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>> thank you so good morning to our viewers in the west. it is monday, july 2nd, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm erica hill. charlie rose is off today. record breaking heat and no power. a dangerous combination for millions of people in areas devastated by deadly weekend storms, and there is more severe weather on the way. i'm jeff glor. the wife of an american soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians defends her husband. an interview you'll see only on "cbs this morning." plus, jan crawford reveals why chief justice john roberts changed his mind and led the supreme court to uphold health care reform. and i'm gayle king. an attack by a chimpanzee leaves an american student with critical injuries. we'll show you how he's doing. and it's been 75 years since amelia earhart vanished. we'll introduce you to one man
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who says he knows exactly where she disappeared. first, as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye opener. "your world in 90 seconds." this storm packed a hurricane wallop without hurricane warning. >> deadly summer storms leave millions of americans in the dark. >> nearly 3 million people remain without power. >> in the middle of a hisric heat wave. >> this morning 20 states are under heat advisories. >> it is brutal. it is hot. at least 17 deaths are being blamed on the storm. >> horrible. >> roberts has changed his views. he withstood a month long desperate campaign by the conservative justices to bring him back to the fold. the house has already voted some 30 times to repeal this law. >> we're going to do it one more time. >> pena nieto has won the
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presidential election. the new face of a party. >> oberle after a vicious chimp attack in south africa. >> a new resort has opened up. you're going to get very, very dirty. >> that's what it's all about. i saw it on the internet so i had to check it out. >> after the actress filed for divorce from tom cruise. katie holmes reportedly believes she is being followed. >> all that -- >> have some fun. why not? >> absolutely. >> and all that matters. >> tiger woods surpasses jack nicklaus' all-time pga wins list. >> and another victory for tiger. 74th career win. >> on "cbs this morning." >> maybe it's the heat because new jersey governor chris christie is sure sounding hot and bothered these days. >> did i say on topic?
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are you stupid? on topic. next question. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning. "more than two million people are waking up to another day of no power and high heat. one more round of powerful storms rolled through the mid-atlantic region overnight adding a weekend of extreme weather which now is blamed for at least 17 deaths. three of those were reported on sunday after a seventh storm hit north carolina. and even where it wasn't raining, there was record breaking heat all weekend at nearly 30 cities recording 100 degrees or higher on sunday. and over the weekend nashville, t tennessee, and columbia, south carolina, both hit 109 degrees, setting all-time records. but areas from indiana to virginia really got the worst of the weekend weather. a violent storm system formed around chicago on fry ta and then moved east packing winds up to 90 miles an hour.
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three days later there are still widespread outages in virginia, maryland, washington, d.c., ohio, west virginia, new jersey, and indiana. power officials say some areas maybe without electricity for several more days and there are more storm watches up this morning in the deep south and also along the ohio valley. federal offices in washington will be open today but nonessential workers will be allowed to stay home. and in maryland the governor is also giving state workers the option of staying home. sharyl attkisson is in silver spring, maryland. good morning. >> reporter: good morning and good morning to our viewers across the west where we hope the power situation is a lot better than it is here in the east. we're in a neighborhood that's been affected since friday night by this tree that's fallen on the giant power lines here, cutting off power and stranding some residents back there. we're told it will be friday night late before much of the power is restored. throughout the d.c. metro area,
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hundreds of thousands of people ae pacing a third day of sweltering heat with no electricity. >> we are out of power. absolutely and out of air conditioning he especially. >> reporter: gary hines charged his computer and cell phone at a sports bar in fairfax, virginia, sunday. it could be days before power is fully restored. he's more worried about his neighbor's son. >> we have a neighbor whose son has bad asthma and he has a respirator sort of thing that he has to use at night and they're running it off a generator now but who knows how long that will la last. >> reporter: across the region residents did whatever they could to deal with the inconvenience, cramming malls, stock i stocking up on ice, and in some spots waiting in long lines for gas. >> we went to one gas station. we thought, oh, this is great. but it was -- there wasn't any power. >> reporter: a violent weather system known as derecho swarmed in and traveled about 600 miles in ten hours packing hurricane force winds. >> the truth is when a catastrophic event like this
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hits and when you have 70-mile-an-hour winds and heavy rain there are going to be outages. >> reporter: pepco president thomas graham says his crews are working around the clock to restore service to the d.c. and maryland area starting with critical facilities like hospitals and nursing holes. that's not stopping maryland's governor from keeping up the pressure. >> nobody will have their boot further up pepco's back side than i will to make sure that we get there. >> reporter: a remark that didn't sit well with graham. >> does it make me work harder or does it make my company work harder? we're already working hard. >> reporter: and getting help from power crews from as far away as oklahoma and canada. neighbors tell us this is a cul-de-sac so actually the people living back there have been blocked in since friday night by the tree including some elderly people and a family with a disabled family member. we have people going around the and checking on them, however. pepco says it's planning to invest $910 million in infrastructure improvements over the next five years, most of
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that will be spent on trimming trees. jeff and erica? >> thank you. we have new information about the supreme court ruling upholding president obama's health care law. the court was initially set to reject the key individual mandate and possibly throughow the entire law. chief justice john roberts changed his opinion. >> it is rare for this kind of information to come out of the supreme court. jan crawford is in washington with the new details you will hear only on "cbs this morning. "as jeff mentioned about chief justice roberts changing his mind, what happened, jan? >> reporter: well, that's what everyone is trying to understand and then figure out. the conservative justices according to my sources say they are unsatisfied with his explanation for why he did shift his views. as jeff explained he was with the conservatives to strike down that individual mandate, the requirement that all americans buy health insurance, that was the heart of this law. now my sources tell me this
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morning that he wasn't prepared to go quite as far as the other conservatives and strike down the entire law. they believe the entire thing had to go. he was just going to carve out one part of it, the key part of it. so, at mi rate, as this kind of continued, he then started to change his mind. he knew provisions in the constitution where this law could be saved. he then formed af alliance with the liberal justices providing the key fifth vote to uphold the president's signature achievement. and then, erica, what's so fascinating, the inside dynamics, he withstood the campaign by the conservatives to bring him back onboard. but he stood firm. the president's health care law survived. >> you wrote a book on the supreme court. you know that it's typically waterproof when it comes to leaks. so i'm wondering how unusual is it and are you surprised all this is coming out so quickly? >> reporter: i am. i am. i mean, typically these things can take if not months, years, at least weeks. the last time there was a huge
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leak controversial slip in a case was back in 1992 when justice kennedy, a moderate, refused to overturn a woman's right to an abortion at the last minute. that leaked out after a month or so to people who were close to the case. in this case there are so many people inside that courtroom, secretaries, law clerks, chambers aides, the justices themselves, who know about this unusual shift. and many of whom are quite upset about it. so in these circumstances sometimes people are willing to try to explain what happened. they also believe there were leaks before roberts switched his vote to put pressure on him. that also is upsetting a lot of people because they believe there were earlier leaks in had case to influence the chief justice. >> so fascinating information, the article jan filed. jan, thank you. the fallout from the supreme court decision continued over the weekend in washington. john boehner voted to repeal the law during an interview with norah o'donnell on "face the nation." >> the house has already voted
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some 30 times to repeal or defunct this law. >> and we're going to do it one more time. >> what's the point? >> we want to show people we are resolved to get rid of this. >> why not work with him rather than repeal the whole thing? even mitt romney says -- >> no, no, this has to be ripped out by its roots. this is government taking over the entire health insurance industry. the american people do not want to to go down this path. >> with us now major garrett for national journal. >> good to be here this morning. >> we heard speaker boehner say this has to be ripped out by its roots. is this risky for republicans to be focusing on this? >> they do not believe so at all. they believe their tea party supporters demand this kind of rejection of the health care law and they believe independents and swing voters are going to be over time persuaded if they're unhappy about the economy, one of the thing holding it down is the health care law.
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republicans have to make that case. they believe they can and will try. >> republicans hammering this, another, one would think, mitt romney given what he passed in massachusetts in 2006. >> talk about it's complicated. his entire history in massachusetts -- if he has a signature in massachusetts it's the health care law. those who wrote it in the white house, i've talked to them 100 times say, look, our model was the massachusetts health care law itself with individual m mandates, with a penalty or a tax, larger than the president's tax to impose that individual mandate so romney has to explain as mitch mcconnell, the senate republ republican leader, has to speak. don't ask every republican to carry mitt romney's extensively and heavy baggage. >> which in itself is an interesting response. democrats interestingly, though, seem to want to distance themselves and move forward. >> yes. in hockey if a goalie makes a great save, it's a kick save and
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you keep on with the game. what the supreme court did for president obama is the kick save. they didn't lose the law but they protected it with a tax and a new line. >> what the entire countries cares about is whether anything substantially changes and the trajectory of the law. no, it carries on with its implementation. our 0 overall political focus is the economy. republicans will try to tie them together. democrats would like very much, as i wrote in "national journal" to move on and move on rapidly. >> and part of that because of the word tax and the way it's been -- >> not just that. tax doesn't help but the law itself, until it's fully implemented, at least democrats believe this, will not become that popular. the one thing the white house learned much to its dismay is when the law passed, it's been a terribly difficult debate n. two years it'll be really popular. it has not moved. there has been absolute static movement in the polls on this law for two years. the country has heard about it and they still net-net like individual provisions don't like the larger thing and the stuff jan talked about with the
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supreme court, the institutions being morphed may be a drag politically. >> on the subject of taxes, as you know there are growing reports from both sides, that the bush tax cuts may let them expire at the end of the year. does that happen? >> right now anything regarding the end of the year is possible. everything is an abstraction and theoretical because nobody knows who will win the election. everything depend on who wins the election. if republicans win, hold the house and elect mitt romney, they're going to chart their own course on tax reform. they'll keep the bush tax cuts and then replace them with something else f. a president wins and democrats hold the senate or get the house or some combination of that, the president will set his own course. i can't see a scenario right now where the bush tax cuts expire without something coming right after it and right after it part is the difficult part. legislating tax reform is extremely difficult. it will take months and months and months and i don't think the economy and wall street and
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small business is interested in washington telling them you're not going to have any tax cuts. you'll have tax uncertainty for six, eight, nine months while we figure out tax reform. an interesting concept but everything right now is theoretical. >> major garrett, thank you. the stubborn western wildfires, a c-130 firefighting plane went down in south dakota last night, three people onboard were rescued and are being treated. firefighters in colorado springs have gained ground on the huge wildfire that destroyed nearly 350 homes. on sunday thousands of evacuees were able to look at the damaged area. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff and erica, and good morning to everyone in the west. one of the neighborhoods hardest hit was the mountain shadows subdivision. many of the homes there were incinerated and when you see the fire that descended on that neighborhood, you understand why for many residents there was nothing left when they went back in what is now the most destructive fire in state history. 11 active wildfires continue to burn more than 165,000 acres
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across the state. some of those fires started seven weeks ago. one of the worst, the waldo canyon fire in colorado springs. >> i was standing right up in that area. >> reporter: wayne shot this video of the fire as it approached the mountain shadows neighborhood. >> i could see the fire come over the top of the ridge and within a period of about six minutes it went from the top of the ridge to almost down to the neighborhood. >> reporter: on sunday residents finally saw what was left of their neighborhood. victor malone and joanne larraga moved here just a year ago. >> our gift from our realtor. a bird feeder. ashes to ashes. >> reporter: they have seen an aerial photo earlier in the week and knew the house was gone, but, even still -- >> it was hard. >> you think about it and then it just takes your breath away.
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wow. it looks as bad as it looked in the picture, even worse. >> reporter: 14 homes stood on their street. now there are none. joanne found a treasured gift from her mother who passed away in 2007, a coconut grater made of iron that survived the heat. >> i'm just so happy we found it. >> reporter: where the piano had been, there was a trumpet. >> now that's a keeper. ow. >> hot? >> yeah, hot. >> reporter: the wooden grandfather clock and the pamly chest from the 1940s are gone, turned to white ash with the rest. >> there are no words really that can describe it other than it was just it gets you. it really does. >> reporter: joe aanne and vict plan to rebuild in the same spot and say many of their neighbors do, too, but they're going to have to wait. even though the fire is now 55% contained, it is still burning and it still presents a danger to some neighborhoods.
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jeff and erica, back to you. there is major news out of mexico this morning. the longtime ruling party that was thrown out of power 12 years ago is ready to take over again. the initial vote count shows candidate enrique pena nieto won the three-way election with 38% of the vote. his party controlled mexico's government for 71 years before losing power in 2000. bill whitaker is in mexico city this morning. bill, how significant is this shake-up? >> reporter: good morning, jeff, and to our viewers in the west. it is a very big deal. the pri, the institutional revolutionary party, was booted out of office for being corrupt and arrogant. in 12 years they've been out of power, this kcountry has been o a roller coaster politically and socially especially with all of the deaths, 50,000 deaths and more, that came with the war against the mexican drug c cartels. after the last 12 years the rule of the pri has started to look not so bad. so yesterday the voters of
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mexico voted overwhelmingly to return the party to power. >> let's talk about the drug war for a second which calderon has supported so vigorously. what does this change mean for that? >> reporter: the polls show people here in mexico value security and want an end to all the violence. surprisingly on the campaign trail the candidates rarely talked about it, and when they did, they would say things like, i'm going to stop the violence. but they never really said how they were going to do it. people here just want somebody who can do something about all of this violence. and they've turned again to the pri because the pri after 71 years of iron fisted rule represents security if they represent nothing else. >> bill whitaker in mexico city. bill, thank you. time now for a look at some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the guardian" says the chairman of one of britain's biggest
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banks resigned today. barclays tried to raise interest rates. they apologized and said the buck stops with me. "the washington post" looks to tiger woods winning the at&t national on sunday. woods is the first goler to win three pga tour tournaments this year. he is now second on the all-time tournament list passing jack nicklaus with 74 career
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army army sergeant robert bales is charged with killing 16 civilians in afghanistan. his wife says he would never do that. this morning we'll ask kari bales what she is hearing from her husband in her first live tv interview. to blow up an american jetliner in mid-flight maybe before the olympics. they believe the bomber is a norwegian man who could be hard to catch. john miller looks at the effort to find him ahead on "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by hershey's. hershey's makes it asa more. you make it special. that brings people together.
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>> time for the news headlines. >> the fight over artist thomas kincaid $66 million estate goes to court today. his widow and his girlfriend both want the money. the girlfriend produced and written notes to back up her claim. arson at a school in san jose, someone started fire at independence high school. a close fire station in vallejo is reopening today. a grant from fema will pay for a grant from fema will pay for it.
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>> we will start you off at the live look at the bay bridge toll plaza where the metering lights have been on for more than an hour. we have a spa reported westbound 80 near treasure island. westbound 80 byte avian way is very slow. in marin county southbound 101 by lucas valley road, an accident blocking one lane. >> it is fog he now but looking good towards the afternoon. some fog is likely to linger right here at the beach. it will stay cool towards the coast but as you make your way inside the day we will find warmer weather. what the '60s and '70s around the bay. the next couple of days,,,,,,,,
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beaches off cape cod are open, but swimmers are told to watch out for great white sharks. this photo was taken on saturday. it's one of the two big sharks spotted over the past two days. one spotted a hundred yards from shore, which would keep most of us out of the water. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we have new information this morning on a story that stunned the nation in march. u.s. army sergeant robert bails was accused of leaving his base in southern afghanistan and murdering 16 unarmed civilians. no one was more shocked by those charges than the suspect's wife, cakari bales. she's here in studio for her first live tv interview. >> thanks for having me.
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>> it's been a rough month to say the least. you've visited your husband. how is he holding up? >> he's pretty good. keeping a positive attitude in the hopes that everything comes out in the end that we find the truth. and that -- you've never actually asked him about what happened. why is that? is it that you're not ready to hear it or been advised not to? >> i don't need to ask him. i know my husband and it's not a question i really need to ask. i know him. i know what he's capable of and not capable of. i don't need to ask the question. >> kari, i'm sorry, what was lifelike before this happened? >> life was pretty busy before all of this happened, too. i work full-time and i have two kids, a five-year-old and a two-year-old. pretty busy working with all of that. things just got more busy with all of this. >> what happened? when you heard? >> i was completely shocked.
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and didn't believe that they were telling. didn't believe that it happened. didn't believe that my husband was involved at all. >> and you still don't? >> i still do not, no. i want to know what happened. i don't know what happened. i don't think that anyone really knows what happened. i believe that that's why we need a fair trial. all americans deserve a fair trial. we've set up a defense fund. www.bales defense fund.com and we would appreciate any contributions to it and all americans and all people are innocent until proven guilty. we don't have any of the details or the truth yet. >> so you believe all that will come out at trial, though? >> i truly believe that, yes. >> there's nothing that you've learned in the interim that gives you a better picture at all as you're starting to make sense of this and try to understand those moments? >> i think that the details that came out originally were very confusing, didn't make a lot of sense. they were sensationalized. a lot of untruths about me and
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my husband, our life. it makes it hard to believe anything that came out. >> you spoke with him two days before these events. >> yep. >> anything in that phone conversation that struck you as odd or different ond out of character? >> not at all. we talked about our normal things, the kids, work, how he was holding up. we didn't -- he didn't really say a lot about this, during this deployment on the telephone. most of it was me doing the talking about what was going on at home in our lives. so that's all he wants to hear is how are you doing. >> this was an especially tough one what was it that made it so difficult? >> i think they worked really long hours and i think they were under constant threat of danger and more or less than maybe when he was in iraq. i think this one was just more intense. >> on the subject of iraq, i know he sustained a mild traumatic brain injury when he was in iraq. his vehicle flipped over. did he talk about that? >> not while he was over there.
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i had no idea that anything had happened to him until maybe a couple months after he had been back and he told me i got blown up and i was in shock that he hadn't told me while he was over there. so, yeah. >> the army says that he was using steroids, that he was abusing alcohol at times. did he talk to you about the stresses in afghanistan, if not iraq? >> nope. just a normal conversation like i said, i did most of the talking. i didn't really know what was going on with him over there. i knew that he was working hard and had long long duty hours. >> was he frustrated? >> i don't think he was frustrated. he wanted to be home, he wanted to be with us. deployments are always hard, this was our fourth one. we had been married. just celebrated our anniversary and been together only half of them because of his deployments. >> he was hoping that after this deployment, he would end his military career and move on.
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>> move on to something that was not deployable. we would do a different career and we were getting ready to move out of state to do >> your kids are five and two as he mentioned. >> necessity must ask you, where's daddy, when is he coming home? how do you handle those questions. >> i tell them it's easier if they know that he's at work. they don't have to ask where's daddy, why doesn't he come home with us? i tell them he's at special work. they understand that. we miss him dearly. we talk about daddy every day. he talks to them on the phone whenever he calls. right now they just think he's still away and he'll be coming home soon. i haven't gotten to the point where i don't know what to tell them when he doesn't come home and they think he's going to be home. >> have you thought at all about what that conversation will be like? >> i know that it will -- it will feel right when it happens. i want to protect my children as much as i can. and they don't understand any of this that's going on. >> don't understand at -- >> she knows something is up.
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i don't even understand what's going on. i don't understand why we're in this position and i really want a fair trial for my husband so that the facts do come out and my children deserve to be proud psacrificed a lot for his 's country. he's been away from our family too often. >> the military makes serious charges against your husband. how do you feel about how the military treated you since this happened? >> they've been excellent at taking care of us. i'm completely secure. they took care of us as soon as this happened. >> you were moved right away for your protection. >> right. it was something i hadn't thought of. what about lodging? where are you staying tonight? um i don't know. we didn't know at the time when they would release his name. first thing on my mind was my children's safety. i needed to be safe as well-being the parent. we went along what they advised us to do. >> do you have any concerns for your safety or their safety today? >> fls always a fear of that. you just don't know what could happen. we take precautions and we pray
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a lot. >> who are you angry at? >> i don't think i'm angry at anyone. i just i want my family to be together again. i want the truth to come out and my goal always has been to have our family to be together. that's the main and most important thing. all of the time away makes you -- when you're with your family makes it all the more important to be together. usually when there's a deployment you have an end date so you can get through each day. we have to make it to october or december. there's no end date for this. that's the hard part. >> figuring out how to deal with that. if for some reason your husband is found guilty, have you thought about what that reality would be like or what that would bring? >> at this point i haven't gotten that far. i truly believe that my husband did not do this. i really just want the facts to come out through the fair trial. >> kari bales thanks for your time. >> thank you, guys. there is a new warning for passengers on u.s. airlines.
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intelligence officials have a terror alert this morning. sources say al qaeda has chosen a norwegian man trained by the terror group to blow up an american airline this summer. >> john miller, former deputy director of national intelligence is with us. a, how real is this threat? we'll start with that. >> i think it's very real in that the information comes from intelligence sources that said there is this individual, he has been trained and he's operational. he's been given a mission and told to go forward. >> a norwegian man. does that mean he's from norway
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originally, that he moved there? what is that? >> that means he's from norway originally. that means, of course, as part of al qaeda's effort. if you go back to a abbottabad, one of the things they said is let's look for people that don't look like what we think they're looking for. if we're looking for this individual, we're doing data crunching. who fits the profile, someone 18 to 35. someone who is from norway, someone who has traveled to places that are jump off spots to go to yemen. now, you've got maybe tens of thousands of people or thousands. but you want to crunch that down to who has connection somewhere else in the database and focus on those people. >> thousand do they recruit someone in norway? >> well, mostly over the internet. if you look at the pattern of foreign people recruit into these things, americans, nor weej ans, swedens, swedes, you
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see most of them were radicalized over the internet. >> how do you start to look out for this person? this is literally a needle in a haystack. doesn't mean he'll be on a norwegian passport. documents can be falsified. >> two ways. one the traditional way, you have intelligence officers overseas who run intelligence agents in the field and you say, bang against your sources and see if we can come up with a real name on this guy and where he is. and the less -- perhaps the more interesting way is the data crunching piece where you take what you do know about him and then what you know about the geography and then you use super computers to crunch through those records and say how do we narrow this pool down and then how do we look for further connections. >> for a time it seems like the thinking was al qaeda was not going to target another plane for some time after 9/11. that seems to be changing the last couple of years. is a plane attack inevitable? >> al qaeda has never lost its
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>> when you go in. >> it seems like such a bargain. >> indeed. gayle is in the control room with a look at what's coming up in the next hour. hey gayle. >> thanks, erica. an american student who loves chimpanzees is fighting for his life after two chimps attacked him in south africa. we'll get an update on his condition. ted was the number one movie in america this weekend. a lot of people didn't see that coming. seth mcfarland, the director, producer and the voice of ted. he talked with charlie about going from tv to movies and why he believes family guy should have been canceled by now. huh? >> have you heard the song, call me maybe, this is crazy. how could you miss it? if so, where you been? it's everywhere. we'll try to figure out why it got so big so fast. chef marcus samuelson is joining us in studio 57. he's a very successful chef rock star. he's got a successfulestaurant and he's joining us today. those stories and more when we see you at 8:00. you're watching "cbs this morning." you can get us on facebook, twitter and google plus. we'll be right back.
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>> be the u.s. commerce department is set to announce today one of the nation's first regional patent offices will be in san jose. it is no surprise because one- fourth of u.s. patents originate in silicon valley. it location for the san jose office still needs to be chosen. the first regional patent office is about to be in detroit >> the estranged wife of thomas kincaid will be in a santa clara county courtroom today battling over the late artist's,, ,,,,,,
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>> if your commute takes you through marin county is pretty heavy traffic through san rafael. an earlier accident at lucas valley road is now clear but we see a lot of red sensors meaning speeds under 25 m.p.h.. westbound 80, an accident blocking up the two-lane so it is pretty slow all the way across the cardenas bridge. >> we will see a lot of sunshine this afternoon, delays at sfo of one hour 15 minutes for arriving flights. foggy in the distance. as we had throughout the day the temperatures will warm up nicely. nicely. we're looking at about upper there's natural gas under my town.
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♪ i would lay me down ♪ so high i'll comfort you that's a tribute to whitney houston from her mother at last night's b.e.t. awards. the song, of course, was "bridge over troubled water." b.e.t. was a great show. that was one of the most poignant moments. really nice to see. >> what a moment there. >> it really was. it's 8:00. welcome back to shoe. i'm gayle king. charlie rose is off today. >> i'm erica hill along with jeff glor. 75 years ago today one of this country's great mysteries began as americans learned amelia earhart was missing. >> the famous pilot's plane was last seen over the pacific
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ocean. now as lee cowan reports, a tense expedition is about to take off. lee, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. tomorrow morning a team of researchers leaving from hawaii. they're leaving from a tiny island in the pacific that they say they have evidence that they managed to land their lockheed electra safely but then were left to die as cast aways. lady, amelia earhart. >> reporter: she was a daredevil, a pioneer. she embodied the danger of it too. 75 years ago this morning amelia earhart climbed into her lockheed electra with her navigator, fred noonan, disappeared somewhere over the pacific. >> reporter: the story of a brave woman of the air enters a shroud of mystery. >> reporter: for her to vanish without a trace at the height of all that fame was then and is now inconceivable to some.
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take ric gillespie. was it that she crashed at sea and sank without a trace or was there a whole chap their we've never known about? >> he's a part-time horse man and a full-time air man detective. he founded the group of historic aircraft recovery. 25 years of research turned this up. a long forgotten photo that says it may show the holy grail of the earhart puzzle. >> the components of this image match the shape and dimensions of elements in the landing gear of a lockheed electra. >> reporter: that picture was taken in 1937 off gardner island now called nikumaroro. that was 300 miles to the southeast of where earhart was supposed to land, tiny howland island. both were needles in a floating haystack. >> running low. >> reporter: her mysterious disappearance was the stuff of
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hollywood, but to dorothy cochran, a curator at the national air and space museum, there's no mystery. she says she simply ran out of gas and drowned. >> reporter: at the end of the day, where did she go down? >> i believe that she went down somewhere to the northwest of howland island. i think they were fairly close, unfortunately. >> reporter: but ric gillespie thinks in her effort to find howland she stumbled on nikumaroro and made an emergency landing and then waited for the help that never came. >> if what you're saying is the case, there's probably a far worsened than crashing into the ocean. >> oh, yeah. living and dieing on that island is not a good way to go, no. >> reporter: proof earhart survived, he says, came in weak radio signals heard after her disappearance. most were cruel hoaxes, but he says a teenager named betty klenck was so convinced she
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heard earhart on her short waive radio that she wrote every word she heard in her journal. she's now 91 years old and still swears it was earhart's voice. >> reporter: what really got betty about what she heard was the tones in the voice of the people she was hearing. >> reporter: panic? >> panic, extreme anxiety, anguish. it haunted her. >> reporter: there's other evidence, too. although he admits it's all pfragments of bone and a heel o a woman's shoe were both found on nikumaroro in 1940. years later gillespie returned to that site and found more. bottles of hand lotion and freckle ointment from the 1930s, even a zipper from what could be a flight suit. >> it tells a story. it tells a story of an american woman of the 1930s who's tried and failed to survive on that island. >> reporter: i think critics would say that could be anybody. it could be the remnants of --
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>> yeah. yeah. it could be anybody. who? that's my reply to that. who? >> the artifacts that he's found are all collateral pieces of civilization, nothing that can be directly tied to amelia. >> reporter: coast guard cutters and navy ships and planes are rushing to their aid. >> reporter: and what about that massive search, the largest of its kind at the time. >> reporter: why wouldn't they have seen a plane when they did the flyover? >> because by the time they got there, the plane had been washed over the edge of the reef into the surf zone obscured by the surf. nobody would see it. >> reporter: maybe the answer to this 75-year-old mystery is, indeed, just off that reef resting in 1,000 feet of water. this week gillespie and his team will use side scan sonar and underwater robots to look for what, if anything, is left of earhart's plane, including that landing gear if, indeed, that's what was in the picture in the first place. >> this is the biggest thing we've ever done. we'll either find something or we won't.
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>> reporter: it won't change what earhart accomplished, but it could finally put her to rest. >> that mr. gillespie certainly has answers to all of your questions. why is he so sure, lee? he's so adamant. >> well, the fact that the evidence he thinks he's found, which critics say is all circumstantial, he says if she was trying to find howland island, she was on a certain navigational island. to one line there was nothing and to one of them was gardner island. if she missed howland she might have a couple of other chances to land. again, who knows. really don't know. >> there are these radio transmissions as well that have some people saying, you know, maybe there is something. >> yeah. there's a lot of controversy about that. a lot of them are deemed as hoaxes right off the bat. people try to pretend they were her. didn't come from anywhere in the south pacific. there are some though that gillespie says that are reasonable to assume came from her general position.
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some of them some people heard very clearly. others were sort of garbled, but the point he makes is there's no way that those radio transmissions could have happened unless she did manage to land the plane because the plane would have to be upright on its wheels. the engines would have to be running to charge the batteries. that's his reason to think she managed to land. >> when will they know one way or the other? >> he's going out there. ric's going out there. he'll be there for ten days.
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we've got we've got a surprising s secret to help you get the most benefits out of your salad. that's coming up in health watch. be careful what you do in a chicago taxi. also pronounced taxi. we'll make that long story short on "cbs this morning." it could be very expensive. i am going to become facebook friends with our babysitter. no.
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>> she did. apparently it was not the first time that he attacked a mascot either. >> but you know what's funny about that, if you could use the word funny, that's the guy who won. >> can you imagine? >> can you imagine if he lost? why are you mad at the mascot? we found a few reasons for all of us to make some long stories short. wtsp says breast milk may help the battle against hiv. study from university of north carolina says breast milk can kill the virus from aids. the study hopes to show that it's safe for hiv infected women to sbres feed their children. >> funny development there. the new york daily news reports more men, jeff glor, are buying women's does metd particulars. the number of male buyers increased by 76% in the past two years. the most popular product, eye creams, skin cleansers. >> i love how lss gives stats when i'm here. >> it's not stacked. tell us what's your favorite eye cream. >> then we can move on.
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>> the anchorage daily news says from the mayor of anchorage will be sworn in from honolulu. his term begins at the same time as his annual family vacation. he'll take the oath via skype. it's his second term, no big deal. aloha and he'll be properly cosmeticed up. >> maybe we could work it from hawaii. >> that's right. >> is it oil of owe lay? >> that's right. >> our cbs station in chicago, messing up a taxi will cost you. riders will now be hit with a $50 cleanup fee if they throw up in a chicago cab. now drivers have been complaining for years about passengers who may have had too much to drink. that's the long story short. the bottom line is you better sober up or clean up. >> i wonder if they thought about putting barf bags in there >> barf bags. - >> that may help. the "los angeles times" says it was a record weekend for "r"
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rated movies. ted was number one taking in $54 million. it's the best showing ever for an original "r" rated movie. "magic mike" came in number two. it's time for this morning's health watch. here's dr. holley phillips. good morning. in today's health watch, the secret of salad dressing. when it comes to salad dressing, choosing no fat or low fat might not be the healthiest ongs. a new study found that full fat dressings may be better in unlocking the nutrients you can absorb from your veggies. they had salads topped with dressings made with saturated fat using butter, canola oil and poly unsaturated fat using corn oil. they took blood samples to test for the absorption of antioxidants known to fight cancer, heart disease and
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age-related vision loss. researchers found canola and olive oil requires the least amount of fat to absorb the most antioxidants. the others say the dressing needed more fat to get the same result. so go ahead and choose the full fat dressing on your next salad. just a little bit of the right type of fat will help you get the most out of your salad without ruining your diet. i'm dr. holley phillips. cbs health watch sponsored by lyrica. thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and for some people, it can work in as early as the first week of treatment. so now i can do more of the things that i enjoy. lyrica is not for everyone. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these,
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things are looking better for an american graduate student mauled by chim pan zies at a south african sanctuary. >> he was viciously attacked by a pair of chimps. mark phillips is in london with new details on his condition. mark, good morning. >> good morning, jeff. the american student's condition has improved but still in bad shape if no longer critical.
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there are plenty of questions about how it happened, were it happened and whether getting that close to chimpanzees, especially ones that have been damaged, is a good idea. >> his social network postings describe him as a 26-year-old anthropologist from st. louis who was in south africa studying chimpanzees and who is said to have known the risks of being around then. now he knows the risks even better. he's lucky to be alive. andrew had been working as a guide at a facility known as chimpanzee eden where chimps are housed after being rescued from lives of abuse, either in the illegal pet market or the entertainment industry. observer leah peers to have been standing too close to an enclosure with adult male animals. two of them, named mickey and amadeus seen here in an animal planet documentary dragged him over the fence and began to attack him as they pulled him further into the area. a medical team had to wait
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outside the enclosure until armed guards could escort them in to recover the man and bring him to a nearby hospital. he's said to be stable but still very badly injured. >> basically from head to toe, he's been severely lacerated. a number of fractures. he's had some of his skin and muscles pulled from the bone on his arms and feet and lost a number of fingers and toes. >> he was inspired to work with chimpanzees by the documentaries of jane good all, the pioneering prime tolgs who showed the world how similar chimp behavior can be to human. however cute and fascinating they are, they are dangerous, especially when mistreated. the institute issued a statement, the chimpanzee as at the eden suffered horrible injuries and abuse from humans and, therefore, have to be treated with caution. more caution now. the institutions, whatever good they do, are sources of controversy because of the parade of humans who come and
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see them. some feel the animals are under continuing stress. they're also very clever, unpredictable, extremely powerful and dangerous. >> mark phillips, thank you. can we all agree that they're cute and we're all pulling for andrew. but can we also agree, let's not work with chimpanzees any time soon. this is scary stuff. >> you don't think it because we're desensitized to champ pan zees in the wild, you forget how serious and dangerous it can be. >> i'm reminded. >> be careful. >> i'm reminded. dahl me maybe is everywhere right now. perhaps you saw a duet with gayle king and colin powell. >> who didn't see that? >> we're going to ask editor why it's a perfect pop song. if you don't love it yet, we're going to make you love it. your local news is next.
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>> it will be a painter thomas kincaid's winner purses his girlfriend in a san jose courtroom today. kincaid was separated with his life and living with his girlfriend. his girlfriend left and produce notes that say electorate $10 million and dimension. the chronicle says a gang leader told the fbi that edwin ramos had killed a rival gang member ramos was convicted in may of killing tony bologna and two of his sons. san jose arson investigators say someone intentionally set a fire on the east side.
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spots including one coming into the news room northbound 880 by hide street. we're just now seeing a little bit of slowdown. along the peninsula south down 101 by third street there is an accident and a backed up by the airport. the bay bridge delays are not too bad right now only backed up to the end of the parking lot. >> a lot of clouds out there but it will clear out as we head throughout the day today. we have clouds extending over the bay and some sign is trying to peek through. towards the coast it will stay cool, '50s and '60s right now and with '70s later today. the next couple of days we will keep things up on tuesday and,,,
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♪ this is crazy ♪ but here's my name so call me maybe ♪ we can't help it. we can't help singing, we can't help moving. welcome back to "cbs this morning." you may find your self-in the same position. it's the tune that gets stuck in your head for days on end. it's everywhere now, even of course in studio 57. just met you and this is crazy ♪ ♪ but here's my number, so call me maybe ♪ ♪ charlie it was a lock. it was a lock. >> i didn't stop it. you ran the clock out. >> talking about politics. >> no you ran the clock out.
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>> classic moment. colin powell sung that duet with gayle on june 13th. this week the song by carly ray jepson is on the top of the charts and on the cover of billboard magazine. >> the cover of billboard magazine editor joe leafy. this is big making the cover. you love the song or throwing stuff at the tv. i still love this song. >> it's a little of both for me. i won't throw anything here, though. i come and go on it. >> it's attracting all ages. all races. people, this song is catching on. what is it about this particular diddy? >> i think the colin powell rendition put it over the top. i'm not sure what. it went right over the top. this is a classic pop song. we've had some big hits this year that are a little different, but this one is an old school classic pop song. you talk about the rules of pop. hit home with the chorus, hit home with the hook. inside of the first minute, she singes this chorus four times.
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it's just relentless. that's how it gets stuck in your head. >> it's the way that she draws out the words. she goes all the other boys. >> i hadn't thought that nuance. you studied it. >> in studio 57. i'm knowing the words to the song. i get it. >> that was a nice rendition. >> 12 choruses in the song where she says this? >> she comes back to it 12 times. you hear the hook four times. that's how it gets stuck in your head. >> but there's this switch from call me maybe to call me baby. >> that's what keeps you interested. >> of course. >> what's she going do. when did you know that the song was something special? >> this song caught on virally. it happened so quickly. she won canadian idol a few years ago. this song came out of nowhere a few years later on an e.p. she put out. it happened because justin bieber tweeted about it. his managers signed her up to a record deal and then that justin bieber video was the first of
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many viral videos which you all have participated in where people latched on to the song, declared it perfect, likeable and wanted to offer their own interpretations. >> she's not bypassed. on your songs of the summer chart, he's at like number 9 with boyfriend. she's at number one. >> that's right. >> did he get upset about that? >> i think the biebs has much to be happy about. >> he's happy for her. >> just 18 and you're dating selena gomez, you're okay. i think things are all right. we track each song as it's happening during real time. this is on top. somebody i used to know, big hit. that was the number two. >> she has an album coming out. you said she finished her album. what do you expect from this album? is she a one-hit wonder. >> you ask if she's a one-hit wonder but she has a second song
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climbing the chart. it's a duet. it's going to debut in the top 40 this week. that's what our prognosticators are telling me. >> very fancy over there. >> i am. >> i'm thinking she's got to feel a little pressure. she starts out this strong and this hot. don't you think she feels a little pressure. she's 26. i thought she was much younger. she's 26. >> she does look young. she's 26 years old. this is the first album we get to know. it will be her third album overall. she wants to make the most of her opportunity. she's got the talent and recognition to do it. even if it's just one hit, it's going to be the hit that defines this summer when you look back on summer 2012, you're going to say right, when i couldn't get call me maybe out of my head. >> the summer of call me maybe. it's awesome, joe. >> it will be. >> it makes you happy, it just does. >> carly ray. >> thank you, joe. >> thank you for not making me sing. there's still time.
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maybe perhaps april teddy brew ski. >> that's a good one. >> martina and a half tra loaf a. >> don't ruin it. >> that totally works. >> no. >> it doesn't work. >> name has to have a ski at the end of it. you put ski at the end of martina nafta loaf a. >> it has to have a ski at the end of it. if there's no ski we would be idiots saying nonsense. >> yes. >> that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is your number one movie in america. ted is a feature film debut for seth mcfarland, one of hollywood's biggest success stories. >> reportedly he's the highest paid producer in tv network history. before charlie went on vacation, he spoke with the creator of family guy about going from the small screen to the big screen. >> talk about the movie and the rest of your life. the idea that you take a teddy bear and -- >> and you bring him to life in a completely inappropriate way. >> what was the dilemma to solve to make that work? >> the dilemma was to make him seem unlike a cartoon character. >> that was achieved largely thanks to the technology that james cameron developed for avatar and peter jackson developed for lord of the rings. technology that's been used in action movies and fantasy movies but never in a comedy. nobody ever used at that technology to create a character
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that just exists there a normal mundane world. what?e technology, per se, is - >> it's called motion capture technology. the difference between that and the traditional animation is with a pixar movie like toy story, an animator is posing everything out. with motion capture, you have an actor actually wearing -- in this case, me, wearing these little sensors. so everything that i do, the bear does. as mark wahlberg, the right kind of casting because? >> because he makes the audience believe that this is just a normal relationship. >> after you were able to do that to create this bond, that was the other challenge? >> well, the other challenge was to walk the line of sweetness and bad taste. it is sort of that -- >> the story of your career. it's sort of that mix of high brow and low brow, i guess, that we all love monty python.
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that's sort of the pair gone example of how to walk that line. >> it is high brow, low brow. it is being funny at the same time being smart. >> we hope. >> define for me the success of family guy. it's probably gone way, way beyond whatever you ever imagined. >> yeah. you know, i don't think it goes any deeper than this. i would never be so presumptuous to compare our shows. the honeymooners. one of my favorite -- why does this show endure, why do people continue coming back to jackie gleason. rather than an extended analytical answer, he just said they're funny. >> in the end, it's a simple answer that's right. >> we've never been under the illusion that it's our job do anything more than just make people laugh and give them a good time for the 22 minutes that we're on. >> you were 24 when you created
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family guy or not? >> yes. >> this went on for how many years now? >> you know, it's strange. i actually don't know how many years -- i've never been able to answer this question. the thing about an animated show, it takes nine months to do each half hour. mine months per episode. >> i don't understand that. tell me why. >> it's because it's all still hand drawn. it's all still traditionally animated. there has yet to be a computer program invented to bring the warmth you get from a human hand drawing the characters. everything is still hand-drawn. that just takes time. >> will there be a time when a computer can do that? >> i'm sure eventually they will be. >> how many people? >> there's probably, per show, maybe a couple hundred people working on each show. then we use a studio over in korea as the simpsons does, king of the hill does. it's a sense of pride there.
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they are the only ones who really know how to do it. >> how many people are watching family guy? >> i don't know. i think on a really great week, we get ten million viewers. that's for a season premiere or a finale generally. >> that's a good week, isn't it? >> generalgenerally, i think it closer to 6. >> you'll do it how long? >> i don't know. i guess until -- >> somebody says no? >> until it wears out its welcome. >> it will probably be you knowing it rather than somebody telling you. >> that's what i'm trying to keep an eye out for. i made a comment recently in the press that, gosh, is it maybe time to end the show? i was thinking out loud. it created this frenzy within our studio that my god, you're not going to end the show, are you? i do think it's a good thing to keep an eye on that as a producer and know before your audience does when you start to get stale.
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>> you're also singing. >> yes, yes. music has always been a really important part of family guy. i grew up listening to -- i've always loved orchestras. i was a big john williams fan and remain a big john williams fan. i love billy may -- >> the rangers. >> love the great arrangers. having an orchestral score for even something as seemingly unnecessary as family guy was important to me. >> where are we in terms of the possibility of animation? >> the advent of motion captured technology has been a huge leap forward. >> i think at some point -- >> the possibilities. >> you hear talk of the future where you don't need actors anymore. >> exactly. >> where -- >> actors say that to me. >> where completely human
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characters will be able to be generated. i think we're a long way off from that. i think that's -- it's going to be impractical for a long time because it's -- you can have an actor just stand in front of the camera for a lot less money. >> when you look at all the things that you are doing, can you see yourself becoming sort of acting in a film, directing a film, doing the music for a film? >> i try to know my limits. >> what are your limits? >> i don't know how to compose for orchestra. that's one thing. >> not yet. >> one thing i'd love to do. >> would you really? >> i'd love to know how do that. if i could go back to school for one thing, it would be learn how to arrange. >> people like john williams are your heroes. >> very much. i had the chance to have lunch with john williams a couple months ago. it might be the greatest thrill of my career so far. >> great to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> $54 million. i confess. i'm now going to go see it.
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>> he was really a nice guy when he was here. >> he was lovely. we were all saying earlier we were skeptical of the movie when you first see it. i think we all -- we've heard anecdotally great things. >> i'm worried now -- i don't want to be disappointed. i've heard such good things >> i don't think we will. skeptical is being polite. talking teddy bear, really? i'm going to go. i'm going to go. congratulations, seth. chef marcus samuelson has cooked for a president, for prime ministers and also for a dog. what? this morning, he joins us to talk about his remarkable journey to the top of his profession. we'll be right back with marcus at the table. [ female announcer ] safeway presents
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won the all around gold medal at the beijing olympics. four years later, that happened. at the u.s. olympic trials in san jose. oh, man. she finished her routine, she did not, unfortunately, make the olympic team. welcome back to cbs this morning, everyone. >> she kicked her little leg up right away to let people know, okay, i'm all right. rough. >> yeah. chef marcus samuelson's life story is hard to imagine. he grew up in sweden, made his reputation right here in new york. he now owns four restaurants, he's a regular on tv, cooks for world leaders. the list goes on and on. >> and on and on. the man once named best chef in new york city is telling his unlikely story in a new memoir called "yes, chef." hello, chef. >> so nice to be here. >> the first time they said, okay, he's a black man from sweden, how does that work?
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>> you know, i always was surprised that people relate to me as the swedish guy. when people saw me in new york. then i realized, wait a minute, of course, i look ethiopian. >> as a little boy, your mom got sick, you walked to the hospital for miles, she didn't make it. >> me, my mom, my sister. and my mother took me and my sister. and she walked 75 miles to the hospital where she passed away. >> yeah. >> and me and my sister survived. and i always wonder when i go back to the hospital i was like how did my sister get us out of there, right? there's thousands of kids and -- you know when the worst thing happened like that. it also ended up being the best thing because that's how we got adopted to sweden. >> you were adopted by a swedish family. >> and you were 5 and 2 at the time. >> my sister remembers a little bit more. my sister was fluent, and i spoke, but not that much. like a 2-year-old. so i learned swedish so fast.
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for me, i think the transition of coming to sweden was a little bit easier than my sister because, you know, i was just a little kid. >> you say if things turned out differently, you would be a star soccer player. you didn't make the soccer team. you were good, but didn't make it. then you turned to cooking. cooking gave you what? >> there's so many similarities to the soccer team and in the kitchen. coach is in charge, got to be a good teammate. same thing in the kitchen. you've got to be a good, young cook. and yes, chef, is the only thing you can say. and also the determination and a lot of work, right? the same thing in a kitchen. so i took sort of that discipline and energy that i was taught on the soccer field and also from my grandparents and my parents and took that energy and moved it into the kitchen. >> yes, chef, even when the chef asks you to make food for his dog? >> you say yes, chef, all the time. and it's a humbling call. but it explains our profession so well.
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there's one person in charge whether you agree with her or him or not, doesn't really matter because it's not about you at that point, it's about what you can learn. calling it yes, chef. >> like the military. >> very similar. and, you know, in france when we worked, obviously with the chef, ut it's the same calling. yes, chef. >> you worked through the ranks. this is so amazing. here you come to new york after many trials and tribulations. you were the head chef, you get three stars at the age of 23. >> 23, 24, yeah. >> wow. >> and it was a shock for me because, you know, i didn't know at that time that he was in the dining room. we didn't know we were getting reviewed. >> a very famous critic. >> she was a "new york times" critic. it was game-changing. completely game-changing for me. and all i wanted to do was cook and get that food better and just changed from being someone visiting the restaurant to the whole world was coming to the restaurant. just overnight.
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>> and you've been known within culinary circles and even broader now for all of your success in tkitchen. you talk about how you came to have this love of food through your grandmother. and even when you finally go back to ethiopia and discover the cuisine there. how much does your family play a role in your love of food? >> it's for everything. first of all, coming from oo ethiopia was a struggle to begin with. but also finding my identity. i realize my first language is food. and you know, when i needed to add another chapter about myself, going back to ethiopia that added my love of spices. it gave me an understanding not just about my food but who i am as a man. >> and the success of a great restaurant you said is food and conversation. >> conversation. >> you do that well. >> people want to talk. >> mission accomplished. "yes, chef." >> congratulations.
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>> good morning. one man is dead after a shooting in the oakland hills. police say he was shot yesterday afternoon near mission boulevard. he somehow managed to drive about a mile after he was shot. police found him dead on sun kids drive. investigators say arson was the cause of a fire at a high school in east san jose. fire crews were called to independence high school. flames had burned a door on a theater building and part of the roof. fortunately no injuries. some firefighters are back on duty today in vallejo. station 25 it is reopening
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thanks to a grant from fema. the city will pick up the cost of the new firefighters in two years. >> looking good around the bay area today, plenty of clouds early on but as we had throughout the day the skies will part. sunshine up above and low clouds down below but towards the afternoon, all of the valleys will be looking good. temperatures will be a little bit warmer today. by the afternoon, mid-80s in the warm response. 85 in napa, 60s and a few seventies around the bay. warmer for the fourth of july and then cooling down on thursday.
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>> taking a ride through oakland right now northbound 80 is starting to be a mess right by a northbound 880 is an accident involving a motorcycle. the backup extends beyond the coliseum and unfortunately it is growing. southbound 880 looks ok. we're also following an earlier accident southbound 101 by third street. beyond san francisco an airport. so far so good for silicon valley.
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