good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, july 5, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm erica hill. charlie rose is off today. president obama hits the road for a campaign tour in two battleground states and mitt romney says the health care mandate is a tax after all. in an interview you will see only on "cbs this morning." i'm jeff glor. the holiday heat wave continues. more than a dozen states facing triple digit temperatures. plus it's been three years since air france flight 447 fell out of the sky. now the mystery of what brought it down may finally be solved. and i'm gayle king. coming up at 8:00, florida governor rick scott tells us why his state will not follow the president's health care law. and tony award-winner audra mcdonald will be here in studio 57. but first, as we do every

morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. and therefore, obama care is a tax. like it or not, it's a tax. >> mitt romney explains his position on health care reform. directly contradicting what his top campaign adviser said earlier in the week. >> it is back to business today. president obama kicks off his first bus tour of the campaign. >> as long as i continue to speak about the economy, i'm going to win. >> temperatures just an incredible heat wave across the country. >> 22 states under a heat advisory. >> and hundreds of thousands of people waiting for electricity still. >> i appreciate what they do. but at some point, there has to be a better system. according to a report by the house oversight committee, countreds of discount loans to government officials in order to buy influence. in florida today, a judge is expected to decide whether the man who killed trayvon martin george zimmerman, should be released on bond. a major malfunction in san

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pennsylvania. and >> he is beginning a two-day bus tu tour of the rust belt. bill plante is at the white be house. bill pla bill, what's the president white trying to accomplish on this trip? >> well, in a word, jeff he wants to get people excited.te these are battle ground states.partic ohio particularly. and the president is trying to get his voting base excited about this election. he will start near tleedoledo and oves then moves east to sandusky for an ice cream social.eam social. what better on a day like this? and then on to parma, to cleveland's largest suburb. and gm is the biggest employer there. th look for the president there to repeat his claim that he saved he the auto industry. then tomorrow he goes on to ohio and opinionfinishes up the trip in pittsburgh. >> so that's sort of a touch on uestion his message. a lot of the question is how mov does the president convince themt on how he will move things forward. any insight on that? >> reporter: in every county where he is stopping, he won by

larg large margins in 2008 on the promise of hope and change. but four years later, those places are still hurting in the conv down economy, and the president to needs to convince folks that he is still on the case if he hopes th to win in november. he'll say that he will cast this -- as as a choice between his vision or which is creating jobs by spending for education and and infrastructure, and what he says mitt is mitt romney's record of closing manufacturing plants and offshoring jobs. now that's a powerful message in the rust belt. belt. and it's a message which the obama campaign believes is already working. campaign >> bill plante, thank you.ill plante, the president celebrated theted the fourth of july with military families watching fireworks on the south lawn of the white house. house. mitt romney meantime appeared iny a fourth of july parade near his vacation home in new hampshire. >> romney also spoke with jan crawford about last week's health care decision by the supreme court. jan is with us this morning.

>> reporter: good morning, jeff and erica, and good morning to our viewers across the west. it's family vacation time here in new hampshire for the romneys. but yesterday morning, governor romney and his wife ann sat down with us right before they went to march in a fourth of july parade. and it was a wide-ranging interview. we talked about a lot of things. the vice presidential selection process, romney's likability and some of the attacks he's been getting. we also talked about the chief justice's decision to join with the four liberal justices last week and uphold the president's health care reform law. now that decision has been dogging romney. he's been faced with a lot of questions and a lot of controversy about whether he thinks it puts a penalty on people who don't have insurance. his senior adviser said it did. or whether he thinks it in fact raises taxes. >> well the supreme court has the final word. w and their final word that obama care is a tax.at obama so it's a tax. d they decided it was it is a t constitutional. so it is a tax. and it's constitutional.

that's the final word. that's what it is. now, i agreed with thedissent. but the dissent wasn't the fi majority. d the majority has ruled, and tha their rule is final.in t >> does that mean that the mandate in the state of massachusetts under your health tax? care law also is a tax and that t you raised taxes as governor?will >> actually the chief justice it in his opinion made it very the clear that at the state level, lace states have the power to put in place mandates. they don't need to require them ed t to be called taxes for them to be constitutional.t, massa and as a result massachusetts mandate was a mandate, was a penalty, was described that way ture a by the legislature and by me and so it stays as it was. stays >> whatever it's called whetherlty, it's a penalty, whether it's a tax, it means that americans if insu they don't have insurance are going to pay something, whatever they call it.ade it >> you know i made it very clear throughout my campaign andf actually while i was governor of massachusetts that the issue of e the uninsured should be dealt l with at the state level. and each state can create their own solutions to meet the needs

of their people. >> y >> you say on your website that you would nominate justices in justi the mould of the chief justice e's john roberts. now that he has voted to uphold this law, would you still know knowing what we know now nomina nominate a justice like john roberts? >> well i certainly wouldn't nate som nominate someone who i knew was going to come out with a decision i violently disagreed with or vehemently rather eached a disagreed with. and he reached a conclusion that not i think was not accurate about an appropriate conclusion.dividu that being said he is a very n bright person. i look for individuals who have intelligence and believe in that h following the constitution. >> are you troubled that he switched his vote?servativ he was initially with the individ conservatives to strike down the heart of the law, the individual mandate, and then changed his to mind to join the liberals to uphold it. >> well it gives the impression that the decision was made not based upon constitutional instea foundation but instead political consideration about ip b the relationship between the

branches of government. t but we don't really know the speaks answers to those things until the justices themselves speak stion out maybe sometime in history.t >> i want to ask ms. romney when about some of the attacks that states have been levied about you. sayin when you say that the president of the united states needs compassion, and your husband doesn't have that, what do you think? >> well, number one, they are not correct. and it makes you recognize that they are going to do everything they can to destroy mitt.know t so, you know they are trying to portra portray him in a light that is just completely light. comp >> why? why is that? >> well, it's politics. >> i isn't it sad? mitt and i think early on we heard e what their strategy was. it was kill romney.ro and, you know that was their memo that came out from their campaign. i'm and it's like not when i'm next to him, you better not. >> jan, the reason i'm running for president is that i believe e i have the experience and t know-how and vision to help

americans, the middle class of america. the president is going on a bus new tour.s. he's got no new answers.s all he's saying is let's go feel l government some more. a >> well, i feel like all he's guy. doing is saying let's kill this rea guy. and i feel like that's not aign really a very good campaign the policy. i feel like mitt's got the ar answers to turn this country around. he's the one that's got to bring back hope for this country, which is what they ran on last time.at but the truth is this is the one that has hope for america. >> what do you think people misunderstand the most about your husband? >> that, you know, they don't get him at all. but it's again -- >> what do you mean they don't get him at all? >> it's a misrepresentation of who he really is. >> that will change. that will come with time. >> but how would you -- what do you -- explain that. like people see -- what do they ou kno misrepresent and what is different? >> well, he's not as that approachable as i am or e rea something like that.ny and that's really kind of funny to me because it's all

backwards. where and it's just something where we just have to make sure that i'm ng there saying wait a minute.ri no, that's not right. get tha you've got to get this right. n it's not fair. do >> but why do you think you can w do you convince the american people and how do you change that impression as your wife was just the peo saying that some people have this view?s my >> people in america will stop and say, is my life better di because of this president?k did his policies get us back to work? did they improve our lives?ey offer and if not, does mitt romney offer different answers with a the different possibility for us? why i'm and the answer is of course. that's why i'm in the race. i've laid out what i'd do to get this economy going. and as long as i continue to speak about the economy, i'm >> going to win. such >> you're obviously such a team. that's what everyone says about you, that you two are a team. what qualities would you like to see in his vice presidential running mate?en that >> you know, i've been giving that a lot of thought, actually. and i think it's someone that obviously can do the job.

but also will be able to carry of the through some of the other es. responsibilities.e our i think this is such -- our country is in such deep trouble right now. and i think it's going to take itt someone else that's going to be there with mitt that mitt will sonali enjoy with the same personality njoy type that will enjoy being -- lso spending time with them and also competent, capable, and willing to serve this country.there's i think there's lots of good people out there that fill that bill right now.e >> do you think he should wo nominate a woman?ooking >> we've been looking at that, ove and i'd love that option as well.re's a so, you know there's a lot of people that mitt is considering right now. >> do you have a favorite?t i have >> i like to think that i have a a few that i really like a lot. >> governor? >> what she said. [ laughter ] >> when will we know? >> i can't tell you that. an id i have an idea in mind but th that's something i'm keeping close with my team.

>> reporter: now most people think that governor romney will tell us who his vice k presidential pick will be befor sometime in august before the convention at the end of the month. and one the prospects that is one the short list is kelly iot, the senator from this state, and she was marching and campaigning in that parade yesterday with s. governor and mrs. romney. >> the "wall street journal" said this morning, basically called the campaign to task saying that the staff and the strategy is squandering an historic opportunity and jeopardizing chances.is in mitt romney contradicting hisf senior adviser over the word f "tax," is he showing that he is starting to listen to some of this conservative criticism? >> well the "wall street ne journal" has been really hittingr a long romney hard for a long time now, and criticizing his messaging and hese his ability to kind of frame y some of these issues. and they really do suggest in this piece and what we have heard from other titans and e indu conservatives of the industry that romney needs to shake up

his campaign staff.ot a he has a lot of advisers who have been with him a lot time. mor he has brought more people with him into the campaign. and i see no signs from anyone within the campaign that there will be any kind of major shakeup. som but you're seeing some that frustration, and i think that's part of what the governor was trying trying to get to yesterday when we talked to him yesterday about to whether he thought it was a tax.was >> jan crawford thank you.craw this morning, much of the country is still wrapped in an wave oppressive and dangerous heat wave. temperatures will reach triple digits and high 90s today from the plains all the way to the east coast. excessive heat warnings posted in illinois indiana, ohio, wisconsin, and kentucky. maryland has issued a heat advisory for the entire state.e. and if you don't have elec electricity, the hot weather fe that makes life that much harder.orning this morning, about 250,000 customers on the east coast are after still without power after last friday's unusual storm. meanwhile, the high temperatures are affecting nearly everyone. witt johnson is in silver spring, maryland, just outside washington. good morning.

>> reporter: good morning, and good morning out west. six days later, still plenty of scenes like this downed power lines, a tree taking those out. also smashing this car. neighbors tell us people inside that car survived. but take a look around. not a cleanup crew in sight. the fourth of july always eventful here in our nation's capital. but not like this. >> how are you? >> reporter: while greeting urth of guests for fourth of july celebrations, even the president couldn't escape the heat. >> how's it going, everybody?ybody? [ applause ] >> are you hot? [ cheers and applause ] >> it's supposed to be hot. it's the fourth of july. ♪day seemed >> reporter: in the nation's capital, the holiday seemed to carry on as usual, with gathe thousands gathering to watch fireworks on the national mall. in but for those in the d.c. metro p area still without power, and battling triple digit temperatures, frustration is now

at a boil. >> at some point, there has to be a better system. to fle >> this family with their four children had to flee their homer lines with a downed tree and tangled tility power lines in their yard. utility crews still hadn't arrived to repair the damage. >> we haven't gotten a phone call, nothing.in >> reporter: power crews from 18 states and canada have descendedd.c. on the d.c. area to tackle the outages.s. joel weatherford from georgia isford i managing one of those teams. he says the storm's damage was like that of a tornado, so widespread repairs would take ke time. >> i bet you've seen a lot of storm damage before, haven't you? >> plenty. >> reporter: how does this compare? >> well, it's so scattered.atte it's difficult. >> reporter: the searing heat not only affecting humans.ded the following the storm, people oler c flooded the greenbriar pet resort in maryland seeking cooler conditions for their animals. this kennel tech says the resort normally holds 400 dogs. already at max capacity they

agreed to take on an extra 150 pets. >> had to move dogs around making more room for dogs coming want in. and we go ahead and provide it.tilities >> reporter: major utilities are telling us that they have been able to work ahead of schedule and have restored power to 90% of customers.ght. they hope to have everyone back online by late tomorrow night. tha but as you can imagine, for many, that can't come soon enough.you. >> witt johnson, thank you. in the middle east this morning, there are growing questions about former palestinian leader yasser th. arafat's death after radioactiveactive mat materials were reportedly found on his clothes. >> his widow ordered the tests, test and now as we report arafat's ithin body may be dug up within days. char >> good morning. conspiracy theories that yasser arafat was poisoned have been going around since his death in re 2004 but never before have o palestinian officials been so ready to exhume the body in

order to further investigate the claims. >> the widow of palestinian leader yasser arafat wants his body to be exhumed. >> reporter: al jazeera reignite reignited the controversy surrounding arafat's death in any shown explosive documentary shown this week. swiss doctors in a swiss lab say they made a startling discovery on the woolley hat and the pajamas that arafat wore in his final days. >> with this measurement on these particular stains which shows that there is an abnormal -- not normal quantity of polonium. >> polonium 210, the radioactive poison used to sas litvinenko in 2006.ng his clothes provided by his wife, who is now calling for theened. case and arafat's grave to be reopened. >> i want to ask them to exhume the body of my husband. i think this is my responsibility as a mother as a of

wife, as a partner of this great man for 20 years.20 >> reporter: in 2004 with his west bank compound under siege, airl arafat was air lifted to a military hospital in france where he later died. say medical records say he had a fro massive stroke resulting from a blood disorder. but many across the arab world held t have long held the belief that was arafat was assassinated poisoned by israeli secret agents. israel has repeatedly denied any involvement, and officials have dismissed the latest theories asa nonsense saying the al jazeera gs on documentary belongs on the comedy channel rather than a news channel. that french scientist in the said the o documentary said the only way to confirm the theory arafat was is poisoned is to examine his remains, and palestinian th officials say once the religious authorities give the go-ahead the body could be exhumed within days. d'agata >> charlie, thank you.ank yo time now for a look at some of the morning's headlines.

"newsday" reports that three people were killed on long island sound last night as a htment boat capsized. they were watching fireworks yach aboard the yacht. pulled f 24 survivors were pulled from the water. the coast guard says some of the passengers were not wearing life jackets.l "the los angeles times" says that mexico's presidential election will have a recount because sunday's winner faces accusations of vote buying. the "wall street journal" reports some californiaornia offici officials may seize the mo mortgages of homeowners who own more than their homes are woth. cou san bernardino county would reduce each loan to match the o current value of the house and resell the mortgages to new investors. the homeowners would get to stay in their homes the and an outcry over the firing of a life guard.nday on monday tomas lopez ran to an unguarded area of the beach where a man was drowning. bec he was fired because he left his

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have a severe traffic alert an affect on the lower deck of the bay bridge. cars are barely moving right now heading towards treasure island. only one lane is getting by. they do not expect to reopen all lanes until 1030 this morning. this will continue to get worse. the san mateo bridge is not too bad in either direction and the good news, it is not impacting traffic on the upper deck where things are still very light heading towards the toll plaza >> cloud cover is a little bit thicker around the bay area this morning. we will see some cooler temperatures outside, a pretty good sea breeze. '60s and '70s around the bay. the little bit cooler the next

long way frowimb away from wimbledon to scotland where prince approximately and kate are. prince william is becoming a knight. scotland's highest honor yesterday. he and catherine were in the crowd at wimbledon. welcome back to "cbs this morning". a night of the thistle. >> uh-huh. >> there you go. >> big stuff. >> french authorities just released their final report on the crash of air france flight 447 which disappeared off the coast of brazil in june 2009. >> for two years before that plane's black box was recovered, no one knew what went wrong or why the 228 people on board died. a new answer here this morning. good morning. >> good morning, erica and jeff. french investigators this morning in their final report

characterize this disaster as a loss of control as a result of situational awareness. in other words, the pilots were overwhelmed. a variety of issues and chaos in the cockpit. a few pieces of debris were all that was left of air france flight 447. the answer to what happened seemingly lost forever on the ocean floor. in may 2011 state-of-the-art submarines made a remarkable dive and collected the crucial black box. expert analysis of the reported cockpit transcripts point to a perfect storm of problems, including stormy weather aircraft malfunction, pilot error. some say there was another contributing factor the very design of the airbus cockpit. >> air france 447 have had the same disaster if this cockpit were a boeing instead of an airbus? >> i think it would have been much less likely to happen in a

boeing because the control wheels are large. they're obvious. i think it could hardly have been missed. >> to help us break down and help us understand, cbs news aviation and safety expert captain sully sullenberger took us to an airbus similarity. >> full command. that's it right there. that's one little movement. >> that small movement on the airbus flight controls or side stick raises the nose of the plane and instructs it to climb. pilots rarely perform the maneuver at high altitudes because it can be very dangerous. that's exactly what one flight 447 pilot did. 2:05 a.m. when the a330 was flying through a storm system all three speed indicators stopped working. as a result the aircraft's autopilot turned off. with a captain on break, the two co-pilots were forced to fly the

plane manually. the least experienced pilot, 32-year-old pierre was in the right seat and said i have the controls. co-pilot robert robert was in the left seat. even though consider willy more experienced he let bonef fly. >> challenging but manageable? >> yes. >> although they lost the autopilot and speed indicators they were flying normally and safely. but then suddenly and without robert knowing, boner does something inex flickable. he pulls back on his side stick and raises the nose of the plane. that causes the aircraft to fall and the stall warning sounds. over the next 4:30 the stall warning will sound 75 times. but strangely, neither pilot will mention it. unbeknownst to robert, bonat will keep the nose of the plane up almost the entire time exactly what he shouldn't do.

a decision that experts still can't understand. >> it's difficult to explain that. i just don't know why he did that. >> and there's nothing to you that makes sense on any experience or intellectual level about pulling back when you should push forward? >> no. >> nothing at all? >> because of his actions the plane is attempting to climb but is actually losing altitude. robert appears to have no idea the nose is being lifted when he says what the hell is happening? i don't understand what's happening. if he had known what he was doing, robert could have conceivably solved the problem very easily at this point. >> so you're sitting there and he starts pulling back. >> sullenberger shows us why he thinks it helped keep robert in the dark. >> it's a subtle movement compared to more traditional airplanes. >> the less i happen to notice

you visually doing it i would have no way of knowing. >> your side stick is not linked to mine. when i move this one that, one never budges. >> there are only two major airliners in the world, boeing and airbus. and the two have different cockpit designs and philosophies. airbus uses side stick technology, boeing a yoke. >> it's in front of both pilots. >> we sat down in a 747 similarity to see the difference. >> their mechanically linked not independent. if i move mine yours moves in unison. >> had he been pulling back in a boeing out. >> like this. >> and on my side, it's in my lap. >> yes. >> robert clearly would is have known what was happening if it happened in a boeing. >> i think so yes. >> airbus didn't respond to us

for comment. however, they have never wavered in their public support of their cockpit design. 2:10 five minutes after the autopilot disengaged the airbus a-330 continues to lose significant altitude as the captain reenters the cockpit and says, what in the hell are you doing? bonat continues to hold back on side stick but still doesn't seem to understand what's happening. we have lost control of the airplane. we have totally lost control of the plane. we don't understand at all. as the plane is 10,000 feet above the surface of the ocean, he finally reveals the crucial information he needed. i have had the stick back the whole time! he seems to instantly realize what's going on. he jumps in and says give me the controls. give me the controls. but it's too late. about 40 seconds later, the two co-pilots say their last words. damn it. we're going to crash. this can't be happening. but what's happening?

four seconds after that, the voice recorder cuts out. >> it's clear they have to work as a team. >> he lost his 24-year-old daughter caroline in the crash. her husband of two years was a flight attendant. >> a lot of questions. there's no answers. >> 228 people lost their lives that night. after analyzing debris and examining remains, experts suspect passengers likely didn't know what was going wrong until they hit the ocean surface. a tiny bit of solace in one of modern aviation's biggest disasters. >> everyone who lost someone that night want answers. but industry experts want more. beyond increased pilot training if deemed necessary, even

changes to the cockpit design. so the circumstances that took down flight 447 never happen again. >> if we only blame the pilots we will not have changed any of the fund mental underlying conditions and wouldn't have prevented our best from this happening again. >> they made 25 safety recommendations hitting hardest on pilot training. pilots need more training flying without autopilot, flying manually and flying also in high altitudes but they also made recommendations about stall warnings and airplane certif certification. >> you talked about the pilots of air france and the cockpit of the airbus. who gets most of the blame? >> clearly pilot training was a pbig one for these guys. they felt the pilots needed more help in this crisis. this was an unusual confluence of events that created the crisis. but captain sallen berger said this was an extraordinary event but we as an industry have to do

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this is video. it happened in march but the video was just released. it's a russian parachutist jumping from a 400-foot electrical tower. chute fails to open. smacks into the snow covered ground. reportedly suffered spinal injury, broken pelvis but tweeted he's walking again thanks to intense rehab. you would think intense. >> how do you fall 4 hundred feet. >> and survive? >> and survive. >> in a hard packed snow. >> he's okay. >> i'm not going to try to find out how to do it. >> good for him. florida governor rick scott is coming up. he said the state can't afford to go along with health care reform. we're going to talk to him about that and why he thinks that way and talk about his state's critical role in the presidential race. that's all coming up on "cbs this morning." first, it's time for "healthwatch." here's dr. holly phillips. >> good morning. today in "healthwatch," the dangers of sleep apnea.

snoring may be more than just an annoying habit. it may actually be a sign of sleep apnea. in a new government study, it shows the breathing disorder dramatically increases the risk of major depression. researchers review data from almost 10,000 adults. among those diagnosed with sleep apnea, depression was more than twice as common for men and more than five times as common for women. now, exactly how the link might work is unclear. it could be explained by the fact that people who have interrupted sleep because of breathing problems have lower levels of oxygen in their blood and that can trigger mood and brain changes. it's a dangerous sleep disorder if gone untreated, can lead to other serious health problems such as diabetes stroke high blood pressure and heart ase. if your partner is snoring and gasping for air, don't nudge them or get angry. instead, make an appointment with your doctor. you'll both feel better. i'm dr. holly phillips. get instant access to the

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seconds. whoops. >> yeah. we'll try again next we're? >> welcome back to "cbs this morning" everyone. >> give you a full two hours. >> there's all sort of jokes in that story. i'm wondering, did anybody get in trouble do you think? >> one would think. >> i think so. >> the plot continues today. >> somebody got in trouble for that. >> people around the country are playing that video as well saying did you see what happened in san diego. >> it works for us in 15 seconds. don't have to show the whole show. gayle, you have a look at the 8:00. it's nice -- >> what are you doing? >> we like it. >> i have 8:00 tease. broadway star audra mcdonald will be live in studio 57. she wanted to sing for her life and lost her voice doing it. yikes. everything is okay now. she'll talk about the role that bought her another tony award. what does it take to be a u.s. army sniper? jeff glor rumor is? >> rumor is i went down there

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>> the bay bridge is the bridge you might want to avoid. the delays in both directions.

we have seen a couple of different accidents on the upper deck of the bay bridge in the last half-hour. one near treasure island which is cleared and another one southbound that is still blocking lanes. this is all the traffic on the lower deck. this is a camera we put on an ac transit bus, they have been on the lower deck for more than half hour. traffic is squeezing by in just the far left lane. as you approached the curve police continue in investigation so there are major delays towards oakland. the san mateo bridge is a better option >> low clouds and fog today surging well on shore. we will see sunshine in the discover british columbia. visit:

yesterday we had real pandas to show you. this morning, people in panda suits. okay. doing tai chi in trafalgar square. they're promoting panda awareness week. who knew there was panda awareness week. >> we actually just learned it yesterday morning. we were fascinated by i. >> we're working on getting that video to show you. >> there they are. >> gayle, this is from yesterday. chengdu china. they're promoting panda awareness week. so there you go. cute pandas. >> so cute. listen, pandas sliding down a slide never gets old to me. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. charlie rose is off. >> i'm erica hill along with jeff glor. republican rick scott was

elected governor of florida. one week after the supreme court upheld the health care care, the former hospital ceo says his state will not comply with the law. governor scott joins us this morning from tallahassee. nice to have you with us. good morning, sir. >> good morning. i know the rest of you -- i hope everybody enjoys the beaches. >> everybody can use a little bit to cool off these days. >> it would be nice. why do you oppose the expansion of medicaid in federal and refuse the federal funding? >> here's the problem we're dealing with in florida. medicaid is growing at 3.5 times our general revenue. so it's making it difficult to fund our k-12 education. if we do an expansion rather than do what our citizens want. our citizens want jobs. that's what i'm focused on, get our citizens jobs to afford insurance. this expansion will cost the federal government, which is our tax money, and the state a lot of money. we can't afford it. we already went through this experience with the stimulus

where they put money into the education system and then took it away and our schools relied on it. i don't want to do the same thing to our citizens. >> this isn't an issue of the amount of money or where it comes from. it's simply no matter what, your taxpayers have to pay for it? is that your issue? >> it's our tax money. goes to the federal government, they give it back. it's a significant expansion. we're already struggling. medicaid has been growing at 3.5 times the general revenue. if you talk to the citizens, they want a job, they want to make sure their kids can get a great education. every time we expand medicaid, we make it more difficult to fund our education system which is very important to our citizens. >> governor, the orlando sentinel says you've greatly exaggerated the projected cost. says you've overstated the cost. how do you respond to the wide range of sources that say you simply have the numbers wrong? >> well, there's -- if you look at the wall street journal, their article on tuesday, they

said for the first six years it would cost the state $1.2 billion to $2.5 billion. cost the federal government 20 to 25, i think, billion dollars. it depends what number you want to use. the truth is, it's a lot of money. whatever the number is, it's a lot of money. we're already struggling. my first budget was a $3.7 billion budget. the second one $1.7 billion deficit. we're struggling to make sure we fund the k-12. any expansion of medicaid, which is growing at 3.5 times the general revenue is going to be tough. we want jobs. we've had the biggest drop in unemployment in the country since i became governor other than one state. that's what we need to be doing. get our citizens back to work so they can afford their own health care. the problem with obama care is it doesn't deal with the core issue. the core issue of the health care reform should be how do we reduce the cost of health care. this doesn't do anything to reduce the cost of health care. that's what we should be doing. make sure people know what things cost in health care. give people more choice. make sure that individuals get

the same tax breaks as employers. reward people for taking care of themselves. those are the things we ought to be doing and the things we'll do in florida. >> governor, that sounds nice. but you have the third highest rate of residents without health insurance. i wonder if the aca is not the right way to do things, what is? >> the most important thing is working on getting everybody a job. we have 800,000 people out of work. but we've had a drop in unemployment. that's the most important thing we do. make sure the industry focuses on reducing costs. look at how you can, through competition, drive down the cost. make sure you allow people to buy the insurance they want to buy. those are the things that will make it easier for people to get insurance. not a federal program we can't afford as taxpayers of this state. >> the big story that we keep hearing is that florida is certainly going to be a swing state in this election. right now, the numbers show that they're very close. i believe that president obama

is ahead at this time. what do you think governor romney needs to do? >> i think it's going to be no different than my race in 2010. that was all decided based on who had the best jobs plan. i mean, it's the biggest issue in our country. it's still the biggest issue in our state. we need more jobs. which approach is going to be the best approach to more jobs? i think president obama is going to suffer because jobs haven't come back. governor romney has to show a plan where floridians say gosh, i believe in that and that's how we get back to work. >> governor rick scott, thanks for your time this morning. >> have a good day. come down to the beaches. >> i'd love to. thanks.

jeff glor goes back to this jeff glor goes back to school this morning. he wanted to. a different kind of school. it's called sniper school. who knew there was such a school? jeff glor did. he'll show us what it takes to be an elite army shooter. from ireland, new evidence of the power of twitter. we're going to make that long story short on "cbs this morning." long story short coming up on cbs this morning.

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there it is. the annual nathan's hot dog eating contest on coney island. they really do train for this. i'm not kidding. joey chestnut. taking home i believe it's a belt actually. the belt -- for the sixth year in a row, 68 hot dogs, ten minutes, and ten grand. >> i want to know, the water is the gross part about it. we all agree. >> the key to success. >> how many could he eat without the water? >> you have to eat the bun too and you have to soak the bun in the water to help get it down. >> i'm thinking it's all kind of gross. >> it's gross. >> congratulations.

women's division won by the black widow. 45 dogs. >> congratulations. good time was had by all. as we looked at the web, got to come up somewhere. that's a better question. we found a few reasons to make long story short. "time" magazine reports on a study finding one out of 12 teenagers have so many violent outbursts it qualifies as a mental disorder. researchers say intermittent explosive disorder starts as early as age 12 and three times more common in boys. some psychiatrists say it's still early to call the outbursts a mental health condition. usa today looks at the first amputee track athlete to run in the olympics. oscar pistorius was chosen to go to london. he's called the blade runner because of the fiber blades he wears in place of his feet. he will compete in the 400 meter run and the relay also. incredible. questionable excuse in a hit and run accident. police say that 50-year-old

flora burkhart rear ended a truck sunday then left the scene. the reason she fled, she didn't want her ice cream to melt. >> what kind of ice cream was it? >> looked like strawberry. >> i don't know if that was the actual cone. the wall street journal says the new spider man movie is already smashing box office records. not surprising. the amazing spider man took in $35 million in its first day alone. wow. breaking the record for a tuesday opening set by transformers in 2007. looks like it has all the makings of a summer blockbuster hit. >> you liked it, right? >> i liked it very much. >> haven't seen it yet. the bbc has a lost and found story. patch the dog was reunited with his people yesterday after they were separated. irish rail tweeted patch's picture to 18,000 followers and the dog was actually found on a train in dublin. only took 32 minutes to find the mama.

now they're all back together and there was a report this morning that they were on the train home and people were saying, is that the dog who went missing? so many people had seen that. the power of the twitter verse. >> i like you say patches was reunited with his people. >> i don't like the term -- >> who are those people, erica? >> i don't like the term owner with pets. i don't think you can own a living being. >> okay. >> i think of myself as the parent to jake the fantastic dog and lulu the lovely cat. >> the j-man is my pet. >> your son. >> i can't own him. he's one of my two furry children. >> i keep singing pink floyd over and over in my head. >> peter greenberg will be here tomorrow. you'll see him in the green room and then onset. he's going to have the five hottest travel websites for us that no one knows about. that is until tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning." but first, high-profile movies and missions are making us more aware of how important snipers are in the u.s. military.

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good morning baltimore. changing the face of modern warfare. they've been a valuable military tool but become more effective in iraq and afghanistan. >> the u.s. military is training and using them in greater numbers than ever before. to find out why and to see what it takes to become a sniper we visited sniper school in ft beng, georgia. >> men masked by facepaint and ferns. their heads spiked with leaves.

it is quite a sight. the point, though is not to be seen at all. >> you don't want to look like a bush. you want to look like nothing. here in georgia, these soldiers are students. >> you want to have three points of contact on your weapon. >> training to be army snipers. but before they learn to shoot, they have to learn to hide. this concealment exercise is called a long form stalk. students have three hours to get in position and shoot a target as far as 800 yards away before being noticed by spotters. on day two of sniper school -- >> there's the first shot. >> only one of 36 students hit the target. >> i can see most of it. i can't seat the letter. >> staff sergeant michael haenel says it's like fishing. >> you have to take your time. you don't just throw your line in. same thing with stalks. you don't take 20 rounds and hit 20 targets. >> is patience the key?

>> that's one of the biggest keys. without the patience they're going to rush. had they rush, they'll make mistakes. it's a mental mind-set. if they let the stress overwhelm them, they won't be able to accomplish. >> going to get busted. >> what the sniper brings to you is persistent surveillance of a target. >> general richard myers is the senior military security analyst for cbs news. he was also chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when the wars in iraq and afghanistan began. during those wars, he saw snipers become one of our military's most effective weapons against insurgents. >> the more precise you can be when you're going after the adversary, the better it is in terms of winning hearts and minds. if you have, as we c it collateral damage or hurt innocent men women and children, you have a very difficult time. if you're trying to build confidence and trust with the people you're trying to help. >> mckenna strip. >> snipers are in such high

demand, the number of slots at the school has more than tripled since 2003. they've also become much more famous. >> on target. >> fire. >> thanks to hollywood and recent high-profile missions. >> this is the m-24 sniper weapons system. >> staff sergeant cameron erisman who recently returned from afghanistan says the hype is just that. >> sometimes you'll be sitting in a position for three, four days and not moving. it's not as glamorous as it might seem. a lot of snipers is not necessarily going out and engaging enemies of this nation. it's gathering intelligence gathering information and reporting that to higher-ups so they can save future soldiers' lives. people are under the understanding that a sniper is a one-shot kill and that's not necessarily the case. >> of course he tells us this right before he fires at and hits a target 300 yards away.

an easy distance, he says. perfect for beginners. >> so what position am i getting? >> get down behind the rifle. >> see a full sight picture in there. >> i was. but now i'm not. >> might have to scoot your head forward or to the rear. what you're going to did with your legs, kick them to the sides and lay your heels flat on the ground. with your trigger finger squeeze a slow trigger squeeze. >> where did that hit? >> right on the right side. >> is that a kill? >> it is a kill. >> what makes a good sniper? >> imagination. someone that can solve his problems by himself. he doesn't need to be told how to do it and why to do it that way. >> haenel erisman and other instructors try to teach as much as they can during sniper school. but they readily admit, what's learned during training takes a lifetime to master. >> this is like the golden age of being a sniper. because everything i learned and a lot of the other instructors with us, it's completely

different. so we're learning an awful lot. we're just getting better. >> did you like -- it's interesting your question was how did i do? was it a kill? when he said yeah it was, it was like you were thinking, all right. >> well, yeah. i was a little surprised. but it was an intimidating place to be. these guys train hard. they're serious guys. >> yeah. >> they're committed. >> it's not the kind of thing that when you enlist you can just go say, i want to go to sniper school. are these people hand picked? >> they're carefully selected. they have to pass an aptitude test. these are guys who can work alone and who like working alone and can solve their problems. >> they're so young. >> i know. >> very young. >> so good. >> which makes it more impressive, right? >> i hi so. >> great piece, jeff. audra mcdonald has been called one of the most gifted actors of her

>> a busy day for bay area headlines. a traffic mess on the bay bridge thanks to a shooting investigation and a crash. we're taking a live look at the bay bridge from the ac transit camera. chp says to expect planes to stay closed on the bay bridge for about two more hours on the lower deck. the shooting happened about 130 this morning. but you need to know, coming up in just a few minutes. oakland police are cleaning up after vandals hit their buildings and a police car. facebook will pay the city of atherton not to see them for its menlo park expansion. city officials fear that thousands of new employees will

increase traffic in the area so facebook is giving african $365,000

>> it is still a horrible commute on the lower deck of the bay bridge.

the ac transit bus has been on the lower deck of the bay bridge for more than an hour now. huge delays of more than an hour getting out of san francisco heading towards the east bay. harrison in first look like a typical evening commute. gridlocked through the hospital curve so save yourself some time and use the san mateo bridge. >> low clouds and fog surging on shore, here is the camera from the top of mount vaca. patchy fog has moved well inland today. signs of cooler weather. '60s and '70s around the bay but it will take a little bit longer for the clouds to clear. patchy fog continuing at the coast. temperatures drop off

♪ ♪ listen to that voice. welcome back to "cbs this morning." that, of course, is audra mcdonald. she stars on broad fwha porgy and bess. this year's tony winner for best musical revival. >> she also won a tony as best lead actress and brought the house down with her emotional

speech where she thanked her family. >> i want to thank my wee posse of three. and zoe, i my sweet little girl this is an amazing night for mommy. but february 14th 2001 the day you were born is the best night ever. never forget that. i love you. thank you so very much. thank you. >> i get goose bumps audra looking at it again. i will never forget the look in your daughter's eyes looking at you on the stage. really. >> it was a fun night for our little family actually. they were so joyous the whole time and then after they brought them back to me, they were playing with the tony and spinning me and asking me how much it's worth. how much can you get for this? it's worth a lot. it's mommy's fifth one. here we are. you just came back to the show. took two weeks off because of your voice at the doctor's order. i was there july 3rd when you first came back and i sat in my seat waiting for the first note. it came out and it was knockout. >> we were both wondering how that was going to be.

>> were you nervous? >> i was. >> that's the longest i've been away from the show. it was frustrating. i had been singing when i was sick and my vocal cords got swollen and my doctor said you couldn't sing. she said you absolutely have to be silent. it was hard for my family. a lot of what? i'm trying to write down things and admonish them by writing down. no, you can't do that. stop asking in caps. >> totally silent. you weren't supposed to talk. >> can you whisper? >> whisper is worse than speaking or singing. it's worse for you. >> it was a tough couple of weeks. i did a lot of eating. nothing else to do. >> you have wanted this role from the time you were a little kid. >> yeah. >> because why? >> it's just -- there's very few major roles in musical theater or opera for african-american women. this is just one of them. this is like the role of a

lifetime. it's gershwin. it's some of the most glorious music ever written. the story is amazing. two star-crossed lovers. she's a complicate the character that i wanted to delve in and figure her out. >> it's a bite full production and you're electric on the stage. we could all agree. but what is it like -- you waited for this for so long. you wanted it for so long and when you had to take that break, was there ever a concern that what if this break doesn't work? this was my role of a lifetime. >> yes. it's frightening. as a singer people -- a lot of people don't realize that singers is an athletic kind of thing we have to do. it's muscles, vocal cords fit on a dime. they are that small. they fit on a dime. when you sprain them it's like a baseball player if he sprains his wrist, he can't pitch. you're on the disabled list or whatever until you can come back. >> the dl. >> it's the same thing for

singers. when you're waiting to make sure that everything comes down there is that fear that what if it doesn't work? what if i don't heal? this is all i do. what if i have to find something else to do. i don't know what i would do. it takes a lot of sort of focus and determination to try and make it back from an injury like that. >> yet here you are. >> here i am. i'm glad to be back. >> is it part of why you tried private practice in 2007. that was your first tv right? >> i was afraid of cameras. i was afraid of being -- >> i had been in theater all my life. so it's very odd to all of a sudden have a camera right here as you're supposed to be acting with someone saying i love you. i was afraid of it. i thought here's a chance working 12 to 16 hours a day in front of the camera for four years, you get used to it. that private practice cast was just amazing. >> how long did it take to

acclimate to that different experience. >> i think my fifth or sixth episode being called at 4:00 5:00 in the morning. you're barely conscious. you start to lose the nerves. am i awake? >> forget the cameras and you're not really awake. >> then you come back to new york. i love what you say. your wee posse. i would think your wee posse was very happy you come back to new york. because your significant other is also in broadway. he's also an actor. >> yeah. >> how did you know he was the guy for you? i love the two of you together. how did you mow? >> we just connected on a very deep emotional level. we both have been through a lot of the same thing. our children are the same age. he's just my best friend. you know when you meet your soul mate.you meet your best friend. >> i haven't met mine yet, audra. how does it work? >> let me go back to little billy for a second. kids have two reactions, don't talk about me or thanks mom. what was her reaction when you two finally met and got to connect backstage? what did she say?

>> she was so excited. right before they announced my category, she said mommy, what if you don't win? i said honey, that's okay. it's all right. it's just fun to be here. aren't we having a great time. didn't you get a great new dress for this? >> she was pretty. >> she was excited about her dress. she was nervous. you won, i'm so happy that you won. they were just excited about the night, all of them. which was wonderful. we just made it a big fun night where everybody got to get - dressed up. >> it's your fifth one. does it ever get old winning all those tonys, ms. mcdonald? >> no. >> congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> thanks. bill gates believes tablets will replace the personal computer and he says he is not jealous of apple's success. the microsoft chairman's revealing conversation with charlie rose is

it's been four years since bill gates gave up his daily duties at microsoft to focus more on the foundation that he runs with his wife. >> this week on cbs charlie rose spoke with him about the computer business in general and his legacy. >> help me understand what it takes to build a microsoft or to build an apple or a facebook in terms of what it is that you and mark and steve have. >> well, in each of those cases, you had people who were quite fanatical -- >> what does fanatical mean? >> workday and night. sort of don't worry about the possibility of failure. every setback is just something that -- to work a little bit harder at doing. you really know what you're trying to achieve. and you're going to hire the best people and you're going to change your strategy until you

can -- >> in your mind you were trying to achieve what? >> the magic of software being available to everybody. both in their work and at home. >> the magic because this is just what you wanted to do because you knew if you did that, you would be the world's richest man? >> no, no. actually, we didn't think we'd be worth that much money because we had this high volume -- >> you being you and paul? >> right. any of us. we had this sort of high volume approach. eventually the volumes got big enough that the numbers got very significant. but the -- software is kind of a tool to take human creativity, human's desire to reach out to other people. software is kind of a multiplier on what human rs good at and when you thought about that it was going to be so exciting. it's still unfolding today. what does software mean for education? what does it mean for health care? those journeys are very much at the beginning. >> in their infancy. >> absolutely.

>> here's what's interesting to me. i don't quite know all the facts on this. and i know you well and i knew steve jobs. it is this notion of you thought about a tablet. you thought about a touch system probably as early if not earlier than steve jobs. >> way too early. >> that was a problem. way too early? >> well yeah. >> or something else? >> well, it -- you know i think a few things could have been done differently to get to critical mass. what you see is these phenomena if you get a device to critical mass, then you get applications written to take advantage of that. then you get volume and the hardware to bring the price down and so what you see is you can have something that was almost good enough almost good enough that is forgotten for all-time and then the thing that just crossed that threshold, even though it came later, you know goes up and is gigantic. >> that still doesn't answer my question. how come he was able to cross the threshold and up weren't? >> in that case he did some things better than i did. >> like what?

>> oh, his timing in terms of when it came out, the engineering work. just the package that was put together. the tablets we had done before weren't as thin and -- >> pretty. >> weren't as attractive as what came along. now microsoft has something that may change the rules again. >> there's one difference in what -- basically what steve almost said was in a sense, what's difference about surface according to the press is that it can be not only a receiving tablet but also a creative tablet. you can use it to create things from it. >> that's right. >> and the argument was, you can't do that as well. >> you can't, no. that is absolutely right. that's why the pc category and the tablet category have been separate. here you have something that fuses the best of both. >> what does that mean for the pc? >> that it's the best -- gets

the benefits of being the tablet. >> has it been hard for you to watch the enormous success of apple? >> absolutely not. >> not at all? not the fact that they beat you. >> the fact that it's -- of all software companies were doing poorly and what was really important was some other nonsoftware-related thing, then that would be contrary to the original vision i had that, hey, software is important. the fact that the most exciting stuff in the world being done is being done by companies that are deeply software companies, google apple, microsoft, facebook, that is amazing. yes, these companies should jostle against each other, compete, you know a better search than google can we do a better tablet than apple? that is a fantastic thing. i'm not starving. and the brilliance of each company spurring the other one

on, this is a very positive thing. >> have you for a moment for a moment thought about i'm going to go back? i miss it there are things i want to do. it's become even more exciting. i'm going back to microsoft, not once a month but every day? >> no. i put time into microsoft and i couldn't be more proud of the work they've done with windows 8 and now the surface. but my focus is on the foundation. what's going on in global health, what we're trying to do in education, i'm trying to learn about that. i feel like in terms of bringing the pieces together the right innovation, the systems thinking i'm playing the role that is most important. >> i'm thinking bill gates likes talking to charlie rose because he was very animated. normally, he's very low key. >> i think that's a great point. >> yeah. very cool to see. >> charlie.

>> the two of them together that's nice. >> it is. a young girl called hushpuppy is the hero of an indy winning movie. ben zeitlin is here to talk to us about beast of the southern wild winds when we return.

director ben zeitlin is making -- one of the most extraordinary debuts of the year. >> like that description. beast of the southern wild won prizes at the cannes and sundance film festival. it tells the story of a new orleans bayou community through the eyes of a 6-year-old girl. and ben zeitlin joins us to discuss. >> hey. >> hello superstar. really good with all the reviews you're getting. congrats, congrats. >> thank you. >> we're watching the movie. i'm trying to decide, is it a movie or is it a documentary? i knew i was watching something beautifully shot, a story well-told. was that the feeling you were trying to give us? >> yeah. i mean, it's definitely a movie, everything is synthesized. the world is based on reamount but it's a fantastical sort of interpretation of reality. we tried to make it feel real. when we do thing we try to instead of creating on a sound stage, we try to go out on real boats and film things like they're actually happening. >> you filmed this movie in louisiana. >> yeah. >> you were telling us before

you came on the first day of filming was april 20th the day that bp happened. >> yeah. it was a real -- >> that's insane. >> it was. the film was really about these communities under threat and the death of this very precarious region of the bottom of louisiana. every morning we'd wake up and see that black line getting closer and closer to our town. it felt like life -- >> physically moving in on your set. >> yeah. i mean we had -- by the end of the shoot, we had to negotiate with bp to get to our sets because the booms were on -- were closer than where we were shooting. they had to move them out of the way to get the boats in there. film the locations that the film is about. >> gayle makes a great point. it's a movie that's very real. it's about these people living in ab jekt poverty. but there's as you mentioned fantastical parts of it. there's giant beasts at times that take over the movie. where did that idea come from the blending of those two worlds. >> it was never supposed to be a

piece of realism. it's a story about the way a 6-year-old experiences reality. so we tried to tell them the movie from an age where you're not really parsing out between fantasy and reality. you have an imaginary friend they're there. you feel things. >> they're real to you. >> beasts are real to her so they're real to the movie. it's a kind of heightened folk tale that she's experiencing even though it's based on what's happening. >> i fell in love with her. i've been practicing. wallace. i fell in love with this little girl. >> so she and all of the people really were not actors. this was their first acting job which makes it more extraordinary. talk about your process in finding them. >> yeah. we knew we were going to take this giant movie and put it on the shoulders of someone real tiny. so we started casting as soon as we starting writing. we did it for nine months and looked at about 4,000 girls all over south louisiana trying to

find the one. and she miraculously strolled into a library in louisiana. >> what stuck out about her? >> she had this -- she has this poise and wisdom that are so beyond her years and this fearness and defyiancedefiance. we thought someone that young would be hard to direct. you can talk to her like a real actress and she understands things. you would say you're like going around the cast saying here's your motivation here's your motivation. you go to her and say here's your motivation. she will turn to you and say ben, i'm six years old, do you think i mow what the word motivation means? use a kid word. >> what's a kid word for motivation motivation, ben? >> here's what you want. she just understands, she's a kid and she also understands the world in in way that i never seen in someone that young. >> she taught you guys a few things. what did you learn from her at the end of shooting?

>> you know, the character became this moral camposompass of the film. doing the right thing. i remember from her first audition, i was trying to get her to throw a stuffed animal at the other guy who was acting and she refused to do it at five years old. i cut the scene and said why won't you do that? she said it's not right to throw something at someone you don't know. >> what a great remark. >> inspiration. i say move over there's a new female american movie hero. >> there you go. >> just amazing. ben zeitlin thank you so much. >> kudos to you, ben zeitlin. remember that name. beast of the southern wild is now playing in select theaters. >> that is going do it for us on this thursday morning. even though it may have felt like a monday. up next your local news. we'll see you tomorrow when it will be friday no matter what. on "cbs this morning." have a great day.

updated $8 billion plan. another bay area fund-raising trip on tap for president obama. the president returns to san francisco on july 23rd. last time he was here he raise nearly $2 million in four hours a >> low clouds and fog but

pretty thick and heading into the valleys are we on today. even some drizzle out towards the coastline. mount diablo in the background, high pressure sliding eastwards. that will help cool down the temperatures and bring up the low clouds and fog this morning. by the afternoon mostly sunny away from the coast. '60s and '70s around the bay. the next couple of days we will keep the temperature's down just a bit warm back up on saturday and sunday with maybe some mid- 90s by the middle of next week. traffic is coming up next.

>> it is still a traffic nightmare on the lower deck of the bay bridge. eastbound approaching treasure island only one lane is getting by. the police investigation continues. city streets in san francisco getting on to the bridge are backed up as well. bart is on time. it is pretty much free and clear all the way down 101 heading towards a 92. we're just getting word of what sounds like debris in lanes of which is why you see that back up. we checked of the toll plaza where can