eyewitness news this morning. your next local update is at 725. have a great day everyone. good morning. it is monday, june 25, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. erica hill is off today. tropical storm debby soaked florida's gulf coast, spawning a deadly tornado and raising fears of major flooding. also, one of the jurors in the jerry sandusky trial talks to us about the emotional conviction. i'm gayle king. prices at the pump are plunging but this morning a former oil executive warns that might not be a good thing. that age-old debate about women having it all takes a new twist. >> one on one with tennis star

maria sharapova. as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. my garage is gone. the whole house is flooded. >> tropical storm debby tears into the gulf coast. >> oh, my god. look at this. take some video, honey. >> tropical storm warnings from mississippi to central florida. >> the storm has been blamed for at least one death. >> some places could see as much as two feet of flooding rain. >> fom the weather center, which we sometimes call extreme, because it is tonight. >> you've got that right, lady. >> i think there's going to be a real uproar against a politicized supreme court. >> the justices could rule as early as today whether president obama's health care reform is constitutional. >> if the court strikes down the whole bill, i think it will be a political disaster for the administration. >> i was juror number 11. i think we felt we knew what he

had done. >> jerry sandusky's lawyers now say they tried to withdraw from the case saying they didn't have time to prepare. >> more than 11,000 colorado residents remain out of their homes and out of the path of a raging wildfire. 2800 acres have burned. >> mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood. >> the first freely elected leader since 1952. >> a pair of bears fighting. they got into a wrestling match right in the middle of a residential neighborhood. >> all that. >> going to the semifinal of euro 2012. >> oh, wow. >> the octopus pushing the -- then he goes down. oh, all eight arms going down. >> and all that matters. >> feast your eyes on the ugliest dog. >> he's so ugly, he's cute. >> on "cbs this morning." >> i'll come to your house bob schieffer and mow your lawn if you can find president obama's specific proposals on reforming entitlements in this country. >> i live in an apartment. you don't have to worry about mowing my lawn.

captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." tropical storm debby is pounding parts of the gulf coast with heavy rain and tornadoes. the damage could go on for days because the storm is sitting just off shore and not moving. andy alcock from our tallahassee affiliate, wctv has the latest. >> i'm standing in the part called forgotten coast but it's getting too much attention from tropical storm debby. you can see where the gulf of mexico is surging up on a road leaving debris. one small example of all tissues this storm is causing along the gulf coast. tropical storm debby driven by 60 mile-per-hour winds has already drenched much of the gust with rainfall totals expected to reach as high as 25 inches in some areas. storm also spawned a number of tornadoes and water spouts across the state.

an island county sheriff reported several tornadoes, one in venice florida killed a woman in her home. residents of alabama and other seaside communities brace for more high winds and heavy rain. also in alabama coast guard officials report one swimmer went missing off the coast of baldwin county. the storm is projected to move very slowly over the next two to three days with 10 to 15 inches of rain for much of the florida panhandle. we have widespread power outages, roads like the one behind me closed oil rigs closed in the gulf coast. the main issue right now is the flooding in the low-lying areas. charlie, gayle. >> david bernard chief meteorologist of our to miami station cbs 4 is tracking debby. >> the big problem is exactly that. where it's going. not anywhere any time fast. the big issue has been rainfall and it's still going to be. this is the rainfall potential the next 48 hours.

keep in mind, this is on top of what has already occurred. portions of north florida, maybe even coastal south carolina and georgia could see well over another foot of rain. now, here's where the storm is right now. still no movement. a little weaker than it was last night with 50 mile per hour winds. about 90 miles south, southwest of appalachia, florida. tropical storm watch for tampa. warnings for the florida panhandle. and the future track, well, this is a big cone of uncertainty, a large circle. but the idea is a slow drift. the rest of the week and the northern gulf of mexico may be pushing inland. as long as it's sticking around like that, we're going to continue to have that threat of heavy rain. even in orlando or miami could have minor flooding problems the next couple of days. >> david bernard, thank you. in washington the supreme court is reading opinions at this hour. it's long awaited decision on

president obama's haerl law could come today. >> the justice are deciding if it's constitutional. we don't know what the decision is. jan has the latest. >> reporter: just after 10:00 on the east coast. the justice are inside summarizing the decision. we don't know if it's health care but it will be this week. it's president obama's signature achievement considered the most significant achievement in 40 years. >> with the supreme court set to rule at any moment, democrats and republicans are fine tuning their message. >> we know that it must be repealed in its entirety. >> i think that the -- we're ironclad on the constitutionality of the bill. >> since the law passed, millions have taken advantage of some provisions already in place, like coverage for adult children up to age 26 on their parents' insurance. but the court must decide whether an unpopular part of the law, the requirement that all

americans have health insurance or pay a penalty known as the individual mandate is constitutional. the potential outcomes ranging from the court's upholding the law in its entirety, striking down the controversial individual mandate and leaving the rest or most of the law in place or declaring the entire bill unconstitutional. mitt romney says if the court upholds the law, he'll work to eliminate it. >> regardless of what they do, it's going to be up to the next president to either repeal and replace obama care or to replace obama care. >> president obama has made his news clear on what the court should do. >> i am confident this will be upheld because it will be upheld. >> he hasn't said what he will do if it's struck down. white house officials indicated they will try to implement whatever is left. candidates across the country are preparing for the decision. indiana senate candidate richard murdock is ready for any scenario. his campaign accidentally released videos he's filmed to cover every possible outcome.

>> we've had a brief moment of celebration because the supreme court ruled that obama care is in fact unconstitutional. we now know that obama care came down to the split decision, they've ruled it constitutional. >> whatever the court decides, it's unlikely that republicans on capitol hill will rush to make major changes to the health care legislation. they want to keep the focus on the economy through election day. charlie and gayle. >> jan, if the supreme court does say it's unconstitutional in part or whole, who are the winners and losers? >> charlie, that is a question everybody is arguing about in washington and no one agrees. there are a lot of people say, i mean republicans who say this, that while it would be a humiliating defeat for the president, his signature legislation, he's a constitutional law scholar, if the court repudiated this law that he states his first term on, it wouldn't be so great for mitt romney either. romney has campaigned against this law. he's saying he's the only thing that stands between americans and socialized medicine.

not really a clear call on who this would benefit. one thing is for sure, it's going to be a huge political fight through november. >> jan crawford, thank you. jerry sandusky's sex abuse trial came to a dramatic end friday night in the bellefonte, pennsylvania, courtroom. hundreds of people surrounded the courthouse as he was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 boys over a 15-year span. this morning sandusky is in jail awaiting to be sentenced. he's reportedly under a suicide watch. his lawyers say they will appeal but it's likely that he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. the seven women and the five men found sandusky guilty of 45 of the 48 charges. one juror described it in her own words. >> my name is ann. i was juror number 11 for the sandusky trial. in some ways you feel unworthy as an individual. you don't want to make that kind

of decision, but you also have many other lives in your hands in this case, we have the victims. the first victim that stepped forward, he was compelling in that his story, it was very complete and it was difficult in that i have a son who you could imagine being that age and i think that you could really sympathize with him. i want them to heal and get the help that they need, to have a life that they deserve. nobody deserves what happened to them. the deliberations were calm. people were serious about them and respectful. >> premised on jerry testifying. >> you know, we never talked about should he have testified or why he didn't testify. i know in my own mind i wondered. i think i would have liked to hear what he had to say. i would have liked to see him answer questions. >> jerry, what do you have to

say about the verdict? >> we watched him to see how he would react and there was very little reaction. i think that we felt that he knew what he had done. >> pennsylvania governor tom corbett was the attorney general in 2009 when the sandusky investigation began. he's also a member of the penn state trustees. governor, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. how are you today sm. >> good, thank you. please today to have you here. want to look back briefly and forward. looking back, does anything about this investigation, this trial and this conviction surprise you? >> charlie, no. i think it surprises some people. the length of time it took. but having been an assistant d.a. and assistant u.s. attorney in handling cases like this, i understood that the -- you have to do a complete investigation and get as many witnesses as you possibly can.

so this took us a lot longer than people would like it to take. but we built an ironclad case and i think the jury demonstrated with their convictions of 45 of 48 counts. that it was an iron clad case. >> does it surprise you that the defense is saying listen, we didn't have enough time to prepare our case? >> i'm not surprised that they would say that. they've had a number of months to go through the files, through the witnesses. obviously, it will be the subject of an appeal at some point in time. but defense attorneys are going to try and appeal this decision. in this case, the jury had the opportunity to hear the compelling testimony of these now young men who were young boys who suffered at the hands of this pedophile. >> governor, what does this mean for penn state going forward? >> well, this is a chapter that is behind. i'm proud of the administration

and the board of trustees that are trying to deal with this through a very difficult time. we have a search for a new president ongoing at the same time. but we're all waiting to see former judge louie freeze report. that will set some of the guide posts for the administration and for the board of trustees as to how to prevent this in the future. but particularly, what i think this case has brought out is that this is a problem in the united states. it is a problem here in pennsylvania. and when a young boy is accusing somebody, particularly somebody of celebrity status, it is very difficult to get them to come forward and i still encourage people to go and bring this kind of information forward to all the authorities. >> because that did not happen and some people say that penn state has been on trial as well and penn state has to address that and perhaps louie freeze investigation will. there remains a question about

penn state and the way it handled this. >> well, there is another investigation, as you know, two other individuals have been charged at this point. the attorney general said the investigation is ongoing. that is now separate from the sandusky case. so it is somthing that has to be looked at closely. will be looked at closely. i know that i am waiting to see. i've known director free for a very, very long time. i'm looking forward to seeing his report and his recommendations. >> governor, thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> president-athletic mohamed morsi started forming his new government today. he could be sworn in on saturday. serious questions remain over how much authority he will have. >> he faces a power struggle with egypt's military rules. charlie d'agata is in cairo where his supporters celebrated his historic victory. >> they've cleaned up tahrir square after a night of

celebrations. the new president-elect moved into the office once occupied by hosni mubarak. no surprise he's not wasting any time. there is a lot of work to do. >> the crowd gathered in tahrir square, could hardly hear what they were believing. their candidates the muslim brotherhood, mohamed morsi has made history, becoming the country's first democratically elected president. >> when that moment was announced, what was going through your mind? >> many things, many things. this was like -- the emotion of the moment that a lot of things were going on inside. it was a very happy moment. >> few had dared to truly believe the country's ruling generals would allow somebody outside their ranks to win the country's highest post. supporters of his rival, former military commander ahmed shafiq were more shocked by the results. in his victory speech, mohamed morsi paid tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for

freedom in the country's revolution 16 months ago. the u.s. trained engineering professor said he would be a president for all egyptians. although he may be the president-elect, the ruling generals still hold most of the power. that standoff is no closer to being resolved. president obama called him to congratulate him. there are reservations in washington about having an islamist leader in egypt. that won't be helped by news this morning by morsi saying he wants to expand ties with iran in order to maintain a strategic balance in the region. for "cbs this morning," i'm charlie d'agata? cairo. colorado's wildfire trouble is getting worse this morning. the latest broke out over the weekend near colorado springs forcing mass evacuations. rick sallinger of cbs 4 is in colorado springs right now to bring us up to date. rick, hello to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle.

this is being called the waldo canyon fire. it sprung up on saturday and has burn more than 3,000 acres. no structures have been lost but about 6,000 residents remain under evacuation orders from their homes. it's become an all too familiar sight for colorado residents. fire and smoke tearing through the dry brush. this time near colorado springs. the outlook is not encouraging. with windy weather expected to continue to fan the flames. >> the fire is currently growing in three general directions, to the northeast, to the southwest and to the northwest. >> the fire has displaced thousands from their homes. >> what do we take in case our house burns down? it's really hard. >> firefighters will get no help from mother nature. temperatures are expected to hit the high 90s for the next two days.

>> i think it's the greatest natural threat we've seen in the last 30, 40 years in this community. >> there are eight wildfires burning across colorado right now, the largest at more than 80,000 acres. officials say they have no idea when this newest fire will be contained.

this is a cbs news special report. good morning. the supreme court has just handed down its ruling in one of the biggest cases of this term. the justices have upheld part of and struck down part of an arizona law that is designed to crack down on illegal immigration. the law required police officers to check the immigration status

of anyone they stop or arrest if they suspect that that person is in the country illegally. jan crawford, cbs news chief legal correspondent, is at the supreme court with breaking news now. jan? >> well scott, by a narrow ruling, the justices five justices in the majority written by that key swing vote justice kennedy ruled that the most controversial provision in that arizona law, which as you described, requires police officers to check a person's immigration status if they've been stopped for another violation, is not unconstitutional at this point. the court struck down three other provisions of the law, ruling that they conflicted with federal immigration laws. those also were controversial provisions. one would require immigrants in arizona to carry immigration papers. another would make it a crime to hold a job or deceit work. those conflicted with the federal law. therefore, were unconstitutional. under constitution the federal law is supreme.

but on the main provision that has been so controversial that encouraged other states to look at similar laws. right now five other states have similar laws, arizona could go forward at this point. scott, this decision is in an early stage. these legal challenges are at an early stage. what will happen is if this law takes effects and police officers begin these kinds of checks and stops someone most certainly will file another lawsuit arguing it violates their civil rights. these disputes are far from over. let's switch to wyatt andrews also at the supreme court. why did the court strike down the parts of the arizona law that it did? >> scott, in a way this was a state's rights lawsuit brought by arizona or originated by arizona. it was not about the entire constitutional ality of the law. it was about the four

enforcement provisions that jan just laid out, show me your papers make it a crime if you didn't have your immigration papers on you make it a crime if you applied for a job, and a fourth one allowing police to arrest anyone they merely thought may have committed a deportable crime. so the supreme court made it legal for the police to have folks show them their papers but illegal to have it be a crime that you not have your papers a crime if you held a job being an undocumented alien. they threw out the ability of police to arrest people on suspicion of a deportable crime. in those three areas the justices are saying that is the federal government's authority. that's where the constitution gives congress the right to regulate naturalization and therefore immigration. on the front end, the show me your papers provision the supreme court is saying it is a state's right to be the police in that state. in that one ruling arizona was

arguing, and the other states are ruling they get to believe the police. states have police powers. so show me your papers is ruled legal by the supreme court. >> wyatt thank you. we're joined now by new york university law professor who was a law clerk for thurgood marshall. how does this change the law of the land? >> well the federal government has the power for immigration orders. states on the border said we want to play a role. federal government is not doing enough. this decision gives arizona a partial victory and a partial loss. but what the supreme court essentially has done is to permit the states to play more of a role than they traditionally have in enforcing the immigration laws. that's the key conclusion of today's conclusions. >> the argument was this is strictly the purview of the federal government. states should not be involved in policing an international border. that changes that long-standing premise, doesn't it?

>> it changes it in a modest way but an important way. because arizona now has permission from the supreme court if they have lawfully stopped somebody and have reasonable suspicion to notify the federal government to put the federal government on notice and say what do you want us to do with this person. arizona is in its view cooperating by saying we're going to let you know when we have people we think are el illegal who have been stopped or arrested. now the law is in your court, federal government. what are you going to do about it? >> thank you very much. we will leave you now but we are also waiting for more decisions to be handed down by the supreme court today. today is the end of their regular term. and so we were hoping that we might have a result on the health care decision. the court has also informed us that it could be any day this week that that comes down. but it also could be today as they continue to read decisions at the court.

we are monitoring that closely and we will come back to you if there is a decision on the health care law today. we will have more on all of this on >> 8726, time for the news headlines. arson investigators are at work in redwood city. two vehicles burned at about 3:00 this morning just of around the corner from each other. a woman, her daughter and granddaughter were displaced by house fire last night. nobody was injured. one out of seven oakland police officers is currently on medical leave unable to work on the streets, a much higher rate than any other department.

>> first let's took a look at the bay bridge toll plaza where it is still about a 20 minute wait to get on to the bridge. still backed up to the foot of the maze. metering lights remain on. elsewhere let's go to west down in portola an accident on the median. >> we're looking pretty good on this monday morning. a few clouds making their way around the area but a good start today. as we look towards the afternoon the weather is looking great with temperatures in the 40's and 50's. cooler than normal but still very comfortable. '50s and '

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here's the deal. you stop trying to convince us you're a regular guy who does regular things like us regular folks and we'll pretend you're not pumping diesel fuel into the baggage compartment of that bus. >> who knows? i'll bet he knows how to work a nozzle. >> i suspect. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> for several weeks, drivers have been happy to see the gas prices -- the national average is $3.42 a gallon. >> a few months ago shell oil president john hofmeister predicted $5 a gas this summer. he's here to explain this morning why cheaper gas may not

be such good news after all. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> i'll get to that in a moment. but first, why is gas going down at the pump? >> it's the weak economy. this is the third year in a row. three years running that we've seen rising gas prices in the late winter early spring really put a crunch on consumers' disposable income. they start pulling back from other purchases because they can't both buy high priced gas and buy the other necessities or discretionary things they want. it's an underlying weakness that three years in a row hit the u.s. economy with a falling stock market, with a rising unemployment or increasing jobless applications and this has gone on now year after year. any robustness in the economy, given the failure to create an energy policy in the country, really led to this kind of weak economy. >> okay. so demand is going down and supply goes up. the equation says prices will

fall. how far will it go? >> you don't know. here's an interesting conundrum right now. difficult to understand. the saudis are essentially producing as high as they have ever produced. they're really trying to thread a needle here because their peer is that the global economy is so weak, they could see the price collapse. what the saudis don't want to see and no one does is a complete price collapse like we had in 2008 when we get down below $35 a barrel. you can't produce today's oil in many parts of the world at that low price. the saudis are producing 10 million barrels a day u.s. production is up a little bit over prior years and that is -- in the face of a weak economy, china cutting back its demand u.s. demand is down european demand is down. we end up with a sliding crude oil price. i think it could get into the 70s. but there comes a point where the saudis need a higher oil

price to pay their costs, the cost was doing business the social costs. the fundamental problem, charlie, we have to come to grips with where are we going with energy as a nation. for everybody barrel that we import, that means we're not producing a domestic barrel, that means a domestic job is not being created. that means consumers aren't getting the assurance of future security from domestic production and we'll go back into this high price rise next time we see economic strength. >> it's clear we have a lot of work to do on that. you said the $5 figure when you were back i said i hope he's wrong. >> there are people who paid $5 this spring on the west coast. >> i remember that. >> i was in anchorage last thursday, friday they're paying over $4 a gallon still? anchorage a gallon where we produce a third largest oil in the country. >> are you saying that high gas prices is a sign of a good

economy? that seems counterintuitive out there shopping. >> high gas prices would suggest that people are spending on more than just gasoline but it's a failure of government leadership to allow an energy formula to come together so -- the reason the high prices happen is we're borrowing oil, we're buying oil from off shore. why do we keep buying oil off shore when we have more oil in this country than we'll ever use? >> some people say we ought to have high gas prices at the pump to create an energy policy for the future which means developing alternative sources, including natural gas and others. i've heard that many times and i get that a lot. the reality is, we have no substitute in this country for personal mobility. in other words, a european collection of countries has a mass transit system that takes care of people's mobility needs even if they don't have a vehicle. in europe, a vehicle is seen as a discretionary purchase because you don't have to have one to

get around. you can't do that in this country. this country has failed miserably in a transportation policy that provides public transportation where people want it. we're failing miserably in an energy policy where we're not getting the kind of leadership we need to produce our own energy. >> so many smart people working on it why can't we get it right? >> i call it the perverse at this of partisanship. it's holding the country back. we haven't had a president in years, let's go back not just the current president, many presidents can't rise bofr the perverseity of partisanship to lead the nation towards where the people are benefited instead of the parties benefited. >> that's affecting things other than oil prices. >> yes, it is. >> thank you, john. pleasure to have you here. a year ago, maria sharapova left wimbledon disappointed. she talks with us about life tennis and business.

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google ceo larry page has nothing to say right now because he's lose his voice. as you can imagine, getting big attention in silicon valley where some are concerned about his health. an e-mail was sent to google employees saying there's nothing seriously wrong. last year eric schmidt told stockholders that he will continue to run the company. you see him speaking to me in an interview several weeks ago. welcome back to "cbs this morning." his voice was okay at that time. >> it was. yes. >> good. >> it made news. >> made news. it always does on the charlie rose show. maria sharapova is more than a tennis champion. she's practically an industry

earning more in prizes and endorsements than any other female athlete. >> she's number one again on the tennis tour. she talks with mark phillips about what it takes to be on top. >> yes it's wimbledon time again and the tennis circus is in town. two weeks of fierce competition and not just for tickets. wimbledon, like all great sporting events these days is one part athletics, two parts showbiz an the biggest star in the women's game is maria sharapova. the women's tennis circuit likes to market top players like movie stars. it's just as well some of them look the part. none more so than maria determination on it. and now after her victory in the french open two weeks ago, which followed wins earlier in her career at the u.s. open and the

australian and at wimbledon, sharapova is one of eight women to achieve the career grand slam. now she's back in london to begin another shot at the wimbledon tight am. at the end of the french open, you seemed pleased with yourself or satisfied. it was the fourth one and all that stuff. you now have the complete set. why were you so satisfied? >> i feel like i worked so hard to get to that moment. you go through so many good days and bad days and there are days where you think, are the good days going to be that worth it are they going to feel so good. in the moment i won match point and got on my knees, it's that moment where everything comes together. >> did tennis players, like football or soccer players, practice their victory dance at the end in do you know what you're going to do sm. >> no. but i've seen photographs of me winning the four grand slams. my reactions are pretty much the same.

i go on my knees and i do something. i'm quite shocked. but i certainly don't practice it. i don't want to jinx anything. >> practicing not victory celebrations but hitting the ball is what tennis players do. even those ranked number one in their sport. which is what maria sharapova is again at the age of 25. just four years ago, it looked like she'd never play top-level tennis again, never mind win another championship. she needed surgery on a recurring shoulder problem. it's the kind of injury that ends careers. >> you know i got injured at a pretty young age of 21. that's usually not the age where you have to get shoulder surgery. so -- also not exactly an injury that i've known other players to come back from, especially in tennis. >> did you ever think you wouldn't come back sm. >> the comeback wasn't continuous.

anyone in my team would tell you that. not just with the events but emotionally as well. as a tennis player six days a week, you wake up and you try to go and practice and improve and get better. that's taken away from you and you start waking up in the morning. i was like well i'm so sick of putting casual clothes on. i want to put my nike stuff on. it becomes boring. so at the end of the day, i was really missing that. >> the clothing reference is not an accident. sharapova's endorsement contract contributes to her $25 million a year income not just clothes but bags watches, being a top tennis player is one thing. have super model to go along with the talent makes her the hottest property on the market in so many ways. but the world's top earning woman athlete says it's still all about the tennis. >> it's not my job to judge somebodyat.

>> it's a long way from the seven-year-old little girl tennis prodigy brought to the u.s. from russia by her father and who as she got older showed her skill and a killer instinct. >> they saw how much i loved competing against somebody. i was never the one that liked to practice and hit millions of balls even though i knew it was good for me. when i saw somebody across the net, i wanted to win. they saw that they saw the desire the passion i had for the sport and did everything they could to make me better. >> there's a cliche in the sport, not just you, the williams sister. the talent the tennis stage parent i suppose. do you feel that's what you had and you -- >> at the end of the day, where are you going to be without that driving force? >> her father doesn't travel with her anymore. there's a new man in her life.

basketball player sasha. >> will you be famously married soon? waiting for the end of the tennis before that happens? >> probably. i'll probably wait a little bit. >> so at 25 she's done it all and has more money than she can ever spend. why go on? >> do you love it? >> that's a tough question. there are so many things i love about it. i really did. there are days like i said how many years are you going to do this for? but i don't think that you will see me so much around it in the daily life of the sport when i'm done. >> it's fun as long as you're winning? >> that helps. but it's not always about the winning. you know it's sport. >> it is sports. as somebody once said, that's why they play the games. anything can happen. there's another competition here every year that's between the tournament organizers and the weather. on day one at

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>> let's go out towards milpitas. west lb 237 is slow right now. there is a stall right before the 101 interchange. kind of slow and go as you make your way up the nimitz from the coliseum. to the south bay northbound 101 an accident is blocking one lane. >> a couple of clouds outside right now but i think we have a very nice day ahead as it looks like some more mild temperatures. plenty of clouds right now over san francisco. temperatures running in the fifties. mild numbers in the afternoon. '60s and '70s around the bay. the next couple

mugly sure is ugly and proud of it or at least his owner is. mugly is this year's winner of the world's ugliest dog contest. he's an 8-year-old chinese crested from england. as top dog he gits the top prize of $1,000 and a year's supply of cookies. >> i want him to know i think he's handsome. >> do you really charlie? >> i really do. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose. erica hill is off. we'll be starting an old debate for women.

how to juggle demanding careers with raising children. i found myself in a job that is typical for the vast majority of working women, working long hours on someone else's schedule. i could no longer be both parent and the professional i want to be. >> she also writes it is society that must change. coming to value choices to put family ahead of work just as much as those who put work ahead of family. so this as you might imagine, is causing quite the stir. sally, former ce merrill lynch wealth management. contributor lee woodruff joins us in the conversation. i saw you, sally, out of the corner of my eye shaking your head. for the sake of this conversation, let's define, what does it mean having it all? it means different things for different people. for this conversation, what does it mean? >> that's exactly right. where she starts the article, she's trying to have it all working 18 hour days. the math doesn't work. for different people that means very different things. having it all is different for

me than my sister for example. it's a very very personal issue. >> are you surprised that years later we are still having this having it all conversation? >> yes. that it's 2012. but what i also marvel at is that we haven't made more progress, that at the senior level of companies, of corporations, of boards we really have plateaued out of that 15, 16% of women. >> she makes the argument that women haven't risen to the ranks in enough places and numbers to really help facilitate that change. and what i think is so interesting really is where we are today, but think about where we are when i started in the '80s with my little bow ties. >> i would argue emotionally we're still wearing those men's clothes. there's an entire industry talking about how you as a woman should behave in order to make it in a man's world, how you should ask for a raise, how you should conduct yourself. how about corporations start to think about flexibility without

change? >> so if women were more -- if there are more women as ceos they would do what steps in order to make the combination of parenting and being a professional better? >> i think they would recognize flex time. we were talking about this in the greenroom. it's okay for a woman to go home at 5:30 and have dinner with their children. that woman is going to get bag oj e-mail at 8:30 and probably work until 11:bo. one of the interesting things i thought about this article was the 30 somethings looking as the 60 something saying that's not who i want to be. i don't want to go home to an empty apartment. how can i figure out how to find this balance in professionalism and personal life? >> right. >> how did you do it sally? you've had all of these things working at one time. you were a big deal on wall street. you had a family. >> she's still -- >> i -- >> big deal period. >> different ways at different points.

when my kids were younger i was a research analyst which had flexibility. when they were older i was in a job that didn't have as much flexibility, but the one important thing i did, i had a great husband. we were talking earlier -- >> they make the point that it's important to marry the right person. >> there is a big difference between walking through the door because a meeting went late and having your husband roll his eyes virss walking through that door and having him say, could i get you a glass of wine? >> roll his eyes and have a glass of wine. >> both. there's a reason i'm married to the second husband. >> really. and of course we're talking about this section of society, women who want to have child care, somebody who can step in when you travel overseas. and those are really the hard things. i think society is so fascinating is the 30 something divide. i look at my daughter. i made a choice with my mother who stayed at home. i don't want that. my daughter sees me and i think

she's looking at me going, oh, hell no. look at how stressed out my mother is trying to wear all of these hats. her choice will be interesting. >> do you know stressed out women? >> yes. >> are you stressed out? >> yeah. >> you really are? >> my kids see me running. 34078, get me a waffle. i'm finishing a sentence here i've got a conference call here or foundation board meeting here. i think women wear so many hats. i'm not sure my daughter sees my juggling. >> a what do you want to change? >> i think what sally said. i think companies to understand and people to understand this greater flexibility and also the ability to say, these are my kids and i'm going to make the softball game tonight. >> and not feel that you're not a good employee. >> correct. >> and not feel that you're lesser than or up to it. >> interesting statistic. 60% of working moms with minor children want flexibility but only a small portion get that. so we have an entire group of

people who are running around not opt at this miezing. they've got an entire group of stay-at-home moms who want to work part time. if we could bring them fully into the work force. >> we ought to underline one more time here that there are a lot of working women who have to have two jobs because they have to have jobs as long as their husband have jobs. it's a totally different environment in difficult economic times. >> some people say, guys it's not the company's responsibility. i hired you, sally, to do a job. i expect you to be here from this time to this time. it's not my problem to figure out how you handle your balance. >> that's fine. the conditions that are going to win are going to engage

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as we looked around the web this morning we found a few reasons for charlie and me to make some long stories short. let's start with our pascoe, washington, affiliate. reports on a severe sun burn case at an elementary school. she was horrified when she saw her two daughters. teachers can't apply sun screen and students can't either unless they have a doctor's note. somebody needs to get on the plan there. >> upi.com reports that handwriting skills are on the decline because we're all typing and texting. a british survey says the average person hasn't written by hands in 31 days. one in three hasn't written anything in six months. >> do you think that's true? >> yeah. i don't write as much either. new york daily news says so-called restaurants are booming in these tough economic times. it's less about the view and

more about the customers feel well special. the three biggest breast restaurant chains each had a 30% increase in sales last year. i guess they're serving up the girlfriend experience. i thought it was the chicken wings at hooters. >> new zealand three news says it's never too late for love or too far. american richard tracy fell in love with norma millford 69 years ago when he was stationed as a marine in world war ii. the relationship ended when he had to return home to the states. they never forgot each other. they reunited over the weekend. on norma's 89th birthday guess what richard did? he popped the question. guess what she did? she said yes. >> 70 years, that's strong. blockberg business week crowns a new box office winner. the new pixar winner "brave" took in more than $66 million.

it continues an unbroken record of first place openings for pixar dating back to "toy story." alex trebek is recovering from a mild heart attack. it was not too long ago that he was here with us at this very table. he was hospitalized saturday in los angeles. he is expected to recover fully - and all of us here wish him well. and that's lms. >> nice. sitting right there. >> he was, indeed. he's okay they say. >> we know there's a boulder, colorado, but a bolder in california is suddenly getting all the attention. this morning we'll look at l.a.'s newest and biggest rock star but first it's time for this morning's health watch with dr. holley phillips. good morning today. in health watch, doing gone asthma. dogs shouldn't be considered man's best friends. it turns out they may be better friends to your lungs. previous studies showed that

kids with dogs are less likely to develop asthma. new data helped to explain why. researchers collected dust from homes that had a dog and exposed a laboratory mice to the dust. the mice that had contact with the dust were protected from a common respiratory virus linked to asthma in children called rsv. the dust promoted more healthy bacteria in the body which helps the immune system to fight off infections. this is considered part of a growing body of research that backs up the hygiene hypothesis. that's the idea that extreme cleanliness may actually promote disease later on. so for kids, being exposed to doggy dirt may help

kicked off. more than 1200 people watched from both. columbia won round one. an american finished second. all we have to say about that is good luck and be safe. welcome back to shoe. they say never say never, charlie. is that something you're interested in trying. you're an adventure rouse fellow. >> not that far. >> even though you haven't been to hooters. not doing that either? new york has the statute of liberty. i believe it too. washington has its monuments. now los angeles has a new attraction of its own but it's not exactly statueesque. some people are asking is this art? ben tracy reports on a very different kind of hollywood hunk. >> reporter: in a town where

celebrities are often the center of the universe something far less flashy has managed to steal the spotlight. >> i think it is brilliant. i think it is monumental. >> monolithic. >> cool. >> reporter: they're talking about a rock. what the los angeles county museum of art calls a sculpture. the museum is betting its reputation and $10 million from donors that this will become a must-see l.a. icon. >> this is either the best idea ever or it's a total screwup. >> reporter: well, the massive crowd that turned out to walk under the 340 ton bolder seemed to think it was pretty cool. >> i felt like i was on another planet. >> i was like, that was the biggest rock i've ever seen in my life. >> you step back a little bit further you can see the sun and the edges of palm trees. >> reporter: michael gotham showed us around before the big

debut. he welcomes the big debate about whether or not this is art. >> what the artist has done by situating it is asking all those questions about a form right, that you can examine it in three dimensions, that it has light and shadow. >> reporter: you speak very elegantly about this as art. are you okay that people come because they want to stand under a big rock? >> that's what they should want to do. is that different than what ancient cultures were doing when they were building pyramids or awe-inspiring objects that people would say, wow, look at that? >> reporter: just rolling the rock to the museum was impressive. it took 11 nights to travel 105 miles through 22 cities. a slab of stone became the talk of the town. the reclusive artist 67-year-old michael hiezer first imagined this idea in 1968. he's been obsessed with rocks. it took him 37 years to find the one. he was overwhelmed by the thousands who came to see his vision become reality. >> just taking it in. >> reporter: and the museum's

bet already seems to be paying off in publicity. >> the egyptians moved rocks for publicity. it was the same a de. we do something bold and dramatic that is intended to have lasting consequence, and i think that's what you would call real publicity. >> reporter: and now finding the biggest rock star in l.a. is not so hard. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. how can you put a price on love? attorney kenneth feinberg knows the challenge as well as anyone. he's going to talk about who gets what and why. your local news is next.

>> it is 825, time for some headlines. two car fires are under investigation in redwood city. they burned shortly after 3:00 a.m.. one was on linden street and the other on hemlock avenue. this comes a week and a half after a suspicious nearby fire burned cars and apartments. the fire force people out of their home in a word on a woodland avenue last night. firefighters had to cut their way through the front door because all the doors and windows have bars. everyone got out safely.

a pretrial hearing is set for the man accused of shooting seven people to death at an oakland trade school. he is a former student expelled from oikos university prior to the shootings. he has pleaded not guilty to seven cha

>> we have some slowing for the marin county ride southbound 101 approaching paradise prize. the bay bridge is stacked up to the foot of the maze. now a usual commute, 15 minutes or so to get onto the bridge. southdown 101 approaching paradise drive, an accident off to the shoulder. this is a live look at the traffic coming in on the deck of the golden gate bridge. the backup is pretty slow on northbound 880 the nimitz pass the coliseum >> still looking good around the bay area. today that will continue but will be comparable period a few clouds but we are looking good towards ocean beach. temperatures running in the 50s across the board. a comfortable day outside with

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is, as you might expect a monumental task. putting a price tag on human loss. attorney kenneth feinberg has done it many times. most notably as the administrator of the compensation fund for 9/11 victims. >> he's worked with victims of the bp oil spill, >> he's worked with victims of others. the bp oil spill, and the virginia tech shooting. he sums up the lessons in a new ai book called "who gets what." eas what skills do you have and what

do you do? >> the latter is easier to explain than the former. every once in a while fortunately not often, the attorney general, the president kpegs decide that there a ought to be a special program determined to determine compensation.ything else, they call on me i think more than anything else before i did rked. it before and it worked. >> everybody says keb fineberg. >> i'm only as popular as my hese last assignment. one of these days inevitably there will be a problem and then they'll turn to somebody else. ha >> i want to focus on one you pe haven't talked about. penn state, they called you to r do what? a >> about a year ago i got a call from penn state at the beginning and of the problem. and they just said we've watchedyou've had t you in other matters where you've had tough assignments to compensate victims. we saw that you did a little bit

of this with sexual abuse cases in cincinnati. -- would you be -- could you give ow us some advice or suggestions problems how you do it, what are the problemings -- problems about eligibility and proof. my i spoke on the phone and gave them my advice. that was it. it was early on many the process.rdict is and i didn't hear from them. >> now that the verdict is in your ski i'm going to say you might. that everyb i'm told that your skill is cutting a deal that everybody can live with. what influences your decision making process, ken, to do what you do? >> usually you look and see who created the program. i don't create the program.sed and in bp a handshake between the billion and president and bp to lay out $20 lay billion. ground then they lay out the ground have to des rules. a then you have to design a program that convinces victims that it's fair that it's uge a

impartial, that it's transparent. >> there's so much emotion. world, >> all the rationality in the world after virginia tech with students a 32 students and faculty killed dee by a deranged gunman.eal with the you have to deal with the o emotional aspect of it. >> how do you do that? >> the main way is by engaging the victims. hearings an opportunity to be story. heard. come and tell your story. money. say whatever you want it doesn't loved have to be about money. t talk about a lost loved one. i saw that with about 900 900 familie hearings after 9/11. 900 families came to see me to were beyon express stories that were beyond belief in terms of tragedy. at >> they look at you and they say, you're looking at this as cents. dollars and cents.his i'm looking at this as a loss that is unbearable. >> that's exactly right. people rarely come to chat with with me about the money. los

they want to validate the memory of a lost loved one. witho >> how do you do it without getting emotional? >> you can't help unless you have a heart of stone. you can't help but be impacted. mothers, fathers, siblings grandparents all coming to why lament why me? los why did i lose my husband.czar. >> your title pay czar. are you comfortable with that really. title? >> no.nment o that was an assignment at he treasury where the congress required the treasury to set the corpo pay for certain corporate executives. so the media called it the pay ou're czar.ssuing that sounds like you're issuing imperial edicts.t it was trying to work out with each company what officials should be paid. >> you see yourself as a mediator.em >> i think so. huma you try the best you can. it's very emotional. you try and work out as best you

can who should get why and how nd hope and you try to explain it to e you people and hope they'll e. understand. >> great to see you, ken. >> the title of the book "who gets what." it goes on sale now.you. thank you, ken. >> thank you. a the wife of a disgraced e pol chinese politician reportedly has confessed to murder. we'll take a look at this case this morning. and also

florida, being hit by tropical storm debby ts this is also gator point, florida, hit by tropical storm debby this morning. we have new information this morning in a chinese murder mystery. >> this case has triggered an embarrassing crisis inside china's government. chip reid is in beijing with the

story. >> reporter: good morning. usually when the chinese leadership is faced with a scandal they simply bury it. that's something that's going to be very difficult to do in the extraordinary case. she's been called the jackie kennedy of china. a glamorous woman who found herself in the national spotlight after marrying a member of one of china's most powerful political families. now foreign media reports say that after weeks of interrogation, she has confessed to the murder of a former close friend, british businessman neil haywood. according to the reports, she allegedly poisoned him after he threatened to inform authorities that she had funneled billions of dollars in dirty money overseas. neither she nor her husband who was also arrested and dumped from the powerful chinese bureau, has been seen in public for months. they simply disappeared. that is how the chinese government usually deals with

scandal. >> they're investigated in secret and it's dealt with in secret. >> reporter: but a professor in beijing says it might not be so easy for the government to make the case go away. >> there's no way to just brush this under the rug and keep it contained. it's already in the public eye. >> reporter: in fact it's a scandal that has shaken the highest levels of the chinese government. he was in line to be promoted to the top tier of the bureau. now average chinese citizens who deal with government corruption on the local level every day are wondering if the whole system is rotten blchl the assumption was the higher you went up the cleaner it got. and that view has been really shaken. >> reporter: with a once a decade leadership change coming this fall, chinese leaders are determined to avoid public protests and that might require demonstrating to the chinese people that they are rooting out corruption even when the ald perpetrators are as high

ranking. >> now there's a lot of pressure to hold public trials for him and his wife accused of murder. >> reporter: now if there is a public trial it's likely to be announced before the government transition but the sordid trial probably won't happen until some time next year. >> chip one question what impact might it have on the transition to new leadership in china? >> reporter: we're actually hearing word that the transition could actually be delayed because of this. that shows you just how incredibly important the case is and how concerned the bureau is about it. charlie? >> thank you, chip reid. with us now is author and journalist joshua cooper ramo one of the top experts on china. he was a foreign editor of "time." now he's a vice president of

kissinger associates. >> pleasure. i understand you're just back with china. >> i am. they're very fascinated with black people in china. they would bow, take the picture and run away. it's like they were surprised to see us watching around ikea in shanghai. that doesn't surprise you does it? >> it does not. your son is well settled over there. >> yes. >> can you imagine gail king taking her son to ikea? >> you'd probably have that picture taken anywhere in the world. >> i was taking pictures of people, too. it was my first trip to china. i was blown away in particular with shanghai and then we made a trip to beijing. i was fascinated by the culture, the people. what is the most important thing that we should know as americans about china. >> i think the scale of the transition is almost impossible to understand until you've seen

it in person. people's incomes have gone up three times and big cities more than that. that's a wrenching change. it's unbelievable in the terms of wealth that has been created. that creates all sorts of follow on problems that need to be solved. >> there are big issues including the growth rate. might this shake their confidence? >> i think this is such a key issue. the chinese economy relies so much on this belief that it's going to continue to grow in perpetuity. the government is working very hard to keep the confidence going. and they understand the control by putting a lot of money out in the economy. that hasn't changed. the market economy still matters there, but the government matters more. >> the great thing was going from an export economy to a domestic demand economy. the demand from outside china has dropped dramatically. >> one of the things we saw in april was a double sided demand shock. both the the collapse in european demand a little bit in u.s. demand, inside the country the domestic demand seized up in a way people hadn't anticipated.

two weeks ago the government announced a new set of stimulus. >> this case this is a guy who was on a fast track to the standing committee. the eight or ten people who run china. he's now over. his wife is being held. what's the story in terms of what we can get our hands around. >> in beijing the sort of discussion of the details of the case or whatever i think is a very popular cocktail party. i think it's going to be a while before anybody knows what happened. >> it wasn't really on the news josh. >> no. >> i saw charlie rose on the news. very comforting to see the charlie rose show in beijing. that story was not really on the news. >> i think it's a very interesting point. it really represents a very fundamental challenge to the party. not only in the sense you have a very senior person in this position. how do you talk about this? it's a larger challenge in china the issue of the rule of law which everybody from the chinese

premier has identified as crucial stumbling block on the continued path to reform. >> i want to target this as far as you know, she has not confessed or she has not said that she did this. >> nobody will know. there will be at some point some announcement of the details. how that is all handled will be very revealing about the way that the system works. >> do people expect that the successor is going to be different and more open and more relaxed and more whatever? >> i think they certainly expect he'll be different. the successor is likely to be the current vice president who is a remarkable figure. you spend time with him he's charismatic and outgoing. >> he visited washington. to iowa where he had lived. he's a different kind of character. people say china always gets the leader that it needs at least it has for the last 30 years. he may be an example of that. >> one last quick question does china want to play the role that the rest of the world wants it

to play to step up and be a stake holder? >> i think the chinese care the most about continuing development of their own country. a country that's got 300 million people living on less than $2 a day. having said that they want to secure their place in the world. that may not mean playing by rules built by the united states or the europeans. >> thank you so much. great to see you here. jew yeen levy has received canada's highest honor, but will always be jim's dad to a generation of american pie fans. we'll talk about his new role and madea on cbs this morning.

is it true? >> what? >> all the wives are talking about it at the field today. >> i had no idea this was going on. i walked in and walter was saying what's in your desk. he said what's going on? he said you're going to take the fall for this it's a ponzi scheme. you're going down because you're the cfo. what do you think they're going to do to me? i'm in trouble. >> um calm down. we need to get a lawyer. >> eugene levy's latest film "madea's witness protection" is quite a change from the eight "american pie" movies. >> this multitalented comic director and actor has made many films. we're glad to have him with us in studio 57. >> wow. so exciting to be here. greatest set.

>> i think so, too. >> i don't want to leave. >> you can stay here as long as you want. have lunch here. i want to correct that i said leave vi rather than levy. >> it's spelled the same way. >> you were appointed a member of the order of canada. >> from american pie to the order of canada. my order of canada pin, which i wear proudly. that's the highest honor you can get in canada you know, given for a body of work and for contributions to different charitable organizations that you've been involved with. >> i'm talking before you -- when you sat down working for tyler perry a man who knows his audience. >> it's pretty amazing. this was like a 20-day shoot on the movie. which is not a lot of time to shoot a movie. i've shot movies in 20 days. i think we did "waiting for good

enoughman", "best in show." those movies are done on a short schedule. this was a 20-day shoot that he actually finished in 16. so -- and the reason is he knows pactly what he wants. he knows exactly what he needs. and he wastes no time. you just go through, he gets a couple of takes and you know -- >> he's on to the next. >> that's it. >> when you say he knows what he wants i know he wanted you. i emailed him last night, he said, he's beyond hysterical. i loved working with him. he's a comedic genius who can make you laugh without saying a word. go ahead and make us laugh. he said you were brilliant in this role. >> that is really nice. it's much more fun to have words in the movie, but no no he's a very sweet guy. one of the reasons that i actually jumped on this was getting a chance to work with tyler perry who in a short span of time has just become just

iconic in this business a writer, producer director. he does it all. when i first saw tyler picturery's name above the title, i kept thinking who is this tyler perry. what does he keep flashing? the reason is because he does everything. his name should be above it. >> he does many things. he's going to be here on wednesday. lest talk about you. for a lot of people they think of the dad in american pie. you are closely associated with that. when i think of eugene levy your face is so interesting and your characters are always so interested. when did you know you wanted to do this? >> i don't think -- i was always interested in acting. i did work in school and university. i bombed my way through university literally going to -- i was an academic disaster really. but i did a lot of theater there. >> did you not go to class or were you not a good student?

there's a difference. >> no.& i'm not sure. it's hard to say if i was a good student because i never went to class. >> fair enough. >> had i gone to class, who knows. but i was just doing a lot of theater. i loved hanging out with the theater people and hanging out in the theater. i was just doing all of that but still not thinking to myself this is what i want to do for a living. it never occurred to me that you could do this for a living. i actually got into it accidentally by calling my good friend ivan riteman that i went to school with. ivan riteman is a big time director. we went to university together i guess college here. he was starting his first feature. i was bombing out of school. i said you have a job for me? he said, yes, there's only one job, that's coffee boy. i said yes. that was it. >> coffee boy to now. >> continued success. it's great to have you here.

>> thank you very much. >> eugene levy congratulations. it opens in theaters on friday. >> that does it for us. up next your local news. we will see you tomorrow on cbs

>> good morning. police are investigating to suspicious car fires this morning in redwood city. they burned shortly after 3:00 a.m.. one fire was on linton street and the other on hemlock ave. this comes a week and a half after a nearby fire burned other cars and apartments. stockton faces a decision today that could determine if it will be the largest nation city in the nation to face bankruptcy. the city manager still hopes to reach a last-minute deal with creditors.

the key proposition 8 witness who oppose same-sex marriage says he has had a change of heart. he testified in favor of proposition 8 in the 2010 federal court trial and now he says he believes the rights of gays and lesbians to marry is a matter of " basic fairness ". >> we will clear things out very nicely around the bay area today. in the afternoon we will see more sunshine on the way and the temperatures will start to warm up. low pressure is part of the coastline which will throw some more clouds and our direction. '50s and '60s out towards the coast. next weekend the clouds come back again and the temperatures start to cool down.

>> good morning. here is a live look at some of the traffic sensors through the macarthur maze. one lane blocked we have an accident coming into the news room there. the rest of the east bay slow up the nimitz as you make your way past the coliseum. in the south bay usual slow spots up and down the guadalupe parkway. an accident on 101 northbound

by mckee road. the golden gate bridge is nice all the way into san francisco.