>> good morning to our vees are in the west. it is tuesday, august 21, 2012. america's top general is safe after an attack in afghanistan. and a plea for forgiveness this morning as pressure mounts on senate candidate todd akin to drop out after his rape remarks. the number one golfer in the world talks to us about the home of the masters agreeing to have women as members. and diana nyad ends her swim from cuba to florida. but we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> we are breaking news now from afghanistan. >> afghan insurgents target america's top military man. >> the plane of joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey being hit with shrapnel from two rockets at bagram air base. >> dempsey was in his quarters at the time of the midnight

attack and was not injured or in any danger. >> his comments about rape were deeply offensive. and i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. >> pressure builds on republican todd akin after his explosive remark on rape and abortion. >> the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. >> the clock is ticking. despite an apology for congressman todd akin to exit his missouri senate race. >> i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that i apologize. >> i told akin if you don't keep your promise to be on the show, you are what we call in britain a gutless little twirp. firefighters in northern california are struggling to gain control of a wildfire that is threatening 3,000 homes. >> diana nyad is now out of the water. her record attempt is now over. >> augusta national is no longer an all boys club. condoleezza rice rice and darla moore will become the first

women to wear the coveted gene jacket. an officer fired for what he did in view of his dash board camera. >> a couple of people were inside that home. police say they are both ok. >> all that -- >> 96, cunningham, punishes mike vick and he is still down. >> apologized for swimming nude in the see of galilee. here we have his excuses. i can't swim naked, but barney frank can walk around like this? >> and all that matters. >> a crewman aboard the international space station launched a satellite by hand. >> phyllis diller has died. her career spanned six decades. >> i once had a peekaboo blouse. people would peek, and then they'd boo. [ laughter ] captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is off. we begin with breaking news from afghanistan. the plane of america's chairman of the joint chiefs of staff

general martin dempsey was the latest target of militant groups. >> they attacked and damaged that plane last night at a u.s. base, but dempsey was not injured. kitty logan is in kabul, afghanistan. what do we know this morning? >> reporter: we know that rockets were fired into the u.s. air base late last night. they hit the plane, which general dimpsy was due to fly out on. we understand that general dempsey was nowhere near the aircraft the time. he was sleeping in his quarters. of course he was unharmed. he has since left the country. but two military maintenance men were slightly injured by shrapnel from the rocket. also he has now left the country as i mentioned, but the taliban has since claimed responsibility for the particular attack. they say they knew the exact location of his aircraft. now international spokespeople here from the military are keen to point out that this perhaps was a lucky shot. the rockets are fired into bagram air base as often as

twice a month with very little damage usually caused. but certainly it caused alarm. and as i mentioned, general dempsey was here in the country to discuss the military progress and to discuss the latest insider attacks. but he has since safely left the country. many republicans have denounced senate candidate todd akin's comments about rape and abortion. >> he is resisting calls from his own party to step aside in. this ad, he is asking voters in his home state to forgive him. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that i apologize. as a father of two daughters, i want tough justice for predators. i have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault. and i pray for them. the fact is, rape can lead to pregnancy. the truth is, rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said. not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness.

>> jan crawford is in newton, massachusetts, covering mitt romney's presidential campaign. jan, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to everyone in the west. ok. he can ask for forgiveness, and people can forgive him. but that doesn't mean they have to vote for him in november. and that's what republicans are worried about, and that's why you're seeing a full court press for him to step out of this race. >> i can't defend what he said. i can't defend him. and he needs to take these next 24 hours to spend time with himself, with his family, and conclude what's right for him and his family and also for the things he believes in for the country. >> romney and other party leaders suggested akin should step aside after the missouri senate candidate said this when asked if abortion should be legal for victims of rape. >> it seems to me, first of all from what i understand from doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

>> reporter: the reaction from republicans was unforgiving. leading senators called the remark offensive and inexcusable, and urged him to reconsider his candidacy. >> if it was me, and i had an opportunity to let someone else run to actually give ourselves a better chance of winning, i would step aside. >> reporter: akin repeatedly apologized, but is refuses to drop out. even after increasing pressure from influential conservative commentators, including sean hannity. >> have you thought about the consequences of that? democrats now have a ton of ammunition. i would at least be thinking about what is in the best interest of the party. >> i made a single error in one sentence. one of the things that has to happen is we've got to win this senate seat. i still believe that i'm in the strongest position to do that. >> reporter: president obama, whose campaign is using the comments to argue republicans are bad for women, also weighed in. >> the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. when i think these comments do

underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women. >> reporter: now republican leaders who really were never keen on akin as a candidate to begin with are going to be keeping up the pressure. texas senator john cornyn is leading the charge. and we have confirmed, cbs news has confirmed, that vice presidential nominee paul ryan called akin yesterday. and there is a growing frustration from some of these leaders that he has not already stepped aside, that he still is hanging onment i talked to a senior gop source last night who kind of reflected some of the frustration. he said it's hard to reason with an idiot. >> yikes. jan crawford, thank you so much. john dickerson is here now as well as "cbs this morning" co-host norah o'donnell. >> yay. >> we'll see you at the table a lot more. welcome, guys. john, everyone pretty much has abandoned akin at this point. does he have any reasonable option to continue this campaign? >> reasonable is the keyword.

i mean, everybody has said stop, go, be done with this. and he's not moving so far. so his option would be to continue on, and continue on against his party. and threaten the chance that his party has to take over the senate. he is a pariah. he would be sort of an all-star pariah if he stayed on behind this deadline that missouri has for him to withdraw today. >> nobody wants to be an all-star pariah. but do you think there's a small part of him that may be considering -- we keep hearing about the 6:00 deadline. sometimes what people say publicly is not what they are thinking privately. >> sure. that's possible. but what we're hearing is that he's resisting. and there have been plenty of people who are opening exit doors for him. and, you know, they keep opening the exit doors, and he's not walking through them. so he may have some grand scheme about getting out before 6:00. but the people most concerned about getting him out do not see that he is going to take it. >> top republicans have called and said you're done. we're not going to give you $5

million from the senate committee. cross roads, an independent super pac, has said they won't give him $5 million. this has cost him already $10 million. i've heard republicans say he doesn't have enough money in his campaign to win. in terms of the democrats, you heard the president come before the press corps after avoiding the press corps for eight weeks to slam the statement. but then also to try and tie akin and his comments to the republican party platform, to a bill that akin has co-sponsored with congressman ryan to try and make this larger political point about the republican party and women's rights. so you see the democrats also at this point saying, hey, we hope akin stays in. because claire mccaskill was the most endangered democrat in the united states senate, and now she has a hope of victory. >> and even she is saying let the missouri voters decide. leave him alone. >> well, yeah. of course. >> please leave him alone. >> she is giving him more rope for him to continue hanging himself. what norah says is really important, though.

the obama campaign was already attacking romney on the republican platform on abortion, which doesn't have an explicit exemption for rape and incest. so they were already about this business. so now a republican senator here key to their chance of taking over the senate comes out and does this. it's already an existing strategy. >> and john and i were talking about this. a little less than a week away from the republican convention, mitt romney and paul ryan want to present themselves in the most favorable light to the american people, talk about their plan for the future and why they have a better plan on the economy. if akin is still running for the united states senate, everybody is going to be asking about akin, abortion rights, women's rights, et cetera, during the republican convention. >> and just quickly, a note that mitt romney does believe in an exemption for rape and incest. >> mitt ryan? >> well, they are so much alike. >> it's hard to think we won't hear from todd akin before 6:00 tonight. do the republicans have someone

that can step in? >> they do. they have two other republicans who were running for the nomination who they favored. so there are other republicans who could quickly take over. >> also when i spoke to you about this thing from the president yesterday. he tried to distance himself from the ads, the super pac ad, that suggested the death of a steel worker's wife was somehow because of mitt romney and what he did at bain capital. let's listen to that quickly, what the president said. >> i don't think that governor romney is somehow responsible for the death of the woman that was portrayed in that ad. but keep in mind, this is an ad that i didn't approve. i did not produce. and as far as i can tell, has barely run. >> norah, he seems to skirt around it just a little bit. why not just denounce it and say it should have never been on the air? >> interesting point. and that's a great question to the president, why not denounce it? i thought it was noteworthy that

the president knew it had only aired just once. that's how he knows the level of detail. even though it's not his campaign running the ad. this is a question that obama has to answer for, which is about the tone of the campaign. many people believe that obama was about hope and change in 2008. but it is true, he ran a very negative campaign in 2008 as well. there was a tough race. it was a tough race again hillary clinton and a tough race against john mccain. and they are running another tough race again in 2012. so i think it's not patty cake in politics. it wasn't in 2008 and it's not in 2012. >> they don't call it a blood sport for nothing. >> that's right. >> thank you both. >> thanks, guys. norah, we will see you back here soon. in monday's white house press conference, president obama also gave a blunt warning to bashir al assad. he said if assad used chemical weapons or biological weapons against forces, the u.s. would consider a military response. >> we have been very clear to the outside regime, but also to other players on the ground,

that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. that would change my equation. >> the president's statement echoes jordan's king abdullah who told charlie rose that the use of chemical weapons would be a trip wire for many nations. several years ago, the masters golf tournament was hit by controversy over its all-male membership. augusta did not change anything until monday. >> augusta national now says that two women have been invited to join one of the world's most exclusive clubs. we'll hear from the world's top golfer in just a moment, but first, armen keteyian reports on the women breaking down the barriers. >> reporter: former secretary of state condoleezza rice started playing golf just seven years ago at age 50. a way to ease the white hot pressures of washington. today she plays to a very respectable 15 handicap.

has two swing coaches. and is a member of five clubs. including now augusta national. the hallowed home of the masters and an all-male enclave since 1933. but no longer. on monday, the club announced that rice and south carolina banking executive darla moore had accepted invitations to become members at augusta. in explaining the historic decision, current club chairman billy payne said, these accomplished women share our passion for the game of golf, and both are well known and respected by our membership. it will be a proud moment when we present condoleezza and darla their green jackets when the club opens this fall. in a statement, rice said she was delighted and honored and had long admired the important role augusta national has played in the traditions and history of golf. as for the 58-year-old moore, in the 1980s she became the highest paid woman in the banking industry, and the first-ever profiled on the cover of "fortune" magazine.

earlier this year, augusta once again found itself caught up in the all-male controversy after newly appointed ibm ceo virginia rometty was not offered membership. a key corporate sponsor, ib m's four previous male ceos had all been members of augusta. the first major protest against the club's all-male policy surfaced a decade ago, led by women's rights advocate martha burke. on monday, burke called the decision a milestone for women. >> this is a victory not only for the u.s. women's movement, but for women in business. working women. who now have access to one more hall of power. >> and at long last, a masterful moment as well. for "cbs this morning," armen keteyian, new york. and on monday, charlie got reaction to this historic announcement from pga champion rory mcilroy. >> the masters announced they have two offered invitations to

female members. it's a good thing? >> it's a great thing. it's a great thing for golf. it's a great thing for augusta. i think it's something that they should have done a while ago. but it's great to see. and it's good to see that, you know, the thing is moving forward and it will be great to see some females, you know, members of augusta. >> i assume this is just the beginning of it too, but they wanted to do it on their own time. >> yeah, for sure. and i think people have to respect that as well. and, you know, it's such a -- it's a club full of such tradition and such history. and i'm sure you make a decision like that, it was, you know, from the outside it might seem easy. but from the inside, i'm sure it was a lot more complicated. >> we'll hear more from charlie's interview with rory mcilroy tomorrow only on "cbs this morning." this morning, three generations of comedians are remembering a standup pioneer. phyllis diller died monday at

her los angeles home. she was 95 years old. diller was one of the first women to make it in standup, starting in the 1950s. she was known for that cackling laugh and her wardrobe as much as her jokes. we'll hear some of those jokes and talk with diller's colleague and friend joan rivers in the next hour. the ponderosa wildfire north of sacramento, california, is getting close to three small towns this morning. more than 1800 firefighters are trying to get it under control. and the weather is starting to help them. tammie lightner is at the post in red bluff, california. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff and gayle. this is day four in the battle against a fire, a fire they continue to call challenging. the wildfire is now 35% contained, but has devoured more than 16,000 acres, destroying seven homes. >> i know. >> it will be ok, though. we'll be ok. i promise. everything will be fine. i promise.

>> reporter: after living in manton for 22 years, he watched his neighborhood burn in a matter of hours. >> it's just devastation. and this is nothing compared to two miles up the road. >> from the distance, it looks like an atomic bomb went off. >> he says there was little firefighters could do to initially protect some of the homes. the quick-burning fire ripped through nine miles in just the first 10 hours. why is this one gone and this one is saved? >> it's really a matter of what was done to protect the house ahead of time. they have cleared out all the vegetation around it. then we have a fighting chance. >> reporter: firefighters have taken the fight to the air, but heavy smoke has hampered their efforts. so additional crews have been brought in, working tirelessly. >> we know we saved well over 300 structures. >> reporter: fire officials tell us they can usually contain a wildfire within one day and keep it under five acres. now that really gives you some perspective on just how big and serious this fire is.

it is time now to show you the morning's headlines. the "wall street journal" says that apple is now the most valuable u.s. company ever. apple's total value surged to more than $632 billion on monday. "the los angeles times" reports nasa has given the green light for a new mission to mars. the news two weeks after the landing of the curiosity rover. the new mission is scheduled for launch in 2016. it will explore how mars was formed by measuring seismic activity. "the new york daily news" says that rosie o'donnell suffered a heart attack last week. according to her blog, she had symptoms. she looked them up online, took a few aspirin, and went to the cardiologist the next day. doctors found that a coronary artery was 99% blocked, so o'donnell was hospitalized and had a stint inserted. yesterday, she wrote, i am lucky to be here. and "usa today" reporting that labor day travel is expected to be strong despite the sluggish economy and high gas prices. aaa says 33 million people will

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>> good morning everyone. san jose police are investigating the fifth homicide in one week. they think the fatal shooting yesterday evening was gang- related. oakland will try the operation's ceasefire program once again. you can see america's cup racers on the bay this afternoon. they will have a practice session for qualifying races that will be held later in the week but the boats will be out on the day today. traffic and a little,,,,,,,,

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check this out. new rech check this out, new research show that is angelina jolie and hillary clinton are actually ninth cousins twice removed or as one guy put it, i think it's time for a family reunion. welcome back to "cbs this morning." facebook hit another all-time low on monday and bounced back to about half the stock's original price. some wall street watchers are wondering if facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is do iing enough to help. >> one man who was not surprised by any of this is the co-founder of readit.com. listen to what he said before facebook went public back in may. >> why would you not touch this thing with a long pole? >> well, i've got some reservations. and in part because, you know, the facebook business model is

one that relyies on display ads sort of like google, but doesn't have the same purchasing intent moment that google does. you google a search and see a relevant ad it's because you're seeking something out. with facebook you're looking at photos from your dad's fishing trip. i'm not convinced that they can continue to grow this business that still treats users well. that's the concern. >> he is here now along with rebecca jarvis. alexis, what did you see that others did not? >> well, the price that they were had hoping to get at the ipo did not seem to be justified based on the business model that they had. if they were going to justify it, it's going to have to be something bigger and better than just display ads, especially now that more than half of facebook's traffic comes from mobile where those display ads don't work. and while they are profitable, they're not as widely profitable as an ipo would have led investors to believe. it's going to take a big change. >> let's assume that the ipo was priced too high then.

is this more than just ipo hangover or is this real true, intrinsic business problems? >> for the time being i would still say hangover. i'm not yet convinced because facebook is a huge, huge company like we've never seen before in terms of the impact it has. if they can find their way to a business model -- they are notoriously fickle. look at myspace and those before it. it's going to take something big. i think they've got the right people in the company to do it. i just don't know. expectations, obviously, have been sent really, really high. >> mark zuckerberg seems to be keeping a low profile these days. do you think he should be doing more things publicly, rebecca, to reassure investors? >> i think it depends who you're asking about this. within the company what he really has to do is assure his employees that facebook is on the right track. you don't want to lose those minds. and that's really what facebook is about. it's about the technology. it's about the engineers that

exist within facebook that will come up with something, a way, ideally, to make money for the company but also ways to make our user experience better. those billion people who are using facebook are very valuable but facebook still has to find a way to make them valuable and make them count. like alexis said, sell iing ads isn't the only way they're probably going to do it in the future. they have to reinvent that. >> facebook is not the only internet company facing stock problems right now. zinga, groupon, which has slid dramatically. is this another dot com bubble? is it fair to call it one of those, rebecca? >> i thenk you're seeing stocks that get ipo based off the frenzy that investors have around them as opposed to what the fundamentals of these companies are saying about their future. these are long-term stories most cases and the way that investors invest in public stocks is very short term. when you focus on that short term element, you can price the stock way above where it should

actually be. that's what you've seen. and most investors claim that's what you saw with facebook. that's what you saw with groupon. >> what's the difference between now and the dot com bubble as you see it? >> so back then it cost a lot more money to start a company. now you literally can just have a laptop and get going. and that means that you can't justify nearly taking as much of the investment as companies used to 10 or 15 years ago. some of those obscene valuations were based on the obscene amount of money they were taking to get started. then you also have the fact that the internet has become such a bigger part of our lives. epic failures like web man from the last bubble that are now seen born again, like fresh. i don't know many new yorkers who go to the grocery store. >> at the end of the day, the big difference between the dot com bubble and right now is that when these companies go public, they may not be making as much

money as we would like them to make but they have a steady stream of revenue. >> peter thiel, the famed investor sold his facebook shares yesterday, 20 million of them. >> he got in a lot -- a long time ago. he got in before this was a public company. so, there is some of that. in the same way that employees are selling out of some of their stake, you do see investors that invest invested in this company getting out because they need to show a return to their other investors. i think that, you know, anybody who is looking at this stock needs to think about it individually for themselves and realize this is a highly traded stock, not a long term hold for most investors right now. >> okay. rebecca jarvis, how exciting. thank you very much. diana nyad has given up her latest long-distance swim. she battled stormy weather, jellyfish and stormy weather between cuba and florida. what finally forced her to stop when "cbs this morning" continues.

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this morning, endurance swimmer diana nyad has given up her trip from cuba to florida four days into her latest attempt. >> tough news for her. she was pulled out of the water shortly before 1:00 am local time. elaine quijano is in keylargo. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, gayle and jeff. she was trying to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage but cbs news has confirmed she ended that race earlier this morning. shark-infested waters, jellyfish stings, cold temperatures and exhaustion. for her team's operations director, it was too much. >> we had a very, very large squall -- actually even call it

a front -- move into our location very, very rapidly. it was that combination of things that made it very, very, very dangerous. not only for diana, but any other member of our team in the water. so, i made the decision to pull her out of the water at 12:55 am. >> reporter: though she was swimming in 85-degree water, the ocean is colder than her body's core temperature, which reduced her body heat over time. in the previous days, nyad had not left the water to eat, use the bathroom or even sleep. this week's swim was her third effort. jellyfish stings ended her last attempt in 2011. nyad was about 55 miles from the shores of key west, florida. she's co and suffering from a sting. >> exhaustion. what you would expect from

someone attempting to do probably what almost -- maybe one or two other people on the entire planet would even attempt doing. >> reporter: nyad had already lost more than 60 hours in the water. she had been hoping to celebrate a successful swim tomorrow, her 63rd birthday. gayle and jeff? >> not meant to be this time. thank you, elaine. time ohanian, thank you very much. >> thank you. america is dealing with many problems right now, but authorey can seem overwhelming but

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again. >> 100 million americans saw that chrysler ad during this year's super bowl. "new york times" columnist thomas friedman is using it as the jumping off point of his latest book. >> focusing on four major challenges facing the u.s. in that used to be us, how america fell behind in the world and how we can come back. tom friedman of studio 57, welcome. >> thank you. >> it's hard not to have a strong reaction to it. you start with that, which was a controversial ad at the time. why start the book with that? >> telling an important story about how we have fallen behind in the world. think about what that ad focused on. he was talking about the ought the industry and what happened. basically back in the '80s, people said japan is the big threat. the way you think about it, japan really threatened two american industries, consumer electronics and autos and challenged one american town,

detroit. what this ad focused on. where we are today, globalization and that merger challenges every american town and every american industry. that is what is new. >> so the challenges come from where then? >> the challenges come from the fact that when i sat down to write this book with michael, i actually went back to the first edition of the book i wrote in 2004-2005 which is "the world is flat" which is about the world getting connected. i opened that book up to the index. facebook wasn't in it. when i wrote "the world is flat" facebook wasn't around, twitter wasn't around. linked in wasn't around. we've actually gone from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. what that means is if the world were a single classroom, the curve just rose. why did it rise?

because every boss now, including yours and mine, has access to cheaper software, automation, labor and cheap genius than ever before. hence, michael and i would agree the most important chapter in this book is so much about education. it's called average is over. average is over now. all right? all you ever do is all you've ever done, that is no longer applicable. all you'll ever get is not all you'll ever got. we all have to find our extra. >> it's not the lack of jobs that's holding us back. it is, in your opinion? >> gayle, so many other things. infrastructure. it's immigration. it's the right rules to incent risk taking and prevent recklessness. everyone wants a one-stop solution to our problems. we've got here -- because we did a lot of things right, we had a formula for success.

educate our people to use the best technology in the world, have the most immigration of l talented people, have the most government-funded research. if you go down that list today, you'll see we're falling behind in all five categories. >> do you think people realize, t tom, how crucial education is? when people start talking about education a lot of times their eyes glaze over. it's so important we get this right. >> it's so important because today, gayle, even with the merger of globalization and i.t. revolution, there's no decent job that doesn't require more education. i was at san francisco airport last week. and at the premiere, 100,000 mile flyers, somewhere at the the premiere counter. this is the premiere counter now. i had to check myself in, using the machine there. i noticed there were just two united employees behind this long counter, okay? everyone else was checking themselves in. even the guy moving the bags was a contractor. so, in other words, all those

jobs at that level, they're gone now. two people there. and someone maybe is running those machines out there, that's a good job. >> the president mentioned chemical and biological weapons as a trip lier there. are there other trip liers that would get the u.s. involved? >> that's the big one. syria has somewhere between 30 and 40 sites where they were storing chemical weapons. you see that country collapsing. you see order in that country collapsing. people are asking most of all about that are the israelis. they're saying who has the chemical weapons? who's in charge, al qaeda or one of their affiliates goes in, what happens? they're right gnu nenext door. i think it's a 50/50 prosition. we're getting close to the

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>> good morning everyone. all lines are now, or all lanes are now open on u. s. 101 in marin county after a fatal accident this morning. one person was killed when a car hit a power pole north of atherton ave. comedy pioneer phyllis diller has died. she got her start in the bay area when very few women were in the business. petaluma still has hopes of winning the little league world series. the team beat new jersey yesterday. their next game is against new ca,,,,,,,,,,

>> northbound 85, we're following a multi vehicle crash approaching fremont. we're just arden to see some slow downs. southbound 880 approaching 92, one lane block heading towards the san mateo bridge. the bay bridge is still backed up pretty solid. >> plenty of clouds on the bay area and looking good from the mount vaca camera. as we head throughout the day, more sounds fine and cooler temperatures today 64 degrees and breezy in san francisco this afternoon.,,,,,,,,

ou as you may have heard of, our parent company has downsized the tonight show. we have been consistent in our ratings. if you know anything about our network, that kind of thing is frowned upon. but the good news, the good news, "the tonight show" is still free to get into the "tonight show." bad news, it's 100 bucks to get out. >> is it okay to make fun of the boss that you work for? have you got any cbs jokes? >> doing well. passed. >> yeah. passed. it's 8:00. welcome back to shoe. i'm gayle king. charlie rose is off. >> i'm jeff glor. phyllis diller made americans laugh for nearly 60 years. as we told you earlier, she died in los angeles on monday at the age of 95. before we speak with her friend and colleague, joan rivers, bill

whitaker looks at a comedy pioneer who loved life and liked to laugh. >> reporter: to phyllis diller, comedy was not pretty. >> i am in the 14th year of a ten-day beauty plan. >> reporter: it was sarcastic, self-deprecating and funny. >> i went to dinner in three places, serve the dinner, clear the table and bury the dead. >> reporter: she was born in 1917. she was a housewife and a mother until her then husband, who was unemployed, forced her in her late 30s to become a comedian to support the family. >> someone had to make a living. turned out it had to be me. i have a theory that to make a comic you have to have -- suffer some kind of a -- an abandonment or loss or lack in childhood. yeah, i was raised on fear all my life. >> reporter: she was a hit doing standup in clubs around the san francisco bay area, then discovered by bob hope, diller

started doing tv with early appearances on groucho marx you bet your life. soon she was on tv and in flight clubs. >> i was actually the world's ugliest baby. when i was born the doctor slapped everybody. >> reporter: or her mythic call husband, fang, a creation that was only an extreme exaggeration of two of her real life husbands. >> the last time there was a gleam in fang's eye, there was a short in his electric blanket. [ laughter ] >> that's my real laugh. in the beginning it was nerves. nerves. just you know how when people are nervous they giggle. >> reporter: phyllis diller did a few movies with bob hope but mainly stuck to what she knew best, and it might surprise you that one of the things she knew best was playing the piano. but what we knew best were the

outrageous outfits, the proud admissions of plastic surgery, one of the first celebrities to do so, and the non-stop one-liners. >> such bad shape i wear prescription underwear. >> reporter: phyllis diller paved the way for countless female comedians and always had the last laugh. [ laughter ] >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," bill whittaker, los angeles. phyllis diller called joan rivers her pro tow jay. joan is with us to talk about her long-time friend. hello, joan rivers. >> nice to see you. sadness. >> i feel the same. i know you and favorite daughter melissa had lunch with her a month ago. what did she mean to you? >> she represented the first woman standup that just stood up. didn't sing. didn't dance. just went out andted compe with the men on their turf. and did it brilliantly.

and was a great gag writer. she cared about each word. she was very precise. i was crazy about her. and lovely on broadway. very kind. >> kind. >> to the people coming up. she saw me first in greenwich village and i stank. i was there with barbara streisand. she had all the a's in her name. you know how long ago that was. phyllis came and sat in the front and laughed and applauded and was so generous when she went backstage. >> what was she like three weeks ago when you saw her at lunch? was she ill? how did she seem? >> she was 95, you know? >> yeah. but she was lucid, correct? >> beyond lucid. we exchanged -- we were both wearing jewelry. we exchanged necklaces. i said to her, she got the better deal. she was fine. she was losing her eyesight a little bit but, boy oh, boy, sharp. we were talking about comics and the internet and right up there.

>> if she was first, and she was first, how long was it, do you think, before she was accepted? >> she started late. >> 37? >> yeah. she was an advertising, you know, copyrighter. it took her a long time because she was the first. people didn't want to see -- she was good looking in private life. she made herself that very -- with the hair and i think it took her longer because she was a woman. she had to make herself really holy. >> she was so comfortable, joan, talking about plastic surgery. something most women don't do. >> no. she wanted to look good. the money came late. and she wanted to look -- she had five children and bad marriages. she wanted to look good. she did. very sheik in real life. i'm crazy about her. >> did she inspire you in terms of talking about your own plastic surgery and things that you've gone through?

>> i figured if phyllis can do it, i can do it. i could stay under the radar because they were making such jokes about her at the time. >> she talks about the nerves that she dealt with in the beginning. >> in the beginning, yes. >> did she still deal with those? >> i still do, but not as -- she had more confidence than i. she walked out on the stage and to the end the first time i saw her till the last time i saw her, i never walked away without saying, damn, why didn't i think of that. she was so smart. she cared so much. she never -- >> you know what i thought was interesting when i was reading about her life. she lived until 95 as you said. >> great life. >> i think so. it said she died with a smile on her face. i'm thinking if you've got to go in your sleep with a smile on your face, not so bad. >> the last time melissa and i went to her house at brunch, i said to her, is there a man in your life and she said, yes. she had friends.

she lived in her own house. >> yeah. >> she had a great life. >> you mentioned when she was in the audience there in the front, do you have a favorite memory other than that or favorite joke? >> favorite joke was, again, she taught me to be very simple. one of the first jokes i heard her say, so easy. she said, i only have this at my house because it doesn't show the dirt. that tells you who she is, what she is, what she hates. >> can i say in the carth comin here on the radio they were playing her stuff. she said, you know you're old when a walker has an airbag. even the driver started laughing. i thought that was really good. she was really able to laugh at herself and make fun of herself and that's always a good thing. >> i just -- i'm usually -- i really liked her so much. so much. >> we did, too. joan rivers, thank you very much. >> thank you

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ for years the music industry has struggled to keep up with the digital revolution and lost big money because of online piracy. one estimate says that americans illegally download between 7 and $20 million worth of music every year. >> so the industry is turning in part to live music, including

music festivals as an important way to get cash. rebecca jarvis is checking out the scene. >> when you think of music festivals, images of mud caked, rain drenched seas of humanity may come to mind. times, taste and prices have come forward. they're springing up all over the nation. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: almost half a century ago concert promoters on both coasts gathered together some of the biggest names in music. built stages in open fields, and the american festival scene was born. ♪ >> reporter: this summer alone more than 500 festivals took place. ♪ >> reporter: they now kater to every musical genre, from rock and roll to folk, to classical

and jazz. ♪ >> reporter: the fan's musical styles may vary, but they gather for one common purpose. to immerse themselves in music. >> this isn't like, oh, you know, i love me home and i leave my job, i go to a concert, i spend a couple of hours there and i get back to my 4r50i6. this is like i'm going to go in and spend three, four, five days just living and breathing music and music fans, the music lifestyle. i think that is a real special part of why people keep paying up. ♪ >> reporter: and paying up they are. while the recording industry has seen a steady decline over the past decade, live music is thriving. from 1999 to 2009 concert ticket sales tripled from $1.5 billion to $4.6 billion thanks in part to festivals. >> for tickets as cheap as $35,

$45, $50, you might be getting access to 20 or 30 artists instead of getting access to just one. >> a big part of the challenge is just trying to get the event out there. >> reporter: dave thoren is a 28-year-old concert promoter who recent bely introduced a festival of his own. ♪ >> reporter: a festival in new york city. he's hoping to cash in on the fans' appetite for a bargain, as well as an artist's willingness to play the festival circuit. >> you get live music. it's not going anywhere, that experience. the festival experience is not disappearing. >> reporter: music festivals though are by no means guaranteed money makers. he expects to take a loss. he's more concerned about fans walking away with a weekend to remember. >> reporter: why take the risk? >> i suppose in my eyes creating something like this is like a baby for me, to create it. you know, creating something

from nothing, that becomes a really positive thing in people's lives all the time. ♪ >> reporter: country star jason aldean understands the value of a live show, but like many others, he jumps at the chance to play festivals, like wisconsin's country thunder. not necessarily for the money but for the scene. >> getting a chance to come out and do some shows with some other acts. i think it's cool for the fans too. everybody that comes out to these things are here for two reasons. you know, they're here for the music and they're here for the party and that's the two things that they go hand in hand in my opinion ♪ >> reporter: so while the music industry searches for a way to stay ahead of the digital age, fans and artists are reaping the benefit of an experience that simply cannot be replicated. >> you just can't replace that emotion, that feeling, that connectedness of being in a room

with 15,000 people or being in a tent with 15,000 people and losing your mind altogether to an artist that you love or to a new artist you just discovered. >> nothing beats the experience of live music. nothing. and i know you're a jay-z fan. he has a big one coming. >> huge in philadelphia. >> with a big range from drake to paerl jam. >> you're taking us, aren't you? >> yes, you do remember, don't you? >> i wish they could figure out a way though to have chairs at music festivals. that eliminates the fun, right? >> that way you can take a break, dance a little bit. take a break. get back to it. >> that's exactly right. i know, i know, my age is showing. great fun. >> it's fun stuff, rebecca. thank you very much. all over the world people are dressing up in white and having dinner with almost no warning. we'll show you the flash mob party called,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

good morning. lets take a look at the headlines. one person killed this morning in an accident on highway one a one in marin county where pickup truck veered off the road had a power pole and caught fire northbound around 330 this morning north of atherton avenue the accident was cleared around 6:00. oakland officials believe they found the source of their trouble putting the city's police system they say the poor reception and other audio problems is caused by interference from at&t cellphone towers nearby. the vapor cloud that caused a massive fire t chevron refinery in richmond a few weeks back. u.s. chemical safety board released these photographs of the crowd that developed on

august 6th taken from across the bay and investigators say they're focusing in on why 8 in. pipe failed at that refinery. traffic and weather coming up.

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accidents northbound 85 approaching fremont avenue they could to the right-hand shoulder multi vehicle crashed documents but still slow in the area and heavy traffic at 280 out of downtown san jose. 280 southbound approaching hickey boulevard and accident blocking one lane with heavy traffic out of daly city. marlowe cloud cover and fog around the bay area this morning the temperatures will be down low, cover and fog into the delta slowly breaking up and as it does lots of sunshine and the afternoon with temperatures cooler with 80s in london '60s and '70s around the bay '50s and '60s and patchy fog toward the coastline of temperatures below average due thursday and friday.

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." new york's lincoln center for the performing arts became a work of art itself last night. >> that's because more than 3,000 people all dressed in white gathered for a very unusual dinner party. the guests did not know where it would be until an hour before dinner time, but we got a behind-the-scenes look. this is what dinner on blanc looks like when it's under way. a few hours earlier, people walking by had no idea what was to come. sandy safey helped organize the dinner. >> the guests are very involved

in the event. they are actually participants in the event. >> people signed up on the internet and paid $25 each to attend. most brought their own forks and tables and chairs. dinner enblanc started in paris in 1988 and from humble beginnings has exploded in popularity. last year was the first time it was held in new york and it was a turning point. >> after new york, the buzz was worldwide, really. and then we started receiving requests from all over, not just the united states or north america, but all the way to australia, sydney, singapore, and even rwanda. >> this year, the party is getting even bigger. events are scheduled in more than 22 cities on five continents. the founder's son has been the driving force behind the explosive growth. >> we do this first for passion, and it became a big success in paris, because if it works in france, it could work everywhere. >> facebook and twitter are important tools in getting the message out.

but old-fashioned word of mouth still plays a role. to find out the exact location, diners met at points across the city. this group met in midtown manhattan at 5:00. >> that's a mystery. >> can you tell me the secret place? >> no, i can't tell you right now, but we'll all leave from here together. >> let's go. we're going. >> each group was assigned a leader, who led the way to the still-secret location. >> i thought we were going to central park, but i don't know, maybe we're going to lincoln center? >> only about 20 production staffers and 100 volunteers were needed to put on the event. >> it's terrific. there is an excitement in the air. >> pretty awesome, huh? the cultural hub of new york city, some may say the world. >> from different points in the city they arrive, and they arrive at the same moment at the same place. it's amazing. i love it. [ cheers and applause ] >> this was a crowd of serious foodies. >> lots of cheese, tomatoes,

salad. >> they're having a dish of light salad. >> as day turned night, the mood became positively giddy. >> it's me and like eight girls. >> 11. >> 11. [ laughter ] >> i'm not complaining at all. >> and the other part is the dance. ♪ >> probably in the mood of, wow, let's go party now. [ laughter ] >> i feel fantastic. i feel that everybody had a good time. >> but all good things must come to an end. by 11:00, the diners had done their own cleanup and the event was just a memory. >> i think i saw you dancing. >> i want to go. i want to go! >> i thought i saw you dancing in there somewhere. >> i wish. my bedtime is 8:06, but that is my idea, jeff, of a good time. you sit down, you have a lovely meal with nice people. i like it. >> well, we have the thing about

the music festivals. we have a flash dinner, you could do a flash music festival. >> i like it. a cold beer goes well with a warm dinner. we'll meet the man who brought us samuel adams beer. there he is, jim cook.

now to show that he's a regular guy, president obama, you know what he does? >> huh? >> you know what president obama chose to do that he's -- >> huh? >> he brews his own beer at the white house. >> oh, no, no, no. >> yeah. he and, i guess the cabinet buddies get together -- >> ah hah! >> he's like a regular samuel adams, apparently brewing, smelling the hops. >> samuel adams was a founding father who made his own beer, and so is jim cook, founder and chairman of the boston beer company. in 1984, he started selling his samuel adams boston lagger in about 25 bars and restaurants. >> today his company produced 2

million barrels of sam adams a year. jim cook is with us this morning and joins us at the table. hello to you, jim cook. >> good morning. >> here you are, you go into harvard undergrad business and law because the family is thinking maybe you'll do something else, and he says, nope! i want to go into the family business. >> yeah, my dad was not really thrilled when i told him i was going to leave a good career, high-paying job, to go back into what my family had done for 150 years, which is, you know, make beer on a small scale. he thought that was about the dumbest thing i had ever thought of. >> they call you the johnny appleseed of beer, so, what is it you like so much about this concoction? >> well, to me, beer is one of the great treasures of mankind, you know. it's been with us -- >> treasures? >> -- for 12,000 years. it's been part of our civilization since people settled down into villages. and for many years in the u.s., it's become this kind of mass-marketed, mass-produced

product, and it lost the dignity and nobility and respect that beer deserves, and i'm trying to bring back flavorful beer that will earn that respect. >> and that was the goal or the point from the very beginning? >> well, in the beginning, it was to survive, you know? we were two people with this tiny little beer in an industry just dominated by these huge companies. so, i just wanted to find a little niche by making beer that had a lot of malt, a lot of hops, a lot of taste and went the opposite way of making lighter and lighter beer, making richer, more flavorful beer. >> and now you're doing 2 million barrels a day. >> i know. it sounds like a big thing now. we just made it to 1% of the u.s. beer business, so 28 years to get to 1%, and i'm proud of that. >> but you have to feel good. so, you see david letterman, so you're part of the american culture. probably remember the beer summit they had at the white house with the professor and the

police officer. wasn't there a sam adams on the table? >> yes. professor gates brought a sam adams with him. >> yes. >> shows why he's so smart. >> yes, he is that. so, when you see your product that way, what are you thinking inside? you've got to feel so great about that. >> well, that is, to me, it's this wonderful thing that, you know, quality beer has entered the mainstream of american culture, and a little guy who starts in his kitchen, you know. 28 years ago i was making sam adams in my kitchen. and in this country, i had an opportunity to not only succeed as a business but help create a beer culture in america that's really changing the way americans think about beer. >> have you had this beer, this white house beer, by the way? >> no, i haven't. >> do you want it? >> well, i was reading about it, and he has a little ways to go as a brewer. >> oh, boy! oh, wow, okay. >> they're making a honey ale, and i've made some of those, and they've become too sweet.

that old coin, you know, beer needs to be balanced and complex. so, if i were to give him a little advice, i'd say add some lemon zest in the kettle to balance the sweetness, and then make a honey-lemon ginger ale, because the spiciness of the ginger will balance that honey. and ironically, that's the recipe of another president. three of the first four presidents were brewers -- george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison were all brewers. you know, john adams wasn't because he had his cousin, sam adams, make beer for him. and in thomas jefferson's journals, there's a recipe for a honey-lemon ginner ale, which is really good. >> i think we're finding a common link in all these great men, and it clearly is beer. jim, i want to ask you, what is craft beer? i know it's a little bit of a moving target. are you still craft beer?

>> yes. there is a brewers association, which is the association of craft brewers. and craft beer, technically, it's small, independent, traditional brewers. so, basically, the little guys like sam adams and 2,000 other craft brewers out there who are making the more flavorful, bigger, more interesting beers. >> and we should mention, by the way, i mean, you know, you talk about the tradition of beer and where it started, but really, i mean, america has been at the forefront of taking beer that step forward in the past 20 or 25 years, and that continues. i mean, nobody else is doing it like this. >> no. very few people in america realize that today, america is the envy of brewers in the rest of the world. the craft brewing movement in the united states has spawned craft brewer breweries in engla belgium, because they're going

through now the same mass market consolidation with a handful of huge brewers, and in the rest of the world, the entrepreneurs are taking their inspiration from american craft brewers. we get german brewers coming to our brewery in boston wanting to know, how are you doing this? this is really cool! we want to do this in germany. >> can i just say i love the enthusiasm that you have for what you do. you really, you can feel it, too, jeff, can't you? >> oh, yes. >> no, really, i love the enthusiasm for what you do. >> well, i'm very lucky. you know, i get to get up every day and do what i love. >> and you taste every batch. that's what i read. i'm thinking, you don't look like a drunk, mr. jim cook. >> well, i am a professional, a trained professional. >> he's a craftsman. my brother's a brew master, trained in germany. my brother went over there. now as he mentioned, a lot of people are coming to the u.s. to learn as well. as my brother says, it's beer. if you're not having fun with it, probably get out of the business. >> yeah, there's something wrong with you if you can't have fun making beer.

>> you talk about the dignity of beer. i think for most people, they're thinking i'll just grab a couple of brew skis. i don't think of it as a dignified drink, and you say, no, no, it's very much so. >> yeah. beer is going through the transformation that wine has already gone through. there was a time when a wino was an alcoholic derelict and the preserved serving vessel was a brown bag. beer is going through that, and america is now creating a beer culture, just like we created a wine culture. >> i'm curious, we only have 20 seconds left, jim, but do you drink things other than beer, wine or anything else? >> not much. i sometimes try lesser beverages, but i try to stick to beer. >> lesser beverages. >> yeah, i like that. you named it samuel adams instead of after the cook family. i'm thinking since it's in the family, why sam adams? what's that mean to you? >> well, sam adams was a wonderful historical figure. >> yes. >> he was a brewer, he was a patriot, he was a revolutionary, and he, for america, declared political independence. i wanted sam adams the beer to declare beer independence for america. >> well, i think you can say you

did that. >> cheers. are you, quickly, holding out hope the red sox can make the wild card or not? >> no. >> really? >> not really. >> tossing out the season. >> no, i'm going to drown my sorrows in beer. >> jim cook, always a pleasure to see you, sir. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. listen carefully. up next, we're taking you to two of the quietest spots on earth. it is not jim cook's brewing room. >> right. >> that's up next on "cbs this morning." ♪ a little less conversation, a little more action ♪ ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

you know, there are a lot of cute animal videos online,

probably too many, but this is the best one i've seen in a while. let's see that again in slow motion, if we could. way up in the air! like the johnny knoxville of dogs. >> just when you think not another animal video, they show one and you say i haven't seen that one. >> that was pretty good. >> that is pretty good. peace and quiet is not easy to find in our busy world, as we showed you weeks ago. jeff went looking for it in the olympic park. >> the two places are drastically different but offer something hardly ever experienced today, the actual sound of silence. deep in the rain forest of olympic national park in the northwest corner of washington state, there's a place that to gordon hempton means everything,

because there is nothing. >> once where it was just silence was a drain for a long time. >> this tiny plot of land, a five-hour drive from seattle, a two-hour hike after that, is what hempton says is the single quietest place in the lower 48 states. why is this area so quiet? >> well, because it's in the corner of the united states and it also gets so much cloud cover. >> once we approach the location, hempton allows no one to speak. >> if you speak or you stir light, if i catch you checking your e-mail or anything like that, you're going to get the look that will haunt you for the rest of your life, so don't you try it. >> you want no sound like that. >> actually, i want only the sound of nature. >> it sounds like this. [ birds chirping ]

>> when you put the headphones on, it's an awakening. it's unusual what you hear, right? do you get that reaction a lot? >> i get that reaction all the time. >> i mean, i was hearing things i've never heard before. he's been tracking the sounds of silence for 30 years, looking for locations where nature is uninterrupted by manmade noise. he says they're disappearing fast. >> noise pollution has increased unprecedented levels in this country, where noise-induced hearing loss is now the number one occupational illness. so, i think as the world is getting noisier and we feel the assault, we really realize, you know what, quiet is an essential quality of life. there are no quiet places.

>> this is the room on the right. >> well, there is one. it's freaky looking. >> it is. >> but it's by no means natural. first of all, why are we floating? >> because this is what's called a full chamber. >> reporter: located at orrfield laboratories in minneapolis, the world's quietest room is completely sound-proof. decibel levels can reach an incredible negative 9. compared that to 72 decibels of background noise at the airport, 59 in a car, 57 if you're lucky in a quiet office. >> this is the only place you'll ever be where the only thing you hear is the source of the sound and you hear no background noise level. >> anacoic chambers can test almost any product, even an air force plane, but not everyone can handle this one. >> people go nuts in here. >> people could. >> after just a few minutes. >> there are people who have walked into the room, taken one step on to the floor, said they

were disoriented and they didn't want to be in here and they walked out. >> total silence can be so jarring that some experience hallucinatio hallucinations. orfield says the longest an outsider has lasted inside the chamber is 45 minutes. so, we let him lock me in. orfield and the production crew monitored my progress via headphone. >> i hear your stomach gurgling. >> and didn't free me until 46 minutes later. >> it's bright. coming in and assaulting me with a camera? >> that's right. so, tell me about your experience. did you hear your heartbeat? >> i definitely heard my bodily sounds. >> right. >> i guess the bottom line is, it is very difficult to achieve silence. >> it is. it's very difficult. the world, in my view, it's basically gone. >> 1,600 miles away, gordon

hempton might not be able to hear us, but it sounds like he agrees. >> there is a tremendous momentum that's been created by industry that's telling you that noise is important. play it loud, be loud, live loud. well, quiet is the new loud. >> the beauty of washington state. >> amazing. >> it's still -- i remember the first time i saw that piece and thought i want to go there. >> it's a gorgeous, gorgeous -- it's not easy to get to. >> i see. >> but i would encourage anyone if you get a chance to check out one square inch of silence, go. >> and the purpose of a quiet room is what, jeff? >> they do a lot of testing in there, product testing, essentially. whether it's a speaker system or whatever else. but that's why he's built that. but it is, it is a very odd feeling to go in there. >> i'll bet. >> because you start shaking. i mean, you're almost floating. >> i'll bet. >> very interesting stuff. that does,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

cooler days ahead the fog will break up in spots cooling down the temperatures outside and by the afternoon 80s in linden and '60s and '70s around the bay. warming up again on the weekend.

a number of accidents in the south bay northbound to 80 into downtown is approaching bird came word of a new problem spot. heavy traffic on 280 especially in the northbound lanes. drive times in the red including the one no one in two san jose. in the north bay and a much better drive with a couple of accidents early in the morning commute another all cleared but it's a nice drive time between 580 and the golden gate bridge toll plaza. of the purchase here's a live look at the bay bridge is still stacked up. stacked up.

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