talks over the rogue nation's nuclear program. >> we don't believe that they can present convincing evidence that it's only for peaceful purposes. arrested. famed director roman polanski may finally be headed back to the states after more than 30 years on the will be. >> he was a fugitive. now he's no longer a fugitive. >> we'll take you inside the fight over his extradition. allegations of incest against her late father john have torn mackenzie phillips' family apart. now she's here to fight back against those who say she's making it all up. and an amazing basketball shot you have to see to believe. we'll talk to the guys behind all the hoopla "early" this monday morning, september 28th, 2009. captioning funded by cbs another week is beginning. happy monday, everybody.

i'm maggie rodriguez here we harry smith and we have mackenzie phillips on the program this morning. of course by now you have heard her explosive claims that she had long lasting sexual relation relationship with her father buff not heard her defend against claims that she is lying. this morning she is here to respond to the criticism and controversy. dock up, so much work has been done to get the h1n1 vaccine forward distribution. now the cdc says there will be unprecedented test h. testing after the vaccine is administered. we'll tell you what that's all about and what it might mean to you. but first, we begin with the ongoing faceoff with iran. the rogue nation remines defiant now testing long range missiles an ignoring international pressure to fully disclose its once secret underground facility. liz palm ser in london to bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: yes, iran has spent a lot of time and money developing sophisticated missile technology and then this weekend

with very provocative timing the elite revolution their guard began to test short you can medium and long-range models. this one is the most deliberate show of force. it's got a rachk up to 1200 miles, which mean it is could hit both israel and u.s. bases in the gulf. but while iran's revolutionary guard is showing military muscle on the test range, iran's leadership is busy planning its strategy. this face to face talks with the u.s. europe russia and china due to start in geneva on thursday. >> they have to come to this meeting on october 1st and present convincing evidence so the purpose of their nuclear program. we don't believe that they can present convincing evidence that it's only for peaceful purposes. >> reporter: iran embarrassed by the revelation that it had a secret nuclear site, and still recovering from the violent

fallout in the presidential laeks, is going into these talks on the defensive, but there's's no way of knowing yet whether negotiations will mark the beginning or the end of constructive engagement. president obama has said with the support of other western leaders that if iran doesn't come clean at the negotiating table about its nuclear program, the next probable step are sanctions with bite. maggie? >> liz palmer in london. thank you, liz. joining me now james any you radio bin, former assistant secretary of state. iran is growing ever more defiant firing these long-range missiles. what message are they trying to send the world is this. >> they're trying to say through these missiles and the statements they've been making over the last couple of days that they don't feel on the defensive. this is a country with an aggressive foreign policy and an aggressive stance on the international stage. as president ahmadinejad, their president, showed at the u.n. last week. so with the missiles they're

saying we're still feeling strong, we're feeling on on the offense, not on the defense. and that's going to show how difficult thursday's meeting will be. >> do you think that this threat of sanctions with bite is enough to get them to come to the table and give us what they want on thursday? >> i think in america we need to be very realistic about what sanctions can do against a regime like this. this is a regime who grew up against the united states, all the leaders who engaged in this terrible trackdown in their own people killing and potential violence against people in prison. this is a pretty tough group of revolutionaries who are in charge here who believe in their somewhat unorthodox ideology. the idea that this group, having shed all the relatively moderate people over the labs six months is going to capitulate to the

west i think is-sis very unlikely. >> so is military action the only option? >> we need to be very clear and increasingly clear, yes, we need to go down the sanctions path because we need to punish iran for its violations of the treaty. >> and do we need china and russia to come with on us that boat? >> yes we do. the more support we have around the world the better. but we also at the same time need to be having a very serious discussion in our own country and around the world because in the end, this is going to boil down to a very simple question. are we able in the west to live with an iranian nuclear bomb or a nuclear capability or are we going to have to take the very drastic and very risky and very difficult step of supporting military force. it's not a yes/no question for me. i don't think it is for anybody. but this confrontation that has been raised over the last week with this announcement by the president brings this dilemma to the fore even quicker perhaps

than it would have otherwise. >> all right, thank you. always a pleasure. now over to harry. oscar winning director roman polanski is fighting hard this morning to keep from being extake dilted to the united states. hollywood fugitive had been hiding in plain sight for for three decades, but was finally arrested over the weekend. krb news correspondent sheila mac vehicle arrest mcvague or has the latest. >> reporter: the struggle over polanski is escalated as they will press for his release and say they plan to appeal to secretary of state hillary clinton to have the charges set aside. it was a day roman polanski had been dreading and by this time thought might never come. but u.s. prosecutors knowing polanski planned to travel to switzerland to accept a lifetime achievement award laid a trap a warrant authorizing the swiss to arrest him. >> it took had this long because he was a fugitive. well, now he's no longer a fugitive.

he was arrested pursuant to a warrant issued by over three decades ago. >> reporter: in 19 # 7, polanski applied a 13-year-old girl with champagne and drugs anz then raped her, a charge reduced to a single count of unlawful sexual intercourse which he pled guilty to. convinced the judge would renig on the plea bargain deal polanski fled the u.s. >> well, i ran away because i think that i was very unfortunate to have a judge who misused justice. >> reporter: that judge is now dead. a judicial review this year did find there was misconduct but the charges could not be set aside as polanski was a fugitive. fearing renewed attention, polanski's victim, who accepted a cash settlement from him, has said she does not want the case reopened. >> the publicity was so terrible and so immediate that it just overshadowed everything that

happened that night. >> reporter: since fleeing, polanski has lived carefully safe in france because as a french citizen, key not be extradited. fellow artists have reacted with anger and france's foreign minister a friend of the director's, call his arrest not nice. news this morning, harry, that the director has just hired a lawyer in switzerland to fight that extradition request. that is what the foreign minute ters say he suppose no risk and that his talents and achievements should be respected. the district attorney in l.a. says until he's back in court, there won't be any justice. >> sheila mac vehicle arrest thank you. joining us now is cbs news legal analyst lisa bloochl. lisa good morning. >> good morning. >> how shocked must roman polanski have been to have been arrested. will he be extradited? >> i think he will be. under our treaty with switzerland, somebody facing these kinds of charges should be extradited. the real question is what has

taken so long. he had a home in switzerland. he's been there many, many times over the years. apparently he has escaped extradition all of those previous times. mostly though he's been living in france and our treaty with france prevented him from being extradited, so he was safe there, but clearly safe no longer. >> is it clear to you then the sdriblgts attorney in los angeles continued to pursue this case even after all of these decades? >> i think they did. they say that they did especially in the last few years. i mean, it's hard to understand exactly what went on behind the scenes. but the district attorney here is saying that at least a half a dozen times in previous years they tried to get roman polanski and they just were unable to do so. i don't know if he was tipped off, if he was just lucky. we don't know what happened. >> the civil case was solved so to speak, with a check. the victim some this case really wants it all basically to seemingly go away. but that's not how the state feels about it. >> that's a very important

point, harry. this is a crime against the people of the state of california. as all crimes are. and so a civil settlement does not end it. this is a map who fled on the eve of sentencing because he was concerned efts going to get a harsher sentence than he expected under the plea bargain. he's been a fugitive for 3 0 years. he still faces sentencing here in california. it's ir legally that he has a civil settlement with the complaining witness. >> and if he ends up being brought back to california, what's the likelihood that he would do serious time? >> well, he does have an issue pending regarding judicial misconduct and the court has said in the past and his attorneys have tried to argue that can he not argue that while he's a fugitive he has to be brought back then that argument can be raised. if he plea veil he might get no jail time. >> what about the statute of limitations? >> no, because he already has been convicted. he pleaded guilty. >> lisa bloom knows all. thanks so much. do appreciate it. >> thank you.

dave price is off this morning. >> so we have elise finch of wcbs tv here for the weather.her. >> good morning to you at home. it is mostly a quiet day across the country. and by quiet i mean dry. you can see that most of the done is really going to be quite dry today, lots of spine the only excepti will be in portions of the upper great lakes where we'll see a low pressure leaving things showery and windy. this cold front could lead to severe thunderstorms later this afternoon in upstate new york and also we could see some severe thunderstorms as we head into northern new

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show." >> jeff glor is at the news desk this morning. >> good morning, everyone. americans argue about a lot of thing, but they agree on this. distracted drivers are dangerous. a new cbs news/"new york times" poll out this morning finds that 90% think text messaging while driving should be illegal. that includes american men and women of all anyones, income levels and regions. what could be a new political distraction for president obama this morning. senior white house correspondent bill plante joins us from the white house with that story. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. former president clinton says that what his wife once described as the vast right wing conspiracy is now targeting president obama and he says it's as virulent as ever. >> they may be hurting president obama, they can take his newspapers down they can run his opposition up. >> reporter: the former president says the right is ut to get president obama. >> their agenda is wanting him to fail. >> reporter: clinton's comment comes soon after another former

president, jimmy carter, brand attacks on president obama from the right as racist. >> there is a feeling that an african american ought not be president. >> reporter: but as the white house gets back into domestic issues do the remarks threaten to detract from the president's message. >> they want to be making a pitch on health care, they want to be making their hitch on energy. they're stuck day after day. >> reporter: and that's the problem. this white house is discovering what earlier administrations always learned. and that is that even your friends sometimes don't stick to the script. jeff? >> all right, bill plante at the white house. thank you. family and friends of annie le have gathered to say good by. a funeral mass for the murdered yale university graduate student was held in california over the weekend. her mother read a farewell poem calling her the most wonderful gift that god had september to me. a lab technician is charged with murdering le.

now here's harry. the h1n1 vaccination program will be the largest in the nation's history. with 250 million doses already ordered. the government is preparing an equally large effort to track how people respond to the vaccine and dr. holly phillips of wcbs tv here with more. >> health officials hope to vaccinate well over half the. lags in just a few months against the h1n1 flu. the government's confident the vaccine is safe, but also set up an unprecedented program to detect and investigate any side effects from it. >> it's the regular safety program that we have as i like to say on steroids. >> the government hopes that extra monitoring will help detect any rare but real problems quickly. scientists at harvard medical school will use vaccine registries and insurance databases to see if someone see as doctor and why in the weeks after getting a flu shot. the cdc will look for cases of guillen bar syndrome a rare

paralyzing condition. during the 1976 mass inoculations of a different swine flu, 500 cases were reported. although it's never been proven that the vak seen had caused the dgs order. at johns hopkins university, researchers will send e-mail sur vies to at least 100,000 people to see how they're feeling after receiving the vaccine. the cdc will distribute cards on how to report side effects. health experts say the extra monitoring could help identify subsequent medical problems that are just coincidences. >> inevitably some persons will raise questions about whether their medical event was precipitated by the vaccine. and that's what this program is designed to investigate. >> now it's important to stress there's no reason to expect any unusual problems with this vaccine. but if a very rare side effect were to occur like we may have seen in 1976 it's possible that may not have come out in the clinical trials which were only conducted on thousands of

people.vaccine is expected to be given to more than 100 million people in the coming months. >> starting in several week. why do you think the government is so intent on going this extra mile with this h1n1 vaccine? >> i think this is based in how many people we're expecting to vaccinate. many more than we usually vaccinate even for the seasonal flu. you but illnesses happen every day. every day there are thousand of heart attack thousands of miscarriage, stroke et cetera pep so really by creating a baseline of how many of these illnesses we see every day we can then say if we're seeing an increase in relation to the h1n1 vaccine fp. >> and we should emphasize they don't suspect there is any connection on the front side. >> not at all. really in the clinical reallies that have been done to date, the vaccine looks just as safe as the seasonal flu vab seen but really it's also good just to set up this tracking system for all medications. >> for future references, yeah. dr. holly phillip, thank you so

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coming up we're talking to mackenzie phillips who was just telling me it's been a devastating week from her. she did not expect the firestorm of controversy after her claims of hello again. it's not a bad day's start and week's start.

sharon will have the traffic after tim williams has the weather. >> well, we're hooking at a nice, warm day. temperatures going up to 79 degrees. we'll see the daytime high tailing off. we'll have 79 and a chance of showers and 52-degree and the next few days. temperatures in the 60s and partly sunny and breezy. now, for a look at roads with sharon gibala. hi, good morning, everyone. two accidents on the westside of the beltway causing problems at i-70 blocking two left lanes on edmonson avenue and now, on the outer lupe, we have a delay there and one city accident at howard and chase and a 30 minute delay on light rail because of that. 83, slow there and there's a look at your drivetimes and speeds.

the westside is where we have the problems. this is brought to you by the radio city music spectacular with the rockettes taking the stage december 17th. back to you, don. >> a frederick county man kills his entire family before turning the gun on himself. >> and don, people are trying to get back to the routine today in mount airy, this is on their minds this morning. financial hardships may have caused chairly dalton to kill himself and his family. he shot his wife, jennifer and their children thursday night or friday morning and then shot himself. the fire department is mourning the loss of the 14-year-old son, he was a jr. firefighter.

don, back to you. speed cameras arrived in baltimore city. and the mayor is going to unveil the first on walter avenue. it's the first of 51 to be installed around the city. the new speed law takes affect this thursday. ravens are 3-0. plaque co-threw a coo -- flacco flew a career high throw. the ravens will play the patriots next week. up next, mackenzie

this is the world's longest basketball shot.

big time! >> now is that real or is that an aggie joke? >> i don't know. that's a great question. >> i agree. we have those guys on the show this morning. >> because the way you see it we see him throw the ball from the top of the stadium, then it cuts to that shot. >> no we have a slo-mo which shows that -- they have amazing other shots that we'll show you, as well, this morning. as we welcome you back to "the early show." also coming up, important new information for parents about kids a and bad reactions to popular medications. you might be surprised to hear there are 500,000 cases every year. we'll tell you everything you need to know. but first, the shocking allegations of incest have sent shockwaves through the family of mackenzie phillips an set off a family feud that's being played out now on a national stage. >> i woke up that night from a blackout to find myself having sex with my own father. i don't remember how it started

or thankfully how it ended. >> reporter: the disclosure created friction in the family. stepmom michelle phillips said mackenzie is lying. quote, i have every reason to believe it's untrue. she's had a needle stuck up her arm for 35 years. sister chynna react differently saying mckenzie oig told her about the favor 12 years ago. >> i believed her because -- well first of all, who is going to go out of their way to like say, yeah i had sex with dad. >> all these negative feelings flying around in her family can jeopardize her recovery. >> reporter: but mckenzie's best friend says all the talk might actually help her. telling us, quote, she has lived with this for 30 plus years and talking about this now is an important part of her recovery. mackenzie phillips talks about her father and her life long battle with drug addiction in her memoir high on arrival, and she's here to talk to us this morning, as well. good morning. >> good morning. gasoline when i met and you few

seconds ago go go you said what a week it has been. why, what did you expect after you came out with this revelation? >> i expected it to be explosive, but i certainly never expected -- i mean, he was hoping to help iest survivors and help myself find some redemption and freedom, but i never expected this huge national dialogue. i never expected the rape and incest network to have an 82% wriz in hits on on their website, a 26% rise in calls to their hot line. i've received thousands of e-mails from survives. and i feel like -- i don't have any regret but at the same time being hit with this family reaction has been devastating. and don't get me wrong, i understand that my family doesn't want this played out nationally. but the people who are saying that i'm lying have actually known about it for such a long time that to see them try and discredit me in a public way to either protect the brand of the ma'am mass and the papas or to protect the memory of a man who

is no longer -- who is dead and you know -- i loved my father. i absolutely loved my father. but he wasn't a good man. he was deeply flawed. and there's so many addicts that are survivors of incest and they're just afraid to speak. and maybe now they can have a voice. we can have a voice. >> one of the people who is discrediting you as you put it is your sister bijou. she said you told her about it and then said items not true. >> can i speak to that. we've been very close since the day she was born. and when she was 13 years old, i told her about what had happened and bijou is an extremely emotional girl. at 29 she's extremely emotional. but at 13 it was off the hook. >> so why did you want to tell her at 13? >> because she asked me. she said my mother told me that this happened. and i said, yes, it did, b. and this is something that you immediate to know because i'm not going to lie to you.

she went -- i would say hysterical. and so i backtracked. look i backtracked and i said, i'm sorry -- >> to protect her. >> because i could see that this was going somewhere. so i said it's not true. yeah i did to that to protect her. >> why not come out with this while your father was alive when he had a chance to commend himself? >> i was not in any -- i wasn't ready to talk about this. my son was a teenager when my father was still alive. my son is now a 22-year-old young man who is more able to handle something like this. i wasn't thinking about my father. i was thinking about my family my son, and when he would be prepared. and i didn't plan on writing a memoir that included incest but when i sat down to write this book i thought am i going to put out another sanitized version of my life? why go there. why go through writing a memoir about addiction if you can't

actually address one of the reasons why the addiction was there in the first place. why this life fell apart. >> you can understand why a skeptic would question something that came from the mouth of a long time drugged a difficult in. >> you know i think that long time drug addicts actually, if you get a drug addict clean, you will have one of the hardest working, most honest best friends who are so capable and intelligent and i think that is a big misconception. because once you're clean and you're living the life that you were meant to live in the first place, why would i put myself in this position? why would i put myself in this this position? >> some might stay you're trying to sell a book you look like a victim. >> they can say whatever they want. evening my truth stands on its own. and what you didn't show in owen elliot's quote is that she said she speaks the truth. >> she believes you you. >> and denny doherty's daughter, she have told by her father in

1991 and he said if mac ever decides to come out with this i will support her. and she said my dad isn't here to do it and i know the truth, so i'll do it. >> are you 100% clean now off drugses? >> absolutely. >> for how long? >> a year. a little over a year actually. i was arrested in august 29th -- 28th of 2008. and i have been clean since i got to rehab the following day. >>ackenzie phillips thank you so much. i appreciate it. now let's check in with elise finch in for dave price. for most of the country, it's a very quiet monday, but some people have to hold on tight. we're talking about an area of low pressure that is affecting portions of the upper midwest and great lakes. 25 to 45 miles an hour machine winds and because of that low it's also chir chilly, cloudy and wet. we also have a cold front has that has it pushes east will lead to showers and possibly some severe thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon. so two trouble spots here.

the rest of the country actually looking pretty good. most are sunny dry and on the warm side. well, what's going on, we're looking at temperatures reflecting a nice bit of a warmup today. it will be cooler later on in the week. we're looking at temperatures at 79 degrees and temperatures tailing off here later on in the week. overnight lows in the 50s and we're looking at highs tomorrow in the 60s. we'll see a five-day forecast and they're reflecting a bit of a cooldown, a nice, cool snap. and temperatures in the 60s. that's your latest weather. now i'll send it out to harry. you've seen these guys on youtube. the most watched youtube video because it's all about the -- well, okay. something like that. right? all right, we got aggie fever here. take a look at this.

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you're about to meet some guys who made some unbelievable back shots. they call themselves tud perfect. go to dude perfect doum and.com and you'll see them all. their youtube video ask like the most seen thing in the history of man kind before if you into he to the web seat this is the one that everybody's been looking at. it's been on all the local news. and take a look at this, this is at the big stadium down at college station. dude, wow. dude perfect. we'll talk about the technique and how you did that. let's look at some of the other stuff first because we all started out this way. i had a basketball hoop in my backyard. take a look at some of the backyard opportunities these guy dis s did. is this how it all started? >> we walked out in the backyard and i bet one of my roommates that if i that this shot he owed

me lunch, so college kids have to do everything they can to get a male. so we decided to see what happens. >> because then it starts to get a little bit more sophisticated. what you're using to bounce this thing. >> we decided what would happen if we planned the video out, so we put a little thought some to it. we went to my ranch on friday night, started filming it about 11:00 on saturday morning and it took us half a day to film the entire thing and we were done. >> how many takes does it -- be honest now. some of these shot, how many takes is it? >> most of the time it takes about ten. we've done quite a few on the first or second try. tommy was a quarterback in high school so 234i time he's throwing it hard, he's our go-to guy for that. >> one of my favorite is a ramp one. this is sort of jackass meets -- >> there you go. >> how many times did you get

soaking wet? >> what was that 12 times? that's what happens when you put a couple of texas boys on a ranch and give them a video camera. and a basketball. >> and a basketball yeah. >> no longhorn, right? no horses. in cattle. >> no. >> this is mod were day ranch fun. all right. now, what's the technique? because you're the old high school quarterback. >> right. >> what do you you do? >> a big hand helps. >> everybody else would shoot. what did you do? >> i got the big hand you got the grip right here. this is actually a little quarterback cam from high school. get your first shoulder pinlted and then coming around you get the chest and then that overrotation, that shoulder pointed right there. >> how many time disit take you to do this? because there are a lot of people who don't believe it's true. >> oh, yeah. about 30 minutes of filming time. it wasn't as long as we thought it was going to be. we wouldn't have been surprised if itted had never gone in temperature it was awesome. >> the wind was crazy. >> and i can't believe the

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reaction there is kids especially under age five that were serious enough to need to go to the e.r. that includes allergic reaction stomach and i can, rashes diarrhea. we're not dealing with deaths but severe allergic reaction. >> and from what kind of medications? >> antibiotics especially the penicillin based. but there were side effects to all of the medications. so it's really important to talk to your child's doctor about what side effects to expect and especially monitor them when they're having a medication for the first time. >> and this includes not just prescription over the counter, as well? >> the study didn't look at over the counter drug, but it's also very important to monitor them with that. >> i know that unintentional overdose was also a big problem in the study. how do you avoid that? >> really the unintentional overdoses is most likely to happen with liquid medications because it can be confusing. and sometimes people make mistakes. so basically you have to talk to the farmistpharmacist or your doctor. >> dr. holly phillips thank you

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sharon has the traffic after the first warning weather. looking at the morning that's going to be like the next few mornings. all though, today will be milder. the next few mornings will be chilly. it's because of a fall like forecast on the way. winds will be increasing, that's the sign of the front moving through. down to 52 today and tomorrow, starts the first day of runs in the mid-60s. 68, partly sunny and breezy and not as warm for the next few days. it will be nice, october begins thursday. we'll send it over to sharon gibala for the roads. >> we cleared up the accidents on the westside of the beltway. and now, we have one on 795 and no delays because of that. one more accident in the city at howard and chase involving a light rail train. 30 minute delay because of it. major delays because of a

traffic light out and minor delays on 83 and caramel. there's 95, southbound flow from 695 to the harbor tunnel. and edmondson, 11 minutes. that is brought to you by jhhc. call them when your child has a stop make ache. -- stomach ache. back to you, don. in the news, the police are trying to determine what drove a frederick county man to shoot his wife and children and himself. >> reporter: people are trying to get back to work and school today with this weighing on their minds. and financial hardships may have caused him to shoot himself and his family. he shot his wife and their two children while they slept in

their home thursday night and they're mourning the loss of the son at the fire department, he was a jr. firefighter. the governor wants everyone to get a flu shot. he'll get his seasonal flu shot this morning and he'll give an update on the h1n1 flu vaccine. and stay with wjz-13, up next, a double pregnancy, an arkansas woman is making national head lines after she's pregnant while she's a

john travolta may be back on the stand today as xt torsion trial surrounding his son's death continues.

we'll bring you the latest from the courtroom. a woman is reportedly pregnant with a boy and a girl, but they're not twins. we'll explain how that could have happened and meet the mom with the rare medical condition. and staying safe while staying in hotels. we'll tell you what you need to know while you're on the road. "early" this monday morning september 28th, 2009. captioning funded by cbs a lot of love for a honestmonday. hello, everybody. i just got whacked in the head with a camera. i got caught up in the days on. hi everybody. happy monday. welcome back to "the early show." i'm maggie rodriguez here with harry smith and this morning we'll help you find the perfect mattress because you know that's key forgetting a good night's sleep. if your mattress is wrong, then you will never sleep well. susan koeppen will give us a

crash course on mattress buying 101. >> one piece of wisdom size matters. >> absolutely. >> the bigger -- you want like ten miles of territory. >> i'm so with you on that. no spooning when it's time for sleep. sleep is sleep. >> no spooning? pre-sleep spooning possible? >> sure. >> but not when it's sleep time. >> get off me. >> different area codes. >> and as you know dave is off this morning. we hope he's resting up because he's got a very big week ahead of him. get ready for this. we've got a series coming up that will start on friday and it's called dave price no way home. if you see him out there with a little cardboard sign just like that you want to stop and have a conversation. starting friday he get as one way ticket $50, and one week to get back here from wherever we send him. isn't that good? that's a good thing, right? >> that is good.

he should change the expression on his farks though pep should try a smile. might get him farther. >> i don't know. >> look at that. >> so that starts friday. but first let's check if n. with jeff glor at the news desk. >> and dave has to sleep in a very small bed every single night. good morning, guys. iran says this morning it has completed two days of missile tests in what's widely seen as a defiant gesture toward the u.s. and other nations critical of its nuclear program. today's file round included a long range missile that could reach u.s. and israel bases. on thursday there's a critical meeting pressing for an end to its nuclear program. the extortion trial involving the death of john take scroll take's son could take take dramatic turn. kemly koeb i can't is at a courthouse in the bahamas this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: jeff good morning. john travolta could take the stand as early as this

afternoon. he's already testified about the final moments of his so that's life. but he hasn't yet explain this had extortion. as it turn its out, a video take could do some of the explaining for him help john take coal take is the prosecution's key witness and they reportedly have a key piece of evidence, as well. a former ambulance driver on tape negotiating with travolta's lawyer. according to a "people" magazine reporter he demands $25 million explaining, i was poor all my. >> referee: pip wanted to do things for charity. travolta's lawyer laughs and says you're a bahamian robinhood. prosecutors say they threatened to go public with a medical form related to the emergency care of travolta's son, jett. the 16-year-old died in january after having a seizure at the family's vacation villa. he was one of the first emergency workers on scene and drove the ambulance that took jett and his parents part of the

way to the hospital. he told inside edition how travolta reacted to his son's death. >> behind the curtain, tears in his eyes. i can see the love in his eyes for his son. >> reporter: the undercover tape was reportedly that around the same time at a hotel in the bahamas. according to "people" magazine he settles for $15 million on the tape and promises once this is closed it's buried deeper than the titanic. both defendants say they're innocent and their attorneys have tried to keep this tape out of evidence out of the trial. the judge could rule on itsed a michingt today. >> kelly thank you. president obama is going to denmark to help his home it town get the summer olympics. the white house has confirmed they'll taentd the international meeting to lobby for chicago's 2016 olympic bid. last night the president and his

extended family did a little sightseeing in his new hometown. they visited the jefferson memorial and then stopped at the washington mop uhement. now here's elise finch with another check of your weather this morning. good monday morning. good morning, jeff. and, yes, we have an enthusiastic crowd out here on the plaza. also a very nice day and that's one thing that most of the nation has in common which is a pretty nice day this monday. very quiet for most of the country. we have just up a kell of extension sex couple of exceptions. cloudy showery, very cool conditions and also very windy, more like late november than late september. also a cold front pushing i way east and that will mean a chance for potentially some severe thunderstorms especially in upstate new york and northern new england. the rest of the country will be looking at a lot of sunshine and some very, very warm temperatures as we head across the nation's south. >> well, we're looking at temperatures chilling down after today. we have the warmest day of the

week shaping up. 79 degrees today. starting with the temperatures in the 50s and we'll have sunshine and rain and 68 tomorrow and tuesday. and well, tomorrow, is tuesday, go figure. tuesday and wednesday, well, 66 thursday, and 68 and 72 as we warm up into the weekend. and we'll look at overnight >> announcer: this weather report sponsored by ultra lift pro deep written kell cream. now see even deep wrinkles reduce in just two weeks. and now here's harry. still ahead, a very rare medical condition, you'll meet a woman who might be pregnant with two babies that are not twins. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

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believed to have a very rare medical condition. she is pregnant with two babies but they're not twins. the condition is calmed superfetation, which means she was already pregnant, then got pregnant again. joining us now are todd and julia. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> so you guys have been trying to get pregnant for a couple of years, right, and then julia, this summer is when you found out? >> yes. in may. >> in may. and so you're he is tactic. did you get a sonogram right away? >> we went in for our first appoint and they scheduled for us a sonogram two weeks after, so june 4th was the first. >> now did you see the second fetus at the second sonogram? >> no at the first. we saw the second baby at the first sonogram. >> at the first. okay. what was the doctor's reaction? >> he came in and his initial reaction was to -- let's wait

and see and make sure the littler baby catches up to the bigger baby because it was something so new for him, also. >> and so i looked at the doctor's statement. he says it's possible that a superfetation. are you guys convinced it is superfetation? >> in our heart, i believe that we both are convinced that it is. >> i am definitely. >> so how will they deal with this then when this comes time to deliver these babies? >> they'll be delivered both at the same time. >> and how old -- how much difference in age do they think there are? i mean, you're kind of in unchartered territory here. >> exactly. what they've measured since the first sonogram is two weeks and four days apart. >> wow. >> consistently. >> right. if you got -- could you find out for sure? i mean could you get amino centesis and if they can that would they anable tobe able to determine

without any doubt? >> it was from my understanding that we could find out from an amino centesis, but like you said it's unchartered territory, so for me to answer that right now i think it would be up to another specialist to confirm that. >> wow. well -- >> and we've refused to do an amino. >> because why? >> the babies are healthy. there's to reason to you know -- there's such a high risk in doing that and we feel so blessed to have two, we did not want to do it. >> so as best you can see, both babies are doing fine? >> absolutely. we've been cleared from the arkansas children's hospital. >> how about that. well we will keep our fenkers crossed for you in the mean time. ap. >> thank you. >> and hope when all is said and done it's a blessed double event. there you go. >> we're sure it will be. thank you so much. >> we're very happy. thank you. >> take care todd and julia.

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shopping for a new mattress doesn't have to be a nightmare. here with mattress buying 101 is susan koeppen. good morning. >> good morning. mattresses can cost thousands of dollars, but you don't have to spend a fortune to get a good one. in fact when you go buy one should you always try to bargain for a deal. >> good night, sleep heart.yshould you always try to bargain for a deal. >> good night, sleep heart.oshould you always try to bargain for a deal. >> good night, sleep heart.u should you always try to bargain for a deal. >> good night, sleep heart.always try to bargain for a deal. >> good night, sleep heart. if >> reporter: experts say about one in five adults fails to get enough sleep. >> you toss and turn all night? >> i toss and turn all night. >> reporter: chances are your very own bed could to be blame. >> do you like your mattress? >> no do i thought.

>> reporter: how often are we in our beds? >> we spend a third of our life in bed. >> reporter: todd is with consumer reports. the magazine conducted a survey and found that 72% of readers said their sleep improved after buying a new bed. >> any new bed is apt to be better that the your old one especially if it's more than a few years old. >> reporter: when buying a new mattress, mark says the first thing you need to do is give it a test run. >> how long should you test out a mattress before you buy? >> if you're willing to test out a mattress for at looers ten minutes on your side, on your back, on your stomach, chances of satisfaction go up greatly. >> reporter: if you have a bad beck experts say picking a firmer mattress isn't always the way to go. comfort is key. soft versus firm doesn't really make a difference? >> no there's no scientific evidence to show or to conclude that a firm bed is better than a soft bed. >> reporter: and you don't have to pay a fortune to get a good bed. according to the report 78% of

those who spent $4,000 or more on a new bed were highly satisfied. but 66% of those who spent $1,000 or less were also highly satisfied. and according to marks, mattresses have a huge markup so never pay full price. >> so you never buy a mattress if its neat on sale. >> you shouldn't even begin looking unless you're going to get about 50% off. >> reporter: and don't be afraid to haggle. 72% of sponlgd departments who tried it got a better rice. and getting a good deal could leave you sleeping like a baby. >> you feel good? >> i feel mormless. >> and mower mattress is a nice one. >> it certainly is. >> reporter: and the folks at kmer reports saying it's a good idea to get a new mattress every five to seven years. >> and it used to be that they would tell you to flip your mattress to pre-search the quality. >> no more because it's very flush on top. many you can spin it, but no more flipping. that's done. if you have a new mattress you don't have to flip. >> you heard it here first.

susan, thanks. you can spell win sner this weekend, 9-year-old sha van any oig is the national winner of macy's fourth annual spelling bee. let's give is up for shivani. it also happens to be natural literacy month and we invited her and all her friends for a friendly little spelling competition which we'll get to in just a second. so i'm get down here so we can see eye to eye if you don't mind. so shivani, how old were you when you started reading? >> i was about like 1 1/2 or 2. >> that's pretty young. now, do you have a favorite author? >> jane austin. >> how old are you now? >> 9 1/2. >> that's not a bad reading list for somebody of your age. and somebody told me you read all the harry potter books by how old? >> four. >> by four years old. wow. so you were kicking some serious reading butt here. now, we're going to do a little

spelling test with me, but we first want to talk to terrell hughes from the harlem academy. so first talk about how important it is to get every single kid in the country reading, reading, reading. >> reading is critical. the students that we are in the third great are at a pivotal point where they stop learn to go read and they read to learn. this is a real pivotal point for them. >> and this is all tied in with reading is fundamental which is one of the great programs all across the country. >> yes. >> thank you, kids for coming by. here comes the big spelling test. wish me luck. wish me luck. all right. don't let me see. just tell me the word first. what is the word? poinsettia. or as we say poinsettia.

are there two ts? >> i'm not telling. >> are there two ts? i'm a bad speller. i think there's one tflt. okay. p.o.i.n.s.e.t.i.a.? there's two ts. oh i got it wrong. good job. and that was your winning word is this. >> yes. >> there it is. that's how you spell it correctly. shivani, thank you very much. and we have some lovely -- >> w upon the set i can't say for you. now here's has gone gi. >> everybody please gather around the tv. this will make your morning. you all know the hit "single ladies" which inspire that had famous video that everybody has watched. it was released i think a year ago and has gotten 70 million hits on youtube. she's wearing that outfit doing that dance. >> one of the best videos of all time. >> yes, i -- i'm not surprised to hear you say that.

justin item better lake thought so too. remember when he did it on saturday night live and wore the leotard? it's kind of scary. you know this version was great. beyonce's was great. but we promise you that you're about to see the best one yet. take a look. ♪ if you like then should you have put a ring on it ♪ ♪ >> that 19 best thing i have ever seen. that's 20 month old cory from new zealand. and his dad just took the video camera one day because apparently he likes to do this all day long to all kinds of videos but this is his favorite.

>> i like when does he like one of these like this thing. >> obama doesn't that hand thing. remember in smish she will obama teased him about the "single ladies" dance and he says he doesn't wear a leotard, but does he the happened. >> rack that up again, because that is absolutely priceless. with the little right leg kicking out there. yeah it is high -- >> and what's great to listen to and see this is the father just cracking up in the background while he's recording this whole thing. >> that is so good. >> love it. cory elliott made our day. coming up, you're on

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mary, after this week, maryland drivers should be doing less multitasking behind the wheel. texting is dangerous for drivers. the critics say it could be hard to enforce the law because while sending the texts is band, but reading them and punching them in isn't. a gas leak causes several to be evacuated over the weekend. earlier this year, another gas leak triggered a huge explosion and several stores were also damaged. >> stay with wjz-13, up next, as federal agencies warn americans about security thre

we have our good readers from the harlem academy. very nice to have them here. and our friends from chili's are back. they come every year and this year what is this. >> go to any chili's around you and 100% of the profits gets donated to st. jude. our goal is $50 million in ten years and so far we are halfway to our goal. >> way to go. well done. >> very nice. >> welcome back. still ahead, peter greenberg is here with tips on staying safe in hotels. lots of pitfalls there, things you need to pay attention to. we'll let you know what they are in a minute. >> also ahead if your patients are collecting digital dust, who's aren't we'll show you some new inexpensive ways not only creative ideas like this,

you can -- don't they look like voodoo dolls? anyway a million things they can do, but besides that, it's tricks to like -- cheap ways to get new computer equipment. if you can't afford a tripod there's something you can add to the top of your camera. inexpensive stuff. >> because you lost me on the cupcakes. and move over guacamole. the food network's evening grid hoffman is here to show us some great ways to cook with of a cad toe avocados. >> and they're so good for you. but first let's check back in with elise finch in for dave today. >> yes, it's a great day not just here in new york, but no most of the tri-state. i have to tell you, we talked about these kids from harlem academy, but have we looked at their mascot? you can wave to us? i think that'sed a ed aadorable.

we have a really nice day out here not just here in new york but for most of the country we're talking about clear sky, lots of sunshine. we're also dealing with warm temperatures. the exception the upper midwest. very cool and extremely windy. we also have a cold front pushing its way across portions of the east that will lead to a chance for some severe thunderstorms. and tomorrow things turn sharply cooler in the northwest. still hot in the southwest and things stay gray blustery and quite chilly across portions of the great lakes and into the northeast. so a lot going on tomor well, in the area here, we're looking at temperatures warming up to the mid-to upper 70s and we'll have a cooldown. winds will increase with a chance of showers this afternoon and temperatures tonight, down to 52 and we'll look for cooler conditions with patchy clouds and 68 degrees tomorrow and look for sunny and breezy conditions and for the

next five days. we'll warm up to 72 by saturday and we'll of course it is a great day. lots of blue skies here. a little bit later we could see some showers, maybe a thunderstorm. but hopefully where you are things will be beautiful. now here's harry. when you go on vacation, the last thing you want to worry about is whether or not your hotel is safe. but just last week, the government issued a warning to look out for suspicious activity especially at luxury hotels. here with advice is our travel editor peter greenberg. before 9/11 after 9/11 there really is a dramatic difference in terms of how many attacks actually happen on hotels around the world. >> the numbers really are different. in the eight years before 9/11 30 major attacks terrorist activity in 15 countries. in the eight years since 9/11 look at that number. 62 major attacks in 20 countries and the most significant figure about that is the number of

people injured has gone up six times. >> we especially think about india last year. so dramatic so deadly. >> that's right. >> what do we need to be keeping in mind as we go out to travel especially -- it hasn't thank god happened in the united states, but as we travel around the world. >> let's talk about what the hotels are not doing. they don't want to spend the money. it's an issue of getting the owners of the hotels to invest in security. there's one hotel chain right now that's actually in the process of building a blast proof lobby. but they still have to convince the owners to spend the money to put it in. >> because there are shall places there were walls built, there were provisions, but you can't do everything. you can't screen i have single person, i don't think. >> but there's a way to do visible security. metal detectors that don't have to be like the airport. what about unattended bags in the lobby? there's not a single bag that's searched and i can go into any hotel and tip a bell man $5 to watch my bag.

well, need i say more. >> there are some things though that are working to the customer's advantage. and that is some of these hotels for their own security about their own employees are are are pretty wired up. >> that's right, the number of cameras some hotels has completely increased. for example, it used to be about loss prevention and property theft. and they used to have cameras only in the lobbies. now they have cameras everywhere. and in fact that's really helped in some cases like the craigslist murder this boston, they were able to identify based on security cameras that would not necessarily have been in place ten years ago. >> on the other hand, let's talk about the things we need to keep in mind. doesn't matter where we are or what hotel in what country. even here in the united states. things that you think we ought to do including keeping our eyes and ears open. >> very simple. if you see a car parked right in front of the lobby, report it. it shouldn't be there. if you see bags in the lobby, report that. you have to let people know that this it's concerning you as a paying customer.

>> so you're in a hotel, say you're there for up a kell of days and you see a do not disturb little tag on the door not just all night. >> we're not talking about honeymoon couples here we're talking about being aware of something that's been there in for a long time. in jakarta, the terrorists assembled their bombs in the rooms as guests with that do not disturb sign on the door. so you have nothing to lose by reporting that. >> the other thing you say is when checking in be mindful of the person who is checking in. what kind of an then in a do i need to have up? >> if they announce your room number, don't take that room. because now everybody knows where you're staying. that's number one. number two, especially for solo women travelers, you lose no points on your final score by asking somebody who is a uniformed staff member to walk you to your room because the biggest problem in hotel crime right now is what they call push-in robberies, burglary rapes and worst where they will wait for you to get to your door and, of course you're full blink around with that card key.

they push in behind you and now you're there in the room with them and who are you going call? nobody. >> that's really, really good advice. and to go along with that if you're in your room and there's a knock at the door how should you respond to it? >> first of all, look through the peep hole. if it's not a uniformed member and you didn't call them call down to the front desk and ask what it is. >> as always thank you so much. good advice. for more tips on staying safe during your hotel visit, check our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. maggie? is your hard drive going if to overdrive trying to store all those digital pictures? joining us with some ideas on how to use those photos are ahmed and kelly. they are co-authors of photo jojo. good morning to you both. you're introducing us to edible paper. very cool. >> yeah this is cupcake paper that you can get online on in

cake shops. it's basically just circles 6 sugar and starch. you can run it through your printer, you can get food coloring cartridges for your printer and just run it through, it prints out on the icing. >> how do you get your pictures on here. >> >> you can just do it in the computer, just put it all together there's a little template. and then you can just peel your face off and stick it on a cupcake. >> usual not an appealing thing, but in this case -- >> there's always exceptions. >> this is great. all right. and then i'm going to do ahmed. can i taste it? >> sure. >> tastes like sugar. >> yeah. there you go, i bit off your hat. so when you have this specialized pain it opens so many doors. >> yeah, you can get every kind of paper you can think of. there is like sticker paper, you can make rubic's cubes of your friends.

>> these look like voodoo dolls. >> no they're lovely nice friendly doles. it's thin fabric, has a plastic backing and you can run it you through any normal ink jet prirnt. >> you have a bunch of example, you but explain what this is made of. >> this is a bunch of cd jewel cases and we blew up one big photo, carved it up and put it into a bunch of old jewel cases that we were going to throw away. >> great ideas. let's bring in ahmed who is the techy. these are life changing ideas. and you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a lot of great things if your camera. >> i like this one a lot, it's about 50 cents worth of parts. you go on vacation about your family and you really don't want to lug a big tripod around with you, so this is something you can make just with a bottle cap that you drill a hole in, a bolt, a washer and a nut and you basically just make yourself a bottle cap tripod that you throw in your bag and anywhere you go you can find a water bottle. >> that is genius. such a dilemma when we go on

vacation. what have you done with this old canister? >> if you've gotten these new digital, they take great foe at the, but the flash makes the photos flat and washed out. so if you use one these old film can any ter, the white one, and cut a slit in it you can pop this on and you got nice even lighting in your photos. >> like a diffuse sner. >> yes. >> that is very cool. >> and you've tried these obviously and they all work great. >> yeah, they work great. >> what is this is this a peep hole? >> yeah a peep hole. you can get one of these at home depot. it's the thing you look through in your door to see who's outside, but you can also use it as a fish eye lens. >> so what effect does it create? >> it basically give as really bolbus look where you can say 180 degrees. >> that you think both. and props to molly who is on the cover of your book. she is here molly the doggy, and she has a doggy cam which you also feature in the book. >> yes, she's been running around the streets of san francisco and new york being

humiliated. she's loving it. taking videos there her point of view. >> you can check out the new book. thank you. appreciate your time. now here's harry. we may think we know what americans are feeling these day but we've dwoot good way to actually figure out for sure. that's because a new poll commissioned by 60 minutes and vein vanity fair digs deep inside what americans are really thinking. here with the results are kelly and michael. good morning. people are buzzing about this already, but i promise not actually look at the results so we can have some fun with this this morning, all right? >> we can start with you because the first question we want to talk about we asked men which famous person if you had a chance would you like to switch places with for a week. so the choices are george clooney, bruce spring teen

barack obama, or tom brady. so what do you think? >> george clooney. i mean that's who i would switch places with. i know he wants to switch places with me obviously. >> we could arrange that. >> that would be mine. i don't know how to guess what people would -- >> you're in the mainstream. that's what most people thought. clooney just took it away. we knew he was the man, but now we have proof. >> he is the man. >> and the interesting thing, though is that most people across all ages wanted to be like george clooney, but when it came to barack obama, there was an age split. younger people really wanted to give it a shot. and older people just thought forget it give me the cuomo lifestyle. >> older people really wanted to be the boss, too. >> springsteen did turn 60. >> george clooney is a movie star he dates hot women, he's everything you'd want to be. >> maggie, your turn, though. >> that's too much like my life.

>> maggie's turn. we also asked the ladies and the options we gave them were michelle obama, hillary clinton, angelina jolie or beyonce. so what would be your choice? >> hands down michelle obama. >> you are also in step with mainstream america. 26% of women we surveyed said they'd want to switch with michelle pam. overall, washington beat out hollywood. so both michelle obama and hillary clinton beat out angelina jolie and beyonce. >> i think you got a little beyonce in you. >> you you seasaw me dancing. >> what else you got? >> twitter. i know you both have heard of twitter because you're both on twitter. so what do you think about it? do you think it's an important new tool or do you think it is a fad that will fade? >> i know what i think. evening it's a fad. sorry, twitter. harry? >> i don't care. >> that wasn't one of the options, i don't think.

it should have been probably. >> well, only 15% of people we surveyed think it's an important tool. more than half of young people say that it is a fad that will fade. >> because we hear of so many of these. >> actually 90% have heard of about it. >> the question getting a lot of buzz is which company symbolizes america. goldman sachs, microsoft, google, the nfl, or walmart. so what do you think? >> i actually heard somebody talking about this so i'll recuse myself. however, the actual right answer is goldman sachs. >> that's the right answer. it's not what the survey answer is but that's the right answer. >> i think it's got to go either google or walmart. >> well, walmart took it with 48%. and goldman sachs had 3%. >> sorry harry. >> so even if you're right, you're -- >> i think the survey people didn't actually -- well -- >> they asked the question

wrong. >> there you go. >> the pulse of the country. >> we'll be back with these every month. we're going to do one a month. >> and you can see more of the poll online at 60 minutes.com. and in the upcoming issue of vanity fair or vanity fair.com. and check out their web show this afternoon on cbsnews.com. coming up the avocado. >> not just no guacamole anymore. also great for breakfast. ingrid hoffman will make some wonderful recipes withes here on "the early show" on cbs. it's a... a fork? you're a wombat. ( doorbell rings ) honey, it's the pizza guy. sure. me again. okay, now this is the last time alright?

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we're going beyond guacamole as we continue to celebrate hispanic heritage month. >> here to show us thousand use theed a calf

the avocado is ingrid hoffman. your family's from cuba, right? do you use of aavocados? >> yes but not for guacamole. >> and you're from? >> i'm from columbia and i use of aavocado in absolutely everything. i've sort of stopped using butter in the morning on my toast. i do avocado inside. >> that is a fantastic idea. >> it's really really good for you. we've got -- the other thing is i love the chilean avocados. they have a little bit more fat and that's the secret because it gives it more flavor it's creamier. anytime that you take anything like this that has natural plant fat, you feel satisfied with less quantity. >> aah! >> how do you know a good avocado? >> you know it when you feel it. >> it has to have give. so we're making a farmer's

market roasted vegetable salad. here you go harry. you can do it side ways because we'll stuff or of aur avocados. we have carrot, we need to add and chop some of these. >> it seems a little raw. because otherwise -- >> i just want to todo my thing. >> so these are chopped raw veggies. we need to add our red pepper. so if harry can help me chop it. this will roast, but we've got one already done. >> do you put any oil on top of it? >> a little bit of olive oil. and now all we'll do if you can give me a hand, we've got raw corn in here and the idea of the raw corn is so that we have a little bit of chunk and crunch to it. so everything goes in to this

bowl. >> so everything is roasted by the corn. >> and then i'm going to throw the rest of the ingredients. and this is the easiest, easiest salad. we've got chopped parsley. we've got some chives. >> how come you didn't roast the corn? >> i wanted to have an element of crunch. the corn is so sweet that actually as weird as it sounds that we're not roasting it it's delicious like that. >> really good. >> here we have some dill. so it's just aromatic herbs. and roasted veggies. you stek themick them in the oven and roast. and for a zink we have lemon zest. it's actually -- because now we also need to stuff it into the avocado avocado. it's just a little bit of a touch. a little bit of lime juice. super healthy recipe.

now for winter that you have warm veggies instead of having a cold salad at night. the warmth will satisfy you. a little bit of olive oil. salt and person and our salad is done. we just need to stuff or avocados. just cut side ways. >> so hers was ripe. >> so you leave the skin on it. >> >> i leave the skin on it. just do a little bit of this. a little bit of leaves right here. place that in the center. >> very nice. >> i heard some people put legal on on their avocado. do you do that? >> you have to either wlim onlemon or lime because it will ox diz. just a few rez peas that we have in front of us we have cold avocado soup. this is probably one of the

easiest easiest recent piece. it's with skim milk. that is a shrimp with sesame seeds. a drizzle of olive oil. what what i do in the morning is either egg whites or fried egg with an avocado with my tore tee a, a great dinner about and these recipes are all in o. your website. >> yes they are, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. as always thanks. enjoy your day, everybody. we'll see you again tomorrow.

>> hello again. it's going to be a sensational fall day.

and over in the first warning weather center, we have tim williams. well, a great day to get out and enjoy. 79 degrees is the daytime high today. today will be the warmest day of the week and winds increasing and we'll have a chance of a shower because of a front and the winds will subside and patchy clouds and 52 degrees and partly sunny and breezy and not that warm, this is the forecast. tomorrow's forecast will be a carbon copty throughout the week. a man killed his family in his sleep and turned his gun on himself. and they're trying to find out why. mary bubala has more. >> reporter: people are trying to get back to work and school today with this tragedy on their minds. charlie dalton killed himself and his family. neighbors held a vigil over the

weekend. he shot his wife and his two children sometime thursday night or friday morning and he turned his gun on himself. the fire department is mourning the loss of the 14-year-old son. he was a jr. firefighter for two years. thank you, mary. drivers may want to avoid baltimore city streets and school zones. the mayor is going to install a speed camera today. the new speed law takes affect this thursday. a woman was struck by a fallen tree and died in rockville. the 63-year-old was doing yard work and the tree fell over on her. she later died at a nearby hospital. hundreds came out this weekend to participate in the great prostate cancer challenge. the walk and run took place

saturday morning at st. joseph's hospital in towson. origin nice -- organizers held free prostate screenings all morning. and the ravens are 3-0, they crushed the browns at m&t bank stadium yesterday. flacco threw a career high touchdown. and the ravens looked ahead to next weekend and they'll go to massachusetts for a game with the new england patriots. 1:00 next sunday, you can see the game here on wjz 13. stay with

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