by cbs good morning. it is wednesday, february 1, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. mitt romney wins the florida primary. we'll ask him about that and what he needs to do now to wrap up his party's nomination. chilling words on capitol hill. u.s. intelligence officials warn that iran is considering attacking the united states on u.s. soil. i'm gayle king. when i see you at 8:00, we'll look at why so many women are having multiple surgeries for breast cancer and the one and only david letterman and there's only one celebrates 30 years of late night. i'm erica hill. a major scandal in a los angeles school system. a long time teacher charged with abusing more than 20 students. can you trust the college rankings. the fallout out for one top school. as we do every morning, we

begin with today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. mr. president, you were elected to lead. you chose to follow. and now it's time for you to get out of the way. mitt romney wins big in florida. but newt gingrich vows to fight on. >> we are going to contest every place and we are going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. he is vowing to stay in the race until the end. hey, when newt gingrich takes a vow, he sticks with it. [ laughter ] >> 2012 will be a critical year. >> this is a very sensitive issue right now. >> u.s. intelligence officials warn iran may be planning terror attacks on american soil. >> iran's willingness depends on how much of a threat they perceive the u.s. to be to them. >> an elementary school teacher is under arrest accused of heinous crimes against his students. the case is so horrifying, even veteran police detectives are

shocked and disgusted. >> get out of the car! >> despite the fire and smoke, they got a man out of the car. >> over at cbs. >> is that right? oh, yeah. >> he's aging, but he's gorgeous. >> dad! >> all that. >> indianapolis will always be a part of me as football. >> and all that matters. >> soup for you. >> i don't know the character. >> on "cbs this morning." >> thanks. welcome to "cbs this morning." there is one, one clear front-runner in the race for the republican presidential nomination. mitt romney won the florida primary on tuesday. the biggest election so far. he beat newt gingrich by 14 points. rick santorum and ron paul

finished far behind. >> 62% of voters said the economy is the single most important issue in this campaign. florida, of course, was hit especially hard by the recession and the housing slump. as the results came in, both candidates were looking ahead predicting they will win in the end. >> when we gather back here in tampa seven months from now for our convention. [ applause ] ours will be a united party with a winning ticket for america. >> we are going to contest every place and we're going to win and we will be in tampa as the nominee in august. >> and fresh from last night's victory mitt romney is with us from tampa. governor, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> was it you, a more confident aggressive candidate? was it the debates? was it negative advertising or was it simply newt gingrich not having a good campaign? >> well, i think the debates had

the biggest impact. if you look at the response of people here in florida over the last ten days, the debates really changed the discourse here. people are very, very concerned about the economy as your report indicated. i spent my life outside the political world. never really lived in washington. i understand how the economy works. i think people want someone to go to washington, fix washington, pull it back in and get it out of your loifs and get the economy going. >> is the nomination now yours to lose or as eric ericsson sad, the fat lady hasn't sung but she's warming up? >> well, i have a good path ahead. if i can continue to connect with people describing my messae to get this country working again and take it back from the government folks, then i think i become the nominee. nothing is certain in politic. you just can't predict precisely what will happen. i'm in a better spot than ten days ago. >> the central question is can

you win over conservatives and the tea party? how do you plan to do that? the coming months? >> well, we want to make sure that we win and we want to get america back on track. so when you look here in florida at people who call themselves tea partiers or people who said they were conservatives, i won both groups. so i want to make sure and continue to have the support of those parts of our party, but also i want to make sure that we reach out to hispanic voters and to independent voters and get the votes we need to replace barack obama. so a good strong conservative base like we have in this party, plus reaching out across the aisle to some of the independents is probably what's going to get us back to the white house. >> has the campaign with newt gingrich made you a tougher candidate and therefore, better prepared to be a nominee. >> yeah, i think so. the attacks that have come from him have probably toughened us up and helped us learn how to respond. what barack obama comes with will be a lot more money and

more vitriolic than we faced so far. we're prepared. i know the president will want to talk about me and somehow disqualifying me. i want to talk about his record. the truth is, he has not done the job he's been elected to do. that's why i think he's in so much trouble. >> when you look at the economy and what you have to offer, how is it different from what president obama will offer and what newt gingrich is offering in this campaign battle? >> well, it was interesting. in the president's state of the union address, he laid out the things he thought were necessary to improve the economy, lowering corporate taxes, he raised them. lowering the level of regulation, but he's increased it. opening up all sources of energy, but he shut down our major sources of energy. cracking down on china, but he's laid over and let china run all over us. he has -- he laid out the very things that need to be done and he's done the opposite. there are more things we have to do as well. but this president does not

understand how this economy works and i do because i spent my life in the economy. i'll open up markets for our goods. get our energy, get regulation right and get taxation right. >> negative campaigning has been part, negative ads by super pacs. do you think they've contributed or do you believe they'll hurt you as you reach out for independents if you are the nominee? >> you know, i think the negative ads so far have paled in comparison to the general election. what happened in florida is people not paying so much to ads as they have to the debates and the rallies that have been heard and to the ideas of the various candidates. i am talking about the economy, getting america working again. i think that's been a message that's connected well here in florida. >> you have not received a congratulatory phone call, not last night nor in previous campaigns, say in new hampshire from the former speaker. does that bother you? do you consider it an insult to

you? do you understand why he hasn't done that? >> i don't worry about that. i got to be honest with you. i'm very pleased that ron paul and si rick santorum spoke. i called the speaker after the race in south carolina, congratulated him. he welcomed that congratulations but he hasn't chosen to call me on any of the three of the prior contests. you know, that's something you have to ask him. >> he also will make the argument in a campaign ahead that he is the candidate of the grassroots and you are the candidate of the republican establishment that you are in fact a moderate from massachusetts as he says and that he is the reagan conservative and if they'll consolidate behind him, they'll have a real contest. >> well, the argument that he somehow is the reagan conservative, i think, doesn't square with the facts. this is a guy who was arguing for cap and trade legislation by sitting on the sofa with nancy pelosi. this is a fellow who called paul

ryan's bold plan for saving medicare. he called it right wing social engineering. his big bold idea here in florida has been to build a space station or a colony on the moon and making it the 51st state. these are not conservative ideas. they're big expensive ideas. i think that he has had a very difficult time convincing people that he really is the conservative leader in our party. my record is one of balancing the budget in my state, putting in place a rainy day fund, cutting taxes 19 times. i've got the conservative record he wishes he had. >> do you not want to be called a moderate? >> i want to be called what i am. i'm a conservative business person who was lucky enough to become the governor of massachusetts and bring conservative principles to that state and if i'm president of the united states, i'll make conservatism -- if you will, i'll make the constitution the blueprint i'll follow. thank you, governor, for

joining. hope to see you again soon. >> thanks, charlie. good to be with you. bring in the chief washington correspondent and host of the new one-hour face the nation. he's in miami. good morning, bob. >> good morning, charlie. >> you listened to governor romney. tell me how you saw florida and where we go from here. >> the first i would say is that governor romney is saying that he thought people didn't pay attention to the negative advertising. if that's the case, he and his super pac wasted $16 million on negative advertising. i mean shall they dumped a load of negative ads on newt gingrich and 92% of those ads were negative. now, gingrich tried to do the same thing. he ran a negative campaign, too. but he had only $4 million to spend. i think negative advertising works as much as people say they don't like it. and i think it worked very effectively here. the other part, charmlie, to gie

governor romney his due. he became a much better candidate down here. not only in the debates but also in the way that he really carried the campaign and the fight directly to gingrich. >> and he also, bob, as you heard, he told you, charlie, he felt that newt gingrich made him a better candidate in this race. newt gingrich last night, laying out concrete ideas. i want to listen to something and get your take on it, bob. >> i will ask them to immediately pass the repeal of obama care, to immediately pass the repeal of the don frank bill and i will ask them to pass the repeal of sarbanes-oxley. it will abolish all of the white house czars as of that moment. >> so bob, obviously, his ideal agenda there. what is different about what we were hearing from newt gingrich last night in that speech and in

what he was saying as opposed to what we've heard in the last contest? >> well, it was a much different contest in south carolina. gingrich came out swinging there. he clearly won the debates there. romney had a very bad time in south carolina. a lot of his own doing, but he hired himself a debate coach, he managed to turn these debates around. i wouldn't be surprised if mitt romney wouldn't agree with everything that newt gingrich said in that statement there. certainly, he's talking about doing away with the president's healthcare plan and some of that other stuff. but just saying, i'm going to ask the congress to do that is one thing. he would have to have a republican congress to be able to do any of that. he couldn't do it by himself because, you know -- >> any reason to believe that newt gingrich can't take this all the way to the convention as

the signs behind him said four down and 46 to go. >> he may not get all the way to convention, but he's going to stay in it for a while, charlie. the reason why is, when you add up the votes last night, more people voted for somebody ems and than voted for mitt romney. although this was a huge win for him. there's still a number of people out there that are not satisfied with mitt romney. i think there's about a third of the people that we surveyed last night said they just as soon see somebody else as their candidate. romney still has to find a way to bridge this gap between the far right and the left of his party. he's going to need all of them if he's going to take on barack obama and win come november. it's going to be a very close race and it's going to have to be a united party. right now with all this negativity, i don't think you can say that it is. there are a lot of people who think that this really hurt the republicans when this got so

nasty. we'll see what happens as we go down the line. >> bob, thank you very much. a fine looking tie there, my friend. >> thank you, sir. this sunday, bob will have the result from the nevada caucuses on the new one-hour face the nation here on cbs. top u.s. intelligence officials had a dire warning for congress on tuesday. they determined iran is now willing to launch terrorist attacks on u.s. soil as pressure grows against the regime in tehran. national skrurt correspondent david martin says it makes a tense situation all the more serious. >> debriefing by the nation's top intelligence officers added another development with the showdown with iran. in his written statement, james clapper said last year's aborted plot to assassinate saudi arabia's ambassador in washington shows that some iranian officials changed their calculus and are more willing to conduct an attack in the united states. the chairwoman of the senate

intelligence committee said it could come to a head this year. >> 2012 will be a critical year for convincing or preventing iran's development of a nuclear weapon. >> some u.s. officials believe israel can launch a strike to destroy iran's nuclear facilities as soon as this year. the head of israel's mossad intelligence agency met with cia director david petraeus. the u.s. is counting on economic sanctioning to pressure iran into giving up nuclear ambitions before israel fels compelled to strike. so far, it's not working. >> the sanctions imposed so far have not caused them to change their behavior or their policy. >> but new sanctions, including a ban on iranian oil sales to europe are just now taking effect. >> the sanctions have been biting much, much more literally in recent weeks. >> petraeus said it will be months before the sanks take full effect. israeli officials say they can

only afford to wait six to nine months before they have to strike. for "cbs this morning," david march tip at the pentagon. with us now, senior correspondent john miller. a former fbi official. good morning. >> good morning. >> you know the world of intelligence and the officials doing the testimony before congress. they are taking seriously the idea that iran might launch an tack against the united states with provocation. >> that's right. and this is not the first time these indicators have come up. going back -- if you just take new york city, going back to 2002, 2003, 2004, you've got instances, two cases involving the fbi, a third case involving the nypd where they got iranian security officials taking pictures, doing diagrams, collecting intelligence on sensitive locations on landmarks

and in each one of those cases, you see people who say well, i'm a security officer at the iran mission to the u.n. i'm just a tourist. each case those people were expelled from the united states, but the nypd intelligence division very aware of this. we've seen that heightened activity at the u.s. facility in south america, anywhere in the triborder area. what they're doing, charlie, is collecting target folders so if they decide to launch an attack, they can pull it off the shelf. >> and they have every reason to believe that the purported and failed attack, kgs of attacking the saudi ambassador in washington was a very real threat that went to the highest levels of the iranian government? >> yes, they do. i have to say this is a case they went into with a lot of inkre duality because it didn't seem like a likely plot. when they did the communications between the principal actor trying to hire the hit man, he was in touch with forces in

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looking at anita collins, your first thought is probably not that this woman could be a thief. police, though, say she stole more than a million dollars from new york's catholic archdiocese. we'll look at why no one suspected her for years. with the super bowl coming up, fans are watching the manning brothers as eli gets ready for the game. peyton says he will play again. we go live to indianapolis. you're watching "cbs this morning." this portion of "cbs this morning," sponsored by discover card. it pays to switch. it pays to discover.

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shut down by police last night. the miami herald says dozens of demonstrators were ordered out after more than three and a half months. the san francisco chronicle headlines a brain experiment at the university of california. scientists say it could be the first step towards an artificial voice for patients unable to speak on their own. the new york times reports from a tiny village in spain where almost everyone is sharing the first prize in spain's annual christmas lottery. only one household was left out because they didn't buy a ticket. for years a clerk had a terrible secret. police say she was stealing church funds and using that money to go on extravagant shopping sprees. we'll show you what she bought. you're watching "cbs this morning." stay with us. your local news is next.

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>> thank you, mary is over in the first warning weather center. >> let's take a look at doppler and shower activity continues to press out of the region, it is a cloudy day, breezy but mild. 52 now, 65 is your high this afternoon. don, take it away. >> thank you, a car crash, a stolen police cruiser and a wild get away end with the fatal shooting of a man at the hands of police. monique griego is outside police headquarters. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, police and shot and killed the suspect after they say he stole a cruiser and threatened an officer. police have released a photo of 26-year-old man. he fled and crashed and started to fight the officer and somehow police say he managed to steal the police car. after another pursuit three officers shot their weapons and that suspect was killed in a

shopping center parking lot. back to you. >> the plan accused of murdering a correctional officer could be in the hands of a jury. closing arguments will begin in the case of lee stevens, he and another man are charged with the stabbing. he is eligible for the death penalty if convicted. two more weeks of freedom for jack johnson. he is scheduled to turn himself in on monday but a judge granted him a two week extension yard. and stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station, up next how one employee of the catholic church stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her archdiocese. and what the future holds for football's all star manning brothers, payton and eli of course, both ,,,,,,,,

i mean -- it looks like you got a little testy with al roker. show that footage. >> are jumping jacks your exercise of choice? >> i do everything. jumping jacks, squats, lunges. >> does the president have to worry about the boxing part? >> sometimes when he sees me punching -- >> the message is, don't mess with the first lady. welcome back to "cbs this morning." here in new york, a woman who worked for the roman catholic church is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in church funds. >> police say anita collins has confessed. as michelle miller reports, the charges are a big surprise to those who know her. >> to her neighbors, anita collins was a devout catholic who attended mass daily. >> she seems nice. she does. she seems like a hard working woman, believe me. >> but manhattan's district

attorney says the 67-year-old was a thief who stole at least $1.2 million from the archdiocese of new york. her attorney howard simmons says his client is sorry. >> she's incredibly remorseful and ashamed. i'm told at the arraignment that she has made a full confession. >> collins worked as a clerk for the archdiocese for nearly eight years. she allegedly wrote over 450 checks and placed them in her son's account. each check was under $2500, which meant she didn't have to get approval from church officials. the spokesman for the church. >> she was very careful in how she did this. as the d.a. said, this was a sophisticated fraud. >> collins lived a modest life, sharing this apartment in the bronx with her daughter. but police removed paintings and boxes of collectible dolls, aldly bought with the money. prosecutors say spee shent

$37,000 on clothing from barney's and brooks brothers and money on furniture and $19,000 in an irish gift shop, all while earning less than $50,000 a year. collins had been convicted of theft twice before in 1986 and again in 1999 for stealing at least $46,000 from a temporary employment agency. she was hired by the archdiocese in 2003. >> she applied and was hired before we instituted our criminal background check policy. >> collins, who remains behind bars, has been charged with grand larceny and falsifying business records. a conviction could send the former church clerk to prison for more than 25 years. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller, new york. faith and religion contributor father edward beck is with us now. as you were watching this, you said unbelievable. i have two questions. number one, how could she think she could get away with it and

number two, is a church going to be for giving about this? a forgiving church in the christian tradition? >> you know what, the charlie, i. the church is for giving. but it doesn't mean you excuse this kind of behavior. i mean, in woman stole from the institution, but also its donors. you have to realize that people give money to the church for certain ministries that the church carries out. so they have an obligation to be good stewards of that money. this woman stole from an institution, namely, the education fund, where catholic schools in the archdiocese were closing and she knew that. you can forgive but that doesn't mean she doesn't have to be prosecuted and do penance. >> you mentioned the responsibility that the church has. is the church too trusting? >> sometimes i think the church is too trusting and a little naive. i was in a retreat in florida in a rectory. this wasn't a parish i was

associated with. a mound of money on a table.with she looked up and was fine about it. i closed the door. i went to the pastor and i said, you know, what was that? and he said well she's counting the collections from sunday. i said, alone in a room counting all of that money? i mean, any accountant will tell you, two people in a room. don't do that even to the worker. i mean, that is very naive. i think now when something like this happens, the church says ah, what are our controls, what do we need to do to get our house in order. >> you're saying that will change? >> it already has changed. there is now background checks that are done. i think, as far as the archdiocese, we're seeing they have the controls now in place. there will be more controls in place. >> nice to see this morning, father. thank you. deep in the heart of texas, folks are running out of water. historic drought has big cities and small towns struggling. we'll look at one water starved village is coping. >> ahead of the super bowl

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what a difference a year makes. remember when winter used to look like this? this is february 1st, 2011. video from that day. this is oklahoma. you remember last year the country blanketed with snowstorms. this is a live look this morning at times square in new york city where it's currently 49 degrees. last check it was going to get up to probably 60 today, which is what it was yesterday. which is lovely but a little strange on the first of february where we really feel like we're we're waiting for winter to begin here. turns out the weather has been pretty abnormal all across the country over the past year. texas suffered through one of the worst droughts ever on record. no town had ever completely run dry. that is until now. >> anna werner is in texas where there's a lot more beach than

there used to be. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. if things were as they're supposed to be, this dock where i'm standing would be in some 20 feet of water. but here the lake has dried up. and when the lake dries up, the wells do too. the water level in this part of lake travis has dropped to a near record low, which means the groundwater supplies that feed local wells are down too. the well that provides water to spice wood beach residents like connie heller has nearly run dry. >> i never dreamed it would ever be this way. i thought we always had a good well. >> the well's water level dropped over a foot in just a day. so water is now being trucked in several times a day to fill the community storage tank. >> what's it like to essentially be in a situation where you might not have running water in your home? >> it's scary. it really worries me. i haven't been sleeping nights.

i don't know what to do. >> even scarier is the prospect of another fire. fire swept through this part of videos on you-tube show. volunteer fire chief dean lester says if there's another fire, he won't be able to use the town's supply. water will have to be brought in from communities farther away. >> we have a water shortage like we did last summer, fighting a fire it might get away from us a little bit more than it did. >> does that worry you? >> yes, it does. it should worry anybody. >> there are plenty of worried people around spicewood beach. >> now, trucking in water is obviously a short term and expensive solution. long-term options for them here, either dig a deeper well or a new well. they have to find another source of water, perhaps from another lake. there's always the option for here, the lake and the water

supply, pray for rain. >> i'm sure there's still plenty of that going on. there is manning mania in indianapolis. and more than usual in that city. eli manning, of course, is there preparing for super bowl xlvi. the city is buzzing over his brother peyton manning. future plans, he of course, the colts quarterback who had to sit out the season. we'll see if both brothers could leave indianapolis after sunday's big game. you're watching "cbs this

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what exactly the future is. >> at the same time, his younger brother is taking some of the spotlight away from him. cindy bowers is in indianapolis. good morning. >> good morning. the mannings are certainly no stranger to the spotlight, but here in indianapolis, you would think the focus will be on the stars actually playing the game. instead, it's on the growing rivalry between hometown hero peyton manning and little brother eli that's become the talk of the town. >> we're under way. >> if the super bowl is sport's greatest stage, this tale of two brothers is from shakespeare. there's little brother, eli manning, the star quarterback of the new york giants, preparing to lead his team in sunday's big game. finding himself here in indianapolis sharing the stage not so much with his rival quarterback, tom brady, but with his own brother, peyton. >> if you get concerned with other things, it takes your focus off what your job has to be for this coming sunday. >> in this case, the other thing

is the football future of 35-year-old peyton manning. he's been the face, arm and heart of the hometown indianapolis colts since he was the number one draft pick 14 years ago. >> i played a long time. i'm grateful for the time that i've played so far. i have nothing to complain about. you know, how much longer we'll see. >> there's a twist of irony in that his city is hosting its first ever super bowl in a $720 million state-of-the-art stadium built in large part due to peyton's success. the colts were hoping for a great year and a real chance to be the first team to play a hometown super bowl. but peyton did play at all this season due to a serious neck injury and the colts fell apart. a league worst two wins and 14 losses. with his future still in discrepancy di, the colts face a $28 million decision. keep an aging great and pay him a multimillion dollar bonus. >> i've been blessed with all

the things that he's done for the franchise through the years. >> or let him go and put their money and their team in the hands of an untested rookie. stanford quarterback, andrew luck is expected to be the number one draft pick this year and the last place colts pick if they give up on peyton. >> we're all kind of wondering, once that game is oaf, the big story is going to be where he plays and if he ends up playing in 2012. >> the speculation comes at a tender time for the tight knit manning brothers. peyton has long been considered not only the more talented brother but one of the greatest quarterbacks ever. come sunday, little brother eli has a chance to pass him if he wins his second super bowl ring, twice as many as peyton has. instead of playing on the world's biggest stage, peyton find himself playing cheerleader to eli. exactly what manning's father arch archie, a star quarterback has

come to expect from his older son. >> i'm proud of the way peyton handled this. it's a brother thing. he's proud of his little brother. e. going to pull hard for him. here we have a tale of two quarterbacks. peyton manning will he play next year. eli, can he pass his older brother and i think there's another quarterback playing in in game. he's playing for the other team, tom brady, playing for the patriot. he's no slouch. he's going for his fourth super bowl win. speaking of tom brady, you want to be with us tomorrow morning on "cbs this morning." you'll get an unprecedented look and listen to patriots coach bill belichick talk to armen keteyian for a much longer time than he normally talks to folks. arm en will bring us all of this, how belichick prepares his strategy for game day. everything he looks at ahead of time. at that will come tomorrow on "cbs this morning." still ahead today, we'll ask the editor of u.s. news and world report if we can trust its

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ziefrnl. gayle king has a look at what's coming up. a school with a top ranking is at the center of a cheating scandal. it's not the students. it's the administrators. an elementary school teacher in l.a. is under arrest accused of disgusting acts against the students. parents want to know why it took authorities so long to reveal what was going on. was it a cover-up. john miller is on the case. his life sound like a hollywood movie. he was discovered walking down the street. channing tatum is here to talk about his latest movie, the vow. >> david letterman celebrates 30 nights of late night tv. he may not want

it is now four minutes before 8:00. look off in the distafns, distance, it looks like rain and there are the clouds. >> let's take a look at radar. see what we are looking at there with low hanging clouds. what we are seeing is way off south and east, not saying we could not see that. it is 19 degrees warmer than at this time yesterday. we are at 53 on tv hill. 63 is going to be -- 65 is going to be the high temperature today, cloudy, breezy, another very pleasant afternoon. it is first february, now over to sharon jib, wjz tv traffic control. >> we have those accidents there.

there is a live look outside at 95. this is brought to you by home paramount pest control. don, back over to you. >> thank you. we now know more about how a wild get away run started touching two counties before ending especially a police involved shooting in baltimore city. it is monique griego who has the story. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, that chase involves officers from several counties before it came to an end. the stole a cruiser and threatened an officer, they released the photo of mon pete chonna of baltimore. the chase started after a cop tried to pull him over. he fled and crashed, and then he started to night the officer and somehow he managed to steal the police car. after another pursuit three officers shot their weapons and the suspect was killed in ,,,,,,

me and charlie rose, erica hill. just think of the three of us together. i think it's a good combo. >> isn't that show on at like 2:00 in the morning or something. >> yeah. listen, charlie, instead of a roundtable and a black curtain, it's live in color. it's a threesome over there at cbs. >> is that right? okay i'm writing that down. >> eat your heart out, jimmy fallon. >> i don't know if i was supposed to tell on national tv that we were a threesome. why does everybody think you're there at 2:00 a.m. >> i don't know. the show is at 11. >> it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. we begin with a top college in california that admits sending exaggerated s.a.t. scores to college ranking services. >> that's raising questions

about how much we can trust the rankings. national correspondent ben tracy says the rankings are extremely important for not only schools but of course, many students. >> when cat rinna brooks was considering applying to claremont college near los angeles, she definitely looked at this. the u.s. news and world report rankings. >> when you're comparing schools with your friends, it's all about rankings. >> claremont mcken a ranked the 9th best in the nation. but it admits it cheated. for five years an official falsely inflated the scores of students by 10 to 30 points, enough to potentially move up in the rankings. >> it's all a game. i'm sure every school is manipulating their numbers in some ways. >> the ratings race so fierce that arizona state university promised a $50,000 bonus to its president if he improved the school's u.s. news ranking. >> ranks are a recruitment tool. >> this man works with college admissions officers.

he says schools are too focused on rankings. >> the higher the ranking, the more prestigious you look, the more selective you look, the more desirable you look as a destination point. >> it turns out schools may care more about these rankings than the students do. here at the university of california, they did a nationwide survey. on a list of 22 most important factors in determining where to go to college, students ranked the rankings number 11. katherine cohen runs a college admission strategy business in new york. she says students and parents need to go way beyond these lists. >> we tell students, it's very important to do as much research as they can on each college they eventually apply to. they want to find courses they want to take, professors they want to study with, what research is going on, what extracurricular activities are they going to engage in. >> because one school may be a far better fit regardless of its rank. for "cbs this morning," ben

tracy, los angeles. >> thank you, ben. brian kelly is the editor of the u.s. news and world report. one of the publications that claremont mckenna lied to. good morning, brian kelly. thanks for joining us today. >> good morning. >> how was it discovered and do you think it's isolated? >> the school discovered it. it was one person at the school. it's not the whole institution. they seem to have taken swift action. they've brought in a law firm and doing the right thing. we don't know all the details yet. we've asked for some more information and haven't gotten it yet. but we do think it's a -- it's not a unique situation. it's pretty rare. we've been doing this for 25 years. we've had thousands of schools that we have ranked over the time. you know, we've had three or four incidents like this. any time it happens, it's a concern. we're certainly very disturbed and looking at this closely >> perhaps you shouldn't have been taking these numbers on faith? >> well, you know, charlie, the numbers are -- it's not just us. niece are numbers they're reporting to the federal government, to the bond rating

services. they've got real legal o obligations here. we're one consumer of the numbers. we crunch them in a formula. we do check them and vet them as best we can. if people are going to cheat, people cheat on their taxes, we don't have subpoena power. we are limited. but we work very hard to get the numbers right. >> brian, are you saying that the onus is solely on claremont mckenna, that you bear no responsibility because there is nothing else you can do to better verify this information? >> we're still looking into. we are responsible for the things we print. we will explain to readers what we know about this in great detail. but i would looking through our own processes so far, i don't know any other way that we could have found these numbers. if somebody really puts their mind on cheating, which is what really seems to have happened here, there's not much that we can do about that. >> any plans to change how you rank the schools now? >> i don't think so. i think our methodology is

pretty sound. it stood up over the years. we get 99.99% of the numbers are right. sometimes there's an inadvertent error that happens which we correct. very rare occasions here we find somebody overtly cheating. but we will continue to monitor closely. because we think the numbers are important. they're important for students and parent primarily. we don't do this for the schools, it's for the consumers. >> parent, kids, we all pay attention to the rankings. thank you, brian. thank you very good morning, shower activity, skies trying to clear. it is really warm, it is about 17 degrees warmer than this time yesterday, going to go for a high of 65. we are in the low 50s right now, cloudy, breezy through the afternoon. clouds, rain around later. overnight low of 48

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if you look at people that do only breast surgery and a lot of breast surgery, the numbers will be lower. certainly, my numbers are much lower than that. >> so you're saying who does it, that's one reason the numbers could be so high? >> any other reason why it's so high? >> i think it's a matter of judgment as far as. number one, how much tissue to take to make sure that you do achieve negative margins, but not taking too much tissue to compromise the cosmetic result. it's also judgment as far as who is appropriate for a lumpectomy and deciding that up front and talking to the patient about whether or not she is an appropriate candidate for a lumpectomy. >> yesterday in the meeting was the first time i heard the term partial mastectomy. i didn't know what that was. >> it's the term insurance companies use. it's a very bad term, i think. it confuses and frightens patients. >> it really does. i partial mastectomy means a lumpectomy is what you mean. >> correct. >> what's also disturbing, it

depends on the doctor you go to and the facility you go to. you can go different places and get different diagnoses. is there any way to get a handle on what's the right thing to do in. >> it's important that patients ask their surgeon, number one, am i a candidate for lumpectomy. who is a candidate? >> the patients who are a good candidate are generally small tumors. but it depends upon the size of the tumor relative to the size of the breast. we also often now get mris prior to lumpectomies. that's really very important. that lets us tell if there's more cancer than we would see on mammograms or ultrasounds. if so, the patient would be a candidate, if there are multiple tumors. you'll get positive margins if you do a lumpectomy. >> gayle and i have talked about this a lot over the few days. it comes down to asking your doctor and it's okay to get a seconds opinion? >> absolutely. >> it's important to get the ham gram and wait, we want to take

another look. those are the worst minutes waiting for the results to come back. what scared me a little bit about it is should we go ahead and have the owe oi instead of a partial, should we do it all at once so you don't have to be a repeat customer is what i'm trying to say? >> there certainly are some patients that are better served with the mastectomy. if you can tell that up front either by the surgeon's judgment or by the mri, then the patient is better served having one operation and having the mastectomy. >> dr. simmons, appreciate you coming in. >> it's a pleasure. this morning, there's talk of a major cover-up in los angeles where a teacher is accused of sexually abusing young students. parents say this should have come out a year ago. john miller has new information as you're watching "cbs this morning." cbs healthwatch sponsored by one a day women's. a multivitamin with more of what matters to you. you need to take care of yourself first.

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this morning a long time school teacher faces a judge in los angeles. he's accused of abusing his students for years. we should warn you that some of the details are very disturbing. >> very disturbing is right. it took months for the sheriff and the district attorney to finish their investigation and finally tell the public as bill whittaker reports, there are charges of a major cover-up. at miles an hour mont elementary school in south l.a., parents were incensed this was the first they heard of a year-long investigation into third grade teacher mark bern. the popular teacher has been charged with lewd acts against almost two dozen students. >> it's an outrage for something like this to go on in our schools undetected. >> berndt's alleged crime involved girls and boys between the ages of seven and ten and

happened in his classroom in this school that night might never have come to light if it were not for an employee at a photography shop. >> he showed -- children were blindfolded, scotch tape over their mouths. >> to an average person looking at the pictures, seeing the children smiling, they would have thought they were playing a game of hide and seek. but to a trained detective in child abuse cases, they felt a gut feeling there was more. >> when they searched berndt's classroom, investigators found dna evidence that linked him to a sexual crime against at least 23 children. school officials immediately removed him from the classroom back in march. he was put under surveillance to keep him from children as police built their case. >> you don't know what kind of diseases this man has, you don't know any history about this man. taking our innocent babies and tainting them. >> berndt is to be arraigned today. if convicted, he faces life in prison. for "cbs this morning," bill

whittaker in los angeles. john miller joins us. he's a former lapd official among his wide and varied experiences. why did this take so long? >> you know, this is a most unusual case because the teacher who was doing this really disguised this whole activity as a game. if you look at the 400 pictures, 400, 35 millimeter pictures involved, it looks like everybody, including the kids are having a great time at it. i mean, they are tied to a chair, blindfolded with a cloth. there's scotch tape over their mouth. but because he constructed it as a game, you know, when they came home and their parents said what happened in school today, well we played a game. >> and i read, too, that the teacher was considered very popular as is often the case. he was often invited to the kids' parties. and so nobody was suspicious. but i'm thinking, if i was a parent at that school, i'd be really irritated to have been

kept in the dark for so long about something so disgusting and serious. is that common to do? >> from an investigative standpoint, if you are the sheriff, the parents weren't kept in the dark, because those children were all questioned. it's the rest of the parents who weren't involved in the case. remember, the teacher was suspended the day the sheriff got to the school and had no contact with children. they even had him under surveillance and the other parents are the parents of children who weren't involved. but they had to track down kids from other class years. >> there's also this california law that requires film processors. >> that's right. >> that's crucial here. >> that is the actual key here. this was not reported by a child or a parent. not reported by a teacher. it was a film developer at the local cvs drugstore, california is one of 11 states that has that law. if you see potential child abuse, you're required to report it. i don't know if that kid knew about that law. what he saw concerned him and he called the sheriff. >> thank goodness for him.

i say special mommy hug to that guy. police officials said it looked like they were playing a game. but there was something on the film that made him think, we better take this to a different level. how common does that happen, where somebody sees something and they report it? >> that's very interesting. i remember from my fbi experience. we got a lot of our alleged child pornography cases from film developers who gave us the heads-up or if you look at the fort dix terrorist plot, that came from a kid who worked in a drugstore, saw the training on film and called the fbi hats off to film processors. >> what's next in this case? >> next, you've got a judicial process. you've got a difficult process. if there's not a guilty plea, you're going to have witnesses who are now seven and eight and nine years old as the principal witnesses who could be on the stand. >> thank you, john. always good to see you. when we come back, the number one reason, not a top ten

list. the number one reason to stay with us. we're looking back at david letterman's remarkable 30 years on late night tv. dave doesn't want to talk approximate it. but everybody else does and wants to say congrats to you, david letterman. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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boulevard and one more on port smallwood road. there is your speeds on the beltway. 795 all clear. this is brought to you by disney on ice. coming february 8th through the 12th. back over to you. >> this morning we know more about a wild get away run that touched two counties in baltimore city where it ended in a police involved shooting yesterday morning, here is monique griego with the story. >> reporter: good morning, everyone, that that chase involves officers from two counties before it ipped ended here with the death of the suspect. police released his photo. police say it started after a cop tried to pull him over. he crashed near i-95 and then started to night the officer and somehow he managed to steal the police car. after another pursuit three

officers shot their weapons and the suspect was killed in a shopping center parking lot. back to you. >> thank you. also new details this morning in the quad run el fatal crash in anne arundel county. texas cooling reports show the teenaged driver, britney walker and the driver of the car she hit were both under the influence of control. the accident happened while walker was driving the wrong way down route 52. two passengers in her car also died. a local man is facing the possibility of life behind bars after being convicted of murdering his girlfriend. a jury finds tyron webs guilty in the death of myra nickles. he faces live without the possibility of parole. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station, up next celebrating 30 years, a look at david letterman's reign over late night ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

happy 30th dave. wow, what a successful career you've had. i'm proud of you. i'm happy for you. but, dave, i'm so lonely. i don't have a show anymore. call me, please, dave. once in a while for god's sakes. don't leave me like this. but have a happy anniversary. >> awe regis. waiting by the phone. >> we think regis is okay, don't we? >> i think so. he's going to be as the kids a all right. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a new congressional report is out accusing tanning salons of lying to customers just to get their business. >> nancy cordes is on capitol hill this morning. what exactly is in this report? >> it's pretty eye opening. investigators found that often

tanning salons aren't just downplaying the risks but promoting benefits that don't exist to a young clientele that might not know better. >> 28 million people use tanning beds every year and young women, age 16 to 29 are the backbone of the $2.6 billion industry. they're targeted with student specials, homecoming specials, even deals for the prom. but when congressional investigators contacted 300 tanning salons identifying themselves at fair-skinned teenage girls, they were routinely sold bad information about the risks involved. a full 90% of the salons told them indoor tanning posed no health dangers. 78% claimed that indoor tanning would actually improve health, preventing diseases ranging from arthritis to lupus. and 51% denied that it increased the risk of cancer. dermatologists say nothing could be more misleading. >> it is so false. we know that skin cancer,

especially melanoma, is on the rise, especially in women in their 20s, because they went to tanning salons during their teenage years. >> studies show the risk of melanoma goes up 75% when tanning bed use begins before the age of 30. four months ago, california became the first state to ban the use of indoor tanning devices for anyone under 18. 31 more states placed restrictions on teen tanning such as requiring parents to accompany their kids. now, some house democrats are urging the fda to consider reclassifying tanning beds as unsafe for minors. >> we've got to start regulating these industries that are trying to target, especially girls. to come in and get a tan in a tanning salon and not reveal the risks involved when young people use these tanning salons. >> that was congressman henry waxman of california who

commissioned this study. melanoma is the most common form of cancer among white women between the ages of 15 and 29 and the rate of melanoma in this anyone group has grown by 50% since the 1980s as tanning beds have proliferated. >> nancy, do you expect there will be congressional action? >> well, there's not that much that congress can do aside from urging the fda to reclassify tanning beds as harmful to regulate them more strictly and that's really what this investigation was all about was sending a message that often tanning salons aren't policing themselves and are giving bad information to teens, charlie. >> nancy, thanks. it is a very important day here at cbs. david letterman is marking a major tv milestone. 30 years as a late night host. >> that's a long time. we're told that any celebration will be low key. we look at howler man has done so well for so long. >> here's the one and only bill

murray everybody. >> when actor and funny man bill murray appeared on the late show with david letterman last night, it was a nod in history. >> i love this. can we do this? >> no, we can't. >> letterman's very first sketch, late night television as the talk show host took his initial steps on a 30-year journey. >> you had to think of what talk shows were like when letterman started in 1982. johnny carson was very funny. but the tonight show was something that your parents watched. younger people were not the audience. dave changed all that. >> we're going to pause here for station identification. >> changed it with an off the cuff dare to be different style. for more than a decade, letterman worked the 12:30 time slot at nbc. under study to his mentor, johnny carson, whose standard setting tonight show aired the 11:30. dave was the heir apparent, he was given the slot behind

johnny. when carson announced his retirement in 1992, nbc executives tapped jay leno as his successor. a crushing blow to letterman who sat down with cbs news back in 1994. i was used goods, i was damaged property. i was yesterday's real estate. i was last night's dinner. >> letterman's loss was cbs' gain. >> we hadn't had a late night for a long time. we were the orphans of late night. >> sir howard stringer was president of cbs at the time. it was his job to woo letterman to the network. >> i went through alan alda and mary tyler moore and all the great stars of cbs and i said, this is a classy place. you belong here. >> the pitch worked. helped out shirley but a $14 million contract. >> i would like to thank them for their generosity. >> letterman had his 11:30 time slot. cbs had its star. in august of 1993, david

letterman stepped on to the stage of the same ed sullivan theater and the late show was born. >> this is not cats. this is my tv show. >> i'm in the wrong theater. >> oh. the zany antics and shtick that defined letterman's comedy. >> and the number one other newt gingrich big idea. open marriages for people named newt. >> is that a roach? >> you're talking approximate my hair? >> what is that, a swim cap? what are you wearing? >> his interviews which turn into verbal sparring matches are just as memorable. >> we love you paris. >> love you too. >> somebody you met in prison? >> because david letterman approached the talk show format with such a reverence, that's

emboldened many of the guests to do things they wouldn't think of doing on television before. so many things over the years have happened on the show that are totally unpredictable. >> this is where he went. he's closing in on me. >> regis philbin is letterman's long time friend and at times a favorite punch line. >> you're a [ muted ]. >> he's the best guy. i knew them all. knew them well. the best late night host we ever had on television. >> letterman gained the respect of hollywood stars with a cantankerous, yet candid approach. >> how many times you been married? >> a couple. >> dry sense of humor. i think he's smart and funny. as a woman you feel appreciated by david letterman. >> he's terrific. love dave. always have. >> it's those endearing moments like the triumphant return to television after heart surgery. >> wait until you hear what

happened to me. >> it made a lasting impression on generations of viewers. at 64 at the late show host is just three years younger than carson was when he retired. >> who knows what can happen in late night. who knows what changes could make. but we thought we had a keeper. history has proved us right. he's a permanent player. he can stay as long as he wants to. >> for the moment, dave shows no sign that he's ready to walk away. for "cbs this morning," i'm seth doen in new york. you know, he's not only great revolutionary in terms of bringing new things to television, he's just a fantastic broadcaster as regis is. >> i love how julianna says smart and funny. you know what else, i think of bad as, everybody is trying to get an interview, including us. he says he says what he has to say on his so. >> it's a great show.

>> guess who is on tonight for the 30th anniversary? >> howard stern. he's been on more than anybody else. >> the king of all medium. >> must-see tv. congratulations, david letterman. channing tatum is one of the busiest actors around. but the star of the vow has been good morning. after early shower activity skies are starting to clear out. almost 53 degrees on tv hill. 11 above your normal daytime high, 17 warmer than yesterday. 65 is your high, today cloudy, breezy through the afternoon, another pleasant day, not as sunny as yesterday, but still, hey, february first, 65, any complaints james? known. plenty of clouds tonight ,,,,,,,

so we come down here at night and look at the lake? >> that's not exactly what we do. >> um, i'm not -- >> not that. we said that we would go in one april month every month and we haven't done april yet. we started in july. >> what are necessity going to do? in the new movie the vow, channing tatum plays a husband

struggling to win back his wife after she loses all memory of him in a car accident. >> lucky us, channing tatum is here in studio 57. >> lucky us is right. >> will you be removing your shirt during this interview? i'm asking for erica, not for me. >> i was too shy to ask. >> it was your job once, though, wasn't it? >> it was actually at 19 years old in a crazy part of my life, yes, for six months. >> think about your life. 19 years old. you were an exotic dancer. fast forward to 12 years later. you're opening five, six movies the beginning of the year. do you look back on those days and say how do you like me now? or do you say that was then, this is now? >> i think i probably do both to be fully honest. we went back to tampa. i made a film about it with steven soderbergh. you're walking the same street, i was living in government housing at the time. you're looking around and did this really happen? is this some weird sort of trip

that i'm on? it is. it is a really strange road that i've sort of gotten here on. it's been fun. >> so when did you decide, you know, i would really like to be an actor? when did that happen to you? >> it fell in my lap. i moved to miami by myself to get out of tampa. i thought it was more metropolis and i could get a better job and work my way up. i didn't have a college degree or anything. and then someone just actually saw me on the street. this guy said do you have representation? i was like, for what? i was like, i don't know what you mean. that got me interested. i walked in and then i -- all around the world modeling. did that for two and a half years and got a pepsi commercial. really just fell in love with acting. >> the vow, i read that you wanted to work with rachel mcadams and learn from her. >> yeah. >> what did you want to learn? >> she has this enigma. she has a light that you don't understand where it comes from. i wanted to get around that -- i've watched her for so long.

then to get to work with her, i think i have this thing in the way that i sort of approach my characters. i try to do it honestly. i don't know if i would say that. it doesn't feel honest. she has the opposite. she puts herself into these characters, even the things that don't feel natural. she'll find a way to wiggle into them. i admire that hugely. >> you know what's so great about the movie. i watch it with a group of people, male and female. you may call it cheesy but it's likeable and not filled with a lot of cliche. as you're watching it, you think it's going to end one way and maybe it doesn't go the way you planned it. when you looked at the script, you said i could do this. i know what i want to do with this guy. >> absolutely. i'm married myself. >> you're married? >> you're breaking hearts. >> jenna. >> how long have you been married? >> two and a half years and together for about seven. >> nice.

okayment. >> the first pages gets into the relationship so beautifully with all the tiny little moments in their life that i could harken back on my own relationship and imagine if i lost those moments. and they're gone but not to me. to her. i don't know. so sort of shock and i don't know. i really wanted to explore what that would be like. how they get back to it is a really interesting journey. it's not very fairytalesque. i can safely say that. >> what is it like for your wife jenna when you go on screen? i'm not kidding. several women were drooling. i was taking notes because i knew i was interviewing you. several women were drooling. calm down, erica. >> come on gayle. >> i mean the women. it's no question that women see you, you're a very good looking guy. people like watching you on the screen. how does your wife deal with that. >> she's beautiful herself. she doesn't think about it. i think she's pretty secure like knowing what she's got to offer. >> do you ever talk approximate

it? >> how about beautiful she is? >> every single day. every single turn. i say look how beautiful you are. >> nicely done. >> you have a dog. this is the thing, erica. you got to love a guy that loves his wife and his dog lieu lieu. >> i got a fluffy one as well. mica. will y lu lu is my soul dog. we have a connection. >> very nice, channing tatum. the movie is "the vow." >> the vow hit theaters next friday, february 10th. >> not named for someone else. just in case you're wondering. i was. why is florida so important in presidential politic. author carl hiaasen says it's a one of a kind place. he gives us a special look at his home state coming up. you're watching "cbs this morning." ,,,,

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♪ a florida primary is over. but this very important swing state will get lots of attention during the rest of the campaign. national correspondent chip reid talked to one observer who says expect a bumpy ride ahead. >> if the state of florida decided to elect a writer in chief, carl hiaasen might be the only name on the ballot. >> it's not south carolina. it's not ohio. it's not new hampshire. it's more like the rest of the country except of course more twisted and bizarre. >> this comes out in their books. florida is a strange, twisted, bizarre place. why is that? >> you have a mix like i don't think any other and it's just a weird collision of cultures. the result is wonderful if you're a novel he's or a journal i. the material is so rich. if you're a normal human being trying to get by.

some days are pretty hairy. >> hiaasen is at work an his 24th book. for 27 years he's had a column in the miami herald. most of his writing skewers the state where he was born, so loves and about which he is deeply concerned. >> how would you sum up the political landscape in florida right now? >> well, i mean, i think there's a certain amount of chaos and that doesn't necessarily mean that it's unhealthy chaos. i just think you've got so many constituencie constituencies, there's going to be a different pitch in the panhandle. it really is much more like southern alabama, southern georgia. miami and the keys is a whole different thing. immigration is going to be much more contentious issue in miami than it is up in gadsden county. you can't make the same speech there as you make in dade county. can't do it. >> are you suggesting that politicians have to speak out of both sides of their mouths? >> i'm suggesting they're going to need more than two sides of their mouth if to win florida.

talking like charlie mccarthy on acid. >> does it concern you that florida is playing this out-sized role in determining who the republican nominee is and in the fall, determining who the president is when so much of the economic hardships started here in florida? >> it's ironic and terrifying at the same time. we have ghost towns of subdivisions in this state now that were built for people who maybe six, seven, eight years before those are occupied. the state of exploitation, of resources from the very beginning. not democratic, not republican. >> hiaasen still loves florida and has no plans to move anywhere else. for a writer would likes to lampoon everybody from politicians to developers, he says there's too much good material to leave. for "cbs this morning," chip reid, hair he will beach, florida. >> another great journalist who became a great novelist and

writer. >> he's written over 20-plus books. i heard florida loves him. i had a new york moment yesterday. walking down the street there was a crowd gathering. i'm a nosy rosie. i said what's everybody looking at. i pulled up my phone and took a picture of this. this on the street. a regal looking. >> very regal and polite and well-groomed. this reminded me of you. his name is charlie. >> the name reminded you. nothing else in. >> polite, well-groomed and scary smart. >> oh, no. scary smart. >> thank you, my dear. >> that's to you, charlie rose. there was a dentist along the street. i i said, hey, doctor, can i take a picture of you and your dog. >> i went to see the peacocks at the zoo with my kids. up next, your local news. see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning."

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five minutes before 9:00, it remains a mild cloudy morning, marty is in the first warning weather center. >> those clouds are breaking up, cloudy before not too long. let's take a look at the forecast for the day. mid-50s now. going to go for a high of 65 degrees today. that would be -- that would be 23 above normal. 40 tonight. that is 15 above normal. rain around even into the morning hours, but may be damp. then slow clearing, cooler, 54 still 12 above normal. roll out that 5 day which now goes to monday and we see nothing foul moving our way. don take it away. >> in just a few hours the governor will give his state of the state address and is expected to touch on several issues including increasing the taxes on gas line, same sex marriage and job kraig in this state. the speech is scheduled to begin at noon. we are learning more about one man's run from police yesterday that touched on two

counties and led to a police involved shooting in southwest baltimore city. monique griego stays on the story. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. that chase involves officers from two counties before it came to a deadly end here in baltimore city. police shot and killed the suspect after they say he stole the cruiser and threat ebbed an officer. city police have released the photo of 26-year-old mon pete chona, it started after a cop tried to pull him over. he fled and crashed and started to fight the officer and somehow managed to steal the police car. after another pursuit three officers shot their weapons and the suspect was killed in a shopping center parking lot. back to you. >> thank you very much. the case of a man accused of murdering a correctional officer could go into the hands of a jury later today. closing arguments begin in the trial of lee stevens, he and another prisoner both charged with stabbing david mcquinn in jessup in 2006, stevens is

eligible for the death penalty if convicted. prince george's county police make and arrest in the murder of a community activist. detectives say lynnwood johnson has confessed to killing lenny harris, police say they knew each other and the rob wear robbery was motive. his body was found in a well. he had been shot in the head. they will discuss the direction the team will be taking. one of the hot topics will be a contract extension for joe flak corks flacco, coming off that performance where he outplayed tom brady. we all know how that ended though. stay with wjz 13, maryland's complete news station, as ,,,,

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