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good morning to our viewers in the west. it is wednesday, may 30th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. mitt romney raises millions with donald trump in las vegas as texas voters put him over the top. we'll ask former defense secretary donald rumsfeld what the united states should do to end the bloodshed in syria. >> i'm erica hill. a newly discovered video could finally solve the mystery behind a newlywed's cruise ship disappearance and facebook fallout continues as shares drop again. i'm gayle king. gold sellers beware. you may not be getting the best price for your julie and chely wright on the price she has paid for coming out. >> as we do every morning, we
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begin with today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> this man is out of ideas. he's out of excuses and in november we'll make sure to vote him out of office. >> mitt romney takes texas clinching the gop nomination. >> he's under fire for holding a fund-raiser in las vegas with donald trump. >> who is making headlines again questioning president obama's citizenship. >> there are many people that don't agree with that birth certificate. they don't think it's authentic. >> i found that whole hawaii thing pretty implausible. their word for hello is the same as the word for good-bye [ bleep ]. >> in syria there are new reports of government troops shelling rebel held areas this morning. >> the united states and nine other nations expelled syrian diplomats from their capitals. >> we do not believe that further militarization of the situation in syria at this point is the right course of action. >> thunderstorms delivered
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damaging hail to the oklahoma city area overnight. >> storms knocked out power to more than 60,000 people. >> facebook stock closed below $30, down 24% from its opening price. >> all this damn time, i got to try to figure out how to provide for my people. >> going back near the wall. he's got it. >> are you matt damon? >> i'm the [ bleep ] quarterback, moron. >> ever meet annoying kids? >> i got a whole bunch of kids. >> one night only. one hour only. regis and dave. >> get ahold of yourself. >> and that matters. >> all these years later he's still chasing that sound and searching for a little bit of truth. >> on "cbs this morning." >> is it hard to raise a kid around biden. i would assume that he's the uncle that comes over and you brought some guns. that kind of thing.
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captioning funded by cbs >> welcome to "cbs this morning." the republican presidential race is now over. mitt romney won the texas primary on tuesday picking up enough delegates to clinch the nomination. >> cbs news estimates that romney has 1,198 gop delegates this morning. romney did not go to texas last night to celebrate. as jan crawford reports, instead he was busy raising big money with donald trump in las vegas. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aircraerica and our viewers across the west. everything about donald trump is big including money he can raise for political campaigns. the question for mitt romney is whether he can also cause big headaches with his big mouth. last night in texas, mitt romney officially reached the magic number of delegates he needs for the gop nomination. he was miles away in las vegas where he kept his focus on president obama and the economy.
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>> he's been a big disappointment, hasn't he? >> reporter: the former massachusetts governor was in the swing state of nevada attending a $2 million fund-raiser hosted by donald trump. he's been raising money and bringing his celebrity to romney's campaign. but if raising money is what trump does best, he's also good at stirring up controversy and so on romney's day there was the billionaire big talker continuing to question in a phone interview with cnn whether mr. obama was born in the united states. >> a lot of people did not think it's an authentic certificate. you won't report it, wolf, but many people don't think it was authent authentic. >> reporter: it was his questions last year that got him to issue his birth certificate. romney says he and his supporters won't agree on everything. at last night's fund-raiser, newt gingrich, a former rival
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turned supporter, came to romney's defense. >> governor romney is not distracted. the republican party is not distracted. we believe that this is an american born job killing president. other people may believe that he was born somewhere else and still kills jobs. >> at last night's fund-raiser romney met with sheldon adelson. that's the kind of money that those outside groups supporting romney are going to need if they're going to keep up with the president's re-election effort because there is one thing that everyone agrees on, this general election is going to be a tough and expensive fight. >> jan crawford in washington. thanks. the u.n. human rights council is planning an emergency meeting on last week's massacre in syria and now there's evidence of a new massacre. >> this morning japan and turkey join the united states and several other countries in expelling syrian diplomats to protest the killings of dozens of women and children.
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we go to london for the latest on this growing syrian crisis. charlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. breaking news this morning out of syria. the u.n. missionary reports the discovery of 13 bodies found with their hands tied behind their backs in signs that some were shot at close range. more evidence of the violence that nobody appears able to stop. u.n. envoy kofi annan called the massacre at hula a tipping point. >> this is what the international community is asking for now. action. not words. >> reporter: a tipping point to what? today the u.n. security council will meet to discuss what, if anything, can be done to stop the bloodshed in syria. reaching any kind of unified response would prove difficult. officials from russia and china reiterated today their catego categorically oposposed to military action and the french
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president said military action can't be ruled off but the u.s. has stopped short. the horrific images at the hands of the syrian government or agents prompted the u.s. and a dozen other agents to expel syria's top diplomats. president bashar al assad's government denies any involvement blaming armed terrorists for the killings. u.n. monitors reported that some of the 108 people who died in friday's attacks were the victims of artillery fire. >> the majority have been the result of house to house executions. getting into houses and killing men, women and children inside. >> reporter: 34 women and 49 children by the u.n.'s count stabbed or shot dead at pointblank range. this woman who says she witnessed the massacre says they pointed guns at us and trapped us in a room like sheep before spraying us with bullets. syria's state run media has been
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criticizing moves by the u.s. and others to expel the diplomats calling it unprecedented hysteria. the syrian government began its own investigation into the massacre but it's not clear whether the results will be made public. >> thank you. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has been warning about the syrian threat for some time now. his bush administration memoir "known and unknown" is now in paperback. we're pleased to have you here this morning. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> what should the united states do about syria and how should they do it? >> right now there is somebody in that administration undoubtedly looking at the full range of possibilities from doing nothing to using military force on the ground and all of those things in between, covert activity, working with kofi annan's effort, going seriously within with countries likely to do something from the air as in libya and the intelligence will
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drive them toward one of those possibilities. >> is there a moral imperative and does it matter? >> it always matters when thousands of people probably tens of thousands of people are being killed and massacred, which is what's taking place in that country. syria is important of course apart from the humanitarian aspect is that it is a principle agent of iran in terms of causing difficulties in afghanistan, causing difficulties in iraq, funding terrorist organizations, causing enormous difficulties in lebanon and the world obviously would be better off with assad family out of there. the question is what comes next? and that's a very tough intelligence question. >> what's the point of decision? >> well, what they'll be doing is attempting to figure out what the opposition forces to the assad regime are, who they are, who is likely to prevail and
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what happens afterwards? >> shouldn't we know that by now? >> i doubt it. it's hard. look at egypt. it's still not clear. the turmoil that takes place is one thing and then when it's over, there are factions and the faction that is the best organized and most vicious, the most serious and best funded often prevails against what might be a majority view. >> the president handled libya about right? >> i was uncomfortable with what was done. syria is more important than what took place in libya from the standpoint of u.s. strategic interest but the outcome is not clear to me completely. you have a country with a lot of oil, a lot of wealth, and a bunch of factions and militias and elements that are competing to figure out what they're going to do and i don't think the story on libya is written yet. these are tough things for
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administration. >> does it show a limit on what the united states can do? >> sure. we know that. it's enormously difficult. the intelligence side of it is very difficult. the aftermath is difficult. trying to figure out how that's going to sort out. egypt is enormously important to the united states. it's not quite clear what will happen there. there are factions. they are having elections. the role of the military and the post-mubarak government element is still unclear. they've handled it rather well. >> there are reports that in 2003 there was preliminary planning about possibly going into syria after iraq. president bush squashed those plans. was it for the same reason you bring up about what happens next? >> i don't ever recall anyone discussing that. >> that's inaccurate? >> i didn't say that. what i know is what you said, i've never heard inside the government. the idea of going into syria. >> but if that had been done,
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you as secretary of defense, someone would have talked about that? >> one would have thought. >> yes. have there ever been much discussion about syria because you said as far back as the '80s you knew. >> back in the '80s i used to meet with assad's father and when i was president reagan's middle east envoy. it's a military government. it's part of this issue taking place in the region and that divide between the two elements of the religion and assad regime has been brutal, vicious. his father killed 10,000, 20,000 people back in decades ago. >> and got away with it. >> and got away with it. you bet. i have no idea what the outcome here will be. i think that you can say that nobody -- you look at the world and nations of the world and
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they're not supporting assad and his butchery. on the other hand, what would come out of this is not clear. >> and russians are opposed to any kind of intervention. >> the russians have been supporters of iran and syria and have a long relationship. >> let me move to the administration and their foreign policy. "the new york times" in a big story talking about how there is fascinations and use of other anti-terrorist activities have come about and the administration says nothing else has baffled liberal supporters and compounded conservative critics as his aggressive counterterrorism record. they're saying that this president even more than the president you served has been effective in fighting terrorism and in willing to take it even further. >> well, i don't know that's the
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case even further. there's no question but the president bush was a very strongly working the war on terror. >> conservative critics say we like what he's doing. >> obviously the killing of osama bin laden was a good thing for the world. this is the face of al qaeda and terrorism but one has to remember that the obama administration has the benefit of the capabilities that were invested in and developed in terms of drones and the terrorist structure and anti-terror structure put in place and special operations forces and intelligence capability. so he's able to do things because of the investments that have been made. >> have you talked to governor romney about defense policy? are you not advising him in any way? >> i have not been. >> you might? i'm for him. >> what's going to be -- you also were the former chief of staff for president ford so you know a bit about politics.
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you once even elected -- >> in the 1960s. >> so what's this race about? >> this race is about leadership. it's going to be because of the behavior of our government over a period of time of incurring trillions of dollars of debt and deficits. it has to be about the economy and it has to be about jobs and it also has to be about the issue of what the united states role is in the world. is it one we're seeing of strength or is it one where we are going to withdrawal and to the extent the united states is not contributing to peace and stability in the word, it seems to me the world is a more dangerous place. >> you think the president is failing because he's retreating? >> i think the strength of the united states and its presence is partly dependent on our military capability and if you
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cut a trillion to 1.2 trillion out of the defense budget over the coming period, we're going to weaken our military capabilities and second we're going to be seen as having weakened our military capabilities and if we don't come to grips with the debt and spending -- >> that has to be bipartisan to get it done and they're a dysfunctional congress. >> unless one party wins the presidency and both houses of the congress. when i went to washington in 1950s and '60s, we were spending 10% of gross domestic product on defense and intelligence. today it's down to 4% plus or minus. and the deficit is not a matter of the defense establishment. >> america's deficit issue is a matter of national security. >> absolutely. >> thank you for coming. >> thank you. >> donald rumsfeld's book "known and unknown" is now available in paperback. the oklahoma city area is
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bracing for more severe weather later today. this is what happened last night. damaging hail. some of the hail the size of grapefruits. property damage and dozens of injuries were reported. there were wind gusts exceeding 60 miles an hour. nearly 100,000 customers lost power last night. the jury in the john edwards' trial begins its eighth day of deliberations this morning and the judge gave the jurors a warning in open court. >> what did the judge say, anna? >> reporter: the judge appeared to believe the jury needed a reminder about her instructions about not talking about her case and not surfing the internet and not reading media reports but especially she warned them not to discuss this case in small groups. she stressed how important it is that the jury discuss this case only as a whole group of 12 people. she told them, small group discussions have potential to be divisive and not something you
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want when 12 people have to reach a unanimous verdict here. the other thing yesterday is there's a sense of preparing for the long haul. the jurors sent the judge a note saying that they have things like high school graduations coming up and they wanted to know the schedule so she actually sent out a schedule going all of the way through friday. not that they can't reach a verdict before then but there's a sense of in case we're here that long, we might need to prepare. we'll keep an eye on it today and let you know if there appears to be any chance of reaching a verdict. erica and charlie, back to you? >> time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. a chinese activist writes china doesn't lack laws but rule of law. chen guangcheng calls for investigation into his treatment over the past seven years. he was given sanctuary in the u.s. embassy last month.
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britain's highest court agreed wikileaks founder julian assange can be extradited to sweden. dharun ravi apologized for the first time. he was convicted of smpying on his roommate who then killed himself. he said his behavior was not motivated by hate, prejudice, bigotry or desire to hurt. he will start serving his 30-day jail term tomorrow. doc watson developed a flat picking style that inspired generations of musicians. he died tuesday at the age of 89. wynton marsalis will talk about,
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and seven years ago, a honeymooner disappeared from a cruise ship. the fbi has a video of the last man to see him alive. >> this may be the piece of the puzzle that everyone has been missing. >> john miller looks at the evidence that may finally explain what happened to george smith. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by olay. challenge what's possible.
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>> good morning everyone. the house that burned on 29th street at martin luther king way in oakland this morning was vacant. there were no injuries and the cause is still under investigation. facebook gets the go-ahead to expand its new campus in menlo park. the are conditions in place to ease the impact and of the stock is up this morning, good news for facebook. 19 year-old sarah williams is being honored for her charity and will carry the torch. she is on her visit: discover britvisit:lumbia.
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>> let's head straight to 680 where we are seeing a back up northbound at bolger canyon. chp has issued a traffic advisory as a result. there is lots of activity there due to protest in off the freeway. the great highway closed for san removal and slow on 5008880. >> it should be a pretty nice day across the bay area but first we have some chilly temperatures to start you off with mainly in the upper '40's too low to mid '50's. sunshine by later this afternoon so we will see it temperatures climb to the low 60s along the coast but mid-80s in some of the valleys. soaring into the 90s in s,,,,,,
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i have a feelinger >> i have a feeling that you're going to work a lot. >> thank you. >> i hope you come back. >> he predicted it right there. >> that breaks my heart. don't roll anymore tape. i'm coming across the table if you roll another tape. there will be bloodshed right here. i can take you. >> he worked on this for months. >> i don't want more tape. >> we're not going to do it. you heard him. cancel the tape. >> my money is on david letterman in that matchup. >> looks like an interesting conversation though. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> there are new developments this morning in the case of george smith, a connecticut newlywed who disappeared in 2005. until now it appeared he fell off a cruise ship by accident.
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as "48 hours" correspondent susan spencer reports, the fbi has evidence now raising the possibility of foul play. >> reporter: nearly seven years after george smith vanished from his honeymoon cruise, authorities finally may be close to solving the mystery of his disappearance. >> this may be the piece of the puzzle that everyone has been missing. >> reporter: the fbi is in possession of a video made by the three men who were with smith the night he disappeared. video that is said to show them mocking him and making incriminating statements. >> to me it was amazing that people would actually film themselves talking about somebody's death in such a fashion. >> reporter: much of what happened that night on the royal caribbean ship is unclear, here is what we do know. early on the morning of july 5th, 2005, george smith was partying and drinking heavily with his new bride, jennifer. the couple got into an argument and she stormed off.
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she was found hours later passed out in a hallway in another part of the ship. around 3:30 a.m., three vacationing russian american restaurants who had been partying with smith, helped him back to his cabin. the three later dubbed in the press as the russians always have maintained they put smith to bed and then left. shortly after 4:00 a.m., other passengers reported hearing a commotion in smith's room and then about 30 minutes later, around 4:30, there was a loud thud and in the morning there was this. a large blood stain on the metal life boat canopy 20 feet below smith's cabin. >> i believe it was a botched robbery that got out of hand and my son was murdered on that cruise ship. >> in a videotape earlier obtained by cbs news, the russians insisted to turkish police that smith was still alive when they left his room. >> never saw him again. end of story.
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>> reporter: the new developments cast doubt on their story. and smith's family is hoping finally justice may be served. >> we want to see arrests and indictments and we want to see convictions. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," susan spencer, washington. >> with us now senior correspondent john miller, former fbi assistant director. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what do you make of this case now with the new evidence? >> it's not new evidence. this tape has been in the fbi's possession since fairly early on in the case. i think what we're seeing here though is a family that has hired a lawyer that is pushing this story forward to keep the pressure on and to keep the pressure on the prosecutor and to keep the pressure on the investigators to do something so you have this front page magazine article where the lawyer is discussing this new tape. so what's on the tape that's incriminating? and that is this is -- you saw a clip of the tape of that interrogation. this is the day after that
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police interrogation. this is out of the manual of how not to conduct a murder investigation. you don't gather all of the suspects together with their parents and then go around. you separate everyone and get their stories. on that tape the next day they are sitting around a round table like this one at breakfast in the dining room passing the camera around and laughing about the case and mocking the victim, george, and they get to one individual, one of the russians who says we gave that guy a paragliding lesson without a parachute and they laugh and it keeps on going. that's the incriminating statement that the lawyer cryptically refers to in this article. >> he's taking that statement and saying they basically admit they threw him over the railing? >> well, the statement is what it is. they don't say we threw him over the railing. it certainly implies that we gave him a paragliding lesson
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without a parachute. it certainly implies that and is at least an incriminating statement. >> there is talk about the relationship they have. they've been out partying all night. any thinking there was foul play in that partying? anything slipped into a drink? >> that's entirely possible but as we keep circling around to new stories, we talk about what's the motive? why do you drug a guy to throw him over the boat? the investigative theory has been that george smith allegedly told -- this is according to debriefings of men by investigators. allegedly told them they had $15,000 or $50,000 and it was hard to tell because everyone was intoxicated and even the person in debriefing who admitted this believe there was a large amount of money in the room. the investigative theory would be they took him back to the room, put him to bed and all of
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what witnesses said about moving furniture around, this was them tossing the room looking for money. nobody has ever admitted to that and there's no camera in that room to make that happen. you have the statement of one person who says we understood there was money in the room but i wasn't there at this point. >> do we know if there was money in the room based on what the wife had to say? >> i don't know. >> john miller, thank you. facebook stock took another big hit on tuesday. mark zuckerberg is no longer one of the world's richest people. we'll tell you what it means for average investor. five things you should know about where to put your money. you're watching "cbs this morning." why should i try it?
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egyptians understand this. i mean, look at the sphinx. that was voters who opposed a giant statue of a man and voters who opposed a giant statue of a cat. that's what we americans have to do this fall. wait, wait. what if we put him on a cat body? a long weekend off didn't help facebook's ipo investors. facebook shares fell another 9.5% on tuesday. >> rebecca jarvis stoke with a wall street an li who said all along the stock's original $38 price tag was too high. good morning. >> good morning to you. think of him as the lone wolf, the only analyst on wall street to put a sell rating and a $30 price target on facebook and so far he's also the only analyst getting the social network story right. markets closed higher tuesday but facebook plunged
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again at the lowest price yet. the stock is now down 24% since its debut. a drop that's wiped out about $25 billion off the company's market value. the drop hit everyday americans, too. according to one brokerage firm, invest urz put an average of $5,700 into facebook. and lost about $1,100. those losses and the fear of more like them led 90% of the people who put money into the company to pull it out. many wall street analysts weren't expecting that drop. just one predicted a long-term decline in the company's share price. >> facebook never wanted to go public. they had to go public effectively. they had enough shareholders that they were obligated to publish their financial results. and as that gives waway many potential secrets and the advantages of being a private
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company. >> reporter: the lure of cash didn't hurt either. facebook raised $16 billion and the executives got rich overnight. but the stock slide has hurt them, too. while mark zuckerberg has been keeping a low pry file on his honeymoon, his net worth has dropped by $4.6 billion. >> so, how did this analyst get it right? >> he got it right because he looked at the fact that facebook, in order to make the money, that facebook needs to make to keep this valuation, they have to spend money. he says he's one of the only analysts who was looking at this from the perspective of, if you have to spend this kind of money, you're going to also cut into your profitability. and if you cut into your profitability, then i can't justify a massive price target on your stock. >> in some ways wasn't the profitability always in question, too? >> essentiacertainly. facebook makes 85% of $3.7 billion sales comes from ad revenue.
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and there's a lot of questions still out there. we heard this prior to the ipo, as i reported, general motors had pulled out of some of its advertising on facebook. it's an untested strategy. while most companies will say, we know we have to be digital o the internet, how to be on the internet, how to advertise effectively is still up in the air. and whether or not facebook is a big component of that or a smaller component of that is still a big question. >> one of the big questions, a question whether they can find the strategy for advertising on mobile devices. >> and mobile is a huge part of it, charlie. facebook is really focused on this area with the instagram acquisition and also with the opera acquisition rumored to be out there. mobile is the future, and facebook has been hazy about whether or not it can do and play in that field properly. >> great stuff as always.,,
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>> but the experience can certainly be tarnished if you're ripped off. this morning we have an undercover investigation into the dark side of the gold-buying business. but first, it is time for this morning's "healthwatch." here's dr. holly phillips. >> good morning. today in "healthwatch," a simple trick to make needles painless. almost every patient dreads injections but new research shows looking away or closing your eyes while being given a shot can make it hurt less. the study involves giving patients mild electric shocks on their hands while they watched video of hands being pricked by needles or touched softly by q-tips. patients felt more pain and displeasure when they watched the video of the needle compared to the video of the q-tip. researchers say this proves much of the pain we feel for needles comes from our expectation of the pain and the visual experience of having a shot. memory also plays a role. if you've had a bad experience
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♪ it goes on and on and on >> 30 years ago today cal ripken jr. started at third base with baltimore orioles. ripken played, in case you lost breaking the record by lou es, gehrig. another fun fact for us from our friends at mental floss. gayle's in the control room. what's coming up in the next hour? >> i am here. hi, charlie. when she opened up about being gay, the door to country music stardom closed. we're talking to chely wright live in studio 57. what happens when a jazz legend talks to a great music songwriter? marisa mayer was hired by
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google, and one of the top women in technology and she'll tell us about google's alates >> time for the news headlines from cbs five. presidential candidate mitt romney will be in hillsboro today for a fund-raising event at the historic carolyn mansion. he secured the republican nomination yesterday after winning the texas primary. an arsonist has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the 2010 fire at trace elementary school. is under review. the saber cats are dealing with the unexpected death of a teammate who was found dead in a hotel room days after scoring a game winning touchdown against game winning touchdown against chicago.
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>> good and bad news for the wednesday morning commute. we're dealing with cal train delays so spot check the schedule before you head out. bart is right on time and ace is looking good as well. slow and go through the maze >> it should be a pretty nice day across the bay area but first we have some chilly temperatures. mainly in the upper '40's to the low to mid-30s across the bay area but sunshine later this afternoon so we will see temperatures climb to the low 60s along the coast and the mid to upper 80s across some of the inland areas. warmer by tomorrow soaring into the 90s in some spots and cooling for the start of the weekend.,,,,,,,,,
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it's been a couple of years since we've seen former south african president nelson mandela in public. a short time ago he received an award from the african national congress, the country's ruling party in his hometown of south africa. mande mandela's 94th birthday is july 18th. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." good to see nelson mandela after all this time, i hear he's fragile but very lucid. >> one of the great men alive. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. the price of gold doubled over the last three and a half years to more than $1500 an ounce. many americans who need quick cash are selling family heirlooms and other jewelry. >> when they do turns out they
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don't always get a fair price. six of our cbs stations took part in an investigation led by julie watts. >> reporter: you're watching an undercover gold buy, this one in santa cruz, california. >> what i need to do is confirm the gold constant. >> reporter: the ohio valley gold and silver refinery travels around the country promising the best value for gold. >> i was curious. >> reporter: maureen and karen saw an ad for the same company in a california paper under the name treasure hunter roadshow. >> i had a piece of 18 carat gold i know was 18 care rat gold and they told me it wasn't. pcomplaints from seniors, a 71-year-old grandmother in west virginia and 88-year-old on the canadian border were desperate for cash and willing to sell for pennies on the dollars. >> this is clearly marked 750. >> reporter: after jeweler tom broadwin heard similar
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complaints he went to the same road show traveling under another name, premier estate buyers. >> i had a gold bracelet filled with coins unmistakebly. the individual looked at it for a few moments and told me they were plated. that was fraud right to my face. >> reporter: he agreed to lend us $8,000 worth of gold checking each for care rat count and weight. then at the santa cruz road show a manager carefully examined each item. >> we do not -- what you have on the table is copperp are he came after that checking the 18 karat stamps and performing an acid test. we sent our gold to cbs stations in sacramento, boston, philadelphia, chicago, and dallas asking them to go undercover. in two cities, the company got the carat count right. >> it's gold, honey? >> in three cities including dallas, cbs producers were told 18 karat pieces were 14 kartat
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and three out of the five offers were less than a quarter of the gold's value. >> we're not in the business of lying to people. >> matthew is thr spokesman. turns out the company operates 120 traveling shows a week under at least eight different names. they confirmed the value of the gold. >> 750. so that's 18 carat gold. >> that's not what the buyer said in the undercover video. >> which one is 10? >> i believe -- which one was it? i think -- i believe that one was 10. >> that is this one, the 18 karat bracelet. >> it's, you know, obviously a concern for me. you know, seeing that. >> on five different occasions across the country, this can't be an isolated incident. >> it's a small percentage compared to the 140 managers we have. >> reporter: the companies buying guide does instruct employees to make an offer of
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rate more than 30 times that.ng- isn't that excessive? >> you know, it's absolutely legal. >> my question is, do you feel guilty? >> do i feel guilty? i'm not the one out there buying and doing those types of things. >> reporter: now, despite bringing in more than $300 million last year, thr recently stopped clearing checks when the the bank closed the account. it says it's frantically trying to reissue checks out of a new account but one of those is ours and we're still waiting for the money. the results of our investigation the company says to two of the employees are no longer managers with the company, but it won't confirm they're no longer buying at the road shows. >> i hear a lot of people are selling their gold these days but what made you think this was a problem you needed to look into? >> we started getting complaints from across the country. it started with a jeweler hearing complaints from many of his customers and then expanded from there. >> any idea why the bank closed
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the thr account? have you heard? >> well, you know, the bank can't comment, but often times unexpected closures are due to fraud investigations, improper use of funds or irs liens. we know the ceo of the company does owe the irs more than $3 million and we also know he's been using the company bank account as his personal piggy bank for years. court records show he didn't even have a personal account until late last year. >> wow. that could be a problem. nice job, julie, because you took it from your city and then took it around the country. nice job. thank you, julie watts joining us,,
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country singer chely wright has been turning out hit songs for more than a decade. you know the song "shut up and drive" that's her. a documentary shows her decision to come out as gay, first major country star to do so and she's here to talk about the impact of that. you're watching "cbs this morning." ?eñ i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin. [ designer ] enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely,
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i've never denied god and i am about family and i am about the freedoms of my country and i'm gay. 5:34 in the morning. i still haven't gone to sleep. i'm coming out in one month. i'm coming out in 20 days. i don't know if i have the courage to actually have anyone ever see this tape. of the struggle of chely wright, two years ago she became the
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first major country music artist to reveal that she's gay. >> she allowed filmmakers to record her coming out process, that turned into a new documentary it's called "wish me away" which also includes chely's own home video diaries. chely wright, i have to say, your documentary took my heart and rip tped it out a couple tis when i was watching you. one of the things that struck me, you are this third grade girl, 10 years old, you had a prayer every single day which was? >> dear god, please don't let me be gay. i'll be a good person, i won't steal, i won't lie, i'll do anything, but please take it away. >> you said you knew at an early age you were different, different how? >> when i was in king der garten i felt different and not like the other kids but i didn't understand until i was about 9 years old until that difference was i was a little gay dirl in cans so on a farm. >> you were raised in a home where you were taught where homosexuality was the devil.
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>> i was raised in a home and town that said the same thing and a church. that was 1979, when i realized i was a little gay girl with aspirations of being on the grand ole opry and those things didn't fit together. and it's -- we still struggle to make those things fit together. but they fit for me now. >> what have the fears that you had and you see in that documentary, what are the fears that have been realized and the fears that simply were not there? >> yeah. >> what did not turn out to be true that was a fear. >> right. >> and what did turn out to be true that confirmed your fear? >> some of the fears that i had that did come to pass were just an across-the-board rejection by a certain number of my fans. in the equality movement we talk about the movable middle and that's who i wanted to really speak in country music, the fans who needed to hear a story like mine, needed to know that they,
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for years, had loved a gay person and just didn't know it. that's the power of our telling our stories, right. but there are people on the far right, it doesn't matter what you say to them, they are not going to be okay with my being gay and then there are people on the far left that when they found out they were like, i don't care, who cares. it's that movable middle that has to -- as they say it, i'm a head skraefrp they have to think about it, the truth of the fact that they did love and stand in my autograph line and see my shows for years, they did love a gay woman and had to then make the assessment okay, nothing has changed. i still like her. >> in retrospect would you have done it earlier? >> in a perfect world, yes. but i couldn't have because i didn't -- i hadn't hit my rock bottom because my ego and my fears were telling me you're got to spin all these plates and hide and manage this and one really can't make such a big life-changing decision such as
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coming out until they are faced with their rock bottom. >> and you pretended for a very long time, even having a relationship with brad paisley who is also a country music star, you seemed to have regrets about how you handled that. have you made amends with him? do you have regrets? >> i had several relationships with several wonderful men. i am a good picker. i can pick some nice guys to date, some of the best. and i do regret those men that i dated that i could never reciprocate the love and affection they had for me. i knew its entire time that i couldn't and there's a particular cruelty in that. and i haven't spoken with brad, but a couple of our mutual friends have spoken to one another and i heard recently he sent me a smile and hug and brad's a good guy and as good a guy as he was and i should have been able to pull him aside and say, i can't date you because
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i'm gay, one really never knows what someone would do with that information. he is a good person but i was too afraid to tell him. >> yeah. before you came out some people had a hard time believing it because they would come to you and say there are rumors you're gay. >> yeah. >> i think any person who is hiding a secret fears that moment when someone actually says it to them. i for years and years in my career up to almost nearly 20 years had really conditioned people, that includes people in my band, managers, people who worked for me. >> close to you. >> don't ask. they knew that you do not ask me questions like that. that caused me to be very detached and very cold really. >> i'm a little disappointed and surprised by the reaction that the country music industry, which by the way i like country music and think they have the nicest -- >> i do too. >> some of the nicest people in country music industry but they do seem, chely, to have rejected you. ever since you came out, you've not been invited to perform or really appear at any major events.
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is that a fair assessment that you've been rejected by them? >> as my friend rodney said in the film, he said, i don't think it's going to be fire and brimstone i think they're going to freeze her out. it's not my belief that i should be performing on every award show. there was a changing of the guard. now it's the new taylor swifts and carrie underwood and lady antebellum and that's a natural part of entertainment but what has been missing is there's an institutionalized friendship within country music once you're in and one of us, you're always invited to certain things. >> yes. >> to present or be a part or chair a committee for the country music hall of fame which i used to do things like that. and so i -- it's a rejection by silence and a rejection mostly because i would like to hear a country music artist, the big ones, not just say, i like chely. i like her even though she's gay. i need a country artist who is a
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big deal like jay-z in his community, he came forward and said, i believe in equality for all. >> he did. >> i'm struggling because i have not heard that from the big stars in country music. >> maybe you're the only gay country music person? and i'm kidding. >> oh. >> i am kidding. >> do you believe that there are others and do you wish that they would come out too? >> you know, basic statistics would tell us that there are others like me. >> you've told me that others have come to you and said -- i pdon't have the courage to come out there. while they're gay they're not prepared. >> there are a lot of people in the industry well, have radio people, programmers, producers, film writers, artists, a lot of folks in the industry, a lot have come to me and said, i just can't do it. >> but good tore you? >> yeah. yeah. and they wonder what -- they wonder why they can't or they say, oh, i'm out enough because i told my mom.
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you're really not out unless it says it on your wikipedia snij how will you navigate the future? you'll ask people to come forward for you? you will continue to perform? you will be creative and as good as you possibly can? >> i have my sights set on the positive things that i can do, the advocacy groups with whom i work. i don't need much from nashville. i'm not losing sleep over the fact that no one is standing up saying chely wright has done a great thing and this is important. i'm focusing my energies on how to work with the gay, lesbian, straight education network, try to eradicate bullying in public schools. my organization like me, we opened a brand new lgbt center in kansas city this spring. i'm trying to work on those things and use my voice to make sure that everyone out there in america knows you do love a gay person, it may not be me, but i promise you a neighbor, co-worker -- >> i promise you you do. >> and be mindful of the negative things you say about
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gays and lesbians because someone is listening. >> you said you didn't speak up, you didn't come out to shut up, you got married last year. >> i did. >> congratulations. it's wonderful. >> and she wore my favorite color, charlie. always a gad day. >> you sent me telepathic messages, wear yellow. >> thank you, chely wright. >> thank you. >> the name of her documentary is called "wish me away" will be in theaters in new york city this friday and then in los angeles on june 15th and everywhere else in between at a later date. it's also available on video on demand starting on friday. we'll be right back. later date. also available this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by beauty rest. living life fully charged. it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam
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>> good morning. let's get you caught up with some headlines. oakland fire crews are searching for the cause of a one alarm fire at an old victorian home in oakland on 29th street and martin luther king jr. way around 4:00 this morning. nobody was injured. neighbors tell us that squatters had used the building in the past. volunteers are searching for sierra lamar once again in morgan hill. the class kids foundation is organizing today's operation. antolin garcia-torres was arrested last week charged with kidnapping and murdering sierra but her family still has hope that she might be found alive. this morning, the two men accused of beating a giants fan are expected back in court.
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we have an accident near first street on westbound 580 and also slow and go out of the altamont pass. northbound 880 is slow as to work towards the mays and expect delays and no. 680 at bolger canyon off ramp because of a protest that has caused a back up. >> temperatures outside right now are a little on the cool side. some areas of low clouds and fog with temperatures mainly in the low to mid '50's. 55 in vallejo. upper '40's in pacifica. by this afternoon we will warm up. a little bit cooler along the coast but we will get to the upper 80s in some of the valley's,,,,,,,,
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♪ ♪ man walks down the street and says why am i talking to you now ♪ ♪ i want a shot at redemption ♪ don't want to end up as cartoon ♪ >> recognize that voice? recognize that sound? recognize that look? welcome back to "cbs this morning." paul simon, of course, that is. for 50 years paul simon has been a leader in american pop music. he's written dozens of classic songs like "the sounds of silence," "50 ways to leave your
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lover" and, of course, "you can call me al". >> win son marsalis talks with simon, musician to musician, about how he became one of the most important artists of his generation. ♪ shining like a national guitar ♪ >> reporter: for half a century the music of paul simon has taken us to extraordinary places. with with insights on love -- ♪ she said losing love is like a window in your heart ♪ >> reporter: longing -- ♪ so far away from home >> reporter: and laughter. ♪ had a lot of money >> reporter: his songs imluminant what we all have in common. >> you don't have to create it. it's already in existence. you just have to relegal it, you know? >> reporter: simon is a modern bard whose king is rooted in the endless possibilities of america.
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his first inspiration -- ♪ and i remember there was a radio ♪ >> reporter: -- childhood weekends filled with baseball and the family radio. >> i would listen to in those days there was only one station in new york, 1010, now a news station, but then it was a station where allen freed played rock 'n' roll six days a week. what he was playing was r&b vocal groups like sonny tillon. ♪ mess around >> then they would play maybe some ray charles, maybe some ruth brown. then all of a sudden he was playing johnny cash, elvis presley, buddy holly. to me it was all -- it was all the same. >> reporter: part of one expression. >> absolutely the same. ♪ when i was a little boy >> reporter: this integrated soundtrack inspired him and ignited an unquenchable spirit.
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♪ hello darkness my old friend". >> reporter: by the mid-60s he was dominate the same air waives with this haunting anthem that spoke directly to the national soul. ♪ the sound of silence >> reporter: thinking about the words of that song, as a 21-year-old person -- >> i have no idea. at the time i thought, that's better than i usually do. you know, i really -- i really have no concept at all about what is magical about inspiration, and i don't think about inspiration at all. i don't believe that you need inspiration. i don't say i'm going to wait around until some inspiration comes. no, if i'm going to write, i have to go to my writing space and, you know, start to write. ♪ she's a rich girl she don't try to hide ♪ >> reporter: paul's work ethic
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and talent propelled him to the apex of talent. he recorded 224 songs and 17 albums. through it all, he's followed his greatest gift, the abiity to engage human fundamentals deep within music itself. ♪ >> reporter: it's a rare skill that leads him to cross the borders of genre and culture in creating new and meaningful collaborations. >> musicians feel the same way. all around the world are very, very open to a dialogue of music. you're playing what you love and you want to hear what they love and what they play. well, cultural barriers fall to an amazing degree. >> reporter: right. ♪ >> reporter: as a result, his music is a seamlessly woven tapestry of diverse grooves, melody and techniques.
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everything, songs, recordings and performances, are so well executed as to appear effortless. but in truth, he is a meticulous craftsman -- >> fell too short. >> reporter: who honors the sacred pact between artist and audience by giving everything all of the time. ♪ if you'll be my body guard i can be your long last al ♪ >> reporter: "you can call me al" which is called the national anthem because everybody stands up. as soon as they play "you can call me al" all of a sudden everybody stands up. it's not my favorite song to sing. ♪ i can call you >> it's usually the song that makes me stop touring. somewhere in the middle of the tour, i'm doing "you can call me al" and i say to myself, what am i doing here, man? i'm just imitating a guy singing "you can call me al".
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>> reporter: even at 70, the integrity of his artistry remains steadfast, retaining its initial vitality as the music continues to evolve. >> when i was in my 20s and 30s, really, pretty much if i thought a song was really good and i liked it, so did everybody else. that's not the case anymore. you know, but i'm past that point in my life. i'm only concentrating on what can i make and how -- how can i do this without lying. ♪ walked alone ♪ narrow steeped the cobblestone ♪ >> reporter: today his classic and enlightened lyrics speak to a new generation. still seducing the country more than half a century later. ♪
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>> bob dylan's at the white house, wynton marsalis and paul simon are together. what a country. when the two of you -- the two of you together, is it different from two musicians sit down, do you speak a language you know know? >> it's different to talk about music and our country and our culture, because he has such an integrated concept, and he's so profoundly intelligent about a wide range of things. he knows how to put a lot of human fundamentals together. mainly about what his music is about, underlying things that affect us all. it's not typical. when you play together, that's a totally different thing because music, we're shaping it and following each other and making choices as we go along because music is in time. we're doing that as we create like melodies. we were play together a son song at the end of the song we look although each other and smile because we made a lot of choices in between to find each other and balance.
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>> it's an unspoken thing between the two of you. i love his lyrics is what i like "hello darkness my old friend" and i always thought he would go to the lyrics and go to the music second. but you said he starts with the music and goes to the lyrics. >> everything in music means something to him. like, he -- he is very specific about the difference between co-melodies, a french caribbean or new orleans melody, very specific about different types of shuffle rhythms and technical things in music. that's why musicians love him because he's very serious about the internal workings of music. >> you talk about how he's serious about the music. he talked about crossing cultural barriers with you. thomas friedman wrote about the flack he got for crossing those social barriers in the '80s. >> you see somebody put the cowboy hat on and you think it's country music or someone with a tie on, you think it's serious
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or a politician with a viewpoint trying to get votes. that's different than sitting in a room with musicians, rehear rehearsing, trying to come together on a statement. that's work. that's actually coming together. musicians that play with him love him and respect him in a way that's -- you can't buy that from people. just because of the intensity and the seriousness of the work, and the respect he has, for the totality of music and the underlying aspects of the music. >> i love the moment in which he said, eight's too much, two's too little, maybe six. >> he's very practical. if you say something profound, find something like a cliche. >> he apparently likes and respects you, too, because he talks a lot. >> i love talking with him. >> nice job. wynton marsalis, he's on our team. google is always looking for
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in 1999 marissa mayer was the 20th employee hired at google. over the years she's been responsible for a series of firsts in an industry that's often not seen so female-friendly. >> as google as vice president of product management, she's the youngist on "fortune" magazine's most powerful women in tech. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us how you think women are doing in silicon valley? >> i think it's a great place for women. but that said, i tend to think of my experience there, especially at google, not as one of a woman, but as a geek. and if you're a geek, like,
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silicon valley and google are great places to be. so i tend to really focus on that overall. i do think the nice thing about tech is it's a fast-moving industry, easy to get caught up, have new ideas, really get ahead. so i think it's that fast moving nature of it makes it more intimidating industry and also an industry where if you do jump in, you can make a big impact. >> is there a deeper penetration of women involved in startups in so will con valley? >> i think over time what we're seeing is there's more and more women computer science graduates. on a percentage basis would he may not be doing that well but overall a lot of women are entering technology and more and more women starting companies, which is great to see. >> let's get a sense of marissa. self-described geek, not a bad thing, who loves cupcakes ands on ka oscar de la renta.
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you started out wanting to be a pediatric neurosurgeon, and graduating from stanton with 14 job offers and the night before you're trying to figure out, where am i going to go, the process you used to figure out where to go is what? >> i tend to overanalyze thing. i took the job offers, a row for each job, a column for, you know, location, salary, overall happiness index, career trajectory, the field it was in. i actually worked with one of my friends, andre, this amazing economist and he was like, representative numbers, and charts and we spent all this time. i remember like, how am i going -- i made a comment to myself, and andre gave me this piece of advice, the best piece of advice i'd ever got. . he said, i understand the problem as well as you do and that's not what i see. i see the good choices and one
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you pick, commit and make great. he said, sleep to, see how you feel in the morning. i woke up in the morning, i wanted to work at google and i wanted to work at google because i felt like the smartest people were there and i felt like it was something i didn't feel ready to do so i knew it would be a big growth opportunity. and i also probably felt that for a bunch of reasons i couldn't articulate. >> let's talk about where google is today and where it is in contrast to the future. people talk about future and they talk about a lot of things, including social media, including icloud, and wireless. they talk about four companies, amazon, apple, facebook and google. how do you see google and also in different products now. i mean, facebook, social media, google was search, apple was commercial products and amazon was e-commerce. now everybody's business, including google getting into social media. can you compete with facebook? >> well, i think that one of the
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things that's interesting about technology right now is this confluence of all these different factors. information and what's available online and the social aspects. and the mobile aspects. and i think that's something that's really exciting. and, in fact, as of today we're launching something called google plus local. it's available on the desk, available on mobile, shows you what your friends think of places, shows you their reviews, helps you find better places to go. >> so it's a search -- it's a social media search engine? >> that's right. it's with google plus and also available from search and maps. when you go there, we have recommended places. so, we -- like places you've liked and reviewed in the past, places your friends have liked, we recommend some places, all based on your location. and you can do searches. you can say, okay, i want to find burgers in seattle. and we come back and we'll show
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you the zgat review, a wonderful community of reviewers providing input into the scores there. and there's also, you know, reviews from your friends so you can get a sense of, this isn't just a great burger joint but a great burger joint my friend joe has been to. >> what's the most exciting thing for you when you looked at the future in terms of technology and broad appreciation and use of it? >> well, i think that, you know, there is this amazing local mobile social moment and that's google plus local on the phone is designed to bring to you because on the phone, your phone knows where you are. so, i think of it -- it's a curser. like on a word processing document, it shows you where you are. your phone shows you where you are. and maps it in the virtual world. the truth is, at any given moment there's probably three to ten facts useful for you.
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if i'm on my phone with google plus local i can say, hey, i'm on this street corner, like where's the nearest place helpful to me? that's something our new offering involves. >> where are we in terms of bringing advertising to mobile and wireless? >> i think there's a lot of grit great opportunities here. it's a very new space, a growing space. >> has it been proven yet? >> one thing we're seeing, it's one of the biggest and fastest growing new areas for us at google. >> advertisement on mobile? >> mobile advertisements. you know, we really are very proud of where it's going but it's very early. when you look at mobile usage, one of the most remarkable things about google maps, is that more than 50% of the usage of google maps comes from phones. >> wow. >> and that will be true forever. >> it's going to increase. >> it's going to keep going up because the truth is, maps are a
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killer application on the phone. so, there's just this huge opportunity around mobile because your mobile device understands location to provide you great information, to provide great advertisements and context for users there. it's really exciting. >> i'm so technically challenge. it seems like a lot of fun for you. you say technology should be fun. >> absolutely. it's really been -- i mean, i love to build things. you know, the google plus local team has just been a joy to work with for the past year. >> i don't know what your other job offers were, but clearly you made a good choice when you decided, i'm going to google. >> great to see you. >> marissa mayer from google. thank you. >> another thing to play with with google. we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning." ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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♪ i walked alone hearing it just makes you love what culture does for you. two people at the place they are and what they've accomplished. >> you can see the mutual respect and admiration between the two, which is nice. what do you bet we're going it go through the day with "call me al" through hour heads? how long before that -- >> you know what -- >> silence might do it for me. >> i want to hear "graceland" too. all those albums you hear them and you just want to have that soundtrack. >> paul simon heard that, resonated, and he decided to make it what he did. >> thank you, paul. >> and thank you wynton. >> and we love that he's on our team, as you said, gayle.
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>> good morning. but if you caught up with some of the bay area had winds. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is tapping donors with deep pockets in the bay area today. keble wine and dine with supporters today where tickets range from $2,500 up to $50,000. caltrans wants to hear from the public about a plan to expand service. the agency will hold a public meeting tonight in san carlos. the uss iowa has finally arrived off the coast of the port of l.a.. it sailed out of san francisco bay on saturday to become an interactive museum. it served a major role in world
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war two. >> it should be a pretty nice day by this afternoon across the bay area. plenty of sunshine but right now we still have low clouds and some fog. we do have high pressure building so warmer temperatures for most of the bay area. these are the high temperatures by this afternoon. still a little bit cooler in places like pacific up but upper 80s especially in the interior valleys. warmer by tomorrow and then cooling by the start of the weekend.
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>> if you are taking the bart train trains are right on time. caltrans is not the case, we have some delays this morning so check the schedule before you head out. 101 at no. down near tully road we have reports of an accident blocking wanes. you can see line of cars there and the rest of the south bay is a little bit sluggish a especially on guadalupe parkway. don't forget tonight that metering lights get turned on on 280. traffic is backed up along westbound 237. better news as you work along 280 on the peninsula. this earlier accident has been cleared out of the roadway and
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