maybe some low '70's, those will be the warmest temperatures around the bay area today.

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♪ >> this video never gets old. a fistfight broke out in ukraine's parliament over debate of using the russian language in parts of that country. some lawmakers feel strongly about ukrainian culture. a promising young football player went to prison for a crime that never happened in 2003. on thursday, brian banks saw his conviction tossed out after his accuser changed her story. >> it's the only thing left of this nightmare, i guess.

>> start working on mental and emotional repair there. >> reporter: that ankle tracking bracelet has been locked on his left leg for years. >> good day today. >> yeah. best day. >> reporter: he found out as we were sitting down for our interview that bracelet was finally coming off. >> this is by far the heaviest weight i ever had to carry around. >> reporter: today he's been labeled innocent. ten years ago brian banks was wrongly convicted of raping a classmate while in high school. on thursday, the now 26 year old sobbed as a judge finally threw out the bogus charges that had sent him to prison for more than five years. what went through your mind? >> everything just grabbed me at once and it just consumed me at that moment and so it was bittersweet. i was so happy to hear those words but just still -- i'm still left with that question of

why. >> reporter: at 16, brian banks was the star linebacker for his long beach high school. he had a full ride scholarship to usc and a dream to play in the nfl. that scholarship to usc was just waiting for you. >> it was there. all i had to do was play my senior year, the biggest year of my life. >> reporter: instead a brief but passionate encounter with a female classmate in this high school stairwell changed everything. >> we began making out. groped, touch. sex never occurred. >> reporter: the girl claimed rape and before brian knew it, he was under arrest. >> i was awaken with a number of officers in my room. one officer had his knee to my back as i was laying down and there were guns drawn. they threw me in a squad car and i never came home. >> reporter: there was no proof you were guilty. no physical evidence. no dna evidence, nothing. >> nothing whatsoever.

>> reporter: your word against hers? >> yep. >> reporter: despite claims of innocent, he said the defense attorney gave him a choice. plead no contest to rape or risk a trial that could send him to prison for life. >> by going into that courtroom, the jury was going to automatically see a big black teenager and would automatically assume he was guilty. >> reporter: that's what she told you? >> that's what she told me. i said can i speak to my mother. she said, no. this is your decision to make. you need to make it now. i took the plea. >> reporter: he ended up finishing high school while in prison and he had to register as a sex offender. he thought that was the end of it. after he was released, came a surprise. a friend request on facebook from the girl, now a woman, who had ruined his young life. >> reporter: what went through your mind when you got that facebook message? >> i didn't even think it was

her. i thought it was something playing a joke on me. >> reporter: he agreed to meet her with a private investigator who videotaped the whole thing and finally the confession came. but that's as far as it went. did she apologize? >> no. >> reporter: not an i am sorry? nothing? >> no. >> reporter: she never explained why they did it but it was enough evidence for attorneys from the innocence project to get brian's conviction overturned. are you angry? >> no. i'm not angry. >> reporter: how could you not be? >> i've been there. i've been at that point of anger and bitterness when i first received that six-year sentence but then i realized that that type of energy only holds me back. it does nothing to the people that i'm angry about. you have to forgive and move on. >> reporter: he's working to get his life back on track and has

never lost his dream of being in the nfl. what do you want to play? >> whoever will give me an opportunity. >> reporter: he has chosen how to live and now he's free to live it. >> what an incredible story. two things. one, when you look at this story you sometimes wish that for lawyers you could get a second opinion. >> you mean when he talked about being faced with that defense attorney. it's true. it's interesting as he lays out there can i talk to my mom? you would think anybody would say this is a kid in high school. of course you can talk to your parents. she advises no. you have to make the decision now as he tells the story. it gives you pause. >> and when she tries to befriend him. >> there's answer for that. absolutely not. >> amazing story. what happens to him now? >> hopefully great things. well deserved. that's for sure. yesterday was 193rd

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>> i tell you. another great day for bill clinton. he's in a bit of hot water. he was photographed with porn stars. take a look at this. yeah. that's risky behavior. you can catch an sstd. you should be careful, porn stars. have you seen the approximapict hillary took? >> britain is celebrating the long reign of two monarchs this morning. queen elizabeth is making the

diaries of queen victoria public. >> they are looking at her diamond jubilee in 1957. >> reporter: i want you to look at some of the preparations under way here at buckingham palace. a huge stage being set up and bleachers for thousands expected to help celebrate the queen's jubilee. the queen is giving the world a glimpse at the history behind & the throne. she's been to a few openings in her time but not one that opens the book on her personal family history. the online launch of queen victoria's diaries at buckingham palace wasn't a smash the champagne across the bough moment but the queen did what she could to show her delight and her appreciation to those behind the project. >> your majesty has opened a

window revealing like never before her humanity and her leadership. >> reporter: the diaries tell the story of a woman in the throes of a passionate relationship with the dashing prince albert and not afraid to say it. after they first met, she wrote it was with some emotion that i behold albert who's beautiful. she described her bliss beyond belief on her wedding night and he clasped me in his arms and we kissed each other again and again and adds they didn't get much sleep. all that and all that matters all poured out online. daily entries from the time she started writing the journal at 13 until just before her death. all you do is click on the year, the month and the date and it's all right there, all 40,000 pages. the diaries had been gathered dust in windsor castle for more than a hundred years. an online publishered scanned ech page in a project that took more than six months.

they call queen victoria the most important figure of the 19th century. >> obviously because of her length of reign of 63 years and because of the time and size of the british empire, the relationship with continental europe and with america made her a major figure of that period. >> reporter: she speaks highly of america. the desk she gave in 1880 as a token of good will and friendship is still in use in the oval office. and that closeness with the u.s. is clearly a legacy carried on by her great, great granddaughter. there are other parallels. queen victor wia was the only other monarch in history to celebrate a diamond jubilee. 60 years on the throne and in britain history is a long time. victoria must have known that her journals would be one day

read. the current queen was asked whether she kept a diary. she said it did but unlikely that it would ever be published. >> thank you for the all that and all that matters by the way. >>

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gayle is in the control room. what's coming up in our next hour? >> hello, charlie. the debris from the japanese tsunami is washing up in alaska. john blackstone is there.

he'll join us live. and he's the man behind men in black one, two and three. it hits three arts today. director barry sonnenfeld. barry told me, you're not allowed to say what the twist is and i will not. took 23 years for the lapd to track this murder case. we'll have a preview of "48 hours mystery" that you won't want to miss. it involves a police officer and a crime. and the creator of funky winkerbean. i just like saying that name. celebrating 40 years of putting social commentary into the comics. we'll take a look

>> the dumbarton bridge and will be completely shut down at 10:00 tonight for seismic work and is expected to remain shut down through memorial day weekend until 5:00 tuesday morning. expect the alternate routes to have a little bit of traffic over the weekend. damaged a vacant office building at saratoga avenue and williams road and it finally happened about one hour ago, the unmanned dragon became the first ever privately financed space craft to dock with the international space station. it was delayed for a few hours

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visit: >> it is certainly light out there on the friday freeways. here is a live look at the golden gate bridge holding steady into san francisco. northbound as you approached the bridge there is a stalled vehicle so there are some delays there. windy on the benicia bridge and the san mateo bridge >> we will see more wind around the bay area today, there is a chance we could see a few showers outside so maybe bring your umbrella. especially in the afternoon. '40's and 50's right now, a rather dry system will slide rather dry system will slide through and keep the

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people ask the question, why is china so dominant in comparison to the united states? we try to provide some answers to this question in a segment that we call -- why china is kicking our ass. reason number 933. >> what is that? is it dance party friday? >> is it? >> how did that happen? ♪ ♪ >> those are news broadcasters. they're there to tell us what's happening in the world. >> it's -- >> it is -- shameless. >> yeah. >> charlie, i double-double dare you -- i double-double dare you to stand up and break out into the robot right now. >> likewise, my dear. >> i think we should get charlie

rose to sing again. >> i'm going to take what we've got and move it along. it is 8:00. that was good. 8:00. that was your former co-anchor. >> she married me and my husband. >> she's a justice? >> michaela pereira. she likes to call herself the reverend mother but no, she, like me, was ordained on-line. >> i didn't know that about your marriage. >> yes. >> it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> we'll discuss that when we dance later this morning. >> i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. aaa predicts a small increase in holiday travel compared to last year, but drivers may find some very good news at the gas station. >> the price of crude oil hit a seven-month low this week, as rebecca jarvis reports, the main reason is actually half a world away. rebecca, good morning. >> good morning to you, erica and while a slowing economy has many negative consequences, the one positive is lower oil.

as a result americans will pay an average of $3.67 a gallon for a gallon of gasoline when they hit the road today. you may not be paying attention to what's happening in greece, but europe's money problems are actually helping us out at the pumpp. >> right now, for europe, it's austerity and that means cutbacks and that means lower demand. >> reporter: that shrinking demand helps send crude to its lowest price in seven months this week. >> as oil prices come down, of course gas prices come down. >> reporter: right now, we don't see any reason why economically gas prices would go up. >> reporter: gas prices typically peak in the summer. but if the current trend of falling prices continues s this summer could be different. not everyone will get a better deal, though. even cheap oil has to be refined and refineries on the west coast have been hit with production problems. meaning, the price of gas is

about 40 cents higher on the west coast than the east. on average, the government expects americans to pay $379 a -- $3.79 a gallon this summer, up 8 cents from last year. those prices are vulnerable to world events and traders say when it comes to oil, currently at $90 a barrel, anything can happen. >> a resolution of the eurozone debt crisis could lead to a very, very quick return to triple digit prices. >> and that trader of paramount options tell me any headline out of the middle east could send prices soaring. consider this, when gas prices go down by just a penny it puts $1.2 billion back into the pockets of u.s. consumers over the course of a year and there is a positive ripple impact then of those lower gas prices as well, gayle. >> all right. i like it. thank you, rebecca jarvis. >> we've been reporting the worst of the debris from the japanese tsunami is expected to

make landfall in october, but some of it is washing up along the coast of alaska. >> john blacktone is in the port of seward in southern alaska. >> we're in the fishing harbor after making a trip out into the gulf of alaska to look for evidence that wreckage from the japanese tsunami is reaching american waters and we found that evidence on a beach that's remote and rugged. the driftwood that gathers on the island shows that it regularly captures what is carried by the wind and tide. but what is carried on to the beaches here now is different. a lot of it is plastic, barrels and bottles. light enough to be carried on the wind across thousands of miles of ocean. while it's impossible to say for certain that any particular piece came from japan, many items carry japanese writing. big blocks of yellow foam never seen here before are believed to be remnants of insulation used in many japanese houses. chris pallister knows these

beaches well. >> the influx of debris, this is just the first wave of the tsunami debris is many times what we would find on a normal season. it's just overwhelming. this just started and it's going to get tens of thousands of miles of coastline will get debris. >> pallister is a beach monitor who spends every summer organizing cleanup crews for the gulf of alaska shoreline. what has happened to the beaches this year has hit him hard. >> sorry. >> i mean this is real. >> this is real. our crew have worked their -- off for ten years to clean this mess up. and now we're back to square one. >> reporter: and it's not just the beaches in alaska that are likely to be hit. it's expected that this wreckage, this debris, is going to be carried by the currents and winds of the pacific all the way down the west coast to washington, oregon and california.

>> john, there are economic issues, safety issues, environmental issues and clearly pthere are health issues. what worries the residents the most? >> well, one of the big worries is that this first wave of light material presents some environmental hazard, but being carried on the currents the heavier material, the machinery, barrels that are filled potentially with toxic chemicals, things are going to wash up on these beaches that nobody will know what it is until it's opened and this is -- many of these areas are difficult to get to, so that this could be a very long, long running, slowly unfolding environmental problem here. >> john, i was so touched by chris's ending comments in your piece. they've worked so hard and now they go back to square one. but you've been talking to people there that have an interesting take on the debris, i hear? >> well, certainly one of the things that people here are very aware of, is that as disturbing as it is to see these pristine

areas sort of trashed in this way, that the much greater

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americans keep horses to ride and race and we appreciate their noble nature, but in other parts of the world they're treated as livestock, the same as cattle or poultry. >> as bill whitaker reports, that leaves one businessman in the middle of an angry culture war. just a head's up, this story may be disturbing. >> reporter: they are the very heart of the old west, wild horses that roam america's

prairie. while some see majesty in their freedom, others see proof fit, not in what horses bring to wranglers and ranches but to slaughter houses for their meat. for more than two decades this has been the rosswell plant where rick de los santos slaughtered cattle, now he's to do what some think unthinkable. butcher horses. he and his wife run this family business together, they lost more than $200,000 over the past two years, but they saw a new opportunity, upon the recommendation of its accountability office, congress reversed the 5-year-old ban on american horse slaughter. agreeing it had made conditions worse for the animals, many of them trucked over the border to mexico slaughtered under horrible conditions, documented by the humane society. >> so the horses are going into mexico to be slaughtered there and all we want is to take care of them here. >> reporter: de los santos

applied for a license and began to retrofit his plant to meet the new usda requirements. he was delighted his would be the first cleared to sell horse meat to mexico, belgium and a host of other countries where it is considered a delicacy, now relief has turned to frustration. >> it's cost us about $75,000, is what it's cost us, just to get ready to slaughter horses. >> and it's now sitting idle. >> it's sitting idle yes. >> reporter: believing he's fulfilled the usda requirements he's been anxious to get his final government inspection and license but it's been nearly four expensive months of waiting for the usda to pay a visit. >> it's very frustrating, very frustrating when we submit paperwork to the usda and get it back and we get it's incomplete. >> reporter: de los santos thinks the delay is deliberate since he's become a focal point in the anti-horse slaughter movement. a bill has been introduced on capitol hill to ban horse slaughter for good and even the

governor of new mexico released a statement about his business, saying that creating a horse slaughter house in new mexico is wrong. more than 100,000 of these animals already are rounded up every year, slaughtered across the border and the meat shipped to europe and asia. it's a thriving international business. but still, barely making a dent in the u.s. horse overpopulation problem. domesticated horses are abandoned and wild horses simply left to breed unchecked. still, animal rights advocates insist more regulated and supervised horse slaughter here in the u.s. is not the answer. >> horse slaughter can never be done humanely. partially because of the nature of horses. when you have an animal that is called fractious, where they want to run, they want to be safe, you can't humanely slaughter them. >> reporter: advocates say there are other ways to manage horse overpopulation including finding more funding for places like

this, the horse shelter is a non-profit that takes in and occasionally euthanizes abandoned animals. the shelter's owner says americans have an emotional bond with horses making it impossible to think of them as livestock. >> they represent freedom. you see a horse running and there's nothing more freeing looking than a horse. >> reporter: to the de los santos' horses represent economic freedom and they point out there are too many unwanted horses to be sheltered. besides they just want to put their employees back to work. >> why continue to outsource? i mean, this whole election is going to be about jobs. >> reporter: the usda says it's not preventing the de los santos' from providing job. they need more time to train inspectors. the couple is being threatened with fines for alleged improper composting and both fear the threat they face from activists who have targeted them. >> they yell, scream, and picket and do everything else.

for a small voice out here in rosswell, new mexico, how loud can we scream? those organizations are very powerful, be very wealthy and, you know, how long can we go on? >> so i ask you that, how long can you keep going? >> i have a lot of faith. a lot of faith. and i believe things will work out. i really do. >> reporter: rick de los santos nose it will be easy selling horse meat to foreign markets but much more difficult to sell the american public on a simple idea, horses can be your friends but they can also be your food. for "cbs this morning," bill whitaker, rosswell, new mexico. >> nope. you know the line that got me in that piece, where she says horse slaughter cannot be done humanely that's what got me. i can't -- i know it's a contradiction from a girl who enjoys a good burger but there's something about when you see a -- something that can be your food and friend, i can't -- i can't wrap my brain around it.

i can't. >> hard to say. something i think in this country most people are very uncomfortable with. and part of that is what they represent. they're such a majestic animal. >> one of those stories which you say, there has to be a better way. >> yes. >> tony had an idea, eat broccoli. >> i love broccoli. >> always count on tony. he has an idea. >> lots of calcium. thank you. >> 1986 -- >> last time tony had broccoli. >> yes. >> ouch. >> in 1986, we're going to switch gears, a happy young newlywed was killed in her home and it took 23 years to solve that crime. "48 hours" mystery will show us who did that. you're watching "cbs this morning." tony returns right after the break. who did that. you're watching "cbs this morning." tony returns right after the break. p about taking aspirin forai . but they haven't experienced extra strength bayer advanced aspirin. in fact, in a recent survey, 95% of people who tried it agreed

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pellet gun. today at the alameda county coroner will perform an autopsy on the body of a woman found in a garbage can yesterday. police made the discovery on the road that runs parallel to interstate 580 near stone ridge mall. they found remains inside a container that had been placed in some shrubbery. the dumbarton bridge will be closed all weekend starting tonight at 10:00. it will be open tuesday morning

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live at the bay bridge toll plaza, friday white as you work your way through here and the same goes for the golden gate bridge. we did see a chp officer running a traffic break but it looks like things are just slightly slow down. overall, a nice ride. reports of an accident on southbound 280 by hickey boulevard, to 80 along the peninsula looks pretty good. >> a couple of clouds around the skies this morning. as we look towards mount vaca, we will just hold steady on that shot. temperatures are holding steady in the 40's and '50's right now. we warm up into the 60s and low 70's this afternoon but there is a chance we could see a few showers.

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tired of stress, how to get rid of it for good. "the talk" on cbs. ♪ come on ♪ ♪ ♪ come on without >> live shot of alaska. we told you earlier in the news cast that the debris is washing ashore from japan. welcome back to "cbs this morning." tomorrow night, "48 hours" mystery looks at a cold case that turned hot again after more than 20 years. >> the case involves a bite mark, a jealous ex-girlfriend and a bombshell murder conviction.

the evidence led detectives to one of their own. >> reporter: it was a brutal murder back in 1986. committed in a daytime break-in a quiet gated community in van nuys, california. the victim, 29-year-old sherri rae rasmussen, was a newly married nursing director at a local hospital. she was badly beaten, and shot to death. >> i don't believe that you can understand the grief. >> miss her so much. >> reporter: her shaken parents were convinced from day one, that a jealous old girlfriend of their daughter's new husband has done it, but they say detectives ignored them, claiming their daughter was a victim of a burglary gone bad. >> no. they couldn't convince me of it. >> reporter: 23 years later in 2009, the los angeles police department's cold case unit picked up the case. dna tests on a swab taken from a bite mark on sherri's arm

yielded a bombshell that rocked the entire lapd. dna pointed directly to that old girlfriend and the alleged killer was a cop. >> i mean if you are going to claim that i am a suspect i have a problem with, you know, that. >> reporter: stephanie lazarus, a veteran detective who had risen through the ranks of the lapd was tricked into undergoing some questioning. >> i mean i'm shocked. i'm really shocked. that somebody would be saying i did this. >> reporter: she walked out, but was quickly arrested, handcuffed, and read her rights. >> you know you have the right to remain silent. do you understand? >> yes. >> anything you say may be used against you in court. do you understand? >> yes. >> and maureen is here live. nice to see you in the flesh. >> i know. good morning. >> really good to see you. i always wonder about these stories when police officers are investigating and the evidence turns to one of their own. >> yeah. >> what that must be like for them. >> it's tough. in this case, the cold case unit was literally across the hallway

from stephanie lazarus's office and they've known her quite some time so it was pretty tough for them to do this undercover and take her down for questioning. it was hard. >> some of the evidence they had -- >> the evidence is, for me, is the strongest dna statistic i've ever heard, from a bite mark that had been taken at the time that sherri's body was found. they took the swab, the technology was not available at the time to do that dna, but listen to the number, it's 1.7 sextillion to one chance that it was someone other than stephanie lazarus, that's 17 followed by 20 zeros. >> i was just -- you were reading my mind. sextillion, i'm thinking how many zeros is that? >> never been in a word problem i ever had. >> sextillion, yeah. how did the defense deal with this? >> the defense argued that the chain of evidence had been broken when the evidence on the swab was in an envelope, two envelopes one inside like a manila and the tab had been broken, so the defense argued we

don't know where it's been, missing for a few years, we don't know who had it and if it was tampered with. it was pretty incriminating. >> the victim's family sued the lapd. >> the father said from day one we believe that it's this cop. he didn't know her name but knew his son-in-law had hated a woman who was a police officer, very upset about him getting married and that was ignored for years and years. so they were very pleased with the end result of the trial, but they were still upset with what happened with lapd. they felt they had not done their job investigating this cop right away. the lawsuit was dismissed but there's still another lawsuit against stephanie lazarus. >> fascinating. another fascinating case for "48 hours." >> thanks. you can see maureen's full report "one of their own" on 48 mystery tomorrow at 10:00, 9:00 central on cbs. >> so, what's new with agent j

and agent k. director barry seinfeld has some answers. he's hear to talk about a movie we've been waiting for, know it's been a decade since the ,,,

we're in a situation. >> yeah. >> i'll take the pod you take the highdroneum over there. i'll take whoever is in the kitchen and meet you on the street. >> this is a very confusing time in my life. ♪ >> wow. a lot of fans have waited a long, long time to see that. will smith and tommy lee jones in "men in black 3." the director is behind the man behind this sci-fi comedy, a franchise that has grossed h ee

than $1 billion. with a "b." >> he has directed "get shorty" here with us in studio 357, welcome. >> thanks, guys. >> what is it like here your going to direct something everybody knows, the characters, plots essentially. what's the challenge for the director. >> the challenge is to get a story both familiar for everyone, because what most people love if you ask them about "men in black" is the chemistry between will smith and tommy lee jones, that's number one, more than the aliens or anything else, so you have to create that familiar, but then start the franchise over again so it's fresh and new. what we is it in this one is go back in time to 1969 and the second act, in order to save young tommy lee jones played by josh. you have the chemistry between will and tommy and the second act josh brolin and will with josh playing young tommy lee jones. it's extraordinary. >> could you believe the twist

at the end of the movie when will smith -- no. >> blasts the reporter. >> that twist. >> where he slaps the reporter in line. what did you think about that? have you talked to will about that? >> i was there. >> you were there? >> we did will and josh and i did seven premiers in 11 days from tokyo to seoul to moscow and this was our last premier in moscow. will had probably hugged and signed autographs on the line of 2600 people. >> yeah. >> hugging, photos, all that. and this guy doing a stunt decided that he was going to kiss will smith on the mouth. will was hugging him as the guy said can i have a hug, and then at the last second moved his mouth over to try to kiss will and will just -- will played ali, don't forget. he has certain instincts. will sort of at the last second just sort of gave him a slap like that and it became big news. it really wasn't. will was very relaxed about it. >> i thought he handled it really well, i have to say. i really did. >> and the problem is, now will

has to be more weary for the rest of his life when he's on these tours because he never knows one someone is going to do that. >> you have a reputation, mr. barry. >> i do. >> being neurotic and a worrier. is that a compliment? you're a self-proclaimed. >> my philosophy in life is live in fear and you'll never be disappointed. i'm very worried. i'm the only one worried about this weekend. everyone tells me it's going to be a huge hit, fantastic movie. >> it's going to be a huge hit. >> i wanted you to say that. >> do you have a number in mind or do you not pay attention? what would be if it makes "x" amount of dollars you would go i okay. >> i can't say it. if you live in fear, you don't want to sort of project any hopes or dreams, it's kind of if you say what you want, god will punish you for that. >> fair enough. >> does it have two zeros with it? >> two and then a whole bunch

more, yes. charlie, that would be great if it had enough zeros in it at opening weekend, yes. >> i've read we have to thank your wife, sweetie. what's her real name? you call her sweetie. >> i call her sweetie therefore, makeup people, everyone calls her sweetie. her name is susan. >> you really rely on susan and we have to thank susan for recommending will smith to you. >> sweetie and i get scripts. we got the first "men in black" script in 1993 and we would make two copies. this is before ipads or anything. she always gives me a 40-page head start because i'm a very slow reader. we get into bed. but we always finish simultaneously. it's why our marriage is so great. she looked at me and i looked at her and i said, true story, tommy lee jones and she said will smith. this is the point will had only done "fresh prince" and "six degrees," way before "independence day."

the movie not written for a black men and sweetie said will smith and i had to get the studio convinced on will because sweetie tells me that is what i had to do. >> i love sweetie, i'm just saying. >> secrets to any successful marriage when the man does whatever the wife tells him to do. >> was there natural chemistry or did you slimply -- >> tommy and will just love each other. we've done three movies together. we hadn't seen each other in ten years and the first day on the set, we were just -- tommy seems like he could be cur mujeny, but when you're with will and a little with me, it's hard to be. >> it's okay with will if tommy >> you know what, my suspicion is yes but we'll have to ask will that. >> barry shonfeld, thank you very much. "men in black 3" opens in theaters nationwide today. >> looking for something to do this weekend, there you go. most comic strips try to make us

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♪ play that funky music. well, president obama was on the front page -- i'll sotop. a drama about a gay high school was playing out in the funny pages. >> that story in the comic strip "funky winkerbean" is running in about 400 newspapers. as seth doane reports. >> reporter: injecting real life into the ink of his comic strip is something fingsy winkerbean

creator tom batiuk has wanted to do. >> i prided myself on doing a strip that's honest. it dent have to be for children only. it's capable of carrying the weight of substantial ideas. that's what i try to do. >> reporter: batiuk's current commetary about a same-sex couple that wants to attend the prom has drawn criticism. seven of 400 newspapers published a different strip this month. why did you want to do something about a gay couple? >> i was looking in the newspaper, saw an parents protesting a high school. >> reporter: he writes his stories about a year in advance so his editors at king features knew this was coming. >> he brought this to us last summer. we sat down as a group in september and discussed what it would mean and make sure that it was as effective as possible in getting the message across. >> reporter: this is it. the scene of so many comic strips.

>> the mother love. >> reporter: at least once a month he returns to the ohio high school he graduated from nearly 50 years ago. he comes to do research and to stay current. so you'll come here and study how the students are interacting with the teachers? >> do i it by osmosis. i sit in the back of the room and sketch. >> reporter: one of his earliest classroom sketches of a pregnant student was the first of his more controversial story lines published in 1986. when that came out at first, what was the reaction? >> well, we -- it was different because it's not what people expected at the time. so, first of all, comic strips are only supposed to be funny, you get that. and then it's -- it takes people a little while to adjust to see what you're doing. >> reporter: his characters are also grounded in batiuk's reality of northeastern ohio, which serves as both inspiration and backdrop. in some ways right now we're sitting inside the comic strip itself. >> yeah. it really is because this place,

much like the high school, grounds my strip in a reality that i understand, that i empathize with and it makes it easier for me to work. >> reporter: at luigi's, his favorite pizza parlor in akron, ohio, the counter, chandelier and jukebox live on in the strip. it's the fictional workplace for the title character, funky winkerbean. >> funky is a strip that's unique, as i've allowed him to grow. i've seen a core of readers that have grown up with the strip themselves. >> reporter: as they've gotten older, his characters have battled issues from alcoholism to alzheimer's. he says he's even used the strip to face his own challenges. you were a finalist for a pulitzer because of lisa's story, the story battling cancer. that had threads of your own life story in it. >> yeah. i had initially done a story where lisa had cancer and then went into remission. then i was diagnosed with cancer. when i went back inside of me to

draw the emotions, i found they were much darker. i think the power of those emotions deepened the work. >> reporter: do you ever hear from people who say, i open the comic section and i don't want to be depressed. i don't want to hear about teen pregnancy or dying from cancer. >> i get a lot of e-mails that say, i really love your strip, especially the early funny ones. >> reporter: 40 years on, batiuk and his comic strip have matured. what started as a joke a day now draws on the pains and passions of real life. for "cbs this morning," seth doane, ohio. >> nice final shot. >> very nice. >> very nice piece from seth. this is what i like about funky winkerbean -- that's hard to say, his creator that he draws from his life, the headlines and he goes to his high school and draws from the young people. you can learn a lot from the young. >> you really can. >> i like that. learn a lot from the young. >> indeed. we've got a great week here.

>> we've had a great 100 mornings. >> celebratiing 100 programs on this day. >> what did you get us? >> you know what, gayle, he still hasn't come through with our valentine's day gift. >> i beg you, i owe you. 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. 100 days celebrates. have a good member other day weekend. >> we're killing people far away. >> dozens of protesters clashed with police. >> there will be hard days ahead. >> facing the president, how to get out of the war in afghanistan even sooner than planned. >> when i went head to head with mitt over it, it didn't work. >> a lot of people's securities is linked to those. he can't totally be demonized. >> this is what this campaign is going to be about. >> i think it is very, very close. i wouldn't bet your money, charlie and you've got a lot. >> oh, stop attacking the rich. >> yeah.

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>> is everything okay? >> i slept with a t-shirt last night. >> last night i slept well but i think it's the tequila. >> does your mother approve? >> gayle is in the control room. >> all that and all that matters.& >> i say words that remind people where i came from. >> naked. >> naked. >> i like charlie. >> feels good, huh? >> feels good. i feel smarter. >> i have to do charlie. >> so far i'm not seeing the smartness. we'll keep going. >> oh, great. >> do one in spanish, too. >> is this the look you want before we go? >> i don't know. i'm going to go talk to nacho about that. ♪ honky tonk women >> smokey the bear, do you have his number? >> smokey mountain. >> they're probably watching right now because they watch our show. >> you're putting a lot of pressure on me. >> chinese?

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>> good morning. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area had lines. police in vallejo shot and a tempered robert overnight after he allegedly pointed a weapon at them. investigators later discovered the weapon was actually a nonlethal pellet gun. the coast guard has lifted a ban on sailboat races in waters just outside the golden gate bridge. it was put into place last month after a deadly blow crash. yesterday's decision gives the go-ahead for a three-way race from san francisco to monterey set to begin today. tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out on sunday to celebrate the birthday party of the golden gate bridge.

there will be food on christie field and a big fireworks show over the bridge at 930. officials are urging people to take public transit instead of driving. >> it could get interesting around the bay area today. sunshine and clouds outside right now. a week storm system sliding in our direction and the wind will pick up so things will stay cool out there and there's a chance of showers. temperatures in the sixties or low 70's. throughout the weekend we return to dry weather and sunshine coming our way right through the holiday. you want

>> it has been a very quiet travel day on the roadways. a live look at the golden gate bridge where we still have light conditions. elsewhere, the southbound great highway remains close to due to high wind and blowing sand. there is a medium alert in effect for the next week or so with construction until june 4th ,,,,,,ill affect