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good morning. it is monday, june 18, 2012. welcome to studio 57. this is cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. gayle king is off today. markets around the world react this morning after greek voters go to the polls p. mitt romney tells bob schieffer president obama is playing politics with deportation but he won't say if he'd get rid of the new policy. i'm erica hill. questions about sky diving and its lack of regulations after a man taking his first jump and his instructor fall to their death. and the defense gets ready to start its case into jerry sandusky's sex abuse trial after a victory in court on friday. but first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds.
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president obama and other world leaders are gathering in los cabos mexico. >> the g-20 summit to kick off with a sigh of relief. european markets opened stronger this morning. >> this is a victory for all europe. >> if you're looking for immigration reform, comprehensive reform, mitt romney has been clear he's not going to be a solution. >> you need to hammer the president on this now habitual abuse of power. >> i couldn't know why he feels stopgap measures are the right way to go. >> what would you have him do? did he it for politics. >> that's a big part of the equation. rodney king, the man at center of an infamous police beating which innig ining ignit angeles riots has died. >> can't we all just get along? that's how i'd like to be remembered after i'm dead and
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gone. northern colorado continues to burn. crews have evacuated 230 additional homes. growing wildfire in san diego county. 150 homes are under mandatory evacuation orders. >> i'm like, wait. >> oh, no. i think we might have a disqualification here. >> the 2012 united states open champion. >> it was a slow start but i knew that -- >> wade on the drive -- reverse. miami will take a 2-1 lead in these be in be finals. >> on cbs this morning. >> they call me the black bobby knight. welcome to cbs "this
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morning." europe's financial markets are giving up early gains after a solid day for the asian markets. it is a sign that investors need time to rebuild confidence after sunday's critical election in greece. >> they're forming a new government that would prevent governmenting from dumping the euro. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and erica. the headline of this newspaper really says it all -- a result that brings a bret of relief for the country. that's what the mood here is in greece. it is more about relief than jubilation. for many people, new democracies were simply the least worst option. as new democracy leader declares victory last night, there were sighs of relief. >> it is good for the country, for the greek people, for the civility of the country and the civility of europe.
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>> reporter: for many, this election was seen as a r referendum on greece's future in the european monetary union, a choice between the anti-austerity party who promised to rip up the bail-out plan and the central right new democracy party who vowed to keep greece in europe at all costs. >> today the greek people express their will to stay anchored with the euro, remain an integral part of the eurozone, honor the country's commitments, and force their growth. >> reporter: it will not be an easy road. after five consecutive years of recession, almost one-quarter of greeks are unemployed and the spector of renewed street riots hangs over the country. and the next government will face an emboldened opposition led by the charismatic 37-year-old who last night vowed
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that the people would keep up the fight against austerity. now the real trouble begins. new democracy needs to form a coalition government which is something that they were unable do after the last election but with greece's money running out quickly, there is a sense that this needs to get done and it needs to get done now. >> is there a sense of optimism this morning? in greece, what's the mood there? >> reporter: there's not a sense of optimism, to be honest, erica. i think there is a sense of impatience. this is a limited mandate. the people of greece have had enough, they can't take any more of this austerity and they need to start seeing changes soon. >> thank you very much. with us, u.s. managing editor for "the financial times." welcome. what do you make of this election and how significant it will be in terms of not precipitating a kind of global disaster? >> well, i think the markets are reacting so far this morning in
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asia and european trading says it all. i mean people were initially relieved that the worst case scenario didn't come true, but there's still a lot concern about where the eurozone is going when the markets went up initially, then fell back in asia. the catchphrase that's going around the market this morning is that we managed to avoid grexit at the moment, we're now into spanish panic because we're already seeing signs investors are getting increasingly concerned about what's happening with spain. >> what did they do about spain? >> what everyone's looking at right now is this g-20 summit and whether there is any sign that the eurozone leaders can actually formulate a cohesive package to try and deal with the underlying problems in the eurozone. essentially that means moving towards telling europe more like united states, if you like, in terms of how you actually manage the banking system and financial system. >> that kind of united action that prevented a total collapse
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of our system. >> exactly. what people are saying you need to see now are more like the united states and europe so you have a joint banking system, you have a kind of fdic program for europe and all the european banks. perhaps most importantly of all, you ought to see action to boost group, either issuing bonds to try and support projects. things like that. >> that seems to be what the worry is. if you listen to what's happening at the g-20, and their concern that the global recovery has stalled and they can't find the growth. >> absolutely. we have a survey this morning which we conducted with the brookings institute looking at what business leaders across the world are saying about growth and there is real feeling that once again for the third year in a row we started the year feeling a bit more optimistic and now, due to the sense of concern about europe, there's a real feeling that things are stalled, if not people are getting panic stricken. what that boils down to is that you have companies across america and elsewhere essentially saying, well, we're
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just not going to spend money, we're not going to invest, we're not going to hire people. consumers are feeling nervous saying, well, maybe we'll wait. if people get into that kind of freezing psychological mood, that really hurts a chance of a proper recovery. >> is there anything that the u.s. can or should be doing to help influence which way europe goes. >> that's exactly the issue. because the asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, back then people talked about the committee to save the world, this idea that american leaders could go forward on the world stage and say, right, this is what you need do. today down in mexico you'll certainly see american leaders saying we're actually -- this is what you should do but they don't have very much power to force anyone in europe to actually act. so we've gone from the g-20 to a g-0 where essentially there is nobody in charge right now. >> thank you. nice to have you here. this morning, president obama is in mexico for that g-20
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summit jillian just mentioned. >> norah o'donnell is in los cabos, mexico. what are officials saying this morning about the outcome in greece? >> reporter: well, good morning. white house officials are expressing a sigh of relief over those greek elections but there's still concern that the european fiscal crisis could continue to slow growth here in the u.s. and could ultimately imperil president obama's hopes for a second term. so europe is going to dominate this meeting of the 20 most powerful economies in the world. the white house is trying to downplay expectations. they said there's no magic solution that's going to come out of these meetings here but what they hope is that this meeting will be a catalyst for action for another meeting in europe two weeks from now amongst the europeans. that's on june 28th. i can tell you, charlie, it is interesting to see the white house has said all along and publicly that this is a problem for europe, europe has the capacity to solve it, but behind
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the scenes they are working furiously with the president talking with many of these leaders in europe, also to treasury secretary geithner behind the scenes because they are so concerned about that contagion continuing to spread to the u.s. and continuing to slow growth for the u.s. economy. >> beyond that european global economic crisis, there's also this -- opportunity for the president to have bilateral conversations with the prime minister -- the president of russia, as well as the president of china. do they expect anything to come out of that? >> reporter: well, that is the big story here today, charlie. president obama's first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin since putin regained power in russia. their meeting is set for more than an hour. there is a great deal of tension right now between u.s.-russian relations. at the some of the agenda will be syria. russia is seen as a key player who of course has blocked two u.n. security council resolutions and just last week
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we heard the secretary of state hillary clinton say that russia was continuing to send arms to syria. you can bet that is going to be the subject of this meeting today, as well as the situation in iran. charlie? >> norah o'donnell, thank you so much. we turn now to the political fallout from president obama's decision to stop deporting some illegal immigrants. >> the president announced that new policy on friday so there were plenty of discussions about it over the weekend. the change left mitt romney in a bit of a sticky spot. >> reporter: good morning, erica. romney talked to bob schieffer just a day after the president announced that new immigration policy and he refused to answer bob's repeated and persistent questions about whether he would keep the policy if congress didn't act. >> we're going do it here in pennsylvania with your help! >> reporter: for romney, it is a tricky balancing act. he's aggressively courting the hispanic vote which could be decisive in the election but with a conservative base that
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wants tough immigration policies. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. >> but would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution. >> reporter: the president's decision would allow some 800,000 people who came to the u.s. illegally as children to stay here if they meet certain conditions. they also could apply for work permits. romney said he sympathizes with children who came here illegally through no fault of their own but says he wants a comprehensive immigration plan passed by congress and not a presidential degree which he says reeks of election year poll six. >> so he did it for politics. >> well, that's certainly a big part of the equation. >> reporter: on sunday, white house senior advisor david plouffe came under tough questions of his own insisting that cnn's candy crowley the new policy was not driven by politics. >> we've been trying to get the dream act done, trying to pass
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reform. >> so it was not done with some political consideration. >> it was not, candy. >> five months before the election? spl wel >> well, listen. who knows how the politics will turn out but this decision was the right decision. we'll see. >> reporter: romney plans to return to an issue he is more comfortable with, the economy as he continues the bus tour monday in states mr. obama won in 2008. now today romney will be in wisconsin can congressman paul ryan, he's a key supporter and conservative many would like to see as romney's potential nominee for vice president. this is romney's first visit to wisconsin since scott walker, the republican governor, won a recall election earlier this month and that victory was seen as a big win for conservatives. so now we're seeing the romney campaign. they're really hoping to pick up on some of that momentum during their visit. erica and charlie? >> jen crawford, thank you. let's bring in chief washington correspondent host of "face the nation," bob schieffer. good morning. >> hey, charlie. >> talk about the timing on the part of president obama and what impact it might have on the
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republicans, including the vice presidential selection. >> well, i mean, i thought it's interesting to see mr. plouffe there saying that this decision had nothing to do with politics in an election year. if that is so, then i would think that mr. romney's refusal to get specific on what he would do about it also had nothing to do with politics. this is a political year and i think, frankly, that the president's move caught the romney campaign a little bit off guard. if not off guard, certainly it caught them by surprise. and i think they're still crafting what governor romney's position on this would be. but one thing is for certain -- yesterday it became very clear that we were not going to get an answer from governor romney on exactly what he would do about
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th this. by november it is still going to be a very big issue in this campaign, charlie. it's an issue that really has one of those things where there's a great divide between republicans and democrats, liberals and conservatives. it's an issue and it's still an issue and will be right down to the wire, i think. >> do most people believe romney will have to have a different position than he did during the primary campaign? >> well, he cannot be unaware of the growing power of the hispanic vote. that is just a matter of vote. there are more and more hispanics now. a lot of them are down in florida. the hispanic vote in florida used to be cubans who tend to vote republican, but now you have a number v of non-cuban hispanics in florida which is certainly one of the battleground states and they do not -- the non-cuban-hispanics do not always tend to vote republican. a lot of them are democrats like
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the vast majority of the hispanics in texas. they generally are the most reliable of the democratic votes. >> one thing about governor romney, he's using this time now to sort of test out possible running mates. paul ryan is with him. marco rubio has been with him. how do we know what this is about in terms of the immigration initiative making the chances of rubio more likely? >> well within think it puts rubio on the short list. i don't think there's any question about that. but i'll tell you, if there's one thing i came away from all of this with is governor romney has not made up his mind who his vice presidential running mate is going to be. he may know in his heart of hearts but he's not making any -- getting any hint of who it's going to be. in fact, one of the reasons i didn't even ask him during the interview is because before the interview and all week i've been
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talking to people on the campaign. they said, look -- he's not going to tell you. you can ask him, but you're not going to get any news on that. so i didn't bring it up. and later when we were just riding on the bus and we were talking off camera, i said to him, well, governor, who's your running mate going to be? he said if i told you, i'd have to shoot you. i didn't think we were going to get anything. obviously he was joking, i always have to stress in this day of the internet and so forth. that was a j-o-k-e -- joke. but the bottom line is, they haven't settled on who it's going to be. i would guess, charlie, they're going to make that announcement some time aftbefore the convent. with the democratic convention coming so closely on the heels of the republican one, they want to get a little publicity bump out of it and they wouldn't necessarily get that if they waited until the convention. but so far, there is no decision made on who that's going to be.
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>> bob schieffer, thank you so much for joining us this morning. an islamist candidate is claiming victory this morning in egypt's first free presidential election. early results show the candidate from the muslim brotherhood took 52% of the vote. more evacuations have been ordered in northern colorado where firefighters are battling a growing forest fire. the hyde park fire west of ft. collins has destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in colorado's history. the fire pushed by strong winds has burned 87 square miles. local sheriffs have started that trols patrols to watch for looting. the alaska dispatch reports recovery efforts have been called off for nour japanese climbers on mount mckinley. national park service says they were swept aby way an avalanche early wednesday morning. the "l.a. times" reports on the death of rodney king.
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in 1991 a videotape of king being beaten by los angeles police shocked the nation and led to deadly race riots after the officers were found not guilty. king's body was found early sunday at the bottom of his swimming pool. he was 47 years old. in our next hour we'll look at how the rodney king case still has an impact 21 years later. in london, an investigation by the sunday times has exposed a massive black market for tickets to the summer olympics. the newspaper says olympic officials in dozens of countries sold thousands of tickets on the side. tickets for the most popular events were sold for up to ten times their face value. the "san francisco chronicle" reports microsoft may unveil its own tablet computer today. it will run the next version of the windows operating system and is aimed and directly competing
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it's 26 minutes past 7:00. clouds over head. los angeles of ships still in the -- lots of ships in the still inner harbor for sailabration. sharon will have traffic after tim'swet every. -- tim's weather. >> we have some widely shattered showers in already. hopefully none of these will be right around the time of the sailabration spectacular at 11:00. nothing that will be heavy enough to hamper the festivitiesment -- tes -- festivities. 78 today, over night lows around 64. now we are checking the roads with sharon gibala. good morning. if you are just about the heed out, a bunch of -- head out, a bufrm of accidents -- a bunch of sdepts to get in your -- accidents to
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towers the ships. the overture of 2012 was performed by the orchestra. these have been days to remember. today at 11:00 this ceremony commemorating the declaration of war given the british 20 -- against the british 200 years ago today. don, back to you. >> thank you very much. wjz will bing you that ceremony live at 11:00 this morning with bob shafer from cbs news along with jessica and mary. today an invest -- investigation is underway after a deadly file. four of the people in the house were able to escape. the cause of the fire still not known. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next,why an airman has been hiding from the united states air force. also a look at a sky diving accident
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watch carefully here. we'll show you -- there's one way to end a match. he got a little upset when he lost a point yesterday, kicked the box in front of the line judge. but it didn't stop there. the judge then got a cut on his leg from that. he was leading the final 1-0 sets but was disqualified. welcome back to cbs "this morning." maiming a line judge. >> not something you want to do unless you would like the match to end early. >> in which case, there you go. >> the investigation will come later. may not be pretty. an american who disappeared from his air force base in the 1980s has been telling an
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amazing story. he's been hiding in plain sight all that time. he's living in stockholm, sweden under an assumed name. >> reporter: for nearly 30 years, david helmler harbored a secret. his family in america didn't know where he was, and his swedish wife didn't know who he really was. >> i have been living 28 years in lies, lying to my friends and family. >> reporter: he was a fugitive, a desserter. he fled his post at the air force base in germany in 1984, reportedly distraught over president ronald reagan's policies regarding nicaragua, south africa and iraq. >> i started feeling pretty bad. i just left and started fainting. i asked for a discharge. >> reporter: when his request was denied, he vanished and his family feared the worst. >> i personally believed he committed suicide.
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he had depression issues back then. >> reporter: but he was not dead. he was actually alive and well, having hitchhiked from his base in southern germany to copenhagen, denmark, and eventually to stockholm, sweden, a journey of over 1,000 miles. as he told the swedish newspaper, he took on a fake name, got married, fathered three children, and even got a job with the swedish government. >> i just waited until i would get caught but the months went, i didn't get caught. >> reporter: even so, the air force says they never stopped looking for him. they suspected he was hiding in sweden and made him one of their eight most wanted fugitives, even releasing an age progressed picture. but he was able to stay one step ahead because no one knew his true identity. not even his wife. still, decades of living on the run eventually wore him down. this may he finally spoke with
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his younger brother, tom. >> i understood immediately. so did everyone in my family. not one person in the family was upset with him in any way. we were just blessed and ecstatic. >> reporter: by coming forward so publicly now, hemler hopes his wife and children will not be caught off guard if he is ever arrested. for now though, he's safe in sweden which won't extradite him to the u.s. >> so i hope that the authorities can say that i've already been punished enough. my hope is to be able to return to see my parents in the united states. >> reporter: the air force doesn't quite see it that way. they're just waiting for the moment hemler sets foot outside sweden. when he does, they say they will finally get their man. for cbs "this morning," michelle miller in new york. former airman david hemler is with us now from stockholm. good morning. >> good afternoon. >> looking back, are you
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satisfied with what you did or do you look back with regret? >> oh, of course i look back with regret. i got myself in a big mess about 28 years ago. i didn't know how to get out of it. of course, if i have a chance to go back and do things differently. >> what would you do differently? >> i probably would have talked more. i had problems and didn't have anyone to talk about my problems and felt so despaired, i just had to get away. if i could go back again, i know that i have to talk a little bit more seriously and and make more demands about my needs. >> you said you feel that you've been punished enough at this point. yet there could be further punishment. do you feel that you're now above that? >> what do you mean above that. my parents have been -- i've been without my parents 28 years. it feels like i've been punished
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enough. the other thing is that i would be punished by sitting in a military prison a few years that would affect other people. it would affect my parents. they would like to see me. it would affect my wife and children if i would have to be away also. >> so if you're concerned about that, why come forward? >> because if i to see my parents and my children have to see their grandparents. >> the question i still don't really understand is, yes, you want to see your parents. and yes, everyone would like that opportunity. but do you believe that the air force believes that you deserve punishment? >> i don't know at this time. it's been a long time. it's hard to understand why after this long time what any punishment would do. it wouldn't try to correct me never to do the same thing again because of course i would never do it again. basic reason i don't understand
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why. i know i was wrong leaving the base but i had asked for a discharge and was refused. i think i was recruited at too early of an age also. i didn't really know what i wanted to do then. >> you said part of the reason you did this was for your children. do you believe this is the example that you wanted to set for your children, that you'd like them to follow? >> no, i don't. i want to help them through their lives so they don't have to go through the same mistakes that i have. >> do you believe at all that you're showing them you can do something without consequence? >> i think i've had very serious consequences already. basically what i'm trying to say is the consequences of sitting in a military prison would affect other people also. probably more than myself. my parents not being able to see me and my children and wife also missing me if i had's be away. >> david hemler, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. it was supposed to be a
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diving on friday at the ushlging urge i urging of his wife. >> reporter: sky diving. it tops so many people's list of things they just got to try despite the deadly risk. when 49-year-old manhattan real estate executive david winoker took the leap last friday to celebrate his friend's 50th birthday, he assumed his life was in capable hands. harnessed to his instructor, the husband and father of three jumped out of an airplane. witnesses told police there was a parachute malfunction. moments later winoker and his 25-year-old instructor hit the ground and were killed. the united states parachute association says 3 million people sky dive in the country every year. in 2011, there were 21 related fatalities. of those, just one was a tandem
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jump like winoker's. >> nobody will tell that you sky diving is completely safe. >> reporter: the uspa acts as a non-governmental regulatory body in a mostly self-regulated industry. the faa does however set guidelines for tandem jumps. each jump requires two parachutes and each instructor needs a minimum of three years experience and 500 jumps. >> the odds of both parachutes malfunctioning are just so small that they're incalculable and something we just don't concern ourselves with. >> reporter: but experience and equipment are only part of the equation and the uspa says instructors must pass an faa medical example, the same example private pilots undergo. winoker's funeral was on father's day. his father's 83rd birthday and family members describe him as inconsolable. for cbs "this morning," i'm jim axelrod in new york. >> such a sad story. >> heartbreaking story.
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>> the tigers miguel cabrera got to first base and kept going after the rockies pitcher took the ball away, cabrera kept on running to third and cabrera scores. the announcer called a little league homer. welcome back to cbs "this morning." >> lots of thrown away balls. jerry sandusky's s.e.exual abuse trial resumes this morning. the defense could begin calling witnesses today after a week of damaging testimony from his accusers. >> the big question of course is whether sandusky will take the stand. armen keteyian says, yes, he'll be here to tell us what else we can expect from the defense. but first, it is time for this morning's "health watch." >> good morning. in today's "health watch," can too much exercise be harmful to your health? for people who exercise and always think they should be working out more -- relax.
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new research shows more may not be better. several new studies suggest that moderate exercise may actually be more beneficial than intense workouts. in one study researchers tracked nearly 53,000 people for 15 years. they all underwent physical testing and answered lifestyle questionnaires. about one-quarter of the group were runners who also reported on their running habits. during that time, runners overall had a 19% more risk of dying from any cause compared to the non-runners. but when researchers look more closely at the data, they found those who ran less than 20 miles a week at an average speed of a ten-minute mile reduced their risk of dying more effectively than those who ran more miles at a faster pace. other studies have shown that extreme endurance sports can lead in some cases to damage to the heart muscle. experts say their best advice is to keep exercising -- but a little bit can go a long way to adding years to your life. i'm dr. holly phillips. pooches and puppies, we are fed up
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perhaps you're celebrating sir paul mccartney's birthday today. he started paul mccartney and wings after the beatles broke up. their album "red rose speedway" had a special message to stevie wonder written in braille which reads "we love you, baby." that's a fun fact. i love that. they both of course performed at the concert for the queen's diamond jubilee. >> the big night. airline travel is safer than ever these days but pilots and passengers still face plenty of risk in the air. >> this morning, we'll speak with a veteran faa crash investigators which says automated cockpits are making pilots less careful. he'll tell us what needs to change to make those skies safer. stay with us. you're watching cbs "this morning." up next, a look at your local news.
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now 4 minutes before 8:00. looking like it wants to rain almost area wide. sharon is looking for rain on her traffic cams, tim is at first warning weather. >> today spotty shoufrs in the forecast. this batch is moving through here and will be lingering through the afternoon. 78, spotty showers will hang around. far check of the reds -- for a check of the roads we send it to sharon gibala. good morning. if you are just about the head out, an sdernts on the inner -- an accident on the inner loop. an sdnt in the joppa area at fraiveng lynn road. there's -- franklin road. there's a live like at the west side of the beltway.
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it looks like some rain there. there's another live look at the west side. this traffic report is brought to you by home paramount pest control. don, fwook you. -- back to you. this is a big day in the commemoration of the war of 1812. mike schuh has the story. >> reporter: good big day here at the fort. this ceremony upon which this entire celebration was built. over the weekend two performances from the blue angels, the bso honored sailabration with oh overture of 2012. between the great weather an the governor rejoining his band, these have been days to remember. now, today at 11:00 the ceremony commemorating the war against the british today. don, back to you.
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may have been a little while. dale earnhardt jr. back in the winner's circle. he took the checkered flag at michigan international speedway yesterday when he won the quicken loans 400. that win coming nearly four years, 143 races after his last sprint cup victory. it is 8:00. welcome back to cbs "this morning." i'm charlie rose. gayle king is off today. >> i'm erica hill. the prosecution is expected to rest today in the trial of jerry sandusky after surprising ruling on friday gave the defense some ammunition. last week we heard graphic, emotional testimony from eight young men who accused the former penn state football coach of sexually abusing them when they were children. >> armen keteyian is here with a look at how sandusky's lawyers are likely to respond. what did the judge decide on friday? >> well, the judge allowed a
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psychologist to testify about something, charlie, called histrionic personality disorder, which is described by the national institutes of health as something called an act in a very dramatic or emotional way that draws attention to the person. they're going to argue these letters and jerry sandusky's behavior manipulating these kids into situations was really not that of a sexual predator. it was of a man who was trying -- attempting to draw attention to himself by his activities. it's a novel argument, but it is one the judge is going to allow this week. >> so it requires some kind of expert to come in and say that the defendant fit that profile. >> yes. there will be a psychologist that the senior judge here is going to allow to testify in this case. fairly early on, i would imagine, in the defense's case. >> suggesting that they will agree with those witnesses that what happened happened? >> it's hard to say. i think this had is one tack
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they're going to take. another tack i think the defense is going to take is to clearly find ways to undercut mike mcqueary's testimony. mcqueary was the one, and remains the only independent eyewitness to any of the sexual assault -- allege sexual assault by jerry sandusky. his father was on the witness stand last week, john mcqueary. he could not come off well. he could not even remember in fact that he had testified at a very public hearing in a case against the two penn state officials. they'll bring in another doctor who was there during the time that mike mcqueary spoke to his father about what he witnessed in that february 2001 shower at penn state. >> what are we expecting to fr jerry sandusky? you told us you think he will take the stand. >> beginning today, i think you'll start hearing testimony from people who will say, jerry was just a great guy. he was a father figure, mentor.
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the big question is will his wife, dottie sandusky, testify. the belief is that she will. she was out of the courtroom skweequestered all last week. then jerry. >> this is all expected to go fairly quickly. the prosecution went fairly quickly last week. do we know if their strategy changed at all based on what happened last week? >> we do. last week the prosecution case only lasted four days and it was a surprise to the defense. so they spent the weekend, i'm told, about six hours over the weekend kind of re-arranging their witness list because the doctor who i mentioned was going to be first. he has patients today so he will not testify today, as i understand. so it was -- a big scramble by the defense but clearly you have dottie sandusky and you have jerry sandusky and it is going to boil down, if you're asking my opinion, it is going to boil down to jerry sandusky. he's going to go on the witness stand later in the week and he is going to testify for his life because there are six charges here from some very, very
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serious deviant sexual intercourse charges all the way down to endangering children and minors. it's his call. it's his show. >> arman, good to see you. in california, there will be an autopsy today on the body of rodney king. he died in his home outside los angeles sunday more than two decades after his videotaped beating by police made him known around the world. >> lee cowan has the story this morning of king's high-profile and deeply troubled life. >> reporter: the story of rodney king may begin with that police beating, captured on grainy home video back in 1991. but it hardly ends there. his rise from victim to a civil rights figure, and then his decline into poverty and persistent unemployment is a tale of struggles he never quite overcame. instead of celebrating father's day, rodney king's fiance, cynthia kelly, found him at the bottom of the swimming pool on sunday. efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. >> it appears that this is a
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drowning and there are no obvious signs of foul play. >> reporter: born to an alcoholic father, king says he never lost his own need for drink. in fact, he was drunk that night in 1991 when police tried to pull him over and he led them on a high-speed chase. the beating that ensued became a symbol of racial tension. when the white officers were acquitted of using excessive force, los angeles exploded in one of the worst urban riots in decades. killing more than 50 people and causing $1 billion in damage. even king himself famously pleaded for calm. >> -- can we all get along? >> reporter: it became a rallying cry. and for king says of that, he was the most proud. >> that's one of the main things i want people to remember about rodney king. he tried to bring his country together, be part of the solution and not the problem. >> reporter: pat harvey covered rodney king through the years and was one of the last to interview him back in april. >> i will say that he truly felt
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he had something to do with advancing civil rights in a different sort of way. >> reporter: although king won millions in a civil rights lawsuit, most of it went to attorneys. the rest, he says, he spent. and soon his run-ins with the law began anew. he was arrested close to a dozen times after the beating for everything from drunk driving to spousal abuse. he wasn't shy about his troubles. even appearing on celebrity rehab. >> fact is, your drinking's going to kill you. it is. it killed your dad, it's going to kill you. >> yeah. but i mean i'm not drinking nothing like i was drinking before. >> he just always kept sort of getting in his own way, it seems like. >> we talked about this. i asked him, i said do you find it difficult to just be normal? he says, yeah, that's a good way to put it. >> reporter: in his memoir released just two months ago, king wrote about his demons, how he was still struggling with alcohol abuse.
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but he insists he had made peace with the past. >> people have forgiven me for some things that i've done and, you know, so i wouldn't be able to live with myself if i wasn't able to forgive the officers. >> reporter: he was a father, a grandfather, and soon to be a husband again. rodney king may have tried to get his life back on track, but he never truly succeeded. for cbs "this morning," i'm lee cowan in los angeles. pretty gray right thousand with scattered showers moving across the region. it's pretty much going to be with us. we're not going to get rid of them in the immediate future. they will be lingering through the afternoon. there's a chance for spotty showers and a thunderstorm maybe this afternoon. the biggest chance are just your spot -- spotty showers. today 78.
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good morning, baltimore. over the weekend in norway, burmese activist aung san suu kyi finally accepted the nobel peace prize she was awarded in 1991. she gating an's noor muss response from the public. this morning, singer and humanitarian bono met with her in oslo and they'll travel together in dublin later today. >> this is her first trip to europe since authorities in burma put her under house arrest in the 1980s. anchor scott pelley sat down with her in oslo to talk about those years of confinement. >> reporter: were you ever afraid? >> no, i was never afraid. there was nothing to be afraid of, i must admit in all truthfulness, they kept me very well. they kept me confined but they kept me well. >> you say there was nothing to be afraid of but you know better than anyone that many people were being killed in the streets by the army.
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>> but i was not on the streets. >> so you felt you were not in jeopardy? >> i never thought that i was. i mean in any case, there was no point in thinking about such things because i was one person surrounded by numbers of people from security forces and what was the point in my worrying? if they wanted to do anything, they could do it anyway. >> you can watch more of that interview tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. as many americans struggle to feed their families, others are paying $40,000 for one fund-raising dinner with president obama. this morning, we'll ask frank bruni of the "new york times" how these two economies are playing out in the american campaign. stay with us. cuban
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very sore looking kinda blistery. it was like a red rash... like somebody had set a bag of hot charcoal on my neck. i was a firefighter for 24 years. but, i have never encountered such a burning sensation until i had the shingles. i remember it well. i was in the back yard doing yard work. i had this irritation going on in my lower neck. i changed shirts because i thought there was something in the collar of the shirt irritating my neck. and i couldn't figure out what was going on. i had no idea it came from chickenpox.
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there are estimates that the presidential candidates will spend $2 million in this election -- or that the campaign will cost 2 billion mr. can campaign fund-raising hit a level we've never seen before? >> "new york times" columnist frank bruni says he received an invitation in the mail to attend one of president obama's fund-raisers last week. he described it as a bargain basement offer. just $10,000 a person, frank bruni wrote about it on sunday in a column headlined "2012 financial free-for-all." he joins us here in studio 57. welcome. what's the story coming out of this? >> it's just amazing. the pace of fund-raising. when you watch it, what worries me is we have candidates who have to spend as much time worrying about the money they are raising as the problem they're going to confront when they get into the presidency should they get there. so you know, have you a situation where in order to push
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back against the super pac money on one side, president obama did six fund-raisers last week. is that really how we want our candidates spending their time? >> what's the answer? >> we have all tried to come up with an answer. there used to be fund raising limits and regulations people were beholden to. some of those have gone away. people complained those weren't fair. i don't know what the exact solution is but i know the situation we have right now is untenable and it is not democratic. as it is now, we have billionaires who can contribute tens of millions of dollars to super pacs that benefit one candidate and one candidate alone. that sounds a lot like buying a candidate to me. >> where the president is raising money last time out in 2008, a lot of it was small money that added up. this time -- >> this time you have evenings like thursday night last week in manhattan where there's a $40,000 a head fund-raiser. then he goes immediately from that to a $10,000 a head fund-raiser, each of which gets a yield of about $2 million. i mean we're in an age of
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austerity. we're all talking about all the things governments and families can't afford and have you this kind of money being thrown around at fund-raisers? it is just a little bit surreal. >> does the race ultimately then come down to which side gets the most money? >> each side is worried about that. i personally think that there's a point past which money can't do any good. it can buy you a lot of negative advertising. we've seen numerous campaigns, state and federal level, where it's really driven out the candidates's negatives but after a certain point i think it just becomes groo tu tus. >> who uses it better to their advantage? obviously they're all using the money. >> the thing that doesn't get said often enough to, so much of what this money goes toward is negative advertising. we all noted and campaign about the bitter partisanship throughout the country. >> the interesting thing, point you raised earlier, it is the notion that the swing vote, the independent vote, those people who are in play who will decide the election, you don't know how
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they're influences by this. does it simply appeal to the base, both sides or the central voter? >> that is an excellent question. a lot of this advertising is about turning out the base. there's some evidence that swing voters react negatively to negative advertising and you may in fact be shooting yourself in the foot. you're sort of deciding we're going to really fire up the base at the risk of maybe turning off some swing voters. >> what is your focus now? we all know you from a variety of assignments at "the new york times" and you're now on the op-ed page of sunday. what's your focus. >> i write two op-ed columns a week and probably about half of those are about politic and half are about culture, life, whatever else. >> where does culture and life intersect with politics in this particular campaign year? >> well, i pleen we hamean we'vt of the intersection of culture in this campaign. social issues when it comes to how we treat women, how we treat gay americans. these have become foreground issues in this campaign and these issues may move the needle when it comes to swing voters.
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>> is there a nagtive you see coming out of both campaigns? >> right now? >> yeah. >> the big narrative is a sort of class narrative in this country. the democrats, president obama, are saying that republicans want something akin to a plutocracy. republicans are saying democrats are wanton with spending and we have a national debt and deficit that are out of control. that seems to me to be the central narrative. >> but they also make it more specific. on one hand you have the republicans saying that the president has failed so far, has failed to demonstrate that he can handle the economy. and the democrats are saying that mitt romney has failed to show that he has new ideas rather than old ideas. >> that's right. they're also looking back at mitt romney's recovered in massachusetts and raising some very big questions about that. you mentioned culture before. one of the things we'll continue to see in this campaign is, because it is hard for obama to run on the economy, we're going to hear a lot of discussion from democrats and obama about cultural or social issues.
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there was the big immigration decision on friday. it's very important for president obama in the absence of a great economy to run on to appeal to some of the groups that like him. >> there's also talk of appealing in general to voters and whether or not it matters and what you actually want out of your candidate. but they're both being criticized for that. president obama most recently for sort of ignoring some of the realities of the economy. how important is that? >> how important is personality? >> how important -- yes, likability. >> i think likability is important when all other things are equal. the notion that voters are ultimately going to vote primarily on the economy, i think that's true. but if you have a situation where the economy is maybe improving, where voters aren't sure mitt romney's the answer, likability i think could factor in like at margins. >> i should say more understanding of. >> this notion of how these two campaigns see america, how they see the demographics of america and how they see the issue and whether the economy cuts across all of that. >> right.
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it's 25 minutes past 8:00. there's a look at our out back. it's been raining there. raining ing pretty -- raining pretty good too. >> this is going to be with us for a good bit. we're not expecting anything too heavy. this afternoon there could be a rumble of thunder or so. most of this is going to be spotty and through the day. it's going to be you off and on. 78 with over night lows around 64. tomorrow up to about 87. for another check of the roads , we send it over to sharon gibala. i'm sure you can guess what the rain has done to our morning commute. one accident on the outer loop at liberty road, another one on the outer loop at 70, another one on the inner
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loop at baltimore national pike. we have an accident working in the joppa area. several other accidents working and major delays out there. there's a like at the west side of the beltway. this traffic report is brought to you by mazda, the cx 5. the best highway mpg. back oifr to you. -- back over to you. the sailabration continues today. mike schuh is live with the story. >> reporter: good morning. another big day here at the fort. the ceremony upon which the entire sailabration was built. over the weekend two performances of the blue angels, a great father's day for many taking in and touring the ships, the bso honored with the overture of 2012. wean the great weather and the governor rejoining his band, these have been days to remember.
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today is ceremony commemorating the decoration of war today. reporting live, mike schuh. don, back to you. federal investigators expected back on the scene of an airplane plane that killed a pilot. 64-year-old henry judkins tried to make an emergency landing but crashed just short of the run way. he died on the way to the hospital. the national transportation safety board continues to investigate the crash. the baltimore city council is expected to take a final vote on the bottle tax increase tonight. the council has given preliminary approval from raising the tax from 2 to 5 cents per container. if approved it would go into effect next summer. stay with wjz 13, maryland 's news station. up next why turbulence happens in the air. tim tebow's father's day sermon.
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>> jimmy kimmel, happy father's day. [ bleep ]. >> happy father's day. >> that's what it's come to, isn't it? >> it's like his son listened to what his father said apparently? kids do listen. welcome back to cbs "this morning." last week a united airlines flight from lawsuits to new york had to land in louisiana after severe turbulence injured five people. it was an unusual moment for an industry that hasn't seen a major air crash in the united states for more than three years. >> but experts say airlines and passengers should not be complacent about air safety. pilot error is something experts worry about all the time. >> reporter: when air france flight 447 crashed into the atlantic ocean in 2009, all 228 passengers and crew on-board were killed. it remains one of the most tragic and unsolved plane crashes in recent history. >> it hit the water in line of
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flight with a very high acceleration. >> reporter: the final report on the crash is due out next month but many experts believe the pilots were not adequately trained to handle the sudden loss of altitude because they relied too much on the plane's auto pilot system. three seconds before impact, the pilot said, oh, my god, we're going to crash. i can't believe it. mark rosenkur -- >> we must teach our pilots that clearly this equipment that's being provided to them are tremendous tools but they have to keep their flying skills up in case any of these tools fail them. >> reporter: rosenker says in 1996 none of the major plane crashes in the developed world had been attributed to equipment or mechanical failure. they have all been human error or lack of pilot training. colgan air flight 3407 crashed in buffalo in 2009 killing 50 people. the ntsb blamed the crash on the
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captain's failure to effectively manage the flight. comair flight 5191 crashed after takeoff in kentucky in 2006 when the pilot turned down an unlit runway too short for his aircraft. the u.s. crash in modern history was just two months after 9/11 when american airlines flight 587 went down in queens, new york killing all 260 on-board. the ntsb said it was the pilot's unnecessary and excessive use of the plane's rudder controls that caused the crash. the pilot actually used too much rudder too many times and as a result snapped off his vertical stabilizer, his tail, and thereby providing him no ability to control the aircraft. >> reporter: american airlines has since modified its pilot training program. many aviation experts say a big part of the problem is the outdated air traffic control system. it's based on world war ii era radar technology and many of the 400 air traffic control
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facilities across the country are more hand 50 years old. congress approved a $40 billion plan to modernize the system. it's called nextgen, replacing redar with gps and it should be completely 2025. some airports like lax here in los angeles are already using gps for some or all of their flights. this system lets planes fly closer together and that allows for more takeoffs and landings and reduces delays. the nextgen system is expected to save on fuel and travel time because flight paths will be more direct. yet safety experts say we need to make sure that more technology doesn't dull human skill in the cockpit. for cbs "this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> david soucie was an faa for some 17 years, author of "why planes crash -- an accident investigator's fight for safe skies." welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> you think there's some risk of complacency because we've had so few accidents? >> i believe that the safer we feel, the more vulnerable we are
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to accidents, actually, yeah. >> and what do you think of the things that were reported on in this piece? >> well, i think when we talk about nextgen, we talk about all the advancements that we've had in technology. and as we do that, as humans we want to have a handle on that so we go through a checklist. we rely more an more on check lirss and the more that we do that, the less we really think about our situation and where we are and i call it an atrophy in vigilance. we start to not think about things. we just go down the checklist. >> the clear theme of your book has to do with why planes crash and it's more pilot error than anything else. is there a common denominator? >> i think the common denominator to all accidents is this atrophy of vigilance. as you do routine things your mind starts -- your series on the brain was fascinating on the deciding brain. and in that we talked -- you talked a lot about -- and your
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expert -- talked a lot about how is it that our brains become complacent? and what makes us make a decision. and my fear is that we automate the way that we make decisions. >> you talk about the need, too, for psychological training for pilots. how would that impact things? how do you believe it would make a difference? >> well, i think that again, we have so much technology and this thing is so advanced, we have to change the way that we think. i call it dare to repair our thinking about the way that we think, how we fit in to our environment and what it is that we're truly doing. be aware of where you are. is there a light about ready to fall on your head? those types of things. where are you and what is your mind doing, you're being lulled into a false sense of safety. >> you spent almost 20 years -- 17 years i believe at the faa. you see that as a problem, too, because it has this dual role that you say doesn't work. >> that's true. the faa mandate is a dual role. it is not only to enforce and regulate, it's also to promote.
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so it's created a kind of conflict within the culture. they're dealing with it in a lot of ways but i think congress needs to step forward and make sure that they clearly define what it is that the faa does. is it a promotion? or is it enforcement strictly? it's like telling a traffic cop when you pull somebody over, make sure they get going faster. >> do they need psychological training for pilots? >> absolutely. absolutely. think about the things pilots face every day. and even in their training. they're forced -- not forced, but they're encouraged to do as much training as they can to suspect everyone of being a terrorist. think about that. how many thousands of people they're confronted with every day and you have to think they're all terrorists. that's got to play with your head a little bit. >> the thing that you constantly reiterate -- and seems to me is true about driving a car, a motorcycle, you've got to be in the moment and you have to be very careful that you have
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touched every phase and be sure that you're looking at everything at every moment in order not to miss the obvious. >> that's very true, charlie. and not only that, but it goes into the decision versus the choice. again, in your brain series you talk about the deciding brain. logically we make those decisions but i choose to look at it as choices. when you say i'm making a choice, it is a personal involvement. it is a personal enrollment. when you pick up your cell phone while you're driving because someone's calling you and you decide to text, that's not a decision. that's a choice. and that may just be a choice to kill someone's kid or yourself. that is a choice. and we have to recognize that that's where we are. we're not safe in most things that we do today in a high-technology world. >> david soucie, thanks for being here this morning. crime novelist don winslow is also here this morning with a look at his addict irv new novel. i can attest to that. he had me up late last night reading it, a follow-up
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we want out of the dope ,,,, business. it's become a bit of a drag. >> you're making a mistake. >> the upcoming movie "savages" tells the story of two drug dealing best friends and the woman they both love, based on a highly praised 2010 novel by don winslow. >> the best selling crime and mystery author has now written a prequel to "savages," "the king of cool" and don winslow is here with us now. you say that story telling was your escape from the fish factory? >> i grew up in a little fishing town in rhode island. yeah. my father was a sailor. my mom was a librarian. so books and stories were always sacred in our house. >> was someone there to encourage you to write? >> yeah, my parents. my sister, oddly enough.
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there are two kids in our family, we both became professional novelists. my sister is a prominent romance novelist. there was something about words and soerz tories in our house a were encouraged to go out and conquer the world and tell stories. >> you love his books, don't you? >> i do. i have to admit, this is the first one i've read. i've been read iing it in preparation for this interview. armen keteyian says he's such a fan of your writing and he just couldn't believe he was in the green room with you. a lot of people feel that way about. >> up a lot of people don't want to be in a room with me. >> no, this was in a good way! >> because of the nature of your imagination? >> yeah. i think maybe they're a little afraid. they read the books and i'm such a cupcake really. >> that's exactly the word charlie used to describe you earlier. cupcake. yeah. everyone says you should write what you know. you talk about going out and conquering the world. you were a safari guide.
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you managed a movie theater. but you're writing about in this case row houses and the drug trade. how do you move from that to this? >> nobody snaps your passport to be a writer. if you go to medical school, are you a doctor. if you go to law school, are you lawyer. for a writer, there is no such thing. you need to go out and get life experiences. a few years ago i wrote "the power of the dog," the his trip an evolution of the drug cartels and drug problem in mexico and america. that was really the training for "the kings of cool" and "savages." >> you refer to "the powers that be." >> yeah. >> what's that? >> the powers that be in the drug business are all over the place. first of all, it is the government. frankly, we set up this war on drugs. if you ask people what's america's longest war, they're going to say either vietnam or afghanistan, both incorrectly. our longest war is the war on drugs. it's been going on since 1973 with no end in sight. how do you declare victory?
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when does the sailor get to kiss the girl? you know, we don't know. so we've set up an institution that's set up another institution which are the drug cartels. because without the prohibition, you know, there's not the large profit. without the large profit, you don't have the sort of violence that, sadly, we see now in mexico. >> how would you define what it is that draws these people -- i mean what common characteristics do they have, these people that are drawn to the drug cartel, and become leaders of drug cartels? >> well, first of all, it's money. >> it's greed. >> sure. i don't think you have to look much further to our own prohibition era of alcohol to see the examples of the sort of people that are drawn to that. secondly, i mean some of them are just businessmen. that's the best business that they can get into. others are sociopaths and psychopathic killers. but in a world where violence rules, the most violent is going to rise to the top.
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>> and the reason that there's been limited success with the drug cartels -- >> the mexican drug problem is a misnomer. it is an american drug problem. i'd be very frustrated if i were a mexican official trying to fight this war and i have this giant to the north that's schizophrenic about the feelings about drugs. the american government's trying to shut it down. but you have a tremendous american market that's buying it and fueling it. >> you also write in the book sort of on the heels of that that one of your characters says, the justice system is more about the system than the justice. which is part of what you're getting at here. >> yeah. listen, i think we see that every day and i think we see that with all kind of systems. but certainly the disparity of sentencing towards drugs, that is getting better, it is an example of that. however, i think if you get thrown in to that system, you're in the machine and that machine
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is going to grind on. >> when you write, are you thinking about movies at all? >> no, sir. no. let me take that back a little bit. i used to be one of those writers that thought i'm not going to have anything do with a movie. you know what i mean? i'll write the book and if they make it into a movie, farewell. >> and now? >> i've changed that. having seen a few years ago one of my books made into a film rather unsuccessfully, it changed my mind about it. i didn't expect it to hurt as much as it did. i thought i'd be more detached. now i've changed the way that i deal with film. i want to be more involved. i want to have a meaningful seat at the table. >> so that it is still yours. >> you know, you never have 100% control. that's not doable given the nature of the film, the nature of novels. at the end of the day i'm a novelist. but i want a meaningful seat at that table. >> don winslow, pleasure to meet you. "the king of cool" goes on sale tomorrow. quarterback tim tebow is known for football and faith.
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>> always something to spice matters up. >> at the trophy ceremony, you saw the heckler cawing right before he was yanked off camera. >> webb simpson was in early and so he got to sit with his wife and watch the two people who could have tied him for a playoff but it didn't happen. so congratulations to him. tim tebow, the new york jets, travels to a packed stadium in san diego. the visit was about faith, not football. >> as noelle walker reports, thousands came to hear what tebow had to say about being a christian role model. seven months after sending the san diego chargers to one of their most crushing defeats of the season, former denver broncos quarterback tim tebow returns to qualcomm stadium on sunday. >> it feels really good to get an applause in this stadium. it's never happened before. >> reporter: but this time, tebow wasn't there to play
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football. he spoke at a massive father's day church service led by the evangelical leader david jeremiah. >> say thank you to all the fathers. >> reporter: more than 26,000 worshippers, many sporting tebow's number 15 football jersey, spent the morning tailgating before heading inside the stadium to hear the new york jets' back-up quarterback talk about how his father inspired him to be the greatest football player he possibly could. >> every time i go to practice, i'd always think about what my dad said to me -- do i really love what i'm doing, am i passionate about it, and am i willing to sacrifice more than everybody else is willing to sacrifice. because those three things are very easy to say. they're very hard to do. are ever since coming into the spotlight with his signature prayer pose, tebow's influence as an outspoken christian athlete has grown exponentially. >> he's a hero or role model that i want my kid to see. >> in jesus' name -- amen.
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>> i think he's a good role model for our students, for our kids. he's a role model for all of us. ♪ >> i love how he's humble. i love how he helps other people and his charities, foundations. >> and he's cute, yeah. >> reporter: a role tebow has enthusiastically embraced. >> the world looks at me an thinks i'm a football player that's a christian. i look at the world and say i'm a christian that happens to play football. >> amen. >> reporter: following the service, tebow headed back to the big apple. the first pre-season game is less than two months away. for cbs "this morning," i'm noelle walker. >> as you said, he's getting much more comfortable in terms of -- >> he seems much more comfortable in terms of speevging. >> he really has a great following. you see lots of tim tebow paraphernalia around new york these days. >> pleased to see him with the jets and see what happens. >> we'd like to see him at the table. that does it for us this morning.
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sailabration continues today. here is mike schuh live with the story. >> reporter: good morning. another big day here at the fort. the ceremony upon which the entire sailabration was built. over the weekend two performances of the blue angels a great father's day for this taking in and touring the 40 tall ships. the bso honored sailabration with a commission called the overture of 2012. between the great weather and the governor rejoining his band these have been days to remember. today the ceremony at 11:00 commemorating the declaration of war. >> wjz will bring you that ceremony live this morning. we hope you will tune in. the investigation continues following the fatal fire in southeast baltimore. saturday night the blaze broke out in a
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