>> tonight a victory for democracy in burma. a nobel peace prize winner who spent 15 years under arrest wins election. seth doane is one of the few am american journalists on the ground. ground. clarissa ward interviews secretary of state hillary clinton who today demanded an end to the violence in syria. >> there >> there is no more time for excuses excuses or delays. >> could tuesday's gop wisconsin wisconsin pramary be the nomination.t for mitt romney's nomination. >> dean reynolds has the latest from milwaukee. >> and magic bird, a rivalry on the court that became a lasting lasting friendship off it. now now playing on broadway. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."

>> good evening, i'm jeff glor, we begin in burma where one woman has tr triumphed against a military regime that for years tried to silence her. she was elected to she was elected to parliament today, a vote that does not remove the current government from poer with but does represent a ground breaking victory. seth doane was among the few journalists allowed to enter burma for this historic vote. the celebration broke out tonight on the streets as supporters packed the area outside outside ung sung su chi's party headquarters. >> i'm happy >> i'm happy for the country. >> late this afternoon as opposition started to trickle this, she felt she was watching more than just election results. >> how does democracy feel? >> >> here, i don't know how this-- we don't get it much

but i hope we can seize democracy and one day i hope we can tell you how democratsee feels here. >> reporter: election day start start early in the rural district she is out to represent. before dawn a ground gathered just to get a glimpse of the nobel peace prize win. prize win. it her first bid for elected office. but just the-- just the latest in her decade long battle against the military backed government here. on her way to polling station this morning, there was no mistaking su chi's card as hundreds of ethnic people in their special formal dress flocked to her. her party is competing for just 44 just 44 seats of the 664 in parliament. the m the military and its political party dominate the governing body. >> she has just walked into this polling station behind me here. they're keeping the press at bay a way from the school, so she can have a few moments to talk with the people she hopes to

foundent. we found this family of road in just off the main road in this little hamlet. >> you voted for ung sung, you voted for her, you voted for her. >> they voted for the lady as she is known here because they see her as courageas. international election monitors only invited at the last minute sold initially optimistic despite widespread concern and reports of v reports of voting irregularities. irregularities. on friday su chi said it's not power we're trying to win but democracy for our people people, so the official results are not expected for a couple of days. it may be the exercise of voting that really counts. seth doane, cbs news, burma. >> jeff: we move to the violence in syria, is secretary of state hillary clinton's tough words for the regime of bashar al aed is a, she made her remarks at a conference in tur can called to support called to support the opposition. clarissa ward is there.

>> reporter: good evening, jeff. delegates from more than 70 different countries gather here today trying to push for solutions to the crisis in syria with patience running low as president bashar al-assad continues his brutal crackdown. >> there is no more time for excuses or delays. this is a moment of truth. >> reporter: topping today's agenda, discussion of u.n. special envoy kofi anon six point peace plan. president assad claimed to accept the proposal almost a we can ago but there has been no letup in the violence. >> at what point do we say that this plan has been a failure? what is the deadline? >> >> we think assad must go. the killing must stop. the sooner we get into a process that ends up there, the better. and i think former secretary-ge secretary-general anon understands that. >> but how do you enforce that time line? >> well, i think it's self-enforced. i think he has to be the one who says within a relatively

short period of time we're not getting any results. i was given promises, they're not kept. because then we would go back to the security council. >> >> reporter: but for rebel fighters fighters inside the country, time is running out. >> we were recently inside syria in the north and the rebels who we were staying with now tell us that they have no ammunition left. they have no money left. and that their only recourse for self-defense is to build ieds or bombs. are you not concerned that if no support comes from the outside that this could really devolve into a very bloody, u bloody, ugly insurgency? >> well, i think that's why you heard today that a group of nations will be providing assistance for the fighters. and that is a decision that is being welcomed by the syrian national council. >> reporter: that group of nations nations includes saudi arabia and some gulf states

which today pledged millions to pay rebel salaries, hoping to encourage more syrian army defections to shift the balance of power. and the u.s. pledged $12 million in aid, including for the first time satellite communications equipment. >> they have a great deal of difficulty communicating inside syria. were there. you know how hard it is. we think we have some assets that we can get in there. >> clarissa with us again now. how much indication is there that the international actions being taken from outside syria are affecting what is going on inside syria? >> well, certainly, jeff there are strong indications that those e that those economic sanctions are having a real impact. there are long lines for gas across the country. the price of food has doubled. and when we asked secretary clinton about this exact subject she said that she believes the cracks are beginning to emerge within the assad regime. she says i can't put a time frame on t but i do believe that it's beginning to happen. >> jeff: all right, clarissa ward, thank you.

we move to campaign 2012 now. primaries in wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia this week could put a rom nae firmly in control of the republican race with 92 delegates at stake, romney needs only 18 on tuesday to be halfway to the required 1,144 delegates. dean reynolds is on the trai trail in milwaukee tonight. dean, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, jeff. well, the republican party establishment is talking as if the mantle of presumptive nominee has already descend and the shoulders of mitt romney. romney. but the negative attacks by his campaign on his rivals is leaving nothing to chance. mitt romney has been able to bag the big name endorsements lately. >> i think is time for people to all get behind this good man. >> reporter: he has the buzz from even unaffiliated republicans. >> i th >> i think he's going to be an excellent candidate. and i think that the chances are overwhelming that he will be our nominee. >> reporter: at the same time, romney is using his

financial edge in trademark fashion. fashion. >> santorum's real weakness is the economy. >> reporter: and his events these day, romney mostly talks about the general election. >> the person you select on tuesday may well be the person who faces barack obama in the fall. >> reporter: but behind the scenes the super pac that supports him, restore our future, is still hammering chief rival rick santorum and outspending the pro santorum santorum red, white and blue super pac by 4 to 1 in wisconsin. >> reporter: santorum voted to raise the debt limit five times. >> that strategy has helped to distract attention from things like the candidates hefty speech income. his his wife's pair of cadillacs, or lately the elevators installing for the cars at his california beachhouse. all of which have underlined the fact that romney is rich. bu but in michigan, ohio and illinois, he styled himself as a fighting underdog. and he's doing here as well.

>> this was an uphill battle for me. if you looked back three or four weeks ago. and now we're looking like we're going to win this thing on tuesday. >> reporter: for his part, santorum dismisses the idea that endorsements from the republican establishment constitutes a romney bandwagon. >> i don't know how the folks can look at this and see us running well in all the swing state, running well ahead of governor romney, doing so with a fraction of the money he has, with a fraction of the establishment behind him and all the endorsements and all the inevitability and all the phoney math, yet, here we are. >> reporter: santorum's campaign says it's looking ahead to the contest in may but by then a majority of delegates for him may no longer exist, a path to that majority may no longer exist if it ever did, jeff. >> jeff: dean reynolds, in in milwaukee, thank you. it is one of swing states in which a gal op pole shows

president obama opening a wide led, at 51% to 4 -- a reversal from mid-february when he trailed by 2 points. gallop credits that reversal to a to a large swing for the president among women voters. in florida another rally today drew thousands of people rallying around the cause of trayvon martin, the unarmed teenager shot near orlando in late february. in miami tonight, here is elaine quijano. >> what do we want? >> justice. >> reporter: five weeks after trayvon martin was killed, his parents joined thousands of people in miami demanding justice for his death. michael sweeting brought his young family to young family to the rally. he worries what happened to martin could happen to his own son. >> i look at him and i can't even imagine something like that happening. >> reporter: the case has sp sparked questions nationwide about whether race played a role in the killing. martin an unarmed black teenager was walking home in sanford, florida, when a neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman shot and killed him. zimmerman says it was

self-defense but martin's family does not accept his story. >> justice for trayvon. >> reporter: activists yesterday marched on the sanford police department demanding zimmerman be jailed. naacp president organized the rally. >> people have grown tired and frustrated with seeing him go free, not be charged, not be locked up, not be brought to justice. >> reporter: the passion stirred up in the wake of martin's killing show no signs of subsiding. >> as much as i can, i would-- i think this is something that we nee we need to continue and continue till we get justice. >> reporter: a florida special prosecutor has begun her investigation but say she is will no is have no comment numbers's completion. and jeff, the fbi is also investigating. >> elaine, thank you very much. later basketball on broadway. the story of magic johnson

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supplies the injured sailors below. the 68 foot yacht had weathered quite a night. 16 knot winds and waves big enough to rip the helm clean off the deck. the clipper around the world yacht race is the longest of its kind, some 40,000 ocean miles and some 400 sailors, all amateurs. but but out of all the rough seas they'd encounter, the north pa sifk is what worried the crew even before this leg of the race began. >> the weather could be pretty severe in place. am there was a certain amount of unease. >> his fears proved true, just before dawn saturday the yacht told the coast guard a monsterous foaming swell suddenly broke over the stern. the wave swept the wheel and its mount overboard and slam slammed the crew on to the deck. three of them were injured. the most serious, a 50-year-old british doctor with suspected broken ribs. >> we are pretty shocked and we know peop we know people on the boat, that was the most difficult thing. >> the other boats limp mood san san francisco this morning,

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>> jeff: as fans gear up for tomorrow's national championship game between kansas and kentucky there's also a basketball drama unfolding on broadway. this one features another set of college rivals magic johnson and larry bird, who became pro rivals. along the way, forming an unforgetable friendship. >> larry bird's boston celtics and magic johnson's l.a. lakers, opposite sides of the country, opposite personalities. >> he was smiling all the time, at my goal, the whole career was career was to knock out his two front teeth.

>> larry bird took that smile right away. >> reporter: but not opposing views on what they wanted. >> >> they weren't thinking about race relations. they weren't thinking about th the future of the nba. they weren't thinking about anything anything else, they just -- >> it was about winning. edd if i needed to win, i needed to make my team better to in order to wirntion i will make my team better. >> actors kevin daniels and tug are the two leads in magic bird. >> okay. >> what about these guys do people not know that they learn during this show. >> i will speak for larry. he is a really dry, funny person. person. he wants to be the best irving johnson that he can be. be. >> reporter: this play was made because against the odds two fierst rivals from two two different worlds developed an unforgetable bond, beginning when johnson, a hollywood hot shot taped a commercial in commercial in rural indiana, on the on the bird family farm. bird's bird's mom broke the ice. >> ever since you were in high school, magic high school, i been following

you. everybody since you won the state championship in michig michigan, which larry never did. >> thanks, mom. >> >> reporter: then six years later, this chilling statement cemented the friendship. >> because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to retire from the lakers. >> the first call i got was larry bird. the first call. you know, he's crying, just-- you know, checking on me. >> at that time, i thought it was a it was a death sentence. >> reporter: one of the play's producers thinks the show could bring a whole new audience to broadway. >> what's fun about >> what's fun about magic bird is that it's a great experience for kids too. and men and you know, women can finally get their husbands to come to a broadway show. >> l.a. comes to boston and wins the world title. >> reporter: whether you like sports or not, it's hard not to like what magic

and bird created, both on the court and off. >> we will always be there for each other. forget the color of the skin. we're just alike. we're ju we're just alike. but he knows i got him. and i know he got me. >> jeff: magic johnson just announced he is heading a con sorecious where he bought the los angeles dodgers baseball team. larry bird is now president of the indiana pacer the. and a reminder kentucky and kansas play tomorrow night in college basketball college championship game right here on cbs. that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. also ahead on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff ga lo. cgs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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