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left in that car, that's what she survived on. >> tough little dog. >> have a great day. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com snnd snend ♪ good morning to our viewers in the west. wednesday, may 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." new, disturbing details about life in captivity for the women held hostage in cleveland. >> mark sanford heading back to washington. how he came back from political ruin. and chris christie about why he had weight loss surgery. >> cbs this morning investigates one of the largest nursing home chains is your tax money being spent on unnecessary treatment? >> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener your world in 90 seconds. >> i'm glad to have you back. i thought you were gone. >> three women held captive for years, reunite with family as investigators look for answers. >> the three brothers at the
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center of the investigation remain in police custody and charges could be filed as early as today. >> the women were interviewed extensively by fbi child specialists. >> there were chains and ropes in the residence. >> former south carolina governor mark sanford goes back to congress after winning a special election. four years ago he was disgraced by trying to cove up an extramarital affair. >> a good part of life is how you get back up now how you stumble, fall. >> the dow above the 15,000 mark for the first time in history. 15,056. >> popping the champagne bottles on wall street. >> today is the day for what could be a blockbuster congressional hearing on the benghazi terror attack. >> self-described whistle blowers will testify before a house committee. >> it's time to hear the truth and we're going to hold people accountable. >> in california the reward money for christopher dorner split three ways the majority to james and karen reynolds.
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>> and toronto blue jays pitcher recovering after a terrifying moment on the mound. >> all that -- >> oh, slammed in! >> thank you. >> i'm not sure what does that mean? >> do you support a two-state solution? >> i do. >> two israels? >> no. >> i agree with that. >> my decision about anything to do with my career are based on what's best for me and my family. >> obama thinking about having joe biden's mouth stapled. i don't know if you knew that. >> "cbs this morning". >> the fbi said anything about the reward? >> i tell you what you do give it to them. >> that is now the finest man in the neighborhood, right there. >> this morning's eye opener presented by prudential. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning, norah. >> good morning, charlie. new questions on whether police in cleveland dropped the ball.
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and how are these three women doing? >> the three win rescued in cleveland are in is heseclusion relatives of the three brothers are in shock and questions about how the investigation was handled. dean reynolds is in cleveland. >> reporter: the chief of police, michael mcgrath told us that the three victims spent much of their captivity on the second floor of this house behind me and ropes, chains and padlocks were found on the premises. he also said that the three suspects will be charged later today. >> reporter: as investigators haul away bags of evidence from the run-down house on seymour street, a clearer picture of what went on inside. sources tell cbs news amanda berry, gina dejesus and michele knight were restrained for at
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least part of their decades long captivity. the homeowner, 52-year-old ariel cast rock behind bar along with his brothers pedro and onil. >> happy they found them but very disappointed it took ten years, ten years to find them. >> reporter: in the past 15 years, police responded to two unrelated calls at castro's address, but never stepped inside the home. five years ago, he was observed on video during a routine traffic stop. neighbors say they noticed something was off when the former school bus driver became increasingly reclusive. >> odd, all the windows are locked down, whole house is locked down. attic window was cracked, and hanging out the window with the little girl. >> authorities are calling amanda berry a hero for breaking free from the ordeal. on tuesday, she spoke to her grandmother for the first time since she vanished. >> hello. >> amanda.
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>> hey, grandma. >> how are you? >> reporter: outside the dejesus home balloons and banners welcomed the new found freedom. ariel castro's own daughter told "america's most wanted" in 2005 she believed she was the last to see gina dejesus. >> my mom said i couldn't go over to her house, and i said if it was okay i will talk to you later, and she was gone. >> robert osorio has known castro for years but never thought he could be a suspect. >> to my recollection i seen him twice at two vigils we look back at footage and tape i am sure you will see him in some of those. >> reporter: the women are now at an undisclosed location, reconnecting with their family members, while being questioned by the fbi, and we're told that those interrogations are especially difficult because of the nature of the ordeal the
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women went through. >> dean reynolds, thank you. also in cleveland, report every bill safos of woio covering the story from the beginning, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. how are you? good. you have such a unique perspective. on it from day one, very close with amanda berry's mother. how is her family doing? >> reporter: well the family as you would expect, they are ek ecstatic ecstatic, how they are doing? hopefully getting some sleep in morning in that undisclosed location that dean is talking about. and some privacy, much-deserved privacy. as you can imagine, going through every emotion you can think of. and the overwhelming thought, joy that they have amanda home. >> amanda berry's mother died in 2006. she gave you something before she died. always hopeful, right? >> she was always hopeful, and
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she told me to always be hopeful. along with asking me to promise her that we would continue covering this story, not just the yearly vigils that we do but to search for different angles and get her daughter's face and her name out in the public, all the time. she told me to promise her that i would wear this particular tie on the day she said that mandy came home. she gave me a blue shirt and this tie to wear. did i wear the blue shirt yesterday, obviously when we got all this good news. gave it a break today, but will continue to wear that tie in honor of luana miller. >> you followed this so closely, did you expect this day would come, or think it would be a long long haul perhaps with terrible consequences? >> reporter: you know honestly although luana miller and nancy ruiz the mother of gina
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dejesus, who i was also very close with and continue to be they told me never give up hope. nancy gave me a hug a couple weeks ago and said hope hope hope. told me to never give it up. i guess i never did, because i kept the shirt and tie. i guess because i knew that one day this would come but there were moments when i feefr feared the worst for this family. just saying that i and so many were wrong. >> you came in contact with the castro brothers on several occasions. you ever suspect them? >> reporter: i can't tell you that we suspected them. i can't call them suspects but there were some family members that were suspicious. obviously, they didn't have the evidence they didn't have the proof to do anything about it and i did come close to them at a couple of the vigils and talked to them and they always appeared to be concerned for this family. it's just chilling to know that
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a lot of times we think that there is evil among us that people think about these three brothers in this situation, but obviously they will get their day in court, chilling to know it's not just among us but they could be right next to you, and be talking with you as well. >> bill safos, thanks. former south carolina governor mark sanford's political arear seemed over four years ago. he admitted an affair after missing for five days. >> he won a special election last night for his seat in congress. >> one imperfect man save bid god's grace, but one who has a conviction on the importance of doing something about spending in washington, d.c., and it's my pledge to every one of you, here from this day going forward, i am going to try to be the best congressman i have ever been. >> congressman elect mark sanford in charleston,
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counterclaim. south carolina. >> good morning. >> what do you say to your fellow republican lilic i hadans who didn't support you in the race? >> i would say yesterday is yesterday and today is today. >> do you agree that policy is more important than character? >> no i think they are equally important. what they said is you know i think we have a tradition in the south and in south carolina of forgiveness. people do make mistakes handle situations wrong and do handle different things differently, that whole notion of forgiving another person and saying okay, let's begin the process of building and moving forward is part and parcel of the notion of human grace, a reflection ultimately of god's grace. the guy has a well proven track record with indeed trying to do something on financial issues and old timer took me aside,
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look, i won't judge you on your worst day, any more than the best day. i will look at the totality as a whole and make my judgment accordingly. that's what folks did last night. >> congressman, your personal life was part of this race. are you expected in court tomorrow to deal with charges in a complaint from your ex-wife, jenny, that you were trespassing in your home. did you hear from her last night? >> i am not going to relay family situations. that's a much more complex situation than meets the eye. a dad with a son at a super bowl party, and you have to make the call whether you let them sit there alone for the second half the football call alone. that's why you have a family court system decide it it's a right call or wrong call. >> the washington post," this
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will bring new life to the fact that the republicans have a woman problem. what do you think of that? >> i think i'm soon to be a congressman elect who had a failing in 2009. and i go back to what our minister said a while ago, the events of your life will refine or define your life. political opponents want to make things division about who you are about, what a party is about. i'm a, again, candidate now, congressman elect who has well chronicled failings in 2009 but someone who has learned from them forgiven for them and who will work hard to make the notion of what my minister said make the events of your life refining, rather than defining. >> congressman elect, mark sanford, thank you. >> pleasure. thank you. >> and another high-profile republican focusing on what he can lose. new jersey governor chris
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christie talking candidly about weight loss surgery. head secret operation in february. jim axelrod with us. >> no secret according to the governor. he didn't disclose the procedure, because it was a personal matter. but he always planned if asked to be straight up about it and during a barrage of questions, that is exactly how he handled it. >> a somewhat smaller chris christie addressed what has become a big topic of conversation on tuesday. >> the surgery occurred at nyu langone medical center. >> reporter: the new jersey governor had lap-band surgery and has since lost somewhere near 40 pounds. he said his motive is personal, not political. >> i turned 50 years old and it made me think. i got confronted with you know your own mortality as you start to age. it's not a career issue for me. it is a long-term health issue
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for me. and that's the basis upon which i made the decision. >> reporter: not, said christie, 24 2016. when asked if he was slimming down for a presidential run, he kept the focus on his family. >> this is about my family's future and that's a heck of a lot more important to me than the idea of running for president of the united states. >> reporter: during the press conference christie call all of the fascination with his surgery silly and shall low. >> it was not your business. it's nobody's business other than mine. >> reporter: but for about 40 minutes, he answered plenty of questions about the procedure. >> no, the lieutenant governor was not in charge i never thought about strategically how i would put this out there. what i was planning strategically how i wouldn't put it out there. how i feel about myself? i feel great about myself. you know. >> reporter: weight has always been a public issue for christie, even at times a
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laughing matter. weeks before his surgery, he appeared on "the late show" armed with his own material. >> didn't know this would be this long. >> reporter: the fat jokes continued last night. >> the governor is saying his decision has nothing to do with 2016. which, by the way, is his cholesterol. >> reporter: chris christie plans on shedding more weight on the months to come in modern politics, it's simply easier to succeed when the only thing outsized is your personality. >> your opinions on this issue don't matter a whole hell of a lot to me. >> he initially planned to have the procedure last november after the election but that his job after superstorm sandy made that impossible. now, speaking of impossibilityle. he said that will be the last time he spoke about his weight loss. would either of you like a bet about that?
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>> not going to happen. thanks, jim. and the investigation on the assault in benghazi where fourthree americans were killed. >> the white house is believed to have manipulated information according to republicans. >> reporter: what is happening in an hour at a hearing, very unusual. three-ranking current secretary of state officials and a top diplomat will be contradicting part of the obama administration's accounts when it comes to what happened in benghazi. taken eight months for the first eyewitness on the ground that night to publicly step forward, is he greg hicks, number two to ambassador chris stevens, is he expected to say among other things that a small team of special forces was prevented from going from tripoli to benghazi to help that night. and he's also expected to discuss his 2:00 a.m. phone call with secretary of state.
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he was looking for guidance from washington, but he felt washington was in essence asking them on the ground what to do. charlie and norah. >> sharyl attkisson, thank you. the dow is down this morning, after another milestone for wall street on tuesday, the dow closed above 15,000 for the first time ever. the dow off to its biggest yearly start since 1999. anthony mason with us and good morning. >> good morning. >> what's driving this? >> first of all, record corporate profits, 2/3 of the companies in the country reporting earnings beaten the estimates, looking better than we thought. economy looking better. we have the housing market rebounding, the jobs numbers last friday come in better than expected, and averaging 20,000 jobs per month now, and the auto sales really strong. finally, the economy is looking good but not looking so good the fed is backing away from having stimulus. that's the key thing, have you both a pretty good economy and the fed still pumping money in.
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>> what do we worry about? >> you worry about the market getting ahead of itself and some people think that may have happened. this is not like 1999. some people worried there is a bubble here. no giddy euphoria. a lot of skepticism and the market keeps moving ahead. ultimately a sign of what economists are saying underlying strength in the economy. >> anthony mason, thanks. a southwest flight made an emergency landing, headed from orlando to providence when it was diverted to charleston south carolina. there was a misunderstanding between a flight attendant and a passenger. the passenger was pulled off the flight and it went off to providence. a cargo ship crashed into a control tower. the tower, tilted to one side. among the dead two coast guard officials and a pilot for the port. three others are still missing. time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe "washington post" look at a cia shakeup.
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john brennan has picked someone new to run its clandestine service. the first woman ever to hold the job, faced opposition because of a rogue interrogation problem. more people borrowing again. last year american households and nonfinancial businesses borrowed $713 billion. double the amount borrowed in 2011. the los angeles times says the million dollar reward offered in the christopher dorner case killed four people. james and karen reynolds will receive most of the money. >> and the milwaukee journal sentinal says the air force has stripped 17 officers of their authority to control nuclear missiles after concerns about all right. we have seen lots of low clouds and fog surge well onshore into the bay and even the valleys.
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some drizzle out at the coastline early on today. looking toward pleasanton right now, mostly cloudy skies to start the day. by the afternoon becoming partly cloudy. temperatures now generally in the 50s. it's going to stay cool today as you approach the coastline. plan on 50s with clouds there toward pacifica. 60s into san francisco. 70s and mild in the valleys. next couple of days, high pressure builds in 80s inland by friday. >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by kay jewelers. every kiss begins with kay.
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"cbs this morning" investigates one of the nation's largest nursing home chains. >> they felt that no one was watching them. >> former employees say the company's giving rehab they do not need and it's costing taxpayers. first on "cbs this morning," coca-cola announce as worldwide plan to fight obesity. coke's ceo joins us with the details on the changes you'll be seeing. >> plus yoef time pay versus time off. why washington is fighting over your pay for a [ male announcer ] centrum has been a leader in multivitamins for over 30 years. and it's now the most doctor recommended, the most preferred and the most studied. so when it comes to getting the most out of your multivitamin the choice is clear.
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning. it's 7:26. i'm michelle griego. some firefighters had to duck for cover when bullets shattered a window at their station in east oakland last night. police are trying to determine if the shooting was related to a homicide nearby. also in oakland, heavy damage to merit bakery and restaurant at east 18th and second avenue. the causes of the fire at merritt bakery is still under investigation. there were no injuries. two more east bay fire stations will be closed. supervisors voted to close the stations in the contra costa county fire protection district. one is in pittsburg. they haven't decided with other station to close. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.
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good morning. we have a lot of delays coming up northbound 101 past candlestick trying to get into san francisco. it's because of an earlier car that ran off the roadway and into the bay. tow crews are out there trying to retrieve the vehicle. this is what it's doing now, backups beyond oyster point just around that 380 interchange. 280 is a better option. bay bridge backed up to the maze with a 20-minute rate. we have low clouds and fog that have surged well onshore for today. a cloudy start in many spots. overlooking san jose, we have some gray skies out there now. it is going to be a slow burnoff. temperatures in the 50s. by the afternoon we are looking at 60s and some low 70s in spots inland. 50s at the coastline. more sunshine on the way. and some warmer weather over the weekend.
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new jersey governor chris christie is losing weight. >> he revealed he secretly had lap band stomach surgery. >> some say it's a clear sign he'll run for president in 2016. >> it is a presidential run tell. it goes back to the days of eisenhower when everybody knew he was not going to be president. of course, the physical transformation eisenhower underwent forced him to change his original campaign slogan. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour sugary drinks linked to obesedy.
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now the company is planning to do something about it. it's announceing changes to every can and bottle it sells. an interview you'll see first on "cbs this morning." that's ahead. each year americans spend hundreds and billion of dollars on unnecessary tests and treatments. it's one reason why health care costs are so high. >> jeff glor is here with a "cbs this morning" investigation. good morning. >> charlie and norah, good morning to you. with more than 389,000 beds in states it's the largest nursing home chain in the country. we spoke to half a dozen former employees. they say they're giving patients rehab they don't need and billing the government money they're not entitled to. from 1998 to 2012 helen toomey worked for life care center of america. >> the mission statement that
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they have is no longer true which is to serve their residents in a christian-based atmosphere. >> who are they serving? >> themselves. >> among other services life care provides speech and physical therapy, but toomey says much of it was not needed. >> they felt that no one was watching them and so that every patient that came through the building, they could charge the highest rate of reimbursement regardless of their diagnosis or their need. >> what percentage of the therapy you're being told to administer do you think was not necessary? >> i would say probably as time went on about 40%. >> 40% of the work you were doing -- >> was not reasonable and not necessary under medicare guidelines. >> reporter: toomey says it got so bad that last year she resigned but on her way out, she took these patient notesful she says they show how life care wouldn't let patients leave so the company could core to bill medicare. >> this is on 12:30.
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cannon, i requested. dp, asap discharge as soon as possible. if you go down to the next one, cleveland, asap. washington needs dc asap. >> this is four patients you saw in one day. you said all of them should be discharged. they wouldn't allow one of them to be discharged. >> correct. >> the day after toomey resigned she got a phone call. it was a life care supervisor and let it go to voice mail. >> i was kind of wondering to see if you by mistake took a spiralbound notebook. can you give a call back. they said they saw it yesterday and that maybe you grabbed it by mistake when you were leaving. >> what did you realize? >> it made me realize something was in there. >> correct. they know exactly what was in
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there. >> now fbi does too. she has talked with federal agents and the justice department is suing them nationwide for medicare fraud. from 2006 to 2011 medicare paid life care $4.2 billion nchl 2008 it billed nearly 68% of its medication reha billation days at its highest level. court documents also reveal stories of patients like 592-year-old dying of metastatic cancer. two days before his death he was spitting out blood. life care therapists however, still reported 48 minutes of physical therapy, 47 minutes of occupational therapy, and 30 minutes of speech therapy that very day. at another facility the entire rehab staff signed a letter to their boss that reads we've been encouraged to maximize reimbursement even when clinically inappropriate. and the justice department wrote
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that all of this comes from the top. cathy murray sayed their job was to make money for forrest preston, founder, chairman and sew source of life kaf. the company would not make preston available for a statement and sent a statement. life care's strongly disagrees with the allegations and will vigorously defend its therapy programs. our own analysis indicates that life care's practices have resulted in significant savings to the medicare program. this lawsuit's allegations second guess after the fact, the trained medical professionals who prescribed the level of care provided to medicare beneficiaries. >> this sufficient just one company. they found industry wide almost
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a quarter o all mamts made to nursing homes are made in error costing taxpayers 1 president $5 billion every year. the problem is medicare rarely checks if the care is necessary. >> this are staggering in um beers. >> i agree. it is a growing and serious problem. >> regional inspector general jodie nun i man has sounded the alarm on this for years. >> it's all of us that is paying the costs. >> if a therapist know as what's happening, if you know it's happen, if medicare knows it's happening, why hasn't medicare change theedd the way it's doing it? >> that's a tough question. until you bill for the right care and not the most care the problem will continue. >> medicare needs to do things differently. >> right. >> as for the life care case
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the justice department is sortsing through hundreds of parent records so they can estimate the total taxpayers are owed. >> the question becomes how does life care get its therapists to do this? >> the biggest fear is losing their jobs but life care also encourages what is good behavior. they say they would hold these annual dinners and actually hand out awarding for longest average stay. and keep in mind a lot of this care is being ordered by administrators, not the therapists. one would think the therapists would be in a position to know. >> have interesting story. jeff glor, thank you. and coca-cola is making news first on "cbs this morning." the world's largest beverage company says it's trying to take on obesity. the changes will affect everyone who drinks a coca-cola brand. we'll talk with the company's ceo next. that's next. tomorrow a secret service agent breaks hi his silence on
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this is an announcement you're seeing first on "cbs this morning." the coca-cola company is launching a plan to fight obesity. coke will sponsor fitness programs and limit advertising to children. good morning. >> good morning. good morning, charlie. >> what's the plan and what makes you believe it will make a
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difference. >> because charlie, when we take all these four new commitments includeing make our beverage low or no calorie beverage as available everywhere we do business together with our caloric beverages in terms of ensuring that we have nutritional front of pack labeling transparent front of pack-labeling on all of our beverages, ensuring we have active life programs in every country where we do business and also responsible marketing, when you take these in total and execute them effectively on a global basis with partners around the world, effective partners around the world in government, business and civil society, then we believe that this will begin to make a difference. to create an awareness around the importance of active healthy lifestyles. and we all know -- go ahead.
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>> no, go ahead. go ahead. >> we all know that take in calories more fun than spending calories. we want to make spending calories a little fun too and the importance of the awareness. >> is this an acknowledgement that coca-cola is a part of the problem and is -- >> it's a very complicated societal issue that impacts everyone, every family, and therefore we want to be part of the solution. we cannot be the only single entity that solves this. government business like us and civil society and also this is really an invitation to more partners to come and join us in this effort in business in
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industry, our industry in government and in civil society. education because we need more evidence based science also to help guide us. and also this is really important because what we're trying to do here is also connect all the communities, all the citizens around the world. we've just set up a new website, comingtogether.com. so we want to learn. this is the beginning of a journey. we want their input. all the input of our citizens in every market where we do business so we can continue to evolve and make it more taylor made to every community where we do business so it can start to make a business. >> muhtar 180,000 deaths worldwide are linked to sugary beverages. the mayor here in new york mayor bloomberg says that coke and other sugary drinks are the problem, that you are enemy number one in terms of obesity. your new plan you say you're
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going to put the calorie counts on the front. but many experts say it's the size of the beverage. will you do anything about limiting the size of the products that you sell. >> in fact we have launched many portion control packs in the last three years, effectively smaller cans smaller bottles, smaller portion packs and we brought again and are bringing again our calorie count in front of the packages and label them very transparently so that consumers can begin to make a choice. we offer 3,500 beverages. there's a place in active healthy lifestyles for all of our beverages with sensible diets, with regular training and also exercise and also sensible diets. so this is not about one category, one food one product. the whole food industry needs to also come in and partner with
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the governments, with civil society. governments can't solve it alone. legislation can't solve it. this is about awareness, habits that are not changed easily. >> thank you. >> and that's why we're making a global effort and heeding the way. >> thank you. >> as we have for all right. we have a lot of clouds outside streaming onshore. also some mid- to high-level clouds up above from that area of low pressure that brought scattered showers to the bay area. that system is going to slowly make its way eastward. as it does it will take some clouds with it. but we'll have partly cloudy skies. temperatures in the 50s mostly cloudy outside right now with low clouds and fog even drizzle toward the coast. highs at the beaches will stay cool. 50s and low 60s. we'll see 60s and a few low 70s inside the bay. warmer the next couple cleveland police say they heard no complaints about a home where ee women were allegedly
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held against their will but one neighbor says the police didn't do their job. we'll from other neighbors and get the latest from the owner of that house. ahead of "cbs this morning."
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morni. oakland investigators are looking into the cause of an early-morning fire that damaged a bakery and restaurant. flames broke out at merritt bakery at 2:45 a.m. this morning. no word on the extent of the damage. merritt bakery is a staple in oakland since the early 1950s. some local sports history last night in downtown san jose. the sharks for the first time ever swept a stanley cup play- off series. patrick marleau scored the game winner for san jose in overtime, a 4-3 victory in the game and a four-game sweep. the sharks have time off waiting to learn who is their second round opponent. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment. e starving. [ man ] we love to eat. we just didn't know that our plants did, too. then we started using mira o liquafeed every two weeks. now our
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good morning. well, if you are traveling westbound 92, just avoid the san mateo bridge for a while. we got major delays because of an injury crash. it sounds like it's past the flat section closer towards the high-rise. we have seen several emergency vehicles trying to weave their way through traffic. right now the two right lanes are blocked. we have temporarily blocked all lanes just for a short time in order to get the emergency vehicles through. but right now the two right lanes are blocked. this is going to back things up for a while so continue to use the dumbarton bridge or the bay bridge as your alternates. low clouds and fog surging onshore today. we have seen some drizzle toward the coastline. looks like it's going to be cooler. highs in the 50s or temperatures right now in the 50s. highs in the 50s towards the coastline this afternoon, a few low 60s into san francisco. partly cloudy, 70s inland. the next couple of days should be warmer.
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good morning to you. it's 8:00 in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the men accused of holding three cleveland women for about a decade may be charged today. neighbors say they told police years ago there was trouble. you may remember the amazing video of a daredevil flying in this wing suit. professor michio kaku will show you how. and expect to see more of prince charles. how his role is expanding as queen elizabeth cuts down her schedule. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener at 8." >> the cleveland chief of police just told us that ropes, chains and padlocks were found on the premises. >> relatives of the three brothers arrested in the case say they are in shock.
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>> and there are new questions about how the police handled this whole investigation. >> i'm happy they found them but i'm very disappointed that it took ten years. ten years to find them. >> i would say yesterday is yesterday, and today is today. i think we have a tradition in the south, and in south carolina of forgiveness, that people do make mistakes. a house committee hears testimony today on the assault on the united states consulate in benghazi. >> reporter: it's taken eight months for the first eyewitness who was on the ground that night to publicly step forward. on tuesday the dow jones average closed above 15,000 for the first time ever. >> the economy is looking good but it's not looking so good that the fed is backing away from adding stimulus. hundreds of millions of dollars. what do you make of that? >> i'm sure that's what they want to believe. mayor bloomberg says that coke and other sugary drinks are the problem, that you are enemy number one. >> we offer 3,500 beverages. there's a place in active healthy lifestyle for all our
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beverages. they're not thrilled about the fact that this is public. they believe, as i do that this is a personal issue for me and a family issue for us. >> he also said yesterday that would be the last time he spoke about his weight loss. would either of you like to make a bet about that? >> no, not going to happen. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. today we expect to get our first look at the brothers accused of kidnapping three women in cleveland. >> one neighbor says that suspect ariel castro knew the father of gina dejesus and over the years castro helped out in the search for her. this morning police say no human remains were found in the home where the women were allegedly held captive. >> officials say police visited the home at least twice while the women were there, but they never went inside. and police are checking the records to see if they missed any complaints. terrell brown is outside the home in cleveland, and terrell, i know you've been talking to neighbors who saw some disturbing things. good morning.
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>> reporter: norah, charlie, gayle, good morning to you. and where each of these women originally disappeared is just miles from here. so the questions remain this morning, what exactly happened inside of that house for all of these years, and why weren't police able to find these women sooner? investigators have been combing through this run-down house on cleveland's west side. trying to determine how anybody could keep three women captive, undetected, for ten years. >> you think you know your neighbor, but you don't know your neighbor. >> he has a great mass to cover up that monster. >> reporter: former school bus driver ariel castro and his two brothers are under arrest in the case. while some neighbors say they had no clue anything was amiss, others say there were red flags. >> summertime, house would be boarded up no windows open no doors open that wasn't like him. like i said, his character changed. i seen him, i want to say last spring, last spring or last summer. and the window and the attic
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window was a little girl. >> girls beating on the windows, girls in the backyard naked. we'd call the police knock on the door don't do nothing. >> reporter: neighbors say the police came and went. but in a statement last night the cleveland police department said they had received no such complaints and that there's no indication anyone ever called about the house. the suspects' own mother lives less than a mile away. but family members we talked to say they had no idea what was allegedly happening just down the street. >> they never gave any indication that he was nuts. because that's what you have to be to do what he did. you have -- you would have had to have lost your mind to do something like that. >> reporter: the three suspects could face charges as early as today. norah? charlie? gayle? >> thank you terrell. charles ramsey the neighbor who helped amanda berry break out of the house, told anderson cooper last night that he does not expect any reward. >> i'll tell you what you do.
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give it to them. because if folks have been following this case since last night and you've been following me since last night, you know i've got a job anyway. i just went and picked it up. check. what does that say? >> reporter: i don't have my glasses. i'm blind. >> right next door to this paycheck. so yeah take that reward and give it -- that little girl came out of the house, and she was crying. and i'm looking at her, right? i'm, like your mama trying to help you, girl. shut up. and she said i want my daddy. i said who's your daddy? she said, "ariel." >> he also says he knew ariel castro because they were neighbors. he said they only talked about, quote, regular stuff. i have to say, hats off to charles ramsey. you know it just shows you that heroes comes in all forms and heritages if we could just say
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something about him. but i just think he told anderson last night that if he had really known what was going on in that house, that we would need a coroner today because he would have handled it very differently. i think he's amazing. >> you and i have talked about there are so many incidents where something's going on. a lot of people turn their cheek and walk the other way. he went to the door and helped amanda berry get out, and he is a hero. >> i think so too. and president obama says the military must not ignore a rising tide of sexual assault. a pentagon study released yesterday estimates that sexual assaults on service members rose from 19,000 in 2011 to 26,000 last year. >> we find out if somebody's engaging in this stuff they've got to be held accountable, prosecutors stripped their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged, period. >> i mean, assaults up 35%
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according to the pentagon. and the study says complaints are filed in only 10% of sexual assaults. congress is fighting over a bill to let hourly workers take paid time off instead of overtime pay. many government employees already have that choice. republicans want to extend it to everyone, but democrats do not. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to all of you. well, this is part of the gop's new push to try to reach out to women. and women from both sides have taken the lead in this debate. though they don't see eye to eye. >> this is when george was 1. >> reporter: martha roby is a second-term republican congresswoman from alabama. she says with two kids of her own, she knows a lot about the tugs between work and family. >> as a mom that wants to be there for the pta meeting or for the swim meet to have that flexibility is huge. >> reporter: roby is the chief sponsor of the working families flexibility act which the house will vote on today.
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the bill would remove federal restrictions on private sector employers that prevent them from offering comp time to hourly workers when they exceed their 40-hour workweek. current private companies must pay time and a half for every extra hour worked. >> the great thing about this is that it's up to the employee to determine how to use it because it's your time. you get to decide how to use your time. >> reporter: democrats argue employers would take advantage of such a law, compelling hourly workers to take comp time instead of valuable overtime pay. >> most hourly workers work for about 1$12.80 an hour. >> reporter: she's a mother herself. isn't this the kind of flexibility you probably would have appreciated when your son was young? >> actually as an hourly worker, i would have appreciated a big paycheck. >> reporter: republicans say the bill is being mesisrepresented and will give private sector workers options that government workers already have. the government threatened to
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veto the bill if it passes saying it undermines the right to earn hard-earned overtime pay. >> that's just false. it doesn't undermine overtime pay because if employees want overtime pay for work they've worked beyond the 40-hour workweek under this law they are certainly entitled to that. >> reporter: this proposal actually isn't new. republicans tried to pass it back in 1997. and even if it does pass in the house today, it's going to run into a big roadblock in the senate, which is controlled by democrats. charlie? gayle? norah? joe biden predicts he can find the votes to pass a gun-control bill in the senate. in a "rolling stone" interview, biden told the story to douglas brinkley, quote, i can name you four senators who called me and said, can we bring it back up? biden led the white house effort to increase background checks for gun buyers. the bill lost by six votes in the senate last month. former president bill clinton said he's a bit frustrated with all the speculation about hillary clinton running for the white house. he spoke yesterday at an event
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in washington. >> i don't know what's going to happen, but i know this. that is the worst expenditure of our time. you know she's taking a role in the the foundation. he's writing a book. she's having a little fun being a private citizen for the first time in 20 years, and she's, you know, that's fine. but we need to be worried about the work at hand, all of us do. >> former secretary of state left office less than four months ago. >> i think he might be frustrated for another couple of years because every time anybody sees her, that's what they ask. >> i think he was trying to make the point that there are other public policy issues that need to be dealt with and the deficit, poverty in america, lots of other issues rather than continued speculation. >> he made the point, but will people get it? we'll
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new jersey governor chris christie revealed he underwent a surgery earlier this year that restricts the amount of food he can eat. yeah, as a result, 12 animals have been removed from the ep dangered species list. >> his family gave him the choice. they said, look you either have that surgery or get your own zip code. >> typically patients lose one to two pounds a week which means the governor could be down to a healthy weight in about 100 years. >> the governor is saying his decision has nothing to do with 2016. >> because while would a
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50-year-old man with young children and a loving family take steps to address obesity and extend his life? while? >> the late-night comedians are not the only ones taking note of governor chris christie's lap band surgery. some 220,000 weight loss surgeries are performed every year. dr. mitchell roslin is the chief of obesity surge in new york city. help us understand how it works and do you think it's a good procedure. your thoughts on the procedure. >> i think it's a good procedure. i think that the people who really struggle with their weight, there may be options that are more efficacious, but what a band does is it puts a ring around the first portion of the stomach or a belt. inside that belt is a balloon that we can tighten so it makes it more difficult to eat and makes people eat much slower. not everybody gets less hungry with it, which is one of the differences that we see with some of the other procedures. >> some of the side effects,
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though, are quite troubling. i talked to people who have had this surgery before, as you say. doesn't make you less hungry. just restricts that. there are sometimes adverse side effects, right? >> what people like about the band is the recovery is rapid, you go straight home. we're not, you know, making a seam or a new staple line. but the results are more variable down the line. so that more people are going to be dissatisfied with their weight loss, more people are going to require other operations. but you have to put this into perspective. it's still far better than any noncontrolled system treatment. >> but they're losing favor. >> compared to certain of the stapling procedures but the wrong message, one of the real important messages here is that when you get severely obese, okay, the methods that we have used to even prevent obesity, which haven't worked, are not effective treatment, the definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and
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expecting a different result. people -- >> need help. >> people see "the biggest loser" and they get the wrong impression. >> so much more than eat less lose more. >> so much more. once you've reached, you know, extreme size like governor christie, you're not going to lose more than 5% to 10% of your body weight, even with -- >> to stay at that weight would have been life-threatening for governor christie? >> well, absolutely. it interferes with the quality of his life. i'm sure he has conditions like sleep apnea. he's thought about this for years and obviously the frustration factor has increased that made him act at this point in time in his life. >> dr. mitchell roslin good to see you. thank you. from lower weight to reaching new heights this morning professor michio kaku will show us exactly how this daredevil does what he does. how this daredevil does what he does. >> announcer: "cbs healthwatch"
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all that mattered 43 years ago today, the beatles' final album. ♪ let it be let it be let it be ♪ >> "let it be" came out right after their unexpected breakup. paul mccartney was reportedly not a fan of the changes. so in 2003 he helped release a revised version, stripping many of the production effects entitled "let it be naked." >> that still stands out. >> it sure does. >> still stands out, i love that. queen elizabeth was still the center of attention and the parliament. why you'll be seeing less of her
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>> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning, it's 8:25. time for some news headlines. someone fired bullets at an oakland fire station on 50th avenue last night. firefighters had to duck for cover, but no injuries were sustained. the station was half a mile away from a fatal shooting that happened just before 9 p.m. police believe stray bullets from the shooting hit the station, shattering the glass doors. a blaze did some serious damage on an oakland landmark this morning. the merritt bakery and restaurant on east 18th street caught fire about 2:45 a.m. crews brought the blaze under control in less than an hour. no word on the cause of the fire or the extent of the damage. people are expecting to get answers about the bolt problems on the new bay bridge today. caltrans set today, may 8, as
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good morning. well, you'll still want to avoid the san mateo bridge for a while. traffic alert is still in effect. major delays on westbound 92. right now the right lane is
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blocked for emergency crews and there may be injuries with the crash, as well. so westbound we're seeing traffic backed up towards 880. on the maps show you what it looks like on the sensors. people are trying to use alternates including the dumbarton bridge so now southbound is backed up from union city down towards highway 84. but the dumbarton bridge itself is fine. that would be a great alternate on westbound 84. quick look at the bay bridge, where it is backed up to the maze but again, you will want to avoid the san mateo. so this would still be a better idea. that is traffic. here's lawrence. >> boy, looks messy. weather-wise not too bad. we have a lot of clouds that have surged onshore with a sea breeze. mid- to high-level clouds up above all associated with that low that spun through south of us yesterday. now it looks like the temperatures in the 50s. by the afternoon becoming partly cloudy but cool. numbers in the 50s and at the coast, 60s in the bay, 70s in the valleys. [ male announcer ] fact: the electric nissan leaf... is more fun
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour it's been 30 years since vanessa williams was miss america. then her career really took off. how much did her mother have to do with that? they're both here for a special series, so are her daughters too, on eye-opening moms. >> and we'll show you the top three places you should travel to this summer but probably haven't thought about or heard about. that's ahead. >> i can't wait. it's time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" looks at a new test for prostate cancer. it can distinguish between less
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aggressive ones. they can monitor tumors instead of having surgery. here's something to think about. the "new york post" says the casting of a famous sul kerr the thinker sold at sothebies. it brought in $15 million. there are more than two dozen like it. the first lady was caught kaepernicking. he posted an insta gram picture of himself with michelle obama. he said, quote, i got the opportunity to meet one of the greatest women in the world, and even got her kaepernicking. now i know that new verb. i like it. >> and britain's daily mail says musicians are sexier -- i agree. 31% are more likely to give their number to a man carry aggy tar. that's double the amount of people who would give their number to the same man who was empty-handed. the least popular, a man
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carrying a sports bag. only 9% would give their number to him. so charlie rose where's your guy tar. i do think a man who can sing a song is a very nice thing. >> as long as he's strumming. >> that's right. this morning in london it's about pomp and politics. mark phillips is outside parliament right now. joins us with that story. mark, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. thing how boring it would be if they announced a legislative program through an e-mail or press conference. it would be like well washington. but this is london where the british put on a show that's part disneyland part old marx brother's movie and partly the overlay of a soap opera. the thing about having a ceremonial head of state is you get to have the ceremony. in this case the ancient ritual of an opening parliamentary
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session where the government lays out its plan. but everything here is not what it seems. in fact. it's the opposite of what it is. the queen is the center of attention delivering what's called the queen's speech. but, in fact the queen hasn't written a single word. it's the government's speech. this time, though there was royal significance to this set of political theatre. along with the queen and prince philip were prince charles and his wife camilla. the queen has announced that at 87 years old, she'll be cutting down on some duties especially long haul foreign travel. understandable says columnist quinton letz. >> it's almost unthinkable. but maybe on the foreign travel front the queen, maybe she's gotten enough. >> reporter: prince charles is still in one of the longest job training programs in history, a program that started when he was
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a 4-year-old in 152. now in his mid-60s he will take on more of his mother's duties. his presence today was seen as a way of getting people used to the idea of having him and his wife around. royal watcher ingrid sue ward says the once unmentionable princess camilla is now a queen in waiting. >> when she first married charles, the british public and certainly the meshes aren't didn't like her because there were many shadows hanging around but gradually, gradually she's being known as someone who's with prince charles and quite homely. >> neither applies to the queen as seeing out her duty even if it means doing less and traveling less far to do it. gayle, charlie, norah?
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>> mark thank you. we recently saw a man flying through a montana in a winged suit. he was traveled at more than 195 miles an hour, and so we wanted to know how he did it. >> we "cbs this morning's" cbs contributor michio kaku. >> to understand what he did, you have to understand the physics of why birds an airplanes can play. let's say for example this is the cross-section of an aerial wing. when air moves across in this direction, it creates a low pressure area behind the air file. also wind comes in from this direction, also giving lift in this way. so lift occurs because of the low pressure area behind the air foil and because air hits the
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wing. now notice this is inherently unstable. there's nothing to stop it from rotating in a complete circle. what's amazing about this feet is the control that alexander pauley has. he was coming in at 155 miles an hour and hit a bull's eye that's only 6 feet across. to do that he had to do trial after trial after trial to make sure that he wouldn't splatter right on the mountain top. by moving his arounds and legs he was able to control the very slight rotations that you get which are very difficult to control. birds, airplanes do it because they have a larger wing span. he had a very small wing span. therefore it takes small micro movements of his hands and legs to get that precision that allowed him to go right through the bull's eye. >> we're going to have a test to see whether you can explain this back to me. >> okay. go ahead.
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at least now you know. >> i thought i was done with physics class sniet had to do with currents and what else? >> something else i won't be trying. mother's day is sunday. we do know all about that and our look at "eye opener"ing moms. we're exciting about that. we've got na any sa womans in studio 57 along with her mother and two daughters. what kind of a daughter was vanessa williams growing up and what kind of mom is she now? the people in tha
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and our new miss america is vanessa williams! >> i remember that night. in 1993 vanessa williams became the first black woman to be crowned miss america. since then she's won critical acclaim for her work in film tv movies and broadway. we're joining by vanessa
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williams, her mom. her mother's name is helen and her two lovely daughter melanie in the green and jill yanian on the end. >> it's been close to 30 years. >> i remember that night so well. in the memoir you say all you could think of when you won was, oh, no that can sells my trip to london. >> i was supposed to go to london. the third year was a trip to london, you get a chance to study over there. i had my roommates set up and my housing already to go and different make it. >> you had to take a little detour. >> when vanessa was born, the birth announcement says introducing -- >> here she is miss america. >> that was your birth
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announcement. >> it was just a cute card i saw in a hall mark store sniet was just a fluke. >> you say raising vanessa williams because challenged. >> yes. >> because? >> she's a very adventuresome young lady and tried lots of things to make us forget that we were parents and we had the last word. she was very active. >> part of the reason we're doing this series this week "eye-opening moms" is because it's mother's day on sunday. we find very successful women have very successful mothers. vanessa, what did you learn from your mom that you think taught you many things? >> well, one of the things i write about is that growing up in a predominantly white environment, at school she said you're going to have to do better than everything else just to be considered equal. so i guess i would consider myself i was an overacheesher because i was girl scouts marching band, choir, and i did everything because i liked to but because it was expected of me. that was one of the mantras i
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grew up with. and i think my daughters in terms of being achievers in success is that's part of their makeup too. >> and one of the things you didn't want, you said was to ever disappoint your parents and you write about that time with miss america that one of the hardest things was to tell your mom and to tell your dad. but you all learned from that experience, all of you. >> support. my parents never said oh you know get a real job. they believed in what i wanted to do about music teachers. they supports me. >> the arts and overall. >> melanie and jillian, when did you know that your mom was vanessa williams and all that that came up. when did you first know? >> i think i never thought -- i don't have a specific moment but i felt like kids in schools would always reiterate and make it known that, you know she was who she was, but i can't recall a specific time. do you? >> i would say when we traveled,
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the reaction to her. i mean in school definitely friends knew and stuff like that, but definitely when we traveled, everyone's reaction was just like, oh my god. and we were like oh my god. mom is everywhere. >> what kind of advice have you tried to impart to your daughters. >> the other thing my mother and father did not impart to is beauty. she's really smart. she's really bright as opposed to look how beautiful she is. the whole thing of being known as miss america and for my duty butty and looks is atypical compared to what was valued. >> your brain. >> what's interesting to me is vanessa didn't think she was beautiful. girls like you bothered me so. i spent my whole life saying wish i looked like. and you go, you know, i'm rt not
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that attractive. >> it'sal in perspective. the girls that were the beautiful ones were the blond haired blue-eyed ones did all the sports cheerleaders you know. >> you have an -- vanessa, you have a perspective with your daughters. you believe in being best friends with your daughter but mom, you disagree with that. >> i'm with mom. >> melanie and jillian go best friends? >> friends? >> hopefully open enough that they feel comfortable asking me anything. >> do you think that relationship should be different? >> i think back in the day when vanessa was being raised i felt that it was important that i be a parent first. vanessa had lots of friends and i felt it was important for us to raise her as her parents. now at an age that i am now and the age that she is with the girls, we're more friendlyier,
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but i'm still the parent. >> you girls are in the 20s but you said it was -- you gave her advice melanie, about "ugly betty," that you thought she should do it. >> yeah. i think there's a switch that happens between your adolescence and adulthood when you realize your mom is looking out for you and has your best interest at heart and once you can build that relationship which i felt like at that point i did, i could actually give her advice and know that she took my opinion at heart i was happy to be able to advise that. >> but jillian says she is living the dream that she wants because -- >> i'm a downtown manhattan girl working as a freelance artist. i start add band called line babe. it's doing really well. it's embracing new york and loving what i'm doing.
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>> and vanessa is starring in the role. >> good show for mother's day. >> good luck to all of you. >> tomorrow our series on "eye hp opening moms" continued. tomorrow mary higgins clark and her daughter will be here and friday nancy pelosi and her daughter the winning filmmaker, alexander pelosi. and you're about a man who traveled to over 150 countries and where to go. by the way, don't worry about how mump it costs. charlie is really excited by this. that's next on "cbs this morning."
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it's a bit of a gloomy morning here in new york but other cities are waking up to sunshine. we have the world's leading travel guide. this year it marks its 40th anniversary. it was created by tony and his wife after they went on their 00 moon. what sets it apart from other travel guides? >> back in the early days it's because we went to places nobody else went to. we started by traveling in places in asia. >> sense the name lonely planet. >> it didn't sound friendly to me lonely planet. but you were trying to say -- >> we are the lonely planet. we're the only planet with life on it. >> as far as you know. you have been to over 150 countries. where are some of the hot spots
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people may not know about? charlie wants to know. >> croatia, the aiddriatic coast. it's a beautiful region. nice way to do it is if you can get on a boat. >> what else? >> i've been back many times to nepal nepal. i'm a king walker. to walk around the base camps and the mountains. it's a real favorite for me. >> how high are the base camps? >> the air's getting pretty thin. in a lot of places that's twice as high as you would ever get in a lot of countries. >> third is? >> i think china is a place that's terrifically interesting these days. so many are interested in what's
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happening these days. it's so fascinating to see -- >> what's the greatest beach in the world? >> i'm from australia, but, you know, we put our claim in city bees and some of the beaches in sydney and the great american beach beach. >> he's planning a summer here. >> i'm sorry. >> no, no no. but one of the things that i like about what lonely planet does, you have ten -- you have ten top tips and two really struck out for me. i'm not winking at you. my contact is bothering me. i'm not trying to be cute. my contact is killing me. >> you could have fooled me. >> hello, hello. one was step outside your come ft. zone. i want you to elaborate on that. the other was don't overeconomize. don't miss out on a great experience for a couple of bucks so talk about that. >> absolutely. there's nothing worse than
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coming back. you know you save your $10 or $20 but you passed up something. at the time it's worth saving the money but years later you'll be saying why didn't i do that why don't i go there. unfortunately i've got a few things i wish i would have done at the time. >> stepping out of your comfort zone, what do you mean? >> we want to eat different. don't want to eat the food we eat at home. sometime as little bit f o discomfort really helps. >> okay. charlie, what else do you need? >> i'm not really interested in exotic places we don't know about. there must be some places in africa that would be wonderful. >> africa is terrific. i've about been to africa a lot of times and i've never been to africa and not had a great time. i've had great skpernlss. taking kids there when the kids were young kids love it. it's one thing sees animals at the zoo. >> a lot of wonderful ideas, tony. glad to have you here.
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that does it for us. up next your local news.
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>> >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald good morning. it's 8:55. i'm michelle griego with your kpix 5 headlines. two east bay fire stations are in line to be closed. supervisors voted to shut down the stations within the contra costa county fire protection district. one station in pittsburg will be closed. the other still needs to be decided. traffic at the golden gate bridge should be much smoother this morning after an asphalt problem was fixed overnight. the area where new asphalt meets the older roadbed began to break up, causing flying pavement chunks. the problem caused massive delays yesterday. and for the first time ever in bay area's sports history, the san jose sharks swept a stanley cup play-off series. patrick marleau scored the game winning goal in overtime. the sharks closed out the
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series against vancouver with a 4-3 win. they take some time off as they what the to see who the next opponent will be -- as they wait to see who the next opponent will be. cloudy skies right now, looks like we are going to keep things improving weather over the next few days. today a transitional day. gray over san jose at this hour. even some drizzle out toward the coastline. this past hour we have had some reports of light showers in toward the fairfield area. we'll show you why. see that moisture rotating around the low toward our direction? most of that is going to fade away. by this afternoon, partly cloudy skies, 70s inland. you will see 60s inside the bay, cool at the coast and mainly in the 50s. the next couple of days, it looks like a return to more sunshine. much warmer weather at least in the valleys over the weekend. >> we'll check out your "timesaver traffic" coming up next.
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good morning. want to let you know we are getting our first reports of a jackknifed big rig on eastbound 92 approaching skyline boulevard. so we don't know exactly what is blocked at this point. but if you are trying to get out of half moon bay consider using highway 1 towards pacifica. also, better news for the san mateo bridge. they just reopened lanes in the westbound direction. unfortunately, we are still seeing big backups behind the pay gates. jammed solid all the way to 880. dumbarton may be a better alternate.
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