good morning. president obama unveils plans for a leaner military that involves a major reduction in u.s. forces aimed at saving nearly half a trillion dollars. we will get details. >> the president's plan focuses on the pank and we will speak with retired general wesley clark about the new challenges the u.s. faces. the new hampshire primary is now only four days away but the candidates are already looking beyond tuesday and headed south in the race for the nomination. we're tracking them and we will speak live with former speaker newt gingrich. and one year ago sunday congresswoman gabrielle giveffords was shot in a rampage and we

look at her medical progress and look ahead to her future "early" this friday morning, january 6th, 2012. captioning funded by cbs good morning from manchester, new hampshire, where we are just starting to see the first flurries this morning. a time honored tradition in manchester. you got to traipse through feet of snow if you want to cover the presidential candidate. i'm nancy cordes. >> i'm jim axelrod. snowflakes right out time. the gop presidential candidates ramping ahead of tuesday' first in the nation here. >> here on "the early show," we have big changes in store. on monday this show relaunches with brand-new name cbs "this morning," and a new team charlie rose and gayle king and erica hill. we hope you'll rejoin us for that. the president said yesterday after killing osama bin laden

and withdrawing u.s. troops from iraq, it's time to turn a page and shrink the military. >> it's a move some republicans are calling wrong-headed. senior white house correspondent bill plante is live in washington with the details. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, nance yip. it is controversial and why the president went to the pentagon and he joined the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staffs to make the announcement. i wanted to emphasize the new defense strategy which is tailored to major cuts in spending is the product of consultation with the military. >> the question that this strategy answers is what kind of military will we need long after the wars of the last decade are over? >> reporter: congress has mandated 487 billion dollars in defense spending cuts over the next ten years. there are few specifics, but the number of troops in the army and the marine corps will be reduced, as will the total of u.s. nuclear weapons. a new focus on the asia pacific area and an emphasis on

counterterrorism. >> so, yes our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats. >> reporter: but as defense secretary panetta acknowledged there is certain to be opposition in congress. >> there are going to be members that will clearly not support some of the -- some of those decisions. i mean, that's the nature of making hard choices. >> reporter: republican mac thornberry of the house armed services committee says it is in the details. >> i don't think congress will go along with that at all. i worry when they talk on and on about reducing the number of people in the military because you can't just reverse that. >> reporter: now this shift in strategy means that the pentagon will have to move away from its

long held doctrine of being able to fight two ground wars at once. the president, however points out that the u.s. defense budget is still larger than that of the next ten countries combined. jim, nancy? >> bill plante at the white house, thank you. a program note. both defense secretary leon panetta and mac thornberry of the house armed services committee will be with bob schieffer this sunday on "face the nation." so check your latest listings. joining is is wesley clark, former supreme allied commander and and let me ask you about president obama he talked about a leaner military. what kind of message does a leaner military send to not only our allies around the world, but our enemies? >> well, i think to our allies is tase they have got to step up and do more particularly our allies in europe. but to the allies in asia this

is a strong message. he is saying we're strengthening our capabilities in asia and we are going to provide an important strategic counterweight to a growing chinese military. we're emphasizing diplomacy and stability, but we do have military muscle, so this is a strong message. >> but you know very well as the former top guy in nato, that asking allies to step up is sometimes a bit of a challenge they don't meet? >> it's a tough message for nato. but we will still have forces in europe. we will still have the structure of nato there. and the truth is that nations and alliances must evolve their forces and strategy as conditions change. we're out of iraq. we're coming out of afghanistan. we built the force structure that we have right now to deal with those two problems. and i don't think there are that many americans who would say, hey, let's keep those forces in afghanistan and in iraq

indefinitely. they would say, take the resources we have and use them to best meet america's security needs. those -- in asia cybersecurity, space. >> this isn't just a question of our allies as we said at the top. also a question of message sent to our enemies. so what kind of message do you think is being communicated there with this call for a leaner force? >> i think as far as the iranians are skrned they understand the u.s. can totally dominate the gulf and totally suppress attack destroy any effort by iran to block the gulf shipments. so there is no change in the message to iran. to china, which is not an adversary but a strategic competitor, there is a message that the united states is and will remain a strong power in the western pacific, and maybe even an increasingly strong power in the western pacific. so this is a strong message.

>> general, the top republican of the house armed services committee, representative buck mckean, said about the plan i want to run this by you. the president packaged our retreat from the world in the guys of a new strategy to mask his divestment of military and national defense. some people are saying it's responsible. chairman -- representative mckeon saying this is too severe? is there a point to be made it's just too much? >> i don't think yet. i think it's appropriate when requirements change that strategy and resources are rebalanced to most effectively put those resources to work against the greatest challenges. that's what is happening here. of course, we are all concerned about the men and women in the armed forces but i think we have to keep this in perspective, jim. at the end of the gulf war, 1991, '92, under the bush administration, the united states cut back its cold war

armed forces. we reduced the army from 18 divisions to 12 divisions to 10 divisions. we rebalanced the force. that is the force we carry through the 1990s. that's the force that did so well when we had to go into afghanistan in 2001 and into iraq in 2003. so we can effectively adjust for size. not by wholesale whacking but 5% and 10% here and there shrinking and growing. it can be done and it better distributes scarce defense resources to meet the most pressing challenges. >> general clark, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you, jim. on to the new hampshire primary. the chase is on to cut into mitt romney's commanding lead in the polls. >> so far, romney is brushing off the criticisms and splitting his time between this state and south carolina.

cbs news chief political jan crawford is tracking all of the candidates. >> reporter: romney has the big lead. because he has spent so much time here over the years so he can expand his focus and look elsewhere into some of those other states but he is campaigning hard here too. he is joined by senator john mccain who won new hampshire in 2008 on his way to the republican nomination. new hampshire. greeting voters and attacking president obama. >> capitalism free enterprise works. crony capitalism does not. this president has engaged and is engaging in crony capitalism. >> reporter: and in the afternoon. >> thank you, governor. >> reporter: he and senator john mccain were in south carolina joined by nikki haley. romney can spend time outside of new hampshire because he is more than 20 points ahead here thanks to the time he spent with voters and his focus on issues they care about most -- jobs and the economy.

and unlike the other candidates he has the money and organization to run a national campaign. >> how are you? >> reporter: by contrast rick santorum has run a bare boned campaign and is now trying to broaden his appeal beyond iowa telling voters he'll bring jobs back to america. >> i don't know jobs we will create but we will create jobs. >> reporter: it may not work as well in new hampshire where evangelicals in iowa and conservatives. thursday santorum got into an argument with voters about gay marriage. >> a purpose -- i ask a people and i'll be happy to talk. >> reporter: santorum is also getting criticism from newt gingrich who has completely abandoned his pledge to run a positive campaign and is unleashing vicious, and, at times, personal attacks on his - rivals, especially romney and ron paul talking about santorum gingrich was outright

dismissive. >> if you think of us as partners he would have been the junior partner. >> reporter: now gingrich for months, had been warning the negative attacks would only help president obama but after he was hit with some negative ads, he not only answering back he is using a flame-thrower and scorching the field. tomorrow night they will be on stage for the debate. get ready. some fireworks, i think. >> seriously. we will ask him about that coming up in on few minutes on "the early show." jan crawford thank you so much. hard on the heels of the primary in new hampshire is the republican primary in south carolina. the gop contenders are already lining up to get the endorsement of congressman tim scott who joins us now from charleston. good morning, congressman. >> good to be with you this morning. good morning. >> reporter: sure thing. the reason the candidates want your endorsement is you held these highly public is a liesed town hall meetings with each one of them and introducing them to south carolina voters. mitt romney who has the

formidable lead in new hampshire, what will he encounter when he gets to south carolina? >> it's important him to spend more time in south carolina. happy to see he is here yesterday and plans to be here earlier next week as well. what he needs to do really is have a strong presence. he has a strong organization in many states. he needs to have one in south carolina with nikki haley on hispside and is making a lot of progress and great hope and optimism for his campaign but no question that santorum is surging and gingrich had the lead in south carolina about 30 days ago. it's going to be a very interesting race to the finish. i look forward to see which candidate puts coalescing the troops particularly the conservative base we have in south carolina for a victory. >> i want to ask you about speaker gingrich congressman. he made some comments to raise eyebrows yesterday and i'd like to get your take. stirring up controversy with his controversy about food stamps. take a listen and then i'll ask you to comment. >> now, there is no neighborhood i know of in america where if you want went around and ask

people would you rather your children have food stamps and paychecks you wouldn't end up with a majority saying they would rather have a paycheck. i'm prepared if the naacp invites me i'll go to defense and say the african-american community took demand paychecks and not satisfied with food stamps. >> do you think the african-american community is satisfied with food stamps? >> let me respond to the comments as to what the african-american community would like to have. no question with the highest unemployment rates in our history, the focus should be on education. one of the things that our country has stood strong for is education opportunities and the greatest civil rights issue of the 21st century will be educational choice and that is why we ought to be focusing our attention on finding ways of bringing in good schools in poor neighborhoods which means public, private or charter schools, we need school choice as a part of the apparatus to

move our communities forward all over this country. >> but as you said speaker gingrich has had a lead in south carolina. do you think comments like that are going to hurt him with particularly with the african-american community in south carolina? >> well, certainly in a general election the comments hurts him i think a lot more. i think when you look at the conservative base in the republican party we are paying not only to what do but what you say. we need a candidate who beats barack obama so we are going to take a look at everything from what santorum says what newt gingrich says and mitt romney says but more importantly what they are doing and where their focus should be which is on the economy. when we talk about the economy, we need to bring our country together and not look for ways to divide. >> very quickly. all of the other candidates will be looking to stop romney's momentum in south carolina. rick santorum hasn't had a huge bump from his iowa finish here in new hampshire. do you think that will change in south carolina?

>> i think november 10th in new hampshire will be a very important date. the other part of the equation is important. what rick perry does in south carolina. when you have three candidates who are focused on the conservative base and now you throw a fourth person into the pile, you'll see that we will have a very difficult time making a decision. that's why half the republican voters in south carolina are still looking for their candidate. there is a race to the finish. i'm glad to see all of these folks spending time and focusing on the state that picks republican nominees. >> splitting up that conservative vote. congressman tim scott, thank you so much. still ahead this morning, newt gingrich will be here fighting back against the negative ads that sank him in iowa. we will talk with him. plus a year after gabrielle giffords was shot she is recovering. what about her political career? and kate middleton takes on charitable causes in her new role as the duchess of cambridge. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

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welcome back to "the early show." i'm nancy cordes along with my good friend jim axelrod, here in new hampshire. we cover the run-up to the new hampshire primaries. right now with go down to new york however and debbye turner bell who is at the news desk with a check of today's other headlines. good morning. >> good morning to both of you and good morning to you. december employment numbers are out today. in a faye by a fangs data firm it is estimated 150,000 jobs added last month and up from the 120,000 added in november. weekly reports indicate a generally growing economy with declining layoffs and more hiring. and nato reports that two roadside bombings in southern afghanistan today killed five nato service members. that brings the number of u.s.-led coalition troops killed so far this year to nine. in syria this morning, a

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i'm jim actlexelrodaxelrod, along with nancy cordes. >> we are coming to you from manchester, new hampshire, ahead of the first primary here set for next tuesday. >> one candidate fighting for votes is newt gingrich. after hit with a series of negative ads that effectively derailed him in iowa mr. gingrich has launched a counteroffensive in south carolina as well as here in new hampshire. >> he joins us now from concord, new hampshire. good morning mr. speaker. how are you? >> good morning. i'm doing great. how are you? >> i'm great, thanks. i want to ask you, first, about the comments that you made yesterday about food stamps because a lot of people want to know exactly what you meant. you said the african-american

community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. what did you mean by that? 59% of americans who receive food stamps are white. >> of course. but i was saying that unlike most republican candidates i would welcome a request, an opportunity to go to speak to the naacp convention because i thought there ought to be a conversation. 43% black teenage unemployment is totally unacceptable as an american future. obviously, i'm happy to go and talk to anybody in america. i went on to say i'd be happy to talk to any latino group or any other group that was interested in talking about having paychecks rather than food stamps. the fact is president obama has been the most effective food stamp president in american history. he has put more americans of all backgrounds. >> mr. speaker, we just spoke to representative tim scott of south carolina a few moments ago. he said your comments were preposterous. what bothered people when you said african-americans are

satisfied with food stamps. did you misspeak? >> i said they shouldn't be. >> okay. >> i didn't say they were satisfied. >> but the critique has been -- >> you -- what i said. >> no. >> i agree with tim scott. you just reversed what i said. >> reporter: but the critique has been that you seem -- >> every american -- >> reporter: the critique has been that you seem to single out african-americans and poor americans saying that poor children don't have a work ethic or that they should work as janitors. you have accused president obama of trying to start a class war. aren't you doing the same thing? >> no. i'm doing -- i'm doing the opposite. i'm saying we should reach out to every american -- you had to that and take it totally out of context to distort it this much. i agree with tim scott. if you had called me and asked me about the thing you just said, i would have agreed with you. what i said was every american of every background has been endowed brrrr thattheir creator with a right -- every american should

have the opportunity to get a job and not dependent of food stamps and every american of every background should be able to work where they get educated. i'm for conservatives going into every ethnic group in america and helping every american have a chance to pursue happiness. i think it takes a lot on the part of the elite media to supreme court that into some kind of an attack. i'm actually saying shouldn't poor children have a better chance for a better future? shouldn't every community have a better chance to have jobs? when reagan was president, we created a million 300,000 jobs in august. i helped do that as junior member. when i was speaker, we created 11 million jobs in four years and -- unemployment down to 4.2%. let me finish, jim. you guys have distorted what i said and i want to finish this all right? president obama -- >> the race here in new hampshire. >> but i want to finish this because it's important for the country. president obama has left this country in an economic mess. you watch today's job report compare it with reagan's million

300,000 new jobs in august of 1983 and you tell me who is doing a better job creating jobs for all americans. >> okay. so let me ask you this. there does seem a little bit of a challenge here for you in new hampshire with moving the needle. still stuck in fourth gear. sketch out a narrative fourth in iowa and new hampshire and how do you end up with the nomination at this point? >> well, i think we have to do dramatically better in south carolina but we always thought -- new hampshire is one of romney's three best states along with utah and massachusetts. if he doesn't come in first in new hampshire, he couldn't stay in the race. the question is not whether he'll come in first. the question how well do each of us do and the choice that new hampshire has between a massachusetts moderate who raised taxes appointed liberal judges and favored gun control and a reagan conservative. and i think that we will see what happens over the next weekend. this is a state where people take the primary very seriously. the crowds i've been talking to have been very enthusiastic and

i've been encouraged as i go across the state talking to people. >> are you concerned at all with the criticism of governor romney, as timid, calling rick santorum the junior partner? are you concerned at all that you're going to employ a scorched earth strategy and lead whoever emerges as a badly injured front-runner? >> well, what i've described governor romney as a massachusetts moderate is because he is. i mean, do you think that barack obama is going to let him get by with somehow pretending to be something he isn't? rick is a good friend of mine. we can have debates about history. i said historically as speaker of the house and development of the contract of america i played a larger role than the junior senator is all i'm saying. that is not in any way denigrating what rick has done in his career. he's a very smart guy. but i think if you look back historically at the four years when i was sperg scheduling welfare reform when clinton

vetoes it twice and first tax cut signed in four years and signing four straight balance budgets i think it's fair to say the speaker of the house did a fairly significant role in do that. i'm not attacking anybody but talk about what happened. the choice here is a massachusetts moderate and a reagan conservative a very big choice and i think as we have this debate over the next few days, we will see how things evolve because i think this is the first time romney has been challenged. >> all right. mr. speaker, thank you so much for joining us here on "the early show." >> thank you. >> thank you so much. still ahead with the new hampshire primary just four days away, a big picture analysis of how the republican campaign is shaking up. >> this is "the early show" on cbs. living with the pain of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... ...could mean living with joint damage. help stop the damage before it stops you... ...with humira. for many adults with moderate to severe ra,... ...humira's proven to help relieve pain and stop joint damage.

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people gathered to honor a police officer shot dead during a drug raid. a candlelight vigil was held last night for officer jared frankum. >> agent frankum was one of the more experienced agents in our unit and he will be sorely missed. >> five other officers were wounded in the same shoot-out on wednesday night. investigators are trying to determine if frankum was killed by friendly fire. here in new york an emotional farewell to three young girls killed in a tragic christmas fire in stamford connecticut. their mother was overwhelmed, but eulogized what she called her girl tribe. twins age 7 and their 9-year-old sister. more than 500 people attended the funeral. in los angeles, police arrested a passenger who disrupted a delta air lines flight from minnesota. it was all caught on cell phone video.

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welcome back to manchester new hampshire. the winds of politics can change in a heartbeat. just look at mitt romney. one month he has been on the cover of "time" magazine twice from why don't you like me which was the first cover story you'll see in a moment. so so you like me now? joining us is joe klein, a columnist for "time" magazine who wrote the story on the right. and cbs news political director john dickerson. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> have his fortunes really changed, joe? do they like him now? >> no. no. the bottom line on mitt romney and on the republican party and on this race is the number of people who showed up in iowa. it was the same as -- in 2008 the republican party was completely demoralized after eight years of george bush. the democratic race was exciting. 120,000 republicans showed up in

2008. this time the republicans are all head up about getting rid of obama and 120,000 people showed up for the republican primaries and only 75% of those were republicans. so there isn't much excitement there. this is a big long-term problem for mitt romney. >> so if the polling continues to hold steady, it's not so much next tuesday here in new hampshire of how much romney wins by. i guess the real number joe, that you're saying we need to pay attention to is how many people show up? >> well, yeah. it's part of. . i think that is a big deal. >> what should we look for this weekend? a couple of big debates coming up. and i would imagine there has been enough sparks being thrown around so far we should see some fireworks on stage, john? >> sure. you have a number of candidates that have to either knock mitt romney down or present themselves as the plausible alternative to mitt romney. the trick is when you go into these debates, the problem with going after mitt romney is sometimes you can hurt yourself

and help other candidates who look sort of overmodulated. what the candidates try to do is present themselves as pleasant candidates. it's a very difficult balancing act in these debates which are, you know, where you only get a minute to talk. >> i want to ask you about newt gingrich. you saw him a few minutes ago herl "the early show" saying his comments about food stamps and african-americans is being misinterpreted. why keep going there? race is such a sensitive issue. does this really play well? >> he really believes it. i've known newt for 25 years and he has -- especially when he was the speaker, he really -- he really involved himself in the politics of washington, d.c. majority black city. he thought his eyes about eliminatinge inging poverty were better. i think we can overreact as members of the media to statements that are made by these candidates. newt has a way of looking at poverty.

it is a very legitimate way to look at it and it really has worked in terms of welfare reform. so we have to be allot more disserngdis discerning about newt about people with ideas about this how to oversimplify them. >> look ahead to south carolina. obviously, things seem to be somewhat solidifying here in new hampshire. but i can't imagine the run for the republican nomination ends in new hampshire next tuesday. give me some -- we have been talking about the credible narrative, what could happen here. >> well, i think that -- i don't know much of anything is going to happen here. the debates are going happen here. >> south carolina moving forward? is there something that happens where romney gets derailed? >> i think what has to happen & before this race begins to really solidify is the anti-romney has to be chosen and i think that will happen in south carolina. you'll have three candidates

going forward from there, which will be romney ron paul and the anti-romney. but we don't know that other person is going to be yet. >> what romney hopes is basically south carolina version of what happened in iowa that it's a muddle that there is no anti. romney and it's a santorum and gingrich split their vote and there is no plausible alternative to him and that question can't get worked out. a lot of people are trying to figure out who the alternative is. but it doesn't get worked out and then all of those candidates essentially run out of mope. >> got it. john dickerson and joe klein, thank you so much for helping us sort it out this morning. appreciate it. coming up almost one year after shot in the head in turks tucson, does congresswoman gabrielle giffords have a political future? we will be right back.

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5 minutes before 8:00. a live look at the constellation. look how calm the water is. if only the commute is that nice this morning. sharon will have the latest ton right after marty's first warning weather. >> let's look at the forecast for today. what a beautiful sunrise it was. beautiful. it is going to be 58 this afternoon. 16 above normal. i think we might get more excited about that as we move toward the noon hour. here is wjz's traffic with sharon. >> if you want to take the expressway, the delay time is an hour and a half. you might want to teal commute. it is an overturned vehicle. med-evac has come and gone. a 91 minute delay at this

point. the southbound is the alternate but really congested as well. keep in mind, also we have an accident at 95 southbound. past the beltway. this one is blocking the right lane. watch for minor delays there. an accident to reisterstown. 140 at harborview. and washington boulevard at hollens berry road. pedestrian struck. a look at the speeds on the beltway. no major delays there. major delays on the harrisburg expressway. more than an hour nay -- more than an hour and a half right now at this point. >> back over to you, don. >> thank you. the news this morning, the bolten hill man and his neighbors are still living on edge this morning after he was abducted from outside his home at gunpoint. mike schuh has the story. >> reporter: good morning, don. good morning, everyone. a 45-year-old bolden man, coming from his suv, into his home, was at gunpoint, forced inside by two men. they went room to room, then forced him to lay down in the back of his suv, and while they

drove around town, trying to use his atm card. he lost his phone, his wallet and his i-pad. he was dumped off in west baltimore and flacked down by a city -- flagged down by a city cop. this happened a week ago and neighbors are upset that police did not notify the community about it. the man's luxury suv has not been found. the men are still on the loose. one is said to answer to the name jerome or bootsy. reporting live from city hall, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news, back to you on tv hill. >> we urge you to stay with wjz eyewitness news, maryland's news station, up next an economic forecast for this year, and a closer look at the four charities that the dutchess of cambridge kate middleton has chose ton patron. we leave you this half hour with a continuing look at the constellation. everything certainly looks ship- shape on it. and again, the

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i'm nancy cordes with jim axelrod. viewers of the show are going to find a big change on. . that's when cbs "this morning," makes its debut with charlie rose and gayle king and erica hill which makes this the very in the meantime, in new hampshire we are looking ahead to tuesday' first in the nation primary here. for many voters the economy remains the biggest issue. ahead we will look at signs whether the economy is starting to improve starting with ths week's jobs numbers. and don't forget about the

shopping season that surprised every. hard to believe the one-year anniversary of the deadly arizona shooting is six days away. >> on sunday gabrielle giffords and her husband mark kelly will attend a memorial service but what will her political future? here is ben tracy. >> reporter: it was a stunning moment just seven months after being shot in the head congresswoman gabrielle giffords walked into the capitol and cast her vote to raise the nation's dote limit. >> a day most of us will never forgot. it was emotional watching the reaction of the conservative and liberal members of the house and equally moved seeing her there was really something. >> reporter: it was the only giffords has made in the past year. >> let's see what the list looks like. >> reporter: but nothing is on hold in her office except phone calls. they just keep coming. >> congresswoman giffords' office. >> the case load has increased quite dramatically since the

shooting. we had 23% increase in constituent request in the first month and that is continued. >> i need to report back to gabby on this but i don't have all of the details. >> reporter: in washington giffords staff is working on border security and solar energy and priorities giffords made just before the shooting. >> there is never a moment we sort of wondered how should we handle this? ♪ gabby how do you do ♪ >> reporter: giffords recovery is so remarkable she carries on a weekly video conference call where she is in rehab. her husband says giffords struggles to speak but understands everything. >> she is constantly updated on what is going on in the district and in washington and in her office. >> gentleman therewas there ever a moment maybe she should give up her seat and somebody do the work who could be there full-time? >> no, not yet. she is motivated to return to

her job and serving the people of arizona. >> reporter: giffords has been back to tucson three times this year. >> hello. thb gabby give ofeds. i miss you. i'm getting stronger. i'm getting better. there is lot to say. i will speak better. i want to go back to work. >> reporter: giffords will decide by may whether or not to seek re-election. >> what do you think will be the deciding factors in that decision? >> well, you know, she is going to decide whether or not she feels she can do the job. it's going to be based on her ability to community with her constituents and whether or not she has the stamina to do that amount of work. >> reporter: she is already shown she has the will to overcome just about anything. ben tracy, cbs news tucson. >> very inspiring. now to new york and debbye turner bell. >> she's at the news desk with a check of this morning's other headlines. >> good morning to you.

government is out with december's employment numbers this morning. economists estimate 150,000 jobs were added last month. 120,000 were added in november. in campaign 2012 jon huntsman has won the endorsement of "the boston globe," mitt romney's hometown paper. the globe says huntsman articulates goals and ideas and called his priorities far-sided. this is the second time that "the globe" has snubbed romney. in 2008 it endorsed mccain. >> republican party officials said mitt romney in the iowa caucuses beat rick santorum by eight votes, but one vote counter says romney was counted for 20 more votes than he should have been. santorum says he considers it a tie either way. and joran van der sloot goes on trial for murder in peru this morning.

at court in lima van der sloot will face charges he killed a peruvian woman he met at a casino in may of 2010. the video shows them entering into a hotel and van der sloot leaving alone. van der sloot was also a suspect in the unsolved disappearance of american teenager natalee holloway in aruba in 2005. in washington state a motorist was caught with a skeleton as a passenger. the driver pulled over south of seattle for speeding but the officer noticed his passenger was a plastic skeleton in a white hoodie that he put there so he could use the restricted commuter l good morning, the sunrise this morning was just blazing with intensity. we're going to have a really nice day. temperatures now in the low to mid-30s. a high high of 60.

on the 6th day of january, not a bad thing. 10 above normal. partly cloudy. 33 tonight. and 35 tonight. and tomorrow, we will go for a partly sunny day with temperatures back in announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by viva. viva towels are tough when wet. try them on your toughest mess. there is renewed optimism this morning about the economy. >> new numbers show that the jobs market may be on the rebound. joining us now from philadelphia with a look at ahead to the rest of the year is mark zandi, chief economist of moody's analytics. when i say happy new year it's more of a question. is it a happy new year as far as our economy goes? >> it's happier. i think the economy is performing better the last several months. last year ended on high note. retail sales were good and housing market has a better tone

to it so i think things are looking up as we move into 2012. >> you mentioned, mark holiday sales and a new report out that finds that sales at major retail chains were up 3.4% but it isn't all good news right? >> it's not gang busterers. i'll take it at least we are growing and retailers are enjoying better sales. of course, they had to aggressively cut prices and be very aggressive in their other kinds of promotions to get people fountainin the stores and buying. all in all sales were pretty good and lays a pretty good foundation for 2012. >> cautious optimism also we are seeing in the manufacturing sector which i know is a crucial component to any sort of recovery. what are we seeing there specifically with auto manufacturing? >> yeah. that's the key. the auto sector is coming back. vehicle sales have been steadily improving over the past couple of years. sales higher than five or six

years. the vehicle sector is very important to manufacturing broadway. a lot of manufactured products everything from steel and text textiles and chemicals and paint go into making a car. when the vehicle sector is doing well the manufacturing sector is doing as well well that is a key growth and positive sign in the economic. >> what do you see in the housing sector? >> i think we're coming to the end of the crash. you know the housing market has been in a long slide. six years and counting. and i think there are some signs of stabilization. home sales are beginning to improve a bit. housing construction is up particularly for apartment buildings. and while i think we will probably see a bit more price declines this year, we still have a lot of property in the foreclosure process has to be worked through. i think the price declines over by this time next year and i think 2013 the housing will not

be the drag it has for years. >> i've heard this a couple times the last several years. we are poised especially with housing, to see the sort of the bottom of the market be gin to turn up. anything specific that is giving you any more confidence now about the housing market than we have seen in the sort of false alarms of the last couple of years? >> yeah. good point. we have heard this before. but there are some increasingly positive developments. of course, fixed mortgage rates are as low as they have ever been. if you have a reasonable credit score and have a reasonable down payment on a job, you can get a fixed mortgage loan less than 4% and that is as low as it's ever been. we have made some significant progress reducing the number of vacant homes out there. that, of course, has been a very significant drag on the housing market and as we absorb those housing units that lays the foundation for better housing market. so there are some things that have improved but you're right. it could be another false step. it may take longer than i'm'

anticipating. >> the last few weeks we have seen the better than expected first-time unemployment numbers. how encouraging is that? at the end of the day what people really care about it is jobs. >> you're right. very encouraging. what that means is businesses are curtailing their layoffs and that is very very key to the job market and getting the job market moving in the right direction. of course, now we need to see businesses begin to hire again and we are seeing some small improvement in the rate of hiring but it's still very low by historical standards. so the first step is seeing the layoffs get curtailed and i think we have taken that step.& we now need to see businesses step up and get their groove back and start to hire. we are not there yet. even though i'm feeling better about the economy, i'm not entirely enthusiastic. i don't think we are off and running yet. >> big question because we are here in new hampshire. very quickly. by november time of the presidential election will we be in good shape, better shape? >> i say better. i think the economy certainly has been a headwind for the

president and the other incumbents. i don't think quite the headwind it has been by election day but it won't be a tail wind either. >> mark zandi, thanks for joining us this morning. >> thank you. coming up next politics is serious business. seriously funny business for some and nobody knows that better than p.j. o'rourke. his take on republicans, caucuses and primaries when we return. this is "the early show" on cbs. good grief mom, you gonna clean that thing or wrestle it? well, it's not gonna clean itself. want me to get dad? no thank you. viva's all i need. look at that! still in one piece. yeah, so's the towel. [ female announcer ] grab a roll and try it on your toughest mess. ♪ ♪ [ woman ] we didn't know where to go next with eric's adhd. his

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is this your normal? jamie lee curtis?? oh, hi, yes...wow, you really went all out on the decorations,

huh?! yeah, but i'm so slow taking them down after all the fatty holiday food. but that's normal. what do you mean that's normal? it doesn't have to be. to me, normal, means feeling good inside. not slow. try some activia. activia helps with occasional irregularity, when eaten 3 times a day. keep a video diary and let me know about your new normal. love your new normal or it's free. as the republican candidates range across new hampshire tearing each other to shreds we felt the need this morning for a different perspective on the campaign. >> we asked best-selling author p.a. o'rourke to joining us this morning. good morning. i got to think a pack of presidential candidates running around your home state is like an all you can eat buffet for a guy like you, huh? yes and no. you spend half the time thinking, oh how lucky? i don't have to chase them, they are chasing me. the other half putting out the

little deconlike bait traps because it's a pest infestation, let's face it! >> is that what you think of this current crop of candidates? >> yes, absolutely. i mean, i'm a republican to the core, kind of libertarian republican and i feel like the varsity team got food poisoning in the school calffeteria and the water boy and equipment manager and the cheerleader, i guess she's gone. out there on the field playing our biggest rival, and i'm not happy. >> okay. but still somebody has got to be at least giving you material. who has been your best source? >> they keep dropping out. you know? you know, you got to love them all. ron paul who is so libertarian that you -- he gets elected, you'll not only get to do what you want to do you will have to do what you wanted to do! be like a half gallon of ice cream and a park of marlboros

for lunch every day! >> and doing drugs? >> yeah, yeah. >> but mitt romney of all the candidates, you don't think he has got a serious chance against president obama? >> the sparkle? look. he has a serious chance -- first place, we can all go home. it's mitt romney. he is going to be the republican nominee. which means that when we get to november, it's just going to be a thumb's up thumb's down from the electorate about the economy which is dumb. i mean there are big issues here. there are important things like us you know? trait at any rate it's going to be if the economy does well obama will be reelected the last month before the election if he doesn't, he won't. >> what about newt gingrich? he was up in the polls and mr. nice guy but not so much any more. >> if you watch the debate newt is the smartest man in the room, no doubt about that. we just came off the 2008 financial crisis and we know what it's like having the smartest guys in the room run the country, right?

not pretty. and the other thing with newt is he has so many eyes that his head exploded. ideas, you know, splattered on the walls and all over the ceiling and the floor. and you just can't -- you can't keep up with him. i know what he was trying to say this morning. i saw the clip about food stamps, but, boy he had his foot in his mouth all the way up to the middle of his thigh in his way of saying it. >> have you been watching jon huntsman run around here? he is the only one who hasn't gotten not any minute in the spotlight. >> no. worse than that he got endorsed by "the boston globe." if you want to poison somebody's character in new hampshire have "the boston globe" endorse them. that's that. he gets six votes. i actually -- i think i might pvote for huntsman just to sort of show romney that there are other romneys out there? >> what about rick santorum? do you think he has a shot here

in new hampshire? >> no no. new hampshire, we're not social conservatives. i shouldn't say that. we are social conservatives in new hampshire but we don't pry, we don't peek in people's windows and we like to leave people alone. we might drive by their house real slow to see if they are sleeping in separate bedrooms but we don't peek into windows. >> he actually got into it with voters yesterday. >> a college girl there who is going on about like, you know, right to life? i mean, what if a guy wants to lead his life in a dress? what about the right to that life you know? good point really as far as i'm concerned. i'm with him on abortion but when it comes to gay marriage i'm a republican. married people turn into republicans. i want everybody to get married! >> p.j. o'rourke always rooting for chaos. thanks for being here. coming up, a look at the important charitable work of britain's newest royal. the former kate middleton. >> this is "the early show" on cbs. he questions you just guesstimate you know, and hope you don't get audited.

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eight months after her royal wedding to britain's prince william, indicate middleton is beginning an important new chapter in her life. >> she announced four chaerts that will receive her high profile support. elizabeth palmer reports from london. >> reporter: wherever the duchess of cambridge goes these days an army of media follow. this celebrity buzz that english charities compete for. now the duchess has announced she will become the royal patron of four organizations. a group of children's hoss businesses in the east of england, an addiction treatment group, an art project for troubled young people, and the national portrait gallery in london. >> she showed a wonderfully integrity and engaged interest in our work and we knew that she was studying art history and been a part of a gap here in florence, she has a real interest in the arts and that was clearly being expressed. >> reporter: this summer she was

walking into a job when she married prince william in the powerful fund-raising machine of the royal family. princess diana, prince william's mother had raised royal patronage to a art form choosing edgy campaigns like the landmines campaign and aids patients and played to the camera with a powerful mixture of passion and glamour. her son william, second in line to the throne is currently a patron of the task trust which works for conservation and development in africa. >> undoubtedly having a role of patron just really raises the bar in terms of the profile that you can get. >> reporter: in her new role, the former kate middleton, now duchess of cambridge, will quite literally be worth her weight in gold and then some. elizabeth palmer cbs news london. the duchess of cambridge, a former brownie, also chose to

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25 minutes past 8:00. a nice day taking shape out on the water. and everywhere else to tell you the truth. except maybe the harrisburg expressway. sharon will update that one more time after marty's first warning weather. >> let's look at the forecast for today. a fine one. temperatures in the mid-30s right now. 58 degrees the high. partly sunny. a very nice afternoon. with some passing fair weather clouds. 35, 10 above normal. tonight, tomorrow, back into the mid-50s. the normal is 42. now over to sharon. wjz traffic control. good morning. >> good morning. if you have to take the harrisburg expressway, listen up. huge delays, more than an hour and a half right now. 83 southbound. because of an accident in the southbound direction approaching shoewan road with an overturned vehicle. one northbound lane is blocked as well. york road is an alternate.

traffic is being forced to take belfast right now. keep in mind huge delays on those roads as well. we have an accident on 95 southbound. past the beltway blocking the right lane. one in reisterstown on route 140 at harborview road and one more in the city on washington boulevard at holland's ferry. a pedestrian struck there. the speeds on the beltway. nothing too major. the big problem is the expressway, more than an hour and a half delay this morning. this traffic report is brought to you by the cochran firm. if you suffered a personal injury, call them or visit them for a free consultation. police are looking for the public's help in tracking down two men accused of abducting a man at gunpoint from bolten hill. mike schuh has the story. >> reporter: good morning. a 45-year-old bolden man coming from his suv into his home was at gunpoint forced inside by two men. they went room to room. then forced him to lay down in the back of the suv. while they drove around town. trying to use his atm card. he lost his phone, his wallet

and his i-pad. he was dumped off in west baltimore and flagged down by a city cop. this happened a week ago. and neighbors are upset that police didn't notify the community about it. the man's luxury suv has not been found. and the men are still on the loose. and one is said to answer to the name jerome. or bootsy. reporting from city hall, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you. an east baltimore row house fire claimed the life of a retired school principal. 84-year-old marry heinz was trapped inside her burning row home on east middle street early yesterday. and she worked for the city school sim from the 1940s until retiring in 1981. the investigation continues into what happened because reports say her electrical had been turned off. if you need a job, listen up. hiring 700 employees. 250 full time. for the new store in columbia. in howard county. and that store is set to open in mid june. it is the fifth location in maryland. and stay with wjz

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that's pretty. welcome back to "the early show." on this friday morning i'm nancy cordes. >> i'm jim axelrod. we are here in manchester, new hampshire, where the republican presidential candidates are heading into the final stretch before tuesday's big primary. coming up, we're going to learn about a new mtv campaign to encourage young voters 18 to 29 years old to make up a huge voting block. an estimated 45 million people.

we are going to hear from some of them and find out what they are looking for when they are deciding what presidential candidate to support. first, we will talk about football. the big easy. new orleans will be hopping on monday night. the city is hosting the final bowl game in college football the bcs championship. this year, it's between number one ranked lsu and number two, alabama. >> but some say the bcs system is seriously flawed. joining us now is bruce feldman, a senior write with cbs sports and the author of "the new york times" best seller "swing your sword." good morning bruce. >> hi. how are you doing? doing well. i suppose this year it's easy. we have a number one versus a number two but it's not the case every year. why does college football continue to be the only ncaa sport which does not have a national championship game? >> i think you have to get back to the original proposal milsemise it's the people who run the sport. the power brokers did not want a playoff.

because as long as they had their bowls and some of the connections and the tie-ins that they had, this was kind of their and they weren't ready to give it up each for more money because they didn't want to relinquish control so they created the bcs system about 15 years ago. the bcs is basically to ensure a 1 versus 2 matchup which we didn't have every year before. the structure around it is very murky and there is always a lot of frustration and this year is no different. >> it's beyond frustration. i mean, sometimes we have heard the president get involved. you hear congress people calling for investigations. i suppose that has to do with interstate commerce but isn't it just an argument best left for the bar stool? why such a high profile national conversation about college football? >> because i think fans get really worked up about how their school or their team and their state got left out by the -- of the structure because they did

not either play in the right league or did not have some kind of allegiance some way or the other. and, you know, people look at it. as you said, this is the only sport where you do not have an actual playoff to decide the champion. and there are teams out there that just completely really have no realistic shot of playing for a national title, even though they may be as good as some of these other programs. >> bruce, you got lawmakers from states like utah who feel like they always get shut out, railing against this system. but is there really anything that washington can do about it? >> i really don't think so. i think that is being unrealistic. quite frankly, i think washington and people over there have a lot more issues that are more pertinent to deal with this college football. ultimately, i think we will get some change going forward where we could have maybe a plus one in the next couple of years which would be a miniplayoff, but you're still going to have -- no matter how you turn it, there is still a lot of people who are frustrated about

how they are left out of the system or how it's unfair but the reality is, you know nothing in life is fair and i just think people are always going to be upset or feel like they are getting screwed out of something. >> not what the boise state fans want to hear for sure. tell me how a plus one or something like that could work. >> well, what you're talking about basically is the best four teams or the designated best four teams getting into it at the end of the year. it's still got to be hashed out to see if the people who run the sport, the power brokers, atop the conferences and the major conferences, the s.e.c., the big ten, the pac-12, if they are really going to decide we're going with a plus one model when the contract is up and people start looking at that in the off-season and that is something that potentially could come together in two years and basically it would be in january, i think, of 2015 could be the first time we have a plus one, which would be a significant change from anything

we have had in college football. but, you know, how they decide who is in those -- whether it's used in the bowl system where the games are played all of that stuff, there's a lot of things that need to be hashed out and all of the power brokers at this level with the conferences still feel like they need to discuss it and really kind of on bojsth sides of it. >> one word answer. bama or lsu? >> bama but i picked them the first time and they lost. >> thank you. let's go to new york and go to debbye turner bell with a check of the headlines. good morning to you. we're more than two weeks into winter this morning but much of the country is having remarkably warm weather. the only snow falling in wisconsin is from a machine at a ski resort. the state has had only a few inches of snow so far this season. normally, it would have had more than a foot of snow by now. nationwide temperatures are 10 to 30 degrees above normal today

and will continue for at least another week so enjoy it while you got it. this morning, the government announced the unemployment rate fell to 8.5%. that is the lowest it's been in nearly three years. the labor department says 200,000 jobs were created last month. 50,000 more than economists had estimated. that compares to the 120,000 jobs created in november. new figures from the irs sew your odds of being audited are far greater if you earn a million dollars or more. but if you earn 200,000 or less you don't have much to worry about. in 2011 12% of million air earners were audited, up from 8% in 2010 but for those making $200 or less the rate was just 1%. at the vatican this morning, the pope named 22 new cardinals. the list includes two americans afternoon bishop timothy dolan

and edwin o'brien. they will be installed at a vatican ceremony next month. conventional wisdom tells us that memory loss is something that happens to people when they are of advanced age. but a new study by british researchers found that moderate loss of memory and other brain functions can begin as early as 45. just something to remember. for the first time since the wreck of the titanic was found on the sea floor in 1985 items recovered from it will be sold at auction in april. the auction will take place on the 100th anniversary of the sinking. more than 56,000 artifacts have been recovered. estimated to be worth nearly $200 million. a judge ordered that the collection must be kept together to preserve its historic value so they can be sold only to one buyer. finally this morning, a new hospital dedicated to saving the koala in australia. including this one with a case of hiccups is found in the wild

only in australia where they are considered a national treasure but the number of koalas has been on the decline due to disease and other problems. the hospital is dedicated to saving the species from extinction. i hope they do it. good morning, it is a beaute day to start -- a beautiful day to start with. a high temperature of 58 degrees. two shy of 60. that's mild. and 42 the normal daytime low. and 25 is the normal overnight low. and partly cloudy and 35 tonight. tomorrow, partly sunny and mild. a high of 54 degrees. roll out the five-day forecast and notice all the way through midweek next week, the temperatures are above no it's no secret that young voters were one of the keys to president obama's election triumph in 2008. but will they be there for him this year? >> that's right. the economy is still limping

along and though signs of recovery, the young are feeling the effects of the downturn more than most. karen brown joins us this morning with more. good morning karen. >> reporter: good morning to you. i want to make sure you guys are warm in that studio, yeah? >> absolutely! >> we are doing okay. probably not as warm is you in that big coat. >> there you go. >> reporter: i hope the folks in new york are warm because it's 22 out here! even in a state where the economy is healthy, in fact young people are struggling with double digit unemployment figures everywhere we went it was story after story of i sent out 200 resumes and i can't find a job in my field so i'm working at the desk at my hotel. i'm also working on the ski slopes. april deschenes isn't snowboarding just for fun. her hometown slopes are the only place she could get a job. >> it's kind of just like that kick in the face. >> reporter: a long way from her graphic design degree. you actually did this?

>> yep. >> reporter: you look at that you pretty proud? >> i'm pretty happy. >> reporter: at 23 she lives at home and handles social media for the ski resort earning about half of what she expected. phillip caron is in a similar situation. >> i would have never got in this place if i didn't know my dad. >> reporter: he expected to work in this mill with his father as his grandfather and great grandfather had done before him. the recent college graduate keeps the place hope in hopes someone will buy it. >> most of my families has been through this mill in the past hundred years. >> reporter: even in new hampshire, where unemployment is low, the rate for young people is twice the state average at 12.2%. here as in the rest of america, the youth are watching the candidates carefully to see if they can get a break. >> with the money that i spent to go to school that's the part that is more frustrating, because you spend all of this money and six months after you graduate, you're paying for it. >> reporter: student debt is a big issue. on average, it's $24,000.

a recent harvard survey found over half of all so-called 18 to 29-year-olds think the united states is headed in the wrong direction. >> the youth vote is going to be very important for the general election. >> reporter: republican political strategist chuck rund. >> republicans in addressing economic issues are probably going to direct an awful lot of the concerns the youth have. >> the first time i really actually felt invested and interested in politics in my life. i felt more compelled to be a part of it. >> reporter: why? >> i'm a mother and i'm, of course interested in my son's future. you want a juice? >> reporter: 29-year-old melissa hilton has a 7-year-old son with autism. >> i want to work in a field where my son will be proud of me that i'm making a difference and now i'm just working in a machine shop. >> reporter: what is it that you'd like to be doing? >> well, my bachelor's degree is in criminal justice. a lot of budget cuts have been

resulting in a lot of jobs in that area being cut. you're pro life i understand? >> reporter: she is attending political events for the first time to see if think candidate can change her life. >> it gave me a sense of empowerment. >> reporter: however she is still undecided and not alone. in 2012 45 million millenials could make up the largest vote block in very vote. will you take part of the in republican primary? >> i'll consider it. >> phillip caron is pretty sure what he will do. >> he made it so i can have health insurance through my job now and my job doesn't offer it so i can have it until 27 and it also benefited me in the fact that college was a little cheaper. >> reporter: in fact, the republicans may have an uphill battle to secure the youth vote. the health care insurance extended to them by the president's health care plan is something that is popular and also something that in fact most republican candidates do

not support, except for mitt romney and he is leading here in the polls among young people. jimmas and nancy? >> karen brown, thank you so much. now get inside. mtv is zeroing in on young voters with a campaign called "the power of 12." >> here with moishre is sway calloway. potentially this is the largest bloc of voters that could come out in november. >> 45 million potential voters between 18 and 29 can help set the agenda. it's about the individual vote and collective lead and change the whole entire election and we have seen this in the past. four years ago that is what the power 12 is all about, mtv to help drive some of the largest turnouts on young voters in history. we want to continue that and we created this hub, power 12.org so people could get information about the election the

politicians, the agendas, so on and so forth. >> so how did power 12 differ from choose or lose which is this sort of iconic tradition at mtv? >> it's just a continuation of our political legacy. you power 12 is about now. it's about 2012. it's about this generation where experiencing a different economic climate as well as political climate. a lot of young americans are feeling disillusioned but not disgaejed disengaged with the process. we saw the occupy wall street. when i talk to young potential voters some of their concern is student loans, how to pay for college and coming out of college and not having jobs so they want to be heard. >> what have you been seeing in new hampshire? are young voters lining up behind any of these candidates we are seeing this week in the republican primary? >> well, we saw in iowa young voters came out and most of them supported ron paul but only 4% of those voters under 30 came out to vote.

so they are definitely watching and we will see what happens in new hampshire and that is why we are here. >> what do you think it is about ron paul that appeals so much to younger voters? >> i think his -- well, he's a libertarian, you know. i think he speaks directly to the young audience and he is not so much for the two-party system and i think that resonates well with young americans. >> do you think young voters will be the crucial difference in november? will they support president obama the way they did four years ago? >> well, i think president obama right now has the highest approval rate of young voters. ron paul has the highest approval rate of young voters in the republican party. i think young voters will definitely set the agenda. the genetics if they are wise behoove them to tap into the power 12 and utilize this power and talk to this young vote. >> they came out in such huge numbers and so energized four years ago. this time around, they have a lot of concerns. they are looking for a job you heard in karen's piece sending out 15 30 resumes, getting

nothing in return. do you think they will be that energized this term? >> absolutely. absolutely. i think that is the reason why, because, you know, the condition that the country is in now. when you look at student loan debt, it's the first time in america that student loan debt supersedes credit card debt. so something has to change. for those reasons, i think you'll see a high turnout but i definitely think the candidates definitely need to pay attention to the power 12. we are doing a lot of different programs to engage this generation. we have a campaign called fantasy election 12 and it's like fantasy football and fantasy baseball. >> we have to leave it there. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> oh! >> i [ kimberly ] when i was 19 i found myself alone with two children and no way to support them. people told me i wasn't going to do anything. and i just decided i have more to offer than that. i put myself through nursing school and then i decided

to go get a doctorate degree. university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people's lives. my name is dr. kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu.

we end this broadcast with a promise of a new beginning. next monday morning, cbs begins a new era of morning programming. the debut of cbs "this morning" is an event that has been months in the making. >> charlie rose and gayle king and erica hill will be the team. it is part of the debut, gayle king will be interviewing first lady mbichelle maichelle obama. >> we like to thank all of our colleagues with their hard work in iowa and here in new hampshire. it would be impossible to note and mention all of the people whose hands have carried this broadcast for a dozen years. >> we do thank those who brought it to its true and its fitting end. thanks for watching. ♪

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5 minutes to 8:00. and the chop has picked up a little bit. and you could see how calm it was before. just a little touch. >> just little waves. >> yes. >> and just to show you the difference in the photos. marty is in the first warning weather center. >> small craft advisory in the inner harbor. little waves. >> that's right. >> little waves. [ laughter ] >> let's take a look at the forecast. what a gorgeous morning. i hope you got to see the sunset. go to your social networking site and you will be surprised how many people put today's pictures of the sunrise up. beautiful. 58 degrees is the high this day. partly sunny skies. and now tonight, partly cloudy and 35 and the normals are 42 and 25. partly sunny. and let's roll out the five-day

forecast. essentially 50 on sunday. mid-40s on 40. essentially 50 on tuesday. even with rain on wednesday, 53 degrees. we're living large through the five-day forecast. it is going to get cold in one week. don, take it away. >> thank you. in the news, archbishop o'brien is being named a cardinal of the catholic church. he is wearing a purple near the upper middle part of the screen at the vatican. the 27-year-old advisor will be -- the 72-year-old advisor will be officially inducted in mid february. the search is on in this city for two men wanted for abducting a man at gunpoint from outside his home in bolten hill. mike schuh has the story. >> reporter: good morning, don. good morning, everyone. a 45-year-old bolden man coming from his suv into his home was at gunpoint forced inside by two men. they went room to room. then forced him to lay down in the back of hib his suv. while they -- his suv. while they drove around town trying to use his atm card. he lost his phone and callet and i-pad. he was dumped off in west

baltimore and flagged down by a city cop. this happened a week ago. and neighbors are upset that police didn't notify the community about it. the man's luxury suv has not been found. and the men are still on the loose. one is said to answer to the name jerome or bootsy. reporting from city hall, mike schuh, wjz eyewitness news. back to you on tv hill. >> thank you very much, mike. a fire in an east baltimore row hos has claimed the life of a retired school principal. mary heinz, 84 years old, was trapped in her burning home on east middle street yesterday. she worked for the school system from 1940s until she retired in 1981. reports say her lech trites had been turned off. it -- electricity had been turned off. the organizers of the grand prix need to support proposals by tomorrow. and interested parties must demonstrate they have the money, and the management experience to run the event properly. baltimore terminated its contract with baltimore racing development last month, after that group failed to pay $1.5 million owed to the city by the

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