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>> good morning to our viewers in the west. it is friday, june 29, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm erica hill. charlie rose is off today. now that the health care law has been ruled constitutional, what is next? we'll get into the political fallout for president obama and mitt romney and also get republican reaction from house majority leader eric cantor. i'm gayle king. that raging colorado wildfire claims its first victim as more than 300 homes burned to the ground. and the man who killed trayvon martin returns to court today to ask a judge to set him free. and i'm jeff glor. you train for years to make the olympics. then it comes down to a coin toss. that could be the answer for two runners this weekend. also, director oliver stone stops by. but first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at
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ptoday's "eye opener," your word in 90 seconds. >> i didn't do this because it was good policy. i did it because i believed it was good for the country. >> the supreme court upholds health care reform. as the law of the land. >> chief justice john roberts calling it a tax and deeming that constitutionally kosher. >> how could you? i trusted you! >> they went to court. they did a 180 and said -- it's a tax. it's a tax. >> could be. >> you get a chest x-ray. you get a chest x-ray. you get a prostate exam. a tragic new turn in the fires in colorado springs. at least one person has now died. >> the fire is now the most destructive in state history, destroying an estimated 346 homes. >> it's really bad actually. you know, i have everything in there. >> the resolution is agreed to. >> eric holder, the first cabinet member in history, in contempt of congress. >> the charge is unsupported by facts.
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it's truly absurd conspiracy theory. >> george zimmerman, the man accused of murdering trayvon martin, heads back to court today in florida hoping a judge will let him out of jail again. >> mr. zimmerman did not have any money except that which has been given to him to survive. >> with the first pick in the 2012 nba draft, the new orleans hornets select anthony davis. >> the bobble and then into the popcorn. >> nice. >> you can now tell a person, you are wearing a wig if you got hd. it shows every little thing. >> and all that matters. >> and wimbledon, nadal was knocked out. >> last in the second round five sets. to the player ranked number 100. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the record-setting heat wave that will have millions of americans sweltering today. >> if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the chicken. or something like that.
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[ laughter ] welcome to "cbs this morning." one day after the supreme court handed president obama a major legal and political victory by upholding the affordable care act. the key provision goes into effect 18 months from now when every american who can afford it must buy health insurance or face a fine. >> it is sure to have an impact on the future election, and both mitt romney and president obama were quick to offer their spins. the court's reasoning gave them plenty of material. >> good morning to all of you in the west. the supreme court in the end upheld the individual mandate that of course requires all americans to be insured. it wasn't a complete surprise. a lot of people thought the court was not going to strike down this massive health care law. but what was unexpected, the lo logic and reasoning that the court used to get there and how that may affect politics in this
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election year. it appeared to be a huge win for the white house. by a 5-4 majority, chief justice john roberts joined the liberal members of the court to uphold the individual mandate, ruling that it was essentially a tax and congress has the authority to tax the american people. but the legal victory may not be a political win. republicans seized on the taxation language, arguing obama was just imposing a secret tax. >> obama care raises taxes on the american people by approximately $500 billion. >> what we now have is the biggest tax increase in the history of the world. obama lied to us about that. >> this is about a trillion dollar more tax put on the american people. >> when congress was debating the law, democrats and the president insisted it wasn't a tax increase. >> for us to say that you have got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. what it is saying is we're not
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going to have other people carrying your burdens for you. >> reporter: but the ruling that the health care law effectively levies a tax isn't a rationale that the obama camp wants to hear with a bad economy. mr. obama said thursday he remains focusing on implementing the law because it was good policy. >> it should be pretty clear by now i didn't do this because it was good politics. did i it because i believed it was good for the country. >> the constitution matters! >> reporter: the decision is now firing up the gop base, and mitt romney vowed thursday that he is now the one person who can still stop the law. >> i will act to repeal obama care. >> reporter: but romney supported a similar mandate at the state level when he was governor of massachusetts. he says that's different because states have more power on these issues than the federal government. now that's something you can expect democrats to bring up during this election if they are trying to defend the law. but right now, this ruling already is helping republicans. yesterday, we saw romney and the republican party brought in $4.2
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million from 42,000 donors. and, guys, if you're curious, let me just talk about this for a moment, if you're curious about the penalty portion of the new law, here's how it breaks down. beginning in 2014, families who don't have health insurance will be charged a $285 penalty, and that penalty will increase to $975 in 2015, and in 2016, $2,085 or 2.5% of your income, whatever is greater, will be the penalty then. so this penalty is not insignificant. it's expected to affect about 4 million people every year. jeff, erica? >> jan crawford, thank you. house republicans have scheduled a vote in two weeks attempting to repeal the health care law. house democratic leader nancy pelosi says they can try. >> well, it gives us a better opportunity to say what they want to repeal. they want to repeal ending discrimination on the becauasis pre-existing medical condition. they want to end reducing costs
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of medicare and care for our seniors. the list goes on and on of what they want to repeal. >> let's hear now from the republican side. house majority leader eric cantor is on capitol hill and joining us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, er camp. >> so the house has voted dozens of times to repeal parts or all of this law, which essentially has gone nowhere. with the democratically controlled senate, why go through the motions again? >> first of all, erica, we know that most of the american people do not like this law and that's why we'll continue to try and look toward the kind of health care that people want, and that is patient-centered health care. not health care dictated by washington, which is what obama care delivers. so we're going to bring up a repeal vote on wednesday, july 11, to make sure that we continue to focus on what it is that the american people want. i mean, you know, look. the choice is very clear. if you step back for a second, it's all about this election and whether this law is going to go forward or not. if mitt romney gets elected,
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which as you know i support, mitt romney will be the one that will frankly get the health care that most people want back on track. we want to see -- we want to see people who like their health care, keep it. and, you know, the president has been all about that too. he's always said that if you have health care and you like it, you can keep it. well, the fact is this law will not allow people to keep the health care that they like. costs are going up. and frankly, washington is now going to take control of people's health care in this country, which is what we don't want to see happen. >> so this is going to be more of a platform for mitt romney moving forward. will we start to hear specifics from him beyond essentially repealing the affordable care act? >> i think you've heard specifics from mitt romney and certainly from us in the house, because the kind of health care we want starts with the relationship between patients and their doctors. we don't want washington bureaucrats telling patients what kind of health care they should have and what they can't. i mean, the fact is, we need more choice. we need people to be able to
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choose the kind of benefits that they want. and frankly, to base it on the needs of their family, not some dreamed-up world here in washington. >> congressman, as you know well, the mandate was initially a conservative idea. do you see yourself supporting a mandate under any circumstances? >> i do not support washington requiring someone to purchase health care. and then telling someone what kind of health care coverage that's going to be, which is exactly what this obama care bill is. in addition to that, we've heard the court now determine once and for all that this is a tax. and, you know, what's interesting is there are promises made throughout the process by this president, nancy pelosi, and others saying oh, no, we're not going to tax people. well, the court said this is a tax. they also said well, you'll be able to keep the health care you like under our program, which we know is not the case as well. so really, you know, it's time for us to stop all the unbroken
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promises. let's get back to what people want. what people want is patient-centered care. they don't want government continuing to creep into these very personal decisions for the american family. >> congressman cantor, thank you very much. >> thank you. chief justice roberts is considered a conservative, and many observers were surprised to see him siding with the court's liberals in this decision. >> however, harvard law professor lawrence tribe predicted that was happen. he talked constitutional law to both chief justice roberts and president obama. professor, good morning. nice to have you with us. >> nice to be here. >> what made you so sure that this in fact would be the outcome? >> well, i can't say i was sure. and i certainly had no inside track. but it seemed to me that as a modest guy, and someone who did not want the court to shatter an historic piece of legislation, even though he didn't like it, john roberts was bound to take a step that would ultimately be
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modest, that would not expand government power, despite what eric cantor says, but that would use private industry and that ultimately as the chief justice made clear he understood in the very first day of the oral argument, didn't literally make any -- didn't do anything. it simply says that if you do not cover yourself and your family with insurance, then you have to pay a higher tax bill than otherwise so that you don't take a free ride on other people and raise other people's premiums. it was a conservative idea that a conservative chief justice could find acceptable as long as there was a basis for it in the constitution. and that's where he differed from the four conservatives with whom he often sides. that is, he looked carefully, not just at what this law was called, but at what it did. and it quacked like a duck, it looked like a duck, and operated
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only to increase people's taxes a little bit if they go into the stream of commerce uncovered, as it were. and so it was a conservative idea. and he at the same time as chief justice of the united states had a responsibility to prevent the court from falling into increasing disrepute after bush versus gore, after citizens united, deeply divided country needs a more united rather than deeply divided and partisan supreme court. i think -- >> as you know, justice kennedy has long been a swing vote. does justice roberts now become a new swing vote on the court? >> well, i think the whole idea of swingers on the court has always been sort of more fun than real. this is the roberts court. it's come into its own finally with chief justice roberts in the most important case in
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decades playing the pivotal role. but that's all appropriate. he is after all the chief justice not just of the court but of the united states of america. >> there's a receipt cbs news poll that found that 76% of americans think that supreme court justices do make their decisions based on politics. does this ruling change that perception? >> well, we'll have to see. i don't have an instant polling device in my pocket. >> do you believe it could? >> but i do think this ruling helps. i think it could. i think it's very important even though there are certainly counterexamples when the court seems to be politically driven, like bush versus gore, that on a case that the entire world was watching as closely as this one, that the court showed that it can transcend political preferences. >> lawrence tribe, thank you very much. >> thank you. this morning, police in colorado springs say one person has died in the most destructive wildfire in colorado's history.
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the body was found last night in a burned-out home, one of just hundreds of buildings destroyed by a massive fire. anna warner is in colorado springs. good morning. >> good morning, jeff and erica and good morning to everyone across the west. >> reporter: in addition to that confirmed fatality, nearly 350 homes have been destroyed here in colorado springs, leaving many residents homeless as this fire continues to spread. john sawyer came home from vacation in atlanta only to move into a hotel. he and his family have been out of their home since tuesday. >> it's a lot of stress. and it's hard to sleep well. you're not in your own home. and your family is not altogether. we're trying to do normal lives, but you can't. >> reporter: sawyer is one of 32,000 people evacuated as the fire spread. >> hundreds of homes have been destroyed. >> reporter: colorado springs mayor, steve bach, says 346 homes have burned in the fire on 34 streets in the community.
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sawyer's house is half a mile from the fire line. >> how are thousands or hundreds of families going to find places to live, continue their work? how will the schools function? there's a lot of questions ahead. >> reporter: many of those families attended a meeting thursday night so officials could try to answer some of those questions. firefighters were helped thursday by good weather and calm winds. but the fire was still just 10% controlled. view if you were to describe this fire as having a personality, what kind of personality would have? >> obnoxious, and i don't like it. the first day it ran south. the second day, the fire ran north. the third day, east. that's really unusual and very difficult to deal with. >> reporter: the army put its soldiers to work building a fire break as helicopters conducted water drops overhead. >> we're the second line of defense, and we're trying to make sure that if the fire does
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get any further that we're able to stop it in its tracks. and that's what we've done. and we've put in about 13 kilometers of fire breaks today. >> reporter: they have john sawyer's thanks. >> i appreciate to no end all the efforts they are making to save our homes. >> reporter: firefighters got a bit of a break yesterday with good weather, and that good weather is expected to continue today. cooler temperatures, lighter winds, they are hoping to get more of this fire under control. but with the fire only 10% contained, it wouldn't take much to kick it back up. erica and jeff, back to you. >> anathank you. this morning, attorney general eric holder is the first cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of congress. more than 100 democrats boycotted thursday's house vote as african-american lawmakers led a walkout. republicans have pressed holder to hand over all documents related to the fast and furious gun operation which was first exposed by cbs news. holder said the vote was nothing more than election year politics.
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>> today's vote may make for good political theater in the minds of some, but it is at base both a crassest and a grave disservice to the american people. they expect and they deserve far more. >> the contempt citation is not expected to pass in the senate, which is controlled by democrats. time for a look at some of the headlines from around the globe.
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>> we look ahead to the court hearing which may include an apology. should a place in the olympic games be decided by the toss of a coin? we'll look at the history of coin flips with a lot on the line. on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by mercedes-be mercedes-benz. one that continually monitors and corrects for wheel slip. we imagined a vehicle that can increase emergency braking power when you need it most. and we imagined it looking like nothing else on the road today.
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minutes of unconstitutional mandate hyperventilation. >> the court striking down that mandate is a dramatic blow to the policy and to the president. >> getting widely different assessments of what the united states supreme court has decided. >> yes, widely different. there's what you've been saying and then there's what happened. [ laughter ] >> rough day. >> jumping the gun. >> the man charged with murdering trayvon martin is making another bid for flee come. george zimmerman has a bond hearing today after a judge you may recall revoked his bail earlier this month. >> what are the chances he'll be released and will he apologize to the judge? we'll ask our legal expert, there he is, jack ford, on "cbs this morning." your local news is next.
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>> time for some news headlines. police are still on the scene of the fatal shooting by an officer in antioch. a man called police and threatening to kill himself or an officer. when officers arrived the man opened fire and they shot back. in about 90 minutes ross mirkarimi will be back on the stand in front of the ethics commission. he is trying to save his job despite his involvement in a domestic violence incident. the man accused of attacking a priest in san jose is expected to take the stand today. william lynch is accused of beating gerald lindner.
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>> the metering lights are still on at the bay bridge toll plaza but not too bad if you are approaching the pay gates. most of the delays are affecting your drive into san francisco. some pal train delays, it 207 and 211 are cancelled but there are replacement trains. >> we're looking at patchy fog around the bay area this morning. fog is starting to break up just a little bit. temperatures outside now mainly in the fifties and you 60s. eighties in the valleys and '60s towards the coast line. a little bit cooler on saturday but warming up as we head,,,,,,,
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indeed if there was a,,,,,,, if indeed there was a pay to enter scheme, people will be punished. if not, let's exonerate these men. at this point, it seems like a smear campaign. no, it's not something that was affecting i think our success. >> it sounds to me like you're fed up, and i can get you a deal with the jets. if you're fed up -- [ laughter ] >> i can get you a deal with the jets. you don't need to -- >> i think they have enough quarterbacks. >> oh, that's right. what could one more hurt, for god's sakes? football season is going to be here before you know it, right? >> are you excited? >> i love it. >> your bills right now are undefeated. >> they are. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed trayvon martin is back in court this morning. george zimmerman is asking a florida judge to release him on bail again.
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mark straussman is at the pgood morning.sanford, florida. >> reporter: good morning, jeff and erica and everyone in the west. you'll remember that at his april bond hearing, george zimmerman surprised everyone it and took the stand to apologize to trayvon martin's parents. this morning, everyone will be watching to see if he does it again, this time to take the stand and apologize to the judge. george zimmerman will walk into this morning's hearing wearing civilian clothes, not his jail jump suit, and snno shackles. he will look like a free man, but only the judge can make him one. and he put zimmerman back in jail because he felt the murder defendant and his wife intentionally misled him to get a reduced bond back in april. >> they did not tell the court about the legal defense fund that they knew existed. we're not hiding from that fact. they should have trusted the court. >> reporter: at that april bond hearing, the judge felt misled by zimmerman's silence. his wife testified by phone under oath that they were broke. >> and you all have no money. is that correct? >> to my knowledge, that's correct.
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>> reporter: zimmerman knew better, but said nothing. the couple actually had $155,000 sitting in an online defense fund. in recorded jailhouse phone calls days before that hearing, the couple talked about that money using what prosecutors said was coded language. >> total everything, how much are we looking at here? >> like 155 dollars. >> reporter: zimmerman's lawyer says his client owes the judge an apology. the prosecutor wants zimmerman to stay in jail, but he could insist on a bond as high as $1 million, which zimmerman's lawyer says would be excessive. >> mr. zimmerman does not have any money except that which has been given to him to survive by the legal defense fund. so he doesn't have any assets. he's got a couple of cars. he doesn't have the money. >> reporter: shelly, faces an
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aarraignment on perjury charges next week. whatever happens, trayvon martin's parents will be sitting there watching very carefully. >> thank you. cbs news legal analyst jack ford is with us now. so what does george zimmerman need to say or should he say today? >> what's interesting about this, and a lot of people don't fully understand the notion of bail. bail is not a head start on sentencing, all right? you have to realize that bail, you still have a presumption of innocence, and generally speaking most people are entitled to bail if you can show certain circumstancesecause the whole point is to guarantee you show up. that's what bail is really all about. sometimes you're not entitled to bail. death penalty cases you're not entitled to bail. in florida, second degree murder cases, you're not as entitled to bail. you have to convince the judge of two things. that you're not a danger to the community and that you're not a flight risk. that you're going to show up. flight risk, that's an easy one for them.
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he showed up every time, even when he said his life was in danger. you called, he showed up. even when they knew he would have his bail revoked, he showed up. they have to get over the danger to the community, you lied to the judge type of argument. >> and it would seem the lying to the judge part of it is the biggest pa are the to get over. can they get over it? >> what's interesting about, jeff, if you think about it strictly, does lying to the judge about the money really have anything to do with you being a flight risk or a danger to the community? and you can argue if you're not going to be truthful, why should we trust you to say you're going to come back here? i think they could argue it was a misunderstanding. these funds are usually controlled. usually you can't use these funds for anything, you know, go to a weekend in las vegas if you want to. right now, this fund is controlled by his attorney. so i think they are going to have to argue that, you know, clearly, they didn't tell the truth but they didn't realize exactly what they could use that fund for. i assume that's part of the argument. >> it sounded like in that
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bizarre conversation in jail that they knew they had it and they had control of it. >> well, it does sound that way. and certainly it is a bizarre conversation. but i suspect, again, the defense is going to say, because i said this when i was a defense attorney, when you had a client going to jail, you told them two things. you don't talk to anybody about your case. i don't care how good a friend they appear to you. and never talk about money in jail. >> would that at the end of the day, all of this, could any of this be used in the actual trial? no, right? >> that's a really good question. i suspect you would see the prosecution at some point in time, especially if george zimmerman takes the stand, and you have to believe he will, because he is using this, you know, stand your ground defense. if you're a prosecutor, you want to challenge the credibility of any witness, especially a defendant on the stand. my guess is a judge might look at this -- because you can't -- if somebody is on trial, you can't show they did bad things in the past. and say because they did bad things in the past, you can find them guilty in this case. it's supposed to be about this
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case. the prosecution will try and urge if his credibility is important, he lied to the judge. the jury should know that. bait of a stretch. my guess is the judge might say that's getting us beyond what we -- what the jury should be focusing on here. but i think it's a pretty good bet the prosecution will try and get it in. >> do you think he's remanded today? >> i think if you look at the law, i think there should be some type of bail that should be set for him. some conditions. maybe it's home confinement. maybe a bracelet, something. under these circumstances, it's hard to say he is a flight risk. and you can make a good argument he isn't. it's hard to say he is a danger to the community. obviously, something happened here. if they do throw him back into jail, you'll see an appeal. but i wouldn't be surprised if there are some sort of bail conditions set for today. the romans used to flip coins more than 2,000 years ago. this morning, we'll show you how a potential coin toss tomorrow could decide whether one sprinter's olympic dream comes true. high tech science. we'll be right back. a party?
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this is a great video from this is great video from youtube. if you want to look it up, it's titled bootleg fireworks gone wrong. >> oh! >> jesus! jesus! jesus! jesus! jesus! oh, [ bleep ]! oh, jesus, jesus, jesus! oh, god! jesus! oh, god, jesus, no! [ bleep ]! that was awesome! that was awesome right there! >> i watched that about 30 times this afternoon. >> i just blew up my neighborhood. that was awesome. >> we used to sneak across the canadian border to buy pfireworks. >> my dad would come home from canada hidden with them in the hubcaps of his car to get them across the border. at the u.s. olympic trials it took just 11 seconds to find out who finished first and
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second in the finals of the women's 100 meter dash. but six days later, we still don't know who finished third. >> two runners were in a dead heat. only one can run this event at the london olympics. so that photo finish, and one way it might be resolved, remains the talk of the sports world. it was literally too close to call. not just on camera, but in the rules. >> it's hard to believe they wouldn't have had some kind of by-law in place to decide this, regardless of the fairness of what that law said. >> so usa track and field made up a law. one day after jenna bartarmor and allison felix finished tied for third place at the olympic trials, the sports governing bodies in the future athletes will be given the option to determine the result by coin toss or runoff. a runoff seems to make sense. but if it has to be a flip, there are, as you might expect, two sides to this debate. >> to have it all come down to a
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coin toss strikes a lot of people as quite unfair. >> a coin toss is an old idea, but it's a simple way to get equal probability events. >> reporter: throughout history, loose pocket change has been the basis of many famous outcomes. northwest oregon, 1845. two men, one from boston, one from portland, maine, tossed a portland penny to name a city. that's why today there is no boston, oregon. iowa, 1959. the great musicians buddy holly, richey vallens, and vp richardson died in a plane crash. a fourth person did not after losing a coin toss for the last seat. thanksgiving day, 1998. the pittsburgh steelers and detroit lions tied in overtime. looking for possession, pittsburgh's jerome bettis called heads and then switched to tails while the coin was in the air. >> call the play in the air. >> it landed tails but the
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referee went with bettis' first call. detroit went on to win. >> you have players worth millions of dollars. franchises worth hundreds of millions of dollars. and the tv rights worth billions of dollars. and we would hate to see results come down to a hunk of loose change.& >> that said, at least we know there's no way a real coin with be rigged. and at least we know unexpected results can follow, no matter where the copper comes down. >> the two sprinters who happen to share the same coach said they won't make a decision on how to break the tie until they race each other again in tomorrow's 200 meter final. we have learned from track and field insiders that if one qualifies on saturday, the other will likely concede the 100 meter race, and the women will both go to london together, which means no coin toss and no runoff. >> if one of them wins the 200, that one will say, ok, you take the 100. >> yes. >> that's very nice. >> that would be nice, right? >> i like your fun coin toss facts. you got more? >> the wright brothers, you
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know, the first flight. they flipped a coin to see who would go first. wilbur won the coin toss, but that flight was aborted. so then orville took the next one, and that became the official flight. so the one who won or lost the coin toss was the one who actually won the real flight. >> the recognition. how about that? >> when we were flipping to see who filled in for charlie, i pick,, to sleep, a chance to dream. know
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to sleep, per chance to dream. you know that line probably from shakespeare. but what do you think the bard might write about the art of lucid dreaming and what is it? we'll show you, and also give an idea of how you can try it, ahead on "cbs this morning." >> you're quoting shakespeare. >> that's something.
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he's been called tormented and self-destructive, from platoon to wall street to born on the fourth of july, nobody tells a story like oliver stone. he's done it again with "savages." he'll be in studio 57 today. the one thing that eludes americans, i'm talking about sleep. you can sleep better if you can control your dreams. some say that is now possible. it looks like you really can't teach an old dog new tricks. dogg is spelled do-o-g-d-o-g-g. we'll make that long story short when i see you at 8:00 on cbs this morning. remember, you can catch us on facebook, twitter and google plus. happy friday. we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by party city. nobody has more fourth of july for less.
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>> it is 756. investigators are looking into a fatal shooting by a police officer in antioch. they say a man called police yesterday threatening to kill himself or an officer. when officers arrived the man opened fire and shot back. police are planning on going door to door today to find any information about an arsonist. each fire tuesday morning was set in a recycling bin and damage to an adjacent fourplex. 20 peo,,,,,,,,
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>> here is a live look at conditions along the san mateo bridge. we're dealing with mass transit delays. caltrans has canceled two trains but to 11 will make all stops as well as to under 16. >> we've got some great weather, norway with a couple of patches of fog right now. the fog will move back towards the coast line and we will see a lot of sunshine coming our way. temperatures will cool down for mild weather especially inside the bay. the next couple of days, high pressure builds back again and we look towards the fourth of july.
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this crazy man has filed a lawsuit against kim kardashian and kanye west claiming they have ties to al qaeda. yes, when al qaeda heard this they said, please, do not lump us in with those maniacs. leave them alone. >> it's 8:00. i'm gayle king. >> i'm erica hill. with jeff glor and charlie rose is taking a well-deserved day off. the supreme court ruling upholding president obama's health care law will affect tens of millions of people and how they get their health care. >> with us is dr. a tul gau juan de. he was a clinton administration health policy advisor and he's also an author and has an article at the new york.com this morning over why the fight over health care is not over. hello, dr. gawande.
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>> glad to be here. >> you look very serious this morning. you look very serious. >> i'm sorry about that. this is one of those things that doctors do. >> let's talk about the health care because yesterday big, big, big story. how soon before we see any changes for doctors and patients? >> well, we're already seeing some so, for example, the coverage of young adults who have picked up coverage under the age of 26 because they can stay on their family plan. children who are -- have pre-existing conditions now can get insurance. the big change isn't until 2014 when people who don't have insurance and are sick will start being able to pick up coverage. >> and what will the -- what will the impact of that be? you have a perspective on this because you live and practice in massachusetts where then governor mitt romney passed legislation in 2006. so you've seen the way some of this can play out. >> yeah. it was striking. i mean, five years ago 15% of my
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patients, i'm primarily a cancer surgeon, about 15% of my patients were uninsured. it's been five years and i haven't had an uninsured patient ever since then. it came on as the sort of thing where if the patient came in who didn't have insurance, there were subsidized private options or medicaid that they could get and then we could make sure they could get their treatments for their cancer or for whatever their particular problem was. that kind of problem, you know, we have by the scores, by the millions. i called around to doctor friends and said tell me about someone you're taking care of right now who their lack of insurance is in the way. they told me about, you know, everything from patient with a chronic rectal infection who for nine months has been unable to get surgery. they haven't been able to get any treatment for it. or cancer patients who haven't been able to get therapy. so that change is primarily that
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it's a couple years away. medicaid would be a way that they could pick up coverage if they were poor and if they were in the working world, subsidized insurance policy with a private insurance plan. >> when you bring up medicaid, the medicaid ruling, as i understand it, allows states the ability to opt out. >> yeah. this is a striking thing. it's a repeated thing in many ways. when medicare and medicaid passed into law in 1965, it was optional for states to participate in medicaid. and nearly every state did jump in and saw it as a beneficial thing that they could get the money to pay for the uninsured, but there were states that held out for more than a decade, including alaska and arizona that were the last ones to come in. and we may see something just like that happening. >> so at the time i understand that that was really the opposition to that, the opposition was very vehement back in 1955.
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i think people forget that. >> yeah. we remember now medicare is this thing where, yes, there was this battle and then when it passed it went peacefully into existence. the reality was there was more than a year of huge battle, 10,000 physicians in the ohio state medical association vowed to boycott taking care of the elderly who have medicare. george wallace led a revolt of southern states that said that they would not participate, and then they did. you know, once the -- the -- the benefits came into place, it was neither as horrible and terrible as everyone thought. it wasn't milk and honey either, but for people who were sick and had problems that have been, you know, neglected, this was a huge change and a huge benefit. >> doctor, very quickly. only a few seconds left. i want to ask you a little bit more about the costs.
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in massachusetts, costs went up significantly. 17% a year for a couple of years. i know they've leveled off a bit. are those costs containable in the future, both for massachusetts and the u.s.? >> right. the massachusetts costs went up just like they did in the rest of the country. it was neither worse nor better. and that cost problem is part of what we as a medical profession are responsible for. and in this next decade it's going to be a mix of both government and doctors and hospitals that are going to have to take responsibility for bringing these costs down. it is starting to happen. we're starting to see the curve bend, but we're a long way down that road. >> dr.
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. have yourd have you heard about people who say that they can control their dreams? some of them do it just for fun, but this morning we'll look at people who use lucid dreaming, it's called, to improve their work and their health too. that story after the break. stay with us please. [ female announcer ] fashion or food, it's all about taste.
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dicaprio. i was totally confused. back in 2010 it's based on the idea that you can control your dream. >> i'm still not sure i understand that movie. >> in our special alt health watch series, seth doan explains how this is happening. >> it's kuld lucid dreaming. to be lucid is to understand or be aware so to have a lucid dream is to know you're dreaming and then try to control your dreams. enthusiasts painted a world where while you're sleeping you can do whatever you want. really, whatever you dream. >> reporter: what's it like to have a lucid dream? >> whew. it's like you're a child again and there's infinite possibilities. >> hope lewellen didn't see much reason to control her dreams until she was 22 and started having terrible nightmares after
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a freak accident. >> hope lewellen is in critical condition after being struck by an airplane. >> she was a one time mechanic at chicago's o'hare airport had to have her right leg amputated after being run over by a 767. the nightmares started soon after. >> reporter: what were you dreaming? >> almost every time the same, something chasing me trying to kill me. >> reporter: desperately seeking a good night's sleep, lewellen picked up a lucid dreaming how-to book. >> then one night, sure enough, it all kind of came together. i had a horrible nightmare, i'm running, running, running, i know something's chasing me. as i'm running i was like, oh, wait a minute, i'm dreaming. so i stopped and i turned around and i faced this monster, this thing just came running right to me. i looked it in the eye and i went, bye-bye, and i jumped up and flew away. >> you're asleep, your mind can do almost anything.
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>> reporter: it sounds like hollywood fantasy, but enthusiasts say it's feasible with a little training. those who believe in the possibility of lucid dreaming say that to do it first you must recognize that you're actually having a dream and certain triggers can help. they say if you regularly glance at your watch while you're awake and then look back to make sure it's still reading the same time, you'll know you're awake. if you make a habit of this and try to look at your watch while dreaming, the numbers may not make sense and that's a trigger to know you're asleep. it's the same idea with the text of a book. what looks normal in real life could be garbled in a dream and lucid dreamers claim that's when you should try to take control. >> reporter: there's no way to corroborate this, we just have to believe what you're saying. >> i know. >> but some of it's hard to believe. >> i get that a lot. people are like, come on, what are you talking about? you're just dreaming. if you're an author, selling something, maybe people are
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thinking you're trying to get something out of it. but i'm -- what gain would i have to tell about my lucid dreaming? i'm not selling anything. >> reporter: but these guys are. >> considerably brighter. >> reporter: in a brooklyn, new york lab for a start up called remi founders, dreamers, steve and duncan showed off what they say is a lucid dream inducing sleep mask. retail price, $95. >> reporter: what's the idea behind this mask? >> you can train yourself to do looking at clocks, counting your fingers, looking at text. this automates it for you. remi produces that kind of anomaly in your dreams. you'll see this abrupt, bright flash and you'll grab something and check your lucidity as opposed to remembering your dream and looking at a clock. >> although lucid dreaming is virtually impossible to prove, the fact that they have $700,000 in pre-orders shows there's a
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community out there with big dreams. lucid dreamers claim the possibility includes, well, anything you can dream of. have you ever seen the pyramids? well, see them without the jet lag. how about the eiffel tower. see that without the crowds. or maybe just sit down for a nice dinner with anyone you want. the opportunities are endless, but many who believe in this fantasy world say the thing they like to do most is fly. hope lewellen certainly agrees. are there times you think, i just wish i could fall asleep? >> yeah. yeah. yeah, sure. it's a nice escape sometimes, sure. >> hope is very convincing about how it helps her. do you see it helping other people, like veterans maybe suffering from ptsd? >> that's the real question.
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she said it helped her with her ptsd. it helped the terrible nightmares. some question whether it has broader applications. of course we talked with a lot of doctors they say this is totally crazy and doesn't have any application. probably depends whether you've had a lucid dream. >> we talk so much about the importance of sleep and getting good, solid sleep. does this sbrer fear at all with your actual sleep? >> that was my question because >> that was my qou see these fl. how restful can this be? >> yeah. >> lucid dreamers say it's ultimately so satisfied that you wake up feeling very rested. >> you've never had a lucid dream? >> i have never, no. i was one of those doubters in the piece. >> you didn't try with all the tips. >> i know. i should have tried the mask, right. >> i'm still trying to figure it out. thank you, seth. >> thank you. guess who finally left her husband? here's a hint. it happened in paris. we'll make that long story short. michael douglas calls oliver stone a humanitarian with a dark
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side. the director will be here in studio 57. he just arrived in the greenroom. can't wait to talk to him on "cbs this morning." "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by beauty rest. living life fully charged. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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as we looked around the web today, we found a few reasons to make a long story short. dominique strauss-kahn has been dumped by his wife. she stood by her husband when he was accused of assaulting a new york maid. a friend says he's in a bad way. >> the l.a. times reports snoop dogg was busted by a snoopy dog in norway. the rapper was stopped at customs when dogs picked up april scent of marijuana. snoop was carrying about 8 grams
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he was fined $8600 and released. when asked why he was late for an event, he said because i went to get chicken wings. >> they're good. >> at wimbledon, the washington post says serena williams and maria sharapova are talking about equal pay. men play longer matches and men's tennis is more popular he says. sharapova said more people watch her matches than his, which is true. williams said she's way hotter than he is. >> also true. >> also true. by the way, simone lost his second round match. i guess, game, set, match women. >> what is it with french men this morning. >> the huffington post reports on what single ladies want. men with jobs. hear hear. dating service surveyed 925 single women and 75% said they'd have a problem dating someone
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without a job. only 4% would go out with an unemployed man. so they say this is great news, guys, for short men who used to be considered the most undateable. i said used to be. >> now they've moved up in the pool. there you go. >> the detroit news looks at how michigan officials are fighting drunk driving this july 4th. they're distributing talking urinal cakes to hundreds of bars and restaurants. gayle and i decided you would like this story this morning. menus the facilities, a motion sensor is triggered an the cake will ask you if you've had too many drinks. i knew you would love this. and whether it may be time, jeff glor, to call a cab. >> i never used to hear. is this a good idea? >> yes. >> awesome. >> you have problems sometimes? >> it would help you. >> i'm kidding. i would use it. >> okay. >> i thought it was a good idea, actually. >> it is smart. >> move on. >> from "scarface" to savages,
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claim. the twin time the news headlines. the suspended sentences could sheriff is back in court at 9:00 this morning on a hearing over whether he can keep his job. acknowledging grabbing white his wife's arm and bruising it and he has said he regretted it. a man was shot dead by at officer of the man called police to shift to kill himself or officer and he was killed in a gunfight that followed. the man accused of attacking a priest in lost status expected to take the stand today. lynched the cutin accused of beating the father and a dozen 10 claiming he was molested by the,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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good morning. and traffic over to the bay bridge toll plaza us light back up and some of the cash lanes. a broken down vehicle past the toll plaza blocking lanes that may be what's causing a bit of a backup but overall it's very light this morning. metering lights on but not many
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accidents. a fog advisory along highway 1 and 35 other pacific at and daly city with limited visibility a possibility to the area. golden gate bridge clear as your tune into san francisco and if it to train to 07 has been cancelled used to 11 instead. the result we have great weather coming our way with a couple of patches of fog out here with drizzle as well off starting to break up. the fog will be back to the coastline of sunshine and high pressure sliding east helping to cool down the temperatures for the weekend especially in some of the bay and the valley. this afternoon the '80s '60s coast side.
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look, look, we can negotiate. >> i didn't make you an offer or a counteroffer. >> we made you a deal through which we expected compliance. you lied to us. >> we'll do whatever you want. >> you better get a change in attitude. >> that's not a problem. >> really? because it was a problem before. >> it's not now. >> tough. welcome back to "cbs this morning." oliver stone's new thriller "savages" tells a story of two california pot dealers who share a girlfriend, get mixed up with a drug cartel. >> the oscar winning filmmaker has been entertaining fans since the '70s. he showed us the impact of war in "platoon."
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this morning oliver stone is in studio 57. nice to have you with us. >> good morning, erica. nice to meet you. >> it's a pretty powerful film. there were a lot of moments where i had to turn away because it was kind of violent. it grips you just as the novel does. so what was it about "savages" that made you say, this would be a great movie? >> you never know. it was a gripping story, like you said, and it had twists and turns. it was about a subject that they don't do in stories much, marijuana, legal growing in california. young people are operating on the fringes of the law. they're living a sort of paradise and they get visited by the dark side which comes in the offer of a partnership with the mexican -- one of the mexican cartels, and it goes awry. things don't work out. one of the guys wants to negotiate, the other guy wants to fight. it's a classic. they have a love affair with a beautiful girl called blake
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lively. she's a beach bunny. she thinks people can live together equally. she believes in the butch and joe cass sid did i and the sundance kid. selma comes in and she's a ruthless woman. she has a heart. she tells blake that your love story is screwed up, baby. >> yes. >> for sure. >> boy, does she tell him. >> i won't spoil the end of the movie. >> i won't. i won't. >> no, i promise i won't give it away because it's a wild ride. it takes you on a lot of twists. erica's right. a lot of times i was like this. what's going to happen? because you do want to know what's going to happen. when you go to an oliver stone movie you're not expecting, i don't think, a lighthearted rom p. you like the criminal element or the dark side, do you? >> yes. a sense of humor too. there are some laughs in the movie. travolta is very funny. deltoro is funny in a dark way. >> just your signature, oliver, i think michael douglas said
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he's a humanitarian with a dark side. do you think you have a dark side? >> yeah, i think so. don't you? >> i really don't. i don't think i do. i don't. >> really? >> i don't. >> go to bed every night early, get up at 3:30. where's the dark side? >> but you do like drama and the criminal element in your movies. >> i do. but i like power. i like people who play those -- that cat and mouse game where people are betraying. all of these six people in this movie, every one of them has a story and they take a journey and they change so you never get what you expect. that's true about life in general. blake lively is this beach bunny at the beginning, little bit stoned. by the time the movie is over she goes for a trip where she's twisted around on all her thoughts. at the end of the movie we leave you waiting for the sequel, i think. >> you've set it up very nicely. >> with selma coming out of jail. >> you're not supposed to give it away. >> i didn't say anything.
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>> blake lively says oliver stone is like the stoic father. you want to crack him. he's fully involved in the set. that's what she said about you. >> that's very sweet. blake is a newcomer. i saw her in "the town" and also in a small movie and she's on "gossip girl." she's extraordinary, 23, 24. she has a grace kelly, if you remember her. >> yes, i do. >> blond, beautiful. great to the eye. i always try to cast pretty people, good looking people. >> definitely worked in that one. i am fascinated by the fact that you did a lot of research for this film. you and don wilson, you went to a number of different grow houses and then you actually convinced the mexican drug lords to let you go hang out. >> well, let's not get too literal with this. let's say we hung out with some heavy people. don winslow knows that world because he's written other books about it. "savages" is a hypothetical fiction. it could happen.
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it's a wild ride. the real story has not yet happened in california. thank god, we don't want that. these cartels are making so much money they're not concentrating on small businesses, but the weed in california is california wild. well grown, high, high -- very, very effective, you should try some, gayle. >> very high -- >> okay. oliver, i'm not trying to be cute because i really have never tried it before. what does it for you? honest to god, i haven't. >> you and obama. >> no, i haven't. >> clinton said i haven't -- >> i smoked but i haven't inhaled. >> i haven't smoked it or inhaled. you've been open about your drug use. what does it do for you? >> i've never boasted about it. i just don't want to run -- for me, you know, my time of life i went to vietnam and frankly i was in the field and i was there fora long time. it made the difference between staying human, as michael douglas said, and becoming a beast. it's rough.
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and a lot of those people in that platoon used it not in the front lines but in the back just to relax and to stay in touch with themselves. so i look at it at that time in my life as really much of a life saver. i was a good soldier, by the way. i got decorated. >> you were wounded twice. >> i was not a slouch by any means. a lot of guys were like that. and we walked out of there i think relatively whole. a lot of guys were drinking, doing a lot of the killing that i think was unnecessary and raping and all of that stuff, burning down villages. guys who did the dope, they were much more conscious of the value of life. >> got you through it. now oliver stone i read meditates every day, true, that you meditate every day. >> i do. even when i have to come early on a show like this. i give it a shot. stay in touch. stay in touch with the root. >> that's how you start your day? >> what? >> that's how you start your day? >> i try to. that's not to say everything is not always centered. you try to center your thoughts
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on what's important to your life. >> no, you've got a teenage daughter that you're nuts about, you're happily married. >> she drives me nuts. >> at her age, that's her job. >> girls tend to do that. "savages" really takes us on a wild ride. >> thank you. >> "savages" opens next friday. it's a happy birthday for the iphone. the first one was sold five years ago. we'll look at how
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♪ i just met you this is crazy ♪ >> call me call me maybe. colin powell's favorite song. remember, he did it right here on "cbs this morning." >> a duet with you, gayle. >> it was great fun. millions of us cannot imagine not having an iphone. it was just five years ago that the first one went on sale, remember?
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>> yes, i do. since then we've learned to love touch screens and a little thing called the app. david poe, technology consultant from "the new york times" is here to talk to us about happy birthday for the iphone. >> thank you. >> five years later the iphone has changed us how? >> it changed a bunch of things. the obvious one is that touch screens is everywhere. it opened the door for android touch phones. there's a sneakier aspect. when steve jobs came along with this idea, at the time the design of cell phones was in the hands of the carriers. at&t, verizon. people were trying to develop the palm trio. verizon said, no, we don't want that. jobs, of course, is an autocrat. he was a control freak. he wanted control over every design element. he persuaded them to put trust in him to develop something new without their interference.
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that had never been done before. the carriers are now much more open to fresh ideas. >> i remember when people lined up to get that phone. back in the day you wrote an article where you said apple would never make a cell phone. why did you think that? >> exactly. not my finest moment. >> let's talk about that. >> no, no. i -- it was in the fall of 2006 so a few months before the iphone was announced. there was all this buzz, will they do an iphone. that was my argument. in this realm where verizon needs to say yes to that feature, no to that feature, jobs would never permit it. what i didn't anticipate was this end run he did. he offered a four year exclusive for whatever carrier would let him develop it in the dark as a black box. and verizon famously said no. >> right. >> we won't take that deal. then he went to the other carriers and finally wound up at singular. they finally said okay. later at&t merged with singular and the rest is history. >> verizon couldn't wait to get in a few years later. one of the things who brought so
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many people to the iphone was the app envy. that wasn't initially part of his plan. >> not only wasn't it part of his plan, he was against it. the first year the iphone had no apps from other people. it was just the apping that apple gave you and all the programmers, developers said let us do apps. we can do cool, cool things with this. jobs resisted and resisted until finally they could find a way to develop apps that wouldn't interfere with apple's stuff. >> in the beginning it was hard to justify that price tag no matter how cool apple is. >> for the first year it was not a subsidized phone. you paid forthe whole phone. at&t wasn't getting a monthly chunk of it like usually works on cell phones. apps are it. apps are what made it skyrocket. >> i am still hanging on to my blackberry. i don't have the iphone and i'm thinking, am i out of touch? people like me that are still using the blackberry, are we
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really out of touch? >> no, you can come home every night and set it next to the kyra seen lamp, you'll be fine. >> because i use the iphone, smarty pants, it does so much more than a phone. it's almost wrong to call it a phone. >> gayle, i'm going to buy you one. >> really? >> i like the keyboard. >> everybody says that. but it's bigger than -- >> i have to agree. nowadays the reviews of these phones don't mention call quality, how is it to dial? phone calling is kind of like down the list of what they do now. >> given blackberry's difficulties, the battle right now clearly seems to be iphone versus droid and it will continue for years to come now as we look forward to iphone 5, which is coming this fall, what are you expecting? >> well, there have been some spy photos from the chinese factories showing that it's the same size and shape but tall -- you know, longer, like a wider screen. and we know that apple could not get away without making it 4g which means just faster on the internet in big cities.
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and to make it 4g it has to have a bigger battery because 4g slurps down power. that explains the large size. >> a larger screen because we do so much on it that you need to be able to see things. >> big screen is great for maps. >> we'll watch it for you. >> i'll wait for that one. thank you, david pogue. >> thank you. three chinese astronauts returned home this morning after a 13-day mission. we'll look at china's ambitious goals for its space program when "cbs this morning" continues after the break. ♪ falling down over you [ female announcer ] safeway presents
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demanding mission yet. >> the crew included the first female astronaut. chip reid shows us the expanding chinese space effort. >> after 13 days orbiting the earth, the space capsule shenzhou 9 floated gently over the northern plains and slammed into the ear. did a somersault and came to rest on its side. after an anxious hour long wait, the three astronauts finally emerged to a round of applause and a national sigh of relief. especially for 33-year-old liu yang, china's first woman in space. with legs too weak to walk, the three were carried to a brief press conference. yang said she feels proud for china. yang who was called little sister by the male astronauts was added to the mission to draw attention to a space program that's had difficulty capturing the imagination of the chinese people. chinese tv repeatedly showed her doing tai chi exercises in the
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small space module where the astronauts spent ten days, nicknamed the heavenly palace. yang said it was cozy and warm. overall, the mission was a glowing success and a very big deal for china according to cbs news space analyst bill harwood. >> the chinese are making very definite good progress toward their goal of building their own space station. >> china is going it alone in space in part because they were excluded from the international space station due to u.s. concerns that china could acquire advanced technology. china now hopes to have its own space station up and running by 2020. about the same time the international space station goes out of service. with the retirement of the space shuttle program, the u.s. now has no manned space flight program, lyle the chinese are moving full speed ahead. >> the fact is, we could well be in a situation at the early part of the next decade, the u.s. will be out and china will have the only operational space station. >> china insists it's oebl
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interested for scientific and peaceful purposes. it's also about status. manned space flight is something only three nations, the united states, russia and china have ever done. for china, it is vitally important to be a member of that very exclusive club. chip reid, cbs news, beijing. want to update you on a story yesterday which we all love. remember jagger, the 11-year-old skateboarder on his way to the x pgo jagger. he made it through the qualifying round in l.a. he and the other 11 finalists will try to become x games champions. i love this kid. >> i like him too. we liked everything about him yesterday. yesterday we thought he might not make it to the next round. that's good. pulling for him. >> in fact, you say girls say it a lot. it's kind of annoying. he's 11. but it ain't going to be annoying for long. soon he might like all that attention from the ladies. >> pulling for him.
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that's going to do it for us this morning. as we look back at the past week, we want to show you the names of the people who bring you this broadcast every day. thanks for being with us today. don't forget, "cbs this morning saturday" comes your way tomorrow. we'll see you monday. have a great weekend. >> i did it because i believed it was good for the american people. >> the supreme court handed president obama a major legal and political victory by upholding his affordable care act. >> we don't want washington bureaucrats telling patients what kind of health care they shold have. >> this really already is helping republicans. yesterday, they brought in $4.2 million. >> if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. >> colorado's wildfire trouble is getting worse. >> thousands of people are waking up again in shelters and evacuation centers. >> the fire has now burned more than 29 square miles. >> to think that all of that beauty is gone is so heart-wrenching. >> any time all the rain they
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desperately need in colorado this morning, it's found in florida. >> tropical storm debby is pounding parts of gulf coast. >> alligators, water moccasins, they're all up in the trees right now. >> it boils down to can romney get something going in the west? better latino numbers. >> he might be the ideal running mate for mitt romney. >> i didn't run for student council president. >> that's a no or it's not going to happen? >> that's it's not going to happen. and no. >> notice that the groom is practically the first one out of the water. he leaves the bride behind. >> i was thinking charlie rose, you were such a gentleman, you too, you would never take the plunge and leave her behind. >> i can't speak for miller. >> band is back together again. >> can i lean like this again. >> do it with -- >> i have bad posture abdomen -- >> daye that all the time. sort of like. >> dennis, you can sit however --
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>> got that primal grunt down, charlie. >> so annoying. muggily is ugly. >> i think he's very handsome by the way. >> i don't know how he dos it. >> i dos it well. >> very, very good to you. >> yes. >> hallelujah. >> may i say you look good aaron sorkin. >> are you mocking me? >> don't leave, don't leave. >> i'm still here. >> he said you were prying me out of a -- >> excited to be here. >> all that matters. >> i saw that. i went it's so psychedelic. >> it's hard for me because i so much wanted her to think that i was as interesting as she was. >> she has many of those one-liners. >> if there's one thought why she was, it is how funny she was and how she so much made people she was, it is how funny she was and how she so much made people who were around her come alive.
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>> good morning. antioch police searched the scene where a police officer shot a man dead. the man called officers yesterday threatened to kill himself for one of them. he died in a gunfight when police arrived. officials are mopping up at a house near san jose state that was badly damaged by flames last night on south seventh street. the campaign to recall oakland mayor jean kwan is all but over. organizers say they will not meet the monday deadline to gather enough signatures. critics are unhappy with the mayor's handling of the crime problem. >> we're at the alameda county
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fair, things are looking good and we will see more sunshine through the afternoon. i pressure is sliding east. the trough will help cool down the temperature's the next couple of days. low 80s well inland, '70s inside the day and '60s towards the coast line. towards the weekend we will cool things down. i think more significant warming as we head towards the middle of this next week. we could see temperatures moving back into the '90s.
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>> happy friday. we have a bit of a slowdown out of marin county with a broken- down vehicles southbound 101 just past the golden gate bridge. things look pretty good heading into san francisco after that. we were seeing foggy conditions along the golden gate bridge but it looks like it has lifted just a bit so it is not bad as you head through there. give yourself some extra time, limited visibility through there. slight delays west of milpitas but not bad in the south bay. but not bad in the south bay. ,,,,,,
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