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th> good morning, everybody, and good morning, everybody, and thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. it is primary day in arizona and michigan, high stakes for both mitt romney and rick santorum. a santorum victory in romney's native michigan could yield a staggering blow to romney's campaign. michigan is the first big industrial state to hold a primary. a research poll shows the race neck and neck in a state that was once considered an easy win for romney. susan mcginnis is in detroit with the latest on this. good morning, susan. >> reporter: hi. good morning, betty. mitt romney needs to win in michigan to avoid an embarrassing defeat in his home state. the polls open in three hours and rick santorum and mitt romney have made their final pitches to voters and taken their final jabs at each other. mitt romney brought out a hometown superstar as he made his final pitch for votes in royal oak, michigan, monday night. kid rock sang the song romney's

been using on the campaign trail, and hours before the polls opened romney sounded confident. >> i'm going to win in michigan, and i'm going to win across the country. >> reporter: but he's in a virtual tie with rick santorum in michigan, the state where romney grew up. the two traded jabs monday. >> i think to create jobs it help a guy as president who's had a job, and i have. >> reporter: santorum says romney can't defeat the president. >> governor romney uniquely disqualifies himself in this biggest nish this general election, the ability go after barack obama on the government takeover of health care. >> reporter: rick santorum's campaign is using automated messages or robocalls to get so-called reagan democrats to show up. >> on tuesday, join democrats who are going to send a loud message to massachusetts mitt romney by voting for rick santorum for president. >> reporter: romney says the

robocalls are a dirty trick. ron paul also campaigned across michigan yesterday. the state awards its 30 delegates proportionately, so he's trying to secure some of them. but arizona is winner take all. romney leads in the poll there, and a double win could give him much needed momentum. now, because michigan awards these delegates proportionally, rick santorum and mitt romney could really walk away from here with about the same number of delegates in the polls are correct. but, betty, again, whoever wins this state is going to have an important psychological advantage. next week ten states hold primaries or caucuses including ohio. a quinnipiac poll released yesterday shows rick santorum with a lead but the poll also shows 45% of voters haven't settled on a candidate. it is reported that israel

will not warn the united states if it decides to launch a strike against iran's facilities. the u.s. has been trying to persuade israelis not to launch an attack. an american intelligence official tells the u.s. that the israelis want to try to limit the backlash against the u.s. now to syria where this morning activists say syrian troops are attacking the city of homs with the heaviest bombardment in the three-week-old siege. anti-government officials say 64 people were killed yesterday in the city, gunned down at a security check point. meanwhile a polish embassy in damascus is trying to have the body of marie colvin shipped home. she was killed in homs last week. in afghanistan the search continues for the afghan policeman suspected of killing two american officers. the two were killed at their desks last saturday in the afghan interior ministry.

they were killed in apparent payback for the burning of is m islamic holy books at a u.s. base. the one soldier's children say he was a good man. >> he'd say take care of mommy, take care of my sweetheart if anything happens to me. so that's what we're going to do. >> more than 30 people were killed in the violent protest that followed the koran burning. the family of the teenager who opened fire at a high school yesterday are devastated and are trying to understand what happened. one student was killed, four others wounded, two are listed in critical conditions. classes at chardon high school 30 miles east of cleveland are canceled today. we have more. >> reporter: hundreds of students and residents of chardon, ohio, gathered in the town square nr a candlelight vigil for the victims of monday's shooting. >> this day is a day of heart

breaks. >> reporter: it was 7:30 in the morning. nate mueller was sitting with friends at a cafeteria table at the chardon high school. that's when the teenaged gunman approached. >> he pulled one shot that all made us look and then i watched him fire another. >> reporter: he said the gun marngs t.j. lane, never said a word. >> he was dead silent the entire time. didn't say anything before or during. >> reporter: when it was over, five students were shot. mueller himself was grazed by a bullet that nicked his ear. >> it's unimaginable. you don't think of it happening to you. >> reporter: he was arrested about a half mile from school in his car. authorities say he was carrying a .22 caliber semiautomatic pistol and ammunition. >> he actually turned himself in to a couple of innocent bystanders north of the city here in chardon township. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news lane told authorities he was being bullied by some of those shot, and the shooting was in retaliation. school officials say they want

to give students, faculty, and parents time to process what happened. >> i hope every parent, if you haven't hugged or kissed your kid in the last couple of days take your time. >> reporter: authorities say lane is cooperating. cbs news, chardon, ohio. in other news, the trial resumes today for a former rutgers university student charged with a hate crime that may have led to his roommate's suicide. dharun ravi paces the possibility of ten years in prison. a key prosecution within molly wei testified yesterday. wei was arrested with ravi for spying on tyler clementi. she says she saw him activating the camera. >> we were both kind of shocked like i can't believe i saw what he did. initially we were saying we couldn't tell anyone what just happened.

>> wei says they didn't intend to intimidate or humiliate him. clementi committed suicide days later. a 10-year-old joanna ramos had fought with nool girl near their school in long beach. they tried to save ramos's life on friday. they say she died of a rare blood clot on her wran. police are investigating and have made no arrests. >> coming up on the morning news, an emergency landing at one of nation's busiest airports. plus he won on as car for playing a greedy stockbroker. now michael douglas is saying greed is bad. this is the "cbs morning news." stockbroker. now michael douglas is saying greed is bad. this is the "cbs morning news."

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protests in new york. but there was trouble yesterday in sacramento, california. occupy protesters clashed with another group protesting violence in south africa. police moved in and two officers were injured. three members of the occupy group were arrested. a jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing at newark, new jersey, airport. the plane wound up on the runway with its tail in the air. there were 71 people aboard last night's flight from atlanta. no one was hurt. federal safety officials will open an investigation today. on the "cbs moneywatch," the nation's biggest bank is accused of discrimination. and the man who played gordon gekko says greed is bad. ashley morrison is here in new york with more on that. good morning, ashley. good morning. tokyo's nikkei gained 1%. while hong kong's hang seng rose more than 1.5%. on wall street investors will get home prices. the dow lost a point, while the nasdaq gained 2.

an attempt by some airlines to raise prices isn't getting off the ground. big carriers like united and continental are rolling back some of their $10 fare increases they made last week. they made that decision after carriers like southwest would not match the increase. the federal government is accusing bank of america of discriminating against disabled borrowers. the department of housing and urban development says b of a posed some unnecessary and burdensome requirements on loan seekers who are relying on disability income. bank of america said it did not engage in a systemic practice of discrimination. and michael douglas is helping the fbi fight insider trading. he's appearing in a public service announcement. he won on oscar playing gordon gekko in the movie "wall street." his character's signature line is "greed is good." greed is not good but i liked

him in that role. >> greed is bad, ashley. greed is bad. thank you. >> joining us live here in new york. a fiery crash lights up the night at the trouble-plagued daytona 500. night at the troubled daytona 500. -my toes know. -my shoulders know. [ female announcer ] do you know what a difference dove nourishment can make? my hips, they know. my shins, they get it. [ female announcer ] only dove body wash has nutrium moisture and a breakthrough formula that goes beyond moisture to nourish deep down like no other. [ female announcer ] dove body wash. proven effective natural nourishment. ♪ the nourishment of nutrium moisture is also available in all your favourite dove body wash products.

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42, dallas, sunny, 70, and l.a., sun in and 60 degrees. time now for a check of the national forecast. wind-driven snow will spread from the dakotas in the upper midwest. up to a foot will fall in parts of the dakotas and parts of wisconsin. you can look for thunderstorms from the central plains to lower ohio valley, and from texas and oklahoma into the lower mississippi valley. rain and mountain snow will fall from the northwest, and northern california into the rockies. in sports, they saw fire, and they saw rain, but the skies finally cleared last night. it was off to the races at the daytona 500. in just the second lap, though, a crash took out half a dozen cars. look at that. including danica patrick. she returned to the race, finished 38. with 40 laps to go, something broke on juan pablo montoya's car during a caution. it hit a track-drying truck carrying 2,000 gallons of jet fuel that erupted into flames. montoya and the truck driver

were okay, but the fire shut down the race for nearly two hours. it was nearly 2 a.m. when matt kenseth final took the flag. congratulations. >> now to college basketball. 20th ranked noter dame took on georgetown. a neat give and go dunk in the first half. whittington was three for three and georgetown won it, 59-41. in nhl, action, los angeles at nashville. in the second period, patric hornqvist put the predators up 2-0 with a shot off the rebound and nashville goalie pekka rinne made 30 saves. as the predators beat the kings 2-1. when we return, leadership meltdown. a dramatic look at early missteps by japanese officials in last year's nuclear plant crisis. brian hayes. i'm a master roaster at starbucks coffee. sitting right here we have 40 years of roast experience.

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washington, d.c., sunny, 51, atlanta, mostly cloudy, 70. detroit, sun and clouds, 37. clouds in denver, 41. seattle, 47. here's another look at this morning's top stories. there are primaries today in arizona and michigan. mitt romney is expected to be the winner in arizona. but it is a neck-and-neck race between romney and rick santorum in michigan. a vigil was held last night for the victims of a shooting at an ohio high school. one student was killed, four others wounded when a teenaged gunman walked into the cafeteria and opened fire yesterday morning. >> in health news a warning on the risk of taking sleeping pills. a new study found that people who took prescription sleeping pills were for four times more likely to die than twhoes did not.

they noted an elevated risk of some types of cancers. another study found a link between drinking diet soda and heart disease. the study involved more than 2,500 people age 40 and over. it found that those who drank diet soda daily had an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and death. researchers say more study is needed to determine why this is so. a new report on last year's tsunami disaster at japan's fukushima nuclear power plant says that as bad as it was, it could have been worse. at one point officials even considered evacuating tokyo, a metropolitan area with 35 million people. >> reporter: in the hours after the tsunami struck the plant, japan's officials felt helpless and in disarray. fukuyama was the adviser. we managed on an emergency mission basis.

huddled in an emergency bunker, japanese officials struggled to grasp the size of the catastrophe. as we listened to our top nuclear experts we politicians had no idea what they were talking about. would this be another chernobyl or three mile island? no one could give us a straight answer. after 300 interviews the report pointed the finger at the plant's operator, tokyo electric. he was the lead investigator. >> no question that tepco, the power company, was primary to blame. they were unprepared for this complicated nuclear accident. >> reporter: unprepared for a power failure, and without electricity, the cores of the reactor couldn't stay cool, triggering explosions and meltdowns. the report also blames the government's own regulators for failing to have an emergency

plan if a magnitude 9 earthquake struck. with the sketchy reports the government began to fear the worst, a massive cloud of radiation would cover entire tokyo region and force the evacuation of 35 million people. >> and they believed that we are very much close to this worst-case scenario. >> reporter: in desperation the government discussed sending in what they call a suicide squad, men over 65 years old, to assess the damaged plant. fukuyama said he'd lead the team. terrified doesn't begin to describe how we felt, he said. months later when we learned the reactors had melted down, i was overwhelmed by our inability. a no-go zone remains in place around the area. the radiation is still too high for residents to return, and clean-up of the plant is forecast to take 40 years. lucy craft, cbs news, tokyo. a cruise ship stranded in a pirate-infested region off the indian ocean is being pulled to

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