>> the top of my list of programs we don't need is one that costs $100 billion a year i'm going to get rid of and that's obama care. >> president obama is publicly embracing the term obama care. >> i actually like the name because -- because i do care. >> a new ad from a pro-obama super pac is drawing criticism from the romney campaign and independent fact checkers. >> i don't think mitt romney understands what he's done to people's lives by closing the plant. >> the ad features former steelworker talking about his wife's death. the implication is that she died because she no longer had health insurance after bain capital shut down his company. >> after that my wife became ill. >> the washington post gives it four pinocchios, the highest rating for a false ad. romney spokesperson calls the ad despicable. >> the obama campaign says it had nothing to do with the commercial and doesn't know the specifics of soptic's passing. >> this latest ad by the pro-obama super pac is part of a

$20 million campaign. but romney has actually been outraising the president in campaign cash in the last three months. terrell, we have three months of campaign ads to go. >> here we go. manuel gallegus joining us from washington. thank you very much. there's been a leadership shakeup at the largest breast cancer charity foundation. susan g. komen for the cure. it's latest fallout to briefly end funding for planned parenthood. the founder, nancy brinker is stepping down from day-to-day management and president liz thompson will pursue other opportunities. komen ended funding for planned parenthood in january because they were being investigated by congress. an investigation urged by pro-life activists. there was such a stir, komen reversed the decision. after three days. here in new york, the search for new evidence in the eton paetz case wasn't -- this is where paetz alleged

abductor worked. paetz, then 6 years old disappeared may 25, 1979. the date is commemorated as national missing children's day. his body was never found. a former store clerk, pedro hernandez said he killed paetz and was charged in the case. police in wisconsin are trying to figure out what triggered a deadly attack on a sikh temple sunday. we're learning about the gunman and how he died. susan mcginnis reports. >> the suspect in the temple shooting near milwaukee died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. the fbi says wade michael page turned his gun on himself after a police officer took him down with a shot in the stomach. >> i've seen the video. it's an amazing shot. thank goodness. >> investigators say they have no evidence that anyone other than page was involved in the shooting at the sikh temple in oak creek on sunday. despite evidence of page's connection to white supremacists, agents say at this point there's still no clear motive for the rampage. they're looking into more than 100 leads. >> we're reviewing voluminous

electronic records from page's e-mail accounts, his can have, we're combing through department of transportation traffic videos, neighborhood security videos. >> page's former girlfriend, misty cook, was arrested over the weekend on a weapons charge. but the fbi says there's no sign she had anything to do with the attack. >> six people died in the shooting and four injured. three are still at this hospital in the intensive care unit. one of them is lieutenant brian murphy who was shot at least eight times. the police chief says murphy is improving fast. >> he's up walking, had him sitting up for a period of time. he's progressing amazingly. >> the sikh community is preparing for the first funerals on friday. members are asking for answers, but without a living suspect, the fbi says they may never know what was in the shooter's mind. susan mcginnis, cbs news, milwaukee, wisconsin. overseas, the united states started a program to clean up a highly toxic chemical agent orange used during the vietnam

war. a ceremony was held this morning at a former u.s. air base. it was 50 years ago the u.s. began spraying agent orange. it's been linked to cancer, birth defects and other disabilities in u.s. veterans. and vietnamese. a just released study found that babies who received a tiny heart pump are more likely to survive long enough to receive a heart transplant. jon lapook reports. >> three years ago, this baby was a very sick baby. her heart was failing and the prognosis was poor. her mother watched helplessly. >> they say she won't make it to wait for heart transplant because she's getting sicker and sicker every day. >> but she was lucky enough to get an experimental device called the berlin heart. the device takes over the heart's job of pumping blood. a tube implanted inside the heart channels blood to the pump which sits outside the body. it then sends blood directly to arteries supplying the rest of the body.

>> this is her today. she just celebrated her fourth birthday. the four months she spent on the berlin heart bought her the time to receive a transplant. dr. charles frazier of texas children's hospital is the lead researcher for the device and operated on this girl. >> it's amazing. she would not be with us prior to this device be available. she would have languished and the likelihood that she would have been transplanted is extremely low. >> she's one of 48 children who received the device between 2007 and 2010. 90% survived to get a heart transplant. in contrast, only 62% of children receiving conventional medical support lived long enough to get a new heart. the results led to fda approval in december and surprised the researchers. >> we all believed that the patients were going to do well. but we didn't -- i certainly didn't believe more than 90% of them were going to do well.

>> a huge problem is that there is simply not enough of these tiny hearts around to be available for kids who need transplantation. think about how small they need to be and right now for kids ages 10 and under, there are about 200 of them awaiting transplantation and the average wait time is about two to three months. so for them, this berlin heart is so-called bridge to transplantation, can be truly life-saving. dr. jon lapook, cbs news new york. this morning an ailing american researcher was evacuated from a u.s. base in antarctica by an australian rescue team. the jet flew from christ church new zealand landed on an ice runway, then headed back. the scientist is in need of urgent surgery. flights there are usually made during the summer. it's winter there now and light for just a few hours a day. the first man to walk on the moon, neil armstrong, is recovering from heart bypass surgery this morning. it was july 20, 1969, when armstrong and fellow astronaut buzz aldrin landed on the lunar surface.

armstrong just celebrated his 82nd birthday largely stayed out of the public eye. he lives in ohio. it is not clear this morning where he was operated on. coming up on the morning news on a thursday, more from the martian frontier. the latest pictures beamed back from the mars rover reveals an eerie similarity to earth's desert landscape. late check-in. a big bear shows up at a hotel in new mexico. this is the morning news. mexico. this is the morning news. here's my morning routine. gotta start the day off right. wardrobe. cute. then new activia breakfast blend. a great way to help start the day. mmm... creamy lowfat yogurt with grains

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a resort hotel in the mountains of northern new mexico got an unexpected guest, a curious young black bear that came through the front door that was left open by mistake. guests and workers stayed out of sight. with no food to be found, the bear wandered around the halls for a few minutes last weekend, then checked out. it's amazing how they roll up on you like that. passengers on a bus traveling from atlanta to charlotte, north carolina evacuated the vehicle moments before it caught fire.

the double-decker mega bus was left a charred wreck beside an interstate highway near the georgia/south carolina state line. on wednesday. passengers say the driver pulled off the road and told everybody to get off the bus fast. they did. and no one was hurt. cbs "moneywatch" time on a thursday. sales slip for a fast food giant and the iphone loses more ground to the android. ashley morrison doesn't have either of those. she's here in new york with more. good morning. >> i knew you had to say it. good morning to you too, terrell. in july the number of homes entering the foreclosure process increased for the third month in a row. the firm realty trac reports the number of homeowners receiving an initial default notice increased 6% from july of last year. foreclosure proceedings slowed down last year when several lenders were investigated for foreclosure fraud. new inflation data from china spurred hopes of more stimulus action there. it rallied asian markets. tokyo's nikkei added 1% and the hang seng added 1%.

another quiet day on wall street. stocks stayed flat. the dow was up seven points while the nasdaq was down four. it looks like diners aren't loving mcdonald's as much as they used to. the fast food chain says its global sales figure had its worst showing since april 2003. the decline was cue in large part due to slumping sales overseas. mcdonald's plans to restart growth here in the u.s. by offering new menu items. google's android phones are starting to take over the smartphone market. new research shows that in the second quarter of this year, four android equipped phones for every iphone, together the phones account for 85% of the market. the big loser in all of this is the blackberry, which has seen its market share plunge below 5%. yes, i know what you're going to say. >> go ahead and hold it up, ashley. you got it here with you. >> i like my blackberry. >> the blackberry is a loser, does that make ashley a --

>> easy. took me a long time to get to the blackberry, too. >> team iphone, upgrade. see you tomorrow, ash. thank you so much. coming up next on your thursday morning, your weather forecast and in sports, make it three olympics, three golds for american beach volleyballers, plus an olympic first for a courageous young woman on the track. track.

here's my morning routine. gotta start the day off right. wardrobe. cute. then new activia breakfast blend. a great way to help start the day. mmm... creamy lowfat yogurt with grains in yummy breakfast flavors, like apple cinnamon. its hearty, with twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt and helps regulate your digestive system. our morning routines are important, aren't they? new activia breakfast blend. here here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. new york, thunderstorms, 86. thunderstorms as well in miami,

91. rain in chicago, 74. dallas, you got thunderstorms, 102. sizzling in los angeles, sunny, 93 degrees. let's check your national forecast. showers and thunderstorms will be widespread for the eastern third of the country. severe storms most likely in the mid-mississippi and ohio valleys. the plains will be dry except for thunderstorms in northeast texas it will be hot and dry across the west. in sports this morning, a big day on the track and on the sand for team usa in london. aries merritt took the gold in t 110-meter hurdles. just beating jason richardson. it's america's first one two finish in the event since 1996. allyson felix pulled away to win gold in the 200 meters. brittany reese won the long jump at the olympics. became only the second american to do that. misty may treanor and kerri walsh jennings won a third straight gold in beach volleyball beating jennifer kessy and april ross in an all-american final. kobe bryant scored 20 points hitting four straight three-pointers putting team usa over australia in basketball

119-86. the u.s. back on top after wednesday in the medal count with 81 including 34 gold. china second with 77 overall and 36 gold. russia now in third with 52 medals. 11 of them gold. but most the most striking athlete in london yesterday, never came close to winning a medal at all in an outfit covering everything but her face. sarah attar became the first woman runner to represent saudi arabia at the olympics. she finished last in an 800-meter heat but drew a huge cheer from the crowd. attar has dual citizenship with saudi and the u.s. and is a student at pepperdine university in california. to baseball now. rockies at the dodgers. eric young got things started with a bang. hitting a drive off the wall in center and racing around the bases for an inside the park homer. by the sixth, the dodgers had the lead and there was an rbi single as l.a. won it 6-4. philadelphia hosts pittsburgh

tonight in pre-season action. eagles head coach, andy reid will be there four days after the death of his son. reid returned to the eagles training camp at lehigh university. his son, 29-year-old garrett reid was found dead there on sunday. reid told reporters why he returned so quickly. >> you feel the strength of the team, and i felt it with my family the last couple of days. i feel it with the team. so i'm a football coach. that's what i do. i know my son wouldn't want it any other way. >> reid says the outpouring of support he received was a humbling experience. when we come back on a thursday, a look at the latest pictures from the mars rover and omg, look who is the fastest texter in america. he'll reveal the secret to this speedy messaging.

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here's a look at the weather in some cities. lots of thunderstorms in d.c., atlanta and st. louis. 90, 92 and 87 respectively. partly sunny in denver, 95.

in seattle, partly cloudy skies, 75 degrees. the new mars rover curiosity is painting increasingly detailed portraits of its surroundings on the red planet and beaming them back to scientists. edward lawrence has more from the jet propulsion laboratory in california. new pictures from the mars rover curiosity capture the majestic view of the north rim of the red planet's gale crater. >> you would be that nasa was trying to pull a fast one and put the rover in the mohave and took a picture. little l.a. smog coming in there. the first impression you get is how earth-like it seems. another shot captures part of curiosity with a shadow of t robotic arm in the image. >> you can see that the mast is deployed, which is excellent. that's what we're looking for. >> the camera is transmitting the new images including this

black and white panoramic view. most of the photos have been low resolution thumb nails. nasa expects more high resolution images and color versions soon. >> video footage gives new insight into curiosity's tricky dive through the atmosphere. on sunday night. you can see the heat shield as it falls away. >> it was taken 2 1/2 minutes before we landed. curiosity is on a two-year mission to discover whether there was ever life on mars. so far nasa calls it a success. edward lawrence for cbs news. pasadena, california. nasa promises curiosity will send a 360-degree color picture in the next few days. in the next story, it might make you lol. austin wierschke of wisconsin is the fastest texter in america for the second year in a row. he beat out ten others in a contest yesterday measuring skills, including texting while blindfolded and texting backwards. this kid is the bomb. austin says the key to his success, his abnormally fast thumbs. >> wonder if he was using an iphone or a blackberry.

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the air national guard plays an important role in the defense of america. in recent years, it's boosted its enrollment of new officers thanks in part to high-flying public relations. seth doane took to the skies for a closer look. >> in the air, lieutenant colonel john klatt is a performer. on the ground, he's somewhat of a celebrity. for the air national guard, he's a secret weapon. >> how much of the air shows are purely about recruitment? >> all services have found air shows to be a wonderful opportunity to have one-on-one interaction with boys and girls that might be interested in a career in the military. >> klatt, a 23-year veteran of the air national guard has been

deployed as a fighter pilot to iraq. in a war zone, the air guard can call in air strikes and provide logistical support to the air force. when not on the frontlines, the 106,000 air guard members are ordered by state governors to assist during natural disasters. >> so this is the mt propeller. >> in 2005, klatt partnered with the air guard to boost its profile. >> it was about ten years ago i was at an air show in missouri and i saw the air national guard recruiters in the back of the hangar without the visibility that they really deserved. >> and we're off. >> klatt took us up to demonstrate what captivates the tens of thousands who visit these air shows. >> we're going straight up. wow. what does the air national guard let you do? >> i dreamed as a little kid being a pilot much the air national guard was the vehicle for me. >> today his plane is a vehicle

to spark interest among the next generation. we met 20-year-old adam at a recruitment booth. >> seeing john fly, it seems like something i would want to do in the future. >> it generates that interest, that excitement, i want to check out what the air guard is all about. >> is there a bit of bait and switch here? this looks spectacular but most jobs in the air national guard aren't that spectacular. >> clearly, the percentage of pilots that fly fighters and airplanes in general in the air national guard is very small. but there's over 200 career fields to choose from. >> the air guard estimates that it used to get 25 potential candidates at a recruiting event. but after a john klatt air show, the number of people who considered joining soars to 300. so klatt's most dynamic maneuver may be to perform a successful publicity stunt. seth doane, cbs news, north kingston, rhode island.

coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," mitt romney's search for a running mate. we'll see who is on his possible short list and get reaction from rudy giuliani. former new york city mayor. plus an alarming look at america's failing infrastructure. we'll hear from former pennsylvania governor, ed rendell. former heavyweight boxing champ, mike tyson stops by studio 57. that and more a little later on "cbs this morning." that will do it for the "cbs morning news." i'm terrell brown. morning news." i'm terrell brown. have a great day everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

the morning everyone. it is thursday august 9th. time is 430. we begin with developing news out of these bay. a few hundred homes and

businesses are without power this morning and oakland. it looks like there was a car verses a poll. these are active wires. it looks like a car on one and the poll is down. we are near the 81st avenue parade it will be a watteau. about 500 people are affected parade we'll give you more affirmation as it comes. this talk about the area where this is located. a vehicle hit a car pool. streets are blocked in and around that area. this is not too far from the coliseum. just east of 880 prayed so far

the 80 is looking good. will give you some alternates through their parade no delays as you work your way through the golden gate bridge parade through the rest of the south bay, the rest of traffic looks good. help will be available for those feeling the pain from monday's chevron refinery fire parade and is in richmond. no more of fires burning at this hour, so that's good news. we're waiting to be exact and dress of the office where people could follow claims. and speaking of phone calls, we are finally here in the memo one calls from monday night.