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storm in a week. >> in colorado the blowing snow forced about 50 students to spend the night at their school. >> severe weather struck florida's west coast as well a waterspout came ashore as a tornado. >> felt like i was in "the wizard of oz" for a second. chuck hagel sworn in as defense secretary. >> he's finally arriving at the pentagon for his first day at work. watered down bud light? a class action lawsuit. >> seems like a face plant. >> his career is blown right now. >> number one goes down, minnesota knocks off indiana! >> you are the worst excuse for a journalist i have ever seen. >> i am a what? i can't hear you. >> you heard me. >> and all that matters. >> they'll confiscate his gold ring, take away his cape and also his red shoes. same thing that happened to me when i left nbc. >> on "cbs this morning." >> when a new pontiff is elected
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there will be two popes living just a few yards away from each other here in vatican city. >> it's going to be chaos, which pope do you bow to and which one do you go, s'up? welcome to "cbs this morning." st. peter's square was packed this morning for pope benedict's final public audience. benedict steps down tomorrow. >> the pope acknowledged difficult times during his papacy but told his people he has great trust in the future of the church. allen pizzey is in st. peter's scare. allen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there are fierce concerns about whether or not the monostic life benedict is about to fade into will keep him from having influence on the next papacy. that's for tomorrow. today he was center stage. benedict made a stately arrival for his last general audience
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aboard a pope mobile perhaps taking advantage of the last time he will have use of one of the specially made vehicle. the crowd of st. ter's square was half the 200,000 the vatican predicted and catered for but the welcome was warm. the pope thanked the crowd as he put it "from the bottom of my heart," and told them he was fully aware of the seriousness and novelty of his decision to resign. cardinals were gathering to choose benedict's successor held places of honor and seemed moved by the occasion. the 115 cardinals eligible to vote will be looking for a pope who can meet the challenges in the church, the sex abuse scandal and reports of a dysfunctional church administration. helen reedy from dallas what do you think about the sex scandal is it irrevocably tainted? >> i know the church has endured
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scandals throughout the centuries. i think we need to look at how things were handled and how to make changes going forward. >> reporter: benedict reiterated that his decision to resign was taken afterthoughtful prayer and best interest in the church. he said he was not abannen doing the church even though he no longer would be pope. he asked the faithful to pray for the cardinals when they choose the successor. the smile at the end of his homily and accepted cheers of the crowd seemed to be that of a man at peace with himself and acknowledged it was unusual. the date of the conclave isn't expected to be announced before monday when the cardinals begin meeting in congregations to discuss where they think the church needs to go next and so far there's no clear sign of which one of them might emerge as the winner. charlie, norah? >> allen pizzey, thanks. after his farewell appearance the pope sent out a tweet, "it only everyone could experience the joy of being christian, being loved by god who gave his son for us."
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peter gallagheron delia gallagher is with us this morning from the vat sanicanvatican. >> reporter: good morning to you, charlie. >> give us the mood now as it shifts to his retirement and the college of cardinals? >> reporter: well what struck me this morning, charlie, is just what a radical choice this pope has made. he said that when you become pope you lose all sense of privacy in your life, and now that he's renouncing the papacy he's not going back to a private life as we understand it made up of dinners or conferences. he really is going to continue a life as he claimed of seclusion and prayer hidden from the world. >> and delia, can we expect to see the pope one last time tomorrow when he leaves the vatican for the summer residence? >> reporter: absolutely. there should be footage of him going off in the helicopter to
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castel gandolfo, his summer residence and probably the last time we see the pope in public for the foreseeable future because of course the concern will be he steps aside so the college of cardinals from 8:00 tomorrow evening local time can take over during this period in the state of where there is no pope. >> they're already talking is there a sense they want to use a selection of this pope in a sense to say something about the church and the issues that are surrounding it at this moment? >> reporter: i do think charlie there is a renewed sense of excitement if you will here at the vatican because we've had eight years of a rather difficult pontificate, so i do think the cardinals are almost looking forward to the opportunity to set a new direction within the limits of course of what's available in the college of cardinals who have all been nominated by pope
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benedict or his predecessor john paul ii. i think there's that sense of a new, fresh start for the church. >> you say that the cardinals in some ways want to distance themselves from the scandals that are surrounding the church but how do they do this when a cardinal like roger mahoney of los angeles is allowed to vote in the conclave for a new pope at the very time he is accused of protecting priests of sexually abused children? >> reporter: yes, well this is of course one of the major scandals that has overshadowed the church in the last 30 years, the last ten years specifically this has come out and i think it's one of the things which they will be very aware of in choosing the new pope it will have to be somebody who is able both to continue to monitor the consequences of that scandal, and at the same time bring a new sense of direction and a new idea of the future of the church
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to help people heal and kind of move away from that scandal. >> delia gallagher thank you, and we will see you in rome soon. >> a senior white house official says this morning the president and congressional leader also sit down on friday. there are only two days left before $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts are set to kick in. the newest casualty control over illegal immigration, bill plante is at the white house this morning, bill good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, and good morning out west. no progress in sight and we don't expect to hear from the president on this until late this afternoon pacific time. meanwhile the climate is more poisonous than ever. the president and cabinet members are detailing the damage they expect if these cuts go through. in an interview with "cbs evening news "anchor scott pelley, john boehner reacted to reports that officials are releasing illegal immigrants
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from detention centers. >> i frankly think this is outrageous. i can't believe they can't find the kind of savings they need out of that department short of letting criminals go free. >> reporter: but on tuesday the department of homeland security confirmed that because of budget cuts that could take effect friday they have ordered the release of several hundred people in custody and placed them on supervised release. the nation's top law enforcement officer added his voice to the warnings suggesting that the cuts could affect the ability of police to do their job. >> it will have a negative impact on the safety of americans across this great country. ♪ >> reporter: the $85 billion across-the-board cuts were designed to hit the military hardest in hopes that would keep republicans from allowing the cuts to happen. now the military is about to lose $46 billion from its budget, and the army's chief of staff doesn't like it. >> our young men and women are the ones who will pay the price potentially with their lives. >> reporter: the president stepped up his attacks on the gop in newport news virginia
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next door to the largest naval base in the country. >> there is a sensible way of doing things and there's a dumb way of doing things. >> reporter: the president's plan is to replace across-the-board cuts with a combination of renew increases from closing loopholes and more targeted cuts but republicans have rereitedly rejected that saying they have offered their own alternatives. on tuesday, speaker bain ear tacked the democratic controlled senate for them to come up with its own bill. >> we have moved the bill in the house twice, shewe should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and has to do something. >> reporter: the white house says there's not much hope that the automatic cuts known as the sequester can be avoided and the president is rejecting the republican saying if he is allowed which programs to trim. senior officials believe republicans will eventually come around to increasing revenue. they say they see some cracks in the republican opposition.
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>> bill plante thanks. speaker boehner continues to pressure the president and senate democrats to hash out a budget plan. boehner told scott pelley it is now out of his hands. >> you say that it's time for the senate democrats to pass a plan. you are the highest ranking republican in government. is this not your responsibility? do you wash your hands of this and wave it to the senate? >> the house has acted twice. why should the house have to act a third time before the senate does anything? >> those two bills you passed are dead now. you have a new congress. >> we've outlined -- >> you would have to pass a new bill. >> we've passed bills twice. they all understand where we're coming from. it's time for them to do something. >> so do you not believe as the highest ranking republican in the government that this is your responsibility to lead on this issue? >> no. we elect a president to lead instead of running all over the country doing campaign-style events using our men and women in the military today as
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campaign props, all he has to do is come up and sit down with harry reid and senate democrats and work out a plan that they can pass. simple as that. >> using our troops as props? >> he went to newport news today and in a campaign style event using our men and women in the military as props. pure and simple. he traveled over 5,000 miles in the last two weeks doing campaign style events trying to drum up support for his actions on the sequester. all he would have to do is drive a mile and a half and sit down with harry reid and senate democrats and get to work. remember, the house has done its job. it's time for the senate and the president to do theirs. >> chuck haguele is now the nation's defense secretary. the former republican senator was sworn in this morning, a deeply divided senate voted 58-41 in favor of president obama's pick to lead the pentagon. it comes days before billions of
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budget cuts are set to hit the military. he spent weeks battling members of his own party. in the end only four republicans ended up voting for hagel. for the first time the obama administration is said to be providing direct aid to rebels in syria. the civil war killed nearly 70,000 people. clarissa ward what kind of aid are we talking about? >> the administration is looking at providing rebels fighting on the ground inside syria with non-lethal support. that might mean military training for the rebels t might mean training to help the rebels prepare to deal with some kind of a possible chemical attack. it might mean providing them with body armor or armored cars. margaret brennan was able to ask secretary of state john kerry about the possible shift at a press conference in paris. >> is the u.s. willing to directly aid the fighters on the ground and is that enough to change assad's administration?
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>> he needs to know that he can't shoot his bayway out of this and so we need to convince him of that, and i think the opposition needs more help in order to be able to do that and we are working together to have a united position with respect to that. >> the secretary hinted the u.s. might start to distribute aid in rebel held parts of syria. secretary kerry expected to talk more about the syria question at an international conference tomorrow in rome. charlie and norah? >> clarissa ward thank you. the supreme court today is hearing arguments over the landmark 1965 law, at issue, whether voting rights are secure enough now to allow the rollback of protections from the civil rights era. john crawford is at the supreme court. jan, this has far-reaching consequences. tell us about what's at issue here? >> reporter: the voting rights
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act is one of the most arguments now just under way in the supreme court in this really significant challenge, of course president johnson signed the voting rights act back into law in 1965 designed to remove barriers to voting african-americans facing like poll taxes and literacy tests. today's challenge involves just one section of the law, section five, that provision requires 16 states mostly in the south to still go to the justice department to get approval before they want to change any of their voting procedures, even if they just want to move a polling place and people in the south in those states say look things have changed. we may have had to have done that in 1965 but we don't need to be doing that in 2013. blacks are being elected at unprecedented levels. the local offices shouldn't have to keep going to the justice department. the defenders of the law say no doubt things have changed in the south but they're saying charlie and norah, they haven't changed
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enough. >> jan crawford thanks. internet gambling is legal in new jersey. governor chris christie signed the measure into law yesterday, casinos ss will offer their own online games. critics warned it would only add to gambling addiction. there's a new study out this morning that appears to show advanced breast cancer is increasing among young women. the national cancer institute found the number of spaces nearly doubled in the last three decades for women between ages 25 and 39. researchers do say it is more aggressive in younger women and the survival rate is much lower. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the washington post" said the supreme court is considering whether dna collection without a warrant is an invasion of privacy. maryland collects dna from those they arrest in hopes of solving old cases.
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samuel alito says it could be the most important case the court has heard in decades. "the new york times qulgs says u.s. officials might share the results of drone surveillance with algeria. the idea is to help algeria forces kill or capture militants in their own country. the "new zealand herald" reports on a rare shark attack a 46-year-old swimmer was killed by a great white that may have been 14 feet long. police shot the shark, which swam away. the lapd plans to look at how it disciplines officers. christopher dorner's firing is being reviewed by the department leading other officers to demand another look at the punishments they received from their bosses. the new york post" says the parent company of budweiser is being sued accused of watering down its beer. the label says it contains 5% alcohol but plenty say it's less
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and they want $5 million each. the latest big winter storm won't go away. snow is falling from missouri to new england. chicago is still under a winter weather advisory heavy snow and high winds in chicago grounded hundreds of flights yesterday, many schools and businesses had to shut down early. blizzard conditions in missouri knocked out power to more than 100,000 customers. the storm is blamed for at they are getting pounded with all that storm. we have a great day ahead, lots of sunshine and above normal temperatures. numbers right now though, it's cold inland. all the way down to 29 degrees in fairfield. 32 freezing in santa rosa. this afternoon well into the 60s and low 70s. even warmer through friday, cooling off a few more clouds for the weekend.
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meyer weren't >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everybody. 7:26. of i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some bay area headlines now. santa cruz police are mourning the deaths of two detectives. they were killed yesterday while investigating a possible domestic violence case. the suspect was killed later in a shootout with the santa cruz police. a water main break here in san francisco's west portal direct flooded a number of homes and cars early this morning. look at that car there. the clean-up around 15th avenue and wawona street will keep that street closed all day perhaps even a couple of days. east bay couple missing in peru
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may have been found or may be found soon. officials say the two were spotted on a boat near a remote village and a plane has been sent to find them. traffic and weather coming up after the break.
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good morning. well, it is still really slow on southbound 880 leaving oakland all the way down know san lorenzo because of an earlier crash. this is what it looks like now near the hague haig exit. crowded there. and then check out our sensors as you got closer towards the earlier accident scene. all lanes have now been reopened approaching lewelling boulevard. we are still seeing super slow traffic into san leandro. that is traffic. for more on your forecast, here's lawrence. >> a lot of sunshine coming our way. what a day its going to be. yeah, a little hazy outside over the bay looking toward the the golden gate. but plenty of sunshine into the afternoon. occasional high clouds drifting overhead, still a chilly start
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to the day, 29 in fairfield, 32 in santa rosa, 40s as you approach the coast. upper 60s maybe some low 70s by the afternoon in some parts of the bay area, even warmer through friday.
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y?ñ in the nba tensions boiled over and in the pacers/warriors game last night. in the fourth quarter hibbert gets into a shoving match with golden state's david lee. the fight grows and gets close to the first full stands. hibbert and lee were tossed out of the game. the pacers win it 108-97. welcome back to "cbs this morning." can i just say it doesn't surprise me. >> because? >> it's a competition.
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boys fighting. >> part of the game is it? >>. the last time we saw martha stewart before a judge the was sentenced for five ms. for obstruction on an insider trading case. >> now she's in court for breach of contract. it puts stewart's brand in a tough spot. rebecca jarvis is with us. good morning. >> good morning, charlie and norah. this is turning into a bitter courtroom battle between archrival and old friend. macy says it has the right to sell martha stewart living products exclusive ivgly but she says they will have to learn to share. when they invested in 2011 the move seemed like a good deal for the queen of crafts. jc penney also planned to create many martha stewart stores. but that's where the problems
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began. stewart already had another exclusive contract with a large retailer macy's. macy's considered the move a breach of contract and is suing both the partner and their rival. >> we have two retail giants going head to head over a brand that's still strong after so many years. >> this retail analyst says hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake and jc penney is the most at risk. >> that's more interest for jc penney. >> in court on monday things got personal when the ceo took the stand and describes his last phone conversation with martha stewart over a year ago. she
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that's when i hung up. i haven't responded to her since that phone call and i don't intent to, lundgren said. they're expected to take the stand. no matter the outcome. macy's and martha stewart will have to live with each other. >> macy's most of their stores are still working. they'll milk the sales. they have it locked up until 2018. >> this is not a jury trial. they believe thad the mini martha stewart stores within georgia c penny are the same as standalone stores which the contract allows. >> still no comment from melissa
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meyer. the new rule to stop working from home is now the new talk. they broke the stories for all things d, a blog owned by dow jones. you'll see it only on "cbs this morning." good morning, kara. >> hi how are you doing? >> good. the reaction to the story has been fierce. you broke it on the front pages of "the new york times" and usa "today." are you surprised by the reaction? >> no. we only did a short story and got ahold of the memo afterward. the anger inside of yahoo! was so high i thought this was a hot button issue. it's really blown up. it talks about women in the workplace because a lot of women work at home. but a lot of people in silicon valley it's the same thing. it's loser culture in terms of work flexibility so it hit as nerve with a lot of people sfleet's get at that issue because many people agree with melissa that you need collaboration. she's in a tough place.
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she's trying to rescue a company that hasn't been doing well and collaboration is a good thing. on the other hand there are those who can only work at home and there ought to be a better way to handle this than the way she handled it almost tone deaf. >> it's a blanket edict, and she's kind of known for that. she was known for that at google. she's got to turn around the company. it's in a difficult position and she feels she needs to apply this heavy medicine. she started with the nice stuff, the free phones free food happy workplace. now she's got to take -- she thinks she has to take these stringent measures. >> i have to ask you about maureen dowd who spent her last two columns talking about silicon valley. today she wrote, quote, many were appalled knowing that myer
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her penthouse atop the san francisco four seasons, her oscar day la rehn as the and her 117 million five-year contract seems oblivious to the fact that for your many of her less privileged sisters with young children tell commuting in a workplace. >> she's got her own expenses. i'm not sure what the pent house has to do with anything. she doesn't want to be that. she said a lot of things that has caused controversy about it being easy to have the baby, coming back really quickly. i don't think that's the point here. i think it's the question of what kind of workplaces do we want and should they be edicts from the company who had done something different before. and i think a lot of people want to talk about this instead of just having it handed down to them. but, you know, she's running the company so she can do whatever she wants. >> what's your opinion of the whole thing? your opinion? >> i'm sorry? >> in other words, do you think she's right to insist on this? >> you know, i think it's a little bit cloudish in its
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execution. thing that's the issue. i think it's a very valid point that you have to have collaboration inside of your company. no other company does this allows this flexibility. whether yahoo! is in that dire strait that she has to apply this much pressure, i don't know. she was very upset that no one was at the workplace and the parking lot was empty. she did a survey and people did not show up and so she was mad about that. maybe she feel this is her only recourse. i think tarnishing work at home is the issue. she could have fired the people who were working from home. that would have been a better thing and now she's pulled herself into a controversy. >> congratulations to you. >> no problem. at a time of rising tension between the u stace and north korea, one might not think of sending dennis rodman as a special envoy, but that's ee
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senl cha essentially what he'll be doing. >> reporter: dennis rodman probably hasn't had this kind of reception since his playing days as the worm. but at the pyongyang airport rodman was greeted by dignitaries and cameras eager to hear from the basketball bad boy. >> we got invited and we've come over to have some fun and we're hoping, you know there'll be some fun. >> reporter: rodman arrived in north korea with members of the harlem globetrotters. they're there to run a youth basketball came and tape an episode of the tv show "vice." he wanted to meet the "gangnam style" singer psy. >> what i think that tells you is the new leader kim jong-un is clearly attempting to show that he is a different kind of leader.
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>> reporter: kim jong-un reportedly excelled when he was a student at switzerland and his father was such a fan at the chicago bulls that madeleine albright once gave him a michael jordan autographed basketball. rodman went three nba championships with the bulls. he's one of the first rebounders to ever play the game and definitely the most colorful. >> he kicked the cram man. he's really upset. >> dated may donna, married carmen electra and showed up like this. rodman arrived at a sensitive time, just two weeks after an underground nuclear test. >> we're at a time when we can't talk to each other, but by reaching out in this way, there's a hope of breaking the ice. >> between one eccentric personality and another. for "cbs this morning," jan
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crawford, michigan. >> it's interesting. if somehow a trip by dennis rodman generates more of who they are, what they think. >> that's a good thing. the more we can get american people, whether they're dennis rodman or other officials into north korea, some think that's a good idea. >> i don't see a down side. he's not going to represent the united states government. he's going there to represent himself in basketball. >> exactly. if you're going to buy a new car, some names are making a comeback. consumer reports will show us the picks of the best cars of 2013. that is ahead. and tomorrow -- >> reporter: online may be the future but much of the u.s. is way behind.
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if you're ready for a new car, consumer reports is ready to help. the magazine's come out with its annual best cars of the year. you'll find it in the april issue on newsstands next week. the winners were chosen for more than 280 vehicles. welcome. >> thank you for having me on. >> the best mid-sized sedan? >> the honda accord. they're back. the car does almost everything really well. >> it's more than one as well isn't it? you've got three. >> actually honda's turned themselves around. last year they didn't have any. now we have three, the honda odyssey, crv and the accord which is great choice. >> did you know i have a honda odyssey? >> do you like it? >> yeah i do. yeah, i do. it's gotten some wear and tear
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with the kids. so how did honda turn themselves around? >> they figured out what was going on. last year it was like a low water marcwatt water mark. every year they've gotten worse. the honda civic scored two lee. they came back refreshed it they got the accord and they got their mojo back. they figured out something and they're making great cars again. >> what's the best pick if you're looking for an inexpensive safe car. >> the hyundai elantre. it's fun, reliable. fuel-efficientel-efficient. >> some say the big story is how the internet is coming to cars and how it's adapting to them. >> these cars are turning into -- they're basically smartphones with wheels and an engine these days. that's the biggest these days.
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they're always communicating with your smartphones, data connections. >> hopefully they're not texting. >> they're trying to come up with different ways to use voice. there's different things you can do. distraction is a big issue. >> what about the best green car? >> the prius, tenth year. they're not really for everyone. we could only go 80 miles between a charge. the prius is fuel-efficient reliable. still a good choice. >> all looking good around the bay area. temperatures something else. looking toward mount diablo you can a few high clouds. the temperatures cold in spots this morning down to the 20s in fairfield. 30s in the livermore valley 40s at the coastline. 60s and 70s. warmer days ahead through friday. looks like we cool down over the weekend with partly cloudy
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skies, better chance for rain for everyone on tuesday. a plan to bring back the titanic, and this time it's not for a movie. it it's the real thing. we'll show you why a billionaire says he can recreate the world's most famous ship and intimate shim as well ahead on "cbs this morning." "this is george. he is a good little monkey and always very curious. one day george got an important letter. he's built a rocket ship to travel into space." google, how far is earth to the moon? moon is 238,900 miles... "the great moment had come." 3, 2, 1... [ giggling ]
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o?ñ >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. the santa cruz police department is in mourning after two detectives were killed. police say the detectives were investigating a case of possible domestic violence or sexual assault when the suspect opened fire yesterday. both detectives were found dead outside the home. us the suspect was later show the to death by other officers. clean-up is under way in san francisco after a water main break in the west portal neighborhood this morning.
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the mishap flooded homes and cars around 15th avenue and wawon street. traffic and weather coming up.
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a new accident in livermore blocking one lane westbound 580 approaching north first street and it's slow in the area. this is what it's doing to the drive time in the red now. almost 40 minutes or so to get to from the altamont pass to the dublin interchange. quick look at the bay bridge toll plaza. we have had a couple of stalls and a minor fender-bender before the pay gates. everything is on the shoulder but it's stacked up for a 20- minute wait to the maze. >> we have a lot of high clouds in the skies, otherwise looking good. it's a bit cold in spots this morning if you are heading outside. some of the temperatures into the 20s and the 30s. high clouds over san jose right now. the valleys is where you can find the cold temperatures. but by the afternoon, these numbers are going to warm up. something else. boy, it's going to be a great day ahead. temperatures into the 60s and low 70s.
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60s out at the coastline, as well. the next couple of days, other than a few high clouds, lots of sunshine, warmer through friday. cooling off with partly cloudy skies expected throughout the weekend.
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hey, good morning, everybody. it is 8:00 a.m. and welcome back to "cbs this morning." pope benedict says good-bye to a massive crowd in his final public event. we'll go to vatican city to hear his final message to faithful. plus the details of a high-ranking mobster first on "cbs this morning." first from john miller why he turned against the mafia and his own family. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> reporter: what struck me this morning is just what a radical choice this pope has made. >> st. peters square was packed
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for pope benedict's final public audience. >> the pope acknowledged difficult times during his papacy but told the faithful he has trust in the future of church. >> there are only two days left before $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts kick in. >> is this not your responsibility? do you wash your hands of this and wave it to the senate. >> for the first time the obama administration is considering providing direct aid to the rebels in syria. >> macy's says it has the right to sell martha stewart's products exclusively but jc penney and martha stewart say macy's will have to learn to share. >> why does marissa maier need
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to be a role model for working moms? >> at a time of the rising tension between north korea and the united states one might not consider sending dennis rodman as a special envoy, but that's especially what he'll be doing this week. >> how did honda turned itself around? >> the pope does not get a nickel. gets no paycheck, no money coming in. nothing. yep. that must drive his wife crazy. >> announcer: today's "eye opener" at 8:00 is presented by allergan. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. pope benedict says his eight years as pope was filled with joy and trouble. >> the pope held his last general audience this morning in front of a crowd of some 100,000 people. allen pizzey is in vatican city. allen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the atmosphere in the crowd was quite a happy one. you would have thought there was a lot of sadness but most of the
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people we spoke to said they had come to say good-bye to the pope and witness a historic occasion. the pope toured the square in his popemobile. at one point he was handed a baby and he blessed it. when he spoke he seemed clear and calm and seemed like a man content in himself. he said the decision to leave was serious and a novelty. there's a lot of concern about whether or not the monastic life will keep him uninvolved in the next papacy. no one knows about that for sure. the cardinals who will choose the next pope, many of them are already gathered here, and they were in attendance at the square. one of them was seen to be wiping away what looked like a tear. now, they're not going to announce the date of the conclave before monday because they have to meet in congregations to decide where the church will go. so far there's no indication which one of them will be benedict's successor.
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charlie, norah, gayle? >> all right. allen pizzey, thank you. >> a white house official says president obama will meet friday with congressional leaders. they will discuss the impact of $85 trillion in mandatory budget cuts and what to do about those cuts? >> reporter: cuts beginning now even before they are scheduled to hit on friday. they ordered the release of illegal immigrants on tuesday saying it could no longer afford to house them. attorney general eric holder added his voice to the warnings of what's to come saying the american people are going to be less safe. the army's chief of staff said our young men and women will pay the price, possibly with their lives. white house officials say there's little hope cuts can be avoided, so the only question is how long will they last? norah, charlie, gayle? >> bill plante, thanks. speaker boehner challenged
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senate leaders using language you rarely here at a capitol hill news conference. later he defended his statement with "cbs evening news" anchor scott pelley. >> you had something colorful to say about the senate this morning. do you remember what it was? >> i told them to get to work. >> that's not exactly the way you put it. do you remember what you said? >> yeah, i remember. >> you said it's time for the senate to get off their ass. >> yeah. it's time go to work. >> a few weeks ago you said the president didn't have the guts to do what needed to to be done on the budget. today you say the senate has to get off its ass. those don't sound like words a man seeking to bring people together to compromise. >> now, listen. i had a very nice conversation with the president last week. i had a very nice conversation with harry reid, senator reid the week before. we all understand this is difficult. scott, if it were easy to solve the big spending problem here in
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washington, somebody over the last 20 years would have figured it out. this is not easy to do. but the house has done its work and the president got re-elected. this is the time to lead. now, my reference to the president a couple of weeks ago was about the guts to take on his own party, to do what we all know in this town needs to be done. we've got to cut spending, we've got to change the structural spending problem that we have, and it's time to do it. i'm not going to be part of kicking the can down the road and imprisoning the future for my kids and yours. >> senator harry reid said yesterday he is used to pretty salty language. australian billionaire clive palmer unveiled plans yesterday to build a replica of the "titanic." "titanic" ii will look like the original right down to the
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dinner menus and costumes. the new ship will sail with modern-day safety and this morning equipment. >> it's about people all across the world, the concept of what the titanic means to them. the experience of respect, love, of a different time, perhaps, where women were treated differently by men. maybe it was before things happened in the '70s. >> if you had to classify this, would this be a luxury experience? >> it depends what class you're in. we have first, second, and third class. for me it's a luxury to sit in third class, to have someone to do the irish jig with. i could never do that. i'm always traveling first class every year. i want that experience. i hunger for that experience. >> okay. the maiden voyage of titanic ii. it's set for 2015. >> do you hunger for that experience. >> absolutely not. count me out. >> you would do the irish jig with me. >> i definitely would. why would you want to re-create something caused such tragedy?
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i wonder how many takers. i suspect it would be very safe, but you? go, charlie. >> no. >> okay. >> okay. >> norah? >> i might take a little visit. >> i'm going to pass. >> does the necklace come along with it like in the movie? >> i'm passing. >> martin luther king jr. called rosa parks the spark that ignited the modern civil rights movement. parks made history in 1955 refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus in montgomery, alabama. history is being made once again with a special honor on capitol hill. nancy cordes is there. good morning to you. >> good morning. this is an honor that was eight years in the making. congress voted back in 2005 to commission a statue of parks to be placed here in statuary hall here in capital building just behind me. congress doesn't do this every day. the last time they did this was 140 years ago and the statue is being unveiled today. the u.s. capitol is filled with
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more than 180 statues. giants of american history. today rosa parks who stood 5'1" takes her place among those giants. her statue was lifted in the capitol by crane hidden in a crate. >> you must be so curious about what it looks like. >> i am, i am. >> reporter: elaine steele was one of parks' closet friends. steele said parks wasn't physically tired in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat. she was just tired of being pushed around. >> the bus driver asked her, are you going to move? she remained calm because she had a sweet disposition and said, no, i am not. and he said, well, i'm going to have you arrested. and she said, and you may do that. >> reporter: do you think it was a spontaneous decision? >> absolutely it was.
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>> reporter: it launched a 381-day boycott of the montgomery bus system drawing national attention of a budding civil rights movement as parks explained in a radio interview in 1986. >> we felt nothing could be gained by violence or threats or belligerent attitudes. >> reporter: when parks passed way in 2005, she was the first woman to lie in honor in the capitol rotunda, and hers will be the first full-length statue of an african-american to grace the u.s. capitol. >> we selected a proposal and we lucked out, we won. >> rob firman beat out 100 other entries. they're sworn to secrecy about their design, though they did drop this hint. >> she took sitting to a new level. it's heroic sitting. it's sitting that changed history.
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>> reporter: the unveiling which is taking place today because rosa parks would have turned 100 years old this month. gayle, norah, charlie? >> that's night. it's one more notion that great movements seem to start from the bottom up. >> i met rosa parks before she died. i have t i have to say one of my great honor of this life. he's a marked man for the rest of his life, a monster who broke the code of silence. once now, does it again.
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the man they call crazy phil tells our john miller why he turned on his own people. ahead, the interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." >> he's in silhouette. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is sponsored by allergan. talk to your doctor today about chronic migraine. sponsored by allergan. talk to your doctor today about chronic migraine. maybe you'll have some friends over for dinner. maybe you'll have a migraine. if you have migraines with 15 or more headache days a month, you're living a maybe life. and you may have chronic migraine. but knowing this thing you're going through has a name means knowing you can find treatments that are right for you. go to mychronicmigraine.com to find a headache specialist. and don't live a maybe life. [ male announcer ] rocky had no idea why dawn was gone for so long... ...but he'd wait for her forever, for any reason, and would always be there with the biggest welcome
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yesterday we told you about a jump in divorces among baby boomers. the number doubled between 1990 and 2010. ending a marriage can affect changes in your retirement plan. jack ford and dinah rosato are here this morning. it used to be in most divorce cases you worried about the kids. now you have to start worrying about the retirement. how come? >> it's an interesting thing. you're talking about my generation, the baby boomers, and we're hearing that -- first of all we're all living longer and with the living longer sometimes come expectations for your life, what you're looking for in your life and i think also we've seen that the notion of divorce, there's also the stigma that attaches to it that we've seen in the past. >> that's very true.
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people in their 60s could be married another 30 40 years. >> i never thought about it. i guess in some case yos would have to split up your 401(k), is that right? >> that's right. you think of it as your own, but any assets you accumulate in your marriage, those are assets and those are things that will be split when you guess get divorced. you have to remember to keep that in mind. if you're a couple married, you're going to have a larger kitty. once you get divorced that's going to be split in half. >> what if you start saving for retirement before marriage? >> that's interesting. because there's different ways that the jurisdiction looks at that. there's some jurisdictions which they talk about community property which says whatever you have in the marriage is split down the middle. the other is called equitable distribution. generally speaking if you bring something into the marriage when you leave, that goes with
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you. somebody who's married late in lives 20 years, perhaps they've awe kum lated an i.r.a. or pension plan. something that was clearly yours will stay with you afterward. the question becomes generally everything you've accumulated in the meantime what are we going do with that? >> what if i'm in my 40s get divorced, and i'm retired. i want my money. >> unfortunately as your lawyer i'll say you're not getting it all. it's going to be divided. one of the suggestions people make is sometimes you've got to fight it out in the courtroom. sometimes you can't resolve it. the best thing to do lawyers will tell you, is try to settle it because otherwise the costs of combat in the courtroom and legal fees takes a huge chunk right off the top. >> quickly, about social security benefits. >> people don't realize, when you get divorced you actually are entitle to your ex-spouse's
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security benefits if you don't re remarry and you've been married for ten years. >> thank you. thank you, jack. we'll have the confessions of
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, it's 8:25. time for news headlines. flood damage in the west portal in san francisco where crews are trying to fix a broken water main. chopper 5 over the mud-covered streets and cars here. streets will be shut down at 15th and wawona to fix the main and clean up all the damage. the two officers killed in the line of duty in santa cruz were investigating a sexual assault complaint. a suspect shot and killed detective sergeant loran "butch" baker and detective elizabeth butler yesterday. the suspect was gunned down
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later in a shootout with police. he had reportedly broken in a woman's house last week and made inappropriate sexual advances. a new poll shows more california voters support the legalization of recreational marijuana. today's field poll found 54% agree with the sale of it. a previous bill lost in votes. colorado voted to allow small amounts of pot last year. stay with us, traffic and weather coming up.
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good morning. we got a new accident reported now northbound 880 approaching hegenberger. one lane is blocked pretty slow going past the coliseum. southbound traffic is still working to recover after that earlier crash in our 6:00 hour approaching the san lorenzo exit so southbound is still slow from san leandro. elsewhere, let's go to the maps and show you westbound 237. the silicon valley commute still backed up an earlier crash approaching zanger road. it's traffic. for your forecast. here's lawrence. >> lots of sunshine, high clouds drifting overhead. it will be a beautiful sunset toward the evening hours. the temperatures will warm up nicely. right now chilly, 30s and 40s to begin with. the latter part of the day though, how about this? sunshine all the way to the
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in the colonel's original recipe. try 10 bites with an 8 piece meal for $19.99. [ son ] dad? [ male announcer ] today tastes so good. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour a real life monster living in the shadows is breaking his silence. they call him crazy phil. this morning he comes out of hiding telling of stories of murder, loyalty, and having a price on his head. john miller will have the interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." and we'll meet a fan who used a 33-year-old ticket to get into the concert tomorrow night. we'll show why destiny changed his plans to attend the show in
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1979. >> apparently still living the who. >> good for him. right now it's time to show you the headlines. nursing homes are particularly worried about the big federal cuts set to kick in this friday. nursing homes would feel a pinch in drops from medicare funding. in pennsylvania alone nursing homes stand to looft $37 million this year. >> the "los angeles times" reports seth macfarlane is still taking hits. some of his jokes were degrading to women. on twitter he was asked about a return appearance. he said, no way. a lot of fun to have done it though. "the new york times" says a video that went viral was fake. you might have remembered this faw months ago, a pig rescuing a goat stuck in water. the whole thing had been watched online more than 7 million times. and the "new york post"
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shows this. a paid note. it said the man who died loved everything about new york city except "the new york times." lotty. for more than a decade he had been in hiding with his family. >> now in a new booking, "marv ya prince" leonetti reveals for the very first time what it was like. he writes about violating the oath of mob secrecy, being one of the most underranked turn coats in history. john miller spoke with him in an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." john, only you. >> you know -- >> only you can talk to the mafia. >> i studied phil leonetti for
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so many years i felt like i knew him. he has movie star looks but he was a killer. he made a mission to beltre those secrets. you know what the fictional characters like, but when
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a picture of a saint -- put the blood on the picture of the saint, lit the picture of the saint on fire and cupped it in my hands. he said don't let it fall out of your hands. keep it juggling till it burns it out. he said when you're doing that say may i burn like this saint if i beltretray my friends. >> he always said you've got to kill people and keep on killing. that's how they looked at the problem. they would have to kill him not to be killed but there was no more brotherhood. i mean my uncle took over and the way he was acting, it wasn't the same. he was breaking all the rules that he taught me to obey and i
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just -- i was disgusted. i couldn't take it any more. >> once you're in this league there's twonl ways out, jail or death. there was no retiring. i felt stuck. >> after ten years as he faced a 45-year prison sentence phil decided to turn and became a government witness. >> your uncle who just about raised you put a half million-dollar price on your head. you expect thad. >> yeah it's expected. what i'm doing is going against all the rules. i put myself and my family in a bad situation. that's why we're careful. we've got to be careful. >> he was sentenced to 55 years in prison and you served five years of a 45-year sentence after killing ten people. some would argue that's not justice. how do you see it? >> well it's justice for me. i mean i'm happy i'm out of
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jail. i think i did a good job with my family that i'm raising. i'm not looking to be in the mob. i never got in trouble after i got out of prison. so i think i'm doing pretty good. i think i'm a -- i'm a success story. >> so you've been reading about this guy. finally you meet him. what's different? what do you learn? >> the first thing that strikes you as you sit around and talk with phil leonetti he had no choice. his uncle was taking him on mob hits when he was 10 years old explaining if a cop stops me they'll look at you and say the guy wouldn't be with a kid and they'll stop the next truck. he was fworn into this. the next thing is what a likeable person he is to sit around and talk to. >> why did he live in shadows if we could see pictures of him. is he drastically difference? >> here's the test. did surveillance of husband house down by atlantic city. i worked phillee any leonetti for
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years. i walked by him in the building where we did the interview. hi said hello to me. i said hello back. he looks different today. >> are you nervous, john, not that he's going to whack you? it seems like if people irritate him, bad things happen? >> did i say he was a likeable guy? >> all right. >> you know he hasn't made the mistakes that others in that life have made when they goo into the witness protection program of getting arrested and getting in trouble. he's on the straight and narrow. he doesn't do that stuff anymore. two swiss invert vent inventors are making their dreams come true. it's a solar-powering plane. they plan to travel around the world in a plane only powered by the sun. >> have a good flight. >> reporter: it looks like it's
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floating. it only needs only 165 yards of runway to take off. compared to over a mile for a commercial jet. it has unnaturally long winds p instead of flying the plane seems to glide like a giant dragon fliechl it was created by these two. if there ever was an odd couple, you're looking at them. andre is a pilot and an engineer but never worked on building an earn until six years ago. bertrand didn't even know how to fly one. he's a psychiatrist an expert in hip know sis, and one of the most intense human beings we've ever met. >> we saw the plane take off and land last night. we never saw anything like that. >> a narrow plane like this doesn't exist anywhere else.
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>> and until very recently, it existed nowhere else but in your imagination. >> yeah, that's true. >> with us now drain borshberg and bertrand piccard. good morning. >> good morning. >> for people who don't know much about it, how does it work? >> it's an airplane that has the wing span of a jumbo jet, but it is light like a small car, and this is how it can store energy from the solar power during the entire day in batteries to spend the night on the batteries, reach the next and continue. >> is that a new technical development to be able to do that? >> absolutely. it's the first airplane ever who was able to fly on solar power with absolutely no fuel. >> andre, why do you want to do it? across the united states first? why? >> this spring we'd like to fly from california to new york. we brought the airport to
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moffatt, which is in the heard of silicon valley and in two years we plan to fly around the world. >> is there any fallback? what happens if it doesn't work? >> if s there a plan "b"? >> there's no fuel onboard. >> there's very thorough preparation. they do a lot of work to make sure that the airplane flies and is in sun every morning. >> you have to understand it's a complete first. there's no benchmark. >> and they -- >> you have to accept the risk of problem. >> and they told you when you went out on this mission it's impossible do this. >> absolutely. >> they said we do not have the technology and for them it was impossible. >> why did you think ten years ago, guys that you could do it. what did you know the that the rest of us didn't. ? >> both of us together can bring
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resources a lot of other people don't have. >> the two of you. >> yeah. i come from a family of exploration. my grandfather and my father. you up know it makes a relationship. i think we've been able to find solutions like that. >> and what's in it for you? why do it? what do you expect to get out of it? >> we like to inspire people. i think the world is full of difficulties which are very difficult to be solved and we'd like to show for example that using technologies we can actually achieve with great success, we can save energy and by inspiring people by giving them the possibility also for them to achieve their dreams that would be one way. >> the big problem with solar and wind energy is being able to store it. i mean this is a huge problem
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for the world as they try to figure out alternative energy sources. >> that's a problem. the way we have chosen is slightly different. stind of storing more we have used less. that's an important message. >> bertrand, andre, mercy bow cue. i love your accents. >> and your jackets. very nice. >> good luck good luck good luck. >> thank you two. imagine buying a ticket to a rock concert and waiting more than 30 years, 3-0 years to use it. we'll show you a diehard's fan's
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then there are die hard mao fans. one man in rhode island saw his favorite band play in rhode island last night. jim axelrod will tell you why he's been waiting for that show since the 1990s. >> reporter: hand painted, original hand painted drum head. you may find a few fans of the rock group the who who've been to more shows than barry bellaotti belotti. how many times have you receive the who? >> about 75. >> reporter: but you won't find any more fans any more passionate. this is a guy who's saved about anything he ever collected when he first saw the group when he was 16 years old. he's 63 now. he's even got a napkin from a hotel bar in lexington, kentucky, where he hufrpg out with the electric guitarist pete townsend. >> we had drinks and out by the
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pool played space invaders until wee hours of the morning. >> reporter: how dedicated is he? >> the show he went to last night, he's been holding a ticket to it for 30 years. it is december 1979. one of the worst tragedies in rock 'n' roll history. >> two 15-year-old girls, an 18-year-old mother of two, a 20-year-old student who wanted to be a psychologist, they were among the 11 persons who died in a stampede last night at a con sertd for the british rock group the who as the crowd turned into a mob at the riverfront coliseum. >> reporter: he had tickets for the who consent two weeks later at the providence civic center. the mayor canceled the show in the wake of the cincinnati tragedy saying the band attracted a dangerous element. >> yeah, we were upset. wi us really upset.
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>> reporter: the who never came back to providence until last night. to honor their rorn the awe rina offered them a chance to see the concert for free if they could locate the ticket can selled from the show 30 3 3 years before. guess who still had his ticket. >> my buddy larry said let's put it in a scrapbook and we put it in a scrapbook. >> reporter: so last night there he was hair a little less black and a little less big but loving it just the same. best $12.50 he ever spent. even if it took him 33 years to use the ticket it bought. >> it was my very first who show that i saw in that building and this could very well be my last you know. you never know if they're going to be back.
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>> he wasn't the only die hard. there were 31 others holding their tickets from the canceled concert in 1979 a when they turned them in the old tickets were put on ebay to be auctioned off and the money raised will be donated to the rhode island special olympics. >> i hope they had good seats. >> they had good seats, not great seats. when it comes to barry, good won't do. he bought his own eighth row ticket and that's where he sat. >> so he walk aid way a happy man. >> he did. a very happy man. >> that's incredible that 31 other people still had their tickets 30 3 3 years later. >> i clean out my closet a little more regularly than that. >> exactly exactly. >> thank you, jim. you're watching "cbs this
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 8:5 5. i'm michelle griego with your kpix 5 headlines of a water main break in san francisco's west portal district flooded a number of homes and cars this morning. the clean-up around 15th and wawona street will keep some streets closed all day. santa cruz police are mourning the deaths of detective sergeant loran "butch" baker and detective but the you about. they were killed yesterday while investigating a sexual assault complaint. the suspect was later killed in a shootout with police.
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baker and butler are the first line of duty deaths if the department's history. >> an oakland couple who went off the grid in peru may be found. the family is expecting details from the embassy. officials say jamie neal and garrett hand were spotted on a boat near a remote village. a plane has been deployed to find them. >> and now here's lawrence with the forecast. >> all right. what a forecast we have if you love sunshine and warmer weather. you'll love today. high pressure overhead, other than a few high clouds, we are going to see a beautiful day. looking over russian hill toward the golden gate bridge, we have some hazy sunshine now. and temperatures a little cool in spots. still have some 30s and 40s outside but by the afternoon what a day it will be well into the 60s in many places inside the bay and the valleys. wouldn't be surprised if we saw a 70-degree temperature out there and we'll likely do that over the next couple of days especially into friday, maybe even some mid-70s in the warmest spots. cooling down though and partly cloudy over the weekend. we are going to check your "timesaver traffic" coming up next.
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good morning. it's kind of a rough ride in oakland. first a crash northbound 880 approaching 98th. it looks like this past the coliseum. and then checking our maps we have a new crash just to the right-hand shoulder westbound 580 right before highway 13.
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it is jammed up from golf links but even slow past the crash scene towards park boulevard. take bart. have a great day. land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil is mad sweet cream, canola d salt. just three simple ingredients. what's in your spread?
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