when did it end? the obama campaign questions when mitt romney gave up control of bain capital, the private equity firm he founded. civil war. it is official. the red cross says the bloodbath in syria has crossed an important threshold. and dodging disaster. a bus collides with a truck in southern russia and both vehicles just miss a man at a southern russia and both vehicles just miss a man at a gas station. captioning funded by cbs. sths this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, july 16, 2012. good morning everybody. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. the dust-up over just how long mitt romney was in charge of the private equity firm he founded, bain capital, is heating up. president obama travels to cincinnati to talk about the economy. mitt romney will be in

mississippi and louisiana. tara mergener is in washington. we covered the country. happy monday, terrell. mitt romney now says president obama will do anything to get re-elected and that he's still owed an apology. but the president says the attacks are justified. >> president barack obama is back on the campaign trail today to talk about jobs and the economy. a topic mitt romney consistently criticizes the president about. but on thursday, president obama told cbs sunday morning he doesn't mind the attacks. >> you don't hear me complaining about him making that argument. if i was in his shoes, i'd be making the same argument. >> it's been romney on the defensive lately. he says he gave up managing bain capital in 1999 to run the salt lake city olympics. but bain filed documents showing romney is the chairman, ceo and sole owner of the company until 2002. >> it is standard, though, to, while you're on leave, to sign

those documents for the s.e.c. he was still ceo and had shares but he wasn't responsible for management and that's the bottom line. >> if you're telling the s.e.c. that you're in charge but you're telling the american people that you bear no responsibility, one of those things is not true. >> the battle over bain has made it on to the airwaves. both campaigns have new ads focusing on the issue. >> for spacious skies -- >> the obama ad features mitt romney singing america the beautiful while showing headlines accusing romney of shipping jobs overseas. >> whatever happened to hoping change. >> the romney campus had its own ad saying the president's attacks are misleading. >> this is not the candidate of hope and change. he's hoping to change the subject by attacking his opponent. >> president obama says he will not apologize for attacking romney's record at bain. and to date, there is no evidence romney had an active role in bain or directed any of its investments after february of 1999.

terrell, haven't heard the last of this. >> tara mergener in washington. thank you so much. you can see more of charlie rose's interview with the president and pls bam a little later on "cbs this morning." the red cross has declared the fighting in syria a civil war. that can lead to war crime prosecutions. today in moscow, u.n. special envoy kofi annan discusses the crisis. in damascus, some of the heaviest fighting so far is reported near the center of the syrian capital yesterday. u.n. observers visited a village where it's reported syrian troops killed dozens last week. the u.n. says syrian troops targeted activists and army defectors. the syrian government said it was not a massacre but a military operation. secretary of state hillary clinton is in israel after her first visit to egypt since the presidential elections there. protesters threw shoes, water bottles and tomatoes at clinton's motorcade in alexandria.

her was not hit. she met with the head of the military urging him to work with the islamic leaders. but he won't allow fundamentalists to dominate the did kun trip. the government releases a report on the drought that gripped half the country. more than 1,000 counties in 26 states have been declared disaster areas and more heat is on the way. much of the midwest and the plains will be in the upper 90s to start the week. high temperatures and strong winds are fueling a wildfire in northern california. the so-called routers fire is threatening about 170 homes northeast of sacramento. one home has already been destroyed. the fire started wednesday and burned nearly four square miles. the cause of that fire is still under investigation. in southeast british columbia, the body of one of four people missing was recovered after a massive landslide last thursday. unbelievable to watch that. on friday, the smaller landslide

was captured on videotape by a news crew covering the original rockslide. thursday's landslide crushed several homes as a wall of rocks, mud and trees slide down a mountainside. recovery operations mr way in southwest japan this morning after widespread flooding killed at least 27 people. thousands of homes were damaged. hundreds of roads wiped out. one man said it was raining so heavily it was like a waterfall. more than a quarter million people evacuated have been able to return. take a look at this out of northern poland. that is a tornado. one of several reported sunday in poland where twisters are beyond rare. this one had winds clocked at 125 miles per hour. one person was killed when his house collapsed. at least ten others injured. the twisters damaged dozens of homes and flattened thousands of trees. cbs "moneywatch" time on a monday. microsoft is ready to go at it alone in the news business. ford recalls a popular suv. ashley morrison with more. good morning. >> good morning, terrell. the marriage of microsoft and nbc news is all but over.

the software giant is pulling out of the venture that owned msnbc.com. microsoft is moving on by starting its own online news service. a quiet day for asian stocks. the hang seng dropped a frack ton and tokyo's nikkei was closed for a public holiday. stocks ended a six-day skid on friday. the dow made it into positive territory for the week by adding 203 points. the nasdaq gained 42. some economists have a gloomy outlook over the short term. the national association for business economics is out with a survey showing that most economists are concerned with the european financial crisis and the impending fiscal cliff. the survey also found less evidence of hiring. the good news, a majority of the economists report employment rates are not falling. some good news for drivers. gas prices are starting to sink again. according to aaa, the average price of a gallon of regular is now $3.39. that's down about 13 cents from just a month ago. and a potential braking

problem has prompted ford to issue a recall of its escape suv. the recall affects more than 10,000, 201 escapes. they were produced between marchth and june 7th at ford's louisville plant. the carpet padding could interfere with the brakes. no accidents or injuries related to the problem have been reported. that's good news. that could certainly be dangerous. >> absolutely could be. ashley morrison here in new york. thank you so much. we'll take a quick break on a monday morning. did the fda illegally crackdown on whistle blowers. the agency is caught spying on 2 dozen people, including workers, journalists and congressional officials. first, a bus slams into a truck and watch out, watch out. why they're calling this guy the luckiest man in russia.

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>> this is crazy. scary pictures from southern russia. bus carrying people slams into a truck pulling across the road and both vehicles barely miss a man filling his tank at a gas station. amazingly, no one was hurt. he's probably looking for a restroom now. there was no fire. officials at the food and drug administration are defending a spy operation aimed at some of their own scientists. the targets were suspected of leaking confidential information to journalists and critics of the agency. but the surveillance campaign grew and eventually reached all the way to the white house. jan crawford reports. >> for years, fda scientists raised safety concerns about devices the agency had approved for routine breast cancer scans. after fda authorities dismissed their complaint, nine wrote a letter in early 2009 to president obama's transition team warning that fda managers failed to take appropriate actions. according to court papers, shortly after the scientists sent the letter, the fda

commenced a covert and secret search operation capturing scientists' e-mails from private accounts on government-issued laptops. but according to the times, the spying effort quickly went beyond the scientists to ensnare a total of 21 fda employees, medical researchers, journalists, even congressional officials looking into whether the fda failed to warn the public about risks from devices used to scan breast and colon cancer. the "times" discovered some 80,000 pages of documents the fda secretly monitored. confirmed by cbs news, they include a letter the scientists wrote to president obama saying they were afraid they could not act without fear of reprisal for their whistle blowing efforts. the fda has denied any wrongdoing, saying the monitoring was intended to determine whether confidential information was inappropriately released off government laptops from scientists it suspected of

sharing information about the medical devices. but some say the agency's surveillance was illegal and the scientists have sued. >> they actually tried to go after these whistle blowers criminally. >> steven cone is a lawyer for the fda whistle blowers and executive director of the national whistle blower center. >> if you can target whistle blowers for this type of intrusive surveillance, no one it will create a chilling effect and a fear. >> now, in may the office of special counsel which investigates complaints from government employees found that the scientists were, in fact, warning of substantial and specific danger to public safety. that's what the office said. it's ordered an investigation into thei allegations about the scans. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. we will take a quick break. up next, your monday morning weather and in sports, the sign says yankee stadium but give a certain sports fan and moviemaker a bat and it turns

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florida, north carolina and west texas. brief downpours could produce flash flooding in parts of the desert southwest. near triple digit heat in the midwest and plains. in sports, the reds are on a roll. scott roland is one of the reasons why. cincinnati fans arrived looking for a sweep of the cardinals. in the eighth they got what they came for. the game at two, two out. the reds held on for a 4-2 win. a three-game sweep of st. louis. their sixth straight victory. first inning at yankee stadium. a bat went flying into the stands and lookie who comes up with it. spike lee. he pops up places, doesn't he? >> of course, he shows off his swing for the crowd. he got to keep that bat. before that, though, top of the first, angels slugger albert pujols hit a solo home run to put l.a. up by two. minutes later, alex rodriguez tying the score for the yankees with a two-run shot of his own.

bottom of the night, the angels up 10-8. a-rod up to bat with the bases loaded. he popped up missing his chance to win the game and to top the great lou gehrig for most grand slams in major league history. in kansas city, white sox slugger adam dunn went deep for the third straight game hitting his league-leading 28th homer to win in the top of the first. chicago left-hander gave up one run over eight innings for his eighth straight victory. the white sox beat the royals 2-1. finally, we go to golf. a dramatic climax in illinois. at the john deere classic. on the second hole of a sudden death playoff, 2007 masters champion zach johnson hit a nearly 200 yard shot that rolled to within two feet of the pin. johnson sank the easy putt for the big victory. when we come back on a an olympic size snafu and shortfall at the london

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here's a look at the forecast in some cities around the country. d.c., thunderstorms, 94. thunderstorms in atlanta as well, 93. partly sunny skies, 98 in st. louis. thunderstorms in denver, 91 degrees. same deal in seattle, 78. the search continues this morning in iowa for two girls who went missing on friday. cousins elizabeth collins, she's eight and lyric cook-morrissey, she's ten. both went bike riding in evansdale, east central iowa. their bikes were found near a local lake and police spent the weekend searching the water. hundreds of volunteers turned out to search fields and woodlands. less than two weeks before the 2012 olympics in london. the british government is scrambling to bolster security for the thousands of athletes and millions of visitors. elizabeth palmer explains why. >> the 2012 olympic games will

be staged in dozens of venues across a vast area in and around london. and they'll need an equally vast security operation to keep them safe. key are 13,000 british soldiers and marines. the largest massive mobilization since world war ii. with fighter jets to enforce no fly zone for small planes and missiles set up on apartment buildings. there was supposed to be another army of more than 10,000 civilian security guards too supplied by a private contractor, g4s. suddenly last week the company announced it could not deliver. ceo nick buckles. >> it's a very complex process to recruit and deliver that many people for quite a short period of time. >> the original contract was for 2,000 g4s guards. then last december, after advice from u.s. law enforcement, that figure ballooned to more than 13,000.

and g4s simply couldn't keep up. >> down to g4s, we should have -- we're contracted to deliver stuff. we should have done that. >> it's a big blunder on a sensitive issue. >> this month, seven years ago, london won the 2012 games. and the very next day suicide bombers killed 52 people on a bus in the london subway. so g4s's announce. put the government on the offensive. their plan b? more troops. that means another 3.5 thousand soldiers. to keep the games secure. but at the moment, officials say there is no specific terrorist threat against the olympics. in fact, organizers are concerned about something else. the weather. this has been the wettest summer in the uk since records began and the forecast? more of the same. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london.

however, the brits deal with the olympic problems, they know how to pull the plug on rock stars. paul mccartney and bruce springsteen were wrapping up a show in london saturday night. a couple of old beatles hits. but the show ran late. facing strict noise regulations, they cut the juice to the band leaving sir paul and the boss to wave goodbye in silence. shut it down. ice age, continental drift, the fourth in the series and first in 3d pulled in $46 million this weekend. the amazing spider man dropped to number 2 earning $35 million. it's now made over $200 million domestically. in third, ted starring mark wahlberg and a foul mouthed teddy bear. brought in just over $22 million. coming up later, more of charlie rose's interview with the president and mrs. obama. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." "cbs morning news." ,,,, 3q

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4 minutes before 5:00 on a monday morning. a beautiful sky. marty is at first warning weather. >> two planets and one of the biggest stars. we'll talk about jupiter, venus. 74 right now. 9 #0 0 at lunch on a way to -- 90 at lunch on a way to 93. don, take it a i way. -- take it away. the mayor taking a hour of the summer food service program where students prepare meals. >> the governor to attend a ground breaking. presentation of the maryland half marathon county cup. >> already making news this morning, the search for a shooter. a man who opened fire at a busyshopping center.

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