good morning. it is christmas day, december 25th, 2013. welcome to ""cbs evening news" this morning." new york cardinal timothy dolan looks at the meaning of christmas and how the church is changing under pope francis. and on this special day for so many, we look back at some of our favorite stories and people, like wallace annenberg, the billionaire heiress who is changing lives with her generosity. plus, hold on tight, charlie in rome goes on roman holiday by way of the vespa. we begin this day with an eye on the opener. your world in 90 seconds. faithful around the world

celebrate christmas. >> pope francis' celebration of midnight mass was first as his as leader of the catholic church. in the holy land thousands of revelers packed bethlehem's manger square. and two rockets struck the u.s. compound in afghanistan. no injuries. cruise ship passengers are stuck in the ice and awaiting rescue on their way to antarctica. astronauts made a risky spacewalk to replace a faulty pump in a cooling line. >> merry christmas to everybody. it took a couple of licks to get her done but we got it. more than 300,000 people still without power following storms over the weekend. >> christmas can't be cancelled. >> all that. ups is so busy they weren't able to deliver all of their packages. their system was overloaded. >> and all that matters. >> what would you do if you found $300,000 in cash?

las vegas cab driver gerardo turned it in. >> i don't get this money. i'm still happy, because i did a good thing. >> on ""cbs evening news" this morning," the greatest gift one mother from new jersey could possibly get from her son serving in the military in afghanistan. he gave her a surprise she will never forget. >> this morning's eye opener presented by toyota. let's go places. merry christmas and welcome to "cbs this morning." >> did santa come? >> he did. >> i'm going to go home did santa leave you anything? the kids are probably waiting until you get back home. >> you about i love presents, you know that. >> everybody does. >> everybody does, indeed. all right. before we get started, let's head to the news desk for a check of the morning's headlines. good morning and merry christmas. in the news this morning the american embassy in kabul,

afghanistan, came under fire this morning. hundreds of diplomats and other officials had to take cover. holly williams is in london with the story. holly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this attack came early this morning kabul time. the u.s. embassy compound was hit by two rockets, and the taliban quickly claimed responsibility. an embassy official told cbs news there were no injuries, and all americans who were inside the compound are accounted for. staff inside the embassy were not evacuated but were taken to a safe room. they were given the all clear around two hours later. afghan police said they have arrested a suspect in relation to the attack. two other locations were also hit by rockets this morning. one of them did not explode on impact and four policemen were injured as they tried to diffuse it. a taliban spokesman posted a message on twitter claiming the embassy attack had inflicted heavy casualties. >> holly williams in london, thank you. in iraq two or more bombs exploded this morning in christian areas of baghdad. at least 37 people were killed.

one car bomb went off outside a church as christmas worshippers were leaving. so far no one has claimed responsibility. and at the vatican pope francis is celebrating his first christmas as leader of the roman catholic church. he greeted the faithful gathered in st. peter's square this morning and delivered the traditional christmas message. bonjourno. >> the pope called on catholics to pray for peace and keep their hearts open. meanwhile, manger square in bethlehem is filled with christmas pilgrims, the crowds are the largest in several years. almost 500,000 homes and businesses in the u.s. and canada have no electricity on a cold christmas morning. repair crews are working around the clock from maine to michigan to restore power knocked out by a weekend ice storm. some families are staying in emergency shelters. at least 24 deaths are now

blamed on the storm. forecasters expect more snow today in the great lakes and the midwest. and dozens of cruise passengers will spend christmas waiting for rescue. the ship is trapped in the ice. more than 1,500 miles south of hobart, australia on the edge of antarctica. officials say the 74 passengers and crew members are not in danger. australia sent ice breakers to free the ship, but it will take a couple of days to reach an area that is so remote. and it's a merry christmas on board the international space station. u.s. astronauts rick mastraccio and mike hopkins went on a rare christmas eve spacewalk. they successfully installed a 780-pound pump to fix the station's cooling system. nasa says all the equipment should be up and running by this weekend. and a christmas lump of coal from the postal service. on january 26th the price of a first class stamp will jump

three cents to 49 cents. regulators say the rate hike will only last two years, just long enough to recover almost $3 billion in losses. the time,,

the pope has called christmas an encounter with the lord. the pope is asking not just catholics but the great human family to journey together towards hope, peace and justice. we invited new york's cardinal timothy dolan to help us celebrate christmas and share its meaning. cardinal dolan, welcome. >> a blessed christmas to all of you and good to be with you. >> merry christmas. >> a good way to spend christmas morning. we can open up gifts afterwards. >> and pass around the egg nog. >> so early, we can't open up gifts. what kind of gift would you like to open and you go wow, i always wanted this. what would be in that box? >> the payoff of the bill at st. patrick's cathedral.

>> for the repair. >> there you go. >> we called on you to help us understand and translate and figure out throughout the year, since the conclave where we watched and witnessed this new pope. >> sure. >> what does he mean when he talks about christmas as an encountner. >> for one, i would like to suggest that pope francis is a christmas gift to the whole world, and i think the world is believing that. and, of course, what he's reminding us is that jesus is the christmas gift of god the father, our lord and savior jesus christ and to the world on christmas morning. as everybody knows, there's nothing, nothing that changes a life like a baby. literally babies, the arrival of a baby changes identities, right? a husband becomes a dad. a wife becomes a mom, and their whole lives are changed because they are centered on that baby, and what pope francis is saying let's center our lives on this

baby. this baby represents love, reconciliation, forgiveness, mercy, tenderness, god's outreach and embrace of us. let's center on them and let's welcome this baby with this message. charlie, you just quoted it, of justice and peace. let's welcome that baby into our lives. we take up a newborn baby and hold that baby close to our heart. what francis is saying is let's pick up this christ child, and let's let this baby, this holy infant, transform our lives. i think that's what he's getting at, and he's doing it pretty well. >> there is something remarkable about this pope. everyone has noticed it, and it seems like he's trying to draw attention to what many people know is the positive aspects of the catholic church. >> you got it. >> and refocus on the poor and those who need the most compassion in this society. >> you got it, nora. >> and that was the message of the season, wasn't it? >> yeah. how do you think then that the whole church changes as well

because of this pope? >> i think what pope francis is saying is the church has got to become like bethlehem. now, when you think about it, how simple, how do you know to earth can you get, that the only begotten son of god, our lord and savior, is born in a stable, there with him were his mother and foster father joseph surrounded by animals. you can't get much more down to earth. you can't get much more natural than a stable, number more simple and sincere. it's almost like god, the father, saying i'm not only becoming one of you, i'm becoming one of you in the most humb humble, down-to-earth simple situations you can conceive of, and he's asking the church to do that. i think he's asking us to do that. >> i think it's so interesting because the pope is talking about how materialistic we've all become at a time when christmas is about materialism and giving gifts. >> he warns us about consumerism and puts it in beautiful and

philosophical language and here's the danger of consumerism in that we seek our worth in what we own. here's what's happening. we gage our importance by what we've got rather than who we are. christmas teaches us that we're all children of god, made in his image and likeness and he loves us so much that he became one of us, the message of christmas that for us we're all like the baby. god the father loves us and holds us to himself and coos us and francis says don't be lulled into that temporary temptation who would reduce who with reas a treasure to what we own. >> he also said it's a start to restart and renew. for many people listening there is someone saying i need to change my life. i need to do something. what do you advise them to do? how do they start that process? >> well, first of all, i would say thank god for that sense

that i need some change. i need some renewal. this is very interesting when we're talking about pope francis. people usually center on the external. oh, he's asking the church to change, the vatican to change, he is doing that, but what he's most asking is that we change inside where it really counts. well, you're not going to be surprised, gayle, to know if you want to change, for me as a christian the best way to do it is to let jesus christ be reborn this your heart and soul. that's what christmas is for a believer. we don't know the exact date of christ's birth. this isn't so much a celebration of his historical birth, you bet it is that, it's a celebration of the rebirth that god wants to happen in every one of our lives through his son jesus. >> when this pope talks about the pastoral role and talks about it, as nora suggested, we have to be looking towards the poor more and be less materialistic, is he simply reflecting the words and the

whole message of jesus? >> you bet it is, who seemed to be two of the most important people in his life. obviously jesus christ and st. francis of assisi. he chose the name of st. francis. these are two people who became poor. jesus left heaven, left divinity to become one of us, and francis, of course, was a very wealthy sob of an aristocrat, a merchant in assisi who left all of that and became poor. francis is saying we need to get more simple. we need to get more -- to kind of shed some of these -- all this possessions. all this stuff in our life. you bet we need some. >> the church also has a lot of stuff. >> yeah. >> and it has a lot of faith. >> yeah. >> is he -- >> by the way, i want that red sweater. >> right now? >> that's the stuff i want. >> all right. is the church changing, not the message, not the pope, the

church? >> it is, yes, it is. i think he wants it leaner. he wants it simpler. he's saying let's not stress the superficiality. let's not get caught up in the purple churchiness about bishops and honors and all this fancy stuff. let's get back to that gospel and the baby in the crib. let get back to the message of jesus. that's what the church saul about. >> there are people in the church who like it. >> and i'm one of them. he's serving as an examination of conscience for me. dolan, all this is fine if it helps you serve the poor better. >> it was revealed a couple weeks ago that he was a bouncer. did that surprise you? did you crack up? >> he almost threw me out of his office. so i knew -- it's interesting though, gayle, if you talk to priests like you often do, bishops, you'll find most of us come from colorful backgrounds. >> what's your colorful

background? >> none of your business. >> smacked down by cardinal dolan, and merry christmas to you, too, sir. >> cardinal dolan, thank you. thank you. a blessed christmas, everyone. good to be with you. >> i'm taking back my gift. >> good to see you. for 125 years "national geographic" has used the power of photography to capture the world around us. in celebration nat geo teamed up with wallace annenberg for a photo exhibit in los angeles and she gave her first ever national tv interview with "cbs this morning." she sat down with bill whitaker. >> reporter: opening night for the annenberg arts center and here to celebrate the theater nicknamed the wallace and its benefactor wallace annenberg. >> such an incredible supporter of the arts in every way in los angeles. >> just so many different kinds of things that she wants to do for the people of los angeles.

we're all very lucky to have her. >> reporter: a rock star in the world of fund-raising, annenberg has given more money to the arts in l.a. than any other woman, more than just about anybody else, in fact. yet she shuns the spotlight. >> how do you see yourself? >> as a person that likes to sit in a very comfortable chair with a martini and watch a good football game. >> reporter: and give your money away? >> to use it wisely. not give it away. i don't like that term at all. >> let's open the doors. >> reporter: she has widened the use of $4.2 billion to fund museums, hospitals, beaches. she recently gave $50 million for a new hall at usc's annenberg school and caught up with her at the school of

photography. >> it's a space i love. >> reporter: "national geographic" used this space to celebrate 125 years of photography. >> i remember as a child feeling those pictures, the texture of them and being transported to other world and continents. >> reporter: she was a child of privilege, growing up in a world of movie stars and presidents. her father, walter antenberg, was u.s. ambassador to britain and the media mogul behind "tv guide" and "seventeen" magazine, a philanthropist and gave half a billion to public education, funded two university schools of communication. he passed his foundation and philosophy on to wallace. >> i've always been aware of the privilege that i had financially. at the same time i knew it wasn't going to fill me up. i can't keep it unless i can give it away. it was going to be a two-way street. >> >> reporter: one with a steep lurng cur-- learning curve.

>> reporter: to date the foundation has distributed more than 10,000 grants. how did you know how to run more than a $1 billion foundation? mean -- >> it's not hard. i have great judgment when it comes to people. and it's probably the most valuable gift i inherited from walter annenberg. the ability to size up the human being, that's my genius. >> reporter: you must be hit up all the time? >> absolutely, but i love it. isn't it wonderful to be invited to everything and not to have to go? >> reporter: do you know if the invitation is for you or for your money? >> of course money is part of the agenda. i take that for granted. >> reporter: she doesn't see it as investing in art or education. she's building community. she put $27 million into a santa monica beach club.

it's free to the public and sits right next to an expensive exclusive club. she built this wheelchair accessible treehouse. she's known to drop in on her project with no fanfare. they say you go down there sometimes incognito. >> i don't arrive like lady bountiful getting out of a limousine saying a-ha, your benefactor, no. >> reporter: but nobody would be upset if you showed up like lady bountiful. >> that's not who i am. you're making it sound like i have some sort of false modesty. i don't. i'll go to the beach club in santa monica and look over there and see kids and young mothers, that's far more valuable to me than any piece of jewelry. >> reporter: why? >> seeing the people whose lives i've maybe made this much of a dent snow say a dent. >> a dent. >> reporter: i think the people of l.a. would say a difference. >> that's fine, too.

>> reporter: for "cbs this morning," bill whitaker, los angeles. >> perfect story on thissi christmas day, don't you think? >> god love her. >> a comfortable chair and a good martini. >> on a day like this it's what presents did i get but also the thought of what goes into the gift? >> indeed. herbie hancock gives nora the piano lesson of a lifetime. >> i'm really nervous. wait. >> play something by yourself first. ♪ >> find out how she did and what the candidate and honoree is working on next. and charlie goes looking for l.a. dolce vida on a vespa in rome. >> the biggest mountain in rome and one of the biggest in europe. >> probably the most famous

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police are investigating a good morning? >> 7:26 on this christmas day. i'm frank mallicoat. get you updated on some bay area headlines. police now investigating a christmas day murder-suicide. this is in san lorenzo. a relative we spoke to says her sister and husband are dead. officers have taped off an area of the intersection of via amigos and lucas there. we are expecting more details to be released during a press conference scheduled for 9:00 this morning. an early-morning fire in san francisco burned almost a dozen people out of their homes. the fire began around midnight at a multi-unit home on potrero avenue near 23rd street. we have traffic and weather coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,

merry christmas, everyone. let's head out where it's a very chilly start to this holiday. currently santa rosa 30 degrees. otherwise mid-40s in oakland to 53 degrees in san francisco. san jose in the 30s. livermore at 37 degrees. today another day with near or record warmth for this time of the year. 60s at the coast and bayside to the low 70s around the peninsula and inland. it is yet another "spare the air" day and we have sunshine all the way through new year's eve. we do have a traffic alert this morning on westbound bay bridge at treasure island so once you make it past the toll plaza and you're approaching treasure island, numbers 3, 4 and 5 right-hand lanes are blocked. not affecting too much bay bridge traffic since it is light. golden gate bridge problem-free. ,,,,,,,,

♪ happy christmas morning. welcome back to "cbs this morning." are you eating already? coming up in this half hour, we'll take you to vatican city for the first midnight mass celebrated by pope francis. see how he is breaking with tradition yet again. plus, it is one of our favorite memories while we covered this selection of the pope. charlie gets a one of a kind tour. you remember this. >> i do. >> one of a kind tour of rome vespa style. >> this sunday americans get a dlans to see some of our nation's great entertainers at the kennedy center honors. the ceremony features actress shirley maclaine and herbie

hancock. it's a acknowledgment of a career he began as a little boy as wlernd the grammy halve famer is now working on fine tuning his life story. ♪ >> you probably have been asked this many times. i want to brag about it for the rest of my life, herbie hancock, what is jazz? ♪ >> well, freedom of the human spirit. really is a music that expresses the moment. >> herbie hancock has six decades of those moments. and the jazz legend sound knows no barriers. blues -- ♪ >> funk. ♪ i love you for my life

>> pop. and, of course, classical music. where it all began. how old were you when you started playing piano? >> 7. >> how did that come about? >> well, when i was 6, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. my mother noticed that every time i go to his house, the first thing i would say to him is can i go play your piano? so on my 7 rnth birthday, my parents bought me a piano. >> by age 11, he was so skilled he played with the chicago symphony. by age 22, bruno records in chicago released his first album. on it, his first hit. ♪ watermelon man. the next year, miles davis asked

him to join liz band. >> what was that like? >> the first few months i played with miles, i was nervous every time. i was like scared to death. it was wonderful experience. and he was so nurturing. >> really? >> he would always find a way to say something that would cause us to have to figure out what he meant. that's what a master teaches us: >> hancock spent five years as davis' master student. and then ended ee eed up chang game for jazz bands. no one ever used the keyboard like he did. like he does. >> i've been curious ever since i was a little kid. i used to tear apart clocks. iwondering how things work.

that curiosity spills over into music. out of my curiosity, i wondered what would happen if you put this with that. >> what happened was a musical career full of surprises and the catalog of more than 100 albums. we talk about rocket. do you think rocket influenced rap music in the rise of the deejay? >> evidently, it did. it was the first record from hip hop generation that really emerged on the popular scene. from that point on, it wasn't underground anymore. and it was a huge record. >> but not as big as this one in 2008. >> you won album of the year for

"river." joanie mitchell inspired album. do you think there can be another jazz album of the year? >> there better be. i don't doubt that. ♪ >> you're currently working on your memoir. what are we going to learn about herbie hancock? >> a lot of things. story that nobody knows except my family. i mean, everything has not been roses. i have not lived a life of being, you know, mr. goody two shoes. i have some dog moments in my life. and believe me, i avoided it. i tried to actually put it out of my mind, you know, almost like suppress it. >> and why are you telling them now? >> because i think that i might possibly be able to help someone else. you know, even if it helps one person, it's worth it. >> the 73-year-old buddhist who

is also a professor and a good will ambassador for unesco says that's what life and music are about now. human connections. i'm really nervous. and, of course, some collaboration. i read that one time when you were performing with him, you hit the wrong note. >> right. i hit a wrong chord. and miles was playing his solo getting to the peek of peak of his solo. and then i played this chord that was so wrong. it was so wrong. and i thought i had just, like, it was like a house of cards and i just destroyed them all. and miles just took a breath and he played some notes that made

my chord right. after i played it, i couldn't figure out how -- how did he do that? it took me years to realize miles didn't judge my chord. i did. >> for hancock, that early lesson wasn't just about jazz -- ♪ >> -- it was about life. and now it's his turn to be the master teacher. beautiful. beautiful. >> you know, you know people who are famous and then you get to meet them and you learn just what incredible people they are. you know they're an incredible artist but he's an incredible person. he's been a buddhist since 1972. he's been married to the same woman for nearly 50 years.

he's a man that is really at peace with himself. it was such a delight to talk to him. >> now he has me really intrigued about his memoir. it shows you everybody has a story. i don't care what you are, what you've done, everybody has a story. >> he told me that he might name it chameleon which is one of herbie hancock's most famous songs. and it will be interesting to see what he talks about. he started playing piano at age 7. he was playing for chicago symphony at age 10. this is a great composer and musician. >> don't you think it will be nice a year if now how nora is doing on the piano? >> hopefully a lot better than i was. i was very nervous. >> you can work your way up to chopsticks. >> i'm working on it. you can watch the kennedy center honors on sunt. >> charlie gets his motor running. he takes us on a two-wheel tour of rome. that is coming up next on our

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♪ at the vatican this morning, pope francis celebrated his first christmas mass as leader of the roman catholic church. once again, we're seeing changes in style. this year's service was shorter, less solemn and the pope was dressed a bit more understated than his predecessor pope benedict. >> we went to vatican city in march. all roads lead to rome. we hit the streets with one of the best known actors. i began this trip on the vespa with a new friend. the new friend was pierre fran chess he couldment he was my

guide. >> are they paying me to do this? >> they're paying you to do this. i want to get paid. >> you were born in rome? >> born in rome and raised in rome. >> i'll just follow you. >> is it fine for you to go faster? >> oh, sure. >> but rome, a magnificent city, and the opportunity to see it firsthand on a vespa was a wonderful, remarkable experience. our first stop, the coliseum. >> you come here at night, not a lot of tourists are around. you can really enjoy what it must have been once. it's really -- this is the core of rome. this is the heart of rome. >> speaking of history, this is one of my favorite quotes from lord byron. he said while stands the coliseum, rome shall stand. when falls the coliseum, rome

shall fall. and when rome falls, the world. >> let's hope it doesn't. >> the lord got it right. >> exactly. >> and this is the arch? >> yes. that was built to celebrate a victory. victory of a battle. >> i've never seen the city with so many monument that's men have placed to celebrate themselves. >> it's true. >> including religious men. >> yes. >> we traveled throughout the city from monument to monument and streets high and low. our next stop took us to the fountain. >> we can throw a coin from here. >> i don't have a coin. >> pick up one. >> okay. >> i'm good for it. >> turn your back. >> all right. >> together? >> on three. one, two, three.

>> if do you this, you can return safely to the eternal city? >> yes. >> do you all know who my friend is? >> they're all distracted. >> you want to get here. >> he's a great actor. >> the majestic sights were below as we rode back to st. peter's square. >> we started here and come back here. this has been really remarkable experience. if i'm ever going to have a ride on a vespa, this is the city to have it in. what i maybe offer you is to come back to new york. break out two vespas and we'll do the same thing in new york. >> that will be my pleasure. thank you. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> couldn't be better. >> so did your wish come true yet?

>> it does. for great friends that health and longevity. >> i was hoping you would wish for a new pair of jeans. get rid of these whitewash jeans, charlie. you are too hip, too cool to walk around in grandpa jeans. >> i know. >> may we never see the jeans again. >> you said the same thing about the president. >> yes. >> i can't believe you just said one of the most basic parts of breakfast could be in for a

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your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning? >> 7:56. i'm frank mallicoat. here's what's happening on this christmas day. investigators are looking into the death of a woman who was struck this morning by a vta light rail train in san jose. it happened around 1:30 this morning near the curtner station. the train out of service at the time heading northbound to the railyard. and police are also investigating a christmas day murder-suicide in san lorenzo. a relative we spoke to says her sister and husband are dead. officers have taped off an area at the intersection of via amigos and via lucas there. we are expecting more details to be released during a press conference at 9:00 this morning. traffic and that holiday weather coming up right after the break. ,, ,, ,, ,,

good morning. merry christmas, everyone. let's head on outdoors this morning where currently, it is cold in santa rosa at 30 degrees. looking at a bit of a haze over the bay right now where air temperature in oakland is 45. san francisco in the 50s. later today, for the third consecutive day another day of near or record warmth from the mid-60s at the beaches upper 60s bayside to the low 70s peninsula and inland. this stagnant weather pattern with the "spare the air" day will continue through new year's eve. let's segue over to traffic now. good news, the traffic alert on the bay bridge has been lifted. we had an accident near treasure island all lanes are now open as you can see no effect on the traffic at the toll plaza. silicon valley 880/237 interchange no delays. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,

♪ oh the weather outside ♪ >> are they jingling the bells at your house? it's 8:00. merry christmas. welcome back to "cbs this morning." super bowl winner tom brady shows wynton marsalis how an nfl quarterback is like a symphony conductor. plus is it time to think outside the shell? how one company is set to replace the egg. it could change how you eat cookie, mayonnaise and even scrambled breakfast. first here's the eye-opener this morning@8. >> it was hit by two rockets and the taliban quickly claimed responsibility. there were no injuries. >> repair crews are working around the clock from maine to michigan to restore power knocked out by a weekend ice

storm. >> buon giorno, bon natale. >> pope francis is celebrating his first christmas as leader of the catholic church. >> pope francis is a christmas gift for the whole world. >> we read a couple of weeks ago that he was a bouncer. does that surprise you? >> if you talk to priests you'll find that most of us come from rather colorful backgrounds. >> what's your colorful background? >> none of your business. >> did santa come? >> he did. >> i know, i'm going to go home see what santa left me. >> i love presents. >> the first few months, i was nervous every time. >> one, two, three. >> so did your wish come true yet? >> it has. a good friend for health and longevity. >> get rid of those white washed jeans, charlie. you're too hip and too cool. >> i can't believe you just said

that. that's awesome. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. let's head to the newsdesk for a check of the morning headlines. >> good morning and merry christmas. i'm anne marie green. the taliban in afghanistan has claimed responsibility for an attack on the u.s. embassy in kabul this morning. two rockets exploded in the compound before dawn. hundreds of diplomats and aide workers had to take shelter. an official said no one was hurt and a suspect has been arrested. this is first christmas at the vatican for pope francis. this morning he asked roman catholics around the world to be peacemakers. the pope delivered the traditional christmas message only in italian. last year pope benedict offered greetings in 65 languages. other christian pilgrims are celebrating the holiday in bethleh bethlehem. crowds there were the largest in

years. troops celebrated christmas in afghanistan. some prayed, lit candles and sang hymns in kabul. a cold christmas morning for a half million utility customers from maine, michigan and canada. they're still in the dark after this weekend's ice storm. it could be days before they get power. at least 24 deaths are blamed on the storm. christmas is all about giving. this morning we see how a las vegas cabbie took the spirit of the season to a whole new level. >> christmas almost came early for gerardo gamboa. the las vegas taxi driver couldn't believe what he found in the back seat of his cab, several stacks of $100 bills. >> i called my dispatcher. listen, manny, in my cab, and she said how much is the money? i said $300,000. >> reporter: he said one of his passengers accidentally left more than just his $5 tip.

he forgot a bag of cash believed to be winnings from a poker game on the vegas strip. and that lucky streak didn't end. since he turned the cash in, all $300,000. >> even though i don't get this money, i'm still happy because i did a good thing. >> reporter: his boss rewarded him for his honesty, with a check for $1,000. >> bonus check. >> reporter: he said he only did what he thought was right. >> people call it sin city, but it's not. it's angel city. >> reporter: the money is now back with its rightful owner. he's yet to come forward publicly but just might be one of the luckiest poker players in las vegas. reporting for cbs news. >> i think so. a $5 tip? come on. could be a little better than that. >> if you didn't get all your presents this morning, u.p.s. was unable to deliver thousands of packages in time for christmas. the world's largest shipper said it was surprised by demand and

its system was overloaded. u.p.s. will try again tomorrow. in south florida santa forgot his reindeer and went diving instead. old st. nick swam through a ship that sank off key largo in the late 1800s. looking pretty good. mayb,,,,

you may think an orchestra and football team have little in you may think the two tle in positions are quite similar. >> jazz musician and football fan wynton marsalis looks at two masters of their craft. the new england patriots tom brady and the new york philharmonic's alan gilbert. ♪ >> the tipoff. >> you never know what's coming from this offense.

♪ >> a well balanced football team in motion plays like a symphony orchestra performing a great masterpiece. the big guys, the linemen, provide the foundation, the bass, middle side guy, linebacker, cellos, french horns and crash cymbals bring the thunder. the little guys, the receivers, cornerbacks, they bring the lightning. they're the first violins, the trumpets constantly on the ball. there's the soloist. but all of those forces have to be deployed in a delicate balance under the leadership of just one. on the orchestral side that task lies with the conductor. at the new york philharmonic's celebrated captain alan gilbert. >> conducting is not about

dictating. this is how it must go. but it's also about reacting to what the players in front of you offer. >> in football, it's the quarterback. and although all quarterbacks are conductors, tom brady is a maestro at center like none other. >> i can now direct the receivers to say, well, if this guy is blitzing or he's, you know, changing his defense, then we've got to make adjustments. >> although seemingly complete opposite opposites -- >> just do the koda again. >> the two professions are strikingly similar and it all starts with practice. as leaders their work starts before either of them steps foot on their respective stages. both spent countless hours poring over every detail of their individual playbooks, be it a composer's score or a

coach's game plan. are your study habits as important as the everyday physical task on the field? >> very much so. you have to go out and you have to put the work in in the meeting room and the film study throughout the course of the week so that you can bring the energy, you can bring the enthusiasm, but you also can bring the level of excellence out there. >> you've got to o know what you're going for, at the level we're trying to do it, you have to prepare. >> because come game day, the responsibility lies squarely on their shoulders. >> what do you look at? >> i look at everything, the defensive linemen, the line backer, the time on the clock, the sideline, there's a lot going on. >> it's important for me to understand the function of every role, to have a sense of what players are having to go through. >> without skipping a beat each has to dictate two important things, pace and --

>> tempo is the most important. that means how much time there is between each point in the pattern. boom boom boom boom boom boom. >> i make this guy the mike, that's the, if i make that guy the make, that's the, so it's all synchronized. >> each has to one step ahead of everyone else, controlling the presence while also communicating what's coming next, all without saying a word. >> well, i try to get the attention of players who are about to make an entrance quite early. so i might actually use my left hand to get their attention. meanwhile, tempo is going on, and i am drawing them in, then ready to have them join at the right time. >> right. you almost had me wanting to play. i almost instinctively --

in a football stadium, a symphony of symbols is needed to communicate over screaming fans and a very hungry defense. >> if you call a play, maybe audible but you have somebody you want to get the ball to, do you have a gesture that you go to them? >> all the time, yes. say i'm back in the shotgun, i look at the guy and flash him a signal. let's say it's that, that he's looking and he sees, you know, a little flip of my hand, it means something. changing the route. >> but there's so much more to it than just the harmony of mechanics. behind the perfect precision, nuance and finesse, there's always that ever-present human fundamental. >> throwing a football, there's emotion to it, timing and sequencing of all these different body parts coming together for the right thing. you have to bring emotion. >> i think it's not even that emotion plays a role.

i think that music is about emotion. it's about us, it's about people. it's about what we feel. >> and when all of those things come together, the result is an ultimate flight of fancy that defies belief and excites the imagination. >> the great thing about the orchestra is it all comes together. >> the beauty about the game, strength, anticipation, confidence. >> the parts all together add up to something that's much bigger than almost anything else. >> when all those things come together, it's a sight to see. ♪ >> what a magnificent piece, the choreography between the baton and the football. >> i mean, choreography, but i had trouble concentrating. how about you? >> well, i notice the drool running off your chin.

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♪ from hit movies and tv shows to house of worship, hallelujah traveled a long road before music fans saw the light. anthony mason uncovers secrets of a song that continues finding new inspiration every day. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." ♪

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this morning a growing movement in food innovation. your christmas breakfast may include eggs but a san francisco start-up company is taking a crack at egg alternatives. john blackstone shows us how it is creating food that is cholesterol free and less expensive. >> reporter: the crowded office of hampton creek foods is part science lab, part test kitchen. josh tetrick is out to change the world, starting with mayonnaise. >> it looks like mayonnaise. it's pretty good. too. >> thank you. that's two years of intensive r & d. >> it took all that research and development to figure out how to

make mayonnaise without using eggs. he believes eggs are inefficient. >> 70% of the cost of every single egg comes from all the feed, all of the soy and corn. >> so the scientists and chefs are searching the world for plants that can do everything an egg can do. and that's a lot. >> can you aerate a muffin, hold a cookie together. of course, it can even scramble up. but the amazing thing about plants, if you really look deep enough, if you look hard enough, they can do the same thing. >> and plants can do it cheaper, he says. you just have to find the right ones. >> we've had a lot of failures with the mayonnaise. when you scan through over 1500 plant species, you're going to have failures. >> chef chris jones busy at his mixer knows all about the failures. >> we're going to start cranking it up. we'll actually make mayo. >> he tried 300 different kinds

of plants. at any time did you think we can't replace the sneg. >> not once. i think that we can do that. we can crack the egg. it looks like melting butter. >> finally, the biochemist found a variety of peas that work. it immuls fiz, it brings a mouth feel, it brings a taste and color that is better than an neg mayonnaise. >> there could be a big payoff to food manufacturers to be convinced convinced to use plants in everything from salad dressings to cookie doe. >> can we make a plant that recommendly indicates the complexity but surpasses it. >> the scientists found such a plan. >> a particular species of plant that is driving the dough, cookie dough product. >> it is like a chocolate chip cookie. >> that's what we want. there is a lot of concern about genetically modified

ingredients. this is not a franken cookie. >> this is a plant based cooky. hopefully you're not anything about anything, just enjoying your cookie. >> i'm enjoying it. >> replacing the scrambled egg may be tougher. the taste, you're not quite there yet. >> we're getting there. it's a process. this is why we're taking you deep inside the heart of r & d so you can see where it is and what we're hoping it will be tomorrow. >> he's hoping his egg free mayo will prove the potential. it's already selling at 120 stordz including whole foods. next to market, egg fru cookie dough and by early next year, tetrick figures he'll have the scrambled egg beaten. john blackstone, san francisco. it has been a very good year for software titan larry ellis son. he's not feeling the holiday spirit when it comes to the biggest names in silicon valley, apple and google.

his conversation with charlie is ahead on "cbs this mor your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning, everyone. it's 8:25. time for some news headlines here at kpix 5. police are investigating a christmas day murder-suicide that happened in san lorenzo. a relative we spoke to says her sister and husband are dead. officers have taped off an area at the intersection of via amigo and via lucas. a press conference will take place at 9:00. an early-morning fire began around midnight at a home on potrero avenue near 23rd street. investigators looking into the cause of the fire. we have the traffic and weather forecast coming up after the break. ,,,,,,,,,,

darr good morning. merry christmas. i'm roberta gonzales in the kpix 5 weather center now sending you outdoors to look at the blue skies over coit tower. lots of sunshine and hazy later today where we'll have the 18th "spare the air" day of the winter season. currently, 30 degrees still at this hour in santa rosa. upper 30s in mountain view. it's 38 degrees in the tri- valley and 53 san francisco. later today, another day for the third consecutive day of near or record warm

temperatures. mid-60s at the seashore to high 60s across the central bay. redwood city at 70. same will hold true towards walnut creek in the eastern portion of our bay area. and nearly 70 across the santa clara valley. the extended forecast, did you see it there? looks like sunshine all the way through new year's day. now, let's talk about traffic. kcbs traffic calls for bart running 21 trains at this hour, no delays all trains are on time. they are operating actually on a sunday schedule today and also, there will be no ace train service as well as no ferries today. okay, you know, things rolling along on the nimitz freeway as you take a look there, everything is green as it should be on this christmas. and your bay bridge ride this morning is an absolute gift. lots of clear conditions currently at the golden gate bridge, as well. we'll have complete traffic information if you tune to kcbs radio 740-am and 106.9-fm.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, the bittersweet journey of the song hallelujah. it's been covered more than 300 ties, always in different ways. anthony mason shows us why it took so long to become a hit. that's ahead. larry help is son is america's third richest man. oracle makes a widely used data base that handles everything from on line banking to online reservations and used by the nsa. oracle is in a battle with google accusing them of using the programming language without permission. we sat down with ellison in his

compound south of san francisco. there we talked about his feud with google. >> i think mostly, the only problem i have trouble with are the google guys. >> really? >> yeah. >> larry and sergei you have trouble with? >> larry specifically. >> larry per se. >> why? >> because he makes the decisions over. there he runs that company. no one else runs that company. and they decided, let me be very clear. whether you program, when you write a program for someone, you use the oracle tool or oracle java tools for everything. at the very end you press a button that says convert this to android format. we don't compete with google. we think they took our stuff. that is a completely separate issue. >> does that mean you think they're evil? >> i think what they did was absolutely evil. >> and you blame larry page? >> 100% larry page.

>> so that makes larry page evil. >>, no makes what he did evil. that is quite different. i know the slogan is don't be evil. >> yes. >> and i think he slipped up this one time. but there is a good guy. >> except this one time? >> this really bothers me. i don't see how he thinks you can just copy someone else's stuffment it really bothers me. >> let's talk about steve jobs. >> yeah. my best friend for 25 years. >> what is it about him? we recognize the fact that he loved apple and wanted to make apple great. he did. but what was it about him that enabled him to do it other than he worked hard. >> he was brilliant. he was our picasso. he was an incredible inventor. >> so what happens to apple without steve? >> well, we already know. >> what? >> we saw -- we conducted the experiment. it's been done. we saw april well steve jobs. we saw apple without steve jobs. we saw apple with steve jobs,

now, we're going to see apple without steve jobs. >> so you're shorting april snl. >> i'm not shorting apple. i like tim cook. i think there are a lot of -- steve is irreplaceable. >> but this is going down without steve jobs. that's exactly what you said. apple is going down without steve jobs. >> okay, i'll say it publicly. he's irreplaceable. i don't see how they can -- they will not be nearly as successful because he's gone. >> did you watch him die? >> close. close. was i there -- no. >> did you watch him go through this? >> i saw -- i would go over there all the time. and we would always go for walks. we always go for walks. and the walks just kept getting shorter. until near the end we would walk around the block or maybe four blocks. something like that. and we just watched him getting

weaker. this is the strongest guy i knew. this is absolutely the most strongest, most willful person i ever met. and after seven years of cancer, it even wore him out. that's what it was. he was just tired of fighting. tired of the pain. and he decided, shocked everybody, the medication was going to stop him. he just pulled off the medicine i think on a saturday or a sunday and by the following wednesday he was gone. >> if you love someone, it's hard to see them do that although it's their choice. >> yeah. it had reached the point before he was definitely suffering. he was in so much pain. >> there is no other steve jobs. >> no. my eulogy began, you know, i guess we're all told that no one is irreplaceable.

i don't believe that. i just don't. >> where do you come down on what nsa is doing? >> well, great thing is we live in a democracy. if we don't like what nsa is doing, we can get rid of the government and put in a different government. i think -- actually, we've been collecting this information for so long. and long before nsa was collecting it. let me tell you who is collecting it, american express, bank of -- visa, all of your credit card data we have -- all of your financial records. this whole issue of privacy is utterly fascinating to me. >> who's ever heard of this information being misused by the government? in what way? >> it's okay with me.

>> yeah, it's great. it's essential. president obama thinks it's essential. it's essential if we want to minimize the kind of strikes that we just had in boston. it's absolutely essential. >> at what point would it be alarming to you in terms of government surveillance? and what point would your red line be crossed? >> if the government used it to use political targeting if the democrats use it to go after republicans, if the republicans used it to go after democrats. in other words, if it became -- we stop looking for terrorists and we started looking for people with -- on the other side of the aisle. >> did you have a hard time dragging him out of the shell? >> i love the headline, outspoken billionaire. >> he doesn't do many interviews. >> i know that. >> the thing about this year, we've had a lot of interesting people. we interviewed a lot of interesting people. you think about the famous

people and the powerful people and people of consequence. but also i think of all the time you and i have sat here and the three of us have sat here and been caught up by somebody rose to extraordinary voice at a time of tragedy. showed human will, showed a capacity to respond and show that they had something inside of them that maybe people didn't know about. but they were somehow motivated to make a difference. >> we had an example at the boston bombing marathon. certainly in newtown and people's names you don't even know that always step up at the right time. >> extraordinary sense of people's care for other people. >> indeed. >> it is a song with one name and many meanings. ♪ hallelujah >> beautiful. we'll see how hundreds of

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[ rustling ] shirt. shoes. shades. ah! wow! now that voice... my voice? [ auto-tuned ] what's wrong with my voice? yeah man, bee got swag! be happy! be healthy! that's gotta go too. ♪ hey! must be the honey! [ sparkle ] sweet. sofa... desk... ♪ hey! must be thyou know what? why don't you go get some frozen yogurt. i got this. you're so sweet. you got this, right? i do got this. from the shelf, and to your home. starting at $99. this song has that connection with the heart. you want to get a man's real story. >> and that's -- where do you get the stories? how does that song originate in your heart? >> if i knew where it came from, i'd go there more often.

you get this tiny seed of inspiration and then come the long work of uncovering the songs. >> that is charlie's conference with leonard cohen on "nightwatch." his creation of "hallelujah" is the subject of a bike "the holy or the broken." he sat down with anthony mason. good morning. >> "hallelujah" is ubiquitous today. it is used for weddings and funerals alike and the go to emotional trigger at every telethon and memorial. you may be surprised to learn that song received little fanfare for years. >> it's a ballad that's become an anthem. a songly leonard cohen that you

almost never heard. >> "lal lhallelujah" is a song really tormented him. he talks about being in a hotel room in new york city banging his head on the floor because he couldn't figure out where the song was. wrote 75 or 8 o ver0e verses fo. the idea for this song was taking the biblical idea of giving praise and making it something that isn't strictly a religious concept. juxtapose more physical and sexual images. ♪ >> yohen recorded the song for an album "various positions" in 1984 which is labelled columbia records rejected. >> the album comes out on a

small label and nobody notices "l "hallelujah." it's completely off the radar. >> then in 1991, john cale of the velvet underground stripped down the song to its modern version. but perhaps the most celebrated version is by the late jeff buckley who turned it into an ode to love. on his first and only album in 1994. >> when you're listening to jeff sing "lal lay lhallelujah, it'se that it feels like this secrete that you're being let in on. and you're hearing this romantic sense of heartbreak and loss. tragically, he died and left, you know this one finished

album. ol hay lay l "hallelujah" took on the momentum to what the song would become. >> but the tipping point in the song's popularity -- >> you're great powers, aren't you? >> came in 2001 when it was featured in the hit movie oshrek" and rufus wainwright recording by him baim a signature version. >> i guess the song was ready to explode. and i was, you know, just part of the ammunition. ♪ hallelujah >> the brilliance of it is that it can relate to so many different situations. and that's impressive. >> hello, ladies and gentlemen. >> at some point somebody has to parody this song. it's taken so seriously to so long. ♪ the mets have sucked since

'86 ♪ >> after the 2012 benefit show for hurricane sandy, there it was. but less than a week later, in the horrible aftermath of the school shootings in connecticut, the song was still able to function in this most somber of uses. ♪ hallelujah >> nearly 30 years after "lal l -- "hallelujah" has been reported, 300 different versions have been recorded and it's never been the same song twice. >> i think at a certain point this is the new attitude about this phenomenon. ♪ hallelujah >> i get the feeling he is just watching it take on this other life. ♪ hallelujah

>> it's interesting. song writers talk about what a special moment it is when a song gets taken away from them. it becomes so popular, so well known that it's essentially beyond them and that's what happened to this song. >> it's beautiful. every time i hear it, it gives me goosebumps. you said over 300 people covered it. who did it first? >> bob dylan did it first. i think probably the most, you know, the most popular version, you know, are probably jeff buckley and rufus wainwright is up there. >> perfect for this christmas morning. >> how about that? >> good to see you. >> you, too. >> good to see you. >> you, good. good answer.

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you know, it's always won of the best days of the year. >> it really is.

>> i hope we all get to spend with people we love and who love us. spend time with people you really, truly care about. >> i know you're going back home and put on your pajamas? >> i'm thinking there is going to be a good dinner some place for me today. >> i just love it. i love christmas. i've had christmas in small towns. i've had christmas in the country. i've had christmas in new york city. i've had christmas overseas. it's always a good time. >> you want to hear a christmas joke before we leave? >> no. >> what is the difference between -- okay. it's a good one. >> oh, gro ahead! >> what is the difference between a snowman and a snow woman? >> i don't know. >> okay. i'm not going to say. you'll have figure it out. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> you both are wonderful. thank you. >> same you are, charlie. >> that does it for us. we hope you'll have a merry christmas. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald good morning, everybody. 8:55. i'm frank mallicoat on this christmas morning. investigators are looking into the death of a woman who was struck this morning by a vta light rail train in san jose. it happened around 1:30 this morning near the curtner station the train was out of service at the time heading northbound to the railyard. an early-morning fire in san francisco burned almost a dozen people out of their homes at midnight on potrero home near 23rd street. investigators are now looking into a cause of that fire at the multi-unit buildin. a man and woman are dead in a murder-suicide. officers have taped off the

area at via amigo and via lucas. we are expecting more information at a press conference at 9:00. roberta has the gorgeous weather forecast. >> good morning. merry christmas to you. merry christmas to everyone as you're heading out the door. this is a gift. lots of blue skies looking toward coit tower albeit a little deceiving because we do have some haze out there. it's the 18th "spare the air" day of the winter season. currently, it is chilly in santa rosa at 30 degrees. otherwise, 40s in oakland. 38 degrees in livermore. it's now in the 50s in san francisco. and san jose still in the upper 30s. later today for the third day near or record warmth. 60s beaches, high 60s bayside to nearly 70 degrees inland. it will be 70 in redwood city. and low 70s in santa cruz. the extended forecast, stagnant ridge of high pressure contributes to sunny skies and dry weather all the way through new year's eve. that's a look at your pinpoint weather. we have traffic coming up after this.

good morning. over the woods and through the woods to grandma's house we go. okay, east bay travel times. heading from the bay area from tracy to the altamont pass, all clear. silicon valley 880/237 interchange it is problem-free. no stalls or accidents. golden gate bridge looking sweet this morning.

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