: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday december 5, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning"." an american teacher shot and killed in benghazi libya. the murder where four died in the attack. the coldest freeze in more than a decade. an entire state below zero. millions face the ice storm. >> only this morning peter jackson from the hobbit series takes john black stone to middle earth. >> we begin with your world in 90 seconds. >> i have four layers on and three hats. >> when we get cold snaps like

this, it's very dangerous. >> i stayed indoors this morning. >> a prewinter storm blast. >> a deep deadly freeze from california to the midwest. >> the snow and ice, three feet dumped in two days. >> i'm looking forward to it. >> an american has been shot dead in benghazi. ronny smith was shot and killed near his home earlier today. no one claiming responsibility for that murder. >> the massive breech. hackers have stolen the 2 million google, facebook, twitter accounts. a virus sent the info to hackers. >> the truck vanished with radio medical waste. all wastes have been recovered. >> new allegations. did toronto mayor rob ford try to buy the alleged video of him smoking crack by offering gang members $5,000 and a car. sounds like he'd make a good

game show host. >> crews in florida are trying to lure whales out of dangerously shallow water. >> short supply at a christmas free light tree lighting in philadelphia two women got into it. >> spurs and timberwolves were supposed to kick off. smoke postponed them. >> a car cruising down the highway in a snowstorm with no one behind the wheel. >> all that matters. >> seems the excitement of the season was too much for obama's newest dog. >> on "cbs this morning." >> 113 congress is on pace to be the least productive congress ever. >> they're doing something, they're getting into the genius book of world records.

welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning norah. >> good morning to you charlie. breaking news this morning. >> as you wake up in the the west we begin with the deadly attack on an american citizen in libya. last year the ambassador and three other americans were killed when muslim extremist stormed benghazi. this morning a you man was shot to dealt. mark is there. good morning. >> all information regarding the american killed in benghazi comes from chool where he worked. a staff member identifies him as ronald smith, a 33-year-old chemistry teacher apparently out jogging when he was shot reports say by a group of men. ronald smith was you working at the international school in benghazi and what appears to be his twitter account he described

how his wife had left to go home. he talked about leaving himself at the end of the week. just realized i'll be flying home friday 13th of december he said. it was nice knowing you. who am i kidding, it wasn't. eight peers to be a joking one. the internet is filled with heart felt condolences from students. he had a young son. he kept a live chatter on his account, some taunting militant groups active in benghazi. i understand i teach the school of rich kid, he said. if i'm kidnapped who's going to pay the ransom. the incident appears to have happened not far from area where there were killed last year.

religious affiliations have been happening in benghazi. the students could have took the threats serious. benghazi and libya are dangerous places for americans. >> thanks mark. a massive cold front from canada is impacting the west and much of the area. areas 20 to 40 degrees below tomorrowle. the entire state of montana below 0 this morning. forecasters say the freezing cold will stick around five days. >> meanwhile the ice storm causes problems texas to ohio. drivers are dealing with dangerous conditions on the roads. don is in minneapolis. good morning. >> reporter: good morning norah and charlie and good morning to our viewers in the west. that cold air mass that has been marching its way east ward from the west has hit this area now. i might not be a meteorologist but i do know one highly technical a term. that is this weather is nasty.

through bitter wind chills and piling snow plow operators in minnesota are working around the clock after another round with the storm that dumped two feet of snow in parts of the state and caused five deadly traffic accidents this week. >> people weren't ready for the winter weather and were driving in it today. >> reporter: sub zero temperatures and wind gusts could ice roads and knock out you power for thousands. some commuters are taking a creative roach to getting around. >> i stayed in doors this morning. the allies were great. they plowed last night. there was a couple inches of snow perfect for skiing. >> reporter: 42 inches has fallen since the beginning of the storm. the worst has moved on, but you hard work for many is not over.

>> we have not shut them off in 30 hours. >> reporter: even when they plowed the road it's so cold out here that the streets have frozen over after that making the driving very dangerous. when i was driving here last night, it felt like riding on a camel on roller states. charlie, norah. >> stay warm. thank you. as temperatures dive below zero in colorado the state is digging out this morning. snowplows working all night in areas to clear more than a foot of snow. airlines cancelled dozens of flights at denver international airport. megan is tracking the storm from our chicago station. >> thanks charlie and norah. the winter storm playing us all week shifts direction and focuses on folks from west texas, oklahoma, ohio river valley and pennsylvania in the next couple of days. snow on the northern extent of the storm. rain to the south and in

between, an ice storm. we anticipate ice accumulation on roadways anywhere from texas up through tennessee to kentucky west virginia eventually pennsylvania today and tomorrow. this will mean significant travel impacts as well as power outages, ice accumulation on power lines and things of that nature. we're talking about snow on the northern extent of this system that could top five inches in springfield, four inches in oklahoma and inch and a half around indianapolis. the cold air is invading. coldest air we've had in over three years for much of the nation. charlie, norah. >> megan in chicago. the cold weather is threatening citrus crops. farmers are protecting their plants. a freeze warning is in effect this morning. citrus grows $1.5 billion each year. this cold snap could destroy half of this year's crop. in washington, president barack obama is laying out the

priorities for the rest of his term. high on the list an increase in minimum wage. >> the president challenged americans to help low income americans. >> i believe this is the defining challenge of our time making sure our economy works for every working american. the opportunity gap in america is now as much about class as it is race. that gap is growing. so if we're going to take on growing inequality and improve upper mobility for all people, we've got to move beyond the false notion this is an issue exclusively of minority concern. >> good morning major garrett at white house. >> reporter: good morning charlie, norah, viewers out west. he gave the speech of what he believes an obsession republicans have to prosperity.

the white house disagrees on this issue coming front and center in the next couple of weeks. congressional negotiator democrats and republicans on capitol hill are trying to figure out a way to avoid the second round of across the board spending cuts otherwise known as sequestration. those cuts would harm the push for better economic growth and wage equality. another push from the president, renewed push for higher minimum wage. currently $7.25 an hour. the white house backs the democratic proposal to raise to $10.10 an hour. these are things the white house will press in coming weeks. >> major, let's turn to obama care healthcare.gov website. it appears there are improvements. shon shoppers have had a better experience. >> reporter: that's right. the first part is much much better. consumers go on the federal

health care website, look for a plan, put in financial information, see if they qualify for a financial subsidy from the federal government and select a plan. that part is working better. the second part is not. the data that consumers put in is transferred to insurance companies. in many cases that data doesn't arrive at all or in a garbled fashion. those that think they enrolled won't have purchased a plan. yesterday, it was work jointly with the insurance industry to find a fix. it's the first time officials have brought in the insurance companies to fix the problem. >> major, thank you. joe biden is taking a stand this morning over china's air defense zone. biden arrived in south korea today after wrapping up a two day visit to china. he spoke in beijing about china's territorial dispute with japan. >> china's recent and sudden

announcement about the air defense identification zone has to state the obvious, cause apprehension in the region. i was very direct about our firm position and our expectations in my conversations with the president. >> biden met with the president five hours wednesday. today biden criticized china's crack down on american journal oust working in the country. he says innation thrives where people speak freely and newspapers report the truth without fear. congress is getting close to the end of this year's season and on track to be the least productive congress in american history. but members of congress are tackling some issues including the eternal question, is there life on other planets? really? nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning. >> reporter: sad but true. good morning norah, charlie, viewers out west. this could go down as the year of missed opportunities on

immigration, tax reform budget. all issues leaders wanted to tack al at the start of the year. they had trouble funding the government and running out of time to pass critical legislation. american families could see milk prices spike to $7 a gallon if congress can't pass the farm bill by the end of the year. lawmakers are running out of type to set funding and policy for the pentagon next year. they still need to confirm janet yellen as the next federal chair before bernanke's term ends next month. it's no wonder one house committee chose to focus on a less invasive topic, space aliens. >> is there life out there? what do they think about new york city? >> reporter: congress has passed 56 bills in 2013 in the past 66 years only three other times that congress has passed less than 100 bills in a single year.

many of the bills this congress passed were simply extensions of older laws that were set to expire. hope appears to be dwindling for the small deal between house and budget leaders that wanted to replace the federal spending cuts known as sequester with smarter cuts and revenue. >> when will they learn to say yes? >> reporter: john boehner argued senate democrats were to blame for this year's inaction because they wouldn't consider the bills. >> this year is going down as the least productive in congressional history. what can you and others do to change that? >> look at the number of bills passed by the senate you can see where the problem is. >> reporter: >> reporter: >> reporter: report the senate is in the midst of a two week recess despite all these deadlines.

one bright spot i suppose norah and charlie, for the first time in many years congress is not facing the manufactured crisis this holiday season like a fiscal cliff or government shutdown. several lawmakers told me their lives threatened to leave them if they allowed another crisis to ruin yet another family christmas. >> now to a new security threat. stolen pass words. victims in the u.s. and around the world nearly 2 million accounts on social media and websites have been breached by hackers. they gained access to user pass words to 100,000 websites including facebook google twitter, linked in and adp the payroll company. it may still be underway. mexican security forces are standing guard over a payload of dangerous radioactive material. stolen then found two days later north of mexico city after thieves abandoned the supply.

this is raising concerns about the concerns of nuclear materials. john miller former fbi assist and director, good morning. >> good morning. what happens here? >> a truck with radioactive material is stolen. yesterday they come up you with the truck without the material. then they find the material a short distance away giving off radioactive material the. it does not look like terrorists. looks like thieves were in the knuckle head zone and thought they were going to get a truck with a piece of valuable kwoimt equipment. they could end up in a hospital or dead. >> even though it may be knuckle head, how dangerous is cobalt 60? >> this is the thing hospitals use in radiation therapy for x-raies and things like that. half life of 2.7 years.

>> could you make a dirty bomb out of it? >> you could and it wouldn't be eaten up in the explosion. it could be exploited there which is why there was the concern. >> that's a big worry somebody having capacity to steal something that's a dirty bomb. >> this happens more than it ends up on the news. these trucks get stolen from time to time. it goes out on the law enforcement community it has to be found because of that danger. time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. the washington post says nsa is tracking cell phone locations around the world and gathers 35 billion records a day including a substantial amount of data on domestic cell phones through surveillance. our new york station wcbs says the engineer in the train derailment has been suspended without pay. drug andle alcohol tests for william rockefeller came back negative. service has returned to the line where the derailment happen. the state officials and

families of 19 firefighters killed in june a report contains the last photos of the granite mountain hot shots before they died. the investigation bliems the state forest ri division. the families will each receive $25,000. the toronto star looks at em battled mayor rob ford's latest troubles. police documents show he was the target of a black male plot. gang members wanted must be in ex change for a video appears to show him smoking crack. the mayor of the fourth largest city had extensive dealings with gang members. in mexico, many are still waiting for a game. smoke forced the evacuation of the stadium. the spurs and

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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. good morning. 7:26. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some bay area headlines now on this thursday. about 50 people including children all left out in the cold when the chateau blue apartment caught fire. the fire is out. one person injured. meanwhile down in stockton a man wanted on attempted murder charges in san jose was shot and killed by the police. police say after a chase on i-5 the man got out of his vehicle holding a knife. police shot him after he refused to drop it. traffic and weather and it's cold outside, my friend. >> it is bitter cold for the bay area. temperatures really taking a nosedive overnight. out the door we go, we have clear skies everywhere to the

coastline. but that cold arctic air is sitting overhead. it is 19 still in the napa valley. 25 degrees and santa rosa, 28 in livermore and 27 degrees in concord even freezing temperatures inside the bay. this afternoon, still on the chilly side. highs will only be in the 40s and the 50s. the freeze warning is now extended until tomorrow morning. and then in the afternoon, we'll notice some clouds beginning to move in. a chance of showers developing friday night into saturday. we are going to check your traffic when we come back.

a "kcbs traffic" alert. we have a stalled car northbound 880 near fifth and it's causing backups near the oakland coliseum.

here's something fun for the holidays. this is from my cousin. it's a preschool letter that she goes to. when you zoom in there's a blinder. we know it's the holiday season and everyone is in a festive mood. however, please note if we sme alcohol on your breath when you pick up your child, we will not release your child. please adhere to the law so it's not make it a difficult situation for both parties. >> a battle going on to save dozens of whales. they're trapped in the florida everglades. we'll take you to a look at the scene to see how scientists are struggling to get them back in

the ocean. two universities are dealing with a meningitis scares but they're using two different scares to stop the outbreak. dr. holly phillips with news for parents and what they need to know. that's ahead. >> one of the top players in a college will find out if he'll be charged for the assault of a fellow student. a state attorney who took over prosecutor. they say they've gone through all the local evidence and this afternoon he's going reveal his findings. >> winston fire as strike. >> as florida state's star quarterback redshirt freshman jameis winston has led the

school to the number one ranking in the country nicknamed famous jameis, he's now odds-on fievt win the heisman trophy college's most prestigious award. >> wide open. touchdown, florida state. >> my team is so genuine and we feel like this is our year. >> reporter: but off the field the 19-year-old is facing serious allegations. >> his season has been very flawless. he's very charismatic. he comes across that way on the podium in press conferences, coming off the field on the field. that's why i believe this is hard if you're an fsu fan. >> reporter: >> according to a police report filed in 2012 a fellow student said she was sexually assaulted by an asays land. she identified him as winston. the tallahassee police indicated the case as inactive. in a statement the woman's

family accused police of mishandling the case saying a detective warned that quote, tallahassee was a big football town and the victim needs to think long and hard before proceeding against winston because she will be raked over the coals and her life will be made miserable. last month police referred the case to attorney willy meis after an incident report. >> should i believe they should be charged? no. >> he's denied the allegation saying the consent between his client and the alleged victim was consensual. >> either we're going to get ready for a trial or this cloud is going to be lifted and people can move on. >> now, it is unusual to announce a press conference if you're planning to arrest someone for a violent crime and that's being widely interpreted in florida a sign the state attorney is not going to be filing charges.

charlie and norah, no one knows. of course, the future of winston and the accuser, this is hanging in the balance, not to mention florida state, a shot at the national championship. so everyone's going to be looking at that press conference this afternoon for the answers. >> all right jan. than cads and juveniles. ten have died and not in chances are being taken to the rest clinging to life. they were first spotted on tuesday afternoon. some had beached while others were struggling offshore some

200 yards away. six of the whales died before they could be nudged off the sand. four more had to be euthanized. >> some of the individuals are very close to death and medically it's the most human thing to do particularly if they can't be rescued. >> the surviving whales are trapped in water less than 4 feet deep. teams have been trying to coax them back to the gulf of mexico but that required the exhausted mammals which can be 20 feet long and weigh as much as 23 tons swimming through several miles of shallow water and treacherous sand banks and because the area is so isolate it's dr for rescue-- difficult for the rescuers to bring in heavy equipment to rescue the remaining mammals. >> there's not a lot to be done unless they can bring in rescue boats to take them back out to deep water.

>> short-fin whales are found in the gulf. they usually swim in pods of 20 to 15 mammals. >> they're very reluctant to leave members behind and they'll stay there even to -- as a consequence they become sunburned, dehydrated starved, and eventually die themselves. >> this particular species is notorious for mass strandings in florida. in 2012 22 pilot whales beached themselves at ft. pierce. another 21 were today trying to do whatever they can here. charlie, norah, back to you. >> anna thank you. this morning two

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in our "morning rounds" scientists say they found human dna from a fossil 4,000 years

old. before that they went back a mere 100,000 years old. >> it brings new questions of who we are and how we're involved. professor michio kaku is a physics professor at new york. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell us about this. >> recovering human dna that's 400,000 years old has shattered all records. it's a game-changer. scientists are going ape over this result because it forces us to revise all the textbooks. it throws a monkey wrench into it. they say it was just them and us period. end of story. now we realize there were other sub species of humans that walked the earth simultaneous with us. this is amazing. >> you also say there was interspecious mating. what's that? >> mating between the

neanderthals and others and maybe more. >> we didn't know we were hanging out together? >> hanging out but not mating. >> think of middle earth and lord"lord of the rings"." there's a menagerie of different kinds of humans. that's the way it might have been 400,000 years ago. it's like finding out at thanksgiving time that you have relatives you didn't know before. now we realize it wasn't just the neanderthals and us. there were other species of humans that walked the earth. >> so when scientists go ape, what do they do in. >> they try to get dna of what it was like so many hundreds of thousands of years ago. this throws a monkey wrench in the high school textbooks. >> i think it's really cool but what does it matter today? why does it matter today? how does it change things? >> first of all, every one of us

has a little neanderthal gene in us. >> i've known that about a couple of men. i can tell you that. >> that's where that behavior came from. >> but this is really serious. this givens us a new understanding about evolution. >> that's right. >> the crucial reason we're here. >> we used to think we were the only ones. but think of branch. now we realize there are other leaves, other branches other leaves on the tree of life and the tree of life becomes much more interesting and fascinating than before. i mean what other human-like creatures walked the surface of the earth? we're going to push this back more than 400,000 years. we're going to go back perhaps a million years into the past. >> i'm excited. >> i am too. this is deep. really deep. >> i am too. it's serious stuff. >> it challenges who we are. >> thank you. >> of course we've been asking

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couple is pulled from a burning home in benicia. and was rushed to the hospital. their dog, was also rescued... and fi good morning. i'm michelle griego. an elderly couple is pulled from a burning home in benicia and was rushed to the hospital. their dog was also rescued and firefighters revived it. a newspaper delivery man smelled the smoke on larkin drive around 2 a.m. and called 911. the former head of the l.a. and new york police departments is taking on the nation's largest police department again. bill bratton will serve as new york's new police commissioner. an announcement is expected today. he recently was a consultant for oakland police and highlighted the department's shortcomings and how to improve them. stay with us, traffic and weather in just a moment.

good morning. 880 in both directions is kind of a mess right now. we had a series of different accidents southbound look at that line of red sensors. this is really unusual to see it this backed up. southbound the backups again in san leandro even oakland towards fremont. if you are traveling northbound 880 not a whole lot better. we had a stall northbound approaching fifth and it's still backing up beyond the oakland coliseum. also icy conditions on some roads. for more on your weather forecast, here's lawrence. >> very cold start to the day a bitter cold day indeed in some parts of the bay area. down in the teens in some of the north bay valleys. mount vaca cam showing clears skies as arctic air sits overhead. 23 napa. 25 santa rosa. 23 freezing in san jose. highs today only in the 40s and the low 50s. cold day tomorrow morning. then a chance of showers by tomorrow evening.

♪ ♪ it is 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." an american civilian gunned down in benghazi libya. new details on the deadly shooting of a school teacher near the site of last year's terror attack. a massive cold front grips much of the west and the midwest. snow and ice threaten to cause havoc from texas to ohio. the president's dog sunny paws a young white house visitor. we'll ask her about that christmas party takedown. first here is a look at today's eye opener at. ronald smith was apparently out jogging when he was shot reports say by a group of men. >> that cold air mass that has

been marching eastward has hit this area now. stolen passwords, nearly 2 million accounts on social media and financial websites have been breached by hackers. it does not look like terrorists doing this for a dirty bomb. it looks like thieves in the knucklehead zone. this is going down as the least productive in history. what can you and other leaders do to change that? the future of winston and the accuser is hanging in the balance. rescuers came back ashore last night. they'll be out again this morning trying to help those whales. recovering human dna that's 400,000 years old has scattered all records. it's a game changer. scientists are going ape over this result. >> when scientists go ape, what do they do? gang members were caught on wiretaps saying they have photos of mayor ford doing heroin which is weird because i thought he had an exclusive deal with

crack. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. a chemistry teacher from texas was shot and killed this morning in benghazi libya. >> the same city where four americans including the u.s. ambassador to libya were killed last year in a terror attack. mark phillips is in london with new information on the shooting. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. well, a staff member at the school he worked at identifies the dead american as ronald smith, a 33-year-old chemistry teacher. he was apparently out jogging when he was shot reports say, by a group of men. ronald smith was working at the international school in benghazi. in what appears to be his twitter account he described how his wife left to go home and talked about leaving himself at the end of next week. also realized he'll be flying home on friday the 13th of

december. it was nice knowing you all. the internet is full of heartfelt condolence messages from his students. he appeared to have a young son as well. why he was shot? he was an american in a place where that can be dangerous. the u.s. ambassador and three others were killed in the at dak on the u.s. consulate last year. some of ronald smith's internet posts may also indicate he may have taken the threat from militant islamists group in the area not serious enough. if i'm captured he says who will pay the ransom. he wasn't kidnapped. he was shot. much of the united states is trapped in the fiercest cold snap in 15 years. temperatures are 20 to 40 degrees below average to the desert southwest. >> fresh snow falling in new mexico and a huge stretch of the country is bracing for a major storm. other spots are recovering from up to three days of snowfall. don dahler is freezing in

minneapolis. >> reporter: good morning, gail, charlie and norah. good morning to our viewers in the west. the people of twin cities know about winter. but they're taking this storm very seriously. minneapolis declared a snow emergency overnight. when we ventured out this morning, there were very few cars on the road and few people walking around. this is a dangerous snowmass and weather mass and cold air mass heading eastward through here. there has been a lot of plows out on the roads trying to clear the roads. they're still very slippery and dangerous. most of the snow totals are higher north of minneapolis. some places got up to two feet. in fact, the city of two harbors saw 42 inches of snow. temperatures are only going to plummet further. charlie, gayle, norah? >> don, thank you. president obama is calling for a hike in the national minimum wage. on wednesday the president said that growing income inequality is the defining challenge of our

time. this morning fast food workers across the country are holding strikes to demand higher wages. terrell brown is outside a mcdonald's in new york city. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there are about 200 protesters here in new york city. they have since dispersed and moved on to other locations. there are other rallies in 200 cities across the country including denver las vegas and san diego as workers push for higher wages, $15 an hour more than twice the national minimum wage. nancy delgado makes $8 coin 25 for the work she does at a chicago area mcdonald's. the 27-year-old mother of two has been employed at the fast food chain's franchises for the last ten years and earns the minimum wage in illinois. >> i don't have health insurance. i don't own a car, i don't own cable. i have a cell phone because i need it. i didn't think i was going to be

living like this. it's hard. >> reporter: so this summer she joined a growing movement of low-paid workers demanding retailers and fast food chains pay employees at least $15 an hour. >> workers felt like $15 would give them enough money to survive, just get food keep a roof over their head and get clothes on their back. >> reporter: opponents say such an increase could lead companies to cut their workforce and rely more on automated labor. >> you cannot just be an employee and demand salary based on your needs. salaries have to be based on the economy and what the economy in the area can bear. >> the national restaurant association says walk-outs like those planned for today are stunts staged by union-paid protesters and most industry employees are happy. >> we have plenty of opportunities for people to come in part time few hours and prove themselves and move up the ladder. >> reporter: but workers believe the fight for higher wages is

the best opportunity for a better life. she plans to join the strike today and is not giving up on her $15 goal. >> when you sfit for something and you believe in it you're going to get it. >> reporter: nancy said she was paid to protest earlier this year but said organizers provided her that money to make up for a lost day of work. charlie, norah, gayle. >> terrell brown, thank you. the white house sure goes all out for the holidays. first lady michelle obama unveiled the annual christmas decorations on wednesday and welcomed the children of military families for the party. the first family's newest edition, their dog sonny stole the spotlight. major garrett is at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, gayle, charlie and norah, i have experience with this. no visit to the white house is ever ordinary, but some are for the history books or at least the highlight real. just ask the family of

2-year-old ash lynn gardner. >> it was an event fit for princes and princesses. sons and daughters of the military, the first americans to see this year's white house decorations. amid the choreographed preciousness, the first family's rambunctious portuguese water dogs bo and sunny appeared. sunny encountered 2-year-old ashton gardner and the holiday knockdown seen around the world. the first lady tugged the leash and tried to remain composed. ashton's composure, perfect and calm. ashton even tried to feet white house candy to sunny's calmer canine colleague, bo. we caught up with ashton and her parents, her two brothers and their two dogs. ashton told us about sunny.

>> he liked me and bumped me. >> she is fine. she's an alabama-texas girl alabama dad and texas mom. we recover quick. >> reporter: ashton now joins the reel of white house bloopers, you know things like the presidential seal falling off during a speech. we cannot sustain -- whoops. was that my -- or a presidential dog, this time it's bo devouring a camera microphone or president george w. bush heading for a locked exit door in china. americans of a certain age can't quite forget president gerald ford slip sliding down the steps of air force one in austria. ashton's fall much gentler, a treasured brush with white house

fame. >> she'll be able to look back and say i was at the white house and got a chance to have a very special moment. >> reporter: we asks the first lady's office if mrs. obama had any reaction to the commotion. mrs. obama decided to give the last word to ashton and her father. >> what a great story. >> thank you major. didn't ashton look pretty in her dress? i thought it was sweet. >> ashton was so composed got right up. good alabama-texas girl. >> you can rela

a little boy with a super 8 camera grew up to be an oscar winning director. peter jackson's latest chapter in the hobbit series is about to hit theaters. he shows john blackstone how he brought middle earth to hollywood. pretty school story straight ahead, only on "cbs this morning." ♪ clowns to the left of me

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are getting ready for the second fill "the desolation of smaug" features new edition of elves and others. peter jackson brought some of middle earth to beverly hills this week. he gives a tour to john blackstone that you ool only see on "cbs this morning." >> it's great because it is like a woodland dekrep it feeling. >> reporter: the town may look past its prime but the director clearly is his. for 16 years he's been turning the books into blockbusters. >> i've enjoying doing this as i've enjoyed doing anything moo my life. this movie the pace and energy of it is almost reflectingmy kind of increased excitement and enthusiasm as i have.

>> reporter: in "the hobbit: the desolation of smaug" he's looking to recreate it. jackson again turns to his native new zealand with its enhanced locations. >> no matter how hot it is you know, you always take that moment to think, hang on you're doing exactly what you drept of doing when you were 8 or 9 years old. how many people are lucky enough to say they're living their dream? >> reporter: in affect orlando bloom, one of the stars thinks peter jackson has never grown up. >> he's a big child. his approach to the work is so creatively freeing. i love working with him. he's great. >> reporter: growing up as an only child with a big imagination he recalls how an unexpected gift changed his life when he was just 8 years old.

>> suddenly one christmas this camera shows up at our house. my mom and dad didn't really want it. i grabbed it. kind of commandeered this camera. >> almost from the beginning he was creating manic like punching pin holes in the film to create flash fire. he used stop motion photography to make his monsters move. >> i didn't have friends particularly. i didn't hang out. i wasn't socially good with people. i had project in my bedroom, a big wall toxic fumes and glues and sol developments where i was gluing up monster suits. >> in the mid-1980s jackson wrote, shot, and started in his first feature film bad day, a sci-fi film with aliens. he built everything from scratch. >> hopefully next year i'll revisit my old movies and polish

them up and release them only blu-ray. >> but it's token's world. the trilogy is among the most successful films of all time raking in nearly $3 billion worldwide. "the return of the king" won 11 acam kadyrbayevmy awards including three for peter jackson. jackson's take on the novel has courted controversy among purists. in his latest film he's created characters that don't exist in the books. still he embraces the attention to allow fans to follow his film making. >> this is the last shooting we're doing and it's going sneesk he appears in every one of his mirrors. >> i have no idea what we're shoot bug this has been fun. >> his fans try to spot him. >> get a lot of questions from people liej what character would you be? >> i say an elf, tall and

slender, but i'm more like a hobbit. the idea of a cup of tea with my feet up in front of the fire and not comes to serious places like hole or los angeles, scary places scary, scary places i doerjts like to venture beyond the bores or the sometime. the warm warm hotz may have to wait. the final chapter in the trilliongy is due ow next year. for "cbs this morning" john blackstone, hollywood. "the hobbit: the desolation of smaug" opens friday. how nice knowing at 8 or 9 knew now what you wanted to do as an adult and here he is. very nice. >> his name is probably on your computer. >> i hope so. >> michael dell is in studio 57.

he your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning. it's 8:25. bart directors will get an update on reforms in the agency's police department. patrick oliver spent the summer checking on 55 reforms recommended back in 2010. today he will deliver his assessment to the bart board. long-time oakland police consultant will be the new commissioner of police in new york. bill bratton recently restructured the oakland police department. this will be his second time serving as commissioner of the nypd. time for weather and the icebox that is the bay area. here's lawrence. >> very cold temperatures outside now down into the 20s

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour michael dell helped redefine the pc and the laptop. he's in our toyota green room to show us how he is ready to shape the future of high tech once again. plus in new york they're officially called boroughs. they look like two different worlds. it includes one of the newest rivalries in professional sports. that's ahead. >> first it's time to show you this morning's national headlines. president obama uses the smartphone for security reasons. he has an apple ipad but he told a group of young people that the

secret service would let him use an iphone. >> the secret services first look at a company pet. the two other portraits are called walking to church and the gossips. combined they brought in nearly $700 million. >> the sacramento o'couple gave birts to identical triplets conceived the traditional way. the babies abbie, bryn and laurel are doing very well. doctors say the odds of producing identical trip. s without fertility drugs very more than one in a million.

jay-z and beyonce are going vegan for 22 days. they're swearing off meat and dairy products. they call it a physical and spiritual cleanse. one of the computer openers is has brought back a reboot. dell is moving beyond making personal computers and laptops. we're joined now by michael dell. welcome. good to see you. >> good to see you, charlie. >> what are you going to do now that you have the freedom to do things at a private company. >> we have a great opportunity to do a number of things. first of all, to focus solely on our customers and not shareholders anymore. >> wait. no. you're not saying when you were a public company you paid more

attention to your shareholders than your customers? >> i think in this country we have an affliction of short-term thinking. being able to be bold focus on our customers, long term that's really the privilege we get being a private company once again and having a strong balance street capital structure to be able to indeveloping in our business and, you know invest in research and development and help drive the next wave of innovations that are going to power our center forward. >> everyone knows dell is a pc maker. a lot of us have had dell laptops. >> i see them all throughout the offices. i appreciate that. >> but you're going to try to move beyond that. how so? >> we're still very much in the pc business. this holiday season tablets are very popular, but what we're seeing certainly is are -- in the broader use of i.t. and

businesses and health care and education, real need for innovation and software and data centers and being able to make use of all this information and have it create better outcomes for patients for students to solve all the challenges that are out there. and so we have been building really changed the company quite dramatic will i in the last five years and building a whole new set of capabilities, and we'll invest in those further as a private company without an on session, short-term results with focus on the long term. >> i want to go back to charlie's point about the bruising battle for a second. it did get a little nasty with carl icahn. i wonder how you feel about him. next time are you going to invite him out to lunch, say i like your shoes, or this is how it goes. >> i don't think i'll be -- >> or like your tie. you know what i mean.

>> let's go to dinner. >> come over to my house for christmas. >> you know what i mean. it got a little heated between the two of you. >> you know, this is the largest company ever in the history of the world in revenue terms to go from being a public company to a private company. that attracted all sorts of on or ta'u nifts and, you know various players that showed up on the scenes. at the end of all that we got it done. you know it was a bit of a painful process, but you know -- >> diplomatic answer michael dell. i'm curious how you feel about him these days. >> not spending any time thinking about it. >> not thinking about it? >> i'm thinking about the customers, the company's future and how we invest and grow our business. >> i heard you tell your employees think of dell as a startup, i think like entrepreneurs how you do do that

when you're already established and have so many employees. what do you mean? >> we actually have a history at dell of building businesses. we are the world's largest startup and we're investing in all sorts of new things. we want risk taking and innovation and entrepreneurship. not only are we big championships of helping the entrepreneur grow his and her business around the world but inside the company, encouraged that risk taking that's hard do. we're kind of going back to our roots but on an enormous ability. >> what's going to be it the aspirations between amazon facebook and google? what's the fight? >> i think there's certainly a

platform war in terms of trying to collect customers' information and create eco systems around those. to some extent that works for a variety of time. we see these things sort of come and go. >> what about the cloud business? sneerch is used the cloud business in one form or another. all information you access is on the cloud. so we're very involved in building the infrastructures and data centers that poweral those. everyone has the cloud power in their hands, pocket. this is a mobile tablet that you

carry around. >> -- thing of it as the internet in 1995. now it's just everywhere. >> are you going to be delivering these computers by drones. >> i'm thinking mental tell pathieu is better thachb drones. >> are you counting dell comepute computer whence you travel around the world? >> we do that. >> was there every a moment you were thinking i'm going to lose this company when i was at my college dorm room. >> there was a risk of that. >> are you scared of that? you got tons of billions of dollar. >> there was no way to go through this process without that being a possibility.

fortunately we made it through the other end and fortunate to make the boast investments. >> congratulations. it's time for a rumble on the streets of new york. mo rocca and jeff glor show us how they're ready

let's talk about basketball for a moment. you're going go make your film.

basketball are you thrilleded about the fact that the brooklyn nets may have three of the best players and you may have a genuine players. >> we're old players of the celtics. they'll sit courtside with me at the world's most famous arena. not the barclays center, buddy. >> i forgot about that exchange, charlie. i forgot about that. new york knicks fan spike lee talks a little trash about the crosstown rivals but america's biggest city is now home to two of the biggest sports -- well disappointments. >> huge disappointment. >> hugely. >> they have a combined record of 8-26. they play each other tonight for the first time this season. >> but as cold as both teams are on the court, the rivalry between their burroughs in manhattan and brooklyn hit the

streets with their rivalry. >> every time brooklyn thinks it can claim the throne as best borough borough, top manhattan. come on mo. >> there is no comparison. in brooklyn we brew our own beer, churn our own butter, carry watch bobs. for heaven's sakes, we're better than manhattan. strutting through the bay ridge neighborhood of brooklyn like john travolta did in saturday night fever is the best way to experience that the borough is cool. >> no doubt that it's cool. truly groundbreaking stuff. of course, it was the beat generation of the 1950s that gave birth to the culture in the '60s and has its roots right here in manhattan, at columbia

university. >> come on jeff. let's not dwell on what divides the two boroughs but what connects them. an engineer marvel completed in 1883 the brooklyn bridge. one of the most glorious land marks. >> the manhattan bridge not so much. >> people come from all over the planet to see this including broadway shows. more than 40 hope come from here. they include collide davis, eli wallic, barbara strie sid and the "love boat's" bernie. both mr. carter and mr. cotter. >> it's tougher than any one

name. it's the skyline indelibly captured by woody allen to the strains of gershwin. >> it is a beautiful skyline, jeff which you can only see if you're standing in brooklyn. by the way, woody allen and george girshwin both from brooklyn. >> right. and they znlt stay there. regardless, there's more than skyscrapers. there are beautiful wide open spots, central park. such a beauty and success that its designers were asked to create one in brooklyn. >> absolutely. central park is an absolutely rough draft. good thing they worked out all the kinks before they completed the more significant one, prospect park. and in brooklyn trees are so nice they write bookses in thin. >> you want to cry?

check manhattan's real estate prices. i'm eat sure it helps my case but no island is more valuable. >> coney island is home to the wonder wheel. the world-famous cyclone and the warriors. jeffrey jeffrey, come out and play. >> nice. and excellent movie. but if you want a real life thrill, step into any of the yellow manhattan cabs. they might refuse. as the song says, i'll take manhattan. i'll take manhattan. it's a drink called the hutzpah. it doesn't contain egg or cream. >> come to think of it the

chairman's from new jersey just like the netss. >> yes jeff, they were from jersey, but their spectacular new home is smack dab in brooklyn. just look at this place. >> bravo. >> bravo, bravo. >> bravo. >> fabulous. >> someone has to win tonight, right? someone has to eventually win. >> they will indeed. >> i'm sorry. who's playing? brooklyn is the most populous borough, everyone wants to live there. >> yes it is. but manhattan is best. where do you live mo? >> i live in manhattan but that's only because i couldn't get into brooklyn. i'm waitlisted there. >> more people moving from manhattan to brooklyn or brooklyn to manhattan? >> manhattan to brooklyn. i don't have numbers on me. >> why is that? >> it's a bigger place. it's more diverse ecologically

it's got a booming -- >> i see tap dancing here. >> you know what was great about both pieces is that you each found something great about each of the borrows. really i thought it was a draw. you'd be happy either place. >> what about queens and staten island and the boroughs. >> those are pressing questions and we'll get to them next week. >> the bronx has the yankees. >> and staten island is an island with a very long bridge that connects it to brooklyn and queens is wonderful. queens has great latin food. >> your new york city spokesperson right here.

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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning. 8:55 on your thursday. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some headlines now around the bay area. an elderly couple home from a burning home in benicia and was rushed off to the hospital. their dog also rescued and firefighters had to revive the dog. a newspaper deliveryman actually smelled and saw the smoke at the home and called 911. about 50 people including children out in the cold when the bancroft apartment building caught fire in san leandro. they sheltered in a local high school. the fire is out. one person was injured. long-time oakland police consultant bill bratton will be appointed as the new commissioner of the new york police department. an announcement is expected today. bratton recently worked to restructure the oakland police department. this will be his second tour of duty as commissioner with the

nypd. it's cold. here's lawrence with more on that. >> couple of record cold temperatures out there in san francisco into oakland. very chilly start to the day. we have clear skies all the way to the coastline. may actually be the warmest out toward the beaches today. even there, we're only going to see some low 50s. we have cold weather alerts in effect as we have a freeze warning staying up now and extending until tomorrow morning. expecting some very chilly temperatures down to the 20s and 30s and again, highs today only in the 40s and the low 50s. next couple of days, changes with a cold start to the day tomorrow with clouds and showers by the evening could see some showers into saturday morning, as well. we are going to check your "kcbs traffic" coming up next.

good morning. checking the south bay 101 is busy. an earlier crash northbound 101 at de la cruz, backups speeds below 25 miles an hour as far back as hellyer. slow out in the east bay this morning. especially through the castro valley y and continuing up towards northbound 880. we have a camera near the oakland coliseum and it's like that gridlock towards your downtown oakland exits. san mateo bridge traffic is improving right now out of hayward. about a 20-minute drive out towards 101. you know how long that takes? five

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