has raised the real possibility that a non-european pope could be in a better position to reform it. he even might be like sean o'malley of boston, or timothy dolan of new york an american. the voting blocs aren't strictly regional here, but more than previously geography counts. >> i'm anxious to get going. tuesday will be great. >> thank god. i'm ready to go. >> reporter: even after a week of meetings, there is still no clear front-runner amongst the cardinals. they have extended their free con-- preconclave meetings into monday because so many have demanded more information on the administrative and abuse scandals that have rocked the catholic church. and vatican insiders like marco politi say the cardinals have begun to see their traditional secrecy of the churches powerful bureaucracy as part of the problem. >> the perception of many cardinal electors is that the curia must be an instrument of the church but

not a sort of supergovernment over the bishops. >> which is what it has become a-- it's out of control. >> yes. >> reporter: until this conclave the idea of an american pope would have been dismissed as wishful thinking. but the church has been so rocked by the papal resignation and by scandal that all of the old understandings no longer apply. the field is so open and the potential voting alliances are so fluid that this time anything could happen, jeff? >> mark little insurance at the vatican thank you. cbs news will be in vatican city for live coverage of the conclave week beginning tomorrow on cbs this morning and then later on the "cbs evening news." the rising tensions between a u.s. and afghanistan broke wide open today with a highly visible snub to america's new defense chief on his first afghan visit. charlie d'agata is in kabul. >> defense secretary chuck hagel had a busy sunday

schedule meeting with u.s. forces and with afghan officials. but he never got to the scheduled joint press conference with afghan president hamid karzai. it was cancelled. the afghan said the americans pulled the plug. the pentagon said there were security concerns. further muddying hagel's visit, karzai accused the united states and the taliban of holding daily talks and having a mutual interest in destabilizing afghanistan. as an example, he cited yesterday's suicide bombings that killed 19 people. he said they're trying to frighten us into thinking that if the foreigners are not in afghanistan we would be facing these sort of incidents. the defense secretary and karzai eventually met behind closed doors. hagel told karzai there are no talks. >> i told the president it was not true. that the united states was unilaterally works with the

taliban in trying to negotiate anything. >> reporter: it has been a trip with little good to be said about u.s. afghan relations as both nations try to unwind america's role here. yesterday the final handover of afghan prisoners held by u.s. forces was cancelled in an argument over karzai's desire to free some of them. as if the day weren't already tense enough later president hamid karzai accused u.s.-lead forces and afghans working with them of abusing university students. jeff? >> charlie today was also karzai's deadline for u.s. special forces to be out of wardack province which is strategically important because it close to kabul this over the alleged abuse of the local population. what is the latest with that? >> well the u.s. military says it is still under discussion. president karzai's office has said that it is still unresolved. tonight we called the afghan ministry of defense to see

if u.s. special forces were complying with that order and they hung up on us twice. >> jeff: charlie d'agata thank you. to the economy now and more evidence the recovery is taking hold. we learned friday that employers added 236,000 jobs in february, that was better than expected. and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7%. for more now we're joined by cbs news analyst mellody hobson. good evening to you. so good jobs news here but still 12 million unemployed. many discouraged. does that get better any time soon? >> yes and it gets better and better and better. a lot of those discouraged workers have said i'm giving up. i can't find a job. but there's good news on the horizon. one, housing is a silver bullet. the most unemployed people are construction related jobs. as housing continues to improve, those numbers are going to get better and better, as well as all of the related industries. and the success breeds success. the more they see people getting jobs, they will want

to go out and find work. last but not least, don't discount the boomers. the boomers were looking at these torpedoed 401(k) plans and now they are saying they have recovered. maybe i won even look any more and that frees up more opportunities for others. >> jeff: we heard all this news or warnings about layoffs surrounding the sequester, right. yet this week on wall street, four record-breaking days. how do we square those two things? >> the market is saying we already know that. it's priced in. everything with the sequester ad nauseum has been so well telegraphed to us, we have heard about the potential possibility of 700,000 government jobs being lost. we heard about the growth rates for the u.s. economy may slow because of this. and yet the market is saying corporate america is in really good shape. and they can ride through whatever might come. so it's walking it off. >> jeff: mellody hobson, good to see you. thank you. >> the zow opens tomorrow at an all-time high up 120%

since bottoming out four years ago in march 2009. as ben tracey reports, that is good news for investors who didn't bail out. >> okay,. >> reporter: he doesn't plan to give up his teaching job at the university of southern california. but carlos sosa could thanks to the stock market's recent run-up. >> are you surprised by how far and how fast the market has bounced back? >> i'm not surprised but i'm glad. >> and we had some remodeling we wanted to do on the house. we put that off for ten years. we're going to do this year. >> in 2009s soar had 300,000 invested in the market. when it tanked his investments lost 20% of their value. 60,000 dollars. sosa's wife margaret wanted to pull the money out. >> good. >> but they hung in. their stock investments have recovered and are growing. >> are you telling her now i told you so? >> no, no, i would never tell my wife i told you so. >> that is a deadly comment.

>> michael hoffman was not as fortunate. >> i became a victim of what happened to what tens of thousands, millions of other americans. >> the 66-year-old therapist had a $1 million nest egg 65% of it in the stock market. he lost 240,000 dollars in stocks and real estate funds. >> when you're looking toward retirement and you're not going to be a wage earner that's a lot of money. it's like the difference between thinking about money or not having to think about it. and i was looking at never having to think about it. >> he pulled more than half his money out of the stock market and missed its recovery. he is now invested in precious metals mainly gold. >> si have my little midas treasury there. >> reporter: but his locked in losses means he may have to work a decade longer than he had planned. ben tracy cbs news los angeles. >> jeff: a car crash in ohio today claimed the lives of six teenagers.

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>> jeff: the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in japan is tomorrow. today thousands marched this tokyo demanding that most of japan's nuclear reactors remain closed. the disaster at fukushima was the worst nuclear incident since chernobyl in 1986. the meltdown in japan forced 170,000 people from their homes. many of them permanently. now a group of u.s. navy veterans are saying exposure to leaking radiation from the plant has made them sick. magalie laguerre spoke with two of them. >> reporter: immediately after the disaster the u.s. navy diverted the aircraft carrier ronald reagan from south korea to japan to provide aid. jamie plym and maurice enis were among the 5,000 sailors on board. >> we had already been there rendering aid and giving supplies and stuff for maybe a couple of days before we even heard something about a nuclear power plant. >> reporter: the tokyo

electric power company tepco, claimed the fukushima plant was under control. but in reality three nuclear reactors were melting down releasing radioactive gases. while towns within 12 miles of the plant were evacuated, the reagan was stationed just 1 to 2 miles from shore. >> i get my-- check nothing wrong, i get my hands check, the geiger meter goes crazy they told everybody to get back, get away from me. that just made me more nervous and scared. >> i developed gynecological issues. and nobody understood it. and they just kept saying stress. i also developed asthma i had cron quite-- cron chiat is six times. >> plym and enis say exposure from radiation from fukushima made them sick. >> i got a lump that popped up between my eyes another lump on my jaw and another lump on my think. >> now a couple they've completed their service and

have been honorably discharged. along with more than 100 fellow sailors they're part of a federal lawsuit against tepco. it accuses the japanese power company of giving out false and misleading information about fukushima while being aware that the potential health risks were greater than its agents were reporting. how do you know that the symptoms it that you are describing are due to that place? are a result of that exposure? >> really, there's no way to tell. but none of that was there. and it just developed soon after. >> reporter: tepco told cbs news it does not comment on lawsuits. >> we just want someone to give us, you know medical care and figure out was's wrong. >> reporter: but without health insurance, the couple may not knows what's wrong any time soon. magalie laguerre cbs news new york. >> jeff: next up, the congress that works weekends. in china.

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of the 2500 laws on the table, one is from-- who wants to support grade schoolteachers who moved from the countryside to teach in the cities. >> that is for the housing of the teacher and so on and so forth. >> reporter: because the teachers need better housing. >> they need better, especially for the younger teachers. >> reporter: it's tempting to see the chinese congress only in its role as a rubber stamp, approving the party agenda and the new chinese leadership team. but this is also how china's wildly diverse regions argue for local concerns local industries and their share of the budget. the delegates are lobbying. and in that way this is a free-for-all. >> a free-for-all about money. -- wants more money to expand a new business district coastal aqua farmers want more money to grow the sea cucumbering a high value delicacy. former houston rockets star yao ming now an advisor to

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>> it is a hotly debated topic, a thousand school as close the country now run longer school day its. that is half a million students in 36 states. we visited one school in massachusetts to see how it works. >> at koss middle school in fall river massachusetts these 6 through 8 graders hear the first bell at 10 past 7:00. 650 students and 40 teachers experience a longer day than the average public school. 90 minutes longer. that means 300 more hours of school every year. >> what comes first which variable. >> the extra time let's jen teach a double dose of math, back-to-back 45 minute periods.

>> seven equals -- >> i would like to be less tired, yes. but honestly, i would rather teach here with the extended time because i don't think i could teach everything i need to teach in that short 45 minute bloc. >> the author picks words to help you feel something. >> reporter: english teacher sharon says she sees the difference in students. >> they're understanding what they read on a deeper level. they may not be so gifted in one area as they are in another. and we're able to address those needs. and individualize the instruction. >> reporter: back in 2005 massachusetts labeled koss cronically underperforming. two years later its state began to subsidize a longer school day with an extra $1300 per student per year. and koss kids have caught up. the numbers scoring proficient or advanced on standardized tests has risen 47% in math and 58% in english. >> when we first started the initiative, there was a lot of pushback from parents.

>> fall river school superintendent meg mayo brown who also was a 6th grader here is overseeing the turn around. enrollment is up by a third and there is no waiting list to get in. >> there is really no need to continue to schedule the school year in the school day in an old mod ohl. we used to be thinking about what our kids need in order to be competitive in the 21st century. >> reporter: longer days also mean more time for sports art and music. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be reporting from rome tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org jose. why business owners

originally opposed to the minimum wage increase... are now praising its benefits. plus: the central california animal sanctuary where a lion killed an intern--- re-opens for the first time since the attack. nats the exploritorium on central california sanctuary where a lion killed an intern opens for the first time since the attack. the exporitorium on the move. they stopped on city streets for a road show. kpix news is next

tomorrow, san jose's new 10- dollar minimum wage goes into effect. it was approved by voters last fall. kpix 5 reporter anne makovec explains how community and labor leaders hope ring in good evening,. tomorrow san jose's new

minimum wage goes into effect. how community and labor leaders hope it will bring in more business. >> reporter: with a line that looks like this. you know these barista's are hard at work. soon, their paychecks will reflect it. >> we are very happy about that. >> working 2 minimum wage jobs and still has to borrow money from his parents. thanks to a voter approved initiative from november. the minimum wage will go from $8 to 10 giving thousands of workers a raise. >> i know at least for me personally and my friends it makes a really big difference. soon you will see new signs in store front windows encouraging people to spend the money they are earning right here in san jose. >> reporter: this is the logo for the new earn and spend campaign that kicks off tomorrow. >> we know that people increasingly make decisions about where they are going to shop and dine on an ethical basis. labor unions and businesses are know