it is thursday august 8th 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." a fast moving wildfire scorches the california desert forcing a thousand residents to flee. and extreme flooding swatchmps missouri. a new crash study finds half the cars don't make the grade. and lesley stahl is in studio 57. >> we begin this morning with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds.

>> you can tell quickly how fire the moved. the difficulty was in getting evacuations. >> wildfires tear through southern california. >> the silver fire remains out of control east of los angeles and destroyed dozens of buildings. >> wow, just exploded. >> a man with a hose tries to keep the fire from spreading to the home. >> meantime 19 diplomatic posts in that part of the world remain closed the morning. >> who's what those who cowardly attack our united states don't get. united states won't retreat from the world. we're never terrorized. >> mayor highways have been closed and more than 100 homes are flooded. >> suspect now in custody for a dallas shooting spree that has left at least four people dead. >> president obama canceled his

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charlie rose is on assignment so anthony mace season with us zbhood morning. nice to see you. >> food morning. we're glad to have you here. a wild five is racing across southern california. 1,500 people have evacuated. the fire has burned a dozen homes and other structures. >> so far three people are hurt. the silver fire broke out 35 miles east of the los angeles. ben tracy is there. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as we've been standing here we've been watching this fire grow behind us. it basically stretches behind us. two firefighters have already been injured and 15 homes have been destroyed. california fire officials are calling this extreme fire behave. 1,000 firefighters have been working through the night using helicopters to battle the fire from above. it's erupted across thousands of acres in banning, california the fire broke out shortly after

2:00 on wednesday afternoon. within an hour it spread to 300 hours. >> we can tell how quickly the fire moved. the difficulty was in getting evacuations because that's always our key. life first and property next. >> flames burst through the desert region fueled by dry brush and raging wind gusts raging 35 miles an hour. as smoke poured into neighboring towns fire officials shut down freeways evacuating residents. >> i hope my home is okay because we left and the fire was just there but the fire that was further up 243, hadn't yet come this way. >> dave clark called his neighbors to tell them their home was safe as he watched his own engulfed in flames. >> i got there. my house is burned. and i have another building there with all my stock. >> reporter: there are a few

areas around banning but the rapid moving fire destroyed the homes and structures it did find. one resident owner took matters into his own hands spraysing his home with a garden hose. the blaze remains uncontained this morning. the big question is what will happen with the winds today. this is a notoriously windy part of southern california and if the winds pick up that will make the fire more erratic. so far we don't know what started the fire. >> ben tracy, thank you. and people in the midwest are cleaning up after powerful tornadoes. an ef-2 tornado destroyed a church in northeast wisconsin. it packed winds of 110 miles an hour. governor scott walker tours the damage this morning. in iowa roofs were pulled right off homes. flash flood watches and

warnings are posted from colorado to arkansas. at least one person has been killed by rising waters in central missouri. another remains missing. as lindsey day of our springfield affiliate koar reports, more rain is in the forecast. >> reporter: after another round of heavy thunderstorms dumped more rain on thursday, this is the kind of flood devastation many area residents woke up to. >> i know one particular individual who woke up stepped on a wet floor. lost his vehicle. lost everything. >> reporter: in waynesville a couple miles west of st. louis, a 4-year-old child was killed after being swept away by rushing water. several homes were flooded out. >> we've had some flooding and damage done to some of the houses here in the local county where people had to be rescued very the rising waters forced

officials to shut down a major interstate snarling traffic for miles and with more rain in the forecast authorities are urging residents not to take any chances. >> evacuate. if there's any concern, go to another friend's house and get to higher ground. for the third day in a row, there are reports of an american drone strike in yemen. local officials in southeast yemen say at least six suspected al qaeda members were killed. charlie d'agata is in london with new details. charlie, good morning. >> good morning to you, norah and anthony. clearly something is going on in yemen and something has drawn the attention of u.s. drones flying over the country for the past couple of days. yemeni government officials say security forces are turning up the heat on al qaeda militants after foiling a plot to strike foreign embassies, gas and oil

installations, and the country's ports. there's even a shoot-to-kill order on anybody who looks suspicious and refuses to ide fie themselves. the alleged plot appears similar to the attack in algeria when gunmen stormed a gas plant killing more than three dozen foreign workers. they have come under attack before by furious protesters after they were release-- released an anti-muslim film. the arabian peninsula is one of the biggest areas for terroristic plots. >> we've got defensive marshes in place around embassies but we've got to take out operatives in the long term. we might have done it in past weeks. we may have to in coming weeks.

>> in the meantime yemen remain as no-go for americans. this perceived threat stretches beyond yemen's borders. anthony and norah? >> charlie d'agata. thanks charlie. both democratic and republican leaders are applauding president obama for canceling going to the g-20 summit. margaret brennan is at the state department. good morning. >> good morning to you. the decision to cancel the meeting was unanimous among the president's top national security advisers. it signals that u.s./russian relation are no longer in a period of reset. simply said it was not time for him to meet face to face with vladimir putin.

>> measures were not teed up to make progress on president to president. >> the white house signals everything from a lack of progress on everything from missile defense, arm control and security issues. opposing sides in serious syrian war. but not factor edwar snowden and russia's decision to grant him temporary asylum. this diplomatic snub does not break relations but shows the u.s. is taking a harder line. secretary of state kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel will still meet with their russian counterparts right here in washington. thank you. joining us now, david ig. good morning. >> good morning, norah. there have been issues over all

of that and now edward snowden, but how significant is it to have the president of the united states cancel a summit meeting with another leader. >> it's pretty darn significant. it's the lowest point they have reached since the obama administration and the officials in the white house stressed to me we don't want to blow up the relationship, but nonetheless, this is quite a sharp breach. the meeting that will take place tomorrow with secretary kerry and russian foreign minister sergei love sergei, there's a lot more to talk about. they're interested in negotiating some kind of nuclear deal to. get that done will require russian help. is russia prepared to help on it? same thing with syria. the discussions will continue but the feeling is there's nothing that can be taken to the

president for decision. when you have a summit you have deliverables, you know what's going to be agreed on. that was. the case here. >> david you predicted months ago this relationship was in serious trouble. as you point out canceling a summit like this is a big deal. my question is does this deteriorate further and is it irreparable. >> russia for many months and i should be specific russian leader vladimir putin for many months has been increasingly difficult, increaseingly strident to work with the united states. people in the white house have continued to hope there would be a way to put it back together and it just wasn't there. the snowden cases with

important. this was like an intelligence defector. in the airport there were hopes to have him leave and have him go to another country, a third country where the u.s. might be able to extradite him. the russians kept it open and in the end they closed it. the white house was furious. >> thank you. president obama is back in washington after condemning sexual assault to the military to an audience of marines in camp pendleton. he says it understood mine as what the military stands for. >> we're going to work together to stop these crimes of sexual assault and uphold the honor and integrity that defines the finest military honor and that message is coming all the way from the top. >> this morning, the new york

times reports chuck hagel is preparing new rules dealing with sexual assaults. a military judge is expected to decide this morning whether to allow nidal hasan to continue representing himself. the judge halted the trial at ft. hood on wednesday. he's charged with killing 13 and would 3g 2 others. they say he's trying to guarantee he getting death penalty. in dallas, a deadly shooting spree. police say four were killed. four were wounded. two of the survivors were 11 and 13. the victims were found in two homes. they tell us that the gunman had been looking for his ex-girlfriend and he may have tried to set an after fta.

as mark strassmann reports a teenager had earlier been jolted with a terrace stun gun. >> reporter: israel hernandez had two big passions in life skateboarding and art. just before dawn tuesday miami beach police say they spotted the 18-year-old spraying dwra feety on the side of this abandoned building. a couple who say they were smoking marijuana with him earlier say they were acting as his lookout. >> he ran around juked the cop and eventually was gone. in a statement he ignored officers' commands to stop. in order to effect an arrest he

used his taser. once in custody the victim displayed signed of cardiac arrest. >> they were just laughing saying you should have seen how he tensed up. >> reporter: the teen was later pronounced dead in the hospital. >> one friend said he may have run because he was afraid of getting deimportanted back to his native country colombia. the police department extended its condolences to the hernandez family. last name family members gathered around his colorful artwork. for "cbs this morning." the nsa program is more broad than previously known. the agency is searching the contexts of the text messages. they're looking for people who even mention foreigners under

survey lance. "usa today" says consumer borrowing went up $13.8 billion since may. credit card borrowing dropped by nearly $3 billion. a suspect may be headed for canada. a search is on for 40-year-old james lee dimaggio. he's responsible for quilling a 42-year-old woman and could have possiblied kidnapped her son and daughter. and we have an update on a story we brought you a few weeks ago. the fbi has reopened the investigation of a kidnapping of a newborn from a chicago hospital in 1964. paul joseph francec was

abducted. the fbi confirms it is taking another look. >> the "los angeles times" says the sun's magnetic field is about to flip. we may get to see some auroras. the sun philips its magnetic fields once in the next three years. >> at least three people became very very wealthy your night. one sold in minnesota, two in new jersey. they matched ought five. the winners will share $448 million. kathryn brown of our new york station wcbs is in south brunswick, new jersey where the winning ticket was sold. >> reporter: good morning, anthony and norah. this is going to be a big day. this is the lottery counter where one of the three winning lottery powerball tickets were sold. two from new jersey one from

minnesota. get this. one was here in south brunswick. the other about 60 miles away from here in a town called little egg harbor. these two stores about an hour away from each other. those who didn't win say they're a little disappoint. they're happy someone in their region is striking it rich. this is the first lottery jackpot payout here in new jersey since lawmakers changed the law allowing winners to remain anonymous up to a year. they say that is for their tex. we nay not find out for quite some time. i'm kathryn brown, back to you. >> around $100 million a ticket? >> yeah. a little more than that. 140. >> did you buy a ticket? >> well good morning. it's extremely humid.

93 94% humidity. the temperature is in some cases in the mid 70s right now. first warning doppler shows no rain yet. that's going to change as we move through the day. we're not looking for an all day rain. any shower or thundershower should have heavy downpours. 86 degrees is going to be the high. much the same forecast over night with a temperature of 72. . >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by hilton honors anywhere weekend anywhere sale. visit hiltonweekend.com.

new developments in battle by the families of firefighters killed in arizona. many of them say they're being kept from getting survivors benefits. we'll show you what's being done about it. plus the only man who made it out alive shares hisstore of the disastrous wildfire. >> that that's the last time i heard my super inpendant's voice, i was crushed mentally and emotionally. >> brendan mcdonough's message to the world after the inferno. a new question on the safety of cars. the news is back on "cbs this morning." stay tuned for your local news. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by

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at 26 minutes past 7:00 one sailboat is moving out of the harbor. if you're about to be motoring into work or school or whatever christy breslin has your traffic. marty is over at first warning weather. here's first warning doppler weather radar. 93% humidity. no rain in the immediate area. that though is going to change later on. we're not looking for a day long of rain. any shower or thunderstorm could have heavy downpours. a high of 86 degrees. here is christy breslin at wjz traffic control. >> the accident northbound on the jfx has been cleared. it is reopened at falls road. we have one in the southbound direction at gilford avenue. other accidents include 175 at washington boulevard. as far as

delays go, traveling southbound 95 you will see slowing as you make your approach over to white marsh boulevard. on the beltway a couple of slow spots. one at delaney valley road and one at harford road. this traffic report is brought to you by michael and son. call 800-948-mike. karla porter is on trial for ordering the murder of her husband. mike schuh has the story >> reporter: good morning. the wife of the own er of a towson gas station called police to report that her husband had been murdered. she said that he was robbed and then shot. soon homicide detectives centers on inconsistencies and she recorded a confession. four others were involved in the plot to kill william porter. the hit man is already serving life in prison. the prosecution rested yesterday

after her confession to police was played to jurors. now it's expected that karla porter will take the stand in her own defense today when court reopens. i'm mike schuh reporting from towson. back to you. >> thank you. the fire another the nairobi airport has stranded nearly a dozen maryland's on aid trip trip to africa. 10 volunteers were on their way to the airport when the fire started. they are now stuck there and hoping for a flight back home. $20,000 worth of diesel fuel is stolen from a baltimore county business. the thieves used a hose to transfer 5,000 gallons into a tank in their truck. professional basketball is returning to the baltimore arena for the first time in 14 years. the washington wizards have announced they will tip off here in charm city, playing the new york knicks to celebrate the

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>> coming up in this half hour there's brand new data about the safety of small cars. we'll show you why they're being put through a new test and why many aren't getting the grade. it's no surprise banks are making money off your fees but how you're getting hit. and an update now on a story we brought you tuesday. help may be on the way for all the families of those 19 hotshot firefighters killed in arizona in june. many of them feared they would be left with nothing after the tragedy because of a city policy. carter evans is in los angeles. carter, good morning. >> good morning, norah and anthony. on wednesday surviving family members got good news that arizona state legislators are drafting a proposal that would offer full-time employee benefits to all members of the hotshots. on the same day the loan

survivor finally broke out about the tragedy that led to the death of his friends. when the yarnell fire scorched more than 8,000 acres of arizona wilderness, it claimed the lives of 19 granite mountain hotshots. at the time their families were assured their families would be taken care of. but more than a month after the tragedy, one of the widows said the city of prescott is not keeping the promise. >> it's a terrible tragedy and the bigger tragedy is the people that can make it right aren't making it right. >> reporter: juy an ashcraft is 24 years old. she's now raising four children on her own. the 13 families were denied because their relatives were considered seasonal employees. >> you work full-time hours, he had full-time responsibility full-time salary. there is no way that i can

fathom how the city is justifying him as seasonal or part-time. >> arizona announced a draft bill that would grand full-time state benefits to any first responder who dies on state land. the bill is retroactive to the 30th meaning the new bill would apply to the fallen hotshots and their families. among ashcraft supporters is 21-year-old brendan mcdon nan, the only survivor of the blaze. >> please support these families. >> reporter: in an interview mcdonagh also described for the first time the final moments that led to the deaths of his 19 friends. he was their lookout on that fateful day. >> as i looked back to see how they're doing, i turned around and i could already see the wind had shifted. >> reporter: he knew his friends were trapped once they were deploying their fire shelters. >> that's the last time i heard my superintendent's voice. i was crushed.

mentally and emotionally. >> reporter: five weeks after the fire mcdonagh and the family left behind our hopeful. the state of arizona will follow through with its promise to make the ultimate sacrifice. >> i want a result for all families. if the senators with working together to make it right, bless them. >> if the state of arizona does end up awarding lifetime benefits to seasonal first responders it raises the question of how it might affect communities in other areas that also employ part-time and seasonal first responders. anthony and norah? >> carter efrps. thanks, carter. we have new information how small cars hold up in crashes. they released its first ever findings from what they call a small overlap front test. 12 cars were evaluated. only half earn add safety rating of good or acceptable. john is a senior analyst.

good morning. >> good morning. >> first of all, what were we seeing? what is it simulating? >> a 45-mile-an-hour collision with a 5-foot-tall barrier and the corner where it does not come into impact with the mainframe rails of the car. >> this tested small cars for the first time. what did we find out? >> half the cars as anthony said did not pass by a marginal rating. >> should we be alarmed by that john? >> not at all. overall the cars are safe. this is the ihh warting to test cars more regularly. >> why was this just the first time that they've done this? >> again, they saw a spike in automotive fatalities in 2012 which they've attributed to distract the driver. >> this is the first time,

right? >> we've never seen one before. >> i think that's fascinating that you think that you think it's because of distracted driving. texting and talking on the phone. >> that certainly has spiked it. i think when you consider this kind of test is one that might be associated with that kind of driving behavior meandering or hitting a pole. >> even half that got poor or moderate ratings do you think the car companies are going to make any design changes? >> absolutely. the automotive makers are really good at this. >> if your car has not done well in this test should you be concerned? >> i wouldn't have be concerned at all. >> why not. >> because it's the -- the car is essentially safe. they're just looking at trying to make it that much safe wher they see an area getting more impacts than it might not have

gotten. >> a lot of people like small cars because they're more fuel resistant. >> that's the balance that they look at. >> do we need to be concerned here that we've got the beginning of a trend here in terms of fatalities? >> i think it all comes down to driving behavior. i think we all have to understand if you're behind the wheels of a car, eyes on the road, not on your cell phone. more than 16 years ago johns hopkins researchers took cells from henrietta lax. if you don't know the story, you should. the cells were used for medical breakthroughs but without her consent. terrell brown reports on that story and terrell is with us. good morning. >> good morning to you. henrietta lax' cells have been used for more than six decades and she and her family were never asked for permission now.

they're getting a say in how those cells were used. in 1951 she came to johns hopkins hospital for cervical cancer. they took some of her cells and found they could survive in lab. it was something that had never bun done before. >> it was something that could grow forever. >> reporter: they were used to discover the polio vaccine and help with aids and cancer. they've saved millions of lives. >> this is everywhere. >> but lax, poor and uneducated died in the hospital and the scientists took the cells without her consent. her family's fight to control its use was chronicled in the bestseller "the immortal life of

henrietta lax." it will be made into a movie. now 62 years later the national institutes of health is giving them the final say. it will be approved by a panel with two lax family panel members on it. >> this is the first time for someone to consider the family. >> he hopes it will host a shift in science. >> let's say "may i," explain it and give the person a chance to say yes or no. they also said in order to find cures, patients need to provide the type of information that was taken from help rita lax. the family won't receive any financial gains from this new agreement. >> it's such a fascinating a story. they took it without her

concept. yet her cells and the growth of those have saved millions of lives. >> so many break throughs. we're so glad. thank you. banks are making billions of dollars from the fees they charge you. we'll show you why it's happening despite a crackdown from regulators. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." [ girl ] by the way, this is not what back to school looks like. the only thing anyone really cares about is that first day. everyone will be stylin' their faves. love that! but i'll be bringing it every day, 'cause i went to jcpenney. i know, right? that's what i'm talking about. they have so much great stuff. oh, sweet! anyway, what's your first day strategy? [ female announcer ] doorbusters friday 3:00 to close, saturday 9:00 to 1:00. come find your first day look at jcpenney.

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if you think your bank charges a lot of fees you're right. a new study shows the average checking account as 30 separate fees. dawn kopecky covers banking for the bloomberg news. good morning. >> good morning. >> first of all, why the fees?

>> they're not making as much money as they used to. they have to hold more reserves so federal regulators are requiring them to hold more money. interest rates are so low, they've been so low for so long that their profit margins on lending are at historic lows right now and so they have to find new avenues for revenue. >> but the four biggest banks just reported massive profit jumps. >> they did. they did. part of that is because of mortgage lending because rates were so low for so long their mortgage fee revenue has jumped because of refinancings, but that's going down right now. they're also not making as much. those profit numbers you saw, a lot of that wasn't real money. it was accounting adjustments. so the real cash coming in. the reliable money is fee rev new from customers like you and i. >> what's the fee that hits the

consume ter hardest? >> the hardest hit is the overdraft fee, $35 on an account. if you go to walmart or write a check and there's not enough money, the bank will cover that but they'll charge you $35. so this could be like a $4 transaction at starbucks and you get charged and it's $35. >> wow. >> so if you're signing up for a new bank account or you currently have one what should you can ask about what kind of fees you're being charged? >> you have to opt in to these overdraft protection but it's kind of tricky and a lot of consumers don't read the fine print. if you don't ask for it you're automatically enrolled. you can opt out but when you go to swipe your debit card you'll be charged for that particular coverage of the overdraft.

one tricky fee is if you don't have enough in your checking account and you have it in your savings account, a lot of banks are charging you $10 to transfer. it's your own money, but they're limited. they're also limited in the types of fees they can charge and because of that they've been coming up with new ways to find money. >> all right. dawn kopecky, good to see good morning. it is humid. 93% humidity. temperatures right now are in the let's say low 70s on tv hill. first warning doppler shows a radar scan clear of rain. it's not going to be that way through the day. it's not going to rain all day long either. any shower or thunderstorm should have heavy downpours. we say mainly later. i'm thinking from lunchtime on. it's going to be humid today you may want to trade your morning cup of coffee for some

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good morning, anthony. good morning, everybody. it is 8:00 a.m. welcome back to "cbs this morning." an out-of-control california wildfire threatens several hundred homes. more than a thousand people have been evacuated. we're going to go to the scene. president obama says no thanks to a private meeting with russian president vladimir putin. why can't these two interpowers get along. plus china's effort to save the giant panda. we'll take you behind the scenes at the largest panda research center in the world. but first here's today's "eye

opener" at 8:00. two firefighters have already been injured and 15 homes have been destroyed. california fire officials are calling this extreme fire behavior. >> the silver file broke out 80 miles east of los angeles. >> i'm hoping that my house is still oklahoma because we left. >> people in the midwest are cleaning up. >> other parts of the nation are dealing with extreme flooding. >> clearly something serious is going on in yemen. >> for a third day in a row there are reports of an american drone strike. >> signals that u.s./russian relations are no long never that period of reset. >> snowden's case was important because from a u.s. standpoint this was like an intelligence defector. >> this is the lottery counter where one of the three powerball winning tickets were won. >> he had full-time hours and full-time duties. there's no way i can fathom how

the city can call him part-time. >> they studied her cells for six decades and she and her family were never asked for permission. >> if a-rod is suspended he also won't be able to play in china, korea, or taiwan which means somebody's company softball team is going to really start kicking some [ bleep ]. i'm norah o'donnell. gayle king is on assignment and charlie rose is off. >> the fire threatened several communities this morning. 1,500 residents have been told to evacuate. ben tracy is about 35 miles east of los angeles. good morning. >> reporter: anthony norah, good morning. we've been standing here for about 90 minutes and we've seen the fires tear around us.

this fire spreads for miles. this fire began yesterday around 2:00 and it went from 300 acres to 5,000 acres in just a matter of hours. it's now consumed more than 1,500 acres. three people have been injured including two firefighters. they've had to evacuate seven small towns and heavy smoke has drifted into nearby palm springs. firefighters have a very tough day ahead of them. this is a horribly windy part of southern california even on a good day and if those winds start picking up 35 40-mile-an-hour gusts, that's going to make this fire more erratic than it already is. anthony, norah, as of this morning, as of this hour no known cause for this fire. >> the scene behind ben is extraordinary and it's amazing how fast it can spread. >> we'll continue to watch that. thank you.

nelson mandela's ex-wife is talking candidly about nelson's fight with his lung disease. >> it's so difficult to watch him struggle like there's nothing you can do. those of us who have lived with him and knowing his strength and to see him battling the way he is battling it's hard to take. >> mandela entered the hospital two months ago today. his condition is described as critical but stable. russian officials say they're disappointed that president obama has called off his one-on-one meeting with president vladimir putin. the talks were postponed. it's not the first time the super power relations have gone sour. margaret brennan is at the state department. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you

again anthony and norah. this decision again, to cannes settle this meeting is the first time the american president has call off a pub lookly announced sit-down with russia. this snub signals that obama's attempts to reset relations has hit pause. improving u.s. public relations was one of president obama's top foreign policy goals when he came to office. >> it's difficult to forge a lasting partnership between former adversaries. it's hard to change habits that have been ingrained in our governments and bureaucracies for decades. that's why i've called for a resets in the relations between united states and russia. >> that started with an actual molk reset button which hillary clinton handed her russian

counterpart. we tried to get this right. did we? >> you got this wrong. >> we got it wrong. >> russian president vladimir putin played the strong man in public and in private. he refused to budge in negotiations with obama on syria, arms reduction, and missile defense. meanwhile the two countries continue to spy on each other. president obama blamed it on outdated thinking. >> there have been times where they've flipped backing into a cold war thinking and mentality. what i consistently say to them and to president putin, that's the past. >> that complicate relationship heated up during the cold war. they tried to manage tension and spot the spread of con nichl. >> mr. gorbachev, tar down this

wall wall. >> little changed. things seemed to start off well when vladimir putin entered office. george w. bush said he trusted him after just one meeting i was able to get a sense of his soul. bush later said putin changed. conflict and mutual distrust rose again. piper said u.s. still sees russia as an adversary. >> it still looks as a competitor and part of this gets back to the image of a super power. if you want to be a super power, you have to set yourself up against someone. it's not going to be italy or france. it's going to be the it stax. that will test whether they can

find any points of agreement. they'll discuss arms reduction and the civil war in sire ya. >> margaret brennan. thanks. the pga tournament has teed off this morning. as usual, all eyes will be on tiger woods. he won last week's invitational by seven strokes. >> woods has not won a major since the 2008 open. jim nantz of cbs sports is at the oak hill country club. he'll lead the coverage of the play by play. good morning. >> good morning, anthony. good morning, norah. there's a lost of questions here. this course is soft and ripe for low scoring and tiger i suspect will take advantage of it. he tees off in about 30 minutes.

>> he comes off that big win in bridgestone. can he win this major? >> of course he can win it but people need to gear down because of expectations. just because he won before. this marks the eighth time he's won in his previous tournament to entering major. in the seven previous times, it was not with major. i don't think that translates to a victory here. there are a lot of guys poised to play well including phil mickelson. he claims he's playing the best golf of his age. is that amazing? >> it is. >> two in a row would be major.

>> if he wins he'll be player of the year in golf. no one's talking about it. phil mickelson would be the player of the year. there are other guys. justin rose. he should play well here and adam scott at the open champions, he came closer to winning than tiger did on that occasion. again, we wrap it up around most of the time uj one guy. that doesn't netly mean he's going to win at oak hill. >> what is it that he almost forgot to register? >> it sounds more complex than it is. thankly there's a few small hiccups. i mentioned that with phil.

he got in a little accident great little up to pittsburgh outside of unand put it all behind us. if you don't triumph here you have to wait until the next maejer so you gear your whole year around these four big events and i think there's such an added emergency. this is a american classic, donald ross history. i think it's a major setting. >> yeah. and as you point out, jim, anybody can win but tiger woods and phil mickelson both have a

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you probably heard that dark chocolate could be good for your heart. now a new small study by harvard research suggests that drinking hot chocolate might be good for your brain. >> she's also director of the

new york memory and healthy aging services. good morning. >> good morning. >> any opportunity to have more chocolate is always a golden opportunity. i think most of us think. so what exactly has this study found. >> i was glad we finally had a study that wasn't telling us that broccoli is better for us but what the study found is that drinking cocoa actually helped improve blood flow to the brap and our brain even though it weighs just about two pounds takes up 25% of the oxygen, the blood, the glucose. so it's a very powerful organ. >> you're a neurologist. what does the cocoa do to the brain? >> what it does is improves the blood flow to your brain. your brain is like a car, a high-importance car.

>> is it sugar or flavonoid? >> flavonoid. >> how did they figure this out. >> in this study they looked at people in their 60s and 70s, all of them who had high blood pressure and diabetes. it improved based on ultra sounds they did. >> does this have a greater benefit for older people? >> it has more benefit for people who have disease in their blood vessel because peoples who blood vessel ss change they don't need the help but we don't know it's the flavonoid. it's in the cocoa. >> it's still in study. let me ask you this. for people who are diet

conscious, are there other flavonoids? >> sure. apples blueberries are good for you and exercise. any kind of aerobic exercise increases blood flow to your brain. that's what they do increase the blood flow to your brain. >> my favorite part of this is you said my brain is a ferrari. >> all right. rev it up. thinks thr being here. >> and some of the women have left the work force to stay at home. lesley stahl spoke to some of them in 2004. now we're going to meet one of those women who say things didn't go the way she plant. >> announcer: cbs "healthwatch" sponsored by v8 100% vegetable juice. i could have had a v8.

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25 minutes past 8:00. it is steamy outside. all our glass is steamed up. >> it's time to get cleaned. lest take a look -- let's take a look at first warning doppler weather radar. steamy but rain free. that will not last through the days. showers and thunderstorms part of the out look. 83 later. here is christy breslin at wjz traffic control. >> we have an accident on the outer loop at liberty road. that has traffic backed up to green spring avenue. 95 southbound the ramp to 100 is blocked off. other accident

include northbound 295 at water view. if you are traveling on the topside of the outer loop, watch for a slow down there beginning at 95 going over to harford road. average speed about 30 miles an hour. let's take a live look. pretty heavy there as well on the outer loop at old court road. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet. bill's has it all for you. call them at 877-75-bills the baltimore county woman being tried for a murder for hire plot is expected to take the stand today. mike schuh has more. >> good morning. the wife of the own er of a towson gas station called police to report that her husband had been murdered. but she said that he was robbed and then shot. soon homicide detectives centered on inconsistencies in her story and she recorded a confession. four others were involved in the plot to kill william porter. the hit

man is serving life in prison. the prosecution rested yesterday after her confession was played to jurors. now it's expect that karla porter will take the stand in her own defense today. this morning the fbi continues to investigate the bomb threat left aft elijah cummings district office. an unknown plastic de white substance was found on the outside of the office. cummings said whoever put it there wanted to make it look like explosives. the fbi confirms it was not hazardous. a victory for the family of a local woman. 60 years ago henrieta lacks died of cancer. they removed her cells and have been using them for cancer

research. now they came to an agreement with her family to say who has access to those cells in the future. stay with wjz 13, maryland's

welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour some of the women who opted out of the work force is opting in. one who's getting off the fast track to be a full-time mom. they will also join the conversation. plus, she's a long way from james bond but you'll meet the 80-year-old grandmother playing in dark new comedy. she's bringing real life skills to her job. that's ahead. first it's time to show you this morning's headlines.

"the new york times" says it's profitable but not for sale. both "the boston globe" and "washington post" changed hands this week. digital subscriptions are paying off. the "washington post" looks at a herd of goats. they've been brought in to clean up the congressional cemetery. the cemetery covers 35 akers in southeast washington. >> and the "detroit free press" says a longdy distance swimmer with a long trim. he swam across lake st. clair. he dragged along cement blocks. it took 51 hours. highly educated women walked way from their careers to stay home and raise their children.

lesley stahl reported on the trend for "60 minutes" in 2004. >> you clerked at the supreme court for ruth gator ginsburg and walked away. >> i know myself and when i work at something i work hard. when i was there, i was working until midnight every night and my husband started a surgical residency where he was completely unavailable. i was afraid that if i was working, there would be no parent there with the children and i wanted to experience getting to know my children being there in a consistent way. >> she's hardly alone. every wednesday morning this church in suburban maryland is full of women who have stepped out of the full-time work force to spend time with their children. >> you go into a negotiation if you're normal feeling a certain inadequacy.

>> torey hall and sheila icele. once a top sales representative for oracle come each week. they and ann gelzoller, a yale graduate, are all stay-at-home moms. >> the bottom line was it was an emotional issue. it doesn't make sense to give up a great job that pays a lot of money and have a lot of satisfaction for myself just to walk away from that. >> you were voted the most likely to succeed. you went to yale pen law school. you were on that track, full time. full bore. does it bother you? >> i think about it for a little bit and i love what i'm doing for right now. >> you do. >> i do. i would say the first six months there were days i had serious doubts, did i make the right decision. now there are bumps in the road but i'm very glad i stayed at

home. >> today many of those women are opting back in. lesley stahl is here along with sheila odom who you saw at the end of the 60 minutes clip and lisa belkin who wrote the original "new york times" ard kel that started this discussion. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> so great to have you here. sheila, let me start with you. yowl said you made the right decision. do you regret it? >> i don't regret it at all. i'm very fortunate. many women don't have the opportunity. i'm grateful. i could have donees things differently but i'm glad i stayed back home. >> why are you opting back in? >> it varies. there's no one real answer for that that. one was going through a divorce.

one is look act college for their kids. the economy, you're not making as much money as you used to. it varies. it's very personal. >> lesliesleylesley, you did this story ten years ago. all these women with degrees. >> astonishing. >> huge salaries to stay at home. why did you do the piece at the time? >> i guess i was shaked. we would -- we fought so hard and wouldn't have gich up and i guess i saw it as giving up. i tried very hard not to be judgment mental while i was doing it sheila but it was hard. i wanted these women to find a way to enenjoy both. the other thing is these women were the country's potential leaders. they were going to be the congressmen and the businesswomen who we complain

are not being promoted. it's a huge swath of our smart, well educated women acting out at the time. >> heelisa, you were at the forefront of this debate. what's so fascinating now is for femme nift you -- >> their generation was appalled because they were the warriors and they would never have thought of stopping or pausing and it would have been a disservice for the sisterhood. and then your generation with us the first one misched enough to look at and see the decisions they were making. they were feeling guilty no matter what they did. they were feeling guilty if they stayed at home. guilty at work. they were just glty.

what's have interesting is what's going to happen with the next one. we're also seeing how the people who came after are saying i don't want that. i want a completely different work life setup from the start. >> this is what strikes me as i read all this, what's going on and certainly eek nom imageny it's different from ten years ago. >> you know the pressures are so much greater now. both in making it possible but also finding johns for these win. that's rt the thing. most women i talked to thought they'd go back. getting a job after being out for five ten years, that's

huge. >> sheel la i was struck. you were making half a million a year at oracle. you offered to stay home. you're now back to work. you say when you're at home in "the new york times," you said your self-image plummeted. yu felt like a loser. why? >> it was all timing. it was a very tumultuous year. i think in general i live in an environment where there's a lot of people. i started working when i was 15 years old and that was a huge part of my identity from the getgo. from the moment i started working. i always had a strong work ethic and that's just who i was.

when i decided to stay at home. you don't. >> you get a work fofrms they're attached armed and it moons oven. >> you told me you could have predimmeded this. why. >> i thought the woman would get unhappy and we i've seen that. we went back and found four. there were six. two weren't back to work. i think if you say i have kids and i'm just going to make money, why am i leaving for that. but if you say i'm leaving kids to help society, that makes

ittrying ahead the scientists, what they're doing to good morning. it is relatively gray but it is humid. big time. 93% humidity. temperatures in the mid 7 0s. no rain on radar quite yet. that will change through the afternoon with showers and thunderstorms around. . it's not going to rain all day. when it does it could be heavy at times. 86 is the high. over night tonight 72. much the same forecast tomorrow much

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research base for china panda breeding. 74 giant panda and 68 smaller also endangered ones roam and ideally reproduce. >> when i knew i was coming, i thought of pandas. >> she and her american girlfriends visited as part of a u.s. state department/chinese language program. her friend maggie wants to one day work with these endangered animals. >> the panda for china is liekke that to the united states. it's such a big part of your country and heritage and what you stand foul and you need to share that. >> reporter: their guide has been a conservationist here over the last 14 years. where are we in the fight to

save the panda? >> still dangerous but better than in the past. >> when bexell started there were 500. now there are 1,600. today there are more than 300. but breakneck economic development and a population boom has turned bases like this one into a backstop against extinction extinction. >> we want them to come here feel attached to the animals and go home and do something about it. >> pandas have a notoriously low sex drive. female begans are fertile for 12 hours a yeeg. their vast breeding grounds were replaced by roads and equipment. >> i've been doing this for too

long. i think about everything i buy. i want to get the whole world thinking. i want a small home. when i redo my kitchen, i have to think about fortified anymore. recently a panda gave birth to two babies at the zoo. every moment was douchlted. >> you who got to be the eternal optimist to do this work these pandas will likely never be set free in the wild. all of this work here won't help the number of wild pandas. >> perhaps. unless we can get people to care while they're here education is the most important part of conservation today because until we can change human behavior to

sate sane it. any else is assignment of what they can a band-aid. >> reporter: essentially change can only come if oohs and as come through the real angle. for "cbs this morning," seth doane. shej do china. >> who who knew. >> that pandas were fertile. >> 12 hours a year. >> we've got an idea. >> you like this. play marvin gaye. >> yes give them a little marvin gaye. >> get it on. ♪ let's get it on ♪ >> there you go. when we come back, an 89-year-old becomes the world's ♪ ♪ this summer, new york state is back and open for business. with endless beaches, hundreds of miles for hiking...or biking.

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tv continues to redefine itself launching shoes on the web is becoming a viable way for producers to create and fund new program, especially unconventional shoes. jock black stone takes a look at agent 88 which briepremieres online this morning and it could make a hollywood dream come true for hod's unlikely star. >> agent 88 is dark comedy about the world's deadliest assassin, a little old lady who can conquer evil. but is a little more than forgetful. >> there's just this thing i can't find. >> 80-year-old cadorcy stars at agent 88. it's an important thing for you to be depicting.

>> well, i didn't realize how important. the more years you've lived, the more richness you've got to draw on so why be ashamed of it for god sake. >> darcy has studied martial arts for years but the british grandmother never dreamed she'd get to use it as an action here rowe. agent 88 was created by writer/director digger mash. he was inspired by a jewelry store heist in hampton, new england, foiled by an elderly grandmother. >> suddenly you see this little figure in a red coat dashing down the road swinging her handback. she swings one off his bike. >> he wrote a script about an agent avenging angel and tried selling the story to hollywood. i realized wi us going to have a

problem. why? >> so they took their idea to the web to kickstarter, a crowd-funding site. their goal was to raise $88,000 in 30 days. >> the public was going to love it and they're going to love us and get it made or the public ee going to hate it and go right away. >> reporter: their campaign went to $105,000 and agent 88 went into production. perhaps the only thing better than shouldering a weapon is rubbing elbows with other action heroes. that's why agent 88 went to comic-con where hollywood promotes its projects. it's an experience cadorcy only dreams about. she spent her first 70 years in

england in plays. now she's allowed her hollywood type up the well lined base. >> do you think that's what products want when they're trying to sell a car? someone with a weathered experienced face. no. they want the height of a of a. >> you're helping break us out of that muddle. >> and if agent 88 becomes an internet sensation, the next step could be a feature film. for "cbs this morning," john blackstone, los angeles. >> i want to look that good at 80 and be able to do that mariel arts thing. >> let me know if you find a class. i'll do it with you. that does it for us. up next your local news. we'll see you right back here tomorrow on "cbs this morning." >> bye-bye. -- captions by vitac

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it is now 5 minutes before 9:00. it remains a very humid hurry up. marty soefr is -- is over at first warning weather. >> at least it's dry. no shower activity in the region now. that will change later with a couple showers and thunderstorms. can't rule out a heavy shower or thunderstorm but it's not going to be an all day rain. 86 will be the high. 72, the same forecast over night. tomorrow the same forecast, a high of 87. don, take it away. in the news this morning a baltimore county woman hired a hit man to kill her husband. mike schuh stays on the story. >> good morning. the wife of the own er of a towson gas

station called the police to say he was robbed and shot. soon homicide detectives centered on inconsistencies and she recorded a confession. four others were involved in the plot to kill william ray porter and the hit man is already serving life in prison. the prosecution rested yesterday after her confession to police was played to jurors. now it's expected that karla porter will take the stand in her own defense today when court reopens. i'm mike schuh reporting from towson. >> thank you. nearly a dozen aid workers from here in maryland are stranded after this week's airport fire in east africa. the blaze destroyed most of the international terminal in kenya. 10 volunteer s are stuck. $20,000 worth of diesel fuel was stolen from a baltimore county business in halethorpe. the thieves used a hose to

transfer 5,000 gallons to a tank in their trunk. an anne arundel county lays off hundreds of employees. dinasplint is laying off 500 workers. a problem with the company's credit disrupted cash flow. company officials say it plans to recall most of the laid off workers after repaying the companies debts, possibly by mid november. a victory for the family of a baltimore woman whose cancer cells led to medical advances. over 60 years ago she died. without her knowledge or consent doctors used her cancer cells and they have been used in research. now her family came to an agreement with hopkins that gives them a say who has access to those cells.

the washington wizards have announced they will tip off here in charm city with the new york knicks to celebrate the team's 50th anniversary. the game will bring carmelo anthony back to his hometown. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. complete

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