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>> heat warnings and advisories are in effect in 16 states from the midwest to the east coast. >> a heat wave bakes half the nation. as historic drought takes hold in the heartland. >> i have farmed this particular farm for 25 years. and this is going to be the worst crop that we've had here. >> half of the country in moderate to extreme drought. >> farmers and business owners bracing for a certain jump in food prices. >> next year, food's going to cost, isn't it? >> it might. >> that's what i'm thinking. mitt romney's team is suggesting he could pick a running mate by the end of the week. >> governor romney's experience has been investing in what were called pioneers of the business of outsourcing. >> who cares? pioneers opened up the west. bain was just like the donner party. they ate the weak. a bus driver is being called a hero after he caught a little girl as she plummeted from of a third world window. delta airlines is trying to figure out how needles got into
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sandwiches served to some business class passengers. >> all that -- >> a presidential smooch. >> that was actually the second attempt. and all that matters. >> blue up. >> they lied! they lie! >> does truth matter any more at all in the political process? >> a simple question because i am a simple man. >> on "cbs this morning." >> there are more indications that jeremy lin may be headed to houston. and police have released jason kidd's mugshot from his arrest for drunk driving. >> if i just signed with the knicks, i would probably start drinking too. welcome to "cbs this morning." it has been a long dry summer for much of the u.s., and things are not getting any better. a government report now says that the massive drought gripping the u.s. is the largest since 1956. more than half the nation experienced moderate to extreme drought last month.
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>> and with no relief in sight, the dangerously dry conditions may soon start having a noticeable impact on the price of everything from food to gasoline. and anna warner is in jonestown, texas. >> reporter: good morning viewers in the west. i'm at the edge of lake travis, a popular recreation spot for many texans. but what it's going to cost them to drive here and eat out here when they get here isn't the only problem. it's what they're going to see when they get here. normally this looks like a lake. right now, it looks like a river. water levels here have dropped 30 feet. the biggest drought in more than half a century is leaving fields from ohio to california dried up and desperate for rain. >> we have never seen a drought like this. you can see first hand how depleted, how serious this matter is, this drought. >> the department of agriculture estimates that nearly 40% of the nation's corn crop is in poor condition, which economist crit
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hertz says is bound to have a ripple effect on the economy. >> well, there's no question this is a major drought and it will cost tens of billions of dollars. >> here's why. according to the usda, corn accounts for more than 90% of feed grain production. so as the price of corn goes up, so does the cost of feeding and maintaining cattle, which could lead to higher prices for meat and dairy products in the grocery store. hitting consumers at an already tough economic time. hertz says beef prices alone could reach record levels and stay there well into 2015. >> that means that out of our paychecks, we have to spend more in our family budget on food. and that means less spending in the general economy. >> reporter: and that's not all. you may also wind up paying for the drought at the pump as corn prices drive up ethanol costs. businesses that depend on outdoor recreation could also feel the impact. beau theriot says he's already noticed a dip in business at his restaurant on lake travis near
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austin, texas, where the water level has been dropping. >> i'm afraid it's hitting other people on the lake worse than it's hitting me. but it's still necessary that we get business built back up, and having water in the lake will help that for sure. >> reporter: many business owners here including marinas are just going to have to hope that they get a major rain storm. that's about the only thing, they say, would fill the lake here quickly. otherwise, it's going to be a matter of waiting. and no one knows how long that will take. norah and charlie, back to you. brian walsh is senior editor at "time" magazine and writes about energy, the environment, and the economy. welcome. >> thank you. >> how do we put a number on this? how do we put a comparison on this drought? >> certainly we know this is the worst drought the u.s. has had since 1956. more than 50% of the cut k not radioey is in a state of -- country is in a state of drought. and that will affect the economy. parts of midwest we are already hearing now. but this will impact fuel prices
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with ethanol. food prices too. and that's going to really have an impact on the economy as it tries to recover. >> when will we see that? >> you'll start to see that as this crop sort of unfolds. right now, corn is just beginning its pollination phase. we'll know for sure in the next couple of weeks just how bad it will be. but if it's as bad as people are saying, and there's very little relief in sight, we'll see that coming over the next few weeks and months really. impacting your food bill and gas bill as well. >> can you connect this to climate change? >> it can nbe connected to climate change. it's hard to say if any single weather event is caused by climate change. but this is becoming more regular. we know that in climate change you'll see hotter, drier temperatures, which means less rain, which often means worse droughts. >> we're talking like six to seven degrees over the national averages this year. it's just hot out there. how much will this affect, you think, beef prices, milk prices, some of the staples in our
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refrigerators? >> well, corn is really the base of the food pyramid in the united states, and then it goes to grain to feed animals. so it will have an impact. how much, it depends. the united states actually when we buy food, most of what we're spending is on packaging and processing. it's not actually on the food itself. so we'll be somewhat insulated. but the united states is the bread fast for the rest of the world. so other parts of the world may be hurt worse than we are. >> are there consequences beyond just this season? >> of course. we had ay is skreer drought in texas just last year. if you see this again and again, it will really impact what we can grow, and that's concerning not just for the economy but really for the world as a whole. >> are we looking at this as just the beginning of water scarcity, which will be a problem that plagues the world? >> i think absolutely. the united states -- the u.s. west is already having the issue of having water scarcity. you have growing populations in that part of the world. bigger issues in terms of agriculture. so really, if we don't figure out a way to use our water more
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efficiently, to be less -- you know, to essentially stop wasting as much as we do now, this will be a problem that will recur in the future. >> brian walsh, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. both sides in the race for the white house are putting new twists on their messages which they are taking to the swing states. >> president obama was in ohio monday. mitt romney is in pennsylvania today. and bill plante is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: morning. and good morning out west. well, romney is trying to put the brakes on the obama campaign's so far successful effort to keep the focus on romney's wealth rather than on the nation's economy. but the white house isn't easing up. they are even trying out a new line of attack. campaigning in cincinnati monday, the president stopped for a local specialty. a chili dog. >> i'm going to take the mustard but not the onions. just because i've got to meet people. >> reporter: and he put a new spin on an old argument that romney sent jobs overseas. he has accused his opponent of being responsible for deals in
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which workers were fired and jobs were outsourced, even though much of that happened after romney left to lead the 2002 winter olympics. monday, the president pushed the attack forward, warning that romney would do the same in the oval office >> governor romney's economic plan would in fact create 800,000 jobs. there's only one problem. the jobs wouldn't be in america. they would not be in america. >> reporter: a romney spokesperson countered saying that romney's plan would lower corporate tax rates, and actually remove incentives for companies to shift jobs overseas. on the defensive for a second week, romney himself is trying to change the subject. he is accusing the obama administration of cronyism. specifically of investing stimulus money in the ventures of the president's biggest do donors, some of whom also sent work overseas. >> i think it's wrong. it stinks to high heaven. and i think the administration has to explain how it is they would consider giving money to
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campaign contributors' businesses. >> romney has campaigned less than the president in the last two weeks, spending much of his time at his new hampshire lakehouse. this has led to speculation that romney is narrowing down his vice presidential choices. monday, he met with bobby jindal, who is said to be on romney's short list. the obama campaign's response to romney's new attack, well, they say that the program he's talking about supported almost a quarter million jobs in the clean energy sector. look for more about this when the president speaks in san antonio at 11:00 a.m. pacific time. charlie, norah? >> bill, thank you. ari fleischer was white house press secretary for president george w. bush. we're pleased to have him here this morning. >> good morning. >> as a republican, how do you measure, if any, the defining of mitt romney during this period by these attacks? >> there's an easy way to measure it, and that's polls. what we know is since mitt
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romney won the nomination, despite almost $100 million of ads thrown at him by the obama campaign, he has cut the gap in half. he is down two points in the average polls, which really means that the race is neck and neck. >> does the candidate, assumed to be candidate after the nominating conventions, plan to at some point begin to do something different than what he's doing now? >> well, doing something different, i think if you look again at the polls, charlie, that's of registered voters. when you go to the likely voters, he's winning. so i think mitt romney is actually getting no credit for running what's been a very smart, sensible campaign, trying to keep the focus on the economy, when you have an incumbent that will do everything he can not to talk about his failed record on jobs and debt. >> charlie cook, who we all respect, and someone who watches the electrions very closely, sad that the attacks on bain and outsourcing are sticking to romney like velcro, and it's hard to see how that will change until he picks his running mate.
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ari, there is some evidence that the bain attacks are working. and you see panic within the republican party. you've got to acknowledge that. >> well, there have been a couple of people that have spoken about it. but, norah, this is an issue where everybody has a different opinion about it. if you poll people and say does this make you more likely or less likely, people say less likely, but it doesn't drive voter action when the economy is such an overriding issue. in 1992, we did everything we could to make an ethical argument against bill clinton. nobody was buying it. it was all about the economy. >> but democrats would say it's exactly about the economy, that mitt romney's case is that he is mr. fix it, he is the guy to fix the economy, about you his record shows is there a tag line that says he is not the solution, he's is the problem. look how he's run his business in the past. >> and that's a fair comparison.
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has governor of massachusetts, he had he created a net plus in jobs, none of which president obama can claim as the man who has presided over this country's economy for almost four years now. that's a fair fight, and a fight that mitt romney wins which is why not the president doesn't want to engage in an actual fight over the status of the american economy today. >> you've been in politics enough to know that they would not be doing this if they did not have some kind of internal polling saying it was working. >> charlie, i don't think they have any other card to play. they wouldn't be doing this if they had success on the economy, which is the issue that drives everybody. they have osama bin laden's death. that is their biggest success, and i praise for them for it. but that's it. they don't have anything else. >> the tag line at general motors is alive, and osama bin laden is dead. >> and fiat has been outsourced, and chrysler outsourced to fiat. >> the president has been talking about outsourcing a lot. does that connection to bain
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notwithstanding the fact that it was in the olympics do damage to this candidate as they try to define him as someone who is out of touch? >> the whole thing about outsourcing, i get the politics of it, and both president obama and mitt romney can fairly be accused of doing their share of outsourcing as i just indicated. president obama sold chrysler for pennies on the dollar to an italian company. >> why do you think he sold it to an italian company? why was -- >> well, here is the point i'm about to make. when you look at it from an economic point of view in terms of what's best for the american people, america will create other jobs in are the countries. other countries will create jobs in america. the economy flows in both directions. i have a brother-in-law who works for honda in indiana. he is an assembly line worker there. there's an american job created
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by a foreign country that outsourced. >> this is simple. do you think it was a good idea for fiat to buy chrysler and perhaps save some jobs when they couldn't find any other person to buy or any other company to buy it at the time? >> no. but if my attack on fiat and chrysler isn't valid, then all of president obama's attacks on mitt romney are invalid as well. that's the point i'm making. it goes both directions. but what you have is president obama who ran and said we don't want to build an economy on the sand, we want to build -- he cited scripture, on a solid foundation. he is doing everything on the sand now. why? so he can cling to his job. >> good to have you. >> thanks so much. also this morning, rebel fighters in syria say government troops are attacking them with helicopter gunships in the syrian capital. we have amateur video that's said to show the fighting in and around damascus which is spreading and becoming more intense. yesterday, in israel, state department correspondent margaret brennan asked secretary of state hillary clinton if she is willing to meet with syrian president bashir al assad. >> well, certainly.
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we are prepared to do anything to assist the transition. but we're strongly supporting kofi annan, who as you know is the joint envoy of both the u.n. and the arab league. he is in moscow today. so we're giving him our full support. >> now clinton says the united states continues to supply the syrian opposition with nonlethal assistance. >> now to a mystery in the sky. this morning the fbi is trying to figure out how sewing needles made their way into sandwiches served on at least four different delta airlines flights. all the flights were headed to the united states. and originated in amsterdam on sunday. senior correspondent john miller tells us what he has learned. good morning. >> well, this is going to be one of those cases where the fbi is going to have to work with foreign authorities. so the case has been assigned to the fbi office in atlanta. agents there are working with the fbi's legal attache in amsterdam to work with dutch authorities. but it still is not the anthrax case.
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it boils down to means, motive, and opportunity. anybody would have the means to do something like this. so what's the motive? looking at disgruntled employees in the supply chain. either at the caterer or at one of the caterer's suppliers who had access to the sandwich. going back through threats to the airlines, to the caterers, and so on. so that's a normal process. on the csi end, you know, the fbi lab can look at a needle and send it to the tool mark and die section and say, who made this needle? how many of them were manufactured? where did it come from? but on the higher end, there's things called skin cell dna where if somebody touched one, with sweaty hands, they might have even left something that could identify somebody. but in the end, again, it's not the anthrax case. >> so what should we worry about? >> i don't think we should worry about much. i mean, this is one of those predictable and preventible situations. if you're on an airline, and you have a question about your sandwich, take the top off, go
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through it pretty quickly, if there's a needle there, i hate to say we're looking for a needle in a haystack. >> we are looking for a needle in a sandwich. it's a serious thing, though, if you're looking at the needle. >> and there was somebody injured here. and frankly, the other danger is -- and this is a double edged sword for this. we want to tell people so they'll be aware, but that also spawns the copycat factor here. >> thank you, john. great to see you. thank you. >> time to show you some of the morning's headlines from around the globe. "the globe cand mail" report tw people killed at a toronto block party. there was some sort of dispute and two people opened fire. a person of interest is in custody. the chicago police department could spend almost $14 million in overtime this summer. it's part of a plan to try and curb a 38% increase in murders.
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the overtime will pay for just over 200 extra officers. "the san francisco chronicle" reports that billionaire mark zuckerberg got a great rate on his mortgage. he bought his home in california for about $6 million. rates already at record lows, but his is super low. it is a 30-year adjustable rate starting at just over 1%. financial experts say the super rich qualify for these types of loans if they are willing to risk monthly rate adjustments. sthiem and more buzz on the next iphone. the "wall street journal" says the screener will be thinner and sharper images, also slimmer. but don't hold your breath. the new version isn't expected until, wait for it, the fall.
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>> this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. >> good morning everyone, 7:26 a.m., and want to get you caught up with bay area headlines. 37 year-old melissa meyer starting her new job. the former cool executive named ceo of yellow. she disclosed yesterday that she is pregnant and about to have a child. a pot left unattended on a stove started the fire that drove 20 people out of their apartment in new work. no one was hurt in the fire, it started around 10:00, they had to close the building because the power was off. squatters being warned that they cannot camped in the san jose
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kelley park anymore after a series of suspicious fires there. crews will start removing illegal encampments on thursday. it is a little wet out there, we have traffic and weather coming up after the break.
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>> good morning as you head out the door expect 680 to take longer than usual. an accident southbound 680 blocking lanes, a fallen tree. speeds less than 25 mi. per hour. connecting over to 880 near milpitas, traffic flow and go in that area and eastbound highway 4, road work. west bound to slow. >> a little difficult to see the golden gate bridge from the view of the camera. cloudy and drizzle. a temperatures in the fifties and low 60s. 60 degrees in mountain view and 56 in oakland and 57 degrees in
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redwood city. by this afternoon we warm up to the 60s and low seventies and we will see a warming trend throughout the course of the week.
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♪ you have got to watch this dramatic catch caught on a cell phone camera and seen here on wcbs in new york city. that is a girl tumbling three stories out of a window. the building in brooklyn on monday. thankfully, a bus driver was walking home, happened to be under the girl and was able to safely catch her. the 7-year-old had been standing on an air conditioning unit when she fell. thank goodness she only has minor injuries. he's been called a hero. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> and he is a hero. >> right. >> when you think about what it means to those parents. the 2012 summer olympics get under way next week, which means
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athletes have been pouring in to london. >> heathrow airport had its busiest ever day, but when its visitors hit the streets of london, that's when the trouble really began, and elizabeth palmer is in london. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, as you probably know, the british love to anticipate disaster, and the media here has been having a field day speculating about everything that could go wrong. but with ten days to go to the opening ceremonies, we're really on the cusp, so we don't know yet. a record-breaking 237,000 passengers, many of them olympic athletes, streamed through heathrow airport yesterday with barely a hitch. outside on the main road, though, there were some hiccups. american hurdler karen clemens was stuck on one of three buses that got lost for four hours. athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee, he tweeted. "can we get to the olympic village, please?"
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for their parts, london locals were figuring out how to use or not to use the expressway reserved for olympic vehicles. >> in the best of times, it's only got three lanes in each direction and one of them was taken out yesterday. and of course, if you take one-third of the road capacity out, that is going to cause an awful lot of traffic holdup. >> reporter: travel writer simon calder says london's noble pass is actually a drawback in the olympics' presence. >> the highway system is, frankly, a disaster. it was based on a plan originally put in place by the romans 2,000 years ago, and much of it hasn't improved very much since then. >> reporter: so, disruption is inevitable, especially with more than 16,000 uk troops deployed for security as well as hundreds of extra police. commuters have been warned to expect delays, or better yet, avoid them by staying home, advice that has infuriated some
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london cab drivers. >> they're going to gridlock the streets and not let us get around, and then they've got the affront of an absolute bear fight to say the olympics are good for me and for london. well, they're not. >> reporter: but the run-up to these games has already added festive touches and brightened the mood in a city that has needed a lift in this radius of rainy summers. now, i'm standing in a rare dry patch this morning, but literally, the rain has practically not stopped. people are so fed up. however, a bit of good news from the meteorological people today. they say that the sun may actually begin to shine for the beginning of the games. >> liz, does this have any impact on tourism? >> reporter: well, research shows that there are fewer tourists, ordinary tourists, to an olympic city when the games are on, so maybe the great weight of these games will be alleviated by the fact that the crowds that are normally here in the summer will be smaller.
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add to that a pretty good public transport system, good buses, good subway, very good trains. everybody's got their fingers crossed. we're hoping for the best. >> all right, elizabeth palmer, good to see you. thanks. turning now to shopping online. it's quick, convenient and cheaper, since it's usually tax-free, but congress is now considering a new bill that could change all of that. >> the bill would place a sales tax of anywhere from 5% to 10% and online shopping could soon become more expensive. u.s. consumers spent more than $200 billion shopping online last year. 53% of americans let their fingers do the shopping,
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averaging about $1,200. by 2016, 58% are expected to take the plunge, spending more than $1,700 apiece. one big advantage for online companies is that sales on the internet are, for the most part, tax-free. for years, store-based retailers have tried to change the law to require their online competitors to charge sales tax. so far, online companies have blocked those efforts, but it's possible their luck is about to change. a bipartisan bill in congress would allow states to decide whether to tax online sales. supporters like republican senator lamar alexander insist it's less about raising taxes than it is about states' rights. >> let's get out of the way, let states make their own decisions and then states can decide from whom they want to collect their sales taxes. >> reporter: and he's getting help from some unlikely sources. at least a dozen conservative republican governors who are usually fervently antitax now
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support giving states the power to tax online sales. why? well, it's partly states' rights, but it's also because their budgets are so squeezed, they need the money. if the bill becomes law, an estimated $23 billion is expected to flow into state coffers. steve del bianco is with net choice, which represents internet companies. he says the bill would mire thousands of small, online businesses in a nightmarish web of new taxes. >> the big loser are small businesses, the same small businesses we're counting on to create the jobs to pull us out of this recession. >> reporter: senator alexander says the change in momentum on this issue is so profound that he's now confident this bill will become law by next year at the latest. and if he's right, online shoppers will soon have a little less money to burn. charlie and nora? >> chip reid, thank you so much. what's interesting about this is that more and more people i know are shopping online, and therefore, this is a bit -- >> i have to.
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i buy diapers, food, clothing -- >> everything. >> all of it, yeah. turning to a sports story, some says it's insanity to pay jeremy lin $25 million to play basketball, but that is exactly what the houston rockets are offering, and the new york knicks have until one minute before midnight to match the deal. we'll see what may happen, ahead on "cbs this morning." ♪
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how do you think women are doing in silicon valley? >> overall, i mean, i think silicon valley is a great place for women, but that said, i tend to think of my experience there, especially at google, not as one of a woman but as a yes. >> and like if you're a geek, silicon valley and google are great places to be. >> marissa mayer in may back on this program when she was an executive with google. yesterday she was hired to be yahoo's next ceo. welcome back to "cbs this
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morning." >> from google geek to yahoo's ceo, and she announced to twitter last night, she's also going to be a first-time mommy. pretty impressive. >> and she got married i think 18 months or two years ago. she said to me in 2009 in an interview that i did with her, i said to her, what's wrong with google -- with yahoo? and she said talent. and that's true about silicon valley. and if she can bring talent, then she'll make yahoo a different place. >> certainly a big hire for them, all right. and also, it looks like the era of linsanity is going to end here in new york. last season, harvard grad jeremy lin took the knicks and the entire sports world by storm. now he may be headed to houston, but there's still a faint, faint glimmer of hope that he could stay with the knicks, and jeff glor is here. good morning. >> moving all over the place these days, nora. the deadline is 11:59 tonight. new york can match a very lucrative offer, but the knicks, it would seem, have telegraphed their intention. >> lin puts it up, bam! jeremy lin goes downtown and the
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knicks take the lead! >> reporter: it is hard to believe this was only five months ago. >> jeremy lin does it again! >> reporter: it is hard to believe an athlete that came on so quickly -- >> jeremy lin is for real. >> reporter: -- that energized the sports world so completely -- >> some people even say lin is saving the nba season. >> reporter: -- and helped change the basketball conversation away from an extended lockout, could be gone from a team so suddenly. >> did you see this coming? >> no, i don't think anybody really saw it coming. >> reporter: joe favorito is a sports marketing professor and former head of pr at the new york knicks. >> he became a product of everything that you could take advantage of today. there was social media, television, blogs. everybody kind of caught on to it because he was an every man. >> reporter: jeremy lin's meadoric rise sold the third most jerseys last year. >> we've collected for you the worst possible jeremy lin puns. you understand what i'm saying? >> i see, yes. >> reporter: made "letterman's" top ten list. >> number four, does this look
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linfected to you? >> reporter: settled a cable tv dispute and turned around a season for a long-suffering team, just to name a few. >> you've got to be livid to live it. there you go. >> reporter: for all that, he will likely an allowed to walk. why? money. the three-year deal dangled by the houston rockets includes a balloon payment year that would cost the knicks not just a $15 million salary in 2014, but potentially $35 million more in luxury tax payments under the nba's strict, new system. $50 million on one player in one year. >> if the knicks had their preference, they would keep jeremy lin. there's no question they love who he is as a player, as a person, as a talent. i think they believe in him, and i think that at the right price, they would keep him. for them, this is just becoming a hard business decision and not so much a basketball decision. >> reporter: there is an online petition to keep lin in new york, but his merchandise has already been removed from the team's website, and new york has
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already acquired three other point guards this offseason, which means with his hand nearly over, houston holds all the right cards. >> it will be interesting to see how well that could play out in houston versus playing out in new york where the lights are always brighter. >> reporter: does he have the same marketing potential in houston? >> i think so. houston is one of the largest asian american communities in north america, and yao ming proved you don't have to be a global brand, especially to market to asia. >> reporter: jeremy lin obviously has a lot of people in his ears right now. if you had a piece of advice for him as he likely leaves, what is it? >> keep your feet on the ground and just keep doing what you're doing. >> so, what are the knicks going to do? >> the knicks are going to move forward, likely, with this new roster they have. they already have carmelo anthony, they have amar'e stoudemire. they're an older team with kurt thomas, marcus camby coming in, jason kidd, so it is an older team, but it's an experienced team. the rockets, meanwhile, are
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young and lookung and looking f superstar. >> and he could be that for them, they believe? >> yeah. well, listen, if he becomes a superstar, i think everybody will look back in hindsight and say why did they let him go? but he only played 26 games. we don't know right now. >> so, he may have an injury issue, or? >> jeremy, he was out a good part of last year, at the end of last year with a knee. he says he's fully healthy now. >> thank you so much. it is a skill that some say
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>> >> this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news morning update. >> good morning everyone, it is 756. california state university trustees will talk worst-case scenario today during a meeting in long beach and at issue is how the system will function if the state voters rejected the governor's tax measure in november. possibilities include raising tuition and cutting expenses by is admitting fewer students and reducing staff. the first day on the job for the new ceo of yahoo. carissa meyer was previously an executive at google. she was employee #20 there and
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the first female ire at that company. traffic and weather in just a moment.
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>> good morning. metering lights on at the bay bridge toll plaza and traffic is stacked up as you work your way to the pay gates backed up almost to the maze but is improving slightly. a couple of things to look out for, iraq reported northbound 101. slow and go along the peninsula especially northbound and eastbound. 237, iraq slow and go there as well as west bound to read >> kind of an overcast start all across the bay area. a live look at some of those clouds are pleasanton. we are seeing if you 60s, 61 in san jose. 56 in san rafael and mid 50's in san fransisco.
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♪ good news. remember a guy named anthony weiner, congressman? >> yeah. yeah. >> he had one of those picture-taking cell phones and he would -- you talk about your junk mail, ladies and gentlemen. he wants to run for mayor again in 2013 and he's got a new slogan and it's weiner's got a fire in his belly and a bulge in his pants and he's ready to go. leave me alone. leave me alone. not so fast. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. erica hill is off today.
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>> i'm charlie rose. you might assume that a lie detector test is the best way to get to the truth, but a former cia officer conducted thousands of interrogations and created new techniques along the way for recognizing deceptive answers. >> his name is philip houston and he's one of three former officers that have written a book like the title. he's joining us with john miller, a former fbi official. hello. hello. welcome. >> i now look at life totally differently after looking at your book including how i behave and others. you say everybody lies, everybody. >> yes. in fact, the research shows that the average person lies at least 10 times a day which includes some of the serious lies but also the social lies. >> is there a difference between the lies men and women tell? >> yes. men tend to -- this is a generalization, but men tend to tell lies often that make themselves look a little bit better whereas women tell lies
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or social lies to spare people's feelings. they don't like to hurt people's feelings. >> who tells more lies, men or women? >> there's a raging debate. i think there are a lot of folks that believe that men might slightly have the edge. >> men have the edge, charlie. >> thank you. let me talk about the process, too. you administered polygraphs when you were in the cia, correct? >> yes. >> coming out of that you were asked to do what? >> i was approached at one point to help develop a training program to train officers to do a better job of collecting information when they're in that mode of being face to face with the target that they're focused on. >> so if you're talking to someone and you want to know whether they're lying to you, what do you look for? and why are you sure about your own perceptions? >> well, one of the things that we know, charlie, is first is to understand what we shouldn't look for. in the past there's been a lot
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of focus on things called global behaviors, so, for example, i might in the past folks have said, gee, john is not sitting in a way that -- in which he looks truthful. he might have closed posture. >> no, no, no, no, not my john. i swear i'm telling the truth. >> the problem with that, the problem with that is i'm only guessing why he's sitting that way. he may be cold. he may heñ comfortable. that may be how he always sits. what we've done is we have identified what are the most reliable deceptive indicators and we help people understand how to connect those indicators to the question that they're asking or the topic that they're interested in. >> and what are those indicators. >> such as? >> they're both deceptive verbal and nonverbal indicators. so, for example, verbally when you ask someone a question, all of a sudden they repeat your question, that might be an indication that they need to buy a little bit of time to create or come up with a more acceptable answer. >> we see that every day at this
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table. you see people, especially in fact people it's political season, you can see them thinking or feeding the question. that's obvious. >> right. exactly. you also see people go into what we call the convince mode. so if you ask me a question which the facts are not my ally, then immediately i have to figure out, if i can't talk about the facts, what can i talk about. and so what i'll often do is go into the convince mode. >> which means what? >> i might use something such assay, you know, if you were an investigator and said, phil, did you take this missing money? i would never do that. i'm an honest person. ask anyone. my goodness, i wouldn't jeopardize my job by doing something like that. and it sounds good to the untrained ears. but to someone who's skilled in detecting decention, it's an immediate red flag. >> john, what do you think of this? >> when i was with the los angeles police department i brought phil and his team in to train detectives.
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we did the anti-terrorist division and the robbery homicide division. these are some very jaded people. they questioned all the suspects and caught all the lies. so a lot of them walked into the room, especially the people who have been doing it 25, 30 years saying what's some cia guy who questions spies going to tell me about how to break a murder suspect? i have to say after the three-day course i have veteran detectives coming up to me hitting their heads saying, i need to re-question every suspect i've interviewed in the last two years. it's very dramatic. it's simple. >> i get that too. when i was reading the book, john, i understand why veteran people were saying that. you would have places where people say i swear to god i never did that. you say that's also an indicator, when somebody brings out the lord. somebody goes on attack mode. what are you saying about me? why would you suggest that. do you know what your job is? i started looking at everything differently. i understand why veterans would
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do. when we led to you david letterman doing the clip about anthony weiner. you include anthony weiner in your book, a classic case. >> can we show a clip? >> sure. >> if you could weigh in on the other side about what you thought when you saw that clip of anthony weiner. >> congressman, i think the main question that everyone has is was that a picture of you? >> well, the main question that a lot of people are asking is did i send the photograph? i did not. this was a prank, a hoax. >> what about that said to you he's not telling the truth? >> well, the first immediate indicator, he doesn't answer the question. the simple question is a yes or no question. is that picture you? and obviously he doesn't want to share the fact that it is me so that factor's not his ally. then he immediately goes into the convince mode. as you said a moment ago, sometimes they even try to attack a little bit by saying this is a prank or it's a hoax. someone has done something to me to try to get you to even back
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off a little bit in your questioning and not pursue this. >> what is it like for the children that grew up around you? i'm thinking what kind of dad -- what is it like to have a dad that can spot a lie. do you use this at home? >> well, i try to be selective. i'm very fortunate i've had great kids, they're all grown. they presented challenges at times. this certainly helped along the way. >> i think of the homework example. >> yeah. >> you know where even as a parent you're like, did i phrase that question the right way? you asked your son about homework once. >> yes, exactly. my son had a little bit of a problem at one point doing his homework. he came home one day and i happened to have the day off. he walked in and i simply said without thinking about it i asked the wrong question, do you have any homework today? chris looked at me and he said immediately without batting an eye, he said, dad, we have a substitute today. that makes sense. it wasn't until a few minutes later i realized that my son had
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just snookered me. we had to ask better questions. i brought him back down and said how much do you have? he had a ton. >> asking the better question. >> yes. >> so you don't say did you steal the money? you just say, what did you do with the money that you took? >> yes. >> presumptive question. i learned a lot. thank you, john miller. thank you very much. >> thank you, john miller, thank you, if you're chilling out indoors today, you if you're chilling out indoors today, you can thank
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willis carrier. you may not know his name but i bet you know his invention. it's called air conditioning. thank you, jesus. 110 years ago today he changed the world. coming up, we'll pay tribute to him on "cbs this morning." ♪ i'm hot blooded, check it and see ♪ ♪ i've got a fever of 103 ♪ come on, baby, do you do more than dance? ♪ ♪ i'm hot blooded, i'm hot blooded ♪ ♪ you don't have to read my mind ♪ ents when you can prevent the acid that's causing it with prevacid24hr. with one pill prevacid24hr works at the source to prevent the acid that causes frequent heartburn all day and all night. and with new prevacid24hr perks, you can earn rewards from dinner deals to music downloads for purchasing prevacid24hr. prevent acid all day and all night for 24 hours with prevacid24hr.
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fiat is taking on starbucks. fiat is taking on starbucks. they'll be offering in car espresso makers. it includes four cups and even a spoon maker. >> it's about damn time cars came with a new beverage option. i was getting tired of wiper fluid. folks, the other drivers on the road can feel safe knowing you're not recklessly texting. you're merely brewing scalding hot coffee at 70 miles per hour. i feel better now, don't you, when you're on the road? >> right. >> i'm just making coffee. we're marking a cool anniversary today during the hot summer days. the air conditioner, did you know, made its debut 110 years ago.
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coming up next, we'll show you who you it all began. >> first, time for this morning's health watch with dr. holley phillips. good morning. today in health watch, immune boosting kids. everyone who has kids knows the joy of having them cough and sneeze in your face and run around the house spreading germs on every surface, but it turns out that may be a good thing. new research finds being a parent may actually boost your immunity against the common cold. in the study 795 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 55 were exposed to a virus that causes the common cold. researchers discovered that parents were 52% less likely than nonparents to actually develop a cold after exposure. the protective effects seem to increase along with the number of children. now the parents' resistance against the common cold was not the result of having been exposed to the virus before. rather, experts think a psychological benefit of
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♪ hot town, summer in the city ♪ all around people looking happy ♪ as much of the country swelters under the summer heat, a useful invention made its debut today. >> we're very glad about that. 110 years ago the first air conditioner blasted into action. terrell brown takes a look back at this important milestone. hello to you, terrell. >> reporter: gayle, good morning to you. if you've ever looked at the air
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conditioning unit that's out there. take a look at what we found underneath an old printing press in brooklyn, new york. >> in this building this is the start of a revolution. >> reporter: 110 years ago today the five-story brick building in brooklyn, new york, became the world's first air conditioned building. >> this is the first time which the blueprint is dated july 17th, 1902, has been back to the original site. >> reporter: historian eric schultz said willis carrier struck upon the idea of a central air conditioning cooling system at an on site publishing company. >> the paper was curling in the edges. it wasn't going to the feeder. sometimes they had to shut down the machine for a couple of days. >> reporter: it sat above a natural spring. carrier's system of blowing the air over the cold water piped into the basement of the printing press became the basic building block of modern air conditioning. 20 years later and for $100,000
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carrier brought his weather maker to the movies. >> in 1925 in new york city modern air conditioning is launched in the theater on broadway. it's a sensation. >> reporter: from there it was off to the races. >> here's the new idea in luxury. the new 1955 rambler offers complete year round air conditioning. >> reporter: from skyscrapers in k in suburbs in long island, a whole new world of cool opened up. >> it sits flush inside and doesn't interfere with the drapes. >> beginning in 1950 you start to see the flood of residential air conditioning in the suburbs. >> reporter: in 1955 one in every 22 american homes had air conditioning. by 1960 that number had jumped to one in five. 1970 the federal census "the new york times" called it the air conditioned census because you can really see the movement of population in the united states. >> reporter: the national academy of engineering named air
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conditioning among the top ten inventions of the 20th century. but what happens when we can't keep our cool? this june record-breaking temperatures contributed to the hottest 12-month period our nation has experienced since 1895. and with well over 100 millionaire conditioned households tapping into the grid in the u.s. alone, experts warn that our addiction to cool and the short-term comfort it provides may not always be sustainable as we saw in 2003 when the entire northeast went dark. >> people who considered it a luxury now consider it a necessity. >> reporter: perhaps it's just another excuse to try to stay cool the old-fashioned way. >> cannonball! >> reporter: nothing like a good old-fashioned cannonball to stay cool in the heat. when you look around the studio, can you imagine working in here without air conditioning? >> no. >> i would be a big puddle of makeup sitting in this chair.
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>> that's a nice picture. >> yeah. >> listen, mine broke the other day. you call to get it fixed. apparently the air conditioner repair guy is doing a great business. the lady laughed on the phone and said, wait in line. >> you know, one of the interesting things that historian said is your point that you make. if you're in the office and the e-mail goes down or internet. you can stay. let the ac go down and folks start clearing out of the office. it's a matter of necessity for productivity. >> it is one of those things like the car that changed a whole century. >> right. and for that very reason. >> deserves to be there among the top ten inventions of the century. >> the new york stock exchange, first building air conditioned for the comfort of its workers. >> we are grateful to mr. carrier. >> thank you, terrell. if you're a little closer to retirement, we can tell you five things that you really need to know. you are watching "cbs this morning." your local news is coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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>> this is eyewitness news morning update. >> good morning everyone, 8:25 a.m.. we will get caught up with bay area headlines. a pot left unattended on the stove started a fire that drove 20 people out of their garments. now and was heard in the fire but they had to close the building because the power is now off. severance is the mayor and lee will get a petition concerning the stop and frisk proposal. black young democrats will turn into a dozen signatures calling on the mayor to reject the idea.
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this is used in some cities to allow police to pat down suspicious suspects. csu trustees will decide what to do with the governor's tax measure is rejected by the voters in november. the board is looking at two possibilities at the meeting in long beach. one is to raise tuition and the other is to admit fewer students and staff layoffs. traffic and weather coming up after the break. stay right there.
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>> good morning, 101 continues to be a very busy ride as you work northbound. an accident blocking the center lane for palo alto and menlo park and out to milbury. it is the right in that area and if you're headed along 580 near 98, reports of an accident trying to be clear to the right shoulder but busy anyway. northbound stop and go conditions as you head for oakland. that is a look at your time saver traffic >> a live look at ocean beach, not beach weather this morning. overcast skies and low clouds. drizzle in spots. you may need your windshield wipers. the measures in the '50s with a few low 60s. mid 50's in oakland. 56 degrees. by this afternoon we will warm
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things up to the 60s and low seventies. once again, and unseasonably cool day on tap and slightly more by tomorrow with the warmest weather friday and into the weekend. ,,,,,,,,
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♪,,,,,,, welcome back to "cbs this morning." from where to live to how to spend your money, there is a lot to know about being retired. >> executive editor ken budd of the magazine of "aarp" tells us the top five things everyone needs to know. welcome. >> good to be here. thanks for having me. >> so, this is what you're telling us is what we need to know about being retired. >> exactly, right. >> so, what do we need to know about being retired? >> well, the first thing, financial, obviously. we tell people to cut your savings -- excuse me, spend less, save more, diversify your investments. and most financial advisers will
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tell you to follow the 4% rule early on. don't spend more than 4% of your savings and first-year retirement. those are the main things you want to follow and there are online calculators that are like t. rowe price, vanguard, that can help you crunch the numbers. >> the thing about retirement, i can't imagine being retired. we're different ages here. >> right. >> yet there are some people who actually look forward to it. >> exactly. and that's number two on our list are people who want to keep working and keep finding a career. this is a great time to start your own business, because you've got a lifetime of connections, you've got a lifetime of experience. so, we find people doing everything from high-tech consulting businesses to home fix-it businesses, and you're going to deal with the things like licensing and credentialing, but there's big payoffs. one survey said that 96% of people 65 and over were happy about the decision to work independently. >> what does retirement age mean? what is it? so i know exactly what we're talking about. when is it? >> i think the whole notion of retirement age has completely changed. >> 85. >> i like that, charlie.
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i like 85. >> well, we always think 65, but people are working longer because they want to, and some cases out of necessity. >> and longevity, the fact that we live longer these days. >> right. >> but i'm thinking if you decide to retire, it surprises me you're saying start a new business. i'm thinking if i want to retire, i don't want to do anything else. i want to chill. >> that's the great thing about retirement. some people want to chill and some don't want to chill at all. that's the beauty of it. >> i like that you used the word chill. we also need to stay mentally sharp. how? >> you want to keep learning, and that means building new brain cells. you can't do what you're used to doing. if you do crosswords, do sudoku. brush your teeth with the other hand. try new situations. >> brush your teeth with the odd hand. >> you want to trick your brain, force it to do different things. >> isn't that in terms of exercising the mind? we're learning more and more about preventing alzheimer's and all of the other preventible disease. it's about staying very active. >> exactly, and it's also about exercising physically. you can lower your dementia risk
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30% to 40% if you have a high activity level versus low activity. >> it's also important to lead a fulfilling lifestyle, you say. and you can do that by? >> well, you know, i find that people -- >> brushing my teeth with my other hand. i'm actually going to try that tomorrow. >> i'm going to take up golf. >> yeah, or golf, that's right. >> i find people are happy in retirement, people who say i'm busier now than i was when i was working. so, it's people who, you know, you've always wanted to play the piano, learn a language. we talked to one guy who broke it up in two. he said the first year, i'm going to do whatever i want whenever i want. so he drank coffee, read books, took long walks. then after ithat, he wanted to become a chaplain, so he studied and did that. if you have a plan and do what you want to do and remember boredom is your enemy. >> you know people who are technically retired from their job and moved on to second careers? how many people are working
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after 65? >> the numbers are growing and baby boomers are leading the entrepreneurship. forget mark zuckerberg, it's the people in the older group who are doing this. >> community is important in terms of not being alone, having people you can share experience with? >> exactly, and that goes for a small core group area and also where you live, and that was one of our five as well, the great places to live. we do an annual list of the top places to live. this year we focus on places you can live for $100 a day. our top picks were pittsburgh, omaha, san antonio, gainesville, florida, and grand junction, colorado. and what they all have in common, low cost of living, high quality of life, culture, recreation. pittsburgh has a world-class symphony and espn's top-rated baseball park. so, you can find those five and five more on aarp.org. >> anything on the west coast in the top ten? i'm surprised there was nothing in the top ten in your file. >> see, you got me from the other side. i need to be brushing my teeth, but -- >> for some people, they say go west, young man, go west.
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california is considered nirvana for a lot of people. >> and today it's urbanism. a lot of people want to be in the city, especially after their children are grown. they say i want to go back to the city. that's where the xirmt is, that's where cultural opportunity is. is that a part of the phenomenon? >> exactly. we're finding people want to be able to walk to restaurants, walk to the museum, to sporting events. i think they're looking for that lively atmosphere that you find in a city. >> all right. thank you, ken budd. they are a trio of top-notch beauties, you could say, and they are all here, all three of them this morning. you should see the green room and all the people that are making trips to the green room this morning to say hi to beverly, kim and carol. they're going to tell us what it's like to be a supermodel back in the day. beverly johnson, carol alt and kim alexis join us at the table.
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i love these shoes, as long as i don't have to walk. they'll just have to carry me anywhere. okay, i'm ready to move.
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you do live in a bubble where everyone tells you how beautiful you are all the time, and they run and get you coffee or whatever you want. i was the first african-american to grace the cover of "vogue" in august 1974. wow, that's a long time. >> wow, but that was big. that clip from a new hbo documentary. it's called "about face." it's supermodels then and now. it's a look at the lives and the careers of some of the best-known women to ever walk a runway, and we're lucky because we've got three of them here live and in color this morning. hello, beverly johnson. >> hello! >> carol alt. >> good morning. >> and kim alexis. >> hello. >> welcome, girls, welcome. i love there's a part in the documentary where i think it's paulina who said what 15-year-old girl doesn't want to be told she's beautiful? so, when did each of you know that when you walked in a room, men and women started to say, wow? there was a point where you have to go, yeah, i am, i'm beautiful. when was that, beverly? >> i think that when i saw the first issue of "glamour"
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magazine, i did a ten-page spread. because really, i didn't know what the big deal was. >> you didn't? >> no, i didn't. so, when i saw the pictures, i was like, yes, yeah, i do look kind of good! so, i think it was when the first issue of "glamour" magazine came out. >> and you, carol? >> i think for me it was very different. i think every girl has a different relationship to this business, and for me, i never felt like i was beautiful or gorgeous. for me, it was -- >> carol, carol, you have to stop. i always hate it when i see gorgeous women like you go, you know, i never felt beautiful, i never thought -- >> no, gayle, i see the cracks. i see the cracks. i wake up in the morning and i go, oh, my hair, i'm having a bad hair day. we're lucky we get hair and makeup and what not. >> yeah. >> and i'm lucky because i found a way that really works for me. >> got it. >> so i feel really blessed in that way. but in reality, it's like, the hair was like this, the lighting was like that, and i do believe what paulina said when she said, you know, i look back at those photos and i could have been naked all the time if i had that great body! and yes, i think in retrospect,
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i look back and i go, they were great pictures, they're a part of history. >> i saw some covers that were really stunning. for you, kim, when did you know? >> i am not -- you know, you look back and people would say things and you didn't believe them. >> yeah. >> even when i started in the business, people would say you're beautiful. and because i come from a swimming background, i didn't grow up having that as my value system. my value system was good grades, my value system was my inner self, being a good girl for my parents and having fast times in swimming. so, i never really thought so much about the outside. i always had wet hair and didn't read the fashion magazines. so, it took me a long time to realize. >> but there's also a time, too, guys, when they say as beautiful as you are, there is always someone trying to pick you apart. >> yes. >> to your point, carol. who did your eyebrows, you're too overweight when you might have been a size 4 or a size 2. >> yes. >> so that can also be debilitating, too. >> i was just going to say, kim and i actually got off on the wrong foot when i met her because i was overweight
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according to standards. i was about 5'8", 150 pounds and maybe a size 12. i ultimately ended up on the cover of "sports illustrated" getting back to probably a size 2. but at the point that i met kim, i was in this argument with john kassa blancas from elite and he said, speak to kim alexis. she'll tell you all about having a problem losing weight. so i said very naively, kim said you have a problem losing weight, too -- >> and i said, you tell john! because i was a swimmer. so when i was discovered, i was true muscle. >> and i was a lacrosse player. >> in the documentary, guys were saying what we consider today sexual harassment, back then we thought of as a compliment. is that true? >> yes, that's very true. i can remember i did a test job. they send you on testing to do a job. this photographer's taking my picture and is coming closer and closer and before i knew it, he was kissing me. i was just terrified. i ran all the way to the agency. i'll never forget. i ran 59th street, ran up the stairs and i said, this
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photographer's taking my picture, he kept getting closer, then he started kissing me! she said, is he doing that again? then i knew i had to take care of myself. >> and you were worrying about hurting feelings, weren't you? >> yes. >> no, i wasn't, i was -- >> i was! >> i was getting out of there. >> you were worried about hurting people's feelings? >> i was so naive when i first started, i thought i can't say anything. and you have to learn to put some healthy boundaries around you, like you know, now i feel really ugly because nobody ever tried any of that on me! >> you were dressed in army fatigues. >> but you know, it comes with the confidence of getting older. there's a word called aging, when you can sort of speak up and find your own voice. >> yes. >> as we sit here today, jerry hall said in her southern accent about aging, kim? >> we all don't want to get old and get sick and get diseased. >> we know that's going to happen. >> that aging is not a good thing. and i actually look at aging and think it's something to be celebrated. so, as you sit here today and you've grown up all being very attracti attractive, is aging something
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you worry about, think about? >> i think about it and i just try to age gracefully. i try to be the best i can every single day. i do and eat what works for me. i work out and stay fit with a trainer, and you know, i also have a good marriage, so i feel good about myself and i feel that i'm a great mother, and those things are important. the inner things are important. you work on the outer stuff, if you can, but it's the inner stuff that's very important. >> well, and the alternative is that you're dead. but so, you know, i think that, you know, it's part of life and it's -- you know, the great thing is that everybody has to do it. but nobody's -- [ everyone talking at once ] >> but when you grew up looking this good, guys, there is such a thing about do i always have to look good? is it something you worry about now as you're older? >> i think women always worry about that because they're compared to other women, and i wrote my book specifically about that, about how to age gracefully, to be healthy, because i think for women as we age, health is a big issue. hormone balancing. we were just talking about that
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in the green room, hormone balancing -- >> don't be looking at me! >> and being thin enough and looking good. and you can't always do all of that by plastic surgery. really, a lot of that has to do with diet. >> well, and i really feel that because we're models, i think that the spotlight is even more so on us. >> it is. >> and people get disappointed if they look at you and they're like, oh, i saw her and she wasn't looking so good. >> right. >> women in general are judged, we're judged more harsh. >> yeah. >> do you think you could be supermodels in today's world? >> there are no supermodels, i don't think, because they're not allowed to have peppers or ants in the magazines. all the actresses have them. >> you raised a good point. it used to be the models and now -- >> we want those back. we want those back. >> when you look at your life, you have to say life was pretty good. >> life is pretty good. >> to walk around and do what you do, you have to say life is pretty good. >> and for me, it's made me who i am today. >> it's made you what? >> who i am today. >> and you are? in one sentence.
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>> i am beverly johnson the supermodel. >> okay. fair enough. kim, carol and beverly, we thank you. the name of the documentary is called "about face." it makes its debut on hbo on july 30th. she plays a usually nasty high school coach on "glee." jane lynch. i see you, jane lynch. but she's here this morning, no nastiness with her ever. trust us, she's as pleasant as she can be. sue sylvester is just the character, but she's here in the flesh when we come back. [ male announcer ] if you think any battery will do,
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and we have a little bit of a family dynamic going here. it pretty much mirrors what i grew up with, you know. my father was the task master, the disciplinarian, which is
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what i do. i'm the mommy -- >> like mr. punishment. >> yeah, oh, well, you know, i also reward. but sherry's responsible for the unconditional love. >> decorative ability. >> exactly, the heart and the soul, you know, which is what my mother did, and that was her job. you know, she was there for the unconditional love, and it worked for my family, until my mom committed suicide in '81. >> i remember that. that's a classic moment from "best in show." sorry. it's not funny. with jane lynch, who has played everything from a dog-handler in the film to coach sylvester, the beloved bully on "glee." >> now the actress joins us in studio. good morning. >> good morning. >> jane lynch, it's so good to see you again. >> thank you. >> i was thinking about you and it all began with a frosted flakes commercial. >> it did. i was doon doing commercials in the late '90s and i got a callback and it said christopher guest and i said what's he doing directing commercials? so, that's how i met chris.
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>> so, meeting chris went to "best of show." let's go back to frosted flakes for a moment. isn't it best with raisins? >> getting to sprinkle the sugar on top of it. >> tony the tiger. >> tony would be the commercial. >> you play comedy very well. is that what you always wanted, comedy? >> yeah! yeah, i love it. i had this thought that i should probably be a dramatic actress at one point and i kind of went down that road and i ended up playing a funny person in the drama. so i love doing it. i love trying to find what's funny about everything. >> there is humor in everything. >> there is. you can find it in everything. >> there is humor in everything. >> yes, yes. >> well, i've been a fan a long time. love you in "glee," of course -- >> thank you so much. >> which makes me laugh out loud. >> thank you. >> but now you're bringing the focus to a very important issue, which is student loan debt, which people forget, there is more student loan debt than there is credit card debt, car loan debt. >> it's insane. >> it is crippling young people, older people, too. >> i guess there are billions of dollars owed by people over 60
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it follows you through life, so it's a very important decision to make as you're about to go to college, and for parents to make. and our website launches today, called collegefinancecenter.org, and it's just a terrific resource for researching these products and coming up with the best student loan for you so you can avoid majoring in debt while you're in college. >> i was impressed you were doing it, jane, because did you have a personal issue, jane, with college debt? >> i did not. back when it was simpler, when i was in college, i went to a public university, my parents helped pay and we supplemented it with student loans and i paid it off. i deferred it a couple times, but i think by the time i was 30, and i wasn't saddled by this debt. it's completely different now. my nieces and nephews who are getting the 1-800 calls every day because they cannot pay. and the interest rates keep going up. and well, what happens with this collegefinancecenter.org is you can research all of these products and find out, you know, be really knowledgeable on how the percentages will go up or if
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they won't. and so, you know, it's a good place to start. >> what do you hope it will accomplish? >> well, i hope that people will take on debt knowingly, knowing what the terms are. >> so, it's information. >> exactly, it's information. you're armed with information, then you're not blind-sided when you get out of school and you're like, oh, i owe this much now. so, you go into it with your eyes wide open. >> you're on vacation, then? >> i am. i'm in vermont. not right now. i'm here with you. >> what are you doing? >> what am i doing? a lot of nothing. >> really? >> i'm reading, having a really great time. i'm in woodstock, vermont, which is -- >> what are you reading? >> i am reading "the paleo diet" by rob wolf about cleaning up my diet and there's an interesting thing about the hunter-gatherer -- >> you don't look like you need to be on a diet. >> i've been on it for about seven months, and i feel really good. >> how is it different? >> well, no dairy, no sugar. i'm doing -- >> that's a good start. >> no sugar? >> when you eliminate that, the weight falls off and your numbers get better. >> it does. >> so, it's basically that.
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>> when did you start filming "glee" again? >> two weeks. in fact, the first two episodes were delivered to my home in california last night, so i cannot wait. my niece is house-sitting, i said read it, read it, tell me what happens. >> how do you prepare? >> i don't necessarily -- what i have to do for "glee" is i do run-on sentences, so i have to start working on those immediately. so i'm driving around town talking to myself. >> you have a great couple of years. >> yeah. >> you're now celebrating your second wedding anniversary. >> in may, yeah. >> and your first year, you guys moved. >> oh, i know. >> we wrote a book together. >> you wrote the book. >> she quit her practice in sarasota, came out to los angeles with our daughter to be with me and we built a house all in the first year. >> they say that that's stress, but you seem to be handling stress very well. >> we handled it quite well. well, we handled it. >> congratulations. >> thank you for coming on for us. >> thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> that does it for us. your local news is next. we'll see you tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning," as
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we continue the conversation. thank you for joining us. >> take it easy.
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>> this is a cbs 5 eyewitness news this morning update. >> good morning, 8:55 a.m., i want to do you caught up with bay area headlines. bristol-myers a starting her new job today, a former google executive named ceo of yahoo, she also disclosed that she is pregnant. jury deliberations continued in a word in a wrongful death suit. it is children are suing it over the murder of their mother. he claimed she was harming their children. he is now serving 15 years to life in prison and the children are living with their
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grandmother in russia. squatters being one warned that they cannot camp in a park after a series of suspicious fires. let's check your weather, a little wet out there. >> a little drizzle this morning but mostly cloudy sky, you concede that cloud cover over the pleasanton area. temperatures mostly in 50's and low 60s, we're watching a low pressure system to the north of the bay area bringing us unseasonably cool temperatures of the afternoon highs will only reach into the 60s to very low seventies. we're beginning a warming trend. warmer weather by thursday and a former weather by friday into the weekend. here's a look at your time saver traffic coming next.
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>> good morning from the traffic center, 101 at still struggling, an accident blocking lanes. 21 m.p.h. as you work your way through there. no. downstate slow. that record is now clear, lots of delays on the southbound side of 101 in redwood city. northbound 880 struggling with the stop and go conditions. southbound in the maze not too bad, sluggish through a word, break lights as you connect to 92. golden gate bridge, a very nice ride. no delays to report. when you need to look out for is the slick surfaces, dealing with
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windshield wipers. lots of drizzle on the roadway. heads up as you work your way throughout the south bay. have a great day.
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