new push for gun control. >> vice president biden today meets with victims of gun violence tomorrow the other side, the national rifle association. >> the biden task force hopes to make recommendations by the end of the month. worries about the flu sweeping the country. doctors are now calling this the worst outbreak in more than a decade. >> some emergency rooms have had to turn away people. >> half of our patients have influenza. white house officials saying all u.s. troops could leave afghanistan by the end of next year. previous plans called for leaving 10,000 troops behind. the family of retired fbi agent robert levinson who vanished in iran almost six years ago released videos of him holding him hostage. >> i believe the iranian government is holding my husband. >> a ferry accident in new york a ferry ran into a dock. first there was a fire on one plane, now a fuel leak on

another. more than 100 wildfires are raging australia's wales. quarterback robert griffin iii will go under reconstructive surgery this morning on his knee. i'm a former stripper. >> all thieves witnesses were scared. >> what could lance armstrong do to them? >> insin rate them. >> on "cbs morning news." >> you wear the rings, what do you do? >> put them on the coffee table for the recruits to look at. notre dame defeated rish people haven't been this depressed since all the time. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." nearly a month after the newtown massacre, the white house is putting new pressure on congress to consider tougher gun laws. >> gun control supporters are also pushing harder while the country's leading gun lobbies

prepare to meet with vice president joe biden's task force on gun violence. bill plante is at the white house this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning and good morning in the west. the vice president meets in about an hour part of the task force effort to come one gun control recommendations. he meets with advocates, they're pressing the issue hoping they can get new restrictions before the public outrage fades. >> because for anything to get done -- >> reporter: later today vice president joe biden meets with gun safety and victims organizations. thursday he switches gears and meets with gun owner groups including the powerful national rifle association, which claims 4 million members. >> the process is designed to get input and in the vice president's group we'll assess different actions. >> reporter: the goal is for the vice president to report to president obama by the end of the month, while memories are still fresh. >> 20 heartbroken families lost a child in the sandy hook shooting. >> reporter: gun control supporters have become more

aggressive. new york mayor michael bloomberg's group released this television ad tuesday. >> i have one question for our political leaders, when will you find the courage to stand up to the gun lobby? whose child has to die next? >> reporter: two years to the day since she was shot and seriously wounded in a mass shooting former congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband, mark kelly, rolled out a new internet campaign and new york governor andrew cuomo will call for his state to pass one of the most restrictive bans on assault weapons. >> gun control, call it what you want, is a highly political, politically contentious situation. >> reporter: connecticut legislature is returning to work nearly four weeks after the sandy hook school shootings. the first order of business debate over tough, new gun laws and sarah brady is speaking out. >> i think it's a very big moment, a huge moment. >> reporter: the wife of jim brady, press secretary to ronald reagan who was shot during the assassination attempt on the president in 1981.

>> when something happens like what happened to these children that wakes up every mom and dad, every aunt and uncle, brother and sister in the country. >> reporter: the vice president's also going to meet with entertainment and video game executives this week and the white house is considering recommendations that would include a ban on assault weapons and high capacity ammunition and also universal background checks for anyone buying a gun. they also would like a national database to track gun sales and tougher mental health checks. norah, charlie? >> bill plante, thank you. we've just heard from the governor of new york, with us in studio 57 is the governor of new jersey republican chris christie. welcome, governor. >> good morning. >> you know there's a focus on gun control. you know that governor cuomo is out front saying what he wants to do. what does the governor of new jersey want to do in new jersey and what does he want the country to do?

>> well in new jersey, first off, we have the second toughest gun laws in america already. >> is that enough? >> i think we have to have a conversation about it. but i think if all we talk about just controlling guns which we should talk about, we're not doing enough. you look at what happened in connecticut. that young man was obviously mentally ill and he needed to be getting treatment and i think there's such a stigma about mental illness and mental illness treatment in our country because we don't talk about it and if that young man had cancer his parents wouldn't have been reluctant to take him to the doctor to be treated. it's an illness just like anything else. we need to talk about substance abuse. woman in camden decapitated her infant child and killed herself high on crack. in new jersey what we've done is mandatory drug treatment, first time drug offenders we sentence to you one year of in-patient drug treatment facility that was my program last summer we signed in, and lastly the violence in the video games. i don't allow "call of duty" in my home. we have to talk about all of it

as parents, and i think we need to do things in all four of the categories. >> you say talk about it. why didn't you mention it in your address last night? >> you pick what you want to talk about and after we've been through hurricane sandy i thought that should be the focus of what we discussed yesterday as a state, where we've been and where we're headed to get everybody back on track so we're going to have plenty of time to talk about that stuff as we move forward through the legislative year and i'll be a full participant in the conversation but in a half-hour address you pick and choose what you talk about. >> let's talk about hurricane sandy because you really spanked the republicans in congress and said it was disgraceful that they didn't pass the whole relief bill. some republicans said you went a little bit overboard criticizing fellow republicans. was that the right thing to do? >> sandy is and was above politics, and should be and if my party is not putting it above politics they're going to hear from me about it. my job is governor of new jersey and people have seen over time whether it's working with the president, criticizing my own party, my job is to be governor and advocate for my constituency. >> the question is, did awe

chief the result you hoped you would have achieve and do you have the house speaker now saying i hear you, governor and this is what i'm going to do about sandy, and funds coming to new jersey? >> i think more broadly even charlie, i think we have the whole house of representatives listening to us now and you need republicans and democrats to pass significant aid bills and what we tried to do is talk to both sides of the aisle but in the end, the decision that i criticized was one that the speaker made, and i made it clear to him and i also told him in a one on one conversation. >> were you worried you might do yourself no favors within the republican party? >> i don't worry about that. listen i believe that what the american people want what the people of new jersey want is people who come into office and do their jobs and if you try to calculate every one of these moves politically you're not doing your job and you're not going to be an effective politician anyway. doing your job is the best way to get stuff done. >> new jersey is the model for reconciliation, compromise and bipartisanship. >> yes, sir. >> and you're inviting the

congressional leaders in washington to come to new jersey for a seminar? >> i'm happy for them to come any time they want and look at what we've done for three years, charlie, we have a democratic legislature, significant majority, passed every one of the initiatives in a bipartisan way. >> it's interesting because a lot of what you recommend sounds like what has been part of the democratic message. you're asking for spending some money, you're asking saying people i'll raise taxes if necessary for the people of new jersey. >> i've also vetoed three income tax increases, we are spending less in the state budget today than jon corzine spent in 2008. we have passed a number of conservative measures in our state that i've gotten democrats to go along with as well but the idea of divided government is that you're not going to get everything you want. and so yeah i have to compromise on certain things but raises taxes isn't one of them charlie. >> you would if necessary? >> what i've said is i will always listen but you know that's the art of compromise is you got to be willing to listen but then you stand for your principles. >> can a republican like you win

the republican presidential nomination? can you have the views you have and win the nomination? >> i think that if you have views where you're being effective and you're getting things done for the people then anybody, not just me but anybody who does that could win and here's what i think. i think what's going to happen in the future is that governors, 30 republican governors out of 50 now they're going to be the ones who are going to be dictating what the agenda of our party is because we're actually getting things done. >> you've got a re-election coming up. >> yes, sir. >> did you scare the mayor of new jersey cory booker out of the race? >> no. >> he's looking to the senate not the governor's race 73% popularity coming out of all of the things following sandy. >> no listen i think cory made the decision that he could best serve the people of this state in new jersey running for the united states senate. that was his call and his choice. he's a friend. >> do you agree with him? >> do i agree with him, you know what the other candidates? cory's been a friend and we've

worked well together all the time. my daughter follows cory on twitter and said to me you need to tell mr. booker if he runs against you i'm unfollowing so i'm glad sarah doesn't have to unfollow cory on twitter. i'm glad she doesn't have to do that. >> glmpbovernor christie thank you. breaking news out of new york city this morning, a ferry accident near wall street injured 30 to 50 people. emergency crews are treating some of the victims on the dock at south street seaport in lower manhattan. one of our own cbs employees was on board. he said the ferry slammed into the pier without any warning, as it was trying to dock. it threw him and other passengers to the floor. you can see the damage to the front of the ferry. most of the people hurt were standing on stairs waiting to deboard. one of them had critical head injuries. and this morning the head of the u.s. anti-doping agency is accusing lance armstrong of trying to bribe his organization

and intimidating witnesses during the investigation that found armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs. in an interview with scott pelley for the new series "60 minutes sports" travis tiger talked about the evidence of doping. >> six samples taken from lance armstrong were retested in '05, and they were positive. >> in '99 when the tests were originally taken was it reported that they were negative? >> there was no test for epo, they were not tested for epo at that time. >> and when you tested for them in 2005 you discovered -- >> all six were flaming positive. >> flaming positive. >> flaming positive. >> reporter: tygart told us throughout the investigation witnesses were intimidated to try to keep the code of silence from breaking. was lance armstrong personally involved in intimidating these other riders to keep them quiet? >> he was. it was tough. all these witnesses were scared

of the repercussions of them simply telling the truth. >> what could lance armstrong do to them? >> incinerate them. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> reporter: former teammate levi felt the heat. he came to a cycling dinner after he testified to the grand jury. he says armstrong was there and sent his wife a text that read "run don't walk." what did she take it to mean. >> it's a veiled threat knowing her husband had just testified, truthfully, in front of the grand jury and it told citizens of this country about this great fraud, that it was a message, you better run. >> your investigation showed that there were personal threats made against riders who had decided to come clean. i wonder if there were any

threats against you? >> there were scott. >> these threats came from where? >> e-mails, letters. >> anonymous? >> yes. >> can you remember any of the lines from the e-mails of the letters? >> the worst was probably put putting a bullet in my head. >> did you take that seriously? >> absolutely. turned it over to the investigator which they're doing. >> tygart believes armstrong had undue influence over the international cycling union. lance armstrong made a generous donation to the international cycling union of $100,000. do you think that was meant to influence them? >> i don't know. obviously totally inappropriate. >> why inappropriate? lance armstrong is trying to support anti-doping in a sport, that's what he would tell you. >> it's an inherent conflict of

interest. >> reporter: a conflict that tyagart also faced. he told us for the first time in this interview that armstrong tried to make a donation to the u.s. anti-doping agency in 2004. what kind of donation was he interested in making to usada? >> a significant financial donation. >> what? >> which came through his representatives offers to us. it was in excess of $150,000. >> more like a quarter of a million dollars? >> it was around that ball park. >> when you heard that what did you think? >> i was stunned. >> did you feel like you were being bought off? >> it was clear conflict of interest for usada and we had no hesitation in rejecting that offer. >> now in a statement, his lawyer says armstrong never made any such contribution or suggestion and we may soon hear from armstrong himself responding to these accusations. oprah winfrey will have an interview next week and you can

see scott pelley's entire interview with travis tygart on tonight's premiere of "60 minutes sports" at 10:00, 9:00 central, only an showtime. today to be the final day of the pretile hearing for colorado shooting theater suspect james holmes. prosecutors played chilling 911 tapes yesterday with desperate cries for help from the scene as manuel bojorquez reports, holmes arranged a deadly trap inside his apartment. >> reporter: holmes had designed a second attack for the night of july 20th. he planned for a massive explosion at his apartment hoping to keep first responders way from the theater while he opened fire. an fbi bomb technician described the elaborate booby traps, a dpas lean soaked carpet, homemade explosives trip wires improvised napalm. he set his computer to blast

loud music designed to lure someone into his trap and while this plan failed his other did not. >> i got a whole bunch of people shot out here and no rescue. >> reporter: in court tuesday aurora police detective randy hansen recounted the 911 call just 18 minutes in the moofie there's some guy after us, the caller yells, then the sound of gunfire. hansen said the call lasted all of 27 seconds and in that time he counted 30 gunshots in the background of the phone call. chantel blunk was in court listening as other chilling 911 calls were played out. her husband, jonathan, was killed in the shooting. >> you can hear people screaming so it makes you imagine it actually being there a little more and something you don't want to imagine. >> reporter: as he has during almost every hearing, holmes sat silently staring ahead showing no emotion but tuesday's hearing revealed holmes' behavior may

have been more bizarre away from the courtroom. defense attorneys have indicated they may call their own witnesses to describe holmes' mental state. already they questioned a police detective about his behavior after the shooting. on the night of his arrest police put paperbags on his hands to preserve gun powder evidence. holmes turned the bags into hand puppets, later tried sticking a staple into an electric socket questioning that suggests holmes' attorneys are preparing for an insanity defense. for "cbs this morning," manuel bojorquez, centennial colorado. it is time to show you some of this morning's headlines. the obama administration may consider taking all u.s. forces out of afghanistan at the end of next year. the pent goneagon has planned to keep some troops from the nato pullout in 2014. president obama meets hamid karzai at the white house on

friday. >> we'll hear more with karzai's meeting with obama. the "l.a. times" says last year was the hottest year on record. the average temperature 55.3 degrees, that is 3.3 degrees higher than the average temperature for the 20th century. the "wall street journal" says the 11th hour deal to avoid the fiscal cliff will delay tax refunds for millions of people. the irs will not begin the main tax filing season until january 30th, about a week later than scheduled. and "the washington post" says redskins quarterback robert griffin iii will have knee surgery in the coming days. you may recall the controversy on sunday as griffin played hurt in a redskins playoff game leaving injured in the fourth quarter. griffin has at least one torn knee ligament the injury might keep him sidelined at the start of next season. and "usa today" reports major league baseball dugouts are finally going wireless. t-mobile is creating an on-field communication system, it will do

away with the old dugout phones that

new photos of robert . new photos of robert levinson, this morning we'll ask former insider john miller what the photos reveal about where levinson is being held captive. and two boeing 787s run into trouble on consecutive days. so what's going on now the dreamliner? >> every new airplane has growing pains especially those that kind of push the edge of the envelope in technology. >> we'll hear from captain sully sullenberger and ask peter greenberg why bad things keep happening to the 787 on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by h&r block, come see what our expertise can make. i will give you a tax and health care

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the bar pilot in charge of the tanker that bumped the bay >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. hi, everyone. 7:26 your time. i'm frank mallicoat. get you caught up with some bay area headlines now. the bar pilot in charge of the tanker that bumped the bay bridge monday got a warning just moments before the collision. but the alert from a private service that tracks ship traffic was too late. a reward will be offered this morning in hopes of getting an $800,000 artifact returned to the oakland museum. the gold box stolen in the museum's second break-in in just two months. and it's the annual warning from health officials. get your flu shots. they say flu season could be very bad this year. hospitals in some states are crowded because of so many flu cases especially out in the midwest. traffic and weather coming up after the break. stay right there.

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good morning. towards the bay bridge, just your usual commute, unfortunately, it is back to work and you can see everyone there approaching the macarthur maze. that is where traffic is stacked up to for about a 20- minute wait to get you on the span. metering lights are on. elsewhere, westbound 237 is improved a bit near the 880 interchange for silicon valley commuters in san jose. an accident near candlestick was cleared to the shoulder. we are see a few brake lights on 101. 280 still fine. that's traffic. for your forecast, here's lawrence. >> the big changes in the weather, the clouds pouring into our skies. we have dense fog showing up out there, as well. so watch out for that. dense fog advisory continuing in the east bay valleys. this afternoon temperatures in the 50s.

this is a whooi, not a rodeo. but this deputy in florida had to move fast when the bull started chasing him. the bull got loose after the trailer crashed. a little later the bull hit a cop who had to be treated for bruises. welcome back to "cbs this morning." and we have a new development in the case of retired fbi agent robert levinson. he disappeared in 2007 after visiting an island off iran. two years ago a video was released showing him being held hostage and now family thinks they know where he is. john is here with the new photos. good morning. so very disturbing photo of mr. levinson. what do you make of it? >> it is very interesting. the levinson family was sent

this series of pictures. it was sent to their website around april of 2011. now, each of the photos contains a separate message. depending on how you arrange them or string them together the photos may become a narrative that could read something like this. help me. i'm here in guantanamo. do you know where it is? fourth year. you can't? or you don't want. this is the result of serving 30 years for usa. why can you not help me. now, we reached out to bob's wife christine yesterday for her reaction. >> my husband is being held captive, and i believe that these pictures show that and i want to remind the public that bob is not home with his family and it's almost six years. we have never heard any information from the people who sent these pictures other than

the pictures. so we believe that the iranian government is controlling this and they can resolve this. >> so this is incredibly disturbing too. what do you think these pictures suggest? >> what you see is a lot of staging here. he's been put in kind of an institutional prison uniform. he's got a long beard and hair almost like you'd see khalid sheikh mohammed in gant tan mow. they're haunting but also taunting at the u.s. what it seems to be is a piece of propaganda that's really saying to the u.s. negotiate. put something on the table. take a step forward. i'm stuck here with a real human being, robert levinson as the prop. >> what would be the negotiation that might take place over iran and the united states over

leather in levinson? >> well, this is a fascinating case and it was u2 who interviewed mahmoud ahmadinejad. something we heard for the first time. he said i thought our countries had talked and a deal had been made and, in fact, there have been talks going on behind the scenes but the typical deal is you give us somebody we give you somebody. so we look at a number of iranian prisoners who are being held here on various charges and say how can that deal come together and what will the administration or state department do to move that forward. >> and the family got these pictures in april of 2011. so why are we just seeing them now and what does that tell us about the state of the negotiations. >> i think from the standpoint of the levinson family third quarter know this is on the front line to a lot of fbi agents and other officials. but life goes on. he's been held for a long time now.

and i think when they feel that the case is becoming on the back burner of discussions as opposed to the front, they release more information to stir that discussion. frankly from the investigators' standpoint, the intelligence community, they like to keep these things in the background but the family will stir the potts. >> what is the level urgency from the u.s. government on this? >> it's hard to same. i've talked to people who care very much about this case but you know there are other priorities and the government takes the position that they have the big picture with the iran and it can't all be dependent on that one person, but if you're the family you want the focus here. >> john thank you. the troubles won't stop for the 787 boeing dreamliner. we've seen a fire and a fuel leak. ahead, captain sully

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i saw a fascinating report about the debt ceiling on cnn. take a look at this. >> in the coming weeks congress will once again grapple with america's spiraling national debt currently around $16 trillion. the exact figure is calculated constantly by the national debt clock, a clock, costing nearly $4 bill per day to operate the national debt clock is the cause of most of the national debt. more news after this. >> i didn't know that. $4 billion to operate the clock. >> that's why letterman said let's just unplug the clock and we'll solve the whole debt problem. very, very funny. now to a story that's not so funny and causing a lot of concerns. boeing's groundbreaking 787 dreamliner was delayed for years because of produced trouble.

now the company is dealing with two new 787 incidents in the past two days. >> boeing's stock is falling after the latest problems with the dreamliner. as mark strassmann reports, one of those jets sprung a leak yesterday before takeoff. >> reporter: as the boeing 787 dreamliner taxied to the runway approximately 40 gallons of fuel leaked from the aircraft. >> japan air 7 heavy, hold your position. we have fire trucks coming for you. >> the second happened at logan airmen. >> affirm. >> reporter: on monday a fire burned in the belly of a 7787 just minutes after passengers had left the plane. captain chesley sullenberger is a cbs news safety and aviation expert. >> if you look at the history of aviation decades ago new airplanes had many more issues and they often led to fatal results. now we catch these problems much

earlier. >> reporter: national safety board investigators traced the fire to a battery in the auxiliary unit. >> it's a battery that provides the electricity used to start it. it's used on the ground fro provide heating and cooling when the plane is on the ground. >> reporter: in a statement they say nothing that we've seen in this case indicates a relationship to any system in the last months. last month a flight made an emergency landing in new orleans after false warnings from an electrical panel. united inspected all of its 787s. all six of those planes flew yesterday, but "the wall street journal" found improperly i installed wiring. >> every new airplane has grow growing planes. >> reporter: whole both of japan's 787s returned to the skies yesterday, boeing's

reputation may rest on the dreamliner staying out of the headlines. for "cbs this morning," mark strassmann, houston. >> let's bring in cbs travel editor peter greenberg. peter, good morning. >> good morning. >> are these growing pains orring is more significant? >> they are growing pains but as captain sullenberger said, the real key is to catch them. and then how quick will they move to fix the problem. this is the most outsourced airplane ever built. in fact in terms of the situation, this is plane that relies more on electrical power than any other plane ever built and the key here is the lithium ion batteries in the cargo compartment. those lithium batteries can be very dangerous if not stored properly. >> how many of these dreamliners are flying today? >> only about 36. but boeing has more than 800 on order. it's a very popular plane. the key, again, is the culture of the faa.

the national safety transportation board has the investigate this. they can't make policy. it's up to the fa a to see how quickly they want to move. that's already a known problem with the 787 and they've issued a directive weeks ago about this very problem itself. >> peter, do you think these planes are safe to fly? >> i do. i don't see any overwhelming evidence right now to suggest they're safe. this is a plane that was delayed 3 1/2 years. so many airlines are angry that they may have even canceled their orders or refused to fly the plane until they're fixed. where's the oversight there. without that we have a problem that may be long standing. >> what's boeing's explanation? >> boeing's explanation is exactly as you heard. growing pans. we're dealing with it. that's normal. the fact is how fast will they work.

>> peter, how do you expect that the faa will respond? >> well, that's the problem. the faa can sometimes take a year to two years to actually implement what we call a directive. i think in this case they're going to move a lot faster because it's got so much publicity. >> is this experience different from others when they have introduced a company maker of airlines has introduced a new plane? >> the difference here is you're not dealing with one manufacturer. you're dealing with one who's making plane but dozens and dozens of subcontractors. they're finding improperly installed items here or things that should have been fixed before they got off the assembly line. we are looking at some major changes around the bay area today. the clouds beginning to move in. we have some thick fog though,especially in the east bay valleys but storm clouds going to race in by the afternoon. and then we have a chance of some showers. numbers right now, a chilly 30s

in the valleys, 40s elsewhere. by the afternoon, highs only going to be in the 50s. seeing some rain developing in the north bay first, then spreading to the south so could be a wet commute. a chance of showers continuing, much cooler into tomorrow. the flu is ting us early and hard. nearly every state is seeing the impact. more people are ending up in intensive care. we'll ask dr. jon lapook about the flu outbreak how bad it could become and if it's too late to get the vaccine. that's next on "cbs this morning." [ male announcer ] this is bob a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so.

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the flu. doctor, first, why this year is it so severe? >> well, it's really come earlier. it's five years earlier, but it's not more severe than typical. the cdc wants you to be concerned because every year you can have tens of thousands of deaths and there's a very good vaccine out there and they want people to take it. that's the best way to protect yourself. >> it's never too late. >> it's never too late. it only takes two weeks for the flu to kick in. it can extend as late as april, even may. >> what's the difference between a cold and a flu? >> there's a lot of overlap. in general, cold is from the neck up. you have sneezing runny nose cough. you can see some cough and sore throat with the flu, but with the flu you tend to be really sick. fever, headache aches and pains. >> have you ever had the flu? >> i can't remember, no. >> maybe because you had the flu. when you have the flu, it's just terrible. >> you're saying it's not more severe than any other year.

why are hospitals turning away ambulances because they're overrun. you see in pennsylvania, we soo pictures of tents outside of hospitals to deal with the overflow. this is unusual see this kind of stuff. >> well, it's troubling to see it but it's not particularly unusual. there is a train that in past years has been particularly nasty. they are concerned and want people to get vaccinated. it's very disturbing. if you get the flu and you're in an intensive care unit you can die the die. the cdc wants everyone to get it. >> who is most at risk. >> anybody over six months. >> that's about 99% of americans, especially people with underlying medical problems. >> gayle is scared of shots le sshots. would you will be willing to hold her hand? >> i would inject there.

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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. a reward is expected to be announced today for the run of a valuable art -- return of a valuable art fact stolen from the oakland museum of california. a thief broke into the museum monday and stole a historic gold box worth more than $800,000. the city of san jose is going to experiment with so- called curb cafes. under the one year pilot program, downtown restaurants would be allowed to expand their patio seating into the parking area of the street. the restaurants would have to pay for the platforms and make up for any lost parking spaces. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. getting a check of the san mateo bridge, it looks okay right now in westbound 92, we are just getting word of an accident on the other side of

the span westbound 92 approaching foster city boulevard blocking one lane and some delays and brake lights across that stretch. elsewhere, back outside once again to milpitas, 880/237, you can see through the fog out there, and we have slowdowns on westbound 237 from about 880 towards zanker road. quick mass transit note. there are about 10- to 15- minute bart delays at the glen park station towards sfo due to some police activity. that's traffic. here's lawrence. >> still looking at some of that ground fog around the bay area but some big changes coming in our direction today as we have a chance of rain moving in. a lot of clouds thickening up outside today. and we have some dense fog especially in the east bay valleys. an advisory for that is in effect until 9 a.m. 30s and 40s. this afternoon cooler and cloudy and rain in the area. snow early tomorrow morning down to 1500 feet.

good morning, charlie and gayle. good morning, everybody. it is 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the welcome mat is out in washington for this month's inauguration, but hotels and restaurants are worried about the lack of turnout. we'll show you why. and the san diego's zoo's new panda cub meets the public tomorrow but this morning we'll meet him before anyone else. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. the white house is considering recommendations which would include a been on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition. >> gun control supporters are pushing harder while the gun lobby plans to meet with joe biden's gun force. >> i think if all we talk about is just controlling guns. what we should talk about, we're not doing enough.

>> an accident on long island a ferry accident. >> was lapse personally involved in intimidating these other riders to keep them quiet. >> it was tough. >> all these witnesses. >> yeah. >> retired fbi agent robert levinson disappeared in 2007 while visiting an island off of iran now his family has revealed photos that may suggest where he is. >> what it seems to be is a piece of propaganda that's saying the u.s. negotiate, put something on the table. two boeing 787s run into trouble on consecutive days. so what's going on now with the dreamliner? >> you've got a re-election coming up. did you scare new jersey mayor cory booker out of the race? >> no. >> the white house is gearing up for a fight with republicans over chuck hagel, president obama's pick for secretary of defense. as well as a fight over that

other thing, everything. [ laughter ] i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the push for gun control tops the agenda in the nation's capital today. vice president biden's task force meets with gun control lobbies and victims groups. mayors from around the country are launching a new ad campaign to increase gun kroell and in new york governor andrew cuomo will use his state-of-the-state message to call for tougher new gun laws. >> new jersey governor chris christie is riding high with a 73% approval rating in his own state after calling out his own party in congress for waiting to help superstorm sandy victims. >> christie is seen as a potential front-runner for the 2016 president nomination. this morning i asked christie if he thinks the tea party has too

much clout in the gop? >> no, i don't. i think they have influence. i think everybody who comes to the table should have a voice. >> you don't think that's why the house republicans have not been able to get to the fiscal cliff deal. >> you adopt think the house republicans can't get to the calf deal >> listen. i think there are so many reason i they couldn't and a lot are personal. >> what do you mean personal. >> i think they get into these toxic competitions with each other and internal intrigue things -- don't look at me puzzled charlie. there's a competition among all these folks in that room. >> was that your puzzled expression? >> no, no, no. but it's interesting what he said and the fact that he's calling for some "look at new jersey, at therefore if the congress would be like new jersey you wouldn't have the political dysfunction. >> what do you think about the "time" magazine cover "the boss?" >> i love the cover and bruce springsteen and the bromance he has with him.

the thing about chris christie he's uniquely himself no matter who he's talking to. never disappoints. speaking of washington, a record crowd descended on the town for president obama's first inauguration in 2009. well, four years later, officials say it won't happen again and that's becoming a problem for d.c. businesses. the inauguration will be held at the capitol and chip reid at the other end of the national mall near the lincoln memorial. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you can see the capitol behind me as you mentioned. that is a long ways away. that is where the president will take the oath of office. four years ago the crowd stretched all the way from there past the washington monument all the way the entire length of the mall to where i'm standing near the lincoln memorial. this year the crowd's expected to be a fraction of that size. the fairmont hotel in washington, d.c. is offering an inauguration package. it includes your own presidential dog, a chauffeur driven bmw, two body guards and more. >> one unique thing it includes

is higgs and her rolex presidential watches. >> reporter: the price, $400,000. it's an example of how d.c. hotels are trying to gin up excitement. four years ago they were booked solid. but now -- >> they are still available. we don't expect a whole lot of hotels to fill up. >> reporter: it's not just people with money to burn. they are far less excited than the first time president obama took office. elliott ferguson is ceo of destination d.c. which promotes tourism in the nation's capital. >> it's like anything. the second time around it's still important, important to the country and democrats as a whole but it's not the first time for the rodeo. >> reporter: in 2009 1.8 million people filled the mall to hear the new president's address, a record crowd that stretched two miles from the capitol all the way to the lincoln memorial.

this year planners estimate well half under that number will show up. inauguration is also the martin luther king day holiday and they hope people will attend. if the smaller crowd projections turn out to be correct, organizers say this will still be the fourth largest inauguration in u.s. history but even the most optimistic planners say its will be a far cry from the financial bonanza of four years ago. >> if i owned a restaurant, i'd want it to look like the numbers in 2009. folks are a little antsy. >> reporter: we called 25 hotels to see how their reservations were. 15 still have rooms available. four years ago every hotel within miles of washington were solidly booked. charlie, norah and gayle a little bit of news. politico is reporting that beyonce will sing the "national anthem" at the inauguration. >> that's good. >> heard that. >> she's also performing at the super bowl. >> goodyear for beyonce.

>> and will be at the inauguration. >> broadcasting live. a double dose of beyonce. in texas the issue isn't heat. it's rain. there's too much of it raising the potential for flooding. anna werner is in soggy houston. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. the severe weather moving across texas and louisiana this morning could bring up to seven inches of rain in some spots. of course, the biggest concern here as always is flooding. here in houston and throughout parts of southeast texas, a flash flood watch remains in effect through tonight for low lying neighborhoods could see flooding. ahead of the storm city officials activated part of the emergency operation center where representatives from three agencies, police fire and public works are keeping an eye on this system but the rain is also very good news for parts of texas because of the severe drought being experienced by most of the state.

just yesterday forecasters said they expect that drought to continue until at least march. so good news for farmers here. >> they could use that rain in australia. huge brush fires are burning across the eastern part of the country and it could get worse. adam todd has that story. >> reporter: we're now entering our second day with more than 100 fires burning across the state. there were all bush fires burning across queensland, victoria, and tasmania. to put it in some perspective, those states account for the entire eastern half of the country. now, as the fires themselves have been caused by the deadly cocktail of hot trenches high strong winds and dry bush land which allow the fires to spread at a rapid pace making them that much harder for firefighters to battle there are here in new south wales that are deemed out

of control and several prop properties have been put under threat. remarkably with fires burning across such a large area we haven't seen widespread property damage or loss of life. we're not out of the woods yet with temperatures expecting to rise in the coming days those fires will become that much more difficult to fight. for "cbs this morning," adam todd in young new south wales. >> that accent sounded a little jarring, didn't it? >> he didn't mention the

look up the word "cute" in the dictionary and you might see a picture of norah's kids or a giant panda. we'll meet the panda at the san diego zoo before he makes his public debut tomorrow. her kids are cute. coming up on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is brought to you by our sponsor for the inside story on shingles. the dictionary and you might see a picture of norah's kids or a giant panda. we'll meet the newest panda at the san diego this morning before he makes his public

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stage. >> good boy. >> reporter: he's 18 pounds, 6 months old, the first panda born at the san diego zoo. >> he's still kind of clumsy. like a toddler. >> reporter: his handlers have been the only humans to get close to him until now. >> i was just snuggled by a panda. >> yes, you were. he's at the stage right now where he's very active and he wants to be moving constantly. he's checking out his environmental, learning to climb. >> reporter: almost always under the watchful gaze of his mother bai yun. >> she'll spend time cuddling with him and nurse him and playing with im. he she's great mom. >> reporter: gosh that's cute. >> they're cute and also endangered they make very good representatives of their species. >> reporter: xiao liwu's baby steps make a major step in conservation. this is the most successful

breeding group outside of china? >> it is. >> reporter: ron swaisgood is one who's working with them. >> back in the 1990s they were about to make late-night television joke because you couldn't get them to do what comes naturally. we did a lot offer research. the population is growing expo anyone chally now. >> reporter: it wasn't easy. in the wild they spend most of their lives alone. when zoos first put males and females together they'd ignore each ore or even worse fight. but a few years -- >> everything changes. the female distributes her scent widely, advertising to the mail she's coming into heat.

>> reporter: swaisgood learns everything is timing. >> she will tell him to high-tail it out of there. i never have seen him move as quickly as he does. >> reporter: getting pandas to mate was one hurdle. keeping their tiny offspring alive, it's another. >> when the panda is born their mother weighs a thousand times. the cub is so tiny and so fragile. >> reporter: swaisgood helped develop a nutritional baby formula and helps mothers deliver multiple cubs. last year a new born cub at washington's national zoo died after one week. that's why san diego is thrilled by xiao liwu. his name means little gift. he's now strong enough to brave the cameras and the crowds.

>> we're very proud to have six cubs born here at the san diego zoo, ten grand cubs back in china as a result of the cubs born here. >> reporter: as for xiau liwu like all p.a.n.d.a.s., he's just on loan from china. >> when he's about 3 or 4 years he's go back to china and hopefully have lots of grandchildren. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker san diego. >> a little shout-out for kelsey for getting those. what is it? >> they're so cute. the black and the white. >> what is it about -- what is so fascinating? just so cute. >> i'm so sorry i asked that. >> it was a very penetrating -- >> i should have asked somebody who would give me a good answer

now, oakland officials will hopes of gett >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. an hour from now, oakland officials will offer a reward in hopes of getting a valuable artifact returned to the oakland museum. a gold box worth $800,000 was taken in a break-in at the museum. the second theft there in two months. there is a warning before a tanker bumped into the bay bridge on monday but it came too late to prevent the collision. it damaged the ship and fender that protects the bridge tower. the investigation into the crash continues. san jose will experiment with a curbside cafe program. five restaurants will be allowed to pay to take over some parking spaces and use part of the street for seating. the city council was unanimous in voting for the one year pilot program. stay with us, traffic and weather coming right up.

good morning. out to mountain view we go northbound 101 a stalled big rig you can see where it's jamming up there approaching shoreline boulevard. sensors are picking up brake lights as far back as ellis, so 280 is a better option for right now. in the meantime, you can barely see traffic but this is 880/237 under all that fog and low clouds. a few brake lights right now between 880 and zanker road. look at the bay bridge, things have actually thinned out quite nicely, still only stacked up to the middle to the end of the

parking lot. metering lights remain on. that is traffic. for more on this foggy forecast, here's lawrence. >> yeah. very thick around parts of the bay area right now. let's take you to san jose and check it out. you can see that fog thickening up a bit there. actually have a dense fog advisory but into the east bay valleys this morning. the temperatures a little bit cool. 30s and some 50s to begin your day. but the storm clouds going to be moving in in the afternoon meaning there's a chance of showers developing in the north bay first after noon and spreading to the south into the evening hours. temperatures will be noticeably cooler generally, and about the 50s outside. so these temperatures continuing to fall. we have that cold air in place and by tomorrow morning, we could actually see the snow level drop to about 1500 feet. so a chance of a few leftover showers early on. then by friday we're dry but it will be cool and brisk. over the weekend, some partly cloudy skies, maybe a little unsettled. i think toward next monday and tuesday, we should be dry and warmer.

during the first quarter of the game the camera found quarterback's mccarran's girlfriend in the stands and the announcer went nuts. >> when you're a quarterback for alabama, you see the lovely lady? i tell you. the quarterbacks get all the good-looking women. >> jimmy kimmel there. looks like chris farley may he rest in peace. >> not exactly what they had in mind though. >> welcome back, everybody to "cbs this morning." as we showed you yesterday, brent muss burger's conference title game has become a bigger story than the actual game. take a listen. >> you see that lovely lady there? she does go to auburn i will admit that. but she's also miss alabama and she's a.j. mccarran's birthday

and on the right is d.b. bonner. you quarterbacks, you get all the good looking women. what a beautiful woman. >> wow. whoa. >> a.j.'s doing some things right. >> starting getting the football out and throw it around the backyard. >> those comments made a lot of people cringe and on tuesday espn apologized saying we always try to capture interesting story lines and the relationship between an auburn grad who is miss alabama and the quarterback has met the test. however the commentary understands that. on her party katharine webb says she was flattered and slightly embarrassed. >> she's on the cover of a lot of papers this morning. i agree. i think most women would be flattered that somebody would say yeah, yeah you look great. maybe he got a little too excited. she's very attractive. what chances are that we'll see her in the super bowl?

>> i think she has a bright future ahead of her. i know that donald trump was talking about making her a judge, so that's going to be more. >> commercials to come no doubt. time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. "usa today" says your 2012 tax refund may be delayed. fwlam it on those fiscal clip talks. the irs programming the computers and printing was delayed. they'll begin january 30th. that's eight days later than usual. "the washington post" says groups inside the obama administration are going to keep only a few troops. a total pullout could be reckless and could cause afghan security forces to crumble. on tuesday the white house officials say they have not ruled out leaving no troops at all. >> the "new york daily news" says target will match the prices of amazon best buy,

walmart and others all year round. this announcement comes after lackluster holiday shopping season. >> and "the wall street journal" remembers former mcdonald ceo fred turner the father of chicken mcnuggets. he died monday at 30 -- excuse me age 80. he got the idea of mcnuggets while talking with a chef in an elevator. this white house photo may explain that conclusion. in all about 43% of mr. obama's appointees have been women but if you look behind the man in the blue shirt, valerie jarrett is in that pier andcture, she's a woman. george w. bush more than one third of his employees were female. >> there is a lot of pressure for the obama administration to add women. >> there's still time. a new cdc report says millions of american women are binge drinking putting their

health and even lives at risk. more than 14 million well binge drink about three time as month, having an average of six alcoholic beverages at one sitting. we're joined at the table by dr. taylor. hello, dr. taylor. >> good morning. >> first of all, what is binge drinking and is that considering an colic? >> four drinks in two hours may not indicate you're an alcoholic, but it may indicate you're into drinking. binge drinking between the ages of 18 to 22 people report they binge drink because they're bored. from 22 to 30 because they're trying to escape something maybe from work. so certainly more women in the workplace. they feel pressure. they come on the weekends usually and throw back four drinks in two hours and take the stress off. certainly we want to close the gender gap but not by these

troubling numbers of more women drinking alcohol. >> i feel i've heard this story for years about women drinking excessively. what makes it different now? >> what makes it different now is when women binge drink it does more damage to our bodies than men. for example, we have increases of risk of breast cancer hypoper tension, cade owe vascular disease, dementia. so we're doing tremendous damage even though we consume less alcohol and do more dak. some studies suggest that women die at higher rates than male alcoholics. so people need to understand what's happening. >> i thought it was interesting. the report says more white and hispanic women with moreincomes of more than $75,000 are binge drinkers. why is that? >> they start younger and are

more likely to go into binge drinkers. that's what it's thought. if you think about it forecast you have an income where maybe you can sit at home or go out on the weekend you're still stressed and so it still follows that you're trying to escape something. >> you know you have a problem when? >> when -- risky drinking -- i have a lot of friends why say i my adequate fie this. if you drink more than seven drink as week or more than three a day or binge drinking that's risky drinking. if you find that you're drinking to escape you're finding that you can't stop that you go into withdrawal or tolerance or you avoid your usual activities you're not going to work relationships are suffering, you may have a problem and you may need to talk to your health care provider. >> dr. taylor, good information. thanks so much. >> nice to see you. >> charlie? the connecticut legislature meets for first time today. they'll be discussing new gun

control legislation. meanwhile as michelle miller reports, newtown is staggering under a load of generosity. >> reporter: in the heart of newtown there's a warehouse now chock full of love. gifts from people around the world in every shape, every form, every expression possible. there's a lot of very heartfelt items in those boxes. >> chris kelsey is in charge of the donations that started pouring in immediately after the shooting at sandy hook elementary school. his army of volunteers have been busy sorting through presents from small chirp to big corporations. with the hope of bringing some small measure of peace to the 26 families that lost loved ones. >> they come through periodically to pick out, you know, what they want. >> alex scarpa attended sandy

hook elementary as a child. last week she came back here volunteering to help during christmas break. >> we want to come together so nobody has to suffer alone. >> reporter: scarpa and her comrades have inventoryied and packed more than 4,600 boxes of items. stuffed animals, school supplies boxes of kleenex, even bicycles. at last count there was some 47,000 teddy bears co-donated. so many they had to separate them by small, medium and large. that's nearly two bears for every man, woman, and child in newtown. what do you do with it? >> i am contacting families. if they want to see stuff go i want to fulfill their wishes first. >> reporter: it's still coming in. while we were there, six palettes of teddy bears arrived from california. all of this generosity provides

an overwhelming if unintended problem here. >> a lot of us are a little worn out. stressed out. burned out. we're grateful for everything we're getting. we have enough. if anybody would like to make a contribution, we would prefer monetary. >> reporter: they don't expect the operation dloes for fwhoot two months. until then he and all the volunteers will continue sorgt and boxing until every donated item can be put to good use. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller, newtown, connecticut. >> wow. i remember when we were in newtown the thing we kept hearing over and over, they were so touched that people were so moved and wanted to do something. they were so touched that people remembered them and wanted to donate. >> it shows how mump this country cares about those children and their families. >> that's right. a lot of us ate lie crazy over the holidays and we're still

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zumba provides a party workout with a latin flair. look at this. nearly 8,000 people exercising at the same time. zumba, i like saying the world, has become the most world fitness brand. he's one of the top five ceos to watch in 2013. alberto perlman. norah says she takes your class.

it's sexy and it's challenging. do you think that's fair assessment? >> yeah. the first time i saw the zumba class and the reason we created it and the zumba company is they saw something they did not know existed. i saw fitness without sacrifice. people smiling, cheering laughing and sweating. >> at the same time. how did you come up with the name zumba. >> so the world rumba in spanish means to party and we wanted something that rhymed. we went through the alphabet. we were getting nervous. zumba sounded like what it was. >> when i look at you, you look like a businessman. you don't look like you do zumba. >> i do the video game. i do the video game with my kids. it's an amazing experience. i do it. of course, i do it. >> the thing that's cool about it. you talk about kids because kids can really dance before they can talk. grandma can do it. people of any age can do it. >> yes. we have a zumba kids class.

zumbatomic. zumba gold class for grandma. zumba tone class with dumbbells. one uses a chair as a dance partner. >> it covers everything. >> everyone and everything. >> you know alberto, zumba was in the news about the story in maine with the zumba instructor who was running a prostitution class out of her place. when you heard that story, did you think why couldn't it be jazzercize jazzercize? >> i think that it doesn't matter. >> i realize that. people now know the name. >> i went, i wish the media would have focused on some of our incredible instructors like elaine gill in new york who when hurricane sandy hit she grabbed all of her zumbawear and gave it

to all the homeless shelters. there's a class a woman taught for 500 orphans in india. i wish the media focused on those instructors. >> you just put it out there. you know what i mean. you're the ceo and you hear that circumstance was there a part of you that said yippy eye owe or why us.? ? i'm really serious. >> in the beginning we were shocked and then realized it doesn't affect us. >> how do you make certain that zumba doesn't become a fad. >> the thing about fad, look at the thigh master for example. >> yes. i had one. >> it gives you a physical benefit and someone's going to come out next year with something better for your these. but when it gives you an emotional benefit, yoga gives you an emotional benefit, extend, balance. zumba gives you freeing electrifying joy. it's happiness and that emotion

speaks to people. >> now you've got 14 million people doing it. you'll be happy with how many people doing zumba. >> i have like a goal of 100 million. we'd love to see a hundred million people taking zumba. >> alberto perlman. thank you so much. we'll hear from argentina's lionel messi who may be the world's greatest soccer player ever. that's next coming up on "cbs this morning." >> take a look at this. we'll take you on a ride that could be the future. >> reporter: i'm john blackstone. a car is driving itself at 70 miles an hour around a california racetrack. we'll show you the ♪ i -- i got it i got it made ♪ ♪

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minutes is turning its investigative eye to the world of sports. in tonight's first deooe diggs of "60 minutes:sports" bob simon has a rare interview with lionel messi. the first barcelona soccer club. >> takes it. absolutely brilliant. that goal was a work of art. one lionel messi. >> reporter: he is hailed not merely as great athlete but as an emperor or more. >> it's now messi, messi. we all worship at his feet. it's a temple. he's the high priest and that's why we're getting to worship states here. >> reporter: and barcelona isn't the only temple. hundreds of millions are

watching on six continents. there are hundreds of fan clubs around the world. this is the smithfield the bar on west 128th street in new york city. it houses the clan of the messy fans and guess who ease just scored a goal. bob wineberg is a leader of the brooklyn contingent. >> messi is obviously the greatest player of all time. he place straight he plays smart, he's not huge he's just fast as hell and he's great. >> reporter: and he's got a great team behind him. the other players are responsible for more than their share of goals and they help messi as much as he helps them. when people say to you, hay leo, you are the best player in the world, how does that make you feel? how do you react to that?

>> translator: very grateful and happy and happy that this is the opinion that people have of me. and the fact that they tell me and think that of me is obviously a wonderful thing. >> do you reelingize how much joy you bring to people? >> translator: yeah, i think that everybody gets joy. not just because of me but because of this barsa team that's been winning and playing so well lately. >> bob simon is here. is he the best in history? >> i don't know anything about soccer but the people who do know say he is. he's better than the others. they've never seen anything like it. >> what is it that makes him so good? what do they say? >> it's an art form for him. he's not a mere athlete. in fact, when you talk to people about him, they compare him more to mozart because -- >> it's artistry. >> it's artistry. it's beautiful. it's beautiful to watch him. he does things which you can't understand. i mean he'll dribble past

professional defenders who usually don't get beaten like than. >> when you do a piece like this whether it's a musician or businessman or international athlete, what is it you're looking for? >> i'm looking for what makes them do what they do. and with messi, there's no question. he loves to play. it needs a question of playing soccer. he just loves to play. he started when he was 3, and for him he's still playing with a baseball or american football players are called players. i wonder if they're really enjoying themselves. but he's having a balg. >> so the adulation is fun, but if the stands were empty, he'd still be doing what he's doing. >> thank you, bob. "60 minutes:sports" premieres tonight at 10:00 central only on showtime. one yea

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