it is tuesday, february 28, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. voters head to the polls in michigan and arizona today in what could be a disease in day in the republican race, and we'll talk with leading gop congressman paul ryan. i'm gayle king. there are new details about the suspect and the possible motive in the deadly shooting in ohio. we'll take you to that school and hear what the families are saying. and when i see you at 8:00, captain sully sullenberger with changes on pilots and air safety. why is he joining up with

the fbi to say greed is bad? and you'll meet matt kenseth, winner of the wildest daytona 500 in decades. but first as we do every morning we begin with look at today's eye opener. your world in 950 seconds. rick santorum is a nice guy, but he's never had a job in the private sector. >> mitt romney looks for a home state boost. >> from detroit, kid rock. as voters go to the polls in michigan and arizona -- >> there's santorum talking about social issues again. no, i'm talking about freedom. >> how is it that mitt romney hasn't crushed this guy already? this day is day of heartbreak. a community in ohio in mourning after a student opens fire. >> one student dead, murdered, four others wounded. >> it was chaos. one hit my friend. >> the lead shooter is in

custody. the motive, revenge. >> if you haven't hugged or kissed your kid in the last couple of days, take that time. a plane made an emergency landing at newark airport because of a nose gear problem. i would like to declare an emergency at this time. israel says it will not warn the u.s. if it attacks iran's facilities. it lost power after a fire. rain and then fire delayed the daytona 500. it just exploded. all that and all that matters -- >> where do i find this holy twitter feed? pope benedict will tweet some of his themes to you this season at popetoyouvatican. >> he can't get a straight-up handle? that is weak, twitter. that is tweak. captioning funded by cbs

welcome to "cbs this morning." it is primary day in michigan and arizona. mitt romney is expected to win in arizona, but it is too close to call in michigan, the state where he grew up. >> rick santorum is counting on working-class voters from both parties to put him over the top. national correspondent chip reid is at a polling place in bloomfield hills this morning just outside detroit. good morning. >> reporter: good morning erica and charlie. this is not just any polling place. this is where mitt romney grew up. that's part of his burden here. he was born here, grew up here, and his father was governor. if he gets anything short of a big victory, his opponents are going to characterize it as a defeat. mitt romney and kid rock might not look like natural allies, but rock's hit song "born free" has become the romney's campaign theme song and last night in royal oak, michigan, rock gave

his politician friend a political boost just when he really needed one. at a rally earlier in the day, romney sure sounded confident about michigan. >> well, this sure has been fun these last ten days or so. we started off about what, 15 points down in the polls. now we're leading in the polls. >> reporter: but, in fact, the race shows the poll here is next and neck. some say it could be a nail-biter all the way to the republican convention in august. rick santorum might not even need a win to declare victory. >> if we run well and, you know, finish both of these races where it looks like it's a two-person race, think that's going to be good things -- going to mean good things going into super tuesday. >> reporter: santorum has been criticized for putting too much focused religious and social issues but he's not going to back off. >> i'm talking about freedom. >> reporter: newt gingrich campaigning in tennessee ahead of tuesday's primaries was

looking to foreign policy and a surprising take on afghanistan to distinguish himself from the crowd. >> we're not going to fix afghanistan. it's not possible. there are some problems where what you have to do is say, you know, you've got to figure out how to live your own miserable life. >> reporter: one thing to watch here in michigan is that the democratic party is encouraging democratic voters to vote for rick santorum to try to deprive mitt romney of a clear victory. charlie and erica, back to you. >> thank you. we go to paul ryan, congressman ryan, good morning. >> good morning charlie and erica. how are you this morning? >> do you have a prediction for michigan? >> no, i don't. lielt you do that. >> let's go to the question of what is being debated there. it seems more about social issues and that eek noij issues. is that troubling for you in the republican party? >> no, it's not troubling to me.

i think they're trying to move it in that direction. i think what the candidates are mostly talking about are the fiscal issues, the economic issues and the choice of the future that the country's going to have to make in the fall, and when it comes down to it, we're going to be really talking about the economic issues which are the driving minds in the eyes of the american people. there are issues that arise that must be discussed like the president's new mandate that affects catholic churches and catholic hospitals and things like that, but by and large, this is going to be about economic issues, think. >> and the bailout, should that be an issue and should the voters look at governor romney and governor santorum and say we had an economic bailout of the auto companies and look what happened? profits are up and they're both doing well. >> well, if you give any company tens of billions of dollars and wipe their debt off the books, i expect they're going to go well.

i don't expect there's a difference on the issue. i think it's a big issue in michigan. i don't think it's a big issue in the rest of the country. look. in my hometown of jamesville and kenosha that i represent, we lost our auto plants. we doenld see them as great success stories because we had plant shutdowns irrespective of the bailouts. >> when you look at the plans, is there one that sticks tout you as the best economic plan nr this country? >> well, you know, look. i think romney came out with a great tax plan just the other day at ford field on friday. i think that was an excellent plan. both hadbeen talk about fundamental debt reform, and it's necessary to keep promises to seniors. are they doing the right thing to get the economy going and get the debt crisis averted. they're now advancing really good pro-growth economic

policies, so as far as i'm concerned, no matter who emerges from this primary season, which might take a while, we're going to have a sharp contrast about what it takes to get this country growing and about reclaiming american exemptionalism with the president and i'm comfortable with where the campaigns are headed. >> to sum up, either campaign would avoid what you see as a possibility of a european-style debt crisis and potential austerity measures. >> yes. i know these gentlemen well. i've talked with them at great length about these issues and i do believe either one of them is very well poised to provide the leadership that has been lacking for the last three and a half years to tackle the debt crisis, and i do think they're really o ready to do that. >> do you see it improving and it's good news for obama? >> it's good news for americans. what we're also seeing is people are leaving the work force. we still have 20 million people

out of work, we still have huge challenges ahead, charlie. we have a massive debt that will surely doom our economy in the near future if we don't get it under control. so i don't thifrg we should be taking a big pause when there's so much work yet do. but it's always good when you can see some signs of economic vitality. it tells me there's a great resi resiliency and small businesses if we just got government out of the way. >> there's a growing sentiment that things are going from bad to worse in afghanistan. do you sense among republicans and your fellow congresspeople, both democratic and republican, more talk about we have got to get out of their faster than we expected? not -- i was there in december. i met with the commanding generals and looked at what was going on on the dwroumd, and there's a concern that propping up this central government isn't going to work but that there are things we can do with special forces that have been really successful. so the question is can we make

sure that afghanistan never becomes a safe haven for terrorists in the future, and think with a very limited footprint we can do that. the question is can we keep this huge troop and money investment to try to make this government succeed. that's where there's a big debate about it. i do believe we can have, with the limited commitment of american people and resources, the ability to prevent it from becoming a safe haven. the question goes over to pakistan, which is another conversation. that's where the big debate occurs. there is a big debate about whether full success is seen as this government succeeding or that the place is pacified and it's not becoming a safe haven for the taliban and al qaeda and i think that's an objective we clearly can and must achieve. >> congressman ryan, thank you for joining us. this morning a second student has died from monday's shooting in chardon, ohio, outside of cleveland. all schools are closed.

the 17-year-old could face charged today. michelle miller is there for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. the county medical examiner just confirmed the second death. the victim is identified as 17-year-old russell king jr. he was life flighted from chardon to a cleveland hospital where he was pronounced brain dead. in the meantime, the community, the state capitol, flags are flying at half-staff in honor of the fallen. hundreds of students gathered in chardon, ohio, last night to honor victims of monday's shooting. at a nearby church, friends and family tried to comfort the devastated father and brother of 16-year-old daniel. he was killed in the attack. >> he was a lot of fun to be around. it's just sad to see him go. it -- he seems so innocent in all of this.

it's really a shame. >> we have an active shooter at the high school. >> reporter: the day was just getting started at the high school when 17-year-old t.j. lane allegedly pulled out a .22-caliber handgun. without saying a word he opened fire in the cafeteria. >> i saw a kid holding a gun, pointing it at a group of kids, and getting ready to press the trigger. >> reporter: this freshman was stamgd just ten feet away. >> i looked up and he shot two more. it hit a group, a kid, and he fell, and another kid was hiding under the table for cover. >> we didn't know what to do. everybody was just holding each other and crying. >> reporter: a heroic football coach managed to chase the suspect down. another teacher pulled a wounded student to safety. cbs learns that lane was a victim of bullying, warned his friends about his plans two days in advance. >> you'd never think of him doing this. he's so shy and quiet. he's one of those people that's not talkative around other

people. >> reporter: but it appears lane had a troubled past. he was actually at chardon high monday morning waiting to be bussed to a nearby school for at-risk teens. investigators were at his grandmother's home looking for clues to a motive. the suspect is scheduled for an appearance in court later this afternoon. >> michelle, thanks. with us now, senior correspondent john miller, former assistant with the fbi. good morning, john. >> good morning. the secret service after columbine did an exhaustive study and what they found is the school shooters are all boys, 85% white, 12% black, the rest mixed. but you see across all socio and economic stratospheres really. >> and when you look at it, are there commonalities that you could see that might have been a warning? >> yeah.

in those cases you've got people with difficults coping with loss, bullied or picked on. most had access or used weapons before. the shocking stats were in 93% of these cases they told people this is what they were going to do. in only 4% of these cases across the shootings did people try to dissuade them and several people said threatening people with a gun isn't enough. you have to up the anteand actually shoot people. >> the lesson is listen to what people are saying. >> that's the lesson. even if you think they're talking, you have to report that to school administrators, parents, and police. >> have there been an increase in the numbers? >> there have been. i think there's been a decrease in the number of these things that were reported on and not acted on. when i was in the fbi, we would get an e-mail into the command

post late at night from somebody who saw something on facebook, trace it down to a given student and find weapons and plans and stop that. so after columbine, it did pick up. >> somewhat positive news. all right, john. thanks. >> we want to look at the growing tension between israel, iran, and the u state. on monday israel said they would not warn u.s. if they attack iran's facilities. >> senior white house bill pl t plante is with us. what is the white house saying about the reports from israel? >> reporter: they're not saying anything on the record about that. they're saying, look, even if the iranians did get an attack from israel, they'd still blame the u.s. in any kay, whether it was the israelis who told the u.s. or not. the israelis may not have been quite so definite about this according to the officials i spoke to, but nobody denies that

the mood leading up to netanyahu's visit next week is very tense. and they continue to argue that a strike against iran's military weapons would not be effective in slowing the development of their nuclear program, that it would be a temporary setback at best. and the u.s. continues to say that all options remain on the table, and that, of course, is an direct way of saying they would. rule out any attacks? >> any idea on how much of a focus it will be at the meetings next week? >> reporter: it will be at the top of the agenda, erica. it will be right there when the prime minister comes to washington to meet with president obama. here's the thing. even if they disagree, the u.s. and israel will want to nan some type of united front in public. >> do you know what was said when he went to israel about this? >> reporter: he isn't saying and nobody here is saying. we do know the general idea is

the u.s. has urged israe rraeli to make this potential -- this strike because they don't believe it would be effective. >> thank you so much. bill plante from the white house. a commuter jet was forced into an emergency landing at new jersey's newark liberty airport last night. the knows gear of united express jet failed and the plane skidded to a half. just moments before the pilot told air traffic controllers he had a serious problem. >> we're not going to know that it's completely dund locked, so i would like to declare an emergency at this time and request rescue check us out when we get there, assuming we stop on the runway. >> there were 71 people aboard on the flight from atlanta. no one was injured. passengers were, though, understandably frightened. >> i thought it was the end, i really did. i sent a text to my son just letting him know that i love him and hope everything works out, take care of everything.

it's unbelievable. unbelievable. >> federal aviation officials are investigating a mechanical failure. time to show you headlines toward globe. the new york times is reporting that cameras will be in vehicles by 2019. police tells the "los angeles times" a 10-year-old girl's death after a first fight is officially a homicide. witnesses say she fought with another girl over a boy. the police don't know yet if the girl will be charged. a second major recall of birth control pills in the past movement this time they've recalled them because of a packaging mistake. as the boston red sox begin training in florida, a setback back home. a fire cause $100,000 damages.

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under caution. juan pablo montoya has crashed and gone aflachlt holy cow. what happened? >> we just got a report that he was complaining about a bad vibration in every gear. >> no, larry. he slammed into the jet dryer. matt kenseth trying to win it for the second time. here comes junior on the outside. side by side with kenseth, he gets it. matt kenseth wins the daytona 500. chances are last night's race could have been the craziest nascar race ever.

after a one-day delay, then another two-hour delay, one of the drivers was even tweeting during the race. >> we'll have the highlights and talk with winner matt ken sechlkt you're watching "cbs nice day, looks like they are doing dredging in the inner harbor. 38 degrees on tv hill. 51 the high. a very pleasant seasonal tuesday. over to sharon gibala, traffic control, good morning. not a bad drive this morning. we haven't had too many accidents. a disabled vehicle could get in your way if you are headed 95 southbound, at the toll plaza, blocking lane 17, southbound direction. watch for delays on 70 eastbound, slow between 32 and the park and ride. average speed of 40 miles per

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sent customers to the county. council will have the final say on that increase. thank you very much. bodies of two u.s. ser mismen killed in afghanistan including a national guard major from here are back on u.s. soil this morning. major robert, and another u.s. officer arrived at dover air force base yesterday. gunned down what was supposed to be a secure building. it will ban says the killings were an act of retaliation for the burning of old korans at a u.s. air force base last monday. the man accused of breaking in to a home in towson and shooting owner is held without bail. police say 49-year-old bradford, broke in to a home on allegheny sunday and shot the homeowner when he came home and discovered him there. the homeowner is expected to recover from wounds. up next , the latest on a cruise ship carrying over a thousand people left to drift without power in the pirate

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gop presidential candidate , mitt romney's big speech in detroit was dwarfed and ka cast at ford field. the 65,000 empty stadium seat, well, kind of hard not to notice those. >> yeah. mine there were a lot of empty seats, but the important thing is mitt really connected with those empty seats by also being plastic and uncomfortable. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> this morning michael douglas said he was wrong. greed is not good. gordon gekko was wrong. he's telling that on wall street

to anyone willing to listen. betty nguyen tells us how he's switching roles. >> greed for lack of a better word is good. >> reporter: in the 1980s michael douglas was the fictional face of "wall street excess." >> i played gordon gekko. >> reporter: now the actors who gluttonous portrayal of gordon gekko took home the oscar in 1987 is trying out the new role, fbi informant. >> the movie was fix, but the problem is real. our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. >> reporter: yesterday the fbi announced douglas will become the newest face of their campaign "perfect hedge" which has success employ caught 57 and is targeting 21 more suspects.

>> if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. >> reporter: douglas who said he was startled by the positive response he received will now urge traders and managers on and off the street to report fraud to the fbi. >> for more information on how cow can help identify securities fraud, contact your local fbi office. >> reporter: "cbs this morning," betty nguyen, new york. >> do you think that will work? >> i don't know. we'll wait and see. a cruise ship crippled in pirate-infested waters could arrive on thursday. >> it's now being towed to the -- charlie is in london. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we spoke with the seychelles office who confirmed they're towing the ship to the main island which could take another day, which is thursday.

transport minister is coordinating the rescue with a representative from the cruise line. >> reporter: the view from an indian reconnaissance plane show passengers and crew gathered on deck of the crippled krusz liner as it drifts on the ocean. it's in a region prone to attacks by somali pirates. international forces have been battling pirates in the area since its spike in attacks two years ago and an armed anti-pirate unit is providing some protection until a military escort can get it back to safety. it's been stranded at sea since a fire broke out in the engine room yesterday afternoon. eight americans are among the 680 passengers and 132 crew members on board. there's emergency lighting but no air conditioning or cooking facilities. the stifling heat has forced passengers to sleep on deck. authorities from the seychelles are coordinating the rescue with

cruise officials. >> as far as we're aware, the rescue is very calm, the captain is control of the boat, there's no security issue. >> reporter: the fire is the latest episode in what's already been a disastrous year for cruises and its parent company carnival. they're still pulling bodies out of the waters after it capsized. two americans are still unaccounted for. just last weekend, armed bandits robbed passengers from the carnival splendour who had docked in mexico during a one-day tour. >> he had his dwun brandished here and brought it down and he pulled up his shift to show the knife. >> coincidentally that very cruise ship had a fire back in 2010 if you remember. it was stranded for three days without power, 45 people on board until it was towed back to

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star witness returns to the stand in the trial of a former rutgers students accuse of spying on his roommate who later committed suicide. on monday as ht 48 hours" erin moriarity reports, the witness testified how they recorded a man. >> he opened up the box, clicked the video button. after that popped up an image of tyler and his guest and they were kissing. >> reporter: with tyler clementi's family in the courtroom, prosecutors zeroed in

on the only other friend that night. dharun's friend molly wei. >> were you able to recognize that it was dharun's room? >> vaguely. it was dark, but i just new. >> reporter: ravi who was asked to leave clementi alone used wei's computer to access the webcam rew? how long was this video open on your computer for? >> very, very brief, like two seconds or less. >> what was the defendant's reaction? how was he acting? >> shocked and kind of surprised at what he saw, freaking out a little. and initially we were saying how we couldn't tell anyone what just happened. >> reporter: despite their initial decision to keep quiet, word spread, first amongst friends in the dorm. and later on ravi's twitser account. he later made a second attempt to spy on his roommate and one

day later clementi committed sue sight. ravi is charged with 15 counts including invasion of privacy, hindering apprehension, and bias intimidation as a hate crime. if found guilty of the last charge, he falgss up to ten years in prison. defense attorney steven altman questioned the most serious charges with wei on the stand. they were foolish teenagers, he said, playing a college prank, not targeting clementi for his sexual orientation. >> he never told you that he wanted to put tyler in fear, did he? >> no. >> you never had discussions with dharun what you could do and what he was going to do about intimidating tyler? >> no. >> reporter: wei testified monday that ravi knew clementi was gay but didn't make a big deal about, testimony that legal expert trent copeland says may have damaged the prosecution's case.

>> the prosecution's facing a real challenge now. remember, their chief star witness was unable to give them exactly what they needed, and that was that this was a crime motivated by an an imus, a hostel toward guys. erin moriarity is in studio. molly wei testified yesterday. what about her? she did some sort of a deal? >> she was originally charged with invasion of privacy but she didn't set up the camera, so the authorities allowed her to be in a pretrial intervention program, do community service and then, of course, testify if she's going to cooperate with authorities. what's interesting about this is defense would say she had no credibility, she made a plea deal but her testimony was both positive and negative and they may say, yeah, you can believe her. >> more positive for the defense? >> it was. when you look at it, it was positive for the defense.

if you're going to charge someone with an invasion of privacy, you have to know. the testimony was he was shocked. he set up the computer initially because he was worried about his stuff, a stranger was coming in the room. here's where it's a negative. there were two attempts. the first one he may have been shocked but there's evidence that dharun ravi set up the camera a second time, even if it was never viewed or anything, and he klkts act like he was shocked then. he knew what happened the first time. so it's both positive and negative. >> a lot to look at and probably another three or four weeks of this

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controversial new study might keep you up at night. it suggests taking ambien, lunesta or other sleep aids may actually increase your risk of death. >> the study also found these people taking these pills may increase your likelihood of cancer. dr. carl bazil, good morning. >> good morning. >> if this is true, it's very alarming. a risk of cancer taking things that lots of people have considered safe. >> yeah. i think it's a very eye-opening study, but we don't really know what's going on. i think that there's no question that sleeping pills are overprescribed. i think that's one thing that will come out of this. but why the association is there, we don't know. >> and do we know from the study whether or not there's actually a direct correlation or a cause,

that it's the pills causing the increase in risk or is it not clear? >> really it shows if you get a prescription for sleeping pills for whatever reason, you have an increased risk of death. what we don't know is it because you have insomnia and that has an increased risk of death? do you have other sleeping problems? maybe you're getting m misdiagnosed? it is frightening. >> it is. they compare it to the risk of smoking. >> well, thing that's a little bit over the top. >> that they're being over the top. >> yeah. we don't know that there's a direct association yet. it's not necessarily the pill that's causing the problem. i think there is an association that they saw with higher doses and you can certainly see that. if you're overusing sleeping pills, you're going to be drouzy, driving with it, you're going to have accidents. that's clearly a problem that needs to be dealt with. >> when you're a doctor looking at a sleeping disorder, when you

see a study like this, what do you do? do y do you vette it, analyze it? >> you read it carefully and look at wait means. there is an association. in my mind i want to know what the association is. they's going to take more work to figure out, as i said, is it the sleeping pills themselves? i think that's probably an oversimplification. >> have you done that yet? >> yes, i looked at the study. the primary thing i would want to know is there an association with sleep deprivation or sleep loss because of any problem. >> sleep apnea for example. >> that's a very good example. i think sleep apnea is misdiagnosed. >> it's not diagnosed or they're -- >> they may go to the doctor and say, look, i'm really sleepy. they don't go through it in a systematic way. they have sleep apnea and get a sleeping pill. one of the pills, restoril, that's like valium, that will

make sleep disordered worse. >> we're short on time. do people need to be worried? >> you always need to weigh the risks versus the benefits. if there are other ways, that's a better solution. >> doctor, thanks for being with us today. >> pleasure. the daytona 500 was one of the strangest races in nascar history. it was postponed for the first time in its 54 years and then a fiery crash delayed the crash for another two hours. we'll speak with the man who finally won nascar's career convenient. matt kenseth. you're watching "cbs this morning." [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thank you card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪

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gayle king has a look at what's coming up in the next hour. gayle? >> i'm here. thank you, charlie. new proposals from the faa to keep us safe in the air. captain sully sullenberger weighs in live from san francisco. listen to this. just because you have money doesn't mean you're nicer. rich people are more likely to take candy from kids and cut people off from the road. 28 novels and counting.

jack can collins has more novels than err. poppy montgomery is here today. you're watching "cbs this morning." be sure to catch us on grab your sunglasses if you are going fora drive. >> looking at the outlook, in the upper 30s right now. we will go for 51-degree high this date. not yesterday's 64, seasonally pleasant for the last day of february. over the sharon gibala, wjz 13 traffic control. things getting jammed out there. a bunch of accidents, one in randals town. accident el cot city involving a bus. 83 southbound, 19 minutes from the beltway to fayette street.

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meet mat kenseth, the winner of the daytona 500. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

all right. i know how romney can fix this elitist thing. to florida, the daytona 500. how closely do you follow nascar? >> not as closely as some friends but i have some nascar friends that are team owners. >> is there anything that comes out of this guys mouth that couldn't come out of thurston howell iii's mouth? are you okay, charlie? >> i'm okay. thank you.

>> charlie had a coughing fit. >> there's a lot of that going around. >> hello, it's 8:00. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'll have you a nascar quiz before this morning is over. i'll not do well. >> if you're a nation car fan, this year's daytona 500 may have given your heartburn. it certainly cost you a little sleep. >> on sunday it was postponed by weather for if first time. then the winner had to overcome a frightening crash and a freak accident. >> reporter: 29 hours and 45 minutes after the daytona 500 was scheduled to start -- it onto took one minute for a crash. >> slams to the outside. it's five-time champion -- oh, he clips danica patrick and the 34 of david ragan. >> reporter: kyle busch was not

happy. >> seriously? are we all kidding ourselves? we just sat around for 36 hours and we all wreck on lap 1. >> reporter: but trouble followed. >> fire on jeff gordon's car. >> the engine was blown to pieces. >> reporter: and want montoya with trouble slides into the truck. >> on a trailer used to dry the racetrack. >> oh, my gosh. >> and that spilled jet fuel found something hot to ignite it. >> reporter: what to do when 200 gallons of jet fuel spills on your racetrack? clean id up with laundry deterge detergent, of course. two hours and a seven-car crash later. >> big trouble. >> reporter: the only road to victory in this race was to stay ahead of the task and work with

your team. >> four cars trying to settle with themselves. up the final courter. matt kenseth wins it for the second time. he wins the daytona 500. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning." >> good morning and congratulations. >> thank you. >> so when you and junior were there right at the end, tell me what you were thinking? >> i was really on that last green and white checker, i got with greg and we got a pretty good run down the backstretch. what was behind him, i wasn't sure, but dale junior is one of the best guys. i knew he was going to be lock odden t ed on the 16. was looking to block but my best guy was so fast i was able to stay out in front of them and they couldn't get a run. >> congratulations again.

>> you had a few technical issues, though, early on. i'm sure early on in the race you weren't thinging you were going to end up nguyener's circle. must be night to be back. has it sunk in this morning? >> kind of. we've been down here a long time. it's kind of sinking in. we did have a lot of problems. after our last problem, we had to come in and put water in the car. my radio wouldn't work. to get out, we were three or four seconds from getting a lap down, got lucky and got a caution and stayed on the lead lap. the key to it was the guy who fixed all our problems and got us out in front of greg. greg probably had the best car in front of me and to get in front of him was a key event. >> matt, help me understand the sport. i'm not a nascar girl. i look at it and it makes me

anxious. they describe you as the calmest. how do you stay calm and collected under really frightening circumstances? >> well, i don't know about that. i think my personality is about the same in and out of the car, but yesterday my radio quit working and that was extremely frustrating, and i was doing a lot of yelling in the car, so i'm glad they couldn't hear me for a while. really you try to keep, you know, the highs not be too high and the lows not be too low and keep your head down and keep trying to accomplish the goal with your team of trying to win races. >> i think that was her point, matt. >> that was my point. >> it seems to me there were a lot of fires. was this an unusual number of cars catching fire? >> well, there was only that one that i know of, unless i -- >> montoya. >> yeah. montoya ran into the back of that jet dryer, which i didn't get to -- i haven't actually seen the replay of that yet, so i don't know exactly what happened. but, yeah, when you have all

that jet fuel and the hot jet engine sitting behind the fuel tank, that was a huge fire. i'm glad everybody was okay. glad everybody got out of there. >> you had fire, fog, delays. does it throw you when the race is delayed because i would think you're all keyed up, ready to go, and then it got delayed a couple of times. does it throw you off your game a little bit? >> that delay was kind of tough because we just left pit road and came out. and then there was four cars that stayed out hoping they could fix the track or couldn't restart the race, so we're sitting there in fifth place, but i knew if we were going back to green, we'd be the leader. we finally got ourselves toward the front. sitting back there, not having a lot of information. then it started sprinkling a little bit. kind of hoping they were going to get back to racing so at least we'd have a shot. >> matt, you've won daytona now twice. what's the magic of daytona? >> i mean daytona is the biggest

stock car race in the world. as a kid, being somebody that dreams of stock car racing, you always dream of the daytona 500. growing up in wisconsin, it's the race we used the watch on tv when it came on tv. and there would still be snow on the ground when i was a kid. so it seems like a whole different world away. i always dreamed of some day n running in that race. now to be able to win this race twice is just hard to put into words. just a cool feeling. >> before you go, could i see your victory smile, matt, because you're so calm today and cool. >> and cool. >> you're right, charlie. could i see the victory smile before you go, matt? please, give it to me. >> it's not so much calm. it's tired. i've been here for two weeks. >> you tell her, matt. you tell her. >> most of my race guys are sitting back there sitting by a cooler of beer so i had to talk to them for a while too. >> the last thing you want to do is get up and talk to people on

morning television, right? >> no. i'm feeling good today. i was looking forward to it. i had you circled on the list. >> thank you very much. matt, come back and see us again. congratulations. >> come by here. gayle will take some lessons. 51 degrees your high this day. in the upper 30s, seasonal afternoon. we will get back to the 60s before not too long. 35 clouds overnight. tomorrow, rain, high of 50. starting march, 62, 61, 61, not a bad way to end the workweek there is a new candidate for u.s. senate in virginia. did you hear his name is hank. his main issue is job creation. oh, by the way. he's a cat.

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okay. so what you're seeing there, yeah, check out this guy. a couple of heifers apparently got loose from the houston livestock show. we know at least one was rounded up. poor guy. he was trying to make a break for ichlt there you go. the freedom didn't last long. hope you enjoy it. there you have it. >> who knew heifers like to play. >> see, you learn something new every day. >> as we looked around the web this morning we found a few reasons to make a long story short. huffing on thepost.com headline as story, rich people are not as nice as poor people. they're more likely to lie, cheat, and cut people off while driving. this is the bad part. they even take candy from children. >> further prooch that money does not buy class. we mentioned angelina's right leg showdown off got a twitter. it quickly picks up 15,000

followers. >> it was a deliberate pose that got people talking. a blog looks at the candidate in the senate race. a cat named hank as a twitter race. he describes himself as a proud independent. limelight has this story about plastic surgery that makes you taller. man was unhappy that he was just 5'6" so, he had a series of painful operations. he's not 6 feet tall. i don't know. >> i'd say good for you. and what it takes -- what does it take to get into yale university university. an applicant made a four-minute video on how much she wants to

go to yale ♪ i've only got one thing on my mind and it's yale ♪ you've made me white and blue for you ♪ ♪ yale >> so we have to hope this young lady has a backup plan because yale only accepts 7% of the people who apply there. this is the thing. i think it puts the school in a bad position because she was denied early admission. if they take her, is it because of the song, and if they don't take her, it's like what's wrong with you yale? >> it's a good question. it's a no-win situation. >> we'll follow up on that story. that was long story short. the government is making new rules for airlines and their co-pilots. we'll ask captain sully sullenberger why the proposed rules could make it safer to fly. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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in 2009 after a regional jet crashed outside buffalo, the ntsb blamed in experienced pilots. now three years after that crash, the faa is proposing tough new rules for airline co-pilots. >> captain sully sullenberger, ave yags safety expert joins us. good morning. >> good morning to you both. >> good to have you here. >> tell us why you thing the faa is proposing this now? >> well, it's largely the result of the efforts of the families of the victims of the buffalo crash you just mentioned that we have this rule now, and it's an

important one. it raises the floor. it raises the minimum level of experience that one has to have to be an airline pilot from unbelievably low hours of 250 hours currently to about 1,500 hours and also givings them more airplane-specific training and the same kind of license that the captains currently have. >> it's one of those things they should have done earlier. >> it's been long overdue, and even with this new rule that will be in effect in 2013 we'll still not have achieved what we've been trying to do for decades, that is to achieve one level of safety across the board. >> the numbers that you said are sort of frightening to me. 250 hours is what they used to have. now it's 1,500. that seems like such a wide gap between the hours of experience. >> it is. these are absolute rock bomb minimums. what we really need in the long

term is to have a healthy enough industry to have people with more experience to take these entry-level jobs. that's going to require that they have better working conditions and benefits so more people with experience are willing to take these jobs. >> this is what concerns me. i'm a very nervous nelly flyer and when i take the regional planes which i try not to do because i'm afraid of the little guys. when i see a pilot is younger, i getter nervous and when i hear stories like this, i think i have reason to be nervous. what do you say about that? >> there are a lot of qualified and dedicated pilots at the airlines, all of them. but what we need do is make sure the minimums are high enough to really have someone who is able to do the job well. so when you have 1,500 hours versus 250, you know a couple of things. this pilot has seen an entire cycle of the seasons of the

year. th they've storms and thunderstorms and had to de-ice a plane at least once and they're more experienced in handling thing as they come. jeff skiles, my co-pilot a couple of years ago took on the challenge of a lifetime instantly and pilots must be qualified to handle whatever may come. had i not had someone as experienced, we wouldn't have have had the same outcome. i didn't have time to tell him. he had to know. >> apparently last night the nose gear collapsed. put that in context for snus from what i know, the nose gear failed to extend as they were approaching the newark airport to land. the nose gear did not fully extend. their instrument panel would have shown that. when it finally didn't, then they have a check list how to prepare the cabin and prepare

the cockpit and warn those on the ground to be ready to accept an emergency landing and that would have taken some time and it would require a lot of leadership and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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say on the hike. stevens, prison inmate, a jury is deciding whether he should be put to death after killing a correctional officer. the 32-year-old will become the first person to receive the death sentence under the new capital punishment law. a teenager arraigned on charges he murdered his father. he shot his dad at their home in bel air. family and friends believe he was brutally abused by his father. prosecution and defense attorneys will meet in two weeks to set a trial date. a woman will get her horses back despite animal cruelty charges. marsha park inson has to deal with prosecutors that would let her get half of the horses back. animal control would check on them. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. (bell rings)

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morning more about bullying with lee hirsch. he made a documentary of five students who were bullied on daily basis. >> i like running but actually making friends. they would punch me, strangle me, take things from me, sit on me. >> he's not safe on that bus. >> i've been on that bus. they are just as good as gold. >> be the difference. go out and find that one child, that new kid standing over there by himself. stand up for him. >> everything starts with one and builds up. >> eventually we have an army. >> if we all do it together, we will change the world. >> that movie, "bully" will be released next month. lee hirsch is here to talk about the movie. i love what he said. if we all join together, we all make a difference.

when you hear the sadness of the kids, lee, it's heartbreaking what they go through. >> absolutely. and when you think about it, 13-plus million kids are bullied in our country every year, probably higher. it's a lot of pain, and think that we're just beginning to really, really talk about it and start to think about how we can change it. and kids are stepping up, which is amazing. >> well, you know, for so long when i was growing up, it's sort of kids will be kids, don't be a tattle tail, it's part of eve everyday life. you show us two of the kids you follow. what is the breaking point? this is not kids will be kids. it's houston we have a problem, we have to do something about it. >> it's absolutely houston we have a problem. by talking about it, we're addressing it. this film helps to give a voice to people. when you finish with the film, no one's saying kids will be kids.

no one's saying this is a right of passage. there's an agreement after watching this movie that we have to step up and do something about it. i think if we can walk in those shoes for a minute and take it on, then we want to make that change. absolutely we have to talk about it. >> this is also very personal for you, i know. >> it is. >> i mean but what you went through inspired you to make this film. what has changed this? it seems like bullying in so many ways is so much more violent and personal and even violent with words because of things like social networking and cell phones. dwlou get beyond that? especially the parent or school administrator? >> i thinch you have to want to. i think that it's so important to talk about it, for a parent to talk to their kids about it. if they're saying something about bullying, you have to assume that what's really happening is much worse. if they're driven to the point where they're talking to you about it, they don't want to

admit those things. they want to be the perfect kid that's doing well, that's not having those problems, and for administrators and school officials and all support staff and educators, i think that they -- not only are they looking for tools and support, but sometimes they need to rethink it and rethink how they're approaching it and are they looking out for that kid that's been in it over and over again and if there's something that happens, it's not just a conflict, it might be bullying. >> help me understand the rating of the film. it's my understanding it's rated "r" as opposed to pg-13. it sort of defeats the purpose because those who want to see it have are under the age of 17. >> we're shocked and we're fighting to have that decision changed. the irony is it's saying that kids can't see a movie that's about them. the young boy that you just saw,

alex, went himself together with harvey weinstein to argue why this film should be seen by young people by kids and he said, you mean, i can't even see my own life? >> i understand harvey was on the board talking about even withdrawing from the academy. >> it means a lot to have this support because as a filmmaker, we want to tell their stories and dwoemt want the stories minimized. >> lee, you have been showing this film, though, to students. there are numbers that 80% of the kids are bystanders in a situation like this. after kids see this movie, what do they tell you? does it change anything? >> it does. we screened it for 500 students in st. louis very recently, and about must have been 300 things on our facebook wall, and many of them were like i want to now be a principal so i can stop bullying. a young kid named max said, a seventh or eighth grader said on my bus ride home a kid was gettiget ing bullied that's always

bullied and i stepped in. i stopped it. i took him to the counselor, i walked with him, i made that difference. he said i never would have done that had i not seen the movie. >> and that's what you're trying to do. >> very much so. >> you're making a difference. thank you, lee. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you for everything. poppy montgomery has always been unforgettable like when she started in "without a trace." now she stars in another hit drama on cbs appropriately called "unforgettable." >> so why was he fighting with a drug dealer. do you know why? >> i don't know why. >> you know. >> i don't know. >> did david find out? >> i didn't know him. >> listen to me. we are running out of time. they are going to go in there and kill your father. >> "unforgettable" is doing really well in its first season, thank you very much.

it's one of the top 20 shows on television and here in the studio is poppy montgomery. is that your name on your birth certificate? >> no way. >> they kind of cut it off halfway. my mother's -- my mother likes flowers. >> do you have siblings? >> they're all flowers except my brother, he's jethro tull. >> what are their names? >> and my grandmother says she feels like a horticulturist. she says i feel like a florist but my flowers are my grandchildren. >> does she have a green thumb in real life? >> no. >> i'm thinking, poppy, you had to have a fun childhood. you left home as a teenager and said i want to go ho hollywood. >> yes. >> you went to hollywood, as i

understand and you bought a book "how to succeed in hollywood." >> i did. >> why. >> because i wanted to be an actress. i wanted to know how to break into the world, and in my nayivety, you just read a book and then you be a star. and so -- it wasn't that simple but it started there. i read about a manager. his name is bob mcgowan, and he had been julia roberts' manager, and i called him up and he answered his own phone. i said, hi, i want to be an actress and he took me under his wing and here i am. >> and it's going pretty well it's going pretty well. >> your character is fascinating. i'm going to get this wrong. it's highly superior autob autobiographical memory? >> that's right. >> something that mary -- ril

marilou henner has in real life. >> she's lovely. i kept checking my teeth and wiping my nose and nothing was inappropriate because i knew she would never, ever forget it. i saw her six months later and she told me what i wore to lunch, that i was late. >> have your memory skills improved just playing the character? i know it's a character? >> no. 57d i keep thinking i'm going to become method. i have a 4-year-old. i wake up. i'm not sleeping. i don't remember my name half the time. >> it's good that you show up to work. i e-mail good with learning my lines. that's a skill i've developed because we have to do it so quickly. >> you're a mom. >> i am. >> a boy. >> yes. jackson. >> a boy. i think there's a big bonlt. erica, you know. there's a special bond between a mother and her son. >> yeah.

>> does he know what you do? do you let him watch you on tv? >> you know -- >> especially when kids, it dawns on them, hey, my mom is famous. >> he hasn't figured it out. our show has -- there was a guy walking around with a fake gunshot wound in his head and i thought, maybe he's not quite at the age where he can come prehenld it yet. so he doesn't really get it yet. >> but you were drawn to these badassed women characters, were you not. >> i am. >> why. >> i like playing characters that men do. i like do all the stunts. >> sometimes smarter than the boys. >> always. >> girls always mature faster, poppy montgomery. >> i was playing xbox with my 4-year-old and it's one of those things where it's kinect and you've got a camera and a ping-pong. he's 4 -- >> he's better than you. >> he beat me.

i thought, wait a second. this is not right. you shouldn't be developing. i got competitive with my 4-year-old son. >> competitive with your 4-year-old son, that's not good. >> i know. it's not right. i had mommy guilt. >> you were practicing in your dressing room. >> right. >> so glad you're part of cbs. like your hit show. >> thank you. >> you can watch "unforgettable" tonight at 9:00 p.m. central on cbs. speaking of unforgettable, jackie collins is here with us this morning. when you read one of her ,,,,,,,,,,,,

nobody, and i mean nobody writes about glitz and glamour like jackie collins does. she has sold over 400 million

co copies of her books worldwide. >> her latest has just come out in paper bad. "goddess of vengeance" features one of her most memorable characters. nice to have you here this morning. >> nice to be here. i love your studio. so fun. >> so this is your -- is this your seventh book featuring lucky? >> seventh book. my 289tth book, but women love r so much. >> she's got power. >> she's got style, she's beautiful. she can do everything. she does all the things we like to do but can't get away with it. she's kind of like a james bond for women and we all need that in our lives. >> i never think that that's a bad thing. you know, every time we get your books, jackie, people always wonder -- i know you've heard this -- comes from your real life because this is what i know about jackie collins.

happily single. >> happily single like you. >> i am happily single. >> i know. >> unlike me you said you have a man for all seasons. >> exactly. >> talk into the microphone, please. what does that mean and how does it work? >> it's absolutely fantastic. you have guys that like to do special things because you never find that one guy that wants to do everything. you have one guy who loves movies, theater, another who wants to travel, wants sex, whatever. >> okay, okay. again, not like me. how do you find them? >> oh, yeah, sure. >> do you have any tips? >> you always have to have a gay best friend. that's the most important thing in a single woman's life. >> that is a good thing. i totally agree with you about that. >> you can go everywhere with them. they can become everything for you when you want them to. it's great. i write what i see. i live in hollywood. i see everything. i was at the "vkw "vanity fair"

party. >> you were treating. >> i love andy cohen. he's so much fun. you know who was there? tebow. it was so interesting to watch him in the hollywood environment because there was everyone from tom cruise to beckhams to j.lo. >> wasn't everybody going up to him? >> no. he looked uncomfortable. he was with two big guys. you've been to those parties. it's so crowded you can't move. it's fantastic research but i change the names. >> what is it you like about pop culture? i do too. it's just a wealth of information. >> it really is, isn't it. people say to me, where do you get these characters you write about. where did you come up with lucky and gino, who is her son. >> i think you can take these characters and take a little bit of each one and make your own character, but it's so true to

life. and if you read the headlines, i couldn't make up the headlines. i mean could i make up somebody like guina? if i had a headline, they'd say jackie collins has got too far. >> or the arnold story. you can't make that up. >> i would be laughed off the page. i know my readers come to me on twitter. i'm jackie j. collins on twitter. they know what i do. i have fun with it. >> you're doing something right. 28 novels and counting and you never seem to run out of ideas. >> i love what i do. i'm writing a book now called "the power trip." >> that's a great title. thanks for stopping by. >> thank you. good luck with your show. >> be sure to tweet your followers. >> i will. >> we'll be back in a moment with a look at the life of another author. a look behind,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

jo two generations of parents and kids are mourning book legend janet berenstain who died on friday. she and her husband created the loveable berenstain bears. >> reporter: the berenstain bears have faced and conquered about every predicament a child can encounter. they've come to life in animated tv shows and even on the stage. their big treehouse down a sunny dirt road has been a scene of lessons in family live that have sold more than 250 million copies. >> they were realistic enough that a kid connects to them, but they were always enough in the faenlts world that they weren't boring. >> reporter: now andrea petty is introduced her daughter rose to

her favorite pastime. >> it was the messy bedroom because my sister and i were notorious for not cleaning up our bedroom. >> reporter: they never had names other than mama, papa, sisters and brother. owner peter glassman says that's part of its appeal. >> they could see bits of themselves whether they were boy or girl and bits of the parents. >> reporter: stand jan said they never wanted to frighten their readers, just guide them. >> not frighten the kids and we're in the tradition of cautionary tales. >> reporter: but the question remains, why bears? >> they're fun. they prak tictically look human. they do everything people do. and it went well with our name. >> stan berenstain died in 2005,

but jan's death this week doesn't mean the end of the berenstain bears. their son michael has been illustrating and co-writing the books since 1992. some have criticized the books for being a little more than stern lectures drench in sweet syrup, but they're lectures that generations of children have found easier to take because they're delivered not by parents but a family of bears and like a berenstain bears book, that's a happen ending. for "cbs this morning." >> we read them a lot at nighttime in our house because i have the 5-year-old and the 2-year-old, but the next time you take them for the night, i will send them with their berenstain bears books so you can read them. >> i'll do that one night for you, i promise you. >> wait, wait, wait. you'll do what for her one night? >> babysit her for one night. >> america, you're our witness.

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already controversial bottle tax maybe more than doubling, monique griego stays on the story. the mayor wants to raise the bottle tax from 2 to $0.05, the plan is receive backlash. the mayor estimates the increase could bring in extra $10 million a year. that money would go towards fixing schools throughout the city. business owners are fighting the hike saying the tax in place forced job cuts and sent customers to the county. council will have the final say on the hike. bodies of two u.s. servicemen killed in afghanistan, including national guardsman is back on u.s. soil this morning. remainthe two were gunned down inside the sue pose edly secured building over the weekend.

security concerns at the college park after police say a student was assaulted in her dorm room. the 18 year old woke up to find a man touching her leg and another man holding her laptop. her roommate returned and confronted the men. campus police are urging students to report any and all suspicious activity. a security officer is charged with trying to attack a patient. porer followed a woman out of bay view offered her money for a bus ride and when she went back in to the building, he attempted to rape her. powell remains behind bars this morning. long time attraction at the inner harbor may be going for its final spin today. the city terminated the lease with the owners of the carousel. the city declared the ride must be shut down after today. he did not specify why but it's figured the city needs the

space for other reasons. here is a live look from the harbor cam. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station, news and weather today at noon, updates available at any time from anywhere at wjz.com. ,,,,,,