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>> he has given trust where it is not earned, insult where it was not deserved, and apology where it is not due. >> mitt romney begins a high profile trip abroad. >> he arrived in london today. the first stop on a three-nation overseas trip. >> president obama will visit israel during his second term in office. of course, when they heard the second term part, israel was like, we'll put you down as a maybe. in colorado, we're starting to learn more about what happened inside the theater as the shooting unfolded. >> i'm hearing him yell at people. >> you can just hear the rounds going off, just boom, boom, boom. >> "batman" star christian bale flew in to personally meet with survivors. >> in the aftermath, a tiny miracle. a woman gave birth to a little boy as her wounded husband struggles to survive. >> i command you to disperse! >> police clashing with protesters in anaheim on the heels of two shootings over the weekend.
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>> the police are so corrupted! >> the first look at a video of a killer whale nearly drowning a trainer. >> this happeneda in 2006. >> a mother accused of leaving her 1-year-old in a shopping cart after security tried to stop her from shoplifting. >> and that was rodrigues hit by a pitch. >> breaking news now. if your child sits in front of a television, plays with a computer and eats skittles and hamburgers all day, it will be fat. >> i got this off canadian pets.com. >> and all that matters. >> sherman hemsley has died. >> and i'm ready to live. >> well, i -- >> but not now. i had a rough morning. on "cbs this morning." >> kate gosselin has signed up to look for new love on a tv dating series. >> it's like the bachelorette meets the deadliest catch. [ laughter ]
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>> welcome to "cbs this morning." mitt romney starting a seven-day visit to europe and the middle east. trying to show the world that he is ready to be president of the united states. >> before leaving the u.s., romney told the world why the current president doesn't deserve a second term. jan crawford is in london, which is romney's first stop on his trip. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica and charlie. that's right. romney is now here in london. but before he left the united states last night, he delivered a blistering attack on president obama's foreign policy. he was speaking to several thousand veterans, and he criticized everything from the way the president has been handling israel, his dealings with russia, even some of these leaks allegedly coming out of the white house. but he didn't offer much in the way of an alternative vision. >> it's a national security crisis. >> reporter: romney sharply criticized president obama for allegedly leaking classified intelligence information for political gain.
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reinforcing his argument that the president is putting his re-election in front of national security. >> this conduct is contemptible. it betrays our national interests. it compromises our men and women in the field. >> reporter: romney was referring to recent top secret leaks about the osama bin laden raid and successful u.s. drone strikes much. the obama administration denies any responsibility. but on monday, key democratic senator diane feinstein, who heads the senate intelligence committee, says the white house is connected to the disclosures. >> i think the white house has to understand that some of this is coming from its ranks. >> reporter: the next day, feinstien down played her remarks saying i shouldn't have speculated. i don't know the source of the leaks. but the damage was done. her accusation gave romney ammunition. >> what kind of white house would reveal classified material for political gain? i'll tell you right now, mine will not.
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>> reporter: the speech was part of a full frontal assault on a president's foreign policy, which romney argued has weakened the united states' standing. but romney gave few specifics on what his alternatives would be. he criticized the president announcing a withdrawal date for troops in afghanistan, while also advocating a timeline for ending combat operations in 2014. speaking at the same venue on monday, he argued that romney's criticism lacked specifics. >> there are those that argued against a timeline for ending this war or against talking about it publicly. but that's not a plan for america's security either. >> reporter: now why would romney go on the attack last night before he came here to london? well, that's because he says he respects this long held notion that politics really stops at america's shores and that he would never come here, meeting with foreign leaders, and criticize the president or american foreign policy. charlie and erica? >> jan crawford, thank you. with us now from chicago,
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david axelrod, senior adviser to the obama campaign. good morning, david. >> morning, charlie. >> contemptible conduct, a betrayal. >> well, i think what we heard was a bunch of [ bell ringing ] koes -- bellicose language from governor romney with nothing behind it. a bunch of bellicose bloviating. but when you get beneath it, as jan mentioned, there was absolutely no vision for american foreign policy. its critiques were nonsense. he wants to talk about anything other than the fact that this is the president who ended -- responsibly ended the war in iraq, who focused attention on al qaeda and destroyed its leadership, brought osama bin laden to justice, and rebuilt our alliances. and that's a very, very proud record, and the american people know that. >> but -- >> the only news in the speech was what jan mentioned, which was after months of hammering the president for his decision
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to bring our act of combat involvement in afghanistan to an end by the end of 2014, governor romney then endorsed his decision yesterday in front of this -- in front of this group. >> let me speak to this question of contemptible conduct and leaks coming out of the white house. senator feinstien, you know what she has said, that perhaps the white house is not coming forward with full information about how it is connected. >> yeah. but you heard what senator feinstien said yesterday. she has no information about where the leaks came from. the two authors of the books in question said that their leaks didn't come from the white house. and there are active investigations going on right now so we'll know the answer to that. governor romney sent out a man to represent him or a statement from a former official of the bush administration who was involved in the scooter libby leak scandal. and now he says he won't engage in leaks. this was a diversionary tactic,
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because it's very hard to talk about the president's leadership on national security, on foreign policy, and criticize what he's done. >> all right. here is what governor romney said on monday. the president talking about president obama when he called me and congratulated me on becoming the presumptive republican nominee said that america will benefit from an important and healthy debate. and then he went on to say, i haven't seen the healthy important debate coming from the president's team. it has been almost all attack ads on all sorts of peripheral issues. when will this campaign become positive and an important debate about america's future? >> charlie, this debate is all about america's future and it's about whether we're going to have policies that will promote and build and rebuild the security of the middle class in this country, or whether we're going to go down to the top down economic policies of the last decade that led to disaster. that's what this debate is about. and i would point out that much
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of our advertising has been positive. we have been from the very beginning of this campaign we've been the target of hundreds -- more than $100 million of negatived as from governor romney and his colleagues. he's the one -- and you heard it in his speech yesterday. he is not offering a positive alternative. by the way, on the speech -- charlie, how can you speak to a veterans organization and never mention al qaeda, make a foreign policy speech and never mention al qaeda, and speak to a veterans organization and never talk about veterans and what you're going to do for them? governor romney is the one who isn't meeting the test. >> erica hill is with me. >> david, to the point of negative advertising, let's be honest here. both sides have plenty of negative advertising out there. it's starting to impact voters. a new "wall street journal" polling showing that four out of 10 have a more negative or less favorable view of candidates. and you're fighting for a smaller portion of undecided voters. 8%. how concerned are you that you're turning those people off? >> well, you look at the ads that we're running right now,
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erica, it lays out a very specific choice about how we're going to lead our economy forward. the president presents it himself. we spent a full month laying out the record of the last three and a half years on television in these battle ground states. i have yet to see governor romney match that in his own advertising. but yes, we are going to call -- governor romney has many, many questions to answer about what he'll do in the future and about what he's done in the past. and he hopes not to talk about any of it. that's not what's going to happen in a presidential race. >> david, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you. turning now to the tragedy in colorado. the first funeral is scheduled today for a victim of the movie massacre. family and friends will remember gordon cowden, a 51-year-old father of two, one of the 12 people shot dead on friday. >> and investigators are still gathering evidence against james holmes, the 24-year-old suspect. anna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and erica and good morning to our viewers in the west.
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this is the impromptu memorial site set up across from the theater. the first of the actual memorial services is expected to take place today for the first of t 12 victims. meanwhile, crews have been putting up a chain link fence around the theater, and holmes' lawyers are expected to get their chance to tour the building soon. prosecutors got a chance tuesday to look inside the theater where james holmes allegedly went on his violent and deadly rampage. they left after spending more than an hour inside building their case.
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>> off camera, she said i saw him stand over someone. i just see hair and him holding the shirt and boom. weeks before the shooting, holmes failed part of his first-year exam at the university of colorado and dropped out. he had been living on more than $26,000 in government and school grants, though it's not clear whether he used that money to fund his purchases of guns and ammunition. >> that's the national standard for supplying living stipends to ph.d. students. >> at an aurora hospital where victims are recovering, batman himself, christian bale, made a surprise visit tuesday. the star met with hospital staff and the survivors, who had been watching his movies the night of the shooting. afterwards, he and his wife took time to place flowers on a nearby memorial for those killed. meanwhile, authorities are finishing up their work in the theater and they are expected to be turning that building back
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over to the owner soon. no timeline on when exactly that will happen. but in the meantime, families and friends of the 12 killed are getting ready to say their final goodbyes. charlie and erica, back to you. >> thank you. senior correspondent and former fbi assistant director john miller is joining us. john, take us to the crime scene. what are they looking for? what do they hope to find? what will it tell them? >> well, as anna told us, they were going to release it, and their plan was to give it back today. but the defense will want to look at it. and that will take time. but authorities also want to do some much more advanced crime scene work using the newest tools to figure out bullet trajectory. but also to be able to go back to that crime scene virtually as many times as they need to and literally ask questions, trying to figure out what does that mean? yesterday i talked to hal sherman from the nypd crime scene unit. and he said they'll use a tool like this, the nikon station tool or a like version where they will go in and map the evidence points in a scene like
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this one. we used a theater as our backdrop to show what they would do. then they can take that mapping, which is measured digitally with lasers, and they can take, say, ballistic evidence and then where the shell casings are that show them where the gunman was stand, they can snap that tool on and it can show them the trajectory of the bullets. then they can take the witness statements, add in where people say they were and what they were doing, and you can turn this around 360, flip it from different views. you can do an exact, precise measurement showing everything. and when you get in front of a jury and you have those witnesses testifying when you're doing your ballistics, all of this can be enormously helpful. >> so it's important to make the case in court? >> well, it's important to make the case in court but it's also important to learn what happened. henry lee said that with a lot of things in life, you get many chances. marriage, two, three times. but with a crime scene, you get one shot. what these kind of tools do is they give you a second and third
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shot to go back to that scene with a 360 degree digital image that sees the whole thing. you can look at it from any angle. you can measure it from any angle. and you can go back and literally add scenarios in and take them out. for instance, a person says i was standing here when i saw this. you can tell from the reconstruction if you were standing there, could you have seen that. and so on. >> it's fascinating stuff. there's been a lot of questions about the money that was used to purchase the guns and the bullets. and you have more information on that this morning. >> we got the return from our freedom of information request from the national institutes of health in bethesda. and they broke down the grants for us. so nih gave our suspect $21,600 in a total grant. he also got $5,000 from the university of colorado. the idea is when you're working on a pd, you are so intense you don't have time to have a job. so this was disbursed in monthly stipends of $2,216.
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this was his only intended. so this brings up the only consequence possible. what you have here is a federally funded shooting because this appears to be the money he had access to. >> there's a gag rule in effect now. >> there is. the district attorney sat down with authorities. the judge gave a rule saying you have to stick to the very conservative rules of what you could say in a regular case. but the district attorney has gone beyond that and asked them not to say anything. so all comments will be coming through the d.a.'s office. >> as far as we know, nothing has come from the mouth of the suspect? >> no. i've been looking around this case from other angles, and, you know, they had high hopes for that computer. they were just able to mirror that hard drive on monday, which means their first real chance to start to go through it was yesterday. no headlines out of that. they have a lot more computer forensics to do. but from the computer
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examination, so far, no sign of a motive. from the interviews of friends and associates while, while there are different theories of things that could have come together to make a motive, there's no one that exceeds another. it's still unclear as to why this happened. >> thank you, john. this morning, russia's foreign minister is accusing the united states of justifying terrorism in syria. he spoke out one day after secretary of state hillary clinton said the u.s. would work closely with the rebels as they take control of more territory in syria. on tuesday, i spoke with russia's ambassador to the united nations who said that u.s. policy is just making things worse. >> the american policy is disastrous. it's confrontational assault on the assad regime, which is not working. it's not working. it's causing more and more violence. and i think that the danger of civiliation in syria and beyond is very great. so they need to share the blame. so it's russia. and now they keep coming up with various arguments to blame russia for it.
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russians sale of arms. then why doesn't russia take us and why doesn't the uk take assad? there are some family ties. so it's not a serious conversation which we'd like to engage in. >> meanwhile, opposition leaders say two more of syria's ambassadors defected this morning. there were violent protests in anaheim, california, overnight sparked by recent police shootings. police fired pepper balls and bean bag rounds at demonstrators outside of city hall, and reportedly arrested five people. over the weekend, police shot two men to death. one of them apparently unarmed. city officials want the u.s. attorney to investigate. the family of one of the men has filed a $50 million lawsuit. it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. new orleans times picayune reporting on a deal to reform that city's police department. attorney general eric holder announced the wide-ranging
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agreement yesterday that will overhaul the department's policies for the use of force, training, searches, and interrogation. "the los angeles times" says the los angeles city council has voted to close the city's medical marijuana shops. the vote affects 762 shops. the city is allowing considering some of the original shops to remain open. the "wall street journal" is reporting on faster passenger trains on the midwest. trains in illinois and michigan will become the first outside the northeast to travel more than 100 miles an hour. new tracks, stations, and train cars are in the works. officials hope it will boost local economies. "usa today" is reporting that shoppers can say goodbye to long lines at the cash register because more stores are using mobile devices at the checkout. jcpenney wants to eliminate cashiers at cash registers by 2014. instead, it would have sales people use the ipod touch to check out. and britain's "telegraph" has new images of a huge sheet
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a 2006 video shows a near fatal incident at sea worlds four years before a trainer's death led to big changes. we'll hear what sea world is saying this morning and what is at stake for the whales, their trainers, and the company. and the public weighs in on new york city's proposal to ban super sized sugary drinks. >> but what will the government be telling me next? what time to go to bed? how big my steak should be? how many potato chips i can have? >> supporters say it saves lives, and critics say it just won't work. that's next on "cbs this morning."
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>> hello everyone. let's get you caught up with some headlines. a man and a woman recovering after being shot as they drove through the east bay last night. they stop for help at a gas station fire on them. seven people were in the car and only two of them were struck. an off-duty probation officer shot himself in the leg at the scene of an arrest along highway 17. a gas leak in el cerrito is capped and now pg&e crews are repairing the gas lines.
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behind. everyone is okay. the two women face charges. welcome back to "cbs this morning." just released video is reigniting a debate over safety at sea world. the disturbing 15-minute tape shows a whale attacking its
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trainers during a performance six years ago. >> as ben tracy reports, it was used as evidence in a court case accusing sea world of putting its people in danger. >> when whale trainer ken peters dove into the water, he was ready for the finale of this 2006 sea world show in san diego. instead of the planned spectacle where the trainer is launched into the air, kasatka grabbed him by the ankles and thrashed him around and pulled him to the bottom of the pool. >> the trainer is in the water stuck with one of the whales. >> this chilling video that came out during a court case shows the whale holding peters underwater for at least a minute at a time. >> it goes on and on and on. it must have been terrifying. >> david kirby wrote death at sea world about whale attacks at the parks. he believes the whale was agitated by the cries of her
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nearby calf. >> imagine being a mother and your child is calling for you and you're not allowed to go comfort your child. you have to perform a show. it might make you angry. we see the whale pulling ken down to the bottom. then she brings him back up. you think, oh, thank god. she's not going to kill him. and he's trying to remain calm and you don't know what's going to happen next. then she decides to go back down. >> frantic trainers through a giant net in the water. when peters managed to free his foot, he swam for safety. kasatka turned and came after him. peters barely managed to get away. >> in a statement to cbs news, sea world says this video clearly shows the trainer's remarkable composure and the skillful execution of an emer which helped result in a successful outcome with minor injuries. a california workplace safety investigator stated if someone investigator stated if someone hasn't been killed already, it is only a matter of time before it does happen.
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it happened four years later when trainer dawn brancheau was dragged into the pool in ged into t 000-poundound killer whale violently shook her, breaking bones and eventually drowning her. after that, sea world voluntarily banned its trainers iners he water. but this past may, a judge ruled they have to stay out unless sea world can adequately protect elies the park appealed but lost last e tr. kirby says a big part of the park's business relies on getting those trainers back in ehe pool. larlet's face it. it's far more spectacular to watch the shows when the trainers are launching from the fings of the animals and surfing them and riding them compared to standing on the stage and clapping their hands. >> but for now, the whales are the only stars of the sea world of th for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. boy, can you imagine being dragged through the water like
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that? >> no. really tough video to watch. very difficult. there are some very strong feelings when you ask people about limiting soft drink sizes in new york city. the city's board of health is hearing from both sides and they're getting an earful. this morning, we'll look at the ban critics say is overreaching and supporters say is overdue. stay with us.
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♪ to the sky on up ♪ ♪ to a deluxe apartment in the sky ♪ ♪ >> what's all this old stuff about? >> what's it about? i'll show you what it's about. i'm fat, see? >> those pants fit you just fine last month. >> that was in my younger days. >> i think you're exaggerating. you're only 52. >> 51! >> okay. 51 will you you book great. >> are you kidding? i thought you left a scouring pad in the tub when i got out of the shower. it was a handful of my hair. who can forget that sherman hemsley made us laugh for years on the jeffersons. he died tuesday at his home in el paso, texas. i he played george jefferson on all in the family years ago.
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norman lear who created the famous sitcoms spoke to cbs news about the man he hand-picked to be archie bunker's foil. >> i'm writing a memoir. i'm just almost finished writing about the jeffersons. so he's been very much on my mind a number of days. and then this terrible news. sherman hemsley, he's somebody you don't expect to die. you just -- a life force you expect will always be there. he was a very quiet introspective love of a man. he was sweet. he was extremely sweet. he became that when he was called to act. but you could -- you know, you could be sitting anywhere and say, give me some of jefferson.
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he'd do it. this was a lovely man. >> after the jefferson, he starred in amen and appeared in other tv shows and movies. sherman hemsley was 74 years old. this morning's "healthwatch," new york city's soda war, for weeks we've reported on the mayor's proposal to ban big sugary drinks. >> as seth doane reports, city officials just got an earful at a public hearing on that plan. seth, good morning. >> good morning, erica. new york city estimates that half of its adult residents are overweight or obese. that 5,000 of them die every year because of it. as one official said, if thousands of our citizens were dying every year from some sort of virus, we'd be clamoring for the government to do somethingment now it is. >> the debate over sugary drinks and serving sizes just got louder. even ice cream parlors will
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be affected by this ridiculous ban. >> at this public hearing in new york city tuesday afternoon, an overflow crowd sounded off about soda. >> i'm not overweight because of big gulp sodas. frankly, it's because i eat too much pasta, pastrami sandwiches, pizza, bagels and cream cheese. >> the issue is whether to limit the serving sizes of drinks at city regulated food service establishments. the idea proposed by mayor michael bloomberg is his effort to combat obesity. >> this is becoming a devastating public health issue. it's an epidemic. >> but the proposal has sparked protests. from cries that the government is overreaching to complaints that enforcement would be haphazard. the city can regulate restaurants, but grocery stores, for instance, would not be subjected to the same restrictions. among the loudest opponents are
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the food and beverage industries. >> we are concerned that this could trickle across the snags. >> she's the director of nutrition for the national restaurant association. >> a step toward progress. there is an obesity epidemic. >> the tactics taken are not in the -- there's no evidence to indicate that will impact obesity. >> there are plenty of scientific studies showing two things. one, if people are served larger portions of things, they eat more and second, they're not aware of if. >> this man of the rud center points out that, as americans, we consume on average 40 gallons of soda each year. >> it's the single greatest source of added sugar in the american diet. they're empty calories. >> a sugary drink this size, 32 ounces, would be off limits but so would something this size, 20 ounces like this vitamin water. the city puts the limit at something this size.
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16 ounces. there is one thing that supporters an opponents at thgr on. you can always take two. >> the amendment to be voted on in september, would ban restaurants from offering self-service cups bigger than 16 ounces. and could impose up to $200 fine per violation. >> what will the government be telling me next, what time to go to bed? how big my steak should be? >> city council member dan halloran represents a district that's home to several sugary beverage bottlers. he worries about jobs and the tax base. >> do you create two different lines of soda, one for new york city and one for everybody else? i don't think that's the answer. >> now, everyone we spoke with on both sides of this issue agreed that, while this discussion is here in new york city, it's by no means he as dr. brownell said to me, it will happen in chicago, philadelphia or seattle soon. >> it's amazing. you mentioned it spreading
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across the country. how much conversation it's generated across the country. >> i mentioned at dinner, i was working on the story and in the makeup room, it sparked discussion. very strong opinions. >> either with the mayor or not with the mayor, it is how damaging obesity is to our health. >> that's what he says. we've got to do something. the board of health is pointing to measures they've taken in transfats, in smoking and saying, look, this is an important step. >> seth, nice to see you. thank you. the summer olympics are around the corner, but is london prepared? from traffic to security, turns out there's a lot of frustration to go around. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." >> cbs "healthwatch" sponsored by cal trait. done even more to. because vitamin d3 helps bones absorb calcium, caltrate's double the d. it now has more than any other brand to help maximize calcium absorption.
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♪ anything, yes, i'd do anything ♪ ♪ anything for you ♪ the summer olympics opening ceremony isn't until friday, but for the people of london security and traffic restrictions have already made just getting around an event. charlie dag gat is in london. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. we are in central london a few miles from the bureau. it took us a few minutes to get here. the reason is we had access to this special olympics lane. a majority of londoners don't have access to that lane. it's helped make london's olympic dream more of a nightmare. >> reporter: london streets can
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grind to gridlock at the best of times, but car of up the capitol and take away lanes in a famously congested network and you have traffic jams of olympic proportion. that's causing lots more frustration over playing host to the games. >> appalling. appalling. that's all i can say really. >> pointless. >> reporter: the game lanes, as they're called, fully came into effect this morning. they're for athletes, officials, and vips. if a not very important person slips into the lane, they'll be slapped with a $200 fine every time they're caught. olympic organizers have urged commuters to use public transportation, trains and subways. sure, they're already packed and prone to breakdown. the london olympics ceo says just deal with it. >> i think everybody who lives in london understands that we have a massive transport network. from time to time bits and pieces of it don't work. >> reporter: apparently the security arrangements aren't
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working either. yesterday the government had to call in the troops again. 1200 more soldiers. that's after deploying 3500 forces to make up a last-minute shortfall of security guards. with a warship on the river temmes, anti-aircraft batteries, and now even more boots on the ground, it's starting to look like more of a battlefield. >> this is britain. we don't have armed policemen. they don't carry guns as a matter of course. any time you see a soldier or police officer with a gun on the streets in britain, that sets alarm bells ringing in the british minds. that's not the way we do things here. >> reporter: now there is one bit of good news. border patrol agents at london's heathrow airport have decided to call off their 24 hour strike which is supposed to go into effect tomorrow. tomorrow's expected to be the busiest day that heathrow has ever seen just one day before these games are due to begin. >> tough day to be there,
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charlie. thanks. what is happening to michael jackson's mother? is she really missing? >> we have not spoken with her. we have not talked with her. and i don't know where my mother -- i can't say it. >> this morning, more of that emotional interview with three of her sons on "cbs this morning." ♪ daisy, do a dollop
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>> the morning. two fires in the north bay now under investigation. one fire damaged the roof on a victorian house in vallejo. 20 minutes later another fire started at a strip mall. no injuries were reported. 90 minutes from now transportation leaders may vote on a plan to give kids free,,,,,
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>> good morning from the traffic center, still pretty busy out
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there. in new accident northbound 280 at foothill expressway is blocking lanes. sluggish through downtown san jose. very busy conditions northbound 280 from 101. 101 is busy as well as guadalupe parkway. we have an accident northbound 87. it is a very busy ride through 101. >> low clouds and fog around the bay area this morning. let's take you outside live right now towards pleasanton. a slow burn off around much of the bay area will keep temperatures down. '50s and '60s right now. still some made the eighties a possibility but below normal for this time of year. 60s towards the coast line.
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perez from north carolina. he was driving to the airport with his wife and kids. somewhere along the way his wife fell asleep so he decided to wake her up in the most terrifying way possible. >> there's a truck getting towed and it looks like it's -- i'm going to scare her. it looks like it's coming at us. wake up, there's a truck. >> ahhhhh! >> i'm sorry. >> a lot of people have wedding videos. not often do you see a divorce video. not funny, honey. >> not funny. >> no, not funny.
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do you know how long it's been since we've all been together. >> on vacation. all in our places. >> together. >> feels really good. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. we have new information this morning on the jackson family feud that is getting uglier and more confusing by the day. >> i'll say. it appears to be about michael jackson's estate and who should have control of it. that's the question. kevin frazier, host of "the insider." it is like the kids of the day say, a hot mess. >> it really is, gayle. >> it is. is it fair to say it's about money or who gets control of the jackson children? >> well, money is one of the motivating factors, but also understand that this is a family. this family is fractured right now because they feel that katherine jackson's health is frail. they feel that the executors of
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michael jackson's estate is fraudulent and stealing money as randy jackson has said. michael jackson's estate was $500 million in debt when he passed away. now since he has dyed it is believed that the estate has earned about $1 billion. his family, or at least katherine jackson receives $86,000 a month as the guardian of the children. if you do the math, $86,000 isn't that much when you are talking about 500 milli$500 mil earnings. >> who takes care of the children? >> that's katherine jackson. there are nannys when she's out of town, trent jackson who helps take care of the children. also keep in mind, marlin jackson is staying out at the house while he's in california. there's a constant stream of family inside the house and around the house. it's not like the kids are home alone. there's a myth the kids are running wild, home alone,
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katherine is not around. there's always an eye on the children. >> we all appreciate the genius of michael jackson. it was clear and evident of the tall length he had. why are we so fascinated by this story and his family? >> you know, in a sense the jacksons are american royalty. you know, i was with the brothers on saturday night -- sunday night for their concert. when the brothers were at the concert and on the stage, it was just pure bliss. when they come off the stage, then things seem to be fractured. i was told by a family member on sunday that everything was fine. anyone who wanted to talk to katherine could talk to her. there was no issue. by monday when i heard about the issues, there was all of a sudden a fracture in the family. then when i sat down with marlin on tuesday, i got this response. >> we've been told that our mother is safe.
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she's doing well. but we have not spoken with her. we have not talked with her. and i don't know where my mother -- i can't. i don't know where my mother is. all i know is she's in arizona and whatever doctor said i can't talk to my mother, you talk to me. i'm sorry. >> marlin, jackie and tito very upset at the fact that they haven't seen or talked to their mother. >> kevin, that's why it's so confusing because i saw pictures of katherine jackson playing uno and she's at rebbie's house. paris is saying i haven't been able to talk to my grandmother. if it's that simple why doesn't somebody pick up the phone and communicate? >> that's the thing. marlin, jackie and tito said they want to talk to their mother. they haven't been able to reach her. the other side of the family, the other siblings are saying, mom's not getting on the phone.
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she's staying away from all the business and everything that was going on that was stressing her out in l.a. we want to keep her away, especially from the executors who we feel are taking advantage of her and michael's children. you have a portion of the family who has decided we're going to keep mom here in arizona. let her get away for a while. another part of the family, we just want to talk to mom. the brothers are expecting to see their mother in a.m. ba kurk can i and they wanted to see her in los angeles. >> what was the relationship like before this? could it be that she's decided -- she's a grown woman. she could pick up the phone and answer a phone call. was there a strain prior to all of this current drama? >> in my opinion, i think it's that the family really wants to control the estate and the children, the five that signed that letter want to control the estate. and getting control of the estate they have to get katherine jackson away for a
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while. jermain wrote an empassioned plea on twitter. he said, my mother's health is at stake. if you ever ever been around katherine jackson and people that are talking to her, looking for things, it's very tough and very taxing on an 82-year-old woman. keep this in mind. the jackson brothers, jermaine on one side, the other three on another side, will all be together in san jose on stage and perform on friday night. >> yeah. it's just kind of crazy. what's so interesting, michael jackson worked so hard to avoid this while he was alive. all the publicity on the children. does the family say anything about that? >> i've talked to janet many times. one thing that janet has always pointed out, let's keep in mind, janet does not need any money, janet has always said she wants michael's children to grow up and live as normal a life as possible, especially paris. her concern is that she wants paris to stay away from the entertainment business until she's 18. then she can make the decision.
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if janet had her way paris would lead a normal life, go to college. remember, janet and michael didn't live that normal of a childhood. she wants them to have a childhood. >> kevin frazier, nice to see greekogur . > gree greek yogurt has become a somewhat trendy super food. this morning one yogurt company is seeing skyrocketing sales. a billion dollars worth. you'l meet the ceo next on "cbs this morning."
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so take re . so tak so take some fresh milk, add a ria ande healthy back tear and, illionwhat, soon you'll have a billion dollar business. it's o s of only taken five years for sales of greek yogurt to double in t in the united states. yogurthat time the chobani company has become the number three yogurt company. questionkaya is with us. we're pleased to have him. ofthank you. howeople have read of your docess. knowsay, how did he do it? dat did he know that we didn't know? yogurtl, we didn't know much, it we knew one thing, that the why.rt wasn't good. that surprised me. i don't know why. i'm from turkey. >> well, there's an american expression. aild a better mousetrap and they will come. and they wue. and one day i was sitting in my yfice and i saw this card that for yogurt for sale. n hourw it in my garbage can.
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half an hour later for some reason i picked it up out of the garbage. >> fully equippedt yogur company for sale. w and i went to them the next almand i saw this old plant almost 90 years old. andwalls are old. people are closing it. at that at that moment i said, i should buy it. everybody thought i was crazy. and with an sba loan in august of 2005 i purchased the plant bigi hired the five people. this was a big corporation that oddslosing this plant. the odds were so against us. and whoaying, the big company is closing it and who are you and hat do you think you will do? but, you know, we focused on the quality of the yogurt. we made the cup. i spent almost two years to make sure tha ect. that this cup of yogurt is perfect. >> perfect. k about greeut, hamdi, greek yogurt. inn you said you came -- you thought yogurt in this country
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gosn't good. some people would say, hey, our greek yogurt's okay. what's the difference between greek yogurt and the other o you ithat makes yours so much ofter you think? >> well, first of all you start .rom the fresh milk. you know, it has to be milk, nothing else. and the milk comes, you put your copsures in it, you mix the u putt. once you mix the yogurt, then you m you strain it. you know, if you're in your sother's kitchen or if you're from the region, you put it in the cheese cloth and you strain it. you have greek yogurt. because of straining. >> thicker too. >> the thing about greek yogurt, ou take something out, you don't add things. >> you know what i love about ea. story, gayle, here is an amigrant. you come here. you get a loan from the go u nernment, sba loan. you now employ 2,000 people. this this is job creation at its
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best it's. n> yes. >> and it's an american story. >> it only happens in america, charlie. snd one thing bothers me a lot is we started from a town called south evanston where cell phone barely works and we started with and ineople. and today the number one brand in the country and getting close to a billion dollars in sales. this his kind of story doesn't boten everywhere. what bothers me the most is when there's all this bad news everywhere, one thing they forget, the spirit of, you can do it, it's still alive. .t's alive in south evanston. th we worked day and night, 365 to make days, christmas, thanksgiving, s.ery day to make it. doay the responsibility. > do you ever pinch yourself and go, wow? >> i do sometimes. >> what does chobani mean? >> shepard.
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.t's really sweet. >> congratulations. >> thank you. > congratulations. he'llulukaya. do you think house calls are obsolete? mt so much. he'll show you how technology is we'll re watchning medical care and how it can make it mora fordable. you're watching "cbs this . his png." this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by party sty. save on all your summer parties. party city. , nobodyas more party for less. party for less. [ music plays ]
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health care is a nearly $3 trillion a year industry. nearly $800 billion goes just for hospital care. >> the price is so high partly because of the way americans get care. rebecca jarvis has the story of how one doctor started a business to change that. >> erica, gayle, good morning to you. the company is called sherpaa. it was created by a physician with an entrepreneurial spirit. he is convinced that using 21st
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century technology will revolutionize and streamline the way we seek medical help. >> i think health care just happened. nobody has ever questioned it. >> but dr. jay parkinson is questioning it and he has an answer he hopes will revolutionize the way patients get care. >> do you think right now the experience as a patient is a positive one? >> absolutely not. if you count up the number of people you have to come in contact with whenever you want to go to the doctor, there's so many unnecessary steps. >> from the time he graduated medical school ten years ago parkinson has been trying to do things differently. he set up a practice in brooklyn making house calls to patients who scheduled their own appointments online. his new company, sherpaa, is one of several startups looking to use technology to help people get better. >> we're 24/7, e-mail and phone access to a group of doctors in new york city who you can call or e-mail.
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70% of the time we'll solve the problem over e-mail or the phone. >> for example, if you've suffered a nasty cut, snap a picture, e-mail it to sherpaa and a doctor will respond immediately with instructions. if you need stitches, sherpaa will schedule a same-day appointment with one of the 100 specialists they work with. that could cut out the expense and long wait on average more than four hours of a visit to the e.r. >> instead of being a $4,000 charge, it's a thousand dollars charge. david karp is the founder of tumblr. how much of the costs goes towards health care. >> it's a tremendous amount. particularly as we get bigger. >> his 110-person company began using sherpaa to bring down the costs which can be crippling to a small business. karp has used it and so has amanda ferry after she fainted on a business trip. >> the third time i fainted, at
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that point the people who i was with who luckily were friend of mine were like we're taking you to the emergency room. >> instead she called sherpaa, the doctor gave her advice and scheduled her an appointment with a neurologist. >> i definitely saved money on in. >> you did? >> the emergency costs alone. >> sherpaa doesn't replace health insurance. but incompetent steted weeds ouy like an every man's concierge service. >> big part of the -- sherpaa has figured out a way to make that accessible for an early stage company like ours. >> and gives them an opportunity to offer employees benefits they might find in more established companies. >> first time startup tumblr is able to keep up with the benefits that a huge corporation like google is able to offer their employees. >> sherpaa is still a new company, so it's early to tell how successful it will or become. its client list expands. so will sherpaa's need to
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>> good morning. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area had winds. it woman and man are being treated for injuries after their car was shot at on highway 80. fire crews were stretched to tackle two separate fires in vallejo. an old music studio, fired earlier while it was under renovation and another fire started on a strip mall on some on the street shortly after it. rescue teams searching for a hiker that has been missing since sunday. he has not been seen since
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>> your oakland to san francisco
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commute remains very busy. the bay bridge toll plaza still backed up and things will stay busy it pretty much all the way through the morning. the giants will keep the metering lights on to accommodate the people heading to the game. sluggish into san francisco. northbound 280 at foothill expressway, the accident is cleared but the damage is done. >> still a lot of clouds outside except we're starting to break up very nicely. a few clouds in the distance but as we head to the afternoon of will become mostly sunny across most of the bay area. afternoon temperatures still running below average. '60s and '70s around the bay and ',,,,,,,,
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a hotel in england is placing a copy of the book shades of gray in every room. it's true. over there, "50 shades of grey" is the name of a british cookbook. that ought to help tourism. welcome back to "cbs this morning." two weeks ago a woman stay
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turned into a nightmare when her engagement ring fell off her hand into lake erie. >> all was not lost. she and her friends refused to give up the search. >> this picture right here is adam and i at our middle school dance. >> four years ago, adam frost put an engagement ring on samantha peckens finger. they had been sweethearts since middle school. >> he didn't get down on one knee. he didn't have a chance. i snatched it out of his hand and put it on my finger. >> there it stayed. the engagement ring has never left once left the bride-to-be's finger. not even on the beach trips to the shores of lake erie outside buffalo, new york. >> i was foolish enough to wear my ring down to the beach. and we were in the water for quite some time. and i was playing football ball and when i threw the football, i felt the ring fall off my finger. >> literally. my stomach dropped. >> so did the ring.
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14 carat gold. a single square inch in a 10,000 square-mile lake. a ring that represented a promise and had been bought with money from a loan. >> i just froze and just started screaming. i just -- of course, crying at the same time. because i was just -- i was devastated. devastated. >> it was like losing a needle in a haystack. except worse. the odds of the couple ever finding the ring in lake erie's sandy bottom. one estimate put is at 250,000 to 1. >> i honestly did not think we would find it. i honestly didn't. >> i never thought we would. >> it was a friend, drew supon who urged them to keep looking. >> you can't sleep at night knowing something that valuable to somebody is sitting in four feet of water. >> drew led the couple and their friends on a search. by the end of day two, the search party had lost hope. but not drew. armed with an underwater metal
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dee tech dore and gut feeling, he urged the couple to return for day three. >> picking up a weak signal. we had done it 30 times prior. the signal was getting a little stronger and before you know it, he had it in his hand like this. >> i don't think we said anything. all of our mouths were like -- and adam pretty much said oh, my god, is that the ring? that's the ring. it's the ring. is this your ring in. >> yes, that's the ring. >> that's the one. >> in his hands the promise of a future. rediscovered against all odds. >> oh, my god! that's exactly what came out of my mouth. >> more than two weeks later, the bright to de-to-be is still shock. >> i look down at it every day and i can't believe it's there. i can't believe it's there. like i feel complete again. >> love, as they say, is largely the art of persistence. >> that's one of those stories. you got to go ah, special hug to
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drew. the friend for not giving up. >> how about that friend. >> that's what i'm saying. drew supon, special mommy hug to him. the thing that made the story for me is samantha. she was enthusiastic and wanted the ring. i'm watching the piece going find it, find it. nicely done. >> i'm thinking it could be a book emily giffin. she knows a thing or two about love. she's joining us at the table coming you. her five stories have sold millions of copies. >> her latest book is where we belong. she's with us at at table. >> great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> this could be inspiration. >> were you taking notes? >> notes over here. i hope she doesn't go for the guy who found the ring. >> you never know. >> you obviously draw on so many things for the novels. a lot of them are scenarios that women relate to. but i was reading, for this book, you actually went to your journals, which you kept all the way through law school, that's amazing. >> i did not skip a day from the
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fifth grade through new year's eve in the fifth grade through law school. that cuts more into ocd behavior than to my journal. you know, when i first set out to write this character, i was a little intimidated. i turned 40 this year, she's 18. i didn't have that angst-ridden childhood, i didn't think i did until i read the journals. you really remember that even a happy relatively happy teenager is plagued with issues. and doubt. >> it's interesting, emily, from your perspective, i had a pretty good childhood. then you go back and look and maybe things weren't so great. i thought that was interesting to hear. >> they were definitely emotional and turbulent. i just don't think teenagers have much perspective. >> it shows that you're a normal teenager. like what everybody does. >> yeah. >> you know the story figures around an adoption. so i figured a, either you were
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adopted or your children who were adopted yet you have no adoption in your life but i write about it so well. >> actor daughter -- >> i love the name kirby. >> but yes. who is my little sweetie pie ♪ feel free to use it any time. >> go ahead about adoption. >> i've always been interested in it. i don't have a personal experience with it. but i think it's such an intriguing sthcenario with laye to explore. you have the impossible decision. it's the most difficult decision to turn your baby over. which i think is the most generous thing that you can do as a human being practically. then you have the adopted child who must always wonder, in some cases, where do i come from? it's very interesting. i sat next to a man on the plane and he looked over my shoulder. he said i'm an identical twin.
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one of his brothers wanted to know where he came from, the other had no interest. it's varying person to person. how people feel about that and their identity. >> this is the first time you were from a teenage voice. most of the time you write about things that are relatable to women in particular. do you base it on things that have gone on in your own life or you sort of look around what's happening with girls that you know and care about? >> well, i never had an affair with my best friend's fiance. good starting point. >> that's a good thing. >> i write about relationships. so i draw on my own relationships, of course. you know, your friends, how often when you talk to your friends, do you not only cover your life and her life. but you go on to say, how about that other friend of yours? then you cover all these people and discuss them. it's just a whole -- there's so much you can draw on. when really at heart you're writing about mothers and daughters and sisters and relationships. dysfunctional and problems. secrets.
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>> this book deals with the big secret. which is a lot of emotional baggage for the women who had -- so marion the mother of kirby, the well-named 18-year-old she gave up for adoption. that's got to be kind of fun and intriguing to write about too to imagine how that secret would be held and all of the people it affected. >> absolutely. that was the true first seed of this novel more than adoption. what happens when you harbor a lifelong secret. what does that do to you and relationships around you. the big life secrets, i didn't want to cover incest or abuse or -- i wanted a situation that could ultimately have a lot of positive attributes. adoption, there's great up lifting things about it. >> secret within a secret. what you show us clearly, nothing good comes of a secret. >> you didn't like approximate her for that, did you? >> no, i didn't.
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>> but i'm cheering you on, emily. >> you have to like her to like me. >> i am cheering you on. emily giffin is the name. thank you very much. continued success. >> great to be here. microsoft is not the tech giant that it used to be. the chairman, bill gates, has a revealing conversation with erica when "cbs this morning" continues. but first, at
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something just happened to the microsoft company that has never happened before. they announced last week that it lost money in the second quarter of this year. >> investors weren't surprised. people in the tech world have said for years the software giant is falling behind. i talked with microsoft chairman bill gates about the criticism the company may have lost its cutting-edge. >> there was a recent article that questioned the ability of microsoft to still innovate.
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when you hear something like that, what's your initial reaction? >> obviously, the tech industry is very competitive. and microsoft over the last three years has been working on products that are just coming out now. so something like that is always a bit backwards looking. are there products that microsoft has done super well on? absolutely. x-box, office. are there product other companies have done super well on? absolutely. it's a great field to be a customer in. but now with the breakthrough in being, quality of the, the surface, office version that just came out, windows 8. it will be great to see. that's why the tech industry is so amazing. microsoft is a huge contributor. >> first reported quarterly loss
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in the history of the company, even if you know it's coming, what's that like in terms of its impact on the psyche? >> the actual cash was many, many billions of dollars. there's an accounting thing that led to that sort of one-time thing. i don't think you should read too much into it. microsoft on a financial basis research basis is a phenomenally strong company. the article said maybe there wasn't enough focus in the company anymore. you're known for your focus on whatever task you have at hand. do you see that there's a lack of focus, trying to do too many things at once? >> no. i -- big companies with big r&d budgets need to be very ambitious. ironically, most people talk about what you miss, not that you're doing too much.
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the magic of software shows itself in a broad set of ways. and the primary products get almost all the resources. >> do you ever miss being there? >> certainly, that was my primary focus for my 20s to my 40s. i loved that work. the people who work there are close friends. i do spend part-time there. i am chairman of the board and that's fun. sometimes i wish i was still back there. you know, i'm very happy with my choice. i knew that when microsoft was successful, i wanted to give the money back to society in some way. i knew i wanted to be involved in innovation. that's what i like to work on and where i think i can help steer things. >> do you engulf 15 million people living with -- by 2015, is it realistic, reasonable? >> that is an aggressive goal.
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it's within reach. it's a possibility. it's one of those goals that would take good funding and great execution to get all the way there. >> the u.s. government is responsible for 70% of the funding for hiv and hiv-related research. any concern that that could -- for 2013. the prospect is scary. this is not that there will be one less missile. this is saying we're going to have to take people off of aids drugs. and the assumption is that the funding will be continued. but it's straightforward to say this is a life and death issue. >> if the money doesn't come from the u.s.? >> then some people will die. >> there's no more else you can list at this point. >> more than any other government program -- because of
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the investment, let's put it in the pause term. the investment that started under president bush called pep fund, the president obama continued and the congress has supported, because of that, many millions of people are alive. and so everybody should feel wonderful about the u.s. role in this. >> why is it so important to you? >> well, these are people i met. this is a great tragedy. it's really a test of how much we care about our fellow human beings. this is killing more than a war would kill. millions a year dying is bigger than all the traffic deaths, all the things that we normally think about. it's not the reason i'm involved in it. i actually had a cousin who died and i got to see firsthand, he got sick before the drugs were available. so it was a death sentence for
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everyone then. no matter where you lived. so being part of getting the community together to over time bring this to an end, there's no better use of my time and energy. >> bill gates in conversation. pfriend, i've interviewed him, many, many, many times. he's fascinating and you brought this out. this passion he now has, which is every bit as passionate as it was for the company. he feels it. he says that all lives are equal and it's driven him. he feels the fact that people will die if budge et cetera are cut. >> right. if budgets are cut and in general. that has really been the focus of the gates foundation. in many ways it's about saving children's lives. that impact so many different issues and diseases across the board. it has to do with vac nations and treatment of things like hiv and aids. sticks to your point, that's where his passion is. saving a life. >> he does pilot programs where
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the government can come in later with the kind of funding capacity. these issues are so big that no foundation can do it alone. you need government's help. interesting guidelines. >> i think so. calling it miracle in colorado. two survivors of the shooting with have a brand new baby. we'll find out how everyone is doing. tomorrow phil mickelson in studio 57. we're talking golf and i couldn't be happier. more on "cbs this morning." ,,,,,
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this morning, there's a ray of light in colorado. after the darkness of friday's massacre. >> one survivor brought new life into the world on tuesday. john blackstone reports, her husband is fighting for his life just a few feet away.
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>> caleb and katie medley went to the midnight batman movie as their last night out before the due date of their first child. one of the shots fired went through caleb's eye. he remains in critical condition. but in the same hospital, katie gave birth tuesday one floor above caleb. >> the baby is full of life, loud, just like his dad. so baby is doing good. katie is, she's recovering. >> katie and caleb named him hugo jackson medley. >> katie was able to bring hugo down to see caleb. >> she put hugo in caleb's arms and she was holding his hand when the baby was laying with caleb. his blood pressure and his heart rate went up. he was squeezing her hand. we know that
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has so far received almost $200,000. >> it's great. want to thank everybody that has been donating. keep up the great work. just keep spreading the word. don't forget about the other victims of this. >> some are calling hugo a miracle baby. >> from this tragedy, we could get a brand new life. it's a great day. >> the family says he's nicknamed baby huey. >> john blackstone, aurora, colorado. >>. interesting piece. one good news out of coming out of aurora, colorado. as well as a great stories of people coming together in the sense of finding a future. >> we're all pulling for her husband. there have been so many miracles coming out of this story. who knows? good thoughts. >> how was vacation? >> it was lovely x thank you. i missed you guys. but i didn't miss the alarm clock. >> you did not miss us on vacation. >> the barbecues were amazing.
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he caught a fish. >> she did not miss us on vacation, but it's nice to say. >> i did. that does it for us. local news isnext we'll see you tomorrow on "cb,,
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>> good morning everyone. let's get you caught up with some of the bay area headlines. police are looking for someone who shot a man and woman driving along highway 80. they made it to a gas station before being taken to hospital. another adult and four children were in the car but were not hurt. eight deputy facing domestic violence charges in the san jose police department. he was arrested last thursday after an incident in the castro district. he is charged with assault and false imprisonment. transportation leaders may vote
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on a plan this morning to give kids free rides on muni in san francisco. the pilot program would allow free rides for about 40,000 low- income passengers. >> a lot of low clouds and fog have come on shore. it will be slow to break up. it looks like it will be slowly making its way back towards the coast line throughout the day and as we had throughout the afternoon, becoming mostly sunny. not bad, by the afternoon mostly sunny skies. 60s into oakland and san francisco. heating up over the weekend. time saver traffic coming up next.
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>> traffic is still struggling in the south bay. an accident northbound 280 at dien said. everything cleared but still slow conditions. the same goes for 101 and guadalupe parkway. everything is ready here. elsewhere, the northbound foothill expressway, slow through there as well. a lot of delays in to palo alto.
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