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it is april 24th 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. a new twist in the trayvon martin case. sanford police chief tries to quit, but city officials say not so fast. and let the stakes begin. an emotional jennifer hupdson becomes the star witness at the murder trial of her mother, brother, and nephew. and why was a woman fired after giving up her kidney to help save her boss's life. and i'm gayle king. the former head of the tsa says airport security is a national embarrassment. we'll talk with him about what needs to be done.
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plus, gary marshall the man behind "happy days" and "the odd couple" is here. first as we do every day, we begin with today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> we're better people than this. we're a better city than this. >> sanford, florida, rejects the police chief's offer to resign in the wake of trayvon martin's case. >> george zimmerman is back in hiding after being released from jail. >> they're praying that his freedom is temporary because the damage he's caused to them is permanent. 12 members under investigation in the secret service prostitution scandal. >> they find there's been violation. >> i'm hot about this because these are jobs that should have gone to american hookers. mitt romney out with florida senator marco rubio. might this be some kind of audition? >> why does being romney's vice
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president seem like a dare. even edwards' attorney con -- >> jennifer hudson forced to face the man who killed her family. an explosion sent many to the hospital. in china, a teenager walking and then suddenly falling straight through the sidewalk down 20 feet. we have to see you strike the heisman pose. debby freeman donated a kidney to her her boss and months later she was fired. and all that matters. you look like the asian girl on soul train. on "cbs this morning." olive garden restaurant firing a waitress after she served alcohol to a young boy. >> the parents suspected
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something was wrong when the young boy yelled out, "this is very good italian food! ." captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." there's a new twist to the trayvon martin case. >> the police chief who was heavily criticized for his handling of the case tried to quit but the city commissioners turned him down on monday at least for now. mark strassmann is live in sanford. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. sanford police department became a decisive principle. >> chief lee deserves a better shake than this. >> reporter: sanford city commissioners had to decide whether to accept the resignation of police chief bill lee. his department became a flashpoint heavily criticized when it investigated the killing
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of trayvon martin but never arrested george zimmerman, the admitted killer. the seencity manager even put together a community package. >> i think this would move the city forward. >> reporter: but they voted 38-2 to refuse his resignation. >> approve to deny the memorandum at this time. >> reporter: george zimmerman released on bond has gone back into hiding. out of jail police won't protect him. he's responsible for his own safety. his lawyer says zimmerman can't afford private security so they'll accept donated protection from various supporters. >> he's out and exposed but i'm hopeful we can keep him safe and truly hopeful people let it work and find out what truly happened and i think when we do the emotions may resolve themselves a bit. >> reporter: across the country,
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the case has struck a nerve. just recently there were two separate beatings one in chicago, one in mobile alabama. in both cases the attackers say they were partially motivated by the trayvon martin shooting. >> we have to think do we want america to perceive this this way and to react to it? do we want the violence level to go up between people because of this case? i'm very concerned about that. >> reporter: diffusing racial tensions is also a goal here in sanford where the police and the minority people have had tensions. they're still reviewing how police handle the martin investigation. >> mark strassmann thank you. in the presidential race there are five republican primaries today in the northeast. mitt romney has no serious competition. on monday he campaigned in pennsylvania. one of those along with marco rubio. >> rubio is expected to be high
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on the running list. with us is john dickerson. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> i'm looking at "the wall street journal" and i see number one contender to be marco rubio, contender number two. >> they love marco rubio. they love his story. son of immigrants tea party favorite. but this pageant has a long way to do. right now marco and rubio benefit from this buddy movie. on the one hand rubio gets to elevate his national profile and romney benefits from seeing with him. his cuban heritage might help hispanic voters be open to him. if nothing else it helps him in florida, a crucial battleground state. >> do we have any idea as to romney's thinking what kind of person, what kind of profile would fit him? >> well, not much.
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we know from his history he's a cautious person. in picking management teams, he likes people with experience who have been leaders before and he has said he wants somebody who can step into the job right away. the mr.political callculus, we don't know right away. >> dick cheney weighing in. let's take a listen. >> it gives the public a chance to see you operate and what you see as important and what kind of individual you choose to serve as your running mate what are the criteria and think the sing most important criteria has to be the capacity to be president. that's why you pick them. >> dick cheney speaking yesterday. is the thinking marco rubio has the experience, god forbid should anything happen step in in. >> i think his career would
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suggest he does. remember dikck cheney was picked because he had some experience. marco rubio has no big experience. that was a big knock by president obama. that's why they say the president lacks experience. >> jeb bush is promoting him as well when he declined to be on the list himself. will rubio help romney with hispanics? >> this is the big question. romney in the polls right now, in some of them he's more than 40 points behind with hispanic voters. he might certainly help romney in florida and that's obviously a crucial state. but the question is does it translate to other spanish voters? rubio's cuban. does it play outside florida? that's the big question. romney doesn't need to beat him. he just needs to shrink that gap
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of 40 points. that's the thing in washington and colorado. >> john dickerson, thank you. >> thanks charlie. in the secret service sex scandal scandal, many were asking was anyone in the white house associated with that scandal. >> bill plante has the answer. >> reporter: the size keeps expanding. it now include 24/secret service and military personnel, but the white house says it has now conducted its own probe and it's department up in of its own staffers were involved. >> simply out of due diligence over the last several days that review was conducted and it produced no indication of any misconduct. >> reporter: the white house monday announced the results of an internal investigation led by the council's office which came ahmed calls by some lawmakers from the executive branch from
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its people in colombia. >> there are no to my knowledge, credible or specific allegations of misconduct by any of the white house advance team or white house staff. >> reporter: but one senator argued that the in-house review may not be enough. >> i think it would sub stan chat what they're trying to say and give great credibility to it if we knew it was going to be reviewed by somebody outside the white house. >> reporter: on monday another member of the military was implicated in the incident bringing to 12 the number of armed services personnel being investigated. that's in addition to 12 secret service employees on the night of the drunken revelry and solicitation of profitty tugss in cartagena prior to the president's arrival. traveling to colombia on monday on a trip unrelated to the scandal, panetta says they've
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been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. >> my biggest concern is the issue of security. could it have possibly been jeopardized by virtue of this kind of behavior. >> reporter: now some members of congress continue to ask questions about the possible involvement of the white house staff. despite the administration's conclusion that none of its people were implicated. senator grassley submitted a list of 14 questions about the white house probe that he wants answered right away. the secret service and the military may be outside of politics, but not congress or the white house. charlie, erica? >> bill plante thank you. the phone hacking scandal in brittain has taken a new turn this morning. rue put murdock is expected to face irkwiry. this morning his son james murdoch told a public hearing he did not know his reporters were hacking cell phones. >> i was given repeated
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assurances as i've said that these practices -- that these -- that the newsroom had been investigated, that there was no evidence. i was given the same assurances as they gave outside. i've about been very consistent about it and i don't think that short of knowing that they weren't giving me the whole picture i would know that at the time. >> with us a former executive of the medial company. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> tell us what you think the inquirey was try dog? >> it was set up in the wake of the reported scandals and allegations and suggestions here. what he needs to get to here is the relationship that's been between journalists, the police and politicians. obviously james murdoch is part of that and it's one of the newspapers he was in charge of "the "news of the world"" that's
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been unfolded. as you can see, it's causing excitement. >> there's also testimony that yes, there were discussions, but there were not specifics. is that the general outline you see coming? >> charlie, bear in mind this is the third time james murdoch has appeared before various panels and he has to stick to the line. the problem is now is he someone who wasn't on charge, is he foolish, or was he naive? he has to stick to the line he's affectively didn't know what was going on. he said in the courtroom in london he never read the "news of the world." he said his guys did it for him. in reality, his act is very thin and not helping his cause at all. >> are we expected to learn anything in in these inquiries
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as you say, sticking to the line? >> rupert murdoch is coming tomorrow. the father is the one who really has been obviously the heart of the empire and what was going on across the whole of the world, including the u.s. that's where it lands, at rue put's door. james is really just for the uk. but global pitch begins tomorrow. >> is there in evidence that puts it at his doorstep? >> rue put murdock's doorstep? >> yes. >> no. i think when we saw him before the par lamentry committee, he was able to talk about the paper that he runs. he has about 30,000 employees across the whole of the world. what he can speak to is the extraordinary level he spoke to. he used to go in number 10 where the primary minister lives, the back door.
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this was a level of access never before seen in british politics and british media and that's what the inquiry will be quizzing rupert murdoch about. >> thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. walmart's stock fell 5% on monday over reports they paid off officials in mexico. the company's mexican division allegedly paid millions of dollars in bribes to speed up building. an internal investigation of the charges was covered up. now to an emotional day in a chicago courtroom for jennifer hudson. she took the witness stand yesterday to testify against her former brother-in-law. he's charged with murdering three members of her family. >> reporter: 30-year-old william balfour is accused of fatally shooting jennifer hudson's mother brother, and nephew. it was in spite by
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brother-in-law after jennifer's sister asked for a divorce. choking back tears as she identified pictures of her mother and recalling for the jury how opposed the family was to julia's marriage to balfour. we did not like how he treated her, hudson testified. earlier this year on the cbs program, "the talk "hudson spoke of trying to recover from the murders, though the memory of her loved ones is still vivid. >> i hear the voices of them every day. hearing my mom, jenny, knock it off or my mama saying jenny, why are you crying? you're always crying. >> reporter: hudson's sister julia testified monday that balfour once told her, if you leave me you will be the last to die. i'm going to kill your family first. prosecutors also argued balfour was enraged on the day of the
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murders when he saw birthday balloons in the family home, sensing they had been sent to julia by another man. in fact they were sent to julia by her sister jennifer. i'm dean reynolds in chicago. imeats time to show you headlines from around the world. "the wall street journal" reports the social security will run dry by 2033. that's three years earlier than previous estimates. the government blames the bad economy and the higher energy costs. we look at day one of the john edwards' trial. prosecutors told the jurors to quote, follow the money. he used campaigns to hide his pregnant mistress. >> china is the world's largest auto market and a big money maker for gm car sales which slowed down in china last year. the san francisco chronicle
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looks at facebook's enormous earnings. reporting more than $1 billion for if first quarter in 2012. it made $1.21 for each of the facebook users. 30-year-old clair squiers died suddenly in the final mile of her race. with the news of her death donations for the charity she was rags for soared more than half a
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surgery. have you ever had a kidney reviewed. she said are you going to throw this up in my face? and we'll hear from both of them. and a grown man finds himself on the list of missing children from 35 years ago. we'll show you what else steve karlter found when he looked into his past. you're watching "cbs this morning." > announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by the makers of zyrtec. zyrtec. love the air. gy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ]
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attack on mitt. >> he said unlike some people i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. >> so he didn't say unlike some people. unlike some people. but, folks, that does not mean it was poor journalism. he was practicing journalism plus. his sub text must have seemed true because his version was quoted verbatim by the "new york post" and "the washington post." i believe in journalism that's called picking up a deuce with your bare hands. firefighters were responding pto a call when an underground electrical fire caused at least four explosions on sunday night. watch that. two of the firefighters went to the hospital understandably for minor injuries. everyone, though thankfully is all right. anyone who's gone through
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airport security knows how big a headache it can be. the sun is shining brightly this means it might be right in your eyes if you're driving to the east. here's sharon at wjz traffic control. >> we're looking at the latest and some accidents. one in kingsville and it's blocking belair road. watch for a crash in aberdeen and nursery road. delays on the top and bottom of the beltway. pretty standard delays this hour. the traffic brought to you by professional wild life and animal control services.
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call -- >> let's take a look at the forecast today. 28 degrees right now. mixture of clouds and sun. much nicer day than the past few. >> in the news this morning a second tourist behind bars. live at city police headquarterrers. >> reporter: good morning everyone. police have made a lot of progress in the case but say they still need the public's help. a group of attackers outside courthouse east. 20 year old is behind bars charged with assault and armed robbery. davis is the second person charged in the case. last week he turned himself in. the detectives also identified 18 year old carter and 21 year old baldwin in the video. don, back to you. >> thank you very much.
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a baltimore county judge thrown out. according to the baltimore sun he cannot seek damages against the lawyer but he performed unnecessary surgeries at the hospital. lawyers for st. joseph and the doctor are not commenting publicly. the trevaughn martin case is having effects here. resent stories comparing the case to the one in florida will make finding unbias jurors here difficult. they're accused of beating a 15 year old. maryland getting help combating the use of cell phone use in prisons. a grant will help allow access. they will not interfere with calls outside the prison walls. hundreds of cell phones still get into the hands of prisoners
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now for a surprise for a teenager in china. did you see that? she fell through the sidewalk. this came from a surveillance video. a cab driver tried to rescue her. the cab driver gets stuck. firefighters had to pull them both out. welcome back to "cbs this morning." watch where you're walking. >> imagine giving up a kidney to help save your boss's life and then getting fired. a woman says it happened to her and she's now taking on her former boss. >> good morning. a 47-year-old mother of two debbie stevens is headed to court. if her case goes to trial and the judge sees things her way, it's going to seem like anyone's
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complaints about their boss is nothing in comparison. >> aside from being hurt i felt ashamed. >> last august stevens was working as an assistant to an executive at the atlantic automotive group which operates car dealerships on long island. her boss needed a new kidney. debbie offered to help in an uncommonly generous way. she became a link in a multiple linked kidney chain for her boss. >> i donated on her behalf so she could get another one, a good one that matched her perfectly. according to stevens the only i'm she got from her boss came in the form of an i'm, thanks more than i can ever say. >> no face-to-face visit? >> what am i going to do? how come you haven't said thank you? >> she returned to work three
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days later. then she didn't feel good. i no sooner walked in my house she said what are you doing, why are you home. i said jackie i don't feel well. she said you can't come and go as you please. people are going to think you're getting special treatment. >> she had complications like nerve issues in her face but the yelling didn't stop. >> she said it sounds like a persnal problem and i don't want to listen. i said it's a personal problem because i had a kidney removed. she said oh are you throwing this up in my face. >> stevens was given a different job 50 miles away before being fired. >> when you get fired, what reason do you get? >> they told me i wasn't working up to their standards, i was makeing mistakes. >> some reader, some viewer is going to read this story and say, hey it doesn't add up.
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>> it doesn't. if it didn't happen to myself i'd have a hard time believe it also. >> on monday jacqueline said this. i'll also with very grateful she gave me a kidney. i have nothing bad to say about her. she did a wonderful thing for me and i wish her the best. >> which didn't answer the obvious question. why, then did debbie stevens get fired? the atlantic auto group has this to say. it's unfortunate that one employee has used her own generous act to make up a groundless claim. atlantic auto treated her appropriately and acted honorably and fairly at every turn. as for debbie stevens, she's now left to prepare her lawsuit and deal with her raw emotions. >> what did you have to be ashamed about? >> it's just that nothing really -- >> this is one of those stories in which you say there must be something else here. they hired her back and there's no evidence of a bad performance
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record at all? >> you know she had worked there for the auto group, 2000 to 2010 and she took off to florida and they hired her back. they had this new job they transferred her to. she said she was slow in getting up and running but there's nothing that would appear to be so damaging that they needed to -- >> no one stepped forward to say here's what's going on sir. >> you know from hanging around the news business there's always another shoe to drop a piece of a story where you go a-ha. if this story turns out to be what debbie says it is then ladies and gentlemen, we have a new boss from hell story. a philadelphia man always knew he was adopted but he never suspected he'd been kidnapped. we'll show you his stunning story of discovery. and this thursday bill o'reilly -- that's right, bill o'reilly -- will be here in
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man clicked on a website for missing children and found a picture of himself. that sent him on a search to unlock the secrets of his past. "people" magazine first brought his emotional journey to our attention. >> good morning to you both. steve carter always knew he was adopted, but when he got older he always wondered who his biological parents where. that curiosity and a simple web search took him on a juny of his life. carlina white was kidnapped as a baby. when police found not only had she been found but solved her own kidnapping the case made nasal news. steve carter was watching and got him thinking.
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he had always been happy with his adoptive parents, but something never felt quite right sniet got to the point recently where i thought, wow, i wonder who my birth parents are. >> he wu adopted from a hawaiian adoption center. >> i don't have the features of a hawaiian. >> reporter: on a hunch he went to the website missingkids taum and searched through the database. he looked at the list and then -- >> you see a picture. who is it? >> my first thought is oh my god, it's me. >> reporter: it's a pier of what marx panama barnes the 5-month-old missing baby would look like at 34 years old. their birth dates, one day ago,
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birth places identical. e-mailed it to her mother. >> she said, oh my gosh that's you but it couldn't have been you. you wouldn't have been missing and we would have adopted you. >> reporter: carter called the police and they set up a dna test. it's true. marx panama barnes is steve carter that and that's whelp it really started to sink in i've got another family. >> reporter: a family with a mystery. carter learned his biological mother disappeared with him in 1977. she changed his day, his birthdate, even the race of his father. when his biological father reported the son and mother missing threes weeks later, the police couldn't connect the dots. he ended up in an adoption center. >> to this day do you know where your biological mother is? >> no one did.
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>> reporter: carter did find his biological father in a small town in northern california. marx barnes remembers hear his voice. >> he introduced himself over the phone and i was thunderstruck and amazed. we sort of in an hour in a conversation tried to catch up on 32 years. >> reporter: barnes says his biological mother always would leave with him but always returned. >> not one day went by when he wasn't in my thoughts. >> reporter: carter hasn't seen his father or any of his newly found blood relatives in person. it's still too soon. in the meantime he's piecing together his childhood. a cold case closed. one of the longest missing child cases in u.s. history solved. >> that's an incredible story. does that present any issues for him in terms of his identity?
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>> yes, to try to consolidate all the people he was over 34 years. he has two birthdays, three birth certificate ts ten names total and every time he tries to get help everyone throws up their hands. he said he's going to pick the name with the best credit report and go with that one. he jokes about it. >> talk about making lemonade. >> right. >> no one to help him. >> yeah. >> nobody to help him because everyone is dumbfounded. >> absolutely. it's not something that happens
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the hubble space telescope was launched on this date 20 years ago. they had to fix an antenna problem. they built a model using tinker toys to do that. i have tinker toys in my office. >> do you? >> i do. >> gayle king has what's coming up in our next hour. gayle. >> erica, i have no tinker toys. >> i'll share mine. >> they were going to lead to change or cause a collision. that's according to a controversial new book about the house of representatives. and just when you thought you knew everything about anthony weiner, he tells us everything that even his wife
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didn't know about. >> marrying a public figure not a good thing. >> kidnapp hawley believes the tsa has made an unending nightmare for passengers. i was flying the other day. i know exactly what you mean. do you have any ideas? >> tsa means to win back the public, get on the same team. >> right now we're far apart. the man behind "happy days" and "laverne & shirley," boy, garry marshall has done a lon and john electricity gou. he's very good. you're watching "cbs this morning." remember to cash us on facebook twitter, and google+. local news is next.
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bright sunshine reflecting off the roof tops downtown and making your car wind shield as well. sharon will have traffic after the weather. >> it looks like it's going to be a good one. we're going to see clouds this afternoon and this evening. 60 degrees is going to be the high and i want to show the forecast real quick. 38 right now by the way. we could have an evening shower. it's not beyond a mention. now to sharon wjz tv traffic control. >> good morning everyone. despite perfect driving conditions, weather wise we have abunch of accidents. one of them including a pedestrian. another accident on pleasant planes at east.
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one on summitt avenue. one blocking belair road. 13 minutes away. back over to you. >> thank you. in the news this morning two people in custody arrested in the beating of a tourist east downtown. video copts to draw outrage from around the world. we have the story. >> reporter: good morning everyone. police have made a lot of progress with this case. now, in the video gone viral the tourist is being robbed and laid stripped knacked. 20 year -- naked. davis is the second person charged in the case. last week a 20 year old turned himself in. they have also identified an 18 year old and 21 year old in the
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the news media has been -- america loves her first and we've been all over this one. this is from "cbs this morning" where senior white house correspondnt bill plante unwittingly provided us with our inintentional joke of the day. >> and this morning there's word of another agent who has taken a prostitute to a sensitive location. >> where'd they go? >> you know it's pretty good charlie, when bill plante makes jimmy kimmel's unintentional joke to. a sensitive location. we're talking about sensitive things here, too this morning. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose.
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kip hawley says for most travelers flying is an unending nightmare. he says security measures including those put into place when he was head of that agency. >> and now he's written a book "permanent emergency." good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> you know mr. hawley i have to tell you, even the title of your book was a little unsettling to me. one of the things that stuck out to me, you said we need to thing about no more banned items and just allows liquids and that goes against everything we've been taught over the last nine ten years. >> we ran so fast after 9/11 to stop future attacks but we kept moving but never pulled out the old measures. what i'm saying is a lot of the old measures that worked well in 2001 2002 have been well protected and we no longer need to prohibit those things. >> what are the measures no
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longer unneeded? >> knives blunt instruments, things that could cut people. >> why don't we need to prevent knives? >> because you can't take over a plane with a knife. >> because the door's locksed? >> you have 300 passengers on bond and an air marshal. you can't take over the plane with a knife. it's a risk management issue and say, yes, somebody could bring a knife and stab the guy next to him. that's a risk. and when i tried to get small scissors taken off the list there was a scream of there'll be blood running in the aisles. what i want is you've got to find the bachombs because the bomb will take down a plane. if you're so busy look for swiss army knives it diverts the focus. focus on bombs, toxins things
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that can destroy the plane. >> one of the things that you point out is we've got to kind of stop treating people like cattle, which is putting them through this mill and use a smarter system where you gauge on behavior and other signals and say i'm going look at this person more than person. that is the 75-year-old grandmother in the wheelchair versus the nervous guy with the backpack but that kind of gets toward that highly charged word "profiling." how do you do one without falling into the trap of another? >> you do behavior based which is difference than appearance based. you don't look for young middle eastern males and say, a-ha. we're going after them. you look for a bach. you have to -- there's something in the physical behavior that's independent of arjs gender ethnicity, that will give you a clue, and then you can follow up
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on it. >> there has to be a better way. we all say we have to do whatever we do to keep it safe. until they throw away your brand-new bottle of contact solution, i'm thinking when you do something like that it seems foolish but on the other hand liquids are a deterrent. what do you need to do? >> well, i think what the public needs to understand is that there is a whole understream of threats that's threatened the security measures. i'm saying it's risk management where you say now we can detect threat liquids and we can detect threat liquids but because it produces false positives, the lines would be long some of what i would say is open that up to the public and say, hey, have a couple of lanes over here that if you want to bring your big bottles, knock yourself out but it's a little longer line than
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if you leave it behind. >> i've always read that the israelis are the smartest about this. is that true, and if it is, what is it they do because my impression is they have a different attitude about who might be -- >> charlie, the israeli secret is that the public is totally engaged with the security service s services, and that is the power of it. they do questioning and a lot of security things, but it is the heart of the israeli people and the security services who work together to stop terrorism in their land. >> and that's what we have to do? >> that's what we need to get here. >> isn't the key piece of israelis for flying really in the interview? >> part of it. it's part of it. >> an employee's talking to you saying where are you coming from and where are you going that is correct ire looking at every piece of your pave and they're very well training. isn't that close to what you're
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talk about. >> yes, yes, absolutely. they have the ability. these are smart people and they're well trained but if you tell the work force get into people's bags and fish for stuff, they're not using their brains. >> the easter egg hunt. >> the easter egg hunt. >> i found the light sneer yeah. but if you let people back and observe and have conversations -- >> that begs the question. is there resistance to being smarter? >> yes. >> i want to stee if kidnap will admit it. >> the answer is yes. if you allow people to be smart, that is you allow them to make mistakes. and if you're allowed to make mistakes you're going to end up on this show with others being asked how could you -- i felt very cattle-like the
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other day. i always do when i go three security. do you think we still need the tsa? >> absolutely. >> congressman john mikko in florida says it's a bloated brock circle it's thousands standing around. >> what would he do? leave it to the airlines? >> he would privatize it. i have to caveat that mikko other 50 years has received money from companies that would be the privatizer. >> it can work but the way we do it is we take the tsa method and put a surcharge on it. so if we really allowed private sectors and security companies to do things like they do in israel, that would do it. but asking for the same thing with a price mark-up really wouldn't -- >> tas could be a regular.
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i think being a regulate never this business is a bad thing because it's not like a mechanical defect that when you pfind a mechanical defect you find it and it's done. a regulatory approach to security is dangerous. >> i wonder if anyone's going to invite you to dinner now saying -- >> i think they're saying go because they want do more real security things than just have 20-second interactions with the public that's not very satisfactory. they want to do security. thank you. john muller always good morning. it is a really pretty day. having say that, i want to mention clouds will pile in a
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at the chit call markets. >> with summer just around the corner, some of us are already thinking about backyard barbecues and days at the beach and they have soum new ideas of tap. >> no, bill it tastes great. >> less fill george. >> it tastes great. >> from bickers sporting stars. >> spuds mackenzie. >> to a loveable bull tear your named spuds mackenzie. they have evolved before our favorite lives making an undeniable impact of modern culture but 37 years after the first light beer was formed the industry may be grasping for a new identity. >> i think it's lost touch with the beer drinker and they got tied up in things like drinkability and test. it's really about an emotional
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connection. >> amid sagging sales, two of the breweries are trying to reconnect, moving toward the familiar theme of carbs, calories, and taste and opting instead for an image of brotherhood bound by beer. that familiar tag line seen more than three decades ago is a centerpiece of miller lite's new commercial. >> that's a line that really resonates and is already being used and frankly we're repurposing it. >> here we go. >> in the country's top brew, bud light was once the beer that won't fill you up and never let down. companies are hoping the latest ad blitz will get the beer back into the bellies of consumers as beer sales have droked.
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although one area is down craft is already on the rise. >> stephen hinn dri is president and founder of brooklyn brewery. >> they've lost 7% of their market, 15 barrels of beer which is a real great lake of beer. at the same time craft beer has grown double digited. >> they have 15% increase from the year before. they now represent more than 5 of the u.s. market its biggest share yet. >> how is craft beer expanding in america and how fast? >> there are now more than 20 2,000 breweries in the united states.
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>> this year we'll do about $40 million in sales. our business is booming. >> will they ever be a substantial segment of the beers by. >> i have my doubts. >> ail thee he doesn't seem them as a real juggernaut they see it as important. >> guys that leave nobody behind behind. >> with smumer aproefrpd they however hoping on not geoffs left mind. in fact earlier this this year budweiser, now number two selling beer. garry marshall is here. we'll a like back.
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25 minutes past 8:00. sharon is here to wrap up the rush. marty has the weather. >> go ahead and take a look at the forecast today. 60's the high. i think we get a mixture of clouds and sun and a bit overcast towards dinner. there is a mention of an evening shower. otherwise mostly cloudy and overnight of 40. here is sharon. >> hi, not so great on the roads. too many problems to mention. we have an accident on the beltway on the inner loop. on the one on the inner loop of the beltway at 795.
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south willing road. also watch for jfx delays, 16 minutes now on the south bound side of the jfx and that's an 11 minute average speed taking a live lookout side. you can see those delays. there you can see we have delays on the beltway and on 50 right now at the bridge. back over to you. >> thank you. a gnars, cedars of the assault of a tourist caught on cell phone cameras. we have the story. >> reporter: this has made a lot of progress. they still need the public's help. in the video gone viral a tourist is being robbed and stripped naked. a 20 year old is behind bars charged with assault and armed robbery. he is the second person charged. last week a 20 year old turned
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himself in. detectives have also identified an 18 year old and 21 year old in the video. currently, warrants are out for both of their arrest. john, back to you. >> thank you. one of the two brothers acquitted of animal abuse is headed to prison this morning for a different crime. he pleaded guilty to attempted murder. they were acquitted for setting a pit bull on fire. he was free on bail from that case when prosecutors said he tried to kill a man and his sister. the governor will meet today to see about a special session for the doomsday budget. the body failed to pass a revenue package needed to avoid millions of dollars in budget cuts. i a -- stay with wjz 13
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is it really snowing in buffalo in april? how can that be true? but it's true. welcome back to "cbs this morning." garry marshal has kept america laughing and cracking us up for half a century, creating some of the most funniest movies and sitcoms that have ever been produced ♪ that's the story of that's the glory of love ♪ >> you know i've got your name. richard cunningham i i'm off to ork.
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♪ >> shut up. >> i beg your pardon? >> some spark of regular nation? >> we don't know. >> maybe a spark on this. >> i wouldn't yes, sir, >> big mistake. >> ♪ pretty woman don't leave me cry ♪ ♪ don't walk away ♪ ♪ because you are the wind beneath my wings ♪ >> his memoir is called "my happy days in hollywood."
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garry marshall welcome. i hope you owned all of this. >> all of the clips? >> no. all of those television sitcoms. >> you get a little -- a piece of the pie. not as big as the studio. when you add them up with did okay. no complaints. >> lucille ball. tell us what made her probably the best person ever in reruns. >> well they men told me that. i said i do sophisticated stuff, i don't want to do lucy nechl. >> lucy's great. truthfully, i wrote my last lucy in 1965. i still get a check.
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it's 7 krebts but so whalk. >> i love how you talk about your mom. you said your mom was your first director and your mom loving to last. i them you spent your whole career wanting to make us laef. >> yes. she put on recitals and shows. was no good at dancings so he made me the druchler. i just watched her. she was great. >> does every decade have its own kind of comedy. whal we see on tv is in control today but would. have been. and everything on yesterday wouldn't -- >> they say that, but i don't believe it.
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odd couple is still airing. still you want to keep drn i had three channels to work in my day >> abc, cbs, nbc. >> tlaesings and and now you can find more people who are making entertainment no matter where you look. some shows are good, some are not. >> you talked about being edgy. on happy days you couldn't say the word "virgin." >> we couldn't use the world so we'd say pure as snow but she's drifting. you have to be clever. >> you can drift away from purity. it's just the censureship is
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different. i think some of it helps to make it better. >> are you still trying to create movies for tell investigation. >>y. i created a show for my son, my sister penny. we'll probably make it wichita. >> the bronx is changing. >> we had the original "happy days" in the bronx. then we move it it to milwaukee. your family was so important to me. was it very important to you? >> go many. >> your family was so important to you and growing up it almost seems like your kidders were your focus group. seems like you got your idea
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from your son. >> he wouldn't watch "happy day days". my son said there are no face people rmts i said maup consider -- >> he said it could be a dream. >> where do you put "pretty woman? wts in it survived all of us. we did very, very well. we didn't know what it was about when we started. we figured it out. julie was special. richard joined us. he said you don't knead me. i said you need you. he was great. >> you didn't know what the ending was sfwhoo it's scary in
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this business because it makes you think a lot. till we finally heat a hair tail. i said tell me about the girl if the tower. tell it and it will bral. than's not my finest shot but it helped us with the ending. >> it worked for me. >> it worked for a lot of people. >> did you like pretty woman? >> i did. my mother did too. she watched it more than once. great, thank you. happy days in hollywood is availability today in bookstores and online. sometimes washington seems like one big comemy. wu ul go beep that
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he said there's no distinctly classic than american congress. public approval of the house of representatives is now at an all-time low. best-selling author robert draper might have a reason why. "do not ask what we do." >> i did not get the pink tie note. >> you need to clip that on your tie. >> thank you very much for doing that. what do we see when we look inside the house of representatives today? we know it's republican controlled majority. we know that a lot of attention has been paid to the tea party. we know there have been some scandals. >> we see dysfunction more than anything else. the republican controlled house is basically the tip of the spear against the obama
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administration. it's a real paradox that the most distinctly democratic indianapolis substitution in america is the most loathed. john dingell is quoted in the book saying i think pedophiles would do better. >> many say, i dislike very much congress but i like my congressman orwoman woman. >> they do say that. that's when public opinion started to plummet for this house. they moved in. 87 freshmen on the tea party movement but instead the government came to a virtual standstill. >> you spent a little bit of time with the freshman class, the frebman republicans. they raised a little ruckus pconsidering a lot of them didn't have any kind of political experience. >> about a third of them did not. it's tippicypical case. the freshman are to be seen, not heard.
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there was a group who celebrated their own powerlessness. they were entertainers. the. >> that's why they came in. part of their issue is people have been in too long and have been doing the same thing for too long. but their influence has been pretty impressive especially when it comes to house speaker boehner in some instances. >> that's right. i think speaker boehner recognizes it. he has an expression that when you say follow me and you start walking and look over your shoulder and they're not following you learn you're not leading. you're taking a walk. there was no point giving orders if people weren't going to obey them. >> what about the budget. they said they had to deal with the president and the president didn't follow through but you alluded in your book to the fact that it was boehner who backed
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down due to pressure. >> what happened is the freshmen and conservative speakers kept pushing speaker boehner farther and farther to the right and he because warned by some of his allies that if he produced a deal with president obama that only got 60 votes, he stood the chance of a mutiny. >> boehner said he was prepared to risk his speakership. do you doubt that? >> i do doubt that. he wins an honor in suicide and -- >> suicide or leadership? leadership takes risks. >> that's true. i think he's temperamentally suited for this job because he recognizes he's got a very conservativ debs. he can'tlefully ignore the movement that blew them in the tower but at is tame time he's
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trying to get deals done. >> across the aisle with nancy pelosi. >> were strong-willed individual and in much more control of her caucus than speaker boehner was of his. she, show very much wanted to have an active agenda in 2009/2010. she was the one who wanted the senate bill the cap and trade, which was not very popular. and the massive bill that democrats can't explain, much less defend. >> you were taking a look at andrew weiner before this embarrassing kur fluffle. why? >> he's a perfectost perfect moderate.
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he was the counterthruster as it were. so i knew he was going to be in the thick of things. i didn't know that his life would erupt in scandal. >> you wrote about the new congressman who's a former staffer. >> that's right. >> one last question. former president bush who you wrote a book about, he seems to like being post-president. >> very much so. i think it's true what he said all along. he doesn't crave the presidency. i think he enjoyed being president but he likes his private life being on his ranch in crawford being more so than in dallas. i suspect even though he givens speeches he's going to remain a private person. >> before we go you said there's something about anthony weiner that even people didn't know that was rough. >> very rough on the star and in
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a way that was -- not just demanding. he could be pretty nasty toward them. >> does he have a political future? >> doubtful doubtful. but if it's him versus alec baldwin, we shah see. >> to be continued. thank you. >> my pleasure. do not ask what good we do is available in bookstores and online. john lithgow has played everything from an alien to a killer. but his last performance in the role of a lifetime. find out
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rock from the sun." i love that, too, along with a dozen other shows that -- >> i want to say lithgow, lithgow. what is it? >> you say lithgow. everyone will follow you. >> i saw it out there. >> was that you out there making all that noise? >> that was me. cheering you on. you call it a role of a lifetime playing a role of somebody. >> the liberating thing about playing joe is it's a very small number of people who knew him. >> really okay. >> who remember him. it's not like playing fdr or lyndon johnson where people sit there judging how close or far away you are from the real thing. people really don't know what joe looked or sounded like.
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i've done a lot of research. he was a foot shorter than i am. he had extraordinary manners, affectations, and an amazing accent this kind of accent. so extreme that i do a very modern version of it or it would be too theatrical. very flamboyant and sort of camp in an era as long as you didn't talk about what was at its roots s s. >> i didn't know him but i thought you nailed sniet why was he interesting? >> he was extraordinarily powerful. in his way he was more powerful as a journalist than anyone. the closest thing is probably you, charlie. but he was a syndicated columnist for a good part of his career. >> john kennedy came to dinner. >> he considered himself john
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kennedy's king maker. he was powerful but he also felt powerful. he was extraordinarily arrogant. this is the lynchpin the personal side of his story. he was entrapped by the kgb, goodness knows why, but they blackmailed him. he with us a closeted gay man when it was very very dangerous. career-destroyed information, the kgb took compromising photographs with him in bed with a young russian agent. early on in the mid-50s and that was the kind -- i mean that -- somewhere in the back of his mind for the rest of his life must have been and yet he dealt
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with it in what i regard as a very kind of heroic way. >> he appeared to be compromised. he said you're not going to have me. >> that's a very powerful moment in the play in my humble opinion. >> it is. absolutely. it's a very powerful play and powerful importance to begin with but even though you sort of come from theater roots, i was reading you wanted to resist theater and now you say theater, beyond film or television is the most few filling place to be. when did you finally give in? >> it was during college days. i grew up in a theater family and i didn't wasn't to go in the family business. obviously i wanted to be an artist, a printer and a paint maker. a safer career. off i went to college and within a week i was cast in a main stage show in a leading role.
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>> five minutes before 9:00 on this nice sunday morning. >> let's look at the forecast for the day. there will be tons of clouds and sun through the afternoon, by dinnertime may be some overclass. i'm not so concerned about the shower. it will be close. 64 is a high. 76 on thursday with a shower. that 60s friday and saturday, albeit with a shower. >> a second arrest in the beating of a tourist caught on camera in your courthouse east. among the degree a ghost is on the story. >> good morning, everyone. police have made a lot of progress in the case but they need the public health. a tourist is beaten, robbed,
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and later stripped naked by a group of attackers. 20-year-old behind bars charged with assault to armed robbery. it's the second person charged in the case. last week 20-year-old aaron parsons turned himself in. detectives have also identified the out -- the angelo carter. currently, warrants are out for their arrests. >> a baltimore county judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit. the cardiologist cannot seek damages against his former employer. he's accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary heart stent surgeries. lawyers are not commenting publicly. maryland getting help in combating the problem with cell phone use inside prisons. a federal grant would help to play new technology known as managed access. it would allow calls on approved cell phones only. the state says despite the
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increased screening, hundreds of cell phones to get into the hands of maryland prisoners. the trayvon martin case in florida is having an effect on the case here. the attorneys for the jewish brothers are asking for a postponement of their case. they say recent stories comparing it to the one in florida will make finding unbiased jurors hear difficult. new details in the arrest of local civil rights leader and former annapolis alderman carl snowden then. officers smelled marijuana coming from his car. police say it was in the car along with a registered offender. the arrest comes as he announced plans to sue for wrongly gathering information about him for political purposes. most of us thought april showers yesterday, but in western maryland, of greater april nor easter brought snow.
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you know what's exciting? graduation. when i look up into my students faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix.
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