chilling video discovered overnight of the gunman in the pennsylvania jim massacre. >> it is easy for me to hide from my emotions for one more day. >> we'll bring you the latest on his motive and his final message. the american journalists freed by north korea speak of the emotional end of their ordeal. >> when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us president bill clinton. >> we'll talk about the joyful family of one of the women. a murder for hire gone wrong as a newlywed tries to hire someone to kill her husband but is busted by police. >> i don't think she was glad to see him alive. she was more in shock that he was alive. and can your car bumper take it? probably not. we'll look at the high cost of low speed crashes "early" this thursday morning, august 6th, 2009.

captioning funded by cbs good morning. i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. julie is on assignment. this morning we have a story you are just going to love. you'll meet the then 13-year-old girl who decided to write a letter to the troops during the first gulf war and the 19-year-old soldier who found that letter by chance. they were pen pals for a while. they lost touch until almost 20 years later when they reconnected on the internet and got married. you will meet jaime and jeremy this morning and hear their fated love story. also this morning, a lot of people get an operation. it's not terribly complicate, especially women with osteoporosis for their backs, it doesn't do any good. this is the news you've got to know. we'll have that for you a little later on this hour. we begin this morning with

so vershy disturbing tosdet ahe tost are shedding more light on the gunman in the pennsylvania shootings. susan koeppen is live in collier township this morning. >> reporter: good morning. in his online diary, george sodini talked about his frustration and anger with women. this morning two videos on youtube apparently posted by sodini himself. >> it is easy for me to hide from my emotions for one more day. >> reporter: this video shows george sodini talking about the need to work on his emotions in order to attract women np in another video, sodini gives viewers a tour of his home. >> the couch and chair, they match. women will really be impressed. >> reporter: despite his best efforts to impress, sodini couldn't understand why women ignored him. former brother-in-law joe perello says sodini could never click socially. >> i never met a girlfriend. i mefr met a friend.

>> reporter: in an online diary he began last year frustrated with women, sodini began planning the murders at the gym. >> he just had a lot of hatred in him, and he was hellbent on committing this act, and there was nobody going to stop him. >> reporter: police say sodini with four handguns walked into the aerobics classroom tuesday night and firing more than 30 shots. killing 36 haerld heidi obermier, a mom. 37-year-old jody billingsley and 49-year-old elizabeth gannon who worked at a local hospital. her friends are in disbelief. >> she can't be gone. it couldn't have happened that way. >> you couldn't ask for a better friend. >> reporter: in a note, sodini complains he never spent a weekend with a girl, never lived with a woman, and only had sex a few times.

a prayer vigil is planned for tonight in honor of the three women killed and the nine who were injured. maggie? >> susan koeppen. thank you, susan. joining us now is patricia cohen, who lived across the street from the killer for the past 12 years. patricia, good morning to you. >> good morning, maggie. >> i know that you and your fiance bob lived directly across the street. now to find out this man, george sodini, was essentially the killer next door, what is that like for you? >> really devastating. just knowing that he was doing the things that he did and the journal he was keeping, to say he was going out for young girls and knowing what he said on july 23rd about my daughter, it's just so devastating to know that somebody like that lives right across the street from you.

>> we should tell the viewers what you're talking about what you say that he wrote about your daughter in his journal. in one of the entries, he mentions your fiance by name. he writes, "i just looked out my front window and saw a beautiful college age girl leave bob's house across the street. she was long haired, hot little hotty with a beautiful bod." i won't continue because it is just disgusting. to hear that, tell me your reaction. >> it's just so overwhelming. just the idea of somebody like that thinking like that for a young girl. my daughter is a college student, and, you know, just to think if i would lose somebody like that, i don't know what i would do. it's just so devastating. washawat wa he ke? e there any indication that d aturbed individual? >> no.

he seemed pretty focused on life. he seemed happy. i felt like he was just a loner who liked to keep to himself. he would say hi on occasion. just never thought that somebody like that would be so capable of what he's done. >> tell me about any interactions that you may have had with him and your impressions of him in those moments. >> the moments of the shooting? >> no. meaning did you ever interact with him? did you ever talk with him? what was he like in those moments? >> yeah. well, monday my fiance and talked with him briefly. my fiance had surgery, and he was asking about the surgery and saying that he was happy, that he's doing well. he seemed very concerned. like he was a trustworthy, nice kind of guy that you could

trust. i would have left him in my house any time. just the fear now, knowing what he did, it's just you can't trust anybody these days. it's just so devastating and just so hard to take in. it's just awful. it's just terrible. >> i can't even imagine. patricia cowen, thank you so much for your time. euna lee and laura ling got to sleep in their own beds last night, not to mention hug their families and enjoy home cooked meals for the first time in five months. we're learning much more this morning about their ordeal as prisoners in north korea. here's cbs news correspondent bill whitaker. >> reporter: while laura ling and euna lee are celebrating their first days of freedom, we are learning more about their life in captivity. although they appeared in good health, lee lost 15 pounds. ling suffers from ulcers. >> they actually were kept apart most of the time. on the day of their trial, they

hugged each other, and that was it. >> reporter: their arrival was like a made for tv moment. home after almost five months of captivity and constant fear. when they were suddenly called for a meeting by their captors, they didn't know what to expect. >> when we walked through the doors, we saw standing before us president bill clinton. >> reporter: former president clinton's trip was well-orchestrated. the north koreans told the prisoners they could be releaseded if clinton came to pyongyang. the captive journalists passed the message to their families in phone calls. >> he was a safe choice, and what i mean by that is president clinton would not go off the reservation. >> reporter: clinton and president obama had no direct conversation before the trip, but the white house did impose conditions that clinton would travel as a private citizen and

there would be no other negotiations on issues like north korea's nuclear weapons. so bill clinton went to north korea. >> and now we stand here home and free. d >> reporter: bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> joining us now from fresno, california, is the saldate family, euna lee's faerl frank, mother in law karen, and sisters in law jenna and kimberly. good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> let me start with frank. does all of this seem real to you? >> yes, it's been real, and it's been very scary. now it's very happy, celebratory. >> and, karen, yesterday what was that like to finally see your daughter-in-law come down those steps? oh, my gosh. >> it was beyond words, harry. it was surreal. when those hangar doors opened,

it was unbelievable. i can't even put it into words. >> one of the enduring images of yesterday that people will never forget is little hannah with her arms around euna's neck. this little girl did not let go one second. >> she missed her mom very much. we had her on occasion for weeks at a time, and there were moments where she'd break down where she had missed her mom. >> and jenna and kimberly, you pitched in to help take care of little hannah. what was that like? >> yes, we did. we did a lot. >> this thing has played out in public, but on another side, it was very private. you were very isolated from your daughter-in-law. there were days and even weeks went by when you had no news whatsoever. karen, can you describe this experience? >> something i never thought

that i would have to endure. not knowing was the worst. it was not very often that we would get any news. we'd go weeks without any news. so it was just day by day. sometimes hour by hour. >> frank, how is euna doing? >> you know, everybody was fearful about the return, but when we start a conversation, her sense of humor came back, and she began teasing us and teasing with mike, it was a very good feeling. she's in good shape. >> wow. what did you all do yesterday once you left the airport? >> well, the drive back to the house with a fantastic escort thanks to the l.a. police department. that was overwhelming in itself. it was exciting. and then just to be at home, walking in her house for the first time. you know, we allowed her the

privilege of unlocking the door and walking in, grabbing her face, just so excited. i'm home, i'm home. and then the tour. and then we stayed there for a brief while. then it was time for them to have their time. we had a long drive back to fresno, so we stayed an hour, hour and a half, and then we left. >> during the drive home, what did you all talk about? what did you all say to each other? >> we were so happy. we recapped the awesomeness of the whole experience and the logistics of putting something like this together, talking with president clinton's staff members and how wonderful they were. the state department representatives, which were very professional. very warm people. being up, like i said, unaware of what was going on, the works of everything, it was finally neat to be told everything. and it was educational. it was exciting. the ling family, great people. we had a wonderful time. it was a happy occasion.

so there was a lot of laughs. and hannah kept us going. >> she looks like the little l engine that could, right? >> oh, yeah. little engine had a lot of influence on a lot of us. it kept us -- it's what drew us together. i'd like to thank the korean community, the hancock park area, because they rallied and supported michael and hannah as well as we did. they were a great support. so she was linked us all together. she was the main adhesive, you want to call it, whatever you want to call it, but she was the one that kept everybody together. >> thank you for taking the time to get up so early this morning and share this story. >> thank you. >> everybody is so pleased with this very, very happy ending. take care. >> thank you, harry. >> you bet. >> what a great family. >> allowed her to open the door, unlock the door to the house, right? i get goose bumps. >> something tells me they didn't get up early.

they've been up through the night with adrenaline. it is nice to get a throw over to weather after a story like that one. nice way to begin the morning, and welcome home. let's take a check of the weather. we'll take a look really from delaware down to virginia and the carolinas, you may see stormy weather today. great lakes and midwest look really terrific. over in the rockies, you're going to see rough weather. by the way, that's going to move over to the plains and possibly regenerate and create some stronger storm conditions. we're going to keep an eye on that. meanwhile, the pacific northwest down by about 10 degrees below your normal highs, and you're going to see rough weather the next few days potentially. looks like nice weather through california. the desert southwest is going to be a little cooler than normal, but you're still going to be in

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it is now 7:19. welcome back to "the early show." >> russ mitchell is at the news desk. good morning to you, sir. this afternoon, the senate expected to confirm sonia sotomayor to the u.s. supreme court. she would be the first hispanic to sit on the nation's highest court. also today, the senate is expected to approve another $2 billion to keep the cash for clunkers auto rebate program going. consumers would likely have until labor day to trade in the gas guzzlers for a more fuel efficient model. it's expected to fund another 500,000 new car sales. a new kind of crash test involving the low speed bump. nancy cordes tells us you could get stuck with a big repair bill. >> reporter: at 6 miles an hour, you wouldn't think that a tap to your bumper would be a big deal until you find out the cost to fix it. the insurance institute for highway safety's latest report

tested the front and rear bumpers of six midsized cars and found extensive damage in low speed collisions. >> bumpers have been made weaker. they've been made smaller. and they don't have enough energy to them. >> reporter: they rate bumpers based on damage resistance and cost to repair. no one received a good rating, which the report defines as a repair cost of $500 or less. the mazda 6 was rated acceptable, averaging $900 in damages. the honda accord and hyundai sonata were rated marginal and cost just a bit more. while the nissan maxima, ford fusion, and the chevy malibu rated poor with over $1,500 in damages. the insurance institute says manufacturers should help protect buyer pocketbooks by improving their bumpers. >> they need to be tall so they interact with other cars on the road. they need to be wide so you got protection in the corners. and they need to be stronger. >> reporter: when we contacteded

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happy thursday. welcome back to the show from new york. coming up in this hour, we have got a story that has everything you could ever want -- war, romance, time apart, and a happy ending. you're going to meet the couple who started out as pen pals when they were much younger, and they're now husband and wife. >> all the way back to the gulf war, right? plus we're going to hear about the popular procedure for back pain which may do more to hurt your wallet than ease your aches. but first how do you hire a hitman? one florida woman apparently thought she knew, so she allegedly hired an undercover policeman to kill her new husband. but things did not go as she planned. cbs news correspondent kelly cobiella has the story.

>> reporter: when downia rushed home from the gym, her townhouse was wrapped in crime tape, and a boynton beach police sergeant was there to break the news. her husband of six months was dead. despite what you see, police say dippolito was no grieving widow. >> she wanted to have her husband killed. >> reporter: according to police, dippolito handed a man pictures of her townhouse, and $1,200 for a handgun. >> she was very cool and calculated. she offered a lot of options as far as how and where and when he might want to take care of her husband. >> reporter: one problem, the man was a confidential informant for the police. at the next meeting two days later at this drug store, an undercover officer posed at the hitman. >> the undercover officer gave her several options. are you sure you want to do this? she maintained her positive

attitude by saying i am 5,000% sure i want this done. >> reporter: that scene at her house wednesday was the grand finale. >> no tears. like a lot of noise but no tears. her eyes didn't appear wet at all. >> reporter: at the police station, dippolito was told her hitman was a cop, and her husband was alive and well. >> i don't think she was glad to see him alive. she was more in shock that he was alive. >> still hasn't hit me. i get it, but i don't get it. technically, it's 10:50. i should have been dead at like 9:00. so i'm an hour and a half on the good side, i guess. >> reporter: police say dippolito never explained why she wanted her husband dead. the two only knew each other for four months when they married. >> i didn't do anything, and i didn't plot anything. >> reporter: she may now have to convince a jury of that. kelly cobiella, cbs news, miami. >> wow. >> here's dave, who is outside this morning with a check of our early weather. how are you doing? >> good. i've got some early gatherers

right here. someone going to plattsburgh, right? suny plattsburgh, state university of new york of plattsburgh. so she is enjoying her last few months of ever wearing a short-sleeved shirt. she'll be buried in a parka for the next four years. plattsburgh is a lovely place, though. people from college station. go, aggies. people from nebraska. where in nebraska? >> lincoln. >> nice to see you from lincoln, nebraska. let's take a check of the weather and see what's happening all across the country. we say hello to not only people in lincoln but suresko as well. cooler in the pacific northwest. after the warm temperatures, we're dropping five to ten degrees below normal. watch out for gusty winds. upwards of an inch of rain and maybe some hail. andv: cooler temperatures as we as you head through the rockies, dropping significantly with strong storms which are going to be rolling through the central plains as well over the next couple of days. keep your eyes open. delaware down to virginia and

the carolinas, you'll see rough weather today. clouds during the first part of the day in sections of the northeast. heat continues in the deep south. that's a quick look at the >> and that's a first look at weather in this half hour. maggie, we'll send it back inside to you. >> dave, thank you. after tuesday night's killing spree outside a pennsylvania health club, authorities were led to the shooter's online blog where he documented his thoughts in the months leading up to what he called his project.

and then last night george sodini's own videos surfaced on youtube. >> my objective is to be real and to learn to be emotional and to, you know, to be able to emotionally connect with people because, when i'm 10 to 20 years older than she is, you know, she has to feel good about this thing. and the only way around that, you know, is to work on this. >> joining us now is dr. michael welner, a top forensic psychiatrist. good morning to you, michael. >> good morning. >> first of all, i look at that video and think he looks like a regular guy. i know you always hear that, but it's surprising because it's not what you expect. >> it's one of the first things you learn about forensic psychiatry, and that is, as much as the people you interview look exactly like you. you expect them to be monsters because they're built up, and actually they're quite ordinary. it's his ordinariness that's at the heart of his committing an attention-seeking crime because that's what this is. crime doesn't pay, as your first

segment showed, unless you're a mass shooter because all of that getting notoriety. >> then you wonder what led him to this moment? when you hear his words on that video, it sounds to me like he's someone who's just desperate but unable to connect emotionally with people. >> there are a lot of people who are dteesra tpeoneoon cct emotionally. we don't have to worry about theionr becoming violent. what distinguishes the mass shooter is that sexual rejection is such a powerful force in this person's life that at some point giving up on ever resolving that, attaching himself -- and it is invariably a man -- to the idea that my failed masculinity is going to be resolved by my being destructive on a big scale. i get to be famous. i get to show power. and the very people i can't connect with sexually are going to see me as some kind of a potent figure. for whatever reason, the roles that get put forward about

masculine success and power and destruction don't apply to women, and that's why we only see this crime in men. and invariably it is a crime of sexual rejection. >> let's look at some of the quotes from his blog, which are quite telling about his personality. he writes, "why do this to young girls? just read below. i kept a running log that includes my thoughts and actions after i saw this project was going to drag on." clearly, he wants publicity for his actions. clearly, he wants people to know what he's plotting. is this his way of saying somebody see this and stop me? >> no. this is his way of knowing that someone is going to find this later on, and he gets to package himself in a way that he wants us to consume. >> but it seems like for months he was putting it out there saying, here's your chance to stop me. i'm going to do this. i'm going to do this. >> mass shooting is the only crime we have available in this country -- and it's analogous to suicide bombing in the islamic

world, where more attention is given to how you're going to appear after the fact than even plotting the crime itself. this is all about attention for him, which is exactly why his videos, his writings shouldn't be exposed. they should be relegated, and he should be remembered as a sexual reject, because that's where all of this derived from. >> in the next quote, "many of the young girls look so beautiful as to not be human, very edible." what's he telling himself and others? >> you cannot kill a stranger unless you dehumanize them. that's how it is in battle. that's how it is with mass shooters. people dehumanize others, and it enables them to do something so violent and destructive. >> we don't need to look at the quote to know it's messed up. he references his pastor. "this guy teaches and convinced me you can commit mass murder and still go to heaven." does he think he's still going to heaven? is s

>> that's a very sensitive question that people in their churches should be discussing. that is, is redemption something you automatically get, or is it something you earn by repe repentance. that's an act of dialogue for church. one of the attentions that's very prevalent in this case, as well as in others where religion is involved, is you have someone who's influenced or living a sexually repressed lifestyle with some connection to religion, which encourages that restraint, coupled with a society that's very encouraging of high sexual activity and masculinity defined by how sexually active you are. he looks back on his life, and he sees this incompatibility. he blames his religion. so that tension is natural in free societies. what is part of his discussion that i think really does deserve closer attention is where does redemption come from? does it come from a pastor, or is it god's decision? because i encounter that as a forensic psychiatrist all the time. a killer will say, i've said i'm

sorry. forgive me. is it really that simple. we should pray for the victims. should we pray for him? has he earned it? that's a discussion because we're not showing cameras in mercy hospital. we're showing cameras of him. >> all right. michael welner, thank you. thank you so much. coming up next, a procedure for back pain that may not be doing patients any good at all. keep it right he.re light & fit has 80 calories versus 100 in the other leading brand. and a taste you'll find...

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in "healthwatch" this morning, two new studies say a popular procedure used to treat back pain may not be as helpful as advertised. it is performed at least 40,000 times a year, cost $2,000 to $5,000, and our own dr. jennifer ashton is here to explain. this is so interesting. they did this study. so successful is this operation, people were not willing to participate because they wanted the cure, and what did they find out? >> and the practitioners, the doctors were skeptical to participate either because they so believed in this operation without what we call evidence-based medicine to support it. what they did in the studies, harry, two studies of just over

100 people in two different locations. they did the real procedure, and they did what's called a sham procedure. they didn't do it, but the patients thought they were having it done. injected a little numbing medication, went through the motions, but did not place the actual cement in the bone. they looked at them at one, three, and six months down the road, no difference in the outcome. they had the same relief of pain in both groups. >> are we looking at where this might take place? >> these are typically caused by osteoporosis or a compression fracture of the vertebral column. within this area right here, you'll see a fragmenteded, fractured bone that causes a lot of pain, a lot of disability, and an increase in risk of death actually. as our population ages, we see more and more people suffering from this. and this procedure, wildly popular, expensive, and really not proven to do anything more than time. >> so the placebo effect had the same effect as the procedure? >> placebo effect is said to

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the search for missing toddler madeleine mccann takes a dramatic turn. we'll tell you about the possible new clues investigators are focusing on. a soldier's young pen pal finds him after nearly two decades and writes a new ending to their story. we'll meet them both. and an old school hero meets up with a new school femme fatale. we'll meet the stars of "gi joe," channing tatum and sienna miller, "early" this thursday morning, august 6th, 2009. good morning, everybody. nice to have you here. we have people from all over america. >> yes, including nebraska. >> iowa.

>> we've got iowans here again? >> right here, nebraska. >> more iowans. welcome back to "the early show," everybody. i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez and dave price. coming up, here's some advice. if you want to seem younger, it's not just how you look, it's how you act. we're going to have somebody along to help us -- >> be immature? >> sort of lower our demographic profile. >> if you could be any age, what would you be? >> right now? >> yeah. >> right exactly where i am. >> really? >> i wouldn't choose anything else. >> that's what i was going to say too. 39 is great. you? >> 73. i think i'd be more comfortable at 73. >> cool, you're close. just hang in there. >> i'd be about 30. >> that's that whole -- i think people see you and believe you're sort of perpetually 13. >> right, exactly. >> we thought that's what you'd say. >> i'm the permanent bar mitzvah

boy, so i've been told. >> if you'd like to stay cool this summer, we have an idea. stay away from the stove. don't worry, you'll still eat. we'll find out how to skip the cooking but still get dinner ready with andrew knowlton from bon appetit magazine. >> first, let's go inside to russ mitchell, and see what's happening at the news desk. good morning, russ. >> good morning, david. the gunman that opened fire at a suburban pittsburgh health club documented his trouble with women in an online video. in the video, george sodini says he can't understand why women ignored him and hasn't had a girlfriend since 1984. he began planning the health club attack last year. he was a member of the club but did not have a relationship with any of his victims. a lawyer for former louisiana congressman william jefferson says he will appeal jefferson's conviction on bribery, racketeering, and money

launders. a video shows jefferson accepting a suitcase filled with $100,000. jefferson accepted more than $400,000 in bribes for brokering deals, mostly in africa. he faces more than 20 years in prison. there was a possible announcement in london this morning of a possible break in the long-running search for madeleine mccann. cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer has that story. >> reporter: a retired detective hired by the mccanns and the cb family's spokesman announced they had a new lead today. 3-year-old madeleine disappeared in may of 2007 from the family's vacation resort in portugal. in spite of a vast police search and a reconstruction of the way she might look now, her fate remains unknown. today clarence mitchell said they were looking for awoman who spoke to a british man in barcelona three days after madeleine's appearance. >> the witness became aware of a well-dressed woman who he describes as appearing agitated.

>> reporter: what the woman who may be australian said to the man, detectives believe, may indicate she knew something about what happened to madeleine. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. and finally, there has been a blessed event at the san diego zoo. prized panda gave birth to her fifth cub after a 138-day pregnancy. the cub weighed in at 4 ounces. look at that. its gender won't be known for a few more months. it's going to get so big. it's now 8:04. dave is out on the plaza with another check. >> this unruly crowd, russ, won't keep it down. >> harry said you were 13. i'd give you at least 15. >> thank you. i appreciate that. russ was recognizing my maturity and said i behaved as if i was 50. so take that back, what you said. nice to see, everybody. we had a great crowd out here. a small intimate crowd, but lovely nonetheless, i will tell

you. we have people from all over the place, including this fifth grade teacher from madison, wisconsin. when does school start there? >> september 1st. >> are you ready? >> no, but i'm getting there. >> you got your sleep over the summer? >> yeah, got plenty of that. >> kids, don't mess around. get tight on this face. she means business. do your homework. let's take a check of the weather and see what's happening across the country. first let's go to the northwest. temperatures finally below normal. temperatures in the 70s. we've got rain rolling through the pacific northwest next couple of days, into the rockies as well, and then into the plain states where the weather could be severe. also from delaware down through virginia and the carolinas, you're going to see thunder showers. high pressure makes the great lakes and midwest the place to be. temperatures in the triple digit ins texas and the 90s in the deep south. desert southwest once again in the 100s. a little cooler than it has

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that's gradual and comfortable, like nature intended. dulcolax stool softener. feeling free to be. singers: feelin' free. in this digital age of e-mails and tweets, we sometimes forget the value of a handwritten letter. but two long ago pen pals will forever remember the role that letters played in their lives. in the midst of the first gulf war almost two decades ago, 13-year-old ji me benefit wrote a letter to the troops addressed to any soldier. the letter made its way to 19-year-old private first class jeremy clayton. the two exchanged letters in the lead-up to the war, but after the ground battle began, they lost touch. fast forward to 2009, where letters have become e-mails, and reconnecting is only a click away. curious about her long lost

friend, jaime searched his name on facebook and sent him a short message. were you in desert storm? not only did their friendship prove as strong as they remembered, it blossomed into something more. as of last month, whenever jaime sends a letter or e-mail, it says mrs. jaime clayton. mr. and mrs. jaime and jeremy clayton are here this morning. welcome and congratulations. >> thank you. >> if that letter that you addressed to any soldier so long ago had not made its way to you, jeremy, none of this would have happened. how did that letter find you? >> it just found me. thousands of letters come to our troop, and i picked it out. and because of her green handwriting. >> she wrote it with a green pen? and you were drawn to it? >> yes. >> so you start corresponding. you become pen pals. eventually, you send pictures. and i have to show them. this is the picture that jaime sent. she was just 13 years old at the time. and you sent her this one of you

in camouflage, and the cutest thing about it is that you guys wrote messages to each other on the back. will you please read the message that you wrote jaime. >> sure. jeremy, this is my most recent picture, this year's school picture. hope you like it. love you always, jaime. >> such a little kid. read what you wrote to her. >> jaime, here i am. the only picture i could muster up for right now. i still couldn't tell you what i look like for all the camouflage on my face. february, 1990. >> and you kept all the letters, jaime. jeremy, you were only able to keep a few. why? >> we had to destroy them before the ground war in case we were capture. >> how did you manage to keep a couple? >> i hid them in my vehicle. >> why? is what did this relationship mean to you? >> after we corresponded, a guess, over a course of 10 to 15 letters, we had a bond. >> she got you through it. >> yes, i believe she did. >> and you kept all the letters.

obviously, he was important to you too. what made you, 20 years later, decide to look for him on facebook? >> after i saw the letters, i always wondered what had happened to him. >> because you guys lost touch when? >> 1991. >> so a while back? >> i just wondered how he was. i thought, i need to find him. i started looking on the internet and different places and started looking on facebook. >> and how many jeremy claytons did you find? >> there was close to 300. >> how did you choose him? >> i saw his picture, and i knew it was him by his eyes. >> this is amazing. the only picture of him she had ever seen was him in camouflage. all you basically see is his eyes, and from this picture you were able to find him today? >> yes. >> so you wrote to him. you started to talk again. eventually, you decided to meet. i would love to hear your reaction when you saw that this 13-year-old girl had turned into this beautiful woman. >> shocked. >> tell me what you did when you saw her.

>> i seen that she had written me a note on facebook asking me if i had been in desert storm. and i wrote back and told her that, yes, we had been pen pals. and then i sent a request for her to be my friend in facebook, and then she sent one back and approved it or okayed it. >> and the moment that you saw her in person for the first time, what did you think to yourself? >> shock and awe. >> perfect. >> and when did you know that she just had to be your wife? >> i believe that first meeting that we had for sure. >> you knew right then? >> i knew right then. >> yeah. >> and you? >> right then i knew. >> so you got married just a few months after that meeting, but you had actually known each other most of your lives. >> most of our lives. >> how does it feel now? >> it's wonderful. it's really just a dream come true. i never thought that it would turn out this way and be so happy and have my soul mate.

>> what a story to tell the kids. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for sharing it with us. coming up next, forget about plastic surgery. the key to not seeming old is not acting old. we'll explain how when we return. discover a smoothie like no other! new activia smoothies. creamy, delicious, and above all, it contains bifidus regularis and is clinically proven to help regulate your digestive system. new activia smoothies. ♪ activiaaa!

many people spend big bucks in this youth obsessed culture to look young. but our next guest says the trick to being young or seeming young is to act young. pamela redmond satran's new book is called "how not to act old," and she's here with advice on just how to do that. good morning. what made you decide to do that? >> i was at a party, and all my friends who were my age were talking about not themselves, but their grown-up kids. and i thought, you know, that really makes them seem old. >> sure.

>> it's like their lives are over, and their kids are the ones who have the interesting lives. >> right. >> so i thought, you know, there's a whole new way of acting old or acting young that doesn't have anything to do with plastic slip covers. so i started to think about it. >> you think us old folks can on our own get rid of our plastic slip covers? >> i think our parents did that. we're making other mistakes. >> we're making other stupid mistakes. some of them in the workplace. and you say the number one sin of our generation is to leave a voicemail. >> yes. my 19-year-old son joe. this is like the secret of the young that you can never leave a voicemail because they're not going to listen to it anyway. >> the other thing you say is an absolute no-no is to make jokes about yourself and your technical inability to do anything. >> yeah. i think you can't be cute and befuddled anymore. the whole i don't know how to turn on a computer. how do you work these things?

that doesn't play anymore. >> that's another horrible thing to do. i disagree with this. you say don't bring the doughnuts or brown bag it. i couldn't disagree with you more because the person who brings the great treat is othce. you'll have people who say, i won't eat that because i'm trying to lose weight or whatever. but we did this yesterday -- >> and you got points for that? >> the young people seemed to appreciate it. >> you don't want to be the office mom. >> but, okay, see that's another thing all together. let's talk about -- i want to skip all the way down to acting old on -- skip the wedding thing. acting old on vacation. when can you act old? >> in the privacy of your own home. when there are no young people looking. >> right. because we have this thing in our house, we really do have to be at the airport really early. >> i know, i know. and there are only so many cinnabons you can eat. >> isn't there some wisdom in

that, in actually getting there on time, or at least in enough time so that, if something goes wrong, you can rejuggle your schedule? >> i think what happens, as you get older, is you know all the things that can go wrong because all of them have happened to you. so you're kind of over worry, and you do the things that make your kids snicker at you behind their hands. >> that's not good. you say you shouldn't become friends with the person sitting next to you in the airport? >> oh, god, no. i mean, i always do it. i love it. >> and the other big no-no is don't rent the car you have at home. >> yes. >> rent a mustang instead? >> you don't want to duplicate your home life. you know, a friend of mine said this book saves us from ourselves. >> there's other good advice in here, especially what not to do on facebook. thank you very much for being with us. pamela redmond satran, thank you. so read an excerpt from pamela's book, go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com.

now here's young maggie. >> and i stay young because i play with the yo-yo. well, i try. some of the world's best yo-yo players are here in new york for the third annual yo-yo open. that includes the guy who got the event rolling in the first place. he is pat kwacuartero. >> it's a lot of fun. we're here to show everybody what yo-yoing is all about. >> we've got five champs from all over the world. >> simon is from the uk. doing a 1a. ken from japan is doing southwest 3a, which is two yo-yos doing mostly string tricks. adrian from france is doing a style called off string. the yo-io is not even connected to the string. >> the yo-yo is not connected to the string? >> and rodrigo from brazil is

doing counterweight, or free hand, where it's not attached to the finger. there's a counterweight attached. >> i do southwest 2a, two yo-yos with looping tricks. it's quite different from a lot of other ones. they're actually pretty unique. it's a lot of fun. the international yo-yo open you can see these different styles from all over the world. >> you think you can teach dave and russ to do it? >> i was the yo-yo champ from missouri. watch this, the sleeper. >> all right. >> cat's in the cradle. >> a little competition here. >> you didn't know i could do that. >> how would you rate those? >> i would say you're the winner here. >> thank you. >> mr. smith. >> walking the dog. watch this. do it again. >> oh, very nice. >> i'm so impressed with my

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welcome back to "the early show" on this thursday morning. i am still not over the shock of discovering yet another talent of mr. harry smith. bring it up. i know you still have it. >> oh, this? >> that. who knew, right? is there anything that you can't do? >> i don't know. so far. >> we have yet to discover it. coming up in this half hour, if you're getting all dolled up, there are a couple of mistakes that you definitely don't want to make. make sure, ladies, that you get your makeup right because not doing it can make you look a whole lot older. >> we're also told which are the best cities to retire in, best cities for singles. how about best places to raise an outdoor kid?

we're going to show you some great places to raise kids in just a little bit? >> you can make things do. >> you can get creative. >> look over there. they're camping right here. there's an outdoor kid. can we take the shot? >> the yellow tent. >> they just happen to be camping right in the middle of the intersection. >> great outdoor city. >> and i'll be speaking with the stars of "gi joe: the rise of cobra," sienna miller and channing tatum. what a beautiful onscreen couple, not a couple in real life. i don't want to start any rumors. >> just to clarify. this we go. >> what have you got? >> want to do some weather? camping weather? little bit cloudy in new york this morning actually. >> you are good. >> thank you very much. am i wrong? who can tell me i'm wrong? no one. is it cloudy? >> yes. >> thank you very much. accuracy remarkable. let's take a check. >> dr. science. >> thank you, sir.

let's take a check of the weather and see what's happening all across the country. we'll put up the maps and take a tour. we begin in the pacific northwest, where finally temperatures are cool, believe it or not, cooler than normal. could see showers popping into the area, into the rockies, strong storms. those will push eastward into the plain states and possibly grow stronger. we'll watch that. in the meantime, not as warm as it was in the pacific southwest. heading into tomorrow, the warm gusty winds going to be blowing through the southern plains pushing those temperatures up. tomorrow's going to be a beautiful day in the northeast, and it's going to be a typical day for this time of the year as you head to the southeast. we're already in the first week of august, and really no activity as far as the atlantic hurricane season at all. we like that, don't we?

>> and everyone on the plaza today leaves with jiffy-pop. that's a quick look at your weather picture. check out that excitement. let's send it back over to you, maggie. all the expensive cosmetics in the world will not help a woman's appearance if they're applied incorrectly. celebrity makeup artist mally roncal is here to point out the mistakes. and how not to make them. >> good morning. i copied you. >> i'm used to being copied.

before we get to the models, tell me why it's so important to get makeup right. >> first of all, makeup is made to make us look like a better version of us, very natural. you don't want to see the makeup. when you apply it incorrectly, it's screaming, hey, baby, look up on.makeup on. wh number one makeup mistake. en you get the foundation wrong, this is what it could look li. we have a before picture. this is what not to do. she looks caky. >> she looks caky. the color is wrong. we have a lot of crazy bronzer on. we love you, miss alexandra, but we have to help you. the best way to find out what shade you are, the biggest mistake is women match it to their face. you should actually match it to your throat. that's why sometimes, you know you take a picture, and your face is all white and your body is tan. the way i want to do it is run it right on your jawline, just like so. blend it down. if it disappears into your throat, you're all good. >> cream or powder foundation?

>> this is cream. >> and that's better? >> it depends on what you want. cream is moisturizing if you have dry skin. and another great tip is primer. the reason our makeup disappears by 10:00 a.m. it's because it's soaking into your pores. you need a great primer to create a barrier between moisturizer and foundation. >> so a primer is something you put on before anything else and then the foundation. makeup mistake number two. >> eyebrows. >> don't take me there, girl. >> show us the before and why it is wrong. >> first of all, she's got a lot on, and she's not really enhancing the best shape of her brow. >> i thought they didn't look bad before. now i see they are improved. >> isn't this true? it makes such a huge difference. and the number one mistake, quite honestly, is that women ignore their brows all together. they don't realize they're missing out on a huge face lift basically for your face. the trick is always to follow the natural line. always use a great tweezer. this is a great tweezer because

it's got two ends. you can get every teeny tiny hair with the pointy end. >> i've never seen that. >> isn't that great? and the little slant. here, you can have that. >> mally brings me presents. >> whatever she wants. so then another great tip is always comb up with your brow so you can see what you're working with and use a great brow fix. that's the thing. always coax the brows up because that's an instant mini facelift. use a great gel or great brow fix to hold everything up. >> how do you know if you're getting the shape right? do you stick with your natural shape? >> stick with your natural shape. there are tricks about start with your brow here on the side of the eye and end here. really go for a natural shape. gone are the days of the very sort of dynasty brows. >> gone, no mo. the next makeup akstmiest is wh. >> there are a couple here. we love you, but the whole dark lip liner thing, it's time to go. let's move away from the dark lip liner, and also the smudgy

eyeliner. that's not really a makeup mistake that women do. it's just a makeup mistake unfortunately that women don't know how to apply their eyeliner. so the best tip is always to use a gray eyeliner that is waterproof and line your eyes as you naturally would, top and bottom. look up for me, my love. and another really great tip is just take a cotton swab and set it with a powder. something underneath with either a powder or eye shadow. >> after the pencil, set it with a powder. it won't smudge. >> it will last all day. >> mally roncal, thank you. congratulations on the baby bump. >> thank you, mama. >> for more makeup mistakes, go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. you can also find out how to fix them. over to you, harry. do your kids suffer from nature deficit disorder? we're about to hear what that is and find out the best places in america to raise an outdoor kid.

jonathan dorn is editor in chief of backpacker magazine, and he is back with us this morning. good to see you again. you call it nature deficit disorder, which is what exactly? >> as you know, it's not an official medical condition, but it's a term that was popularized by richard liu, the author of "last child in the woods." it's used to describe the fact that the alarming increase we see in childhood obesity and attention deficit disorder over the last quarter century is related to the fact that for the first time in history, most of our kids are growing up without a real connection to nature. >> most of them are growing up in cities. >> and they're not getting it through work, through play, through outdoor education. as a result, one in five kids now in the u.s. is considered overweight by the cdc. >> which is an epidemic. let's talk about the best cities in the country to raise an outdoor kid, and a place that i used to live, this makes all the sense in the world to me, is boulder. >> that's where i live too now. i'm a lucky guy. more than 250 days a year of

sun. an incredible infrastructure in the city. one thing i love about it is they plow the bike paths. 105 miles of bike paths before they plow the roads. >> the bike paths there on the streets are as much a part of the traffic pattern as any place in the country, unlike many places, including new york city, which is slowly starting to catch up. right behind boulder is jackson, wyoming. >> jackson. kids like the zoo. this is like living in the zoo because jackson is right next door to grand teton national park and yellowstone. bears, moose, elk, everything you could possibly love plus world class skiing. like a lot of these top cities, really good educations. high test scores. sound infrastructure in the schools for ecology, curriculums and the like. >> they marry the two, the outs of doors and the education. right behind, then you have durango, which is another garden spot. what a gorgeous, gorgeous place. >> the it in the four corners

region. we partnered in the study with the outdoor foundation and looked at 38 different data categories. durango, like these other towns, scored very high both in terms of how close it is to great wilderness and how livable it is in terms of education lifestyle. >> flagstaff up in northern arizona, not so far from the grand canyon. you've given me a bad case of western home sickness today. >> flagstaff is great, both because it's a gateway to the grand canyon and the kids there actually work as junior rangers in the park during the sumsumme but also flagstaff schools have built in an ecology curriculum. for sixth graders, they spend a week in the field learning. >> aren't you ready to go right now? you have a whole list, but ro rounding out our top group is j juneau, which is another awesome place. >> you've got glaciers, bears, fly fishing. 40 million acres of pristinefa wilderness surround the juneau area.

>> we went kayaking on glacier bay one morning to hang out and be around where the whales were, dude. >> one thing that maybe gets overlooked is that there's a benefit not only for the kids in getting them out, but a benefit for the parents too. i suspect that the bonding experience that you have with your kids while you were out there participating with them was one of the most memorable experiences of your life. >> you've got that right. and the other thing is, very quickly, if you live in an urban setting, how do you get your kids to appreciate this stuff? >> there are a lot of groups, even in new york city, where there's a retail store like rei or hiking or climbing club that do weekly clinics that take kids out on trips. >> got to do it. jonathan dorn, thanks so much. always a pleasure to see you. this guy is one of the great lives ever. to see the list of cities wrb go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. maggie? this friday, the much anticipated blockbuster "gi joe: the rise of cobra" opens in theaters across the country. in the film, channing tatum

leads a super elite group of soldiers trying to save the world from an evil femme fatale played by sienna miller. >> congratulations. you just saved paris. or at least most of it. >> sienna miller, channing tatum, and their respective action figures join us this morning. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> what do you think? these are pretty cool. >> they're great. >> they're crazy. i've got to say they're crazy. have you ever seen marlon wayans play with your head? >> with my head? >> it's crazy. he does the most ridiculous

things. >> there's a small version where the head tilts slightly. but the big one's great. >> i think it looks like you. >> i think they've made me better. >> what about you? is do you like yours, channing? >> they gave me a little extra neck, which is all right. >> surreal, isn't it? >> you know you've made it big when you have your own action figure. this is like the biggest movie that each one of you has been associated with. is that daunting or exciting? >> it's kind of -- you relinquish control. she's not going to stand up. she's tired. she's having a little snooze. you have to kind of step back off your job, and of course we want it to do well because that means people have responded well to it and enjoyed it. >> i grew up with the gi joes in my childhood. i'm sorry. >> he wants to sit next to you. >> i can't. it's like my nervous buddy.

yeah, it's definitely a little daunting and a little scary to play your childhood icon. >> the baroness is evil. was that fun? >> these kinds of movies, the villain is the place to be. you get great outfits. i got the great weapons. lots of evil squints and kicking him in the head. >> always nice. >> those outfits both of you wore tight, heavy rey tweshe a were theys a uncomfortable as they looked? >> probably more. >> they were amazing, horribly uncomfortable. they look great on screen. >> they really do. yours was a chore to get into? >> mine was difficult. it took 15 minutes and a lot of women hopping up and down. >> i don't know if you've seen channing's video on youtube where he does the dirty dancing spoof. have you seen this? >> no. >> it is hysterically funny. you should go and look at it. >> oh, my god, is this him? is that you?

who's that girl? >> patrick swayze. >> she's an amazingly brilliant and witty young actress. she's always wanted to do a spoof of dirty dancing. >> watch these moves. >> this is terrible. >> no, it's awesome. >> that is the funniest thing. >> please turn it over right now. >> please leave it on. everybody should go on youtube and watch. >> you're going to get so many hits. >> i didn't know that was going to be on here. >> why didn't you tell me about that? >> because i haven't told anybody. >> everyone knows now. >> i'm not a comedian. i don't do comedy. that was my first attempt at it. >> it's hysterical. >> see you writhing around there. it's crazy. >> writhing. >> it's an english tem. >> how we get to ask you about broadway. what role will you be playing? >> i'm playing miss julie in a play written by richard marlboro.

it's based on a play by of strindberg. but it's a heavy drama about the reaction between three people. it's broadway. >> for now we're going to enjoy you on the big screen. >> do you hear the english version? broadway. and then broadway. >> much better. >> broadway baby. thank you, sienna. thank you, channing. "gi joe: the rise of cobra" opens friday. now here's harry. up next, what's cooking for dinner? nothing could be a really good answer. we'l

if you are trying to keep things cool in the kitchen this summer, here's one solution. don't cook. restaurant editor andrew knowlton of bon appetit magazine is here with some easy beat the heat recipes. good morning. >> good morning. >> we're very psyched for this. >> this is easily our coolest menu.

thought you were going to take that. >> took the words right out of my mouth. >> it works right now just because at the farmer's market, as you know, produce is at its peak. so you let it speak for itself. the first one, summer tomato. heirloom tomatoes, beefsteak. you can add the tomato. you want the sweetest, best you can find. store bought ones aren't going to do it. roasted pepper. >> nice. >> basically, you know what this is. at its core is gazpacho. little red wine vinegar, olive oil, prepared horseradish. >> lovely. >> you need the heat, man. little garlic, salt. so this is -- you could pair this with a salad, or you could do -- you know, you could do a sandwich or whatever. a chiffonade, little basil i can do. you want to do it thinly. ladle this in the bowl for me,

and i'll get the rest ready. so you could add fresh mozzarell'. this recipe, we add a little goat cheese. voila, perfect. five seconds, we're done. and you're not even sweating, are you? >> all right. what are we doing now? >> ceviche. you're adding acid to raw fish, and it cooks it. >> this is the one you don't have to cure the fish. some you cure the night before. >> this one, literally, lemon, lime, sugar, mix it up. i like it four to six hours. >> four to six hours. >> if you let it go further than six, it turns a lit tough, and you don't want to eat it then. >> this is in the fridge? >> very easy. it's basically not fishy. this is a wonderful sustainable fish here raised in massachusetts. so we're going to put this -- usually ceviche is served with

tortillas. let's do this stuff here. tomato, jalapeno. we're going to put these in taco shells. basically, we're making fish tac tacos. you can put anything you would normally put on tacos. we have lettuce, avocado. again, no cook, you're done and just put it in the fridge, and you're done. >> jalapenos across the top. >> and then my favorite, just relax on the back porch. a mez platter. you can make it. you can buy it. we've got chick peas, hummus. >> people love garbanzos. knock them out, man. >> you didn't do anything. >> let's see if i can make it work. we have a broken blade. >> so anyway, you can buy this at the store. but it's so easy to make at home. we're going to be here all day. >> imagine mushed chickpeas. keep talking. >> we've got olive oil,

chickpeas just out of the can, garlic, a little cumin. let me add this first. salt, garlic. >> put the whole garlic clove in there? >> drop it in there, dude. >> olive oil. we're good to go. and you just pulse it. yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> that's all you got. so the finished product looks like this. which is just a hummus, and it's much cheaper. add some shrimp salad as well, cucumber salad with feta and yogurt. do you have one of these? >> this is the best thing i own in my kitchen. >> this is one of the best inventions the last 20 years. >> either zest with citrus or parmesan cheese, comes off in angel dust. just is the most spectacular little tool. >> we didn't even turn on the oven. that's the beauty of this. >> you brought the heat in. andrew knowlton, as always. for these no cook recipes, go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> have a great day, everybody.

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. u damp ott there. a few showers. nothing too heavy now but earlier storms soutd aneast of town. a little yellow over the bay, south of bay bridge off shore from shady side. we are starting to pull away in to northern virginia. loudoun county, down southwest in to northern faulkier in to luray. a scattering of showers. everything is moving to the northeast. on the weather computer, show you the big picture. a cluster of storms this morning and threat of lightning at 9:00. until this batch of moistures get through in the lunch hour and then the afternoon will be drier.

temperatures are held in check with the cloud cover and showers. 65 from winchester, 68 baltimore. only 72 in washington. and down in southern maryland not much warmer than that. in the lower to mid-70s. big picture. i want to point this out. once we get rid of the activity that is bugging us this morning, out of the ohio valley, back to chicago it is nice. a great friday. show you about the seven day in a moment. wet roads and problems with them. >> i want to remind people that coming up at 9:00 a.m. we have some way cool back to school gadgets. join us for the show and there's stir fry in the house. it will be good. talk about the outer and inner loop not so good. jammed going both ways. crash activity on the right shoulder. lanes are getting by. on the inner loop, taking it to the map, better news here at central avenue. an accident has cleared.

expect minor delays in virginia 395 northbound we are jammed and looking at a 15 minute drive time from the beltway to king street and bring it back to the beltway. the inner loop on the virginia side of things. 95 to 66 we are slammed and that is thanks to earlier accident at braddock. the rain showers aren't helping either. they will taper off this afternoon. no problems for the evening commute. beautiful tomorrow and hot over the weekend. 9 news now is coming up in three minutes.