>> glor: tonight, tens of thousands in washington and across the country protest what they see as out-of-control government spending. in minneapolis, the president comes on strong for his health reform plan. >> i will not accept the status quo. not this time. not now. >> glor: i'm jeff glor. also tonight, a massive search for a missing yale student who was to have been married tomorrow. meet one of america's toughest foreclosure judges-- tuf on banks, that is. >> and the 2-0. >> glor: and the man who was sitting individual records while keeping his ultimate focus on the team. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor.

>> glor: good evening. we begin tonight with demonstrations that took place across the country today, filled with those who say the government is spending too much, too quickly. in fort worth, texas, an estimated 10,000 people turneddute on under rainy skies too condemn everything from health care reform to bank bailouts to potential tax increases. the biggest rally of all, though was in washington, d.c. and nancy cordes was there. >> u.s.a.! >> reporter: it was the largest outpouring of anger yet against the new administration. >> no more lies! >> reporter: at one point, the crowd filled all of pennsylvania avenue from the white house to the capitol. >> i want our freedom, and we're losing it day by day by day. >> reporter: they came from all over the country to protest the president's health care plan, the stimulus package, washington's wall street bailout, and more. >> we are here too give a message to congress and the president that we are tired of them spendingure money and not

listening to our views. >> i can't sit down while something this drastically... harmful to our country is going--. >> reporter: homemade signs accused mr. obama of socialism, communism, and worse. >> i think his agenda is to actually destroy this country. >> i met several people from russia here today, and they're frightened. >> reporter: the size of this crowd surprised even the organizers. many people took buses to get here. others just came on theirine. >> the president has warned us that if we disagree with him, he is going to call us out. okay, mr. president, we areute! >> reporter: the rally was the final stop of the 30-city tea party express, an anti-government spending movement which gained steam ever the summer. it got a boost from fox news talk show heeft blen beck who urged his viewers to come today. >>im proud to be an american to see this. it makes you feel wonderful.

>> reporter: many complained that their views hs dismissed by washington. thabd not be ignored today. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> glor: if the president for his part was not in washington today for the taxpayer protest. instead he traveled to minneapolis to address a campaign-style rally for his health reform plan, and as kimberly dozier reports, mr. obama came out swinging. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: the president came to minnesota's target center on a saturday for his fifth health care address this week, a week the white house believes president obama turned the health care debate around. >> are you fired up! ready to go! >> reporter: after months of dwindling support, a cbs news peel shows a growing number of americans approve of his handling of health care reform since his speech to congress this week. the white house believes the president has also figureddute how to appeal to american whose already have insurance, who may feel threatened by health care reform. >> a new report from the treasury department found that nearly half of all americans

under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next 10 years. think about that. >> reporter: and the crowd responded. in an event that seemed more like a campaign rally than a health care speech. >> we gotta do something. >> reporter: anyone was welcome to attend today. some 15,000 showed up, but mostly the president was preaching to the converted. >> we need health care for everybody in this country, and we really need a public option. >> reporter: in an interview for tomorrow night's "60 minutes," the president acknowledge said that his campaign for health care reform does carry risks. >> once this bill passes, i own it. and if people look and say, "you know what? this hasn't reduced my costs, my premium razz still going up 25% insurance companies are still jerking me around," i'm the one who is going to be held responsible. so i have every incentive to get this right. >> reporter: you could see and

hear a real difference in the president today. in previous health care events when the polls were against him you could hear it in his voice and see it in his body language. today he was relaxed and upbeat, responding back and forth with the crowd, and the whus is taking advantage of this change in attitude. they've got at least three health care events scheduled for the upcoming week. kimberly dozier, cbs news, minneapolis, minnesota. >> glor: and a reminder tonight, you can see the full interview with president obama on tomorrow night's edition of "60 minutes." on the eve of what was to have been her wedding day, investigators said late today there is still no sign of yale university graduate student annie le who has been missing since tuesday. randall pinkston is in new haven connecticut, tonight with the latest on this story. randall. >> reporter: jeff, authorities say they have found evidence inside this yale medical school building, but they are not yet prepared to connect that evidence to the missing woman, 24-year-old annie le. throughout the day, rumors have swirled about a major breakthrough in the case, but at a late-afternoon news conference

authorities announced more questions than answers. >> we are not in the position today to conclude whether this is a missing person's case ear whether criminality is involved, and i need to stress that. >> reporter: 24-year-old annie le was working on a ph.d. in pharmacology at the yale school of medicine. tuesday morning, she left her office and walked four blocks to her lab near the school of nursing. around 10:00, a surveillance camera captured her entering the building. just after noon, there was a fire drill, but le wasn't seen. when she did not come home tuesday night, her roommate became concerned and notified authorities. an intensive search followed with police using bloodhundreds of thousands in an effort to find her. but investigators are keeping whatever they've learned close to the vest. >> reporter: why the reticence to give us any information at all? why the secrecy? >> there's not an intent to be credit secret. we're focused on conducting the investigation. >> reporter: thomas kaplan editz

the "yale daily news." the paper first reported the story as a disappearance, not a crime. >> i think any incident like this brings up concerns about going to school at a university in a city. if it turns out this was foul play, or something like that, i think that's really going to shake a lot of people up. >> reporter: le was engaged to an undergraduate at the university of rochester. they were scheduled to be married tomorrow. ironically, le had written an article about security for campus magazine, urging readers to take precautions. all cities have their perils, she wrote. "put with a little street smarts one can avoid becominga another statistic." the f.b.i. says there's no person of interest in the investigation but refused to comment. when asked specifically whether le's fiance has been ruleddute as a suspect. yale officials say there is no reason to believe annie le is a runaway bride.

jeff. >> glor: randall pinkston in new haven, connecticut, tonight. south african sports officials met today trying to figure out,000 handle the controversy over a champion runner .the case has raised questions about gender in sports and about the emotional toll on a young teenager. mark phillips has more. >> reporter: that caster semenya is the fastest 800-meter runner in women's track at the moment is undeniable. the soorb whether she's a woman. semenya annihilated the field in last month's world championships but it was a controversial win as the sport's governing body announced the runner was being subjected to a series of gender tests. so while semenya has been celebrated as home as a national hero, joining the panton of south african icoons, the international athletic administration says the results of the test are in but it needs

more time to consult experts on what those tests mean. unconfirmed press reports which the fedderation will neither confirm nor deny says the test shows semenya has both female and male characteristics, even internal male organs producing tes too fast ron which would explain the muscular build and deep voice. >> it's pretty good to win it and bring it heme. >> reporter: but determining gender is not as simple as it seems. >> well, these are birth defects plain and simple, but they're birth defects in an area that people are very uncomfortable talking about. it's no tinch than a child boorn with a hole in hir they are heart. there can be differences along a long pathway that leads from the chromosomes too the ultimate expression of what we regard as sex. >> reporter: semenya, meanwhile, has posed for a south african glamour magazine. but whether the pictures enhance or diminish the claims of

femininity are in the eye of the behe'der. the track and field authorities have theyed until november a decision on whether caster semenya can continue to rin in and presumably dominate women's races. mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> glor: coming up on tonight's cbs evening news, one hospital's innovative way of dealing with malpractice claims. i'm from fayetteville, north carolina, ...and i smoked for 29 years. the one thing about smoking - is it dominates your life, and it dominated mine. and the sad thing about it is that you can always use an excuse if cigarettes don't kill me, oh wl - something else will. but, you can't use that as an excuse. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. it was very interesting that you could smoke on the first week. chantix gave me that extra help that i needed to get through a tough time.

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he called for pilot programs that could avoid long, expensive lawsuits. but some hospitals have already done this as priya david reports tonight for our series "prescription for change." >> reporter: when 34-year-old jennifer wagner found a lump in her breast six years ago, she headed straight for her doctor. >> i asked him, "should i go for a mammogram?" and he sort of poo-pooed the idea. >> reporter: 10 months later a second doctor also told her there was nothing to worry about but a year after, that another lump appeared. the doctors, both affiliated with the sprawling university of michigan health system, had made a terrible misdiagnosis. >> the ultrasound technician said this is breast cancer. and i was just like, whoa. after 21 months of it growing, it went from what could have been stage 0 or one to stage three. >> reporter: furious, wagner called malpractice attorney tom blaske, and they prepared to sue. >> we would have started it.

>> reporter: instead of going to court, the university of michigan system did something astounding, examined the case, admitted it was bronx, offered wagner a $400,000 settlement and apologized. >> that validation meant more than a million dollars. >> with the other hospitals, you don't get any of that. you just get the deny, deny, defer, defer, defer. >> it's important to understand that litigation is not a search for the truth. >> reporter: the policy of transparency and apology was initiated at the university of michigan by rick boothman, who spent 30 years defending hospitals in malpractice cases. >> because it's a game, i could have found oncologists to say, "oh, she's had cancer for five or six years. that delay made no difference in her staging." but that wouldn't have been true. >> reporter: the policy started in 2002, and it's proven to be a shrewd business practice for the 40-member hospital system. since then, claims against the

system have dropped from 262 in 2001 to 83 in 2007. fewer claims have allowed the system to drop its malpractice insurance reserves from $73 million to $13 million. and the hospital's new openness has another positive effect-- with doctors less likely to be sued, they're reporting negative outcomes six times more often. >> there's a general culture that's come about here of beating more forthright, taking responsibility, meeting it head on. >> reporter: a win for the health system and a win for wagner. money from the settlement is in a college trust fund for her boys. now in remission, she's able to enjoy her healthy body today and has peace of mind for her children's future. priya david, cbs news, new york. >> glor: for more on medical malpractice, you can go to our web site, cbsnews.com think your foreclosure notice

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unless, that is, they end up in the courtroom of one judge in new york. seth doane has details. >> reporter: you grew up in this house? >> i grew up in this house. this is my home. >> reporter: after struggling to pay off a home equity loan, pat antrobus was facing foreclosure and thought she'd be forced from her brooklyn, new york, neighborhood, and the only home she's known. >> i could have taken out stock in hersheys, nestle, and hague an dawes, okay. i was so stressed. >> reporter: though she tried to negotiate with her bank several times, relief came from a rather unlikely knight in shining armor this man, judge arthur schack of the king's county supreme court. >> my role is to try to do justice, so if the little guy can stay in his house, that's great. >> reporter: lenders need judicial approval to foreclose on homeowners in new york. it's usually a routine process, though not in these chambers.

is there a way to characterize the papers that you see overall? >> not-- not for publication. >> reporter: as foreclosure filings have mounted, so have mistakes. it reminds the judge of his days a a social studies teacher. >> students would ask me if spelling counts on a test. >> reporter: he's rejected more than 40 of the 100-plus foreclosure filings that have crossed his desk in the last two years because of what some call small errors in the bank's paperwork to incorrect dates to no proof of ownership. >> here's somebody who actually is doing something because he knows it's right. >> reporter: do you see yourself as-- on a personal mission to protect the little guy? >> no. i see myself on a person personal mission to do just,

which means if the little guy wins, he wins. if the little guy loses, he loses, but at least he's gets a fair shot. >> reporter: and he does it with flare, sometimes quoting shakespeare or in this decision he likens the banker to mr. potter why is your write be so descriptive, so flowery? >> to get the attention of people. >> reporter: it certainly got antrobus's attention. >> i think of judges in mean guys in black robes dispensing justice, but i never thought that the justice was going to be for me. >> reporter: the judge's decision enabled antrobus to keep both the faith in the system and her childhood home. seth doane, cbs news, new york. >> glor: in los angeles, dodger stadium was the scene of an an emotional public memorial service today. vice president biden led tributes to two firefighters who died last month fighting the huge station wildfire north of l.a.

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captain broke a remarkable team record. that is the focus of tonight's weekend journal, a man piling up hit but more importantly, piling up respect. when you think about the new york yankees, some legendary names come to mind, babe ruth, lou gehrig, joe dimaggio, mickey mantle. but as of this weekend, none had more hits in a yankee uniform than derek jeter. it was this hit, number 2,722, that pushed jeter past gehrig. >> it's still hard to believe for me. i never imagined, i never dreamt of this. >> reporter: a long way from 1992 when a struggling yankee franchise drafted a skinny kid playing high school baseball in kalamazoo, michigan. >> quite a revelation. the youngster had all the tools you needed in baseball. played way passion. >> reporter: dick groch was the yankee scout sold on the pick even though the club wasn't. concerned he might play college baseball instead, yankee officials questioned groch.

his response-- jeter's not going to the university of michigan. he's going to cooperstown. as in the hall of fame. >> i was absolutely certain that he wanted to play professional baseball and abe new york yankee. >> reporter: the young shortstop became an essential part of a yankee team that won four world championships between 1996 and 2000 and has made the play-offs in 14 of his 15 seasons. >> jeter on the run making the play! >> reporter: along the way he's contributed classic plays, helped along by his physical gifts, no doubt, but also by his mental makeup. >> well, i don't think i've ever covered anybody who wanted to win any more than him and i think that really is his entire goal. >> reporter: which may be jeter's signature contribution, an athlete who marries an unequaled competitive drive with the same commitment to character. >> he's a very dig nighed guy. he's certainly never going to get in trouble and that is great for the leader of a team and it's rare in sports today. >> reporter: maybe it came from his parents, frequently in the stands.

dorothy, a former accountant, and charles jeter, a substance abuse counselor. jeter talked about his sauls on "60 minutes" in 2005. >> the number one priority is to be a good person, and i've always tried to be that. >> glor: and don't think for a second that his teammates haven't noticed. >> he's a wonderful human being. he's a great man. he's a great teammate, and he's just-- he's done it, you know, with a lot of class and done it the right way. that's for sure. >> glor: jeter said this summer, with a smile, that he'd like to play shortstop until he's 41 in 2015. if that happens and beyond, he might make a run at pete rose's all-time major league hits record of 4,256. that is the cbs evening news tonight. labor on cbs, "48 hours mystery." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york, good night.