>> axelrod: tonight: freedom. the taliban releases army sergeant bowe bergdahl. david martin and margaret brennan have the lateset. >> i have done absolutely nothing wrong. >> axelrod: pro golfer phil mickelson says he is cooperating with an insider trading operation. susan mcginnis reports. with a $2 billion offer on the donald sterling says he'srs getting robbed and files a billion dollar lawsuit of his own. bigad shaban on the battle for the clippers. and the brooklyn bridge, locked and loaded. why new york city has love in its cross hairs. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> good evening, i'm jim axelrod. this is the western edition of the broadcast. four years, ten months, and 28 days, that's how long army sergeant bowe bergdahl had been captive by the taliban, but he is free tonight in exchange for five afghans who were imprisoned at guantanamo. minutes ago, president obama spoke of bergdahl's release in the rose garden. >> after nearly five years in captivity, their son bowe is coming home. sergeant bergdahl has missed birthdays and holidays and the simple moments with family and friends which all of us take for granted. but while bowe was gone he was never forgotten. >> axelrod: the president was joined in the rose garden by bowe bergdahl's parents, bob and janie bergdahl. bob bergdahl spoke to his son directly at least partly in arabic. the 28-year-old from hailey, idaho is described being in good condition and able to walk. he was handed over to american special forces today in an operation that was described as non-violent. david martin picks up the story. >> reporter: the tense handover took place in eastern

afghanistan on the pakistani border with u.s. helicopter gun ships and surveillance drones hovering overhead. once on board in an american helicopter, he wrote out a two letter question to make himself understood over the din of the rotor blades. "s.f.?" meaning, species forces. "yes," one of the operators shouted in his ear. "we've been looking for you for a long time." realizing he was free at least, bergdahl broke down crying. at the same time, officials at guantanamo bay in cuba began the process releasing five afghan taliban promisers to the government of qatar. a persian gulf state which served as an intermediary state between the on again, off again, negotiations with the taliban. all five prisoners were considered too dangerous to release but could not be put on trial because of a lack of dead that would stand up in court. under the terms of the swap, they will have to remain in qatar for at least a year. the five-for-one deal had been on the table for three years

with little progress. but negotiations including a phone call between president obama and the emir of qatar picked up steam in the past week. while the five taliban are making the long flight from cuba to qatar, bergdahl is being examined by u.s. military doctors at bagram airbase in afghanistan. where officials say he could be reunited with his parents by a long distance video conference. only hours earlier, president obama had called to tell them their son was a free man. after medical checkups at bagram, bergdahl will be flown to a u.s. army hospital in germany where he will undergo psychological tests following his five years in captivity. at some point bergdahl will have to explain the circumstances of his capture. when he disappeared in 2009, officials said he had simply wandered off his base by himself without even a weapon. jim. >> axelrod: david, what can you tell us about bowe bergdahl's physical condition at this point?

>> reporter: well, we know he's strong enough to walk under his own power from the taliban who were holding him across some distance to the special operations forces who were waiting for him. we know he could communicate with the special operations forces on the helicopter, because he wrote out that question asking them if they were special forces. but we have just heard, his father say in the rose garden with president obama, that his son is having trouble speaking english, which is obviously a language he hasn't had much occasion to speak in the last five years. >> axelrod: david martin at the pentagon. thank you. >> axelrod: and they were literally dancing in the streets in hailey, idaho, bowe's home town. the annual "bring bowe back" event, that has been celebrated every june 28 since his capture, has already been renamed "bowe is back." each year the people of hailey

planted a tree to mark the date of his capture. today, an organizer was happy to report, there will be no fifth tree. however welcoming the news, word that bergdahl's freedom was won through a negotiated swap from men with ties to al-qaeda is already raising questions from several republican senators including john mccain. let's bring in our state department correspondent margaret brennan. margaret, the u.s. has a clear policy of not negotiating with terrorists so what happened here? >> reporter: well, that's the policy, but in this case, the president directed u.s. diplomats to deal through a third party, in this case, the country of qatar, which has relations with the taliban. so when president obama and secretary kerry said today qatar's help was vital, that is what they meant. before going through with this swap, president obama spoke with the ruler of qatar and got his personal assurances this deal was legitimate. it was very risky, because a past try by qatar to broker a peace deal between the taliban and the afghan government feel apart because of some basic missteps, but this time qatar delivered. >> axelrod: now secretary kerry also reports, that afghan president karzai was only informed of the swap until after

it happened. what does that tell us about the state of relations between the u.s. and afghanistan? >> reporter: well, remember karzai is about to be replaced by a newly elected president so the u.s. is making plans without him. so basically, kerry told karzai today that we are going to work with your successor and qatar to try to broker a peace with the taliban. their goal is to have a deal in place before u.s. exits afghanistan fully by 2016. >> axelrod: margaret, thank you. golfer phil mickelson shot par after confirming he has indeed been approached by the f.b.i. in connection within insider investigation. two other men are under scrutiny including one of wall street's biggest and best known players. susan mcginnis has more. >> reporter: if golf great phil mickelson is worried about a federal investigation of insider trading. you would never know it today. ( applause ) >> i have done absolutely

nothing wrong and that's why i have been fully cooperating. >> reporter: f.b.i. agents confronted the three-time master's champion at a tournament in dublin ohio. the f.b.i. and s.e.c. are reportedly looking at two others, billionaire investor carl icahn and sports bettor billy walters who was profiled by "60 minutes" in 2011 and is said to be mickelson's friend and golf partner. michael rothfeld is a reporter for the "wall street journal" who broke the story. what first caught the eye on investigators? >> there was suspicious trading in clorox which is a company carl icahn took a big stake in and actually made a big offer for. >> reporter: the journal reports in july of 2011, days before icahn launched that offer, large trades in clorox options were made. once icahn made the bid the options rose. the papers says regulators traced the suspicious trades back to mickelson and walters and are now trying to figure out if icahn tipped off walters

about his buy out plan and if walters included mickelson. rothfeld says conviction for insider trading with likely mean prison time along with ruined careers. >> from mickelson he would likely lose sponsorships. for carl icahn it would certainly hurt his ability to invest in companies and be able to take over companies which he's been doing for several decades. >> reporter: the justice department, f.b.i. and s.e.c. are not making any comments. >> axelrod: susan, thank you. last night, the n.b.a. announced last night, the n.b.a. announced the sale of the clippers to steve ballmer for $2 billion. but then donald sterling, the team's own her who bought the clippers more than 30 years ago for 12, gef and a half million dollars say that would actually cost him money. >> >> reporter: what seemed like the end of the donald sterling saga may just have been a brief time out. his lawyers have now filed 178 page lawsuit against the n.b.a. asking for over a billion dollars in damages.

sterling says the league violated his constitutional rights and broke its own bylaws by trying to terminate his ownership of the clippers. the lawsuit can simply delay the sale of the team. jeff is a sports law attorney. at 80-years-old what does sterling has to gain from all this? >> what he has to gain is the team back and the prestige. i think that matters more to a man that's 80 who owned the team this many years and losing it and the money he's never going to spend. >> reporter: sterling's attorney agrees. >> he wants some sort of vindication. >> reporter: n.b.a. banned sterling for life in a conversation which he claims she recorded illegally. >> it bothers me you want to broadcast you're associating with black people. >> reporter: sterling's lawsuit also calls out another n.b.a.

owner and players who faced far less penalties for making bigoted comments. if he can't give up ownership they would force him to sell. shelly accepted the $2 billion from steve bammer. sterling's lawyer says no way. >> he has not agreed to accept mr. balmers bid or any other bid. >> reporter: donald sterling doesn't feel it's a done deal but the nba seems to think otherwise. they're calling the lawsuit baseless. and the sale by shelly sterling will move forward. >> axelrod: thank you. it could be the most high profile job opening in the country at the moment. secretary of veteran's affairs. the white house will not put a timetable on a shinseki's replacement but it is looking for someone with experience managing big systems. here's mark albert. >> reporter: president obama's search for a permanent v.a. secretary will have to answer one key question.

does military service have to be on the resume? since the department's creation, there's been an unbroken line of veterans serving at the top. the v.a. is the nation's largest healthcare system schedule 85 million appointments a year and like a trouble the business, it may need a turn around expert. john studies beurachracy at the brookings institution. >> the reality is you need someone who is familiar with rue bureaucratic management as well as military issues and that is often hard to find. >> reporter: with secretary outser a west point graduate is in charge. they may require more to fill the role. people inside and outside the government are speculating in others. ray odierno is chief staff. sexual assaults to the rank were failing. he could bring candor to the job.

mike mullen former joint chiefs of staff for obama and george w. bush he could appeal to both parties. and congress woman tammy duckworth of wisconsin who lost both of her legs in iraq she would bring experience serving is as a secretary in the v.a. you wanted someone more aggressive. >> we have to look towards the future. the v.a. is an organization that is terminally stuck in the mid 20th century. they have squeak through but it's not enough. >> reporter: the next challenge may be a way of bridging the differences over the best way forward. some republicans wanted to move toward privatizing parts of the v.a. while democrats say the current system needs more investment. jim. >> axelrod: mike albert in washington, thank you. eight climbers are missing tonight on washington's mt. ranier. the last time they were heard from was wednesday and at that point they were 12,800 feet up.

they were expected back yesterday. later, google's search for a way to comply with europe's new on- line privacy rule when the cbs evening news continues.

googled yourself and who hasn't, as it turns out there's a court. it resulted in an on-line form that asks google to remove embarrassing information. what that could mean for googlers here. >> five years ago syracuse college student peter kissler couldn't get an internship despite a 3.9gpa. it took a google search to find out way. >> i found out i shared a name with a bunch of criminals. >> instead of looking for a job he listed his college friend to start a company to improve on-line reputations. how long until you'll see things changing on your google page. >> it could be a week or it

could be six weeks. more and more important to really have control over what people can find about you, yet it's becoming harder and harder to deal. >> do you remove information from someone's search page or do you vary it. >> it's impossible to remove having the web so your best pet is to push it far and replace it with positive stuff. >> in europe this week some 500 people across european nations will be able to remove personal information on the internet. using this on-line form europeans can petition to remove data if it meets the criteria of inadequate, irrelevant or no longer irrelevant. some were submitted in the first 24 hours. an advisory committee will waiver requests and google admits 9 make quote difficult judgments about an individual's rights to be forgotten and the public's right to know. how does that ruling affect google in general. >> it's unlikely anything like this will probably move to the united states because we really

veer towards first amendment. the right to know. >> google says it will post a notice when unwantedñ+results h. so unwanted information will be gone but still not forgotten. cbs news, new york. >> axelrod: southern california hermosa beach probably would have been packed anyway on a beautiful saturday. but today's crowd didn't just come for the sunshine, they came for hidden cash. a twit promised small bundles of money buried inside one of these angry bird figurines. as you can see this was a promise kept. the latest in a series of these buried treasures is reportedly the work of an anonymous minute year. guess who got 2 billion viewers on out. out. anyone other than psy and gangnam style went where no

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business analyst jill schlesinger is here. 52 week high but still the company is under pressure for new product. >> absolutely. tim cook succeeded steve jobs. he's been plagued by this worry there's lack of innovation at apple. at the last 13 years just four new products. they've been great products don't get me wrong an iphone and ipad and apple tv all great products but it's been four years since the last one so those updates don't really count. >> axelrod: what might the new product be? >> there's some hope that at this big conference we're going to get the unveiling of something called the smart home. this will allow you to use your iphone and ipad to control everything in your house from your entertainment center to your electricity to appliances. that will be kind of cool. there's also some thought of maybe an iwatch which there's some permutations of it that maybe apple will make it cooler and you could monitor your heart rate and pulse. these things would really be a big shot in the arm. apple stock again 52 week high. still 10% below it's all time

peak. >> axelrod: the smart home or the iwatch? >> which one do i want? i want the smart home. and i would love to see apple stock regain that 700 level. it's been a long time, back in september 2012. that's how long it's been since it's been at that peak. we would like to see it from an investment perspective, something new to energize it. >> axelrod: jill schlesinger with the latest bites of the apple. thank you. still ahead our padlocks are overburdening the brooklyn bridge. ók

>> axelrod: we end tonight on the brooklyn bridge. 7,000 people visit the bridge each day. many are couples who started using the brooklyn bridge as a way to express their love for each other. as it turns out the love is creating a few issues for the city. >> newly weds matthew latcham and amanda suarez were looking for a small symbol of their big day. this lock and the brooklyn bridge did the trick. >> the bridge itself is part of the symbol for our love. it just shows there's a strong bond really. >> reporter: their lock is not alone. hundreds of padlocks crowd the bridge's fences and steel cables left by couples to symbolize the strength of their bonds. love locks first started to appear in europe more than a decade ago. tens of thousands of locks now hang from bridges in paris and not everyone is a fan of the city of love becoming the city

of locks. >> i think it's stupid. it's a very beautiful city but it's not necessary to put all these things. >> reporter: sections of the famed pont des arts actually had to be replaced last summer weakened if not by all the love but by all the locks. tourists are being asked to send e-love locks instead. now the visitors have brought the tradition to new york city. officials are faced with a costly problem. in europe the locks were attached to foot bridges. in new york that's not the case. the city's department of transportation says it has cut 5,600 locks from the brooklyn bridge since last summer, worried they could fall below on to vehicles. kayla o'day understands the concerns. >> if it really is damaging the bridge then i would want to preserve the bridge. i guess people should find another way to lock in their love.

>> latcham and suarez are content to have a piece of their love on this bridge and resigned it won't last forever. their lock, not their love. >> axelrod: around the world cities like seoul and moscow have metal trees where couples can hang their love locks. and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now, i'm jim axelrod in new york, and for all of us here at cbs news, thanks for joining us and good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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